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Gatti generosi, pronti a offrire subito il proprio affetto, gatti perfidi, capaci di architettare terribili trappole, gatti vittime dell’egoismo umano, gatti che ridonano ai loro padroni il perduto ……続きを見る

Da Turgenev a Pirandello, da Maupassant a Jack London, da Edith Warton a Kipling, molti grandi scrittori hanno celebrato l’animale domestico che da più tempo vive insieme all’uomo. Intelligenti, cur……続きを見る

This book illuminates how synchrophasors achieve the monitoring, protection and control optimizations necessary to expand existing power systems to support increasing amounts of renewable and distri……続きを見る

Shortlisted, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Award Warm, imaginative, and thoroughly original, this memoir intertwines the mysteries of trees with the defining moments in the life of novelist and essayist ……続きを見る

This book is a collection of lecture notes and contributions in “Summer School on Diversities in Quantum Computation/Information” held on 1-5 August, 2010 at U-Community Hotel, Higashi-Osaka, Japan.……続きを見る

Solid state ionics is a multidisciplinary scientific and industrial field dealing with ionic transport phenomena in solids. In a couple of decades, solid state ionics has become one of the largest d……続きを見る

This book discusses a number of challenges faced by designers of wireless receivers, given complications caused by the shrinking of electronic and mobile devices circuitry into ever-smaller sizes an……続きを見る

Robot Hands and Multi-Fingered Haptic Interfaces is a monograph focusing on the comparison of human hands with robot hands, the fundamentals behind designing and creating the latter, and robotics' l……続きを見る

Since 2002, the Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry has proposed “Interface Oral Health Science” as a major theme for next-generation dental research. That theme is based on the following……続きを見る

A comprehensive evaluation of information security analysis spanning the intersection of cryptanalysis and side-channel analysis Written by authors known within the academic cryptography community,……続きを見る

This book integrates recent methodological developments for calculating the sample size and power in trials with more than one endpoint considered as multiple primary or co-primary, offering an impo……続きを見る

The report highlights a broad spectrum of environmental impacts triggered due to construction, operation, and maintenance and their mitigation for four sectors: (i) power transmission, (ii) distribu……続きを見る

Environmental Justice in Contemporary US Narratives examines post-1929 US artistic interrogations of environmental disruption. Tracing themes of pollution, marine life, and agricultural production i……続きを見る

This book introduces to the reader unfamiliar with primatology in Japan three research projects representative of the unique multidisciplinary approach carried out by scientists at Kyoto University,……続きを見る

My journey into this fascinating field of biotechnology started about 26 years ago at a small biotechnology company in South San Francisco called Genentech. I was very fortunate to work for the comp……続きを見る

The main objective of the Water Framework Directive in the European countries is to achieve a “good status” of all the water bodies, in the integrated management of river basins. In order to assess ……続きを見る

To facilitate a deeper understanding of tensegrity structures, this book focuses on their two key design problems: self-equilibrium analysis and stability investigation. In particular, high symmetry……続きを見る

This book discusses the physics of the dynamics of ions in various ionically conducting materials, and applications including electrical energy generation and storage. The experimental techniques fo……続きを見る

This text deals with the most fundamental deficiency of modern theory control: the lack of an easily applicable method for the design of low order controllers. It shows that solutions to many differ……続きを見る

""This authoritative work presents detailed coverage of modern modeling and analysis techniques used in the design of electric power transmission systems -- emphasizing grounding and transients. It ……続きを見る

Plant- based dog food is the latest revolution in caring for our tail- wagging friends Eating organic, quality food has become a major priority in promoting healthy lifestyles of many humans, which ……続きを見る

This new edition of The Expanding World of Chemical**Engineering provides an overview of recent and future developments in chemical engineering and future aspects in chemical engineering. The book i……続きを見る

Providing a unified account of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics covers the principles and formalism of quantum mechanics and the development and application of ge……続きを見る

'The United Nations system was a pioneer in the field of technical cooperation, and capacity development is its central mandate. UNDP has long played an important leadership role in both, as a sourc……続きを見る

This book discusses the energy issues facing Bangladesh, specifically the lack of access to electricity that impedes overall development. In-depth chapters examine critical energy problems and provi……続きを見る

Carpentry is a skilled trade where the main work performed is the shaping, cutting, and installation of building materials used for the things like ships, buildings, timber bridges, concrete formwor……続きを見る

This book presents a legal genealogy of biodiversity – of its strategic use before and after the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1993. This history of ‘genetic gold’ details how,……続きを見る

This book examines the conflicts arising from the implementation of privacy principles enshrined in the GDPR, and most particularly of the ``Right to be Forgotten'', on a wide range of contemporary ……続きを見る

Learn how to make informed decisions through statistical reasoning! Using a qualitative approach to introduce statistical reasoning, The Numerate Leader: How to Pull Game-Changing Insights from Stat……続きを見る

The deep mixing (DM) method developed in Japan and Sweden in the 1970s has gained popularity worldwide. The DM-improved ground is a composite system comprising stiff stabilized soil and unstabilized……続きを見る