This book delivers concise coverage of classical methods and new developments related to indoor location-based services. It collects results from isolated domains including geometry, artificial intelligence, statistics, cooperative algorithms, and distributed systems and thus provides an accessible overview of fundamental methods and technologies. This makes it an ideal starting point for researchers, students, and professionals in pervasive computing. Location-based services are services using the location of a mobile computing device as their primary input. While such services are fairly easy to implement outside buildings thanks to accessible global positioning systems and high-quality environmental information, the situation inside buildings is fundamentally different. In general, there is no simple way of determining the position of a moving target inside a building without an additional dedicated infrastructure. The book’s structure is learning oriented, starting with a short introduction to wireless communication systems and basic positioning techniques and ending with advanced features like event detection, simultaneous localization and mapping, and privacy aspects. Readers who are not familiar with the individual topics will be able to work through the book from start to finish. At the same time all chapters are self-contained to support readers who are already familiar with some of the content and only want to pick selected topics that are of particular interest.

Schizoaffective disorder is a psychotic disease with schizophrenic and affective i.e. depressive and/or manic symptoms. The disease can result in different patient outcomes depending upon the treatment applied. Patients suffering from the disease have in increased vulnerability towards stress and need an appropriate prophylactic medication so that they can perform social and maybe professional activities. Classical Neurotransmitters and Neuropeptides involved in Schizoaffective Disorder is a brief monograph that gives readers an overview of frequent psychotic diseases affecting patients. The contents of the monograph include details about biochemical alterations of classical neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in specific regions of the human brain, the susceptible genes and cellular mechanisms behind schizoaffective disorder, the neural networks of schizoaffective disorder and prophylactic pharmacotherapies administered to patients. Three case reports which demonstrate the alterations of classical neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in the brain are also presented. This monograph is a useful guide for medical residents and clinicians in training who wish to understand the basics about treating patients suffering from schizoaffective disorder.

The pocket atlas is an excellent reference work that presents pathologic findings in all clinically relevant fields, using high-quality photographs and concise, well structured explanatory texts. Images include color photos and micrographs. Electron microscopic images are included where necessary. Clear schematic drawings illustrate procedures such as the course of infections, etc. Text boxes on clinical and morphological aspects, on complications, and with easy-to-remember mnemonic summaries are set off in color.

Inauguraldissertation an der Philosophisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Bern. The thesis describes possible mechanisms that allow manipulations of query-sequences in order to hide secret information from a potentially malicious query-agent. This is investigated in a strictly formal way: The surrounding information framework is reduced to general semantics and allows modelling of incomplete information.

This pocket atlas is an excellent reference work that presents pathologic findings in all clinically relevant fields, using high-quality photographs and concise, well-structured explanatory texts. Images include color photos and micrographs. Electron microscopic images are included where necessary. Clear schematic drawings illustrate procedures such as the course of infections, etc. Text boxes on clinical and morphological aspects, on complications, and with easy-to-remember mnemonic summaries are set off in color.

„Signale und Systeme“ ist als Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch für Studierende der Informationstechnik, Nachrichtentechnik, der Informatik und verwandter Fächer gedacht. Da es den Lehrstoff - hand praxisnaher Aufgaben mit ausführlichen Lösungswegen entwickelt, ist es auch für In- nieure und Informatiker in der beruflichen Praxis zum Selbststudium geeignet. Die Grundlagen werden in kompakter Form vorgestellt. Durch die Gegenüberstellung von zeitkontinuierlichen und zeitdiskreten Signalen und Systemen wird das gemeinsame Konzept deutlich hervor- hoben und eine Synergie des Lernens möglich. Wegen der Zusammenstellungen der wichti- ten Formeln in Tabellen und der vielen gelösten Aufgaben eignet es sich auch als Nachschla- werk. Die rasante Entwicklung der Informationstechnik hat in den Anwendungen der Signal- und Systemtheorie zu einer Verschiebung des Schwerpunkts geführt: von der klassischen Theorie der Filter, Netzwerke und Leitungen hin zu komplexen Algorithmen der digitalen Sign- verarbeitung. Das vorliegende Buch trägt dieser Entwicklung Rechnung, indem es die kl- sischen Methoden straff behandelt und der digitalen Signalverarbeitung sowie den stochas- schen Signalen in der Informationstechnik breiteren Raum gibt.