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Overview: Nearly 200 color photographs and images illustrating the Lesser Antilles’ stunning natural environments.Provides the only comprehensive coverage of each Lesser Antillean island’s geomorphological and This book focuses on the highly touristed, but surprisingly under-researched Lesser Antilles region. After offering a brief overview of the region’s geologic and tectonic history, as well as its basic climatology, subsequent chapters then discuss each island’s (or island set’s) geomorphology and geology, and how the settlement history, tourism, and hazards have affected their individual

Overview: Clarifies the debate over the invention of sound in movies.Coverage of the history and progress of audio technology in cinema.Demonstrates how scientific technical standards are derived and integratedThe life-long inventor, Lee de Forest invented the three-element vacuum tube used between 1906 and 1916 as a detector, amplifier, and oscillator of radio waves. Beginning in 1918 he began to develop a light valve, a device for writing and reading sound using light patterns. While he received many patents for his process, he was initially ignored by the film industry. In order to promote

Overview: The use oflasers has entered almost every facet of medicine and biology. Therefore, it is to be expected that the reviews contained in this vol­ urne will reflect this diversity. As dinical acceptance has grown with various diagnostic and therapeutic applications, so has the need for a more thorough understanding of the theoretical background for each. This is especially true where a correlation is to be made between the theoretical background and the experimental data. It is only in this way that we can attain the optimal form of any therapy. The basic coupling ofenergy into biologi

Overview: Unica opera in lingua italiana che mostra punto per punto tutto il potenziale della strumentazione amatoriale nell‘era dell‘imaging digitale, a partire dai risultati ottenibili.Oltre 200 immagini ripr.Da quando è iniziata la rivoluzione della fotografia digitale, con i sensori CCD che hanno soppiantato la pellicola, qualsiasi appassionato del cielo, dotandosi di una strumentazione non particolarmente costosa, può diventare esploratore attivo dell’immensità della volta celeste, potenzialmente un vero e proprio astronomo..In questo libro, l’autore mostra quanto è possibile ottenere (ed

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Overview: Bauen mit Lehm - kompaktes Wissen aktuell - vom Baustoff über Bauteil und Bauwerk bis zum RecyclingBauen mit Lehm ist wieder „alltäglich“ geworden. Verbunden mit dieser Entwicklung entstand in den letzten Jahren ein enormer Zuwachs an Informationen auf diesem Fachgebiet..Das Buch schafft Transparenz mit einem aktuellen Überblick zur gesamten Thematik. Der Autor berücksichtigt dabei die bauökologischen Aspekte und erläutert detailliert die Zyklusstufen Gewinnung und Klassifizierung von Baulehm, die Herstellung von Lehmbaustoffen und deren Konstruktionen, Planung und Bauausführung bis

Overview: 978-3-662-08257-7Series ISSN 0172-6218 Series E-ISSN 2364-9003

Overview: This collection re-evaluates the work of fifteenth-century poet John Lydgate in light of medieval material culture. Top scholars in the field unite here with critical newcomers to offer fresh perspectives on the function of poetry on the cusp of the modern age, and in particular on the way that poetry speaks to the heightened relevance of material goods and possessions to the formation of late medieval identity and literary taste. Advancing in provocative ways the emerging fields of fifteenth-century literary and cultural study, the volume as a whole explores the role of the aestheti

Overview: This book covers the principal reports and discussions which have been presented during the "Symposium on Anaerobic Metabolism and Lactic Acid" which was held in Anzere (Wallis, Switzerland) from 19th till 20th January 1978 under the patronage of the European Society of Cardiology. ~s Dr. Wilkie and Hermansen mentioned in their paper, Berzelius was the first one who recognized in 1807 "the existence of free lactic acid in the muscular fluid and thought that the amount of free lactic acid in a muscle is proportional to the extent to which it has been previously exercised". Since, many

Overview: Kurzgefaßtes Handbuch für die tägliche Praxis von Arzt und Ernährungsberater, die sich mit ernährungsabhängigen Krankheiten ihrer Patienten auseinandersetzen und Antworten auf entsprechende Fragen, z.Das Thema Ernährung kommt angesichts der steigenden Zahl der Erkrankungen und der damit zusammenhängenden Kosten auch in der ärztlichen Praxis ein immer größerer Stellenwert zu. Patienten fragen, der Arzt muß antworten. Dieses Buch ist für die Praxis der ärztlichen Ernährungsberatung konzipiert. Wissenschaftler und Kliniker stellen klare und konkrete Handlungsanweisungen zusammen, beantw

Overview: Provides relevant examples and step-by-step instruction.Covers comprehensively the topic in an easy to read manner.Details non-surgical aspects of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.This book provides a complete guide to laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and the management of obesity. The chapters discuss guidelines for healthcare providers for the management of patients with obesity, the rationale behind choosing patients, performing the procedure in line with the patient’s condition, the perioperative period, postoperative requirements, and postoperative complications..This book aims to

Overview: Offers a proposal for the legal regulation of autonomous artificial intelligence.Deals with the development of international law under the influence of artificial intelligenceThis book focuses on the legal regulation, mainly from an international law perspective, of autonomous artificial intelligence systems, of their creations, as well as of the interaction of human and artificial intelligence. It examines critical questions regarding both the ontology of autonomous AI systems and the legal implications: what constitutes an autonomous AI system and what are its unique characteristic

Overview: Examines what is presented as ‘best practice’ within its socio-political context.Identifies key discourse strategies that are employed to add weight to policy.Investigates how policy ideas move and ch.This book explores the discourses in learning and teaching policy in UK higher education, traces how these ideas are recontextualised at institutional level and reveals the differences between policy discourses and lecturers’ and students’ experiences. The author argues that policy ideas around learning and teaching are not simply value-free ‘best practice’ but reflect the socio-politic

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Overview: Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, this volume reflects on the political, institutional and social factors that have shaped the recent expansion of wind energy, and to consider what lessons this experience may provide for the future expansion of other renewable technologies.978-1-349-33496-4978-1-137-26527-2Series ISSN 2947-8561 Series E-ISSN 2947-857X

Overview: 978-1-349-22466-1Series ISSN 2946-8744 Series E-ISSN 2946-8752

Overview: Provides a comprehensive and pedagogic introduction to LCA methodology.Helps the reader understand the role of LCA in a future sustainable economy.Repository of LCA information covering a broad range .This book is a uniquely pedagogical while still comprehensive state-of-the-art description of LCA-methodology and its broad range of applications. The five parts of the book conveniently provide: I) the history and context of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) with its central role as quantitative and scientifically-based tool supporting society’s transitioning towards a sustainable economy; I

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .The two-volume set LNCS 9952 and LNCS 9953 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, ISoLA 2016, held in Imperial, Corfu, Greece, in October 2016.. . The papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. Featuring a track introduction to each section, the papers are organized in topical sections named: statistical model checking; evaluation and reproducibility of program analysis and verificatio