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Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This is the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Strain-Hardening Cement-Based Composites (SHCC4), that was held at the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany from 18 to 20 September 2017. The conference focused on advanced fiber-reinforced concrete materials such as strain-hardening...
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Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Perspectives on the Classification of Specific Developmental Disorders is an up-to-date review of the controversy surrounding the classification of such disparate disorders as reading, spelling, writing, and language disorders. Severe and specific impairments in these functions do exist and appear...
The Invention of Free Press
Writers and Censorship in Eighteenth Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Tracking the relationship between the theory of press control and the realities of practicing daily press censorship prior to publication, this volume on the suppression of dissent in early modern Europe tackles a topic with many elusive and under-researched characteristics. Pre-publication censorship...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The growth of knowledge and its effects on the practice of medicine have been issues of philosophical and ethical interest for several decades and will remain so for many years to come. The outline of the present volume was conceived nearly three years ago. In 1987, a conference on this theme was...
Conflict and Compromise
The Strategy, Politics and Diplomacy of the French Blockade, 1914–1918
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The historical literature on the first world war has devoted relatively little attention to the Allied blockade of the Central Powers. The few published studies have concentrated either on the blockade's naval aspects or exclusively on the British contribution. Little effort has been made heretofore...
Two Colonial Empires
Comparative Essays on the History of India and Indonesia in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by C. A. Bayly and D. H. A. Kolff The papers published in this volume were originally presented at two meetings of the Cambridg~-Leiden group for the comparative study of colonial India and Indonesia he1d in June 1979 and September 1982. These meetings were jointly sponsored by the Centre for the...
Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture Volume IV
Continental Millenarians: Protestants, Catholics, Heretics
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
This is the first book to bring together studies of a wide variety of millenarians who were active in the 17th and 18th centuries in France, The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and eastern Europe. It provides much food for thought for students and teachers of early modern ideas, the history of philosophy...
Nijhoff, Van Ostaijen, "De Stijl"
Modernism in the Netherlands and Belgium in the First Quarter of the 20th Century. Six Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
FRANCIS BULHOF "What was Modernism?" That is the title of an address delivered in June of 1960 by the eminent comparatist Harry Levin at Queen's University in King ston, Ontario.1 Apparently, more than a decade ago, in the eyes of this per ceptive analyst of literature and the arts,...
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Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Research on government institutions is one of the most exciting intellectual areas in political science and policy studies today. Increasingly it is recognized by scholars in these fields that effective and legitimate policies depend on the design and maintenance of complex institutional arrangements....
Ethical Values in International Decision-Making
The Conference of June, 16–20, 1958
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Conference on "Ethical values in international decision making" was held by the Grotius Seminarium in the period June 16-20, 1958 at the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague. At that time, a number of papers were distributed to the par ticipants while -after the Conference -two...
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Release Date: December 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
SCIAMACHY, the SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY, is a passive sensor for exploring the Earth’s atmosphere. It is part of the payload of the European Earth Observation mission ENVISAT, launched on 1 March 2002. SCIAMACHY observes absorption spectra of molecules...
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Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume aims to describe the similarities and differences in the timing and kind of transition among the post-war cohorts in Austria, Britain, Flanders (Belgium), France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Spain. Its second aim is to bring together the results of individual-level...
Facts and Values
Philosophical Reflections from Western and Non-Western Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The answer to philosophical questions will often depend on the position one takes regarding the fact-value problem. It is, therefore, not surprising that, in the tradition of western philosophy, the past 200 years or so record an animated discussion of it. In the present collection the debate is continued...
Groundwater Contamination: Use of Models in Decision-Making
Proceedings of the International Conference on Groundwater Contamination: Use of Models in Decision-Making, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 26–29 October 1987, Organized by the International Ground Water Modeling Center (IGWMC), Indianapolis — Delft
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The protection of groundwater resources has emerged in recent years as a high priority topic on the agenda of many countries. In responding to the growing concern over deteriorating groundwater quality, many countries are developing a comprehensive regulatory framework for the management of subsurface...