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Features some of the greatest travellers in human history - people who undertook long journeys to places they knew little or nothing about. This work provides an overview of long-distance travel in Afro-Eurasia from around 400BCE to 1500. It examines the development of early travel, trade and cultural interchange between China, India, and others.

This deeply personal yet intellectually groundbreaking work develops the idea of companion species and deftly explores philosophical, cultural, and biological aspects of animal-human encounters.

The report gives an insight into the potential architecture of a European Forest Information System, its system components and potential applications. A demonstration version was built and tested with various data types. Options are presented on how an operational forest information system could run within a network of distributed datasets.

The ability to cooperatively perform a collection of tasks in a distributed system is key to solving a broad array of computation problems ranging from distributed search, to distributed simulation, and multi-agent collaboration. Practical solutions to such cooperation problems must effectively marshal the available computing resources in performing large sets of tasks. This is challenging due to the failures and asynchrony of the involved pro...

Although the aim of this book is to give a unified introduction into finite and boundary element methods, the main focus is on the numerical analysis of boundary integral and boundary element methods. Starting from the variational formulation of elliptic boundary value problems boundary integral operators and associated boundary integral equations are introduced and analyzed. By using finite and boundary elements corresponding numerical approx...

Visuell berauschendes Historienepos von Zhang Yimou um blutige Intrigen in der chinesischen Kaiserfamilie.China vor mehr als 1.000 Jahren, zur Zeit der Tang-Dynastie. Als Prinz Jai nach langjährigen Kriegszügen unerwartet an den Hof zurückkehrt, merkt er sofort, dass im Palast so einiges faul ist. In seiner Abwesenheit wurden allerlei verbotene Begehrlichkeiten geweckt, heimliche Liebesbande geknüpft und unheilvolle Allianzen geschmiedet. Währ...

Today there is a high demand for high-precision products. The manufacturing processes are now highly sophisticated and derive from a specialized genre called precision engineering. Precision Manufacturing provides an introduction to precision engineering and manufacturing with an emphasis on the design and performance of precision machines and machine tools, metrology, tooling elements, machine structures, sources of error, precision machining...

Did alligators ever really live in New York's sewers? What's it like to explore the old aqueducts beneath the city? How many levels are beneath Grand Central Station? And how exactly did the pneumatic tube system that New York's post offices used to employ work? In this richly illustrated historical tour of New York's vast underground systems, Julia Solis answers all these questions and much, much more. New York Underground takes readers throu...

This book presents the main methodological and theoretical developments in stochastic global optimization. The extensive text is divided into four chapters, the topics include the basic principles and methods of global random search, statistical inference in random search, Markovian and population-based random search methods, methods based on statistical models of multimodal functions and principles of rational decisions theory. Key features:...

This book provides a clear and comprehensive modern treatment of Lie sphere geometry and its applications to the study of Euclidean submanifolds. It begins with the construction of the space of spheres, including the fundamental notions of oriented contact, parabolic pencils of spheres, and Lie sphere transformations. The link with Euclidean submanifold theory is established via the Legendre map, which provides a powerful framework for the stu...

Wie denken Hunde? Die beste Methode, Antworten auf diese Frage zu finden, ist es, ihr Verhalten sorgfältig zu beobachten und aufzuzeichnen. Niemand kann das besser als Ethologen, die Spezialisten für Tierverhalten. Nach einem Jahrzehnt Forschung hat nun der bekannte ungarische Ethologe Vilmos Csányi festgehalten, welch hohes Maß an gegenseitigem Verstehen und Mitfühlen zwischen Menschen und ihren sprichwörtlichen besten Freunden besteht. Er ar...

Rigid Body Dynamics Algorithms presents the subject of computational rigid-body dynamics through the medium of spatial 6D vector notation. It explains how to model a rigid-body system and how to analyze it, and it presents the most comprehensive collection of the best rigid-body dynamics algorithms to be found in a single source. The use of spatial vector notation greatly reduces the volume of algebra which allows systems to be described using...

This book contains a selection of papers presented at a Symposium organized under the aegis of COST Telecommunications Action 285.  The main objective of the Action is to enhance existing modeling and simulation tools and to develop new tools for research in emerging multi-service telecommuncation networks in the areas of model performance improvement, multilayer traffic modeling, and the important issue of evaluation and validation of the ne...

Based on a research study of 150 Latino men who completed a year of court-ordered, domestic violence treatment in Southern California, the authors use these in-depth portraits to guide counselors in tailoring treatment plans to the specific needs of Latino men.

Due to the serious spoilage and health issues the presence of mycotoxins can cause, it’s imperative that the food industry has a basic understanding fungi and their corresponding mycotoxins. An indispensable resource,  Mycotoxins in Foodstuffs gives an in depth overview by listing the degree of contamination, concentration and country of origin/detection for each case of mycotoxin contamination for each commodity. In addition, the book shows ...

Post-agricultural studies have been central to the development of both the science of plant ecology and ecology in general. The study of old field succession allows us to observe the development of the structure and function of communities, as well as understand the role of history and initial conditions in that process. Understanding old field succession can help the public address important scientific and social issues, such as deforestation...

This volume is a comprehensive collection of the various legal texts relating to the mandate of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. It fills the void for a handy volume of the Court's legal texts for use by judges, lawyers and other practitioners in international criminal courts.

Starting with the illustration of the international "anchoring" and the legal framework of the South Tyrolean Autonomy model, this book offers insights on the evolution of the institutions of self-government and minority protection through power-sharing and analyses which lessons can be learned for other situations.

This book examines Southeast Asia's rejection of international refugee law through extensive archival analysis and argues that this rejection was shaped by the region's response to its largest refugee crisis in the post-1945 era: the Indochinese refugee crisis from 1975-1996.

This 2007 edition of OECD's periodic survey of Chile's economy focuses on key challenges being faced including managing the economy after the copper price boom, efficiency in health care, education and housing services, informality, and raising labour force participation of women and youth