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From the bestselling author and award-winning New York Times sports columnist, a timely consideration of a debate that has unsettled millions of sports fans: In the age of performance-enhancing drugs, concussion scandals, increasing on- and off-the-field violence, and other controversies, is it possible to square our consciences with the sports we love? Is it possible to be an ethical sports fan?We turn to sports for heroes, escapism, and insp...

Thermoelectricity describes the physics of energy conversion, from heat to electric power, and from electric power to heat or cooling power in solids. The working fluid consists of the conduction electrons. Despite a long and distinguished history, recent developments in nanotechnologies have revolutionized the field. It was recognised in the 1990s that low-dimensional systems should result in materials with much better efficiencies than bulk ...

Die Fortschritte der Lebenswissenschaften können zunehmend menschliches Denken und Fühlen beeinflussen, biomedizintechnologische Leistungssteigerungen sind nicht mehr auf den Körper be­schränkt, sondern umfassen die ganze Person des Menschen. Aus philosophischer Perspektive wirft das Fragen nach Autonomie, Authentizität, Verantwortung, nach Leiblichkeit, sozialer Gerechtigkeit und der Person insgesamt auf. Das Buch verfolgt eine didaktische Au...

Using classic thermodynamic principles as the point of departure, this book supplies the tools required to assess the technical viability of energy conversion processes. A new concept, viz. the exergetic (useful energy) recovery factor is introduced that measures net fraction of the extracted useful energy with respect to the initial exergy of the energy resource.  With respect to conventional measures, the exergetic recovery factor can be neg...

Proliposome technologies are stable phospholipid formulations that provide an approach to generating liposomes upon addition of aqueous phase prior to administration. In this monograph, the authors review the potential of proliposomes for pulmonary delivery of liposomes via nebulization using air-jet, ultrasonic and vibrating-mesh nebulizers. They explore both proliposome types, particulate-based and solvent-based. The book concludes that both...

Egal, ob das Eichhörnchen Husch-Husch seinen Wintervorrat gegen hinterlistige Diebe verteidigen muss, die Mäusekinder ihr jüngstes Geschwisterchen vermissen oder der Igel Piekobello sich den Bauch zu sehr vollgeschlagen hat, der kleine Hase Filomeo weiß immer, wie man Abhilfe schaffen kann. Diese originellen und fröhlichen Hasengeschichten, die sich sehr gut auch zum Vorlesen eignen, werden nicht nur Kinder begeistern.

A prediction market is designed to trade and predict future events. This book provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary treatment of the prediction market, explaining what it is, how it works, and why it may fail, from the theoretical, computational, and statistical (or machine learning) perspectives. The book begins with the theoretical aspect by reviewing Friedrich Hayek's work on markets, which he viewed as discovery processes, and pro...

The Sourcebook of the Sikh Wars is the first comprehensive work dealing with the Anglo-Sikh Wars fought in India between 1845 and 1849. The book provides a brief political background of the conflict, a concise account of both Sikh Wars, the actions that led to them, and a detailed description of the armies involved.

Der Autor beschreibt wie das sinnlichkeitsfreie Denken, das Rudolf Steiner immer wieder beschrieben hat und das in seinen eigenen Werken zum Ausdruck kommt, erübt werden kann.

Research in human affect has a long established tradition in social sciences - Philosophy, Psychology, Socio-psychology, Cognitive Science, Pragmatics, Marketing, Communication. The study of affect from a computational point of view is a recent field in Artificial Intelligence, denominated “Affective Computing”. Despite the novelty of the subject, the volume and importance of research in automatic human affect recognition, classification and s...

A selection of interviews, articles, reviews and documents, chronicling Jim Morrison and The Doors's enigmatic career and legacy. Edited by the co-author of Jim Morrison biography "No One Here Gets Out Alive".

Diese Sammlung von Zeugnissen der Wiederverkörperungsidee in der deutschen Geistesgeschichte dokumentiert die eigene europäische Tradition des Reinkarnationsgedankens im Gegensatz zur Vorstellung der Seelenwanderung im indischen Kulturraum. Emil Bock zitiert und erläutert Äußerungen von etwa 150 Persönlichkeiten: von Lessing, Herder, Goethe, Lichtenberg über Fichte, Hegel, Schleiermacher, Novalis bis hin zu Richard Wagner, Schliemann, Nietzsc...

Life-cycle Maintenance Management Framework for Medium and Short-Span Concrete Bridge Elements' describes a set of performance prediction and maintenance optimization models and approaches for life-cycle bridge maintenance management. These are proposed by summarizing and incorporating valuable aspects of previous practices and developing some new models and approaches for different and comprehensive scenarios. The subject of this book is cros...

This monograph presents a proposal for interdisciplinary and international research that uses varve as an essential tool. The discovery and subsequent palaeoenvironmental studies of the annually laminated sediments of Lake Suigetsu (Japan) revealed the directionality of a new discipline in the traditional field of historical science. The historical evidence of environmental changes and natural disasters provided by annually laminated sediments...

This book focuses on fast algorithms for computing scalar multiplication (or point multiplication) on certain types of elliptic curves, as scalar multiplication is the most time-consuming operation in elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). More precisely, the text provides readers with both a theoretical perspective on the use of low Hamming weight Frobenius expansion for scalar multiplication and a practical perspective on the implementation of s...

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OfficeUS New World" highlights the work, conversations and intelligence developed by the fellows and the visitors throughout the Biennale, to be printed at the close of the exhibition. OfficeUS, the U.S. Pavilion for the 2014 International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, reframes the history of U.S. architecture through the lens of export in two interrelated constructs: "The Office" and "The Repository". The "Repository" pre...

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Sie erwacht in Berlin, lebte in Cornwall. Dazwischen liegen 1541 Jahre, ein Koma und die Sagenwelt Gawains. Das Gleichgewicht des Berliner Alltags wird wieder hergestellt, verschließt Dorias Wege und Welten. Verschütt die Wendepunkte, von deren Existenz sie nur zu träumen wagte? Doria begann bei Null auf der Suche nach Vertrauten, nach sich selbst, nach einer großen Legende. Ihre Reise ist vorbei, eine neue kann beginnen. Ihre Suche ist ein ...

This book presents a previously unpublished theory for predicting the quantitative behavior of a class of dynamical systems when brought into contact with a source of mechanical energy, when both the system and the source are complex. Complex refers to a virtually unbounded number of quantitative parameters being needed for a complete description, the precise values of which are inherently unknowable. The complexity precludes the use of a comp...