This volume collects the contributions to the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) held in Aussois (France) by March 25 - April 5, 1991. This NATO ASI was intended to present and illustrate recent advances in computer simulation techniques applied to the study of materials science problems. Introductory lectures have been devoted to classical simulations with special reference to recent technical improvements, in view of their application to complex systems (glasses, molecular systems . . . ). Several other lectures and seminars focused on the methods of elaboration of interatomic potentials...

This volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient world. The strength of the present volume lies in the breadth of scholarly approaches represented. The book begins with several papyrological studies presenting important new texts in Greek and Coptic, continuing with essays focussing on taxonomy and definition. The concluding essays apply contemporary theories to analyses of specific test cases in a broad variety of ancient Mediterranean cultures. Paul Mirecki, Th.D. (1986) in Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School, is...

Die elektrische Antriebstechnik, iiber deren derzeitigen Stand in diesem zweibandigen Werk berichtet werden soU, befindet sich heute in einer stiirmischen Entwicklung. Wiihrend die Anpassung der elektrischen Maschinen an die modeme Antriebstechnik in evolutioniiren Bahnen verliiuft, werden die Fortschritte auf den Gebieten Umfor mung e1ektrischer Energie (Leistungselektronik) und Steuer-, MeB- und Regeltechnik durch Innovationen bei den elektronischen Baue1ementen gepriigt. Technische Fort schritte ermoglichen neue, bessere Losungen fiir die an ein Antriebssystem gesteUten Forderungen...

This volume collects the contributions! to the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) held in Aussois (France) by March 25 - April 5, 1991. This NATO ASI was intended to present and illustrate recent advances in computer simulation techniques applied to the study of materials science problems. Introductory lectures have been devoted to classical simulations with special reference to recent technical improvements, in view of their application to complex systems (glasses, molecular systems ...). Several other lectures and seminars focused on the methods of elaboration of interatomic potentials and...