The objective of this volume is to showcase the contemporary state of research on recognizing and evaluating the performance of stone age weapons from a variety of viewpoints, including investigating
This book describes a new family of bio-polymer gels made from cytoskeletal proteins - actin, microtubule, and tropomyosin. The importance of the gel state with multi-scale hierarchical structur
The papers in this volume cover a broad spectrum of topics that represent the truly diverse nature of the field of composite materials. In recent years, composite materials have grown in strength, sta
Human rights indicators are central to the application of human rights standards in context and relate essentially to measuring human rights realization, both qualitatively and quantitatively. They o
This book addresses a broad spectrum of areas in both hybrid materials and hierarchical composites, including recent development of processing technologies, structural designs, modern computer simulat
The arrival of NBI has heralded real improvements in diagnostic endoscopy, yet despite the extra precision it brings in detecting lesion, standard technical classifications have yet to be established—
The recent focus on China's boom has obscured the fact that Japan is once again on the rise. How do we manage our growing, and crucial, interdependence? The answer is the legions of Japanese and Ameri
This book provides different analytical perspectives into how human rights-based approaches to development (HRBADs) contribute to change. Based on the understanding that HRBADs are increasingly integr
The first output of a research program undertaken by the Danish Centre for Human Rights in Copenhagen and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund. Northern Europea
Inspired by an early love of Japanese gardens, Larry Ellison has assembled an impressive collection of Japanese art spanning some eleven hundred years of history. The current selection, which introduc
This book presents a beautiful photo collection of the Konso stone tools, the Acheulean artifacts. These artifacts include the world’s oldest stone tools shaped to preconceived form. The volume illust
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing, ARC 2015, held in Bochum, Germany, in April 2015.The 23 full papers and 20 short
The papers in this volume cover a broad spectrum of topics that represent the truly diverse nature of the field of composite materials. This collection presents research and findings relevant to the l
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications, ARC 2012, held in Hongkong, China, in March 2012.
