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Military robots are affecting both the decision to go to war and the means by which wars are conducted. This book covers the history of military robotics, analyzes their current employment, and examines the ramifications of their future utilization.Robotic systems are the future of military conflicts: their development is already revolutionizing the nature of human conflict-and eroding the standards of acceptable behavior in wartime. Written b...

The acronym Laser is derived from Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. With the advent of the ruby laser in 1960, there has been tremendous research activity in developing novel, more versatile and more efficient laser sources or devices, as lasers applications are ubiquitous. Today, lasers are used in many areas of human endeavor and are routinely employed in a host of diverse fields: various branches of engineering, micro...

A comprehensive multi-disciplinary overview of the very latest research on ageing, concentrating on three major themes: active ageing, design for ageing well and the relationship between ageing and socio-economic development.

EC environmental legislation represents one of the most complex and challenging legal regimes for the protection of the environment. The significant body of legislation which now exists has given rise to numerous disputes over its application and interpretation. This collection brings together the principal documents in an accessible form, providing practitioners, scholars and students with the essentials necessary to understand, advise upon a...

This book offers time management tools, tips, and techniques for busy librarians, so they can better serve their communities and feel greater satisfaction with work and life. Being short on resources is now "the new normal" for libraries-and having too little money and too few staff members always brings library staff to the same predicament: not enough time. While it is not possible to create more time, by making use of the right time manage...

Bei der Beerdigung ihrer Großmutter in Südfrankreich wird Zoe mit dem uralten Erbe der Familie konfrontiert, das ihre Mutter seit dem Unfall des Vaters totgeschwiegen hat. Als sie nach und nach die Zusammenhänge herausfindet und lernt, ihre magischen Fähigkeiten einzusetzen, gerät sie in tödliche Gefahr. Durch die immer noch schwelenden Konflikte der Vergangenheit und die Ereignisse der Gegenwart, wird sie weiter und weiter in den Wettlauf um ...

Few thinkers have had as much impact on contemporary philosophy as has Alvin Plantinga. The work of this quintessential analytic philosopher has in many respects set the tone for the debate in the fields of modal metaphysics and epistemology and he is arguably the most important philosopher of religion of our time. In this volume, a distinguished team of today’, s leading philosophers address the central aspects of Plantinga’, s phil...

Buckelpistenskilauf findet in den Medien deutliche Beachtung (Olympische Disziplin, hohe Einschaltquoten im Fernsehen). Jedoch werden diese Buckel-Abfahrten von den Freizeitskiläufern nur wenig angenommen, meist wegen fehlender Kenntnisse zur Fahrtechnik. Neu kommt jetzt hinzu, dass mit dem aktuellen Freeride-Boom immer mehr Buckelpisten in Tal-Nähe entstehen. "Du musst deine Kräfte schonen, die nächste Buckelpiste kommt bestimmt." ist eine hä...

This book presents a comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germanic languages, providing a detailed account of key topics in their morphology, phonology and syntax. It will be welcomed by scholars and students of the Germanic languages, as well as linguists across the many branches of the field.

Although they are relative latecomers on the evolutionary scene, having emerged only 135-170 million years ago, angiosperms or flowering plants are the most diverse and species-rich group of seed-producing land plants, comprising more than 13, 000 genera and over 300, 000 species. Not only are they a model group for studying the patterns and processes of evolutionary diversification, outside the laboratory they also play major roles in our eco...

Deriving a reasonable mathematical model is fundamental to the analysis, design and control of a dynamic system. The most important factor in model-reduction procedures is approximation error. Sometimes, this reduction error is more important over a certain frequency band than other frequencies, and taking account of this has led to the development of frequency weightings in the model-reduction procedure. This book will describe this technique...

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An Introduction to Museum Archaeology provides a comprehensive survey and synthesis of all aspects of current museum practice in relation to the discipline of archaeology. Drawing heavily on examples it deconstructs the different challenges posed by trying to tell archaeological stories in museum buildings, and on related sites. The final section sums up the state of museum archaeology in the early 21st century and discusses the major issues i...

Every woman is a puzzle. They have a prophecy that is on top, but broken pieces on the inside. This book is a prophetic announcement that God is about to bring the pieces of your life back together, so that the inside matches the outside. God wants you to know...you are expensive!

Bella erlebt zum ersten Mal eine Ménage-à-trois. Sinja besucht einen ganz besonderen Club. Sarah und Jan treffen sich, um Sex in der Sauna zu haben. Tom lernt über ein Casual Dating Portal eine Unbekannte kennen und erlebt eine Überraschung.Saturday Night Fever, das sind 24 erotische Kurzgeschichten, sinnlich und provokant, aber auch romantisch und humorvoll. Alizé Siffleur schreibt über Frauen, die sich nehmen was sie wollen. Sich aber auch e...

I have traveled far and wide, far beyond the simple parish I envisioned as a young man. My obligation of service has led me into diverse yet interrelated roles: college teacher, theologian, president of a great university, counselor to four popes and six presidents... But deep beneath it all, ... I have always and everywhere considered myself essentially a priest. - from the Preface

Accompanying disc includes over 250 Excel worksheet files of functions and formulas discussed in the text, video tutorials, and all images from the text.

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Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a scientific discipline which is found at the intersection of fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, and Cognitive Psychology. This book presents in four chapters the state of the art and fundamental concepts of key NLP areas. Are presented in the first chapter the fundamental concepts in lexical semantics, lexical databases, knowledge representation paradigms, and ontologies. The second chapt...