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Roland Fischer's Façades are spectacular photographic creations that together offer a visual vocabulary and anthology of international architecture from around the globe. Since the 1990s, Fischer has been taking photographs of the exteriors of prominent buildings--such as banks, corporate headquarters, and museums--in the major...

Mary Warburg gehört zur Reihe jener weithin unsichtbaren, aber bedeutenden Künstlerinnen, die von der Kunstgeschichte zu Unrecht übergangen worden sind. Bereits zu Lebzeiten stand sie im Schatten ihres Ehemannes Aby Warburg, den sie in einer bekannten Bronzebüste prominent porträtiert hat. Ihr Nachlass befindet sich...

This publication by Paul McCarthy (born 1945) is a new edition of Chocolate Factory, Paris , which has been expanded by 128 pages. It documents the artist's first major solo exhibition in France, illustrating both the concept of the exhibition as well as its...

For some 50 years, Professor Asakawa and his group have focused their research on the chemical constituents of bryophytes and have found that these plants contain large numbers of secondary metabolites, such as terpenoids, acetogenins, and aromatic compounds representative of many new skeletons, which...

This laboratory manual covers the study of chromosomes in plants, animal and human systems, dealing with the protocols and principles involved. It caters to the requirements of scientists working laboratories, presenting details of the operational mechanism for use at the chromosome level.Author: Archarna SharmaISBN-10:...

"Family Traditions: A Legacy of Love (And Laughs)" is a heartwarming collection of poems that celebrates the ties that bind us. Through laughter, nostalgia, and tender reflections, this book weaves together the essence of familial bonds, showcasing the unique quirks and timeless rituals that...

Presenting tools to aid understanding of asymptotic theory and weakly dependent processes, this book is devoted to inequalities and limit theorems for sequences of random variables that are strongly mixing in the sense of Rosenblatt, or absolutely regular. The first chapter introduces covariance inequalities...

Author: Yiyang ZhangISBN-10: 3662536137ISBN-13: 9783662536131Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/29/2017Pages: 183Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

​This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be categorized into clausal adjuncts, attendant circumstances and appositives. These three types...

This book addresses the differentiation control of skeletal muscle in different locations of the vertebrate body Particular attention is paid to novel regulatory molecules and signals as well as the heterogeneity of origin that have revealed a developmental overlap between skeletal and cardiac muscle....

This book examines mechanisms of production of allelochemicals, their release into the environment, their influence on neighboring plants and soil, mechanisms of action at the molecular level, and management of natural and agricultural ecosystems.Author: Zahid A. CheemaISBN-10: 3642305946ISBN-13: 9783642305948Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/18/2012Pages: 520Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This book reviews the fundamental role of quantum mechanics in determining the structure, dynamics, and other properties of molecules. Explains the quantum-mechanical basis for harmonic oscillators, angular momenta and scattering processes. Exercises included.Author: Kaoru YamanouchiISBN-10: 3642323804ISBN-13: 9783642323805Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/02/2013Pages: 267Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.21h...

Lanthanides have fascinated scientists for more than two centuries now, and since efficient separation techniques were established roughly 50 years ago, they have increasingly found their way into industrial exploitation and our everyday lives. Numerous applications are based on their unique luminescent properties, which...

Laser-driven proton beams are still in their infancy but already have some outstanding attributes compared to those produced in conventional accelerators. One such attribute is the typically low beam emittance. This allows excellent resolution in imaging applications like proton radiography. This thesis describes a...

By the dawn of the new millennium, robotics has undergone a major transformation in scope and dimensions. This expansion has been brought about by the maturity of the field and the advances in its related technologies. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics has...

It is hardly possible to ?nd a single rheological law for all the soils. However theyhavemechanicalproperties(elasticity, plasticity, creep, damageetc. )that are met in some special sciences, and basic equations of these disciplines can be applied to earth structures. This way is taken in this...

Tutorials.- Loops, Latin Squares and Strongly Regular Graphs: An Algorithmic Approach via Algebraic Combinatorics.- Siamese Combinatorial Objects via Computer Algebra Experimentation.- Using Gröbner Bases to Investigate Flag Algebras and Association Scheme Fusion.- Enumerating Set Orbits.- The 2-dimensional Jacobian Conjecture: A Computational Approach.- Research Papers.-...

Where Brahms and Bruckner really antipodes, as believed in the late 19th century or had their contemporaries overestimated the dimension of their distance? This book seeks an answer to this question. It is based on the principles of intermediality and on a method of...

This part of UGE offers a survey of English syntax in 10 chapters. Syntax is mainly seen from a semantic viewpoint, which explains the choice of the various problem areas, viz. Statements, Questions and Directives (M. Snell-Hornby, Zürich), Modality (N.Y. Suzuki, Yokohama), Time and...

This study deals with sociological and socio-psychological aspects of UN Peacekeeping missions focusing on the Austrian experience. The study is broad and descriptive covering a spectrum that ranges from the soldier's motivation to join UN-troops to the social and psychological problems encountered during service....

One major area in the theory of statistical signal processing is reduced-rank - timation where optimal linear estimators are approximated in low-dimensional subspaces, e.g., in order to reduce the noise in overmodeled problems, - hance the performance in case of estimated statistics, and/or save...

Research in the field of multimedia metadata is especially challenging: Lots of scientific publications and reports on research projects are published every year and the range of possible applications is diverse and huge. This book gives an overview on fundamental issues within the field...

Individual organisms are de?ned by their genetic code. During development andasaresponsetoexternalstimulithegeneticinformationistranslated into awell-de?nedanswerresultingintheexpressionandmodi?cationofproteins. The processes that control protein-protein interactions (PPI) are presently mostly described in terms of individual protein-protein interactions. In vivo suchinteractions are partof complex molecular interaction networksthat are highlydynamicintimeandspace.Onthebasisofquantitative experiments, it would...

Enables readers to understand how to remove uranium from seawater and nuclear wastewater through a variety of techniques Efficient Uranium Reduction Extraction provides experimental and theoretical knowledge on uranium reduction extraction, with information ranging from the design of extraction materials and methods to the...

The first biography of Christoph Heinrich Friedrich Bialloblotzky (1799-1869) portrays the German Lutheran theologian turned Methodist missionary, a journey which included attempts to locate the well of the river Nile and the organization of an international congress promoting dialogue between natural science and philosophy.Author:...

A must-have guide to welding aluminium alloys for optimized performance and precision Aluminum alloys, widely used across industries due to their high specific strength and corrosion resistance, require precise joining methods to maintain their structural integrity. Welding Metallurgy of Aluminium Alloys: Design, Processes, and...

Rivers in the Mediterranean have always been hotspots of social formation. From antiquity to the present, rivers were important sources of fresh water, transport routes and energy suppliers as well as spaces of interaction between sea, coast and hinterland. This volume takes up recent...

This book describes the design, development, characterisation and application of two novel fluorescence imaging instruments based on spectrally resolved detector arrays (SRDAs). The simplest SRDA is the standard colour camera, which integrates a Bayer filter array of red, green and blue colour filters to...

Though many of the longest and most devastating internal armed conflicts have been fought within the boundaries of democratic states, these countries employ some of the highest numbers of human rights prosecutions. What conditions prompt this outcome and what explains the variable patterns of...

This book focuses on metaheuristic methods and its applications to real-world problems in Engineering. The first part describes some key metaheuristic methods, such as Bat Algorithms, Particle Swarm Optimization, Differential Evolution, and Particle Collision Algorithms. Improved versions of these methods and strategies for parameter...

Author: Lutz Angermann,Vasyl V. YatsykISBN-10: 3319963007ISBN-13: 9783319963006Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2018Pages: 208Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify. Therefore, there is an increasing need to search for integrated solutions to make development...

This book explores answers to the fundamental questions driving the research, innovation and practices of the latest revolution in scientific, technological and economic development: how does data science transform existing science, technology, industry, economy, profession and education? How does one remain competitive in the...

This book presents two new decomposition methods to decompose a time series in intrinsic components of low and high frequencies. The methods are based on Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of a Hankel matrix (HSVD). The proposed decomposition is used to improve the accuracy of...

This book addresses the dynamics of interethnic relationships in ethnically mixed classrooms in the Czech Republic. The classroom is a space in which the boundaries and meanings of facets of identity such as ethnicity, class and gender are negotiated on a daily basis: using...

To the best of our knowledge, this work is among pioneer effort in developing a crowdsourced sensor-cloud service composition framework taking into account spatio-temporal aspects. This research unfolds new horizons to service-oriented computing towards the direction of crowdsourced sensor data based applications, in the...

This book reviews the current practices of traditional musics in various cultures of all continents, and examines the impact and significance of traditional musics in the modern world. A diverse group of experts of musicology and music education collaborate to expose the current practices...

The protection of the homeland is the top priority for U.S. national security strategy. Strategic defense, however, has been an overlooked dimension in the vast literature on the U.S. strategic posture, with even less attention given to the necessity and dynamics of security collaboration...

Broad empirical coverage. Awareness of emerging new therapeutic options.Keeping readers abreast of the times in patient care.Author: Mieczyslaw PokorskiISBN-10: 3319741497ISBN-13: 9783319741499Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/25/2018Pages: 104Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.31d

Author: Denise MifsudISBN-10: 3319761730ISBN-13: 9783319761732Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/23/2018Pages: 234Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d

Author: Marta Struminska-KutraISBN-10: 3319745905ISBN-13: 9783319745909Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2018Pages: 234Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d

Author: Dirk ProskeISBN-10: 3319738321ISBN-13: 9783319738321Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/05/2018Pages: 126Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d

This authoritative update presents current findings on--and clinically and ethically sound responses to--the epidemic of sexual assault in the military. It examines in powerful detail how military culture enables a pervasive subculture of sexual violence, from consistently devaluing women to blaming victims and denying...

Author: Giovanni CapraraISBN-10: 3319739867ISBN-13: 9783319739861Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/25/2020Pages: 390Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.64lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d

This book addresses the many avenues that are still left unexplored when it comes to our understanding of the First World War in the Low Countries. With the ongoing the centenary of the Great War, many events have been organized in the United Kingdom...

Author: Daeho KimISBN-10: 3319703013ISBN-13: 9783319703015Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2018Pages: 219Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d

Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Introduces a new manufacturing method merging gate arrays with field configurability Describes a semi-custom circuit design methodology for the development of printed and organic electronic circuits Presents new solutions to technology-design...

Explores a range of heavily under-researched alternative schooling methods Examines the history and impact of each alternative schooling method and how they've been theorisedAnalyses the New Education movement and its impact on European schoolingAuthor: Ralf Koerrenz,Annika Blichmann,Sebastian EngelmannISBN-10: 3319678639ISBN-13: 9783319678634Publisher: Palgrave PivotLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2017Pages:...

This book discusses building-integrated photovoltaic systems (BIPV) and provides solutions for solving problems related to designing, sizing and monitoring a BIPV that has been used to replace conventional building materials in parts of the building envelope such as the roof, skylights or facades. The...

This book celebrates Professor Mathukumalli Vidyasagar's outstanding achievements in systems, control, robotics, statistical learning, computational biology, and allied areas. The contributions in the book summarize the content of invited lectures given at the workshop "Emerging Applications of Control and Systems Theory" (EACST17) held at...