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Partial Order in Environmental Sciences and Chemistry

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Rainer Brüggemann

    1. Dept. Ecohydrology, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin-Friedrichshagen, Germany

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  2. Lars Carlsen

    1. Awareness-Center, Roskilde-Veddelev, Denmark

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  • A primer in a mathematical technique which is useful in many expanding disciplines, like genomics, techniques of decision support, and sustainability

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Chemistry and Partial Order

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Partial Ordering of Properties: The Young Diagram Lattice and Related Chemical Systems

      • Sherif El-Basil
      Pages 3-26

    3. Hasse Diagrams and their Relation to Molecular Periodicity

      • Ray Hefferlin
      Pages 27-33

    4. Directed Reaction Graphs as Posets

      • D. J. Klein, T. Ivanciuc
      Pages 35-57

  3. Environmental Chemistry and Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Introduction to partial order theory exemplified by the Evaluation of Sampling Sites

      • Rainer Brüggemann, Lars Carlsen
      Pages 61-110

    3. Comparative Evaluation and Analysis of Water Sediment Data

      • Stefan Pudenz, Peter Heininger
      Pages 111-151

    4. Prioritizing PBT Substances

      • Lars Carlsen, John D. Walker
      Pages 153-160

  4. Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
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    2. Interpolation Schemes in QSAR

      • Lars Carlsen
      Pages 163-179

    3. New QSAR Modelling Approach Based on Ranking Models by Genetic Algorithms - Variable Subset Selection (GA-VSS)

      • Manuela Pavan, Viviana Consonni, Paola Gramatica, Roberto Todeschini
      Pages 181-217

  5. Decision support

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
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    2. Aspects of Decision Support in Water Management: Data based evaluation compared with expectations

      • Ute Simon, Rainer Brüggemann, Stefan Pudenz, Horst Behrendt
      Pages 221-236

    3. A Comparison of Partial Order Technique with Three Methods of Multi-Criteria Analysis for Ranking of Chemical Substance

      • Rainer Brüggemann, Lars Carlsen, Dorte B. Lerche, Peter B. Sørensen
      Pages 237-256

  6. Field, Monitoring and Information

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-258
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    2. Developing decision support based on field data and partial order theory

      • Peter B. Sørensen, Dorte B. Lerche, Marianne Thomsen
      Pages 259-283

    3. Evaluation of Biomonitoring Data

      • Dieter Helm
      Pages 285-307

    4. Exploring Patterns of Habitat Diversity Across Landscapes Using Partial Ordering

      • Wayne L. Myers, G. P. Patil, Yun Cai
      Pages 309-325

    5. Information Systems and Databases

      • Kristina Voigt, Rainer Brüggemann
      Pages 327-351
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About this book

When you edit a book, the editors should ask themselves, why are we - ing this and whom are we doing this for? To whom could this book be valuable as a source of information and possibly inspiration and of course are there other books with similar topics on the market? Indeed the mat- matical structure 'partial order' is explained in many mathematical te- books, which require different degrees of mathematical skills to comp- hend. Thus, as far as we can tell, all these books are dedicated directly towards mathematician working in the area of Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Informatics. Although partial order is very well known in quantum mechanics, especially within the context of Young-diagrams, l- erature stressing the application aspect of partial order seems to be not available. However, an increasing number of publications in scientific journals have in recent years appeared, applying partial order to various fields of chemistry and environmental sciences. A recent summary can be found in a special issue of the journal Match - Commun. Math. Comput. Chem. 2000, edited by Klein and Brickmann. However, we believe that this journal possibly is too specific and as such it may not reach scientists actually applying partial order in various fields of research. Hence, we dared to initiate the editing of this book in order to address a broader au- ence and we were happy to convincing distinguished scientists working with different aspects of partial order theory to contribute to this book.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Ecohydrology, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin-Friedrichshagen, Germany

    Rainer Brüggemann

  • Awareness-Center, Roskilde-Veddelev, Denmark

    Lars Carlsen

About the editors

Rainer Brüggemann studied chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich. He received his PhD in 1977. He joined a research group in 1980 at the Technical University of Berlin. 1984 saw him move to the GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health in Neuherberg near Munich. Since 1996 he is senior scientist at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin.

Lars Carlsen studied chemistry at the University in Copenhagen. He received his PhD in 1977 and his DSc in 1989. In 1991 he joined the National Environmental Research Institute in Denmark as Director of the Department of Environmental Chemistry. Since 1999 he has been an assigned professor in environmental chemistry at the Roskilde University, Denmark, and in 2000 he founded his own consultancy, "Awareness Center".

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