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This volume honors the work of professor Ran Zadok and builts on, focusing in particular on his sustained interest in Mesopotamian social history. It brings together a rich array of scholarship on ancient names, and gods and people, from Babylon to Egypt, and deepens our understanding of the peoples of the ancient Mesopotamian world and the records they left us.

Stimuli responsive drug delivery systems have emerged as one of the most innovative classes of polymer materials of modern materials science. The book offers a convincing approach to understanding the basic principles of drug delivery process, their mathematical modeling, different types of drug delivery systems, various polymer systems responsive to stimuli such as swelling, pH, temperature, light, chemical agents, electric and magnetic fields.

One of the peculiarities of the field of creole studies is that a majority of creolists are actually uncomfortable with the idea that the languages they study should constitute a separate class of languages and to date, no consensus on the matter has been reached.The main goal of this book is to investigate whether creoles represent a typologically coherent group of languages on the basis of a large body of empirical evidence using tools borro...

Drawing on new evidence from Hungarian, this book offers a closely integrated semantic and syntactic analysis and sheds new light on the behaviour of FCIs in a number of previously unexamined but crucial environments and constructions. Such an approach proves especially fruitful since in Hungarian, information structure and operator scope is to a large extent reflected in overt syntactic structure. Based on this, the book offers a detailed and...

For over 2, 600 years political and military leaders have relied on Sun-Tzu's The Art of War. In this field manual for business leaders, David I. Goldenberg converts Sun Tzu's seminal work on military strategy to a practical treatise on business management, and provides significant new insights into how firms can use Sun Tzu's strategic planning principles effectively to succeed in business. The Art of Business discusses how to choose and inst...

Islamic Economics: Principles & Practices presents an alternative Islamic economics approach to bachelor and postgraduate students, enabling them to understand the current economic and financial problems in a just and ethical manner for all mankind. Dr. Magda Ismail A. Mohsin discusses the Islamic economic framework, trading and business, distribution of wealth, socio-financial institutions in Islam, and explores remedies for the financial iss...

La théorie pythagoricienne dite de "l'harmonie des Sphères" devait connaître une postérité remarquable. Contrairement à l'aspect scientifique de la théorie, sa formulation mythique, à savoir "l'harmonie des Sirènes", n'a pas reçu de la part des chercheurs l'intérêt qu'elle mérite. Ce livre offre pour la première fois une étude systématique de "l'harmonie des Sirènes" dans la République de Platon et dans la Vie pythagoricienne de Jamblique.

Das Buch stellt erstmals in deutscher Sprache das umfassende philosophische System von Nicholas Rescher dar. Es präsentiert Reschers Beiträge zu den verschiedenen theoretischen sowie praktischen Disziplinen der Philosophie und diskutiert kritische Punkte. Der Autor geht sowohl auf Reschers Überlegungen zur Systematizität der Philosophie als auch auf die Bezüge zur philosophischen Tradition (insbesondere Kant, Hegel und Peirce) ein.

A well-structured test automation suite is essential to meet the budget demand and tight deadlines for today's IT projects. Integrating Oracle Application Testing Suite (OATS) with Oracle Applications will teach readers how to effectively use various test tools to assist with an IT project's demanding schedule. Using Oracle Application Testing Suite, you will learn to successfully record and playback test scripts for Oracle Functional Testing ...

There's a lot to know about computer science, including the core subjects of mathematical logic, algorithms, programming languages, operating systems, networks, databases, graphics, artificial intelligence, and software engineering, among others. How a Computer Works: The micro:bit Way is a novel text that will introduce you to basic concepts of computer science through the lens of a very small computing system called the micro:bit, a pocket-s...

This volume presents philological editions of catalogues and inventories of texts belonging to the corpora of ancient Mesopotamian healing and divination specialists. The editions are complemented by detailed studies that analyse the relations between catalogues, textual sources and the development of serialised compendia, unravelling a complex history of medical text corpora and healing disciplines in 2nd and 1st millennium BCE Mesopotamia.

A complete theory of L2 (second language)acquisition should account for three aspects of L2 development: 1) the representation of L2 knowledge, 2) the relationship between input and L2 knowledge, and 3) the relationship between L2 knowledge and output. The research presented here is the first to analyze the L2 acquisition of object pronouns in Spanishwith such a tripartite framework in orderto identify an interface between the comprehension an...

This book focuses on narratives in the foreign language classroom with emphasis on the relationship between instructional materials and student written work, which the authors argue lies at the center of literacy development. Because narrative is an important medium for sharing experience with others across cultures, this book looks at the role narratives can play in FL learning. The in-depth review of issues germane to narrativity for FL teac...

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This book explores the role of digital tools, social networking sites, and virtual worlds in second language teaching and translator training. The book focuses on the impact of the implementation of technology on language and includes examples of second language teaching strategies and translation training that highlight the benefits of the use of technology.

Radio Frequency/Microwave Technology in Medicine presents state-of-art information on how medical technology is evolving in the field of Radio Frequency (RF). The Editors and Contributors provides a global perspective of trends in RF technology as used in medicine from basic concepts of RF transmission and propagation inside the human body to RF in diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, application of RF in medical care and management, a...

This volume analyzes discourses in which religion is used to legitimize political violence. The research centers on both premodern and modern Islam and Christianity outside the post-industrial world, with a particular focus on the Middle East and Latin America, thus filling a gap in the existing literature. The resulting study and its contribution to conflict resolution is relevant for academics and political practitioners alike.

Formal grammars by definition need two parts: a theory of computation (or derivation), and a theory of representation. While recent attention in mainstream syntactic and phonological theory has been devoted to the former, the papers in this volume aim to show that the importance of representational details is not diminished by the insights of such theories.