This book deals with the existence and stability of solutions to initial and boundary value problems for functional differential and integral equations and inclusions involving the Riemann-Liouville,
Heresy studies is a new interdisciplinary, supra-religious, and humanist field of study that focuses on borderlands of dogma, probes the intersections between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and explores th
From Homer to Sophocles and Greek Middle Comedy, and from Plato and Protagoras to Ovid, this volume features a panoramic and cross-generic overview of the diverse handling and ad hoc elaboration of th
Scholars of philosophy and French literature consider the work of Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) from the perspectives of technology: between nature and anti-nature, politics and ethics: beyond the n
Drawn from a conference, “Religious Individualization in Historical Perspective,” held in Chicago, the 11 papers presented here address the distinction between public and private in ancient Mediterran
Ten survey articles reflect invited lectures at the workshops Algebraic Curves Over Finite Fields, held in November 2013, and Emerging Applications of Finite Fields, held in December 2013. They presen
Investigating the interplay of a priori and a posteriori points of view in metaphysics, scholars of philosophy focus on the ontology of space and time. The central idea is that difficult problems typi
Contributors offer insights into family relationships in the biblical tradition, at Qumran, in the ancient Christian literature, and in Hellenistic Judaism up to the Judaism of the present day. They f
In the context of the parallel development of bacteriology and modernist literature, historians of medicine, scholars of German literature, and other contributors explore facets of contagionism at the
While structure-function relationships of proteins have been studied for a long time, structural studies of RNA face additional challenges. Nevertheless, with the continuous discovery of novel RNA mol
Scientists and engineers survey recent developments in analyzing wave propagation and scattering problems, covering both forward and inverse problems, and applications in the earth sciences. Among the
Nine invited talks at the Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics Workshop held in Strobl, Austria during September 2012 have been revised for the volume. They focus on sequences, ch
North American and European scholars explore how blending theory, developed in psychology, can inform narratology. Among their topics are constructing literary character and perspective, Don Quixote's
While the role of metaphor in economics and business is substantiated in multiple research articles no comprehensive book-length study has appeared. The book gives a comprehensive overview of the fiel
Mostly German scholars of English literature explore how cultural appropriation is often part of the process of adapting a work of art from its original medium to another medium. Their topics include
The essays in this volume, written by specialists working in the field of tantric studies, attempt to trace processes of transformation and transfer that occurred in the history of tantra from around
The continuing vigor and diversity of research on automorphic representations and their applications to arithmetic are clearly reflected in this volume. The depth and breadth of Rallis's influence are
A comprehensive english-language reference work on morphology, physiology and development of the moths and butterflies of the world. Written by a truly international team of specialists, the overall l