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3A1650951302.jsonld | Principles of evolution : From the Planck Epoch to Complex Multicellular Life | With contributions from a team of leading experts, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of recent achievements in our scientific understanding of evolution. The questions it asks concern the beginnings of the universe, the origin of life and the chances of its arising at all, the role of contingency, and the search for universal features in the plethora of evolutionary phenomena. Rather than oversimplified or premature answers, the chapters provide a clear picture of how these essential problems are being tackled, enabling the reader to understand current thinking and open questions. The tools employed stem from a range of disciplines including mathematics, physics, biochemistry and cell biology. Self-organization as an overarching concept is demonstrated in the most diverse areas: from galaxy formation in the universe to spindle and aster formation in the cell. Chemical master equations, population dynamics, and evolutionary game theory are presented as suitable frameworks for understanding the universal mechanisms and organizational principles observed in a wide range of living units, ranging from cells to societies. This book will provide engaging reading and food for thought for all those seeking a deeper understanding of the science of evolution. | [
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3A779402928.jsonld | The OSCE: soft security for a hard world : competing theories for understanding the OSCE | This book explores why the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) remains a largely unknown entity as far as the general public are concerned, despite its significant day-to-day activity not only on the diplomatic front, but also via its 16 field operations. While the main achievement of its predecessor, the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), was to bridge the East-West divide in Europe during the Cold War, the CSCE was transformed into the OSCE in 1995 to respond to the various challenges generated by the emergence of a multipolar world. Ever since, the OSCE has been involved in diplomacy, empowered with instruments of persuasion rather than coercion. Is the OSCE a significant regional organization in dealing with international security? Has the OSCE been able to reinvent itself to face the post-Cold War world? What type of security is the OSCE providing to its member states? This book provides a variety of answers based on different theoretical perspectives and invites the reader to reflect on the nature of soft power within international relations."--page [4] of cover | [
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3A1765361966.jsonld | Introduction to medical physics | "This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the basic principles of medical physics, the applications of medical physics equipment, and the role of a medical physicist in healthcare. Introduction to Medical Physics is designed to support undergraduate and graduate students taking their first modules on a medical physics course, or as a dedicated book for specific modules such as medical imaging and radiotherapy. It is ideally suited for new teaching schemes such as Modernising Scientific Careers and will be invaluable for all medical physics students worldwide. Key features: Written by an experienced and senior team of medical physicists from highly respected institutions The first book written specifically to introduce medical physics to undergraduate and graduate physics students Provides worked examples relevant to actual clinical situations" | [
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3A1780079087.jsonld | Digital religion : understanding religious practice in digital media | "This book offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and digital media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From mobile apps and video games to virtual reality and social media, the book: provides a detailed review of major topics including ritual, identity, community, authority, and embodiment, includes a series of engaging case studies to illustrate and elucidate the thematic explorations, considers the theoretical, ethical, and theological issues raised. This unique volume draws together the work of experts from key disciplinary perspectives and is the go-to volume for students and scholars wanting to develop a deeper understanding of the subject area. Thoroughly updated throughout with new case studies and in-depth analysis of recent scholarship and developments, this new edition provides a comprehensive overview of this fast-paced, constantly developing, and fascinating field"-- | [
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3A729633233.jsonld | A functional start to computing with Python | "Open source and easy to use, Python offers the availability of exciting libraries of software, application programming interfaces, and even connections to web services. This textbook uses Python as a working environment to teach the basics of computing for students with no prior programming experience. Unlike similar texts, it organizes topics based on a functional first approach to teaching programming. The book includes case studies of practical problems as well as homework and interactive tools online, such as flashcards"-- | [
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3A1657447243.jsonld | A Concise History of Economic Thought : From Mercantilism to Monetarism | This book presents a brief history of economic thought from the 17th century to the present day. Each chapter examines the key contributions of a major economist or group of economists and includes suggestions for further reading. Economists covered include Keynes, Marshall, Petty and Jevons, and less familiar theorists such as Galiani and Turgot | [
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3A277777380.jsonld | "Retained by the people" : a history of American Indians and the Bill of Rights | After providing a thorough examination of rights and legal status as perceived by Native Americans, addressing such topics as conduct and collective rights, "Retained by The People" recounts the various brutal forms of colonialism forced upon indigenous nations by European and American settlers through the beginning of 1900, then gives a balanced and detailed analysis of twentieth-century events that have shaped Native American rights under the United States constitution. The author explores attacks on Indian culture in the 1920s, the empowerment of tribal governments during the thirties, and federal attempts at cultural liquidation through the forties, fifties, and sixties This vivid chronicle is the first in-depth, comprehensive history of the relationship between American Indians and the Bill of Rights, tracing developments and issues from 1491 to the present With the first detailed assessment of the 1968 Indian Bill of Rights and a complete narrative of Native American efforts toward achieving limited sovereignty and unlimited rights over the past three decades, "Retained by The People" will be vital to anyone interested in Native American history or U.S. constitutional law | [
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3A772396957.jsonld | Quaternary geomorphology in tectonically active areas with emphasis in fluvio-coastal processes | This special issue of ZfG deals with fluvial and coastal processes in tectonically active regions of the Earth. Seven new and interesting studies are presented, focusing on the analysis of Quaternary geomorphological features. Their scope is to extract information on the dynamic processes driving the formation of the respective landforms and which allow the palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of these regions. Consistant with this approach, Athanassas et al. attempt to shed light on the neotectonic patterns of West Messenis (S. Pelopponese, Greece) based on geomorphic, geochronological and geoarchaeological data, Owczarek et al. display the potential of tundra dwarf shrubs for the reconstruction of debris flow activity in the High Arctic using dendrochronological records and Fountoulis et al. describe the diversion of the Pineios River (NW Pelopponese, Greece) from north to south due to the activity of the Pineios normal fault zone, salt tectonics on the Kyllini Pensinsula and the resultant shoreline displacement. Nomikou et al. provide valuable data of Quaternary volcanic activity in the Aegean Sea (Greece) in two remarkable papers: one describing the submarine volcanic features along the Kolumbo Volcanic Chain and the other on the Avyssos - Yali - Strogyli submarine volcanic complex. Grecu et al. diagnose the vulnerability of the Romanian plain to hydrogeomorphological hazards using feomorphometrical and morphological models and concepts while Siakavara and Argialas describe a method for automating the interpretation and recognition of seabed geomorphological and topographical features in a DTM and its derivatives, using an object based analysis approach -- P. 4 of cover | [
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3A1805279734.jsonld | El desafío de la modernidad en la literatura hispanofilipina (1885-1935) | "What happened to the Philippines after 1898? Does its emancipation process have anything to do with that of other Latin American countries? Is Philippine modernity an exclusive product of the US invasion? This collective book overcomes nostalgic and neo-colonial agendas to approach from a multiplicity of perspectives the key decades that led a series of Spanish-speaking intellectuals to imagine themselves as a nation and reflect it in feminist magazines, travel books or costumbrista fiction. The studies will allow points of comparison with other literatures in Spanish as well as approaching the complex Philippine society of the turn of the century, with its jazz halls, its suffragism and its independence, but at the same time its defence of Spanish language and Catholicism"-- Introducción: La cultura letrada hispanofilipina y el desafío de la modernidad / Rocío Ortuño Casanova y Axel Gasquet -- Políticas del costumbrismo en la literatura filipina. Filipinas, a través de la mirada de los costumbristas peninsulares y filipinos / Mignette Marcos Garvida -- El espejo del costumbrismo: costumbre, conocimiento y autonomía en las obras de Pedro Paterno y José Rizal / William Arighi -- El Otro del Otro: los chinos en las novelas de José Rizal como el "Oriente" de las Filipinas / Ignacio López-Calvo -- El papel de la prensa. Marcelo H. Del Pilar: periodismo y propaganda en La Solidaridad / Eugenio Matibag -- La redención del obrero, Isabelo de los Reyes y la introducción del socialismo en Filipinas / Álvaro Jimena -- "Ábranse paso las letras españolas": sentimientos literarios de los colaboradores españoles, americanos y filipinos de la revista Día Filipino (1913-1914) / Ericson Borre Macaso -- El bello sexo y La ilustración española: los primeros periódicos dedicados a las mujeres / Cecilia Quirós Cañiza -- Cosmopolitismo. Desencuentros con la modernidad: en la temprana literatura hispanofilipina de viajes (1870-1906) / Jorge Mojarro -- La modernidad agónica en los cuentos de Manuel Bernabé / Axel Gasquet -- "El pentagrama ultrajado": irrupción del Jazz en la cultura hispanofilipina / Miguel Ángel Feria -- La filipinas moderna. Max Factor, bermellón en los labios y sangre en las uñas: cine y sufragismo en Enrique K. Laygo / Beatriz Álvarez Tardío -- Mujer modelo y modelos de mujer: el discurso femenino y feminista en la modernidad hispanofilipina / Irene Villaescusa Illán -- La carrera de Cándida de Guillermo Gómez Windham: crónica de la desaparición del mundo hispanofilipino / Emmanuelle Sinardet. | [
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3A874793009.jsonld | Fade in, crossroads : a history of the southern cinema | Introduction: at the crossroads -- This southern advent -- Migrant media -- The silver dream accumulated -- And the war came -- A theater of violence -- The matter of treatment -- Pruning knife busy -- Conclusion: scattering into every crossroad | [
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3A735144990.jsonld | Theory of electroelasticity | Introduction Continuum Thermodynamics -- Physical variational Principle and Governing Equations -- Generalized two dimensional electroelastic problem -- Linear inclusion and related problems -- Some problems in more complex materials with deffects -- Electroelastic wave -- Three dimensional and applied electroelastic problem -- Failure theory in piezoelectric materials "Theory of Electroelasticity analyzes the stress, strain, electric field and electric displacement in electroelastic structures such as sensors, actuators and other smart materials and structures. This book also describes new theories such as the physical variational principle and the inertial entropy theory. It differs from the traditional method by using the physical variational principle to derive the governing equations of the piezoelectric material, whereas the Maxwell stress is obtained automatically. By using the inertial entropy theory, the temperature wave equation is obtained very easily. The book is intended for scientists, researchers and engineers in the areas of mechanics, physics, smart material and control engineering as well as mechanical, aeronautical and civil engineering, etc."--Page 4 of cover | [
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3A756941849.jsonld | Microsoft Expression Web 3 : complete | Creating an Expression web site -- Working with images and links -- Working with templates and styles -- Web design basics -- Creating styles and layouts with CSS -- Working with data tables and inline frames -- Adding interactivity -- E-Commerce -- Using Expression Web user guide -- Web standards and accessibility -- Publishing content to the web -- Microsoft Expression Studio 3 -- Using Expression Web in Windows XP -- Using Expression Web in Windows Vista -- Changing screen resolution | [
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3A67268571X.jsonld | European identity and culture : narratives of transnational belonging | Introduction : culture and narratives of transnational belonging / Markus Thiel and Rebecca Friedman -- Cultural formations of the European Union : integration, enlargement, nation and crisis / Michael D. Kennedy -- National cultures, social belonging and questions on European identity / Sophie Duchesne -- Modeling the process of political and civic participation in the EU : digital and traditional media in Spain / Homero Gil de Zúñiga y Navajas -- Culture, communication and currency : constructing a public sphere for the euro / Matthias Kaelberer -- The Europeanisation of terror : consuming place, tradition and authenticity / Marion Demossier -- Islamoskepticism and its counter-narratives : transnational identity, cultural wars, and religion's place / Raymond Taras -- Tourism, transnationalism, and the construction of everyday life in Europe / Dario Gaggio -- Conclusion / Rebecca Friedman and Markus Thiel | [
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3A1735740810.jsonld | Early Greek ethics | Early Greek Ethics is devoted to Greek philosophical ethics in its formative period, from the last decades of the sixth century BCE to the beginning of the fourth century BCE. It begins with the inception of Greek philosophical ethics and ends immediately before the composition of Plato's and Aristotle's mature ethical works Republic and Nicomachean Ethics. The ancient contributors include Presocratics such as Heraclitus, Democritus, and figures of the early Pythagorean tradition such as Empedocles and Archytas of Tarentum, who have previously been studied principally for their metaphysical, cosmological, and natural philosophical ideas. Socrates and his lesser known associates such as Antisthenes of Athens and Aristippus of Cyrene also feature, as well as sophists such as Gorgias of Leontini, Antiphon of Athens, and Prodicus of Ceos, and anonymous texts such as the Pythagorean Acusmata, Dissoi Logoi, Anonymus Iamblichi, and On Law and Justice. 0In addition to chapters on these individuals and texts, the volume explores select fields and topics especially influential to ethical philosophical thought in the formative period and later, such as early Greek medicine, music, friendship, justice and the afterlife, and early Greek ethnography. Consisting of thirty chapters composed by an international team of leading philosophers and classicists, Early Greek Ethics is the first volume in any language devoted to philosophical ethics in the formative period | [
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3A778779459.jsonld | Tianjin Grand Theater in China | The Tianjin Grand Theater occupies a key position in the new Tianjin Culture Park. The circular form of the roof construction corresponds to that of the existing Natural History Museum, creating an architectural dialog between the earthbound museum and the seemingly floating roof construction. The qualities of the elements Earth (Natural History Museum) and Air (Grand Theater) reflect a fundamental theme in Chinese philosophy. The three event venues in the theater are conceived as freestanding volumes on a stone platform. Outside staircases lead from the waterside to the raised entrance level, forming a stage for urban life from which one can look out over the lake and the Culture Park | [
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3A644889837.jsonld | HPC@Green IT : Green high performance computing methods | The authors present methods to reduce computer energy consumption by means of a better usage of a specific set of resources and maximizing the efficiency of the running applications. The processor frequency is adjusted to the needs of the running job, leading to a power drop by a factor of 2 and doubling battery life time of laptops. It is shown how computer resources can be optimally adapted to application needs, reducing job run time. Examples on how to optimize algorithms on single node and parallel RISC architectures are discussed. The job-related data are stored and reused to help compute | [
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3A594670861.jsonld | Changing poverty, changing policies | Changing poverty and changing antipoverty policies / Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger -- Poverty levels and trends in comparative perspective / Daniel R. Meyer and Geoffrey L. Wallace -- Economic change and the structure of opportunity for less-skilled workers / Rebecca M. Blank -- Family structure, childbearing, and parental employment : implications for the level and trend in poverty / Maria Cancian and Deborah Reed -- Immigration and poverty in the United States / Steven Raphael and Eugene Smolensky -- Enduring influences of childhood poverty / Katherine Magnuson and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal -- Mobility in the United States in comparative perspective / Markus Jäntti -- Trends in income support / John Karl Scholz, Robert Moffitt, and Benjamin Cowan -- The role of family policies in antipoverty policy / Jane Waldfogel -- Improving educational outcomes for poor children / Brian A. Jacob and Jens Ludwig -- Workforce development as an antipoverty strategy : what do we know? : what should we do? / Harry J. Holzer -- Health care for the poor : for whom, what care, and whose responsibility? -- Katherine swartz -- Poverty politics and policy / Mary Jo Bane -- What does it mean to be poor in a rich society? / Robert Haveman | [
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3A1757875840.jsonld | Envisioning the world: mapping and making the global | The »global« is permanently made and remade by how it is envisioned in political projects, in language, and in literature. Through a range of case studies, this book shows how practices of referring to the world actually constitute the global in its many facets. It aims to provide a sense in readers of how the global is not something »out there«, but that it is embedded in a wide range of the seemingly »everyday«. The contributions appeal to a readership from a background in Sociology, History, Political Science, Literary Studies, and Social Work. | [
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3A1040755429.jsonld | Handbook of food bioengineering / edited by Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu, Alina Maria Holban ; Volume 11: Diet, microbiome and health | Section 1: State of the Art and Applications -- Section 2: Probiotics and Prebiotics -- Section 3: Nutritional Aspects -- Section 4: Health, Disease, and Therapy -- Section 5: Function and Safety. Gut microbes: the miniscule laborers in the human body / Suma Sarojini -- Role of probiotics toward the improvement of gut health with special reference to colorectal cancer / Mian K. Sharif, Sana Mahmood, Fasiha Ahsan -- Therapeutic aspects of probiotics and prebiotics / Asif Ahmad, Sumaira Khalid -- Lactic acid bacteria beverage contribution for preventive medicine and nationwide health problems in Japan / Akira Kanda, Masatoshi Hara -- Gut microbiota alterations in people with obesity and effect of probiotics treatment / Edwin E. Martínez Leo, Armonda M. Martín Ortega, Maira R. Segura Campos -- Safety of probiotics / Dorota Zielińska, Barbara Sionek, Danuta Kołożyn-Krajewska -- Flavonoids in foods and their role in healthy nutrition / Silvia Tsanova-Savova, Petko Denev, Fanny Ribarova -- The role of milk oligosaccharides in host-microbial interactions and their defensive function in the gut / Sinead T. Morrin, Jane A. Irwin, Rita M. Hickey -- Nutritional yeast biomass: characterization and application / Monika E. Jach, Anna Serefko -- Effect of diet on gut microbiota as an etiological factor in Autism Spectrum Disorder / Afaf El-Ansary, Hussain Al Dera, Rawan Aldahash -- Dietary fibers: a way to a healthy microbiome / Prerna Sharma, Chetna Bhandari, Sandeep Kumar, Bhoomika Sharma, Priyanka Bhadwal, Navneet Agnihotri -- Effects of the gut microbiota on Autism Spectrum Disorder / Nalan H. Noğay -- Diet, microbiome, and neuropsychiatric disorders / Gabriel A. Javitt, Daniel C. Javitt -- Gastrointestinal exposome for food functionality and safety / Yuseok Moon -- Risk from viral pathogens in seafood / Samanta S. Khora. Diet, Microbiome and Health, Volume 11, in the Handbook of Food Bioengineering series, presents the most up-to-date research to help scientists, researchers and students in the field of food engineering understand the different microbial species we have in our guts, why they are important to human development, immunity and health, and how to use that understanding to further promote research to create healthy food products. In addition, the book provides studies that clearly demonstrate how dietary preferences and social behavior significantly impact the diversity of microbial species in the gut and their numeric values, which may balance health and disease.-- | [
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3A1794964398.jsonld | The Australia-European Union Free Trade Agreement | This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed chapters reflecting on the Australia-European Union Free Trade Agreement (AEUFTA). Since 18 June 2018, ten rounds of negotiations for a AEUFTA have been held in a constructive atmosphere, showing a shared commitment to move forward with this ambitious and comprehensive agreement. After a lengthy and arduous process interrupted by the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU), the United States’ hesitations regarding the EU’s global strategy and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the negotiations between Australia and the European Union finally appear to be nearing completion. In challenging times, both parties share a commitment to a positive trade agenda, and to the idea that good trade agreements benefit both sides by boosting jobs, growth and investment. This book explores the challenges, achievements and missed opportunities in the AEUFTA negotiation process, and examines current legal and political relations between the EU, its Member States and Australia. Furthermore, it examines in detail a wide and diverse range of negotiated areas, including digital trade, services, intellectual property rules, trade remedies and investment screening, as well as dispute settlement mechanisms. Lastly, it sheds light on the likely nature of future commercial relations between Australia and the EU. Written by a team of respected authors from leading institutions in both Australia and Europe, the book provides a valuable, interdisciplinary analysis of the AEUFTA. | [
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3A1853338214.jsonld | Care Technologies for Ageing Societies : An International Comparison | EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Technology is quickly becoming an integral part of care systems across the world and is frequently cited in policy discourse as pivotal for solving the ‘crisis’ in care and delivering positive outcomes. Exploring the role of technology in Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan, this book examines how technology contributes effectively to the sustainability of these different care systems, which are facing similar emergent pressures, including increased longevity, falling fertility and the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. It considers the challenges and opportunities of embedding technologies in care systems and the subsequent outcomes for older and disabled service users, carers and the care workforce | [
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3A169857875X.jsonld | The power of urban water : studies in premodern urbanism | Water is a global resource for modern societies - and water was a global resource for pre-modern societies. The many different water systems serving processes of urbanisation and urban life in ancient times and the Middle Ages have hardly been researched until now. The numerous contributions to this volume pose questions such as what the basic cultural significance of water was, the power of water, in the town and for the town, from different points of view. Symbolic, aesthetic, and cult aspects are taken up, as is the role of water in politics, society, and economy, in daily life, but also in processes of urban planning or in urban neighbourhoods. Not least, the dangers of polluted water or of flooding presented a challenge to urban society. The contributions in this volume draw attention to the complex, manifold relations between water and human beings. This collection presents the results of an international conference in Kiel in 2018. It is directed towards both scholars in ancient and mediaeval studies and all those interested in the diversity of water systems in urban space in ancient and mediaeval times. Wasser ist eine globale Ressource für heutige Gesellschaften – Wasser war eine globale Ressource vormoderner Gesellschaften. Die manigfaltigen unterschiedlicher Wassersysteme für Prozesse der Urbanisierung und das urbane Leben in der Antike und dem Mittelalter ist bislang kaum erforscht. Die zahlreichen Beiträge dieses Bandes fragen nach der grundlegenden kulturellen Bedeutung von Wasser ( bzw. power of water) in der Stadt und Wasser für die Stadt aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Symbolische, ästhetische oder kultische Aspekte werden ebenso thematisiert wie die Rolle von Wasser in Politik, Gesellschaft oder Wirtschaft und dem alltäglichen Handeln, aber auch in Stadtplanungsprozessen oder städtischen Teilräumen. Nicht zuletzt stellen die Gefahren von verschmutzten Wasser oder Überschwemmungen die städtische Gesellschaft vor Herausforderungen. Die Beiträge diesen Band lenken den Blick auf die komplexen und vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen Wasser und Menschen. Das Sammelwerk präsentiert die Ergebnisse einer internationalen Tagung in Kiel 2018. Es wendet sich gleichermaßen an Leser aus den altertumskundlichen wie mediävistischen Fächern und darüberhinaus an alle Interessierten, die sich über die Vielfalt von Wassersystemen im Stadtraum der Antike und des Mittelalters informieren möchten Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From Nature to Topography -- 3. Fountains and the Ancient City -- 4. Water, Social Space and Architecture at Selinous: the Case of the Urban Sanctuary -- 5. Fountains and Basins in Greek Sanctuaries -- 6. Water in Early Christian Ritual: Baptism and Baptisteries in Corinth -- 7. Aquatic Pasts & the Watery Present: Water and Memory in the Fora of Rome -- 8. Water and Decentring Urbanism in the Roman Period: Urban Materiality, Post-Humanism and Identity -- 9. Water and Urban Structures in the Narrative Worlds of Courtly Novels − Aesthetic and Symbolic Functions -- 10. Syracusan Water Networks in Antiquity -- 11. Meeting Water Needs as a Major Challenge in an Urban Context -- 12. Ice Jams and their Impact on Urban Communities from a Long-term Perspective (Middle Ages to the 19th Century) -- 13. Medieval and Post-Medieval Urban Water Supply and Sanitation -- 14. Harbourscapes -- 15. Human Impact on Hydrology -- 16. Water as an Economic Resource and as an Environmental Challenge Within the Urbanisation Process of the Rhine Valley in the 13th Century -- List of Contributors | [
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3A1646641833.jsonld | Atlas of organ transplantation | Multiorgan Procurement from the Deceased Donor -- Dialysis Access Procedures -- Nephrectomy from a Living Donor -- Kidney Transplantation -- Pancreas Transplantation -- Liver Transplantation -- Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation A comprehensive compilation of the majority of surgical procedures in transplant surgery, this book details the latest and most innovative procedures in one reference work. Atlas of Organ Transplantation is essential reading for all transplant surgeons, residents and fellows, as well as operating room nurses and transplant nurse coordinators | [
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3A1018485791.jsonld | A difficult neighbourhood : essays on Russia and East-Central Europe since World War II | "Through a series of essays on key events in recent years in Russia, the western ex-republics of the USSR and the countries of the one-time Warsaw Pact, John Besemeres seeks to illuminate the domestic politics of the most important states, as well as Moscow's relations with all of them. At the outset, he takes some backward glances at the violent suppression of national life in the "bloodlands" of Europe during World War II by the Stalinist and Nazi regimes, which helps to explain much about the region's dynamics since. His concern throughout is that a large area of Europe with a combined population well in excess of Russia's could again be consigned by the West to Moscow's care, not this time by more and less malign forms of collusion, but by distracted negligence or incomprehension. "This is a wonderful collection of essays from a leading Eastern Europe specialist. John Besemeres brings a lifetime of experience, profound insights, and an incisive style to subjects ranging from wartime and post-war Poland through contemporary Ukraine to Putin?s Russia. At a time when doublespeak has become the new normal, his refreshing honesty has never been in greater need."" Bobo Lo | [
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3A868765562.jsonld | Migration, memory, and diversity : Germany from 1945 to the present | Preface / Konrad H. Jarausch -- Introduction / Cornelia Wilhelm -- Part I. Postwar migrations : history, memory, and diversity -- The commemoration of forced migrations in Germany / Martin Schulze-Wessel -- A missing narrative : displaced persons in the history of postwar West Germany / Anna Holian -- Inclusion and exclusion of immigrants and the politics of labeling : thinking beyond "guest workers," "ethnic German resettlers," "refugees of the European crisis," and "poverty migration" / Asiye Kaya -- Refugee reports : asylum and mass media in divided Germany during the Cold War and beyond / Patrice G. Poutrus -- Part II. Institutional responses to migration and cultural difference -- History, memory, and symbolic boundaries in the Federal Republic of Germany : migrants and migration in school history textbooks / Simone Lassig -- Representations of immigration and emigration in Germany's historic museums / Katharzyna Nogueira and Dietmar Osses -- Archival collections and the study of migration / Klaus A. Lankheit -- Thinking difference in postwar Germany : some epistemological obstacles around "race" / Rita Chin -- Part III. Reconsidering history, memory, and identity in the post-Unification period -- Nationalism and citizenship during the passage from the postwar to the post-postwar / Dietmar Schirmer -- Learning to live with the other Germany in the post-Wall Federal Republic / Kathrin Bower -- Conflicting memories, conflicting identities : Russian-Jewish immigration and the image of a new German Jewry / Karen Korber -- Swept under the rug : home-grown anti-semitism and migrants as "obstacles" in German Holocaust remembrance / Annette Seidel-Arpaci "Within Germany, policies and cultural attitudes toward migrants have been profoundly shaped by the difficult legacies of the Second World War and its aftermath. This wide-ranging volume explores the complex history of migration and diversity in Germany from 1945 to today, showing how conceptions of 'otherness' developed while memories of the Nazi era were still fresh, and identifying the continuities and transformations they exhibited through the Cold War and reunification. It provides invaluable context for understanding contemporary Germany's unique role within regional politics at a time when an unprecedented influx of immigrants and refugees present the European community with a significant challenge"--Publisher description | [
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3A790337509.jsonld | When architects and designers write/draw/build? : essays on architecture and design research | In recent years, research has gradually become more integrated in the profiles of schools of architecture and design. Simultaneously, the concept of Architecture and DesignResearchhas become increasingly diverse, differentiated and complex, as reflected by the dialogue with a number of different academic traditions and a growing interest in design-based research methods.0This anthology highlights the potentials and challenges for research in architecture and design. The included essays are based on papers given at a symposium held at the Aarhus School of Architecture in 2011 and contain a number of topical positions ranging from the activist and academic to practice-based and artistically-based research by international and Danish researchers. The anthology is aimed at architects and designers, as well as others with an interest in the discussion of the concept of research in the fields of architecture and design. The anthology is in English and richly illustrated | [
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3A1023436523.jsonld | Handbook of trust research | 'This Handbook helps scholars account for more nuances and complications of the phenomenon of trust. But it is also a firm, intelligent reminder not to mutilate the phenomenon while crafting those accounts.' - Karl E. Weick, Academy of Management Review 'Given the number of special issues and other empirical articles devoted to trust, a handbook to record the state of trust research (both conceptual and empirical) seems timely ... this Handbook provides a collection of essays about different aspects, components, and qualities of trust, as well as differing perspectives on trust ... The editors and authors seem to have delivered on their stated purposes, and the reader can approach the Handbook as a whole, or as separate parts that focus on a particular level of inquiry ... The book is a primary resource for those who conduct trust research.' - Joann Keyton, Academy of Management Review. 'Bachmann and Zaheer's volume is well timed. Along with its valuable inventory of trust research, the Handbook is commendable for representing a true transnational collaboration that brings research from a range of European and North American scholars under one roof.' - Ranjay Gulati, Academy of Management Review. In recent times, research on trust has become a major field in the domain of management and in the social sciences as a whole. The Handbook of Trust Research presents a timely and comprehensive account of the most important work undertaken in this lively and emerging field over the past ten to fifteen years. Presenting a broad range of approaches to issues on trust, the Handbook features 22 articles from a variety of disciplines on the study of trust in both organizational and societal contexts. With contributions from some of the most eminent names in the field of trust research, this international collaboration is an imaginative and informative reference tool to aid research in this engaging area for years to come. The Handbook contributes to an area of key importance to almost every aspect of business and society and, in particular, it will appeal to students and scholars of organization theory, strategy and organizational psychology pt. I. Micro or individual level -- pt. II. Organizational or inter-organizational level -- pt. III. Cross-level approaches -- pt. IV. Trust at the level of society and the economy | [
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3A1869388658.jsonld | Substructuring method for civil structural health monitoring | This book investigates the substructuring technology in structural health monitoring (SHM) to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the present SHM methods. SHM has been developed for monitoring, evaluation, and maintenance of civil structures. As the civil structures are usually large scale and a large number of sensors are deployed on a structure, accurate evaluation and maintenance of civil structures are always time-consuming. The book establishes a fundamental framework of substructuring method for the fast analysis of finite element (FE) model and monitoring data. Several practical civil structures are used for illustration. The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in SHM technology, researchers investigating the accurate, efficient, and effective methods in SHM field, and engineers working on evaluation and maintenance of civil structures or other structural dynamics applications. | [
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3A879867787.jsonld | International politics and institutions in time | Institutions and times in international relations / Orfeo Fioretos -- The persistence of state sovereignty / Stephen D. Krasner -- The rise, character, and evolution of international order / G. John Ikenberry -- Sequencing, layering, and feedbacks in global regulation / Abraham L. Newman -- Reactive sequences in global health governance / Tine Hanrieder and Michael Zürn -- Dynamics of institutional choice / Joseph Jupille, Walter Mattli, and Duncan Snidal -- Global institutions without a global state / Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore -- International security : critical junctures, developmental pathways, and institutional change / Etel Solingen and Wilfred Wan -- The limits of institutional reform in the United States and the global trade regime / Judith Goldstein and Robert Gulotty -- Incremental original of Bretton Woods / Eric Helleiner -- Timing and sequencing in international politics : Latin America's contributions to human rights / Kathryn Sikkink -- The evolution of international law and courts / Karen J. Alter -- Bounded reform in global economic governance at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank / Catherine Weaver and Manuela Moschella -- Continuity and change in global environmental politics / Steven Bernstein and Hamish van der Ven -- Observations on the promise and pitfalls of historical institutionalism in international relations / Robert O. Keohane International Politics and Institutions in Time is the definitive exploration, by a group of leading international relations scholars, of the contribution of the historical institutionalism tradition for the study of international politics. Historical institutionalism is a counterpoint to the rational choice and sociological traditions of analysis in the study of international institutions, bringing particular attention to how timing and sequence of past events, path dependence, and other processes impact distributions of global power, policy choices, and the outcome of international political battles. This book places particular emphasis on the sources of stability and change in major international institutions, such as those shaping state sovereignty and global governance, including in the areas of international organization, law, political economy, human rights, environment, and security | [
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3A167952920X.jsonld | The self-reflexive art of Don DeLillo | How to make metafiction : a genealogy for Don DeLillo's self-reflexive art -- American narcissus : Lacanian reflections in Americana -- Libranth : Nicholas Branch's Joycean labyrinth -- "The martiniad" : Nick Shay as embedded author in underworld -- The artistic gestation of Klara Sax -- Performing self-dialogue in "the DeLillo variations" -- Art stalkers -- Literary triangulation : DeLillo "O'Hara" Oates -- A miniature star : remains and returns in the metafiction of Zero K -- A portrait of the artis : Jeff Lockhart as embedded author in Zero K. "Don DeLillo has spent his career reflecting upon the creative processes of artists. In recent years he has become increasingly drawn to spectators and how they project and indulge their own private obsessions through art. The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo is the first book devoted to this dimension of DeLillo's art. It is also the first book to identify and analyze a signature DeLillo motif: the embedded author. In multiple novels, short stories, and plays, DeLillo inserts a character subtly implied as the creator of the very narrative we are reading or watching. Spanning his entire career but focusing primarily on his work from Underworld (1997) to Zero K (2016), The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo breaks important new ground in DeLillo studies."-- | [
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3A1023444283.jsonld | Labour administration in uncertain times : policy, practice and institutions | The 2008 financial crisis marked the beginning of a prolonged and ongoing period of extreme economic turbulence that has created multiple challenges for both governments and national systems of labour administration. Difficult economic conditions are encouraging a reevaluation of established policies and institutions in the areas of labour, employment, social protection and industrial relations. This book analyses recent reforms in labour administration and national labour policies, charting their development and discussing the challenges and opportunities faced by governments, ministries of labour, labour inspectors, employer organisations and trade unions. -- The contributors draw upon new and original research to explore issues including labour law, public employment services, labour inspection and industrial relations. They evaluate the effectiveness of implementation, addressing questions relating to the structure and management of labour ministries, regulatory bodies and the resources that they have at their disposal. Future prospects for labour administration are also considered. -- This book will prove a thought-provoking read for academics, researchers and students of economics – particularly labour economics, social policy and public administration. Policy-makers and practitioners involved with labour administration at any level will also find this book to be an invaluable reference tool. | [
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3A1652372598.jsonld | Business-to-business marketing management : strategies, cases, and solutions | This book provides knowledge and skill-building training exercises in managing marketing decisions in business-to-business (B2B) contexts. The topic coverage is broad and deep. The intent is for the book to help answer four questions: (1) what questions should executives ask when crafting and implementing effective strategies in B2B contexts; (2) what tentative answers may be useful for executives to consider to these questions; (3) what skills in crafting strategies and decisions are necessary for executives to excel in for achieving effective outcomes consistently; and how should the B2B go about acquiring these skills?. | [
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3A88451482X.jsonld | Japan's wooden heritage : a journey through a thousand years of architecture | The Jōdo-dō (Pure Land Hall) at Jōdo-ji Temple -- The Hōō-dō (Phoenix Hall) at Byōdō-in Temple -- Kintai-kyō Bridge -- Matsumoto Castle -- Ōtaki Shrine -- The Nakamura House at Narai-juku -- The Zaō-dō Hall at Kinpusen-ji Temple -- The old Konpira Grand Theatre (Kanamaru-za) -- The Goshadō of Akagami Shrine -- Rinshun-kaku Villa -- Nageire-dō Hall -- Covered bridges -- The Sanjūsangen-dō Hall (Rengeō-in Temple) -- The main hall at Izumo Taisha Shrine -- The Kannon-dō Hall at Kasamori-ji Temple -- Seison-kaku Villa -- The Aizu Sazae-dō Hall -- The ferryman's hut at Suge -- The Ō-dō (Great Hall) at Fuki-ji Temple -- The five-tiered pagoda at Rurikō-ji Temple -- The Tsubokawa House -- The Jo-an Tea Ceremony House -- Itsukushima Shrine "Japan's Wooden Heritage: A Journey Through a Thousand Years of Architecture brings together essays by architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori and photographs by Mitsumasa Fujitsuka, and commentary by structural engineer Mikio Koshihara that originally appeared in Kateigahō, Japan's premier magazine of art and culture, supplemented with additional essays by Mitsumasa Fujitsuka. What distinguishes this volume is its selection of 23 locations--including well-known temples and shrines but also lesser-known structures--to represent a broad scope of architectural styles, functions, and time periods; the outstanding photographs; and the distinct approaches taken by each of the three essayists"-- | [
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3A1841136808.jsonld | Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation : Perspectives on Media, Academia and Socio-political Scapes from Europe and Canada | Contributors: Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada (Laval University), Alexander Van Leuven (KU Leuven), Alfonso Corral (San Jorge University), Alfredo Brant (Catholic University of Portugal), Anna Flora Machado (Catholic University of Portugal), Anabelle Vanier-Clément (SHERPA University Institute), Ann Trappers (Foyer VZW), Ans De Nolf (KU Leuven), Antonio Prieto-Andrés (San Jorge University), Ashley S. Montgomery (Concordia University), Camila Arêas (University of Reunion), Cayetano Fernández (San Jorge University), Cécile Rousseau (McGill University), Colin Robineau (University of Reunion), David De Coninck (KU Leuven), Erkan Toguslu (KU Leuven), Helena Cruz Ventura (University Institute of Lisbon), Jennifer A. Selby (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador), Jihène Hichri (Université du Québec à Montreal), Joanna Sozańska (Warsaw School of Economics), Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska (Warsaw School of Economics), Leen d’Haenens (KU Leuven), Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar (European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder), Rawda Harb (Concordia University), Salam El-Majzoub (McGill University), Sobia Shaheen Shaikh (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador), Stefan Mertens (KU Leuven), Vivek Venkatesh (Concordia University) Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content) Foundations and mechanisms of Islamophobia in the West. Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation discusses the scope and fragmented boundaries of Islamophobia as a concept and a sociopolitical reality. The fifteen chapters of this collection cover and connect interdisciplinary research, media content analysis, media discourse analysis, ethnographic research, intersectoral advocacy work, and action research conducted in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. Confronted with an Islamophobia that is growing as a symptom of broader societal malaise in the West, a resistance against it is also arising. It is now a question of better understanding the foundations and mechanisms of this metasolidarity and resistance. Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation offers recommendations for urgent consideration by Muslim citizens of Canada and Europe, media professionals, civil society and academic stakeholders, policymakers at the municipal, provincial and federal levels | [
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3A1696562732.jsonld | Writing Mexican History. | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Historiography of Rural Mexico and Latin America -- 1. Waves and Ripples: Studies of the Mexican Hacienda since 1980 -- 2. Rural Latin America: The Colonial Period and Nineteenth Century -- Part II: The Historiography of Colonial Mexico and the Era of Independence -- 3. Two Decades of Anglophone Writing on Colonial Mexico: Continuity and Change since 1980 -- 4. No Human Power to Impede the Impenetrable Order of Providence: The Historiography of Mexican Independence -- Part III: Theory and Methodology -- 5. Doing Regional History: A Theoretical Discussion and Some Mexican Cases -- 6. The Cuautla Lazarus: Reading Texts on Popular Collective Action -- Part IV: Economic History and Cultural History -- 7. The New Cultural History Comes to Old Mexico -- Bibliography -- Index. Written over a 25-year span, these essays explore the ways in which the rural, regional, political, and cultural history of colonial and nineteenth-century Mexico has been approached by scholars. | [
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3A1641771097.jsonld | The Routledge history of world peace since 1750 | The Routledge History of World Peace since 1750 examines the varied and multifaceted scholarship surrounding the topic of peace and engages in a fruitful dialogue about the global history of peace since 1750. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book includes contributions from authors working in fields as diverse as history, philosophy, literature, art, sociology, and Peace Studies. The book crosses the divide between historical inquiry and Peace Studies scholarship, with traditional aspects of peace promotion sitting alongside expansive analyses of peace through other lenses, including specific regional investigations of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and other parts of the world. Divided thematically into six parts that are loosely chronological in structure, the book offers a broad overview of peace issues such as peacebuilding, state building, and/or conflict resolution in individual countries or regions, and indicates the unique challenges of achieving peace from a range of perspectives. Global in scope and supported by regional and temporal case studies, the volume is an essential resource for educators, activists, and policymakers involved in promoting peace and curbing violence as well as students and scholars of Peace Studies, history, and their related fields. | [
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3A896609987.jsonld | Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire : Microcosms of Modernity | "The Western world stereotypically associates Ottoman or 'Turkish' prisons with images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual behaviour. Now, Kent F. Schull argues that these prisons were actually a site of immense reform and contestation during the 19th century. Schull shows that prisons were key components for Ottoman nation-state construction and acted as 'microcosms of modernity' for broader imperial transformation. It was within the walls of these prisons that many of the pressing questions of Ottoman modernity were worked out. By juxtaposing them with the reality of prison life, Schull investigates how state-mandated reforms affected the lives of local prison officials and inmates. He shows how these individuals actively conformed to, contested and manipulated new penal policies and practices for their own benefit."--Publisher's website. Contrary to the stereotypical images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual abuse traditionally associated with Ottoman or 'Turkish' prisons, Kent Schull argues that, during the Second Constitutional Period (1908-1918), they played a crucial role in attempts to transform the empire Ottoman criminal justice and the transformation of Islamic criminal law and punishment in the age of modernity, 1839-1922 -- Prison reform in the late Ottoman Empire : the state's perspectives -- Counting the incarcerated : knowledge, power and the prison population -- The spatialisation of incarceration : reforms, response and the reality of prison life -- Disciplining the disciplinarians : combating corruption and abuse through the professionalisation of the prison cadre -- Creating juvenile delinquents : redefining childhood in the late Ottoman Empire | [
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3A612621979.jsonld | Geomorphology : the mechanics and chemistry of landscapes | "This textbook provides a modern, quantitative and process-oriented approach to equip students with the tools to understand geomorphology. Insight into the interpretation of landscapes is developed from basic principles and simple models, and by stepping through the equations that capture the essence of the mechanics and chemistry of landscapes. Boxed worked examples and real-world applications bring the subject to life for students, allowing them to apply the theory to their own experience. The book covers cutting edge topics, including the revolutionary cosmogenic nuclide dating methods and modeling, highlights links to other Earth sciences through up-to-date summaries of current research, and illustrates the importance of geomorphology in understanding environmental changes. Setting up problems as a conservation of mass, ice, soil, or heat, this book arms students with tools to fully explore processes, understand landscapes, and to participate in this rapidly evolving field"--Provided by publisher "This textbook provides a modern, quantitative and process-oriented approach to equip students with the tools to understand geomorphology. Insight into the interpretation of landscapes is developed from basic principles and simple models, and by stepping through the equations that capture the essence of the mechanics and chemistry of landscapes. Boxed worked examples and real-world applications bring the subject to life for students, allowing them to apply the theory to their own experience. The book covers cutting edge topics, including the revolutionary cosmogenic nuclide dating methods and modeling, highlights links to other Earth sciences through up-to-date summaries of current research, and illustrates the importance of geomorphology in understanding environmental changes. Setting up problems as a conservation of mass, ice, soil, or heat, this book arms students with tools to fully explore processes, understand landscapes, and to participate in this rapidly evolving field"-- | [
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3A1648003052.jsonld | Reducing Capital Cost in Southern Africa | Southern Africa suffers from disproportionately expensive capital and this is denying the region its full growth potential. This book presents the ideas and proposals of a group of experts and practitioners from the state and business environments, brought together by the OECD Development Centre with public and private sector partners, on reducing the cost of capital in the region. It thus provides a unique insight into the nature of the problem of the cost of capital in Southern Africa and the effects it has on business activity and infrastructure development. In addition, the authors set out to define strategies for reducing capital cost, outlining measures suitable for government and private actors. "This collection makes a very worthwhile and stimulating contribution to the important question of reducing capital costs in Southern Africa." -Ian Plenderleith, Southern African Reserve Bank | [
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3A1765949254.jsonld | Biointerface engineering: prospects in medical diagnostics and drug delivery | This book provides detailed information on the surface and surface chemistry of various biointerfaces for the understanding and development of biosensors, biocompatible devices, and drug delivery systems. It highlights the role of interfacial phenomena towards the behaviour of biomolecules on different surfaces and their significance in recent applications. The book also addresses various surface engineering techniques for the modification of biomaterials that are implemented for improving biocompatibility. It provides an updated scientific concept of various interactions of biological systems with surfaces/modified surfaces at the molecular and cellular level. The chapters include various in-vitro, in-vivo, ex-vivo models to illustrate various aspects of Biointerface Engineering. Finally, the book elucidates troubleshooting strategies and future prospects of Biointerface Engineering in Medical Diagnostics and Drug Delivery. Chapter 1. Engineered Drug Delivery Systems: Insights of Biointerface -- Chapter 2. Tissue Engineering Strategies for Tooth and Dento-alveolar Region with Engineered Biomaterial and Stem Cells -- Chapter 3. Antifouling Peptoid Biointerfaces -- Chapter 4.Structure and Rheology of Hydrogels: Applications in Drug Delivery -- Chapter 5. Surface Engineering in Wearable Sensors for Medical Diagnostic Applications -- Chapter 6. Modulation of Physicochemical properties of Polymers for Effective Insulin Delivery Systems -- Chapter 7. Organization of Bio-molecules in Bulk and over the Nano-substrate: Perspective to the Molecular Dynamics Simulations -- Chapter 8. Medical Diagnostics Based on Electrochemical Biosensor -- Chapter 9. Nanomaterial functionalization Strategies in Bio-interface Development for Modern Diagnostic Devices -- Chapter 10. Bio-nano-Interface Engineering Strategies of AuNPs Passivation for Next-generation Biomedical Applications -- Chapter 11. Electrooptical Analysis as Sensing System for Detection and Diagnostic Bacterial Cells. | [
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3A1744973075.jsonld | Competition and regulation in electricity markets : an Edward Elgar research review | Recommended readings (Machine generated): F.P. Ramsey (1927), 'A Contribution to the Theory of Taxation', Economic Journal, 37 (145), March, 47-61 -- Harold Hotelling (1938), 'The General Welfare in Relation to Problems of Taxation and of Railway and Utility Rates', Econometrica, 6 (3), July, 242-69 -- R.H. Montgomery (1939), 'Government Ownership and Operation of the Electric Industry', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 201, January, 43-9 -- James C. Bonbright (1941), 'Major Controversies as to the Criteria of Reasonable Public Utility Rates', American Economic Review, 30 (5), February, 379-89 -- Nancy Ruggles (1949-1950), 'Recent Developments in the Theory of Marginal Costs Pricing', Review of Economic Studies, 17 (2), 107-26 -- M. Boiteux (1960), 'Peak-Load Pricing', Journal of Business, 33 (2), April, 157-79 -- Harvey Averch and Leland L. Johnson (1962), 'Behavior of the Firm Under Regulatory Constraint', American Economic Review, 52 (5), December, 1052-69 -- George G. Stigler and Claire Friedland (1962), 'What Can Regulators Regulate? The Case of Electricity', Journal of Law and Economics, 5, October, 1-16 -- George J. Stigler (1971), 'The Theory of Economic Regulation', Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science, 2 (1), Spring, 3-21 -- Sam Peltzman (1976), 'Toward a More General Theory of Regulation', Journal of Law and Economics, 19 (2), August, 211-40 -- Harold Demsetz (1968), 'Why Regulate Utilities?', Journal of Law and Economics, 11 (1), April, 55-65 -- Leonard W. Weiss (1975), 'Antitrust in the Electric Power Industry', in Almarin Phillips (ed.), Promoting Competition in Regulated Markets, Chapter 5, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 135-73 -- Andrei Shleifer (1985), 'A Theory of Yardstick Competition', RAND Journal of Economics, 16 (3), Autumn, 319-27 -- Richard A. Posner (1971), 'Taxation by Regulation', Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science, 2 (1), Spring, 22-50 -- William Stanley Jevons (1885), 'The Coal Question in England', Science, 5 (108), February, 175-6 -- William J. Baumol (1982), 'Productivity Incentive Clauses and Rate Adjustment for Inflation', Public Utilities Fortnightly, 110, July, 11-18 -- Richard Schmalensee (1989), 'Good Regulatory Regimes', RAND Journal of Economics, 20 (3), Autumn, 417-36 -- David E.M. Sappington and Dennis L. Weisman (1994), 'Designing Superior Incentive Regulation: Modifying Plans to Preclude Recontracting and Promote Performance', Public Utilities Fortnightly, 132 (5), March, 27-32 -- Paul L. Joskow (2013), 'Incentive Regulation in Theory and Practice: Electricity Distribution and Transmission Networks', in Nancy L. Rose (ed.), Economic Regulation and Its Reform: What Have We Learned?, Chapter 5, Chicago, IL and London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 291-344. Paul L. Joskow (1997), 'Restructuring, Competition and Regulatory Reform in the U.S. Electricity Sector', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11 (3), Summer, 119-38 -- Peter Cramton and Steven Stoft (2005), 'A Capacity Market that Makes Sense', Electricity Journal, 18 (7), August/September, 43-54 -- Eric S. Schubert, David Hurlbut, Parviz Adib and Shmuel Oren (2006), 'The Texas Energy-Only Resource Adequacy Mechanism', Electricity Journal, 19 (10), December, 39-49 -- Richard Green and Nicholas Vasilakos (2010), 'Market Behaviour with Large Amounts of Intermittent Generation', Energy Policy, 38 (7), July, 3211-20 -- David M. Newbery (1995), 'Power Markets and Market Power', Energy Journal, 16 (3), 39-66 -- Severin Borenstein, James B. Bushnell and Frank A. Wolak (2002), 'Measuring Market Inefficiencies in California's Restructured Wholesale Electricity Market', American Economic Review, 92 (5), December, 1376-405 -- Richard Green (1999), 'The Electricity Contract Market in England and Wales', Journal of Industrial Economics, XLVII (1), March, 107-24 -- Paul L. Joskow and Edward Kahn (2002), 'A Quantitative Analysis of Pricing Behavior in California's Wholesale Electricity Market During Summer 2000', Energy Journal, 23 (4), 1-35 -- Severin Borenstein (2002), 'The Trouble with Electricity Markets: Understanding California's Restructuring Disaster', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16 (1), Winter, 191-211 -- Andrew Sweeting (2007), 'Market Power in the England and Wales Wholesale Electricity Market 1995-2000', Economic Journal, 117 (520), April, 654-85 -- Richard Gilbert and David Newbery (2010), 'Electricity Merger Policy in the US and EU Electricity Generation', in François Lévêque and Howard Shelanski, Antitrust and Regulation in the EU and US: Legal and Economic Perspectives, Chapter 6, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 160-81 -- Roger E. Bohn, Michael C. Caramanis and Fred C. Schweppe (1984), 'Optimal Pricing in Electrical Networks over Space and Time', RAND Journal of Economics, 15 (3), Autumn, 360-76 -- William W. Hogan (1992), 'Contract Networks for Electric Power Transmission', Journal of Regulatory Economics, 4 (3), September, 211-42 -- Hung-Po Chao and Stephen Peck (1995), 'A Market Mechanism for Electric Power Transmission', Journal of Regulatory Economics, 10 (1), July, 25-59 -- Paul Joskow and Jean Tirole (2005), 'Merchant Transmission Investment', Journal of Industrial Economics, LIII (2), June, 233-64 -- Stephen C. Littlechild and Carlos J. Skerk (2008), 'Transmission Expansion in Argentina 4: A Review of Performance', Energy Economics, 30 (4), July, 1462-90 -- Chris M. Wilson and Catherine Waddams Price (2010), 'Do Consumers Switch to the Best Supplier?', Oxford Economic Papers, 62 (4), October, 647-68 -- Stephen Littlechild (2008), 'Municipal Aggregation and Retail Competition in the Ohio Energy Sector', Journal of Regulatory Economics, 34 (2), October, 164-94 -- Paul L. Joskow (2008), 'Lessons Learned from Electricity Market Liberalization', Energy Journal, 29 (2), 9-42. Christopher Hood (2010), 'Can We? Administrative Limits Revisited', Public Administration Review, 70 (4), July/August, 527-34 -- Michael G. Pollitt (2012), 'Lessons from the History of Independent System Operators in the Energy Sector', Energy Policy, 47, August, 32-48 -- L. Lynne Kiesling (2009), 'Organization Form and the Wires', in Deregulation, Innovation and Market Liberalization: Electricity Regulation in a Continually Evolving Environment, Chapter 5, London, UK and New York, NY: Routledge, 88-103, notes, references -- Ahmad Faruqui and Sanem Sergici (2010), 'Household Response to Dynamic Pricing of Electricity: A Survey of 15 Experiments', Journal of Regulatory Economics, 38 (2), October, 193-225. This timely research review explores the main issues surrounding competition and regulation in electricity markets. The industry is experiencing irresistible forces for change driven by energy policy objectives; a reassessment of market regulation in the face of high energy prices and the response to consumer pressure to agree on what constitutes a fair price for energy. 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3A1603059962.jsonld | Medical imaging : principles and practices | "This book offers a selective review of key imaging modalities focusing on modalities with established clinical utilization. It provides a detailed overview of x-ray imaging and computed tomography, fundamental concepts in signal acquisition and processes, followed by an overview of functional MRI (fMRI) and chemical shift imaging. It also covers topics in Magnetic Resonance Microcopy, the physics of instrumentation and signal collection, and their application in clinical practice. The selection of topics provides readers with an appreciation of the depth and breadth of the field and the challenges ahead of the technical and clinical community of researchers and practitioners"--Provided by publisher | [
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3A870483862.jsonld | Neue Diskurse der Gelehrtenkultur in der Frühen Neuzeit : ein Handbuch | "The handbook presents a total of 23 exemplary studies of the discourses and complex topics in the culture of scholarship and science in the Early Modern Age (15th - 18th cents.) which set trends and established directions in this epoch between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age. Each study traces its particular dialogue with its variants, protagonists and historical progress. Six headings are considered in all: 1. Philology / Rhetoric / Literature, 2. Cultures, 3. Theology / Denominations, 4. Philosophy, 5. Law / Politics, 6. Natural science / Medicine"--From publisher's website | [
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3A1870281756.jsonld | A theory of truth | "The paradoxes about truth are the subject of extensive research. Developing an original approach, this book argues that we should diverge from classical logic and presents a number of formal theories of truth. Also included is a beginner-friendly introduction to semantic paradoxes, and a discussion of alternative non-classical theories"-- | [
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3A1654318140.jsonld | Beginning Node.js | Beginning Node.js is your step-by-step guide to learning all the aspects of creating maintainable Node.js applications. You will see how Node.js is focused on creating high-performing, highly-scalable websites, and how easy it is to get started. Many front-end devs regularly work with HTML, CSS, PHP, even WordPress, but haven't yet got started with Node.js. This book explains everything for you from a beginner level, enabling you to start using Node.js in your projects right away. Using this book you will learn important Node.js concepts for server-side programming. You will begin with an easy-to-follow pure JavaScript primer, which you can skip if you're confident of your JS skills. You'll then delve into Node.js concepts such as streams and events, and the technology involved in building full-stack Node.js applications. You'll also learn how to test your Node.js code, and deploy your Node.js applications on the internet. Node.js is a great and simple platform to work with. It is lightweight, easy to deploy and manage. You will see how using Node.js can be a fun and rewarding experience - start today with Beginning Node.js | [
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3A1653299584.jsonld | Strafverfahren und Kommunikationskompetenz : ein Leitfaden für die universitäre Ausbildung | Criminal trials are characterised by communication. In addition to legal knowledge, a high degree of communication competence in dealing with the other players - clients, prosecutor's, victims, witnesses and court - is therefore required. These "key qualifications" can already be acquired during the course of studies. The volume presents models for practice and study, communication situations in the main criminal trial and models for out-of-court conflict resolution. The aim is to sensitise students, trainees and young professionals to the communicative challenges they will face in criminal proceedings. At the same time, a practice-oriented offer for the area of "key qualifications" relevant to studies and examinations, as well as a guideline, is made available to teachers in this area, explaining how a course can be structured and devised in a well-founded manner.With contributions byThomas Grützner, Matthias Jahn und Fabian Meinecke, Sybille Jung, Sabine Kräuter-Stockton, Raphael Mall, Carsten Momsen und Lisa Eisenberger, Kathrin Nitschmann, Frank Saliger, Franz-Josef Schillo, Charlotte Schmitt-Leonardy, Hubert Zimmer Das Strafverfahren wird durch Kommunikation geprägt. Neben rechtlichen Kenntnissen ist daher eine ausgeprägte Kommunikationskompetenz im Umgang mit den übrigen Akteuren – Mandanten, Zeugen, Staatsanwaltschaft und Gericht – gefragt. Diese „Schlüsselqualifikationen“ können bereits im Rahmen des Studiums erworben werden. Der Band stellt Modelle für Praxis und Studium, Situationen der Kommunikation in der strafrechtlichen Hauptverhandlung sowie Modelle außergerichtlicher Konfliktbeilegung vor. Ziel ist die Sensibilisierung von Studierenden, Referendaren und Berufsanfängern für die kommunikativen Herausforderungen, denen Sie im Strafverfahren begegnen werden. Zugleich soll ein praxisorientiertes Angebot für den gemäß § 5a Abs. 3 DRiG studiums- und examensrelevanten Bereich der „Schlüsselqualifikationen“ gemacht werden und den in diesem Bereich Lehrenden ein Leitfaden zur Verfügung gestellt werden, mithilfe dessen eine Lehrveranstaltung strukturiert und fundiert konzipiert werden kann.Mit Beiträgen von Thomas Grützner, Matthias Jahn und Fabian Meinecke, Sybille Jung, Sabine Kräuter-Stockton, Raphael Mall, Carsten Momsen und Lisa Eisenberger, Kathrin Nitschmann, Frank Saliger, Franz-Josef Schillo, Charlotte Schmitt-Leonardy, Hubert Zimmer | [
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3A865626049.jsonld | The terranauts | It is 1994, and in the desert near Tillman, Arizona, forty miles from Tucson, a grand experiment involving the future of humanity is underway. As climate change threatens the earth, eight scientists, four men and four women dubbed the ''Terranauts,'' have been selected to live under glass in E2, a prototype of a possible off-earth colony. Their sealed, three-acre compound comprises five biomes -- rainforest, savanna, desert, ocean, and marsh -- and enough wildlife, water, and vegetation to sustain them. Closely monitored by an all-seeing mission control, this new Eden is the brainchild of ecovisionary Jeremiah Reed, a.k.a. G. C. -- ''God the Creator'' -- for whom the project is both an adventure in scientific discovery and a momentous publicity stunt. In addition to their roles as medics, farmers, biologists, and survivalists, his young, strapping Terranauts must impress watchful visitors and a skeptical media curious to see if E2's environment will somehow be compromised, forcing the Ecosphere's seal to be broken -- and ending the mission in failure. As the Terranauts face increased scrutiny and a host of disasters, both natural and of their own making, their mantra: ''Nothing in, nothing out,'' becomes a dangerously ferocious rallying cry. Told through three distinct narrators -- Dawn Chapman, the mission's pretty, young ecologist; Linda Ryu, her bitter, scheming best friend passed over for E2; and Ramsay Roothorp, E2's sexually irrepressible Wildman -- The Terranauts brings to life an electrifying, pressured world in which connected lives are uncontrollably pushed to the breaking point. With characteristic humor and acerbic wit, T. C. Boyle indelibly inhabits the perspectives of the various players in this survivalist game, probing their motivations and illuminating their integrity and fragility to illustrate the inherent fallibility of human nature itself. | [
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3A64068064X.jsonld | A theory of international terrorism : understanding Islamic militancy | Presents a study of Islamic militancy in the geopolitical contexts of Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine, and the September 11 attacks on the United States. This book argues that the policy of no negotiations with Muslim militants is contrary to the UN Charter, and that terrorism cannot be eradicated unless the nation-state evolves into the Free State | [
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3A1649030584.jsonld | Acquired Cystic Disease of the Kidney and Renal Cell Carcinoma : Complications of Long-Term Dialysis | The detailed and comprehensive observations presented in this book on acquired cystic disease of the kidney and renal cell carcinoma in dialysis patients are drawn from the author??'s nearly three decades of experience. Beginning with the first clinical case in 1978 and including subsequent follow-up studies and questionnaires, the volume is an excellent clinical reference for practicing physicians. As the author makes clear, it is essential that examination before operations for renal transplantation should include imaging of the original kidneys. Extensive use of color illustrations and nume The detailed and comprehensive observations presented in this book on acquired cystic disease of the kidney and renal cell carcinoma in dialysis patients are drawn from the author's decades of experience. Beginning with the first clinical case in 1978 and including subsequent follow-up studies and questionnaires, the volume is an excellent clinical reference for practicing physicians. Color illustrations and numerous case studies assist the reader. | [
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3A1778674151.jsonld | Adolph Lewisohn. Kupfermagnat im "Goldenen Zeitalter" | "New York's most valuable vitizen" - this honorary title was given to Adolph Lewisohn. When he was born in Hamburg in 1849 as the son of Orthodox Jews and successful merchants, a career as a merchant was put in his cradle. In search of personal freedom he persuaded his strict father in 1867 to let him go to New York. The fact that Lewisohn, as an industrialist in the USA, will generate millions of euros in only twenty years' time would have seemed like a fairy tale to the young migrant. With dedication, foresight and flexibility he builds a copper empire. For four decades he then supports countless charitable projects with millions of euros. The Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung (Hamburg Scientific Society) also owes him one of the biggest donations it received when it was founded. This is the first biography of this exceptionally successful businessman, art collector and international philanthropist | [
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3A1618471570.jsonld | Why only us : language and evolution | We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language -- "the language faculty" -- raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This book by two distinguished scholars -- a computer scientist and a linguist -- addresses the enduring question of the evolution of language. Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky explain that until recently the evolutionary question could not be properly posed, because we did not have a clear idea of how to define "language" and therefore what it was that had evolved. But since the Minimalist Program, developed by Chomsky and others, we know the key ingredients of language and can put together an account of the evolution of human language and what distinguishes us from all other animals.Berwick and Chomsky discuss the biolinguistic perspective on language, which views language as a particular object of the biological world; the computational efficiency of language as a system of thought and understanding; the tension between Darwin's idea of gradual change and our contemporary understanding about evolutionary change and language; and evidence from nonhuman animals, in particular vocal learning in songbirds. | [
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3A791149188.jsonld | Social cohesion and immigration in Europe and North America : mechanisms, conditions, and causality | "Concerns about immigration and the rising visibility of minorities have triggered a lively scholarly debate on the consequences of ethnic diversity for trust, cooperation, and other aspects of social cohesion. In this accessibly written volume, leading scholars explore where, when, and why ethnic diversity affects social cohesion by way of analyses covering the major European immigration countries, as well as the United Sates and Canada. They explore the merits of competing theoretical accounts and give rare insights into the underlying mechanisms through which diversity affects social cohesion. The volume offers a nuanced picture of the topic by explicitly exploring the conditions under which ethnic diversity affects the 'glue' that holds societies together. With its interdisciplinary perspective and contributions by sociologists, political scientists, social psychologists, as well as economists, the book offers the most comprehensive analysis of the link between ethnic diversity and social cohesion that is currently available"-- | [
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3A1631632795.jsonld | Storytelling and ethics : literature, visual arts and the power of narrative | "In recent years there has been a huge amount of both popular and academic interest in storytelling as something that is an essential part of not only literature and art but also our everyday lives as well as our dreams, fantasies, aspirations, historical self-understanding, and political actions. The question of the ethics of storytelling always lurks behind these discussions, though most frequently it remains implicit rather than explicit. This volume explores the ethical potential and risks of storytelling from an interdisciplinary perspective. It stages a dialogue between contemporary literature and visual arts across media (film, photography, performative arts), interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives (debates in narrative studies, trauma studies, cultural memory studies, ethical criticism), and history. The collection analyses ethical issues involved in different strategies employed in literature and art to narrate experiences that resist telling and imagining, such as traumatic historical events, including war and political conflicts. The chapters explore the multiple ways in which the ethics of storytelling relates to the contemporary arts as they work with, draw on, and contribute to historical imagination. The book foregrounds the connection between remembering and imagining and explores the ambiguous role of narrative in the configuration of selves, communities, and the relation to the non-human. Making an original contribution to interdisciplinary narrative studies and narrative ethics, this book both articulates a complex understanding of how artistic storytelling practices enable critical distance from culturally dominant narrative practices, and analyzes the limitations and potential pitfalls of storytelling" -- | [
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3A1802247734.jsonld | Derivative lives : biofiction, uncertainty, and speculative risk in contemporary Spanish narrative | The circumstantial case: chasing criminals/tracing traumatic histories. Making the circumstantial case: reasonable doubt and moral certainty in Javier Cercas' Soldiers of Salamis -- Fugitive biofictions: Antonio Muñoz Molina's Like a fading shadow and Gabriela Ybarra's The Dinner guest -- Speculative truths and derivative fictions. Entertaining the what-ifs in Rosa Montero's The Madwoman of the house and The Ridiculous idea of never seeing you again -- Fraudulent pasts and fictional futures in Javier Cercas' The Imposter and Adolfo García Ortega's The Birthday buyer -- Critical play in biofictional games. Playing for real: simulated games of identity in Lucía Etxebarria's Courtney and I and Truth is nothing but a moment of falsehood -- Appendices to chapter 5 -- Literary afterlives and paratextual play: Elvira Navarro's The Last days of Adelaida García Morales and Antonio Orejudo's The Famous five and me -- Coda: Biofiction's antidotes to post-truth. "Considers the surge in biographical fiction (biofiction) as a paradigm shift in our understanding of real-life narratives, relating literary expression to theories of risk and uncertainty"-- | [
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3A1759789739.jsonld | Disintermediation economics : the impact of Blockchain on markets and policies | This book provides a coherent Blockchain framework for the business community, governments, and universities structured around microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, and political economy and identifies how financial markets and governmental policies are changed by digitization, specifically Blockchain. This framework, what they authors call "disintermediation economics," affects everything by providing a paradigm that transforms the way we organize markets and value chains, financial services, central banking, budgetary policies, innovation ecosystems, government services, and civil society. Bringing together leading and experienced policy makers, corporate practitioners, and academics from top universities, this book offers a road map of best practices that can be immediately useful to firms, policy makers as well as academics by balancing theory with practice. | [
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3A755429478.jsonld | Diateichismata | A Diateichisma is part of a city´s fortification system. Unlike a city wall it was built within the urban area dividing a city in two parts. This study focuses on two aspects. On the one hand, the phenomenon of diateichismata is considered as part of fortification architecture, on the other hand the influence of diateichism on the organisation of the urban space is pointed out. Furthermore, the reasons, why diateichismata were build are considered as a focal point of the study. The settlement are displayed in a catalogue, technical data is in charts. Written sources mentioning diatechisma are put together including relevant passages of the text.In scientific research diateichismata have been regarded as mere functional buildings, however, they have been studied systematically. In this study, the significance of diateichismata is analysed beyond the aspects of fortification; in particular, the impact of diateichismata on the development and utilisation of urban space is a spezial interest. A comparative analysis of settlements with diateichisma has needs of comparable criteria. The most applicable term, after which settlements with diateichisma can be discerned and put in order, is the chronological relation of diateichisma and city wall, because here chronology is the only variable giving valuable information on settlement development. Hence three variations of settlements with diateichisma can be discerned: 1. Settlements with diateichisma built together with the enceinte. 2. Settlements with secondarily but diateichisma. 3. Settlements with diateichisma which originate after expansion of walled urban space. Most of the studied settlements have diateichismata which were built after the enceinte (23 examples) or which origins from expansion of walled city space (19 settlements). Contemporaneous diateichismate are rare (14 settlements), only in a few cities the relation between diateichisma and city wall remains unclear. The earliest diateichismata be dated in late 7th cent. B.C., the latest was build in the middle of the 2nd cent. B.C. Within this chronological frame the highest concentration of diateichismata can be traced in classical and hellenistic times. The distriution of cities is spead from the Iberian Peninsula to Greek parts of modern Afghanistan (Graeco-bactria). Only any regions do show concentrations of settlements with diateichisma. In the Western Mediterranean there are more cities with secondarily built diateichisma, in the area of north-w ... Diateichismata sind Befestigungsmauern, die durch bebautes oder unbebautes Areal ummauerter Siedlungen verlaufen und dieses in zwei Gebiete teilen; sie bilden mit den jeweiligen Umfassungsmauern meist komplexe Verteidigungssysteme. Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt das Phänomen des Diateichisma als Befestigungsbauwerk und seinen Einfluß auf die urbanistische Organisation des Stadtbildes. Die Darstellung der Forschungsgeschichte und der antiken Schriftquellen zum Thema Diateichisma bilden die Einleitung der Arbeit. Einen zentralen Punkt bildet dabei die Analyse der Siedlungen mit Diateichisma nach siedlungstypologischen Gesichtspunkten. Weitere wesentliche Fragestellungen betreffen das Verhältnis des Diateichisma zum urbanen Raum sowie die Ursachen, die zur Errichtung der Diateichismata geführt haben. Die Siedlungen mit Diateichisma werden detailliert in einem Katalog erfaßt. Die technischen Daten zu den Siedlungen werden tabellarisch dargestellt, die Testimonien zu Diateichisma sind mit Auszügen der relevanten Textpassagen wiedergegeben. In der Forschung wurden Diateichismata als militärische Zweckbauten behandelt, sie wurden aber nie systematisch untersucht. Für eine vergleichende Analyse der Siedlungen mit Diateichisma wurde die Auswertung des bauchronologischen Verhältnisses von Diateichisma und Umfassungsmauer als am meisten geeignetes Kriterium herangezogen, weil nur dieses Verhältnis Aufschluss über die Entwicklung der Siedlungsgröße geben kann. Zu unterscheiden sind: 1. gleichzeitig mit der Umfassungsmauer errichtete Diateichismata; 2. nachträglich errichtete Diateichismata; 3. Diateichismata, die durch Erweiterung des befestigten Stadtgebietes entstanden sind. In den meisten der untersuchten Siedlungen (23 Beispiele) wurde Diateichisma nachträglich errichtet. Durch Stadterweiterung entstandene Diateichismata finden sich in 19 Städten. Gleichzeitig wurden die wenigsten Diateichismata erbaut (14 Beispiele); bei 4 Siedlungen ist das Verhältnis zwischen Diateichisma und Umfassungsmauer unklar. Diateichismata lassen sich vom 7. bis zum 2. Jhd. v. Chr. in griechischen Siedlungen nachweisen. Bei der chronologischen Verteilung der einzelnen Siedlungen zeigt sich, dass in klassischer und hellenistischer Zeit die meisten Diateichismata errichtet wurden. Innerhalb des griechischen Kulturraumes sind Diatechisma-Siedlungen weit gestreut. In wenigen Gebieten lassen sich Häufungen erkennen: Vermehrt treten nachträglich errichtete Diateichismata ... | [
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3A1655256408.jsonld | Antike Kritik an der Stoa : lateinisch-griechisch-deutsch | This volume compiles contemporary records of the ancient polemic against stoicism - a doctrine whose rigid notions led to perpetual conflict about its image of the world and of man. The texts are arranged according to the nature and mode of their argument against stoicism: skeptical anti-dogmatism, stoical self-critique, satirical parody, polemical rejection, critical distancing, and journalistic attack | [
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3A568846680.jsonld | Handbook of research on virtual workplaces and the new nature of business practices | "This book compiles authoritative research from scholars worldwide, covering the issues surrounding the influx of information technology to the office environment, from choice and effective use of technologies to necessary participants in the virtual workplace"--Provided by publisher | [
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3A511088469.jsonld | Die Harnack-Medaille : der Kaiser-Wilhelm-/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften, 1924 - 2004 | "Consists of short biographies and portraits of the scientists who have won the Harnack Medal"--Provided by vendor | [
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3A086723804.jsonld | Microdevelopment : transition processes in development and learning | Microdevelopment : a process-oriented perspective for studying development and learning Nira Granott and Jim Parziale -- Microgenetic studies of self-explanation Robert S. Siegler -- Microdevelopment and dynamic systems : applications to infant motor development Esther Thelen and Daniela Corbetta -- Looking at the hands through time : a microgenetic perspective on learning and instruction Susan Goldin-Meadow and Martha Wagner Alibali -- A multi-component system that constructs knowledge : insights from microgenetic study Deanna Kuhn -- Bridging to the unknown : a transition mechanism in learning and development Nira Granott, Kurt W. Fischer, and Jim Parziale -- Observing the dynamics of construction : children building bridges and new ideas Jim Parziale -- Interacting time scales in personality (and cognitive) development : intentions, emotions, and emergent forms Marc D. Lewis -- How microdevelopment creates macrodevelopment : reiterated sequences, backward transitions, and the Zone of Current Development Nira Granott -- Macro- and microdevelopmental research : assumptions, research strategies, constraints, and utilities Kang Lee and Annette Karmiloff-Smith -- Notebooks as windows on learning : the case of a science-into-ESL program Rochel Gelman, Laura Romo, and Wendy S. Francis -- Darwin's construction of the theory of evolution : microdevelopment of explanations of variation and change in species Kurt W. Fischer and Zheng Yan -- Developmental dynamics, intentional action, and fuzzy sets Paul van Geert Microdevelopment is the process of change in abilities, knowledge and understanding during short time-spans. This book presents a new process-orientated view of development and learning based on recent innovations in psychology research: it will be essential reading for all interested in cognitive and developmental science | [
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3A626004403.jsonld | Agricultural Trade and Poverty : Making Policy Analysis Count | One in five of the world's population live in extreme poverty, with a per capita income of less than a dollar a day. At least two-thirds of these people live in rural areas, where farming is the dominant source of income. At the same time, the poorest non-farm households spend a relatively large share of their budgets on food | [
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3A1768267707.jsonld | The Routledge global history of feminism | Based on the scholarship of a global team of diverse authors, this wide-ranging handbook surveys the history and current status of pro-women thought and activism over millennia. Comprehensive and properly global, this is the ideal volume for students and scholars of women's and gender history, women's studies, social history, political movements and feminism. The book traces the complex history of feminism across the globe, presenting its many identities, its heated debates, its racism, discussion of religious belief and values, commitment to social change, and the struggles of women around the world for gender justice. Authors approach past understandings and today’s evolving sense of what feminism or womanism or gender justice are from multiple viewpoints. These perspectives are geographical to highlight commonalities and differences from region to region or nation to nation; they are also chronological suggesting change or continuity from the ancient world to our digital age. Across five parts, authors delve into topics such as colonialism, empire, the arts, labor activism, family, and displacement as the means to take the pulse of feminism from specific vantage points highlighting that there is no single feminist story but rather multiple portraits of a broad cast of activists and thinkers. | [
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3A85741402X.jsonld | Taxation of SMEs in OECD and G20 Countries | Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are important for their contribution to employment, innovation, economic growth and diversity. This report examines the tax treatment of SMEs, the case for SME preferences, and the use of tax preferences and simplification measures for SMEs in thirty-nine OECD and G20 countries. It finds that many of the tax systems examined provide incentives to incorporate and to distribute income in certain types of capital form. Ideally, taxes should be neutral with regard to the business decisions of SMEs, including decisions related to their creation, form and growth. However, certain features of the tax system may disproportionately affect SMEs, for example, the asymmetric treatment of profits and losses, a bias toward debt over corporate equity, and the higher fixed costs of tax and regulatory compliance for small businesses. This report recommends that measures designed to address these concerns be carefully targeted to affected firms and seek to avoid introducing further distortions and complexity. | [
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3A1654234834.jsonld | Roman Charity : queer lactations in early modern visual culture | The ancient stories of Pero, who breastfed her father, and of the unnamend Roman daughter, who breastfed her mother, were of tremendous interest to artists and their audiences from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. »The Roman Charity« investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The book explores the popularity of a topic that renders modern viewers uneasy, but appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on the venerable concept of »charity«, and its implied critique of patriarchal power structures. It tries to understand why and how early modern viewers found an incestuous, adult breastfeeding scene »good to think with«, and aims at expanding and queering our notions of early modern sexuality | [
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3A1030514437.jsonld | The English language : a very short introduction | LANGUAGE: HISTORY & GENERAL WORKS. How has the English language evolved into the version we know today? How will it develop in future? Is it changing for the better or the worse? Simon Horobin's entertaining Very Short Introduction engages with these often heated debates, giving the historical and linguistic framework which will enable well informed discussion | [
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3A496414135.jsonld | The Islam/West debate : documents from a global debate on terrorism, U.S. policy, and the Middle East | In 2002, sixty prominent American intellectuals released an open letter defending the use of military force against al-Qa'ida. The letter sparked an impassioned international debate unlike any other, in which jihadists, journalists, liberal Muslims, and German pacifists engaged one another on the most pressing issues of our time: terrorism, U.S. policy, and Islam-West relations. A valuable resource for specialist and non-specialist alike, this volume chronicles that debate and includes contributions from both sides of the political spectrum in America and the Middle East-and even from al-Qa'ida. | [
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3A568303520.jsonld | The Blackwell handbook of strategic management | This major reference work is distinct from many other handbooks. It provides original contributions from top strategic management scholars rather than pure research reviews or collections of previously published articles. In the original chapters provided by these outstanding strategic management scholars, major ideas and theories relating to their particular areas of expertise are presented. The contributors examine the background on their topic through their own lenses, whilst also introducing new ideas that will influence the future of research in the field. The Handbook is structured into five sections looking at the strategic management process, the theoretical foundations of the field, various types of strategy, human factors, and teaching methods. As a whole, the volume will serve as a critical reference tool for students, scholars and professional managers. | [
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3A1610111192.jsonld | Agricola | The author and his work -- Tacitus' Britain -- Imperialism, freedom and servitude -- The Agricola as history -- Language and expression -- The manuscripts -- Commentary | [
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3A1765918561.jsonld | Random walk, Brownian motion, and martingales | This textbook offers an approachable introduction to stochastic processes that explores the four pillars of random walk, branching processes, Brownian motion, and martingales. Building from simple examples, the authors focus on developing context and intuition before formalizing the theory of each topic. This inviting approach illuminates the key ideas and computations in the proofs, forming an ideal basis for further study. Consisting of many short chapters, the book begins with a comprehensive account of the simple random walk in one dimension. From here, different paths may be chosen according to interest. Themes span Poisson processes, branching processes, the Kolmogorov–Chentsov theorem, martingales, renewal theory, and Brownian motion. Special topics follow, showcasing a selection of important contemporary applications, including mathematical finance, optimal stopping, ruin theory, branching random walk, and equations of fluids. Engaging exercises accompany the theory throughout. Random Walk, Brownian Motion, and Martingales is an ideal introduction to the rigorous study of stochastic processes. Students and instructors alike will appreciate the accessible, example-driven approach. A single, graduate-level course in probability is assumed. 1. What is a Stochastic Process? -- 2. The Simple Random Walk I: Associated Boundary Value Distributions, Transience and Recurrence -- 3. The Simple Random Walk II: First Passage Times -- 4. Multidimensional Random Walk -- 5. The Poisson Process, Compound Poisson Process, and Poisson Random Field -- 6. The Kolmogorov–Chentsov Theorem and Sample Path Regularity -- 7. Random Walk, Brownian Motion and the Strong Markov Property -- 8. Coupling Methods for Markov Chains and the Renewal Theorem for Lattice Distributions -- 9. Bienyamé–Galton–Watson Simple Branching Process and Extinction -- 10. Martingales: Definitions and Examples -- 11. Optional Stopping of (Sub)Martingales -- 12. The Upcrossings Inequality and (Sub)Martingale Convergence -- 13 -- Continuous Parameter Martingales -- 14. Growth of Supercritical Bienyamé–Galton–Watson Simple Branching Processes -- 15. Stochastic Calculus for Point Processes and a Martingale Characterization of the Poisson Process -- 16. First Passage Time Distributions for Brownian Motion with Drift and a Local Limit Theorem -- 17. The Functional Central Limit Theorem (FCLT) -- 18. ArcSine Law Asymptotics -- 19. Brownian Motion on the Half-Line: Absorption and Reflection -- 20. The Brownian Bridge -- 21. Special Topic: Branching Random Walk, Polymers and Multiplicative Cascades -- 22. Special Topic: Bienyamé–Galton–Watson Simple Branching Process and Excursions -- 23. Special Topic: The Geometric Random Walk and the Binomial Tree Model of Mathematical Finance -- 24. Special Topic: Optimal Stopping Rules -- 25. Special Topic: A Comprehensive Renewal Theory for General Random Walks -- 26. Special Topic: Ruin Problems in Insurance -- 27. Special Topic: Fractional Brownian Motion and/or Trends: The Hurst Effect -- 28. Special Topic: Incompressible Navier–Stokes Equations and the LeJan–Sznitman Cascade -- References -- Related Textbooks and Monographs -- Symbol Definition List -- Name Index -- Index. | [
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3A495013633.jsonld | Skills for managing rapidly changing IT projects | "This book covers many aspects related to IT project management, such as human relationships, team management, software methodologies, and tools and techniques for project management"--Provided by publisher. | [
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3A633916781.jsonld | A companion to ancient Macedonia | "A Companion to Ancient Macedonia--the first of its kind--examines the political, military, social, economic, and cultural history of ancient Macedonia from the Archaic period to the end of Roman domination and beyond. Material culture, such as art, architecture, and archaeology, is also explored. Written in a lively and accessible style, the companion includes specially commissioned chapters by leading and up-and-coming scholars, and features suggestions for further reading. This comprehensive, up-to-date collection of essays provides a rich resource for students and scholars of ancient Macedonia"-- "The most comprehensive and up-to-date work available on ancient Macedonian history and material culture, A Companion to Ancient Macedonia is an invaluable reference for students and scholars alike. Features new, specially commissioned essays by leading and up-and-coming scholars in the field Examines the political, military, social, economic, and cultural history of ancient Macedonia from the Archaic period to the end of Roman period and beyond Discusses the importance of art, archaeology and architecture All ancient sources are translated in English Each chapter includes bibliographical essays for further reading" -- | [
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3A1694454827.jsonld | Management and Administration of Higher Education Institutions at Times of Change | As a new model of growth and development comes into force, higher education institutions (HEI) worldwide have to adapt and respond to a constantly changing environment. Politics, economics, advances in technology and the resultant societal change create a number of opportunities and challenges that HEI' administrators have to address on a daily basis. This volume offers practice-driven accounts of how HEI successfully embrace these challenges and opportunities.The experts and practitioners contributing to this volume reveal a complex reality of HEI today. The book links the debate on education to topical issues in politics, society and economy, including questions of technological progress, social responsibility, sustainability, well-being and, broadly understood, resilience. The authors emphasise the importance of the role of the university in supporting new models of growth by ensuring that the institutions strive towards inclusive education for all. Topics examined in this timely book include university social responsibility, emerging technologies in Higher Education and digital games-based learning and organizational innovation, in a range of international contexts.Given its practice-drive approach, this book will be invaluable for researchers, administrators and leaders in higher education management. | [
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3A1023432455.jsonld | Narrative and discursive approaches in entrepreneurship : a second movements in entrepreneurship book | 1. The prosaics of entrepreneurship -- 2. A moment in time -- 3. Driven entrepreneurs : a case study of taxi owners in Caracas -- 4. "Going against the grain ..." : construction of entrepreneurial identity through narratives -- 5. Storytelling to be real : narrative, legitimacy building and venturing -- 6. The devil is in the e-tale : forms and structures in the entrepreneurial narratives -- 7. Crime and assumptions in entrepreneurship -- 8. The dramas of consulting and counselling the entrepreneur -- 9. Masculine entrepreneurship : the Gnosjö discourse in a feminist perspective -- 10. quilting a feminist map to guide the study of women entrepreneurs -- 11. Towards genealogic storytelling in entrepreneurship readings -- 12. Reading the storybook of life : telling the right story versus telling the story rightly -- 13. The edge defines the (w)hole : saying what entrepreneurship is (not) -- 14. Relational constructionism and entrepreneurship : some key notes This is the second volume in a mini-series on movements in entrepreneurship. It aims to forward the study of entrepreneurship by stimulating and exploring new ideas and research practices in relation to new themes, theories, methods, pragmatic stances and contexts. The book explores different experiences and accounts of entrepreneurship, as well as reflections on "story telling" in entrepreneurship research, discursive studies, and debates on how to interpret narrative and discursive work | [
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3A1023440474.jsonld | Good governance in the 21st century : conflict, institutional change, and development in the era of globalization | This book explores the interdependences of economic globalization, political tensions, and national policymaking whilst analysing opportunities for governance reform at both national and international levels. It considers how governance mechanisms can be fashioned in order to both exploit the opportunities of globalization and cope with the numerous potential conflicts and risks. The authors adopt a multidisciplinary approach based on various theories from economics, political science, sociology and law to provide new insights into globalization processes, their causes and effects and to further develop the understanding of, and interaction between globalization and governance. They underline the need to design innovative governance structures at national, regional, and global levels – an unalterable precondition to overcome political, cultural, and distributional conflicts in a globalizing world. In conclusion, the book prescribes development strategies to successfully manage and overcome the political, cultural and distributional conflicts arising in a globalizing world. | [
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3A173677669X.jsonld | Josephine Baker's cinematic prism | "Josephine Baker, the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating between allure and colonialist stereotyping. Nicknamed the "Black Venus," "Black Pearl," and "Creole Goddess," Baker blended the sensual and the comedic when taking 1920s Europe by storm. Back home in the United States, Baker's film career brought hope to the black press that a new cinema centered on black glamour would come to fruition. In Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism, Terri Simone Francis examines how Baker fashioned her celebrity through cinematic reflexivity, an authorial strategy in which she placed herself, her persona, and her character into visual dialogue. Francis contends that though Baker was an African American actress who lived and worked in France exclusively with a white film company, white costars, white writers, and white directors, she holds monumental significance for African American cinema as the first truly global black woman film star. Francis also examines the double-talk between Baker and her characters in Le Pompier de Folies Bergère, La Sirène des Tropiques, Zou Zou, Princesse Tam Tam, and The French Way, whose narratives seem to undermine the very stardom they offered. In doing so, Francis artfully illuminates the most resonant links between emergent African American cinephilia, the diverse opinions of Baker in the popular press, and African Americans' broader aspirations for progress toward racial equality. Examining an unexplored aspect of Baker's career, Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism deepens the ongoing conversation about race, gender, and performance in the African Diaspora"-- | [
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3A1647777143.jsonld | Principles of cartilage repair | Cartilage defects affect patients of all age groups. Surgeons, teamdoctors, general practitioners and physiotherapists alike are expected to provide adequate care. Only individual treatment plans combining a well balanced choice of various options will be successful. Background knowledge, operative and non-operative therapies are described in concise chapters:Articular cartilage biologyDiagnosticsSurgical techniquesSymptomatic and alternative medicationsPhysiotherapyDiagnostic findings and surgical procedures are generously illustrated by aquarelles and colour photographs. Recommendations for additional reading, description of important clinical scoring systems and a listing of analytic tools are added for further information. | [
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3A178975075X.jsonld | Brexit and its aftermath | "The British referendum on the membership of the European Union on 23 June 2016 was a cataclysmic event in British and European politics. Years later the consequences are still unknown. This collection seeks to answer the key questions relating to the consequences of Brexit and the future of Britain. Will Brexit affect the British constitution? Is Brexit likely to lead to the breakup of the UK - with Scotland and Northern Ireland seeking independence? How will Covid-19 delay lingering political questions brought on by Brexit? These key questions and more, relating to both domestic and foreign policy, are answered by a range of contributors including expert academics, policy-makers and Members of Parliament and addresses both European and British policy-making."-- | [
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3A876678428.jsonld | Still image and video compression with MATLAB | Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Image Acquisition -- Image Transforms -- Discrete Wavelet Transform -- Lossless Coding -- Predictive Coding -- Image Compression in the Transform Domain -- Image Compression in the Wavelet Domain -- Basics of Video Compression -- Video Compression Standards -- Index "This book describes the principles of image and video compression techniques and introduces current and popular compression standards, such as the MPEG series. Derivations of relevant compression algorithms are developed in an easy-to-follow fashion. Numerous examples are provided in each chapter to illustrate the concepts. The book includes complementary software written in MATLAB SIMULINK to give readers hands-on experience in using and applying various video compression methods. Readers can enhance the software by including their own algorithms"-- "This book describes the principles of image and video compression techniques and introduces current and popular compression standards, such as the MPEG series. Derivations of relevant compression algorithms are developed in an easy-to-follow fashion. Numerous examples are provided in each chapter to illustrate the concepts. The book includes complementary software written in MATLAB SIMULINK to give readers hands-on experience in using and applying various video compression methods"-- | [
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3A821321072.jsonld | The novel : a survival skill | Machine generated contents note: 1.Four Imagined Meetings -- 2.Schismogenesis and Semantic Polarities -- 3.Joyce: A Winner Looking to Lose -- 4.Good Boy, Bad Boy -- 5.The Reader's Address -- 6.Terrifying Bliss -- 7.Worthy Writers, Worthy Readers The Novel: A Survival Skill is the fruit of a lifetime's search for a different, more immediate, but again systematic and serious way of talking about literature. Developed over many years, it offers a completely new account of the relationship between a writer, his or her work, and the reader. As such it radically undermines traditional literary criticism and the various criteria used for evaluating a work of fiction. Drawing on ideas from systemic psychology, Tim Parks suggests that both the content and style of a novelist's work, the kind of stories told and the way in which they are told, form part of a more general strategy or simply habit of communication that the novelist has learned within his or her family of origin. The reader reacts to these in very much the same way he or she would react to the same communicative strategy in a real life encounter, different readers reacting differently depending on their own backgrounds and habits of communication. Looking at the different value structures that can dominate in any family--good/evil, independence/dependence, success/failure, belonging/exclusion--this book looks at how a number of major writers position themselves within these value structures, how this positioning is manifest in their writing, and how readers have responded to this depending on their own positioning in the same semantics. Thomas Hardy, for example, a man eager to believe himself courageous but terrified of the consequences of any socially "unacceptable" behavior, constructs stories which are courageous in their willingness to debate difficult issues, but which constantly suggest that any attempt to behave courageously is condemned to disaster. Hardy, as it were, imprisons himself in a world where it is folly to take risks. He is thus exceedingly conservative in his life, while at the same time able to think of himself as courageous in his writing. The Novel: A Survival Skill looks at the way different readers in different periods respond to this depending on their own position with regard to fear, courage, social convention and so on. | [
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3A1020859768.jsonld | Multistate models for the analysis of life history data | Introduction to life history processes and multistate models -- Event history processes and multistate models -- Multistate analysis based on continuous observation -- Some examples of analysis with multistate models -- Studies with intermittent observation of individuals -- Heterogeneity and dependence in multistate processes -- Process-dependent sampling schemes -- Additional topics -- Appendix A Selected software packages -- Appendix B Simulation of multistate processes -- Appendix C Code and output for illustrative analyses -- D Mechanical ventilation in an intensive care unit -- Bibliography -- Index | [
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3A1653046783.jsonld | Ricci Flow for Shape Analysis and Surface Registration : Theories, Algorithms and Applications | Ricci Flow for Shape Analysis and Surface Registration introduces the beautiful and profound Ricci flow theory in a discrete setting. By using basic tools in linear algebra and multivariate calculus, readers can deduce all the major theorems in surface Ricci flow by themselves. The authors adapt the Ricci flow theory to practical computational algorithms, apply Ricci flow for shape analysis and surface registration, and demonstrate the power of Ricci flow in many applications in medical imaging, computer graphics, computer vision and wireless sensor network. Due to minimal pre-requisites, this book is accessible to engineers and medical experts, including educators, researchers, students and industry engineers who have an interest in solving real problems related to shape analysis and surface registration. . 1. Introduction -- 2. Computational -- 3. Computational Geometry -- 4. Differential Geometry of Surface -- 5. Riemann Surface -- 6. Ricci Flow -- 7. Topological Algorithms -- 8. Harmonic Maps -- 9. Discrete Ricci Flow -- 10. Shape Analysis -- 11. Surface Diffeomorphism -- 12. Medical Imaging Applications -- 13. Computer Vision Applications -- 14. Computer Graphics Applications -- 15. Network Applications. . | [
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3A555867307.jsonld | The library as place in California | "From the educational space of UC Berkeley to a one-room library in Silverado Canyon, this tour of 32 California libraries explores the sense of space and unique atmosphere a structure can provide"--Provided by publisher | [
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3A1023436280.jsonld | The new economics of technology policy | This book focuses on technological policies, in other words all public interventions intended to influence the intensity, composition and direction of technological innovations within a given entity (region, country or group of countries). The editor has gathered together many of the leading scholars in the field to comprehensively explore numerous avenues and pathways of research. The book sheds light on the theory and practice of technological policies by employing modern analytical tools and economic techniques pt. I. Frameworks and rationales for technology policy -- pt. II. How much. and where? -- pt. III. Rationales for and modes of mission-oriented policies -- pt. IV. The use of models and surveys for technology policy -- pt. V. Technology policy in Switzerland -- pt. VI. Technology policy in the European Union -- pt. VII. Technology policy and new models of innovation -- pt. VIII. Technology policy for development -- pt. IX. Conclusions | [
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3A1010072501.jsonld | Musical sound, instruments, and equipment | Musical Sound, Instruments, and Equipment' offers a basic understanding of sound, musical instruments and music equipment, geared towards a general audience and non-science majors. The book begins with an introduction of the fundamental properties of sound waves, and the perception of the characteristics of sound. The relation between intensity and loudness, and the relation between frequency and pitch are discussed. The basics of propagation of sound waves, and the interaction of sound waves with objects and structures of various sizes are introduced. Standing waves, harmonics and resonance are explained in simple terms, using graphics that provide a visual understanding. | [
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3A1618884212.jsonld | Using figurative language | Using Figurative Language presents results from a multidisciplinary decades-long study of figurative language that addresses the question, "Why don't people just say what they mean?" This research empirically investigates goals speakers or writers have when speaking (writing) figuratively, and concomitantly, meaning effects wrought by figurative language usage. These "pragmatic effects" arise from many kinds of figurative language including metaphors (e.g., "This computer is a dinosaur"), verbal irony (e.g., "Nice place you got here"), idioms (e.g., "Bite the bullet"), proverbs (e.g., "Don't put all your eggs in one basket") and others. Reviewed studies explore mechanisms - linguistic, psychological social and others, underlying pragmatic effects, some traced to basic processes embedded in human sensory, perceptual, embodied, cognitive, social and schematic functioning. The book should interest readers, researchers and scholars in fields beyond psychology, linguistics and philosophy that share interests in figurative language - including language studies, communication, literary criticism, neuroscience, semiotics, rhetoric and anthropology. | [
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3A1672335477.jsonld | Neurological disorders in famous artists : fascinating insights into the relationship between brain disease and creativity | The study of how a neurological disorder can change the artistic activity and behavior of creative people is a largely unexplored field. This publication looks closer at famous painters, writers, composers and philosophers of the 18th to the 20th centuries who suffered from neurological diseases such as stroke, epilepsy, brain trauma and dementia. The diseases of Gershwin, Kant, Musorgsky, Poe, Ravel, Van Gogh and many more are diagnosed in retrospect and treatment options according to modern medical technologies are discussed. Presenting fascinating insights into the relationship between brain disease and creativity in famous minds, this publication is highly recommended to neurologists, psychiatrists, physicians as well as to everybody interested in art, music and literature | [
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3A1809178274.jsonld | The Milan Institute of Physics : a research institute from fascism to the reconstruction | This book offers the first comprehensive and authoritative text on the history of physics in Italy’s industrial and financial capital, from the foundation of the University of Milan’s Institute of Physics in 1924 up to the early 1960s, when it moved to its current location. It includes biographies and a historical-scientific analysis of the main research topics investigated by world-renowned physicists such as Aldo Pontremoli, Giovanni Polvani, Giovanni Gentile Jr., Beppo Occhialini, and Piero Caldirola, highlighting their contributions to the development of Italian physics in a national and international context. Further, the book provides a historical perspective on the interplay of physics and politics in Italy during both the Fascist regime and the postwar reconstruction period, which led to the creation of the CISE (Centro Informazioni Studi Esperienze, a research center for applied nuclear physics, funded by private industries) in 1946, and of the Milan division of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in 1951. | [
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3A102298280X.jsonld | Demokratisches Regieren : Bürgersouveränität, Repräsentation und Legitimation | What does ‘governance’ mean? And what does ‘democratic governance’ mean?These questions, which seem to be so simple, are not easy to answer. Democratic political theory focuses on the alternating government. Its aim is to reinforce the governing democracy in several respects, one of which is good governance. But how much democracy does good governance need? Which elements of a citizens’ democracy can be strengthened?In this book, the author develops and supports a form of participatory consciousness among citizens which remains realistic. Citizens, in the sense of ‘citoyens’, that is, citizens whose citizenship is not tied to the state, are to be regarded as real and not ideal. They go on the offensive when they become political, which is the basis of democratic governance. Was heißt überhaupt „Regieren“? Und was heißt „demokratisches Regieren“?Diese scheinbar einfachen Fragen sind nicht leicht zu beantworten. Eine demokratische politische Theorie stellt die abwechselnde Regierung der Demokratie in den Mittelpunkt. Es geht ihr darum, die regierende Demokratie in verschiedenen Hinsichten möglichst stark zu machen. Eine gute Regierung gehört auch dazu. Aber wie viel Demokratie benötigt eine gute Regierung? Welche Elemente einer Demokratie der Bürger können wie gestärkt werden?Der Autor entwickelt und unterstützt ein partizipatorisches Bürgerbewusstsein, welches realistisch bleibt. Bürger im Sinne von „Citoyens“ – das sind Staatsbürger, wobei Bürgerschaft nicht auf den Staat fixiert ist – sind real und nicht ideal zu sehen. Sie kommen in die Offensive, wenn sie politisch werden, was der Grund demokratischen Regierens ist. | [
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3A522471552.jsonld | The role of religion in modern societies | Introduction: Religious change in modern societies--perspectives offered by the sociology of religion / Detlef Pollack -- The continuing secular transition / David Voas -- God, Gaelic, and needlepoint : religion as a social accomplishment / Steve Bruce -- Religion in Central and Eastern Europe : was there a re-awakening after the breakdown of communism? / Olaf Müller -- Quantitative evidence favoring and opposing the religious economies model / Daniel V.A. Olson -- Secularization and the state : the role government policy plays in determining social religiosity / Anthony Gill -- Unsecular Europe : the persistence of religion / Andrew Greeley -- From believing without belonging to vicarious religion : understanding the patterns of religion in modern Europe / Grace Davie -- The cultural paradigm : declines in belonging and then believing / Robin Gill -- Religious individualization or secularization : an attempt to evaluate the thesis of religious individualization in Eastern and Western Germany / Detlef Pollack and Gert Pickel -- Religion and science or religion versus science? : about the social construction of the science-religion-antagonism in the German Democratic Republic and its lasting consequences / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr -- Secularization theory and rational choice : an integration of macro- and micro-theories of secularization using the example of Switzerland / Jörg Stolz | [
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3A1855746557.jsonld | General chemistry : principles and modern applications | General Chemistry: Principles and Modern Applications has remained one of the most trusted chemistry books in the market for decades. This text is recognized for its superior problems, lucid writing, precision of argument, and meticulous treatment of the subject. The 12th edition offers enhanced hallmark features, new innovations, and revised discussions that respond to key market needs for the detailed and modern treatment of chemistry, embracing the power of visual learning and conquering the challenges of effective problem solving and assessment | [
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3A1736759728.jsonld | A philosophy of landscape construction : the vision of built landscapes | "A Philosophy of Landscape Construction outlines a philosophy of values in landscape construction, demonstrating how integral structures, such as pavements and walls, constitute a key element to how people interact with and inhabit the final design. The book discusses how these structures enable, assist and care for people, negotiating between the dynamic processes of site ecosystems and the soil on which they are founded. They articulate spatial, functional, cultural and ecological meanings. Within this theoretical framework, designers will learn to recognise and insert a set of core values into the most technical design stages to reach their full potential. Offering a new perspective on landscape construction, moving away from the exclusively technical characteristics, this book allows landscape architects to realise the ideal vision for their designs. It is abundantly illustrated with examples from which designers can learn both successes and failures and will be an important companion to any study of built landscapes"-- | [
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3A1767638604.jsonld | Abnormal psychology | For courses in Abnormal Psychology A comprehensive overview of abnormal psychology, with DSM-5 coverage throughout Abnormal Psychology provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the primary psychological disorders studied within the discipline. Maintaining a focus on the individuals at the heart of the study of abnormal psychology, authors Jill Hooley, Matthew Nock, and James Butcher employ a biopsychosocial approach that helps students achieve an understanding of the holistic context in which abnormalities of behavior occur. The 18th Edition reflects the newest and most relevant research findings, presented in ways designed to be as engaging as possible to the next generation of students | [
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3A608579513.jsonld | Multi-sensor data fusion with MATLAB | pt. I. Theory of data fusion and kinematic-level fusion. Introduction ; Concepts and theory of data fusion ; Strategies and algorithms for target tracking and data ; Performance evaluation of data fusion systems, software, and tracking -- pt. II. Fuzzy logic and decision fusion. Introduction ; Theory of fuzzy logic ; decision fusion ; Performance evaluation of fuzzy logic-based decision systems -- pt. III. Pixel- and feature-level image fusion. Introduction ; Pixel- and feature-level image fusion concepts and algorithms ; performance evaluation of image-based data fusion systems -- pt. IV. A brief on data fusion in other systems. Introduction : overview of data fusion in mobile intelligent autonomous systems ; Intelligent monitoring and fusion ; Appendix : numerical, statistical, and estimation methods ; Index | [
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3A1699242178.jsonld | Bio-management of postharvest diseases and mycotoxigenic fungi | "There is an ever-increasing demand for more food but one of the stumbling blocks to achieving this goal is quality and quantity losses due to various pests and pathogens and the mycotoxins synthesized by these harmful biotic entities. Thus far, strategies employed to manage these post-harvest diseases and mycotoxins decontamination include established physical, cultural, and chemical methods. Recently, the application of chemicals to reduce decay and deterioration caused by various pathogens has been impeded as these hazardous chemicals contaminate the environment, enter the food chain, and destroy beneficial microorganisms and pests by aiming at non-target microorganisms. In light of this, the usage of eco-friendly and non-polluting alternatives to chemical pesticides is the call of the hour. Bio-management of Postharvest Diseases and Mycotoxigenic Fungi deals with the current state and future prospects of using various bio-management techniques that are natural, eco-friendly, and environmentally safe. It aims to increase awareness of their potential as well as sensitizing readers to the various aspects of biologicals in pest control. This book disseminates notable and diversified scientific work carried out by leading experts in their own field. Written by qualified scientists in each of their respective disciplines, it can serve as a current and comprehensive treatise on the emerging field of bio-management of postharvest diseases and mycotoxin decontamination by products that are "generally regarded as safe.""-- Postharvest Biological Control - Antagonists, Microbiomes, and Beyond -- Managing Post harvest Diseases- Classical vs New Technologies -- Chitosan: an antimicrobial coating to reduce pre and postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables -- Biobased Coatings: An alternative approach in managing post-harvest diseases -- Non-chemical management of postharvest diseases of mango -- Ecofriendly combating natural essential oils against post harvest phytopathogenic fungi: Holistic overview -- Entomopathogenic Biopesticides: Opportunities and Challenges -- Bioactive Plant Metabolites as Stored Product Protectants -- Mycotoxins, Mycotoxicosis and Managing Mycotoxin Contamination: A Review -- Bio-decontamination of Mycotoxin Patulin -- Decontamination of Mycotoxigenic fungi by Phytochemicals -- Prevention and Control Strategies of Aflatoxin Contamination -- Nano Magic Bullets: an ecofriendly approach to manage plant diseases. -- CAP - a novel approach to manage fungal spoilage and mycotoxin decontamination. | [
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3A1679258346.jsonld | Energy harvesting communications : principles and theories | "A systematic overview of a hot research area, examining the state-of-the-art of energy harvesting techniques - Unique in providing a comprehensive coverage from basic energy harvesting sources and devices to energy end users. Also, it touches on the fundamental principles of energy harvesting wireless communications, and biomedical application and intra-body communications, allowing both beginners to learn this subject and experienced users to have a bigger picture - Follows a logical course from an introduction to energy sources and harvesters, then the limits of energy harvesting, including information theoretic limits as well as circuit implementation constraints, then the design of energy harvesting networks, where both physical layer issues and networking designs are covered, making it easy for practitioners to follow and to understand Market description: Primary: postgraduates, academic researchers, university faculty members, research associate/fellows, with backgrounds in the domain of wireless communications such as electronics/microwave engineering, information theory, game theory, control theory, and communication theory Secondary: reference book for professionals and practicing engineers"-- Introduction -- Energy Sources -- Energy Harvesters -- Physical Layer Techniques -- Upper Layer Techniques -- Wireless Powered Communications -- Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radios -- Energy Harvesting Relaying. | [
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3A82998769X.jsonld | Imaginary apparatus : New York City and its mediated representation | During John V. Lindsay's Mayoral tenure in New York 1966-73, the city created innovative policy intended to draw on-location media production to New York's streets. Simultaneously, the New York City Planning Commission and associated offices produced a wealth of documents that reflect conceptual and aesthetic influences of various visual media. American architect McLain Clutter undertook to analyse to what remarkable extent the effects of these two areas of political ambition were interrelated. In his new book Imaginary Apparatus, Clutter describes the relationship between New York City and its mediated representation at the conjuncture of these circumstances, tracing the interrelation of their attendant cultural, economic and aesthetic valences. The second part of the book explores the legacy of Lindsay's policies by analysing their effects on New York City's built environment. Clutter illustrates his argument with a large selection of photographs and film-stills, many of them previously unpublished, and with original documents from various archives. This ground-breaking new book is rounded out with a DVD featuring 'What is the City but the People?', the film version of the study 'Plan for New York City 'of 1969, a unique document that has never before been publicly available | [
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