Nanotechnology in Civil Infrastructure.Nanotechnology in Civil Infrastructure is a state-of-the art reference source describing the latest developments in nano-engineering and nano-modification of construction materials to improve the bulk properties, development of sustainable, intelligent, and smart concrete materials through the integration of nanotechnology based self-sensing and self-powered materials and cyber infrastructure technologies, review of nanotechnology applications in pavement engineering, development of novel, cost-effective, high-performance and long-lasting concrete products and processes through nanotechnology-based innovative processing of cement and cement paste, and advanced nanoscience modeling, visualization, and measurement systems for characterizing and testing civil infrastructure materials at the nano-scale.

. This book, with its assorted essays of varying depths of scholarship and insightful reflections, attempts to drive home this point more forcefully than ever before.

Each of the numbered cases is followed by the questions, their answers, and additional discussion. They focus both on the presenting features of patients with PIDs and on the required further investigation and management.

This cross-sectional, interdisciplinary study traces the “history of innovation” of renewable energies in Germany. It features five renewable energy sectors of electricity generation: biomass, photovoltaic, wind energy, geothermal energy and hydropower. Renewable Energies in Germany’s Electricity Market.The study tracks the development of the respective technologies as well as their contribution to electricity generation.

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. So far, these theories and methods have been discussed independently, and the relations among them have not been clarified. Analogy, blending, and integration by thematic relation have been explained methodologically.

The book investigates the place of women in astronomy before that era, recounted in the form of biographies of about 25 women born between 1650 and 1900 who in varying capacities contributed to its progress during the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are some famous names among them whose biographies have been written before now, there are others who have received less than their due recognition while many more occupied inconspicuous and sometimes thankless places as assistants to male family members. Women in Early British and Irish Astronomy Placed in roughly chronological order, their lives constitute a sample thread in the story of female entry into the male world of science.

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The work thus offers a valuable critical survey of the assessment methods that account for sustainability and economics, and which have developed considerably in the last two decades. Showing how the method of sustainability assessment plays a key role in choosing the best agricultural productive mode, this book guides the reader through the process of selecting, from among the various approaches for building farming systems, the method of decision-making that will result in the most appropriate outcome, given the context. Case studies hail from polities as diverse as Portugal and Canada, Argentina and Lebanon. Methods and Procedures for Building Sustainable Farming Systems.

Anti-fraud measures are an integral part of today’s management practices and have found their way into business education. The book features contributions by outstanding experts in the field and is intended for academic readers with a special interest in fraud research.

The second section, “Information and Communication Technologies for Citizen Participation,” details practical approaches to designing and creating collaborative governance infrastructures and citizen participation for businesses and administrations.Lastly, the third section on “Future Research Directions of Open, Collaborative ICT-enabled Governance” provides a constructive critique of the developments in the past and presents prospects regarding future challenges and research directions.

Key ethical ideas are presented, drawing on the history of research regulation and on an account of the particular challenges arising in the field of genomics. Ethical Challenges in Genomics Research This book enables those who are involved in genomics research, whether as researcher, participant or policy maker, to understand the ethical issues currently developing in this field and to participate actively in these important debates.. A clear account is given of how science and technology are outstripping the capacity of previous ethical regulations to cope with current issues, together with practical illustrations of possible ways forward.

This book is number 18 in this successful series of Analog Circuit Design, providing valuable information and excellent overviews of: Smart Data Converters: Chaired by Prof. Analog Circuit Design. Each part discusses a specific to-date topic on new and valuable design ideas in the area of analog circuit design.

Not only have countless companies discovered these “virtureal worlds” as marketplaces, but so have fraudsters and other criminals. In this book, European experts from different academic disciplines show how to meet the new challenges arising from virtual worlds.The fusion between virtuality and reality has created a new quality of experience establishing metaverses and virtual worlds.

The contributions selected have been written by prestigious Spanish academics, most of them also having practical experience in the field.Regional Policy, Economic Growth and Convergence The book particularly wants to impart knowledge, which can be useful for other countries’ policy makers, as well as for academics, researchers and consultants. The aim of this book is not only to analyze the regional policies practiced, their objectives, instruments and effects, but to provide an in-depth analysis on the impact of investments in infrastructure, human capital and other factors, as well as the advances accomplished in terms of productivity, convergence and regional competitiveness..

We are mainly interested in the question of controllability of dynamical systems into equilibrium states. In the non-autonomous time-discrete case we also consider the problem of stabilization.

Chapter 1 explores the relation between legality and the general theory of criminal law in the context of the structure and development of legality in human society..

. Thus enough attention has been paid to the study of structure and functions of ion channels and their potential inhibitors. Historically, it has been challenging to develop drugs on this target class.

More technical issues include Storage Ring Physics, Precision Spectroscopy and Frequency Standards, Highly Charged Ions in Traps, Traps for Radioactive Isotopes and New Techniques and Facilities. TCP 2010 The content has been divided topic-wise covering basic questions of Fundamental Physics, Quantum and QED Effects, Plasmas and Collective Behavior and Anti-Hydrogen..

. The presented topics are well balanced and complementary, and they range from well-known research projects and real case studies to standards and specifications, and non-functional aspects such as security, performance and scalability.Grid and Cloud Database Management Since the 1990s Grid Computing has emerged as a paradigm for accessing and managing distributed, heterogeneous and geographically spread resources, promising that we will be able to access computer power as easily as we can access the electric power grid. By exploring current and future developments, they provide a thorough understanding of the principles and techniques involved in these fields.

The book is suitable for both researchers and educators who are interested in using games for educational purposes, as well as game professionals requiring a thorough understanding of issues involved in the application of video games technology into educational settings..Serious Games and Edutainment Applications offers an insightful introduction to the development and applications of games technologies in educational settings.

The authors have structured the book around the types of reactions, based on the different nucleophiles involved. Transition Metal Catalyzed Carbonylation Reactions. This book provides students and researchers in organic synthesis with a detailed discussion of carbonylation from the basics through to applications. Transition Metal Catalyzed Carbonylation Reactions is a comprehensive monograph focusing on carbon monoxide usage.

It is founded on the evaluation of phenomena related to the behavior intravenously administered sodium fluorescein in the tissues of the ocular fundus. In contrast, the present book deals with the morphological prerequisites and structural changes on which the individual phenomena are based. Commonly, texts on fluorescein angiography merely describe the typical pattern, quality, and quantity of the phenomena specific to a variety of vascular and other diseases of the retina and choroid.Fluorescein angiography is an indispensable tool in modern ophthalmology.

Each review is written by well known leaders of Computational and Applied Mathematics.The book gives a comprehensive account of a variety of topics including – Efficient Global Methods for the Numerical Solution of Nonlinear Systems of Two point Boundary Value Problems; Advances on collocation based numerical methods for Ordinary Differential Equations and Volterra Integral Equations; Basic Methods for Computing Special Functions, Melt Spinning: Optimal Control and Stability Issues; Brief survey on the CP methods for the Schrödinger equation; Symplectic Partitioned Runge-Kutta methods for the numerical integration of periodic and oscillatory problems. This multi-author contributed proceedings volume contains recent advances in several areas of Computational and Applied Mathematics. Recent Advances in Computational and Applied Mathematics.

On the basis of this analysis, it presents a new two-step theory of criminalisation. First, it examines the nature of its prohibition in the European Union and in the United States of America..

g.. The challenges the livestock industry faces in maintaining the delicate balance between animal welfare and production are also highlighted. By systematically and comprehensively addressing all aspects of environmental stresses and livestock productivity, this volume is a useful tool for understanding the various intricacies of stress physiology.

their ability to adjust to difficult situations as they arose.In fact, states, when they were not destroyed by war, managed to survive, thanks to the flexibility of territoriality, i. The author argues that the biggest threat that many states are confronted with today is their disintegration rather than their obsolescence, and that International Law has not often been able to prevent that eventuality.

The first section of the volume focuses on “Methodologies and Methods” and presents very distinct approaches to think climate induced migration. This book addresses environmental and climate change induced migration from the vantage point of migration studies, offering a broad spectrum of approaches for considering the environment/climate/migration nexus. Research on the subject is still frequently narrowed down to climate change vulnerability and the environmental push factor. In their introduction, the editors fan out the current debate and state the need to transcend predominantly policy-oriented approaches to migration.

The contributed articles reflect the authors‘ individual views on what constitutes the most important issues facing software development. Both research- and technology-oriented contributions are included.Parnas, Dieter Rombach, Joseph Sifakis, Niklaus Wirth, Pamela Zave, and Andreas Zeller.

Mitochondrial Dynamics and Neurodegeneration To provide researchers working on neurodegenerative diseases and mitochondria with updated information on this rapidly progressing field, we have invited experts in the field to critically review recent progresses and identify future research directions. Recent studies have revealed that changes in mitochondrial morphology by fission and fusion, a process known as mitochondrial dynamics, is particularly important for neuronal function and survival. Defects in this process are commonly found in neurodegenerative diseases, offering a new paradigm for investigating mechanisms of neurodegeneration.