A lively account of a controversial technology developed to mitigate earthquake risk and change how we live with threatening environments. The Sistema de Alerta Sísmica Mexicano is the world's oldest public earthquake early warning system. Given the unpredictability of earthquakes, the technology was designed to give the people of Mexico City more than a minute to prepare before the next bi…
Since the structural change in Indian society that began in the 1990s - the result of the liberalisation of the economy, devolution of power, and decentralisation of the government–an unprecedented, democratic transformation has been taking place. This has caused the emergence of unexpected coalitions and alliances across diverse castes, classes, and religious groups according to the issues i…
Penelitian terbaru dalam Komputasi Cerdas. Hasil Konferensi Internasional tentang Batas Komputasi Cerdas: Teori dan Aplikasi (FICTA) 2014. Menyajikan teori dan aplikasi dalam Komputasi Cerdas -> Volume-I dari seri AISC ini terdiri dari 95 makalah yang dipresentasikan pada Konferensi Internasional Ketiga tentang Perbatasan dalam Komputasi Cerdas: Teori dan Aplikasi (FICTA-2014). Konferensi berla…
Penelitian terbaru dalam Komputasi Cerdas. Hasil Konferensi Internasional tentang Batas Komputasi Cerdas: Teori dan Aplikasi (FICTA) 2014. Menyajikan teori dan aplikasi dalam Komputasi Cerdas -> Volume AISC-I ini berisi 95 makalah yang dipresentasikan pada Konferensi Internasional Ketiga tentang Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA-2014) yang diadakan selama 14-15 …
This book presents contemporary case studies of land use, management practices, and innovation in Africa with a view to exploring how multifunctional land uses can alleviate food insecurity and poverty. Food security and livelihoods in Africa face multiple challenges in the form of feeding a growing population on declining land areas under the impacts of climate change. The overall question …
Published in 1999, this book discusses issues related to the current and possible future technological progress in genetic technology linked to in vitro fertilization, specifically preimplantation diagnosis and germline gene therapy, from a scientific and medical as well as from a social, juridical and ethical point of view. The 31 contributions are divided into six sections medical and scienti…
This volume presents new research on post-accession migration from Central and Eastern Europe in the short period since the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007. Explanations of post-accession migration patterns, trends and mechanisms delve into the complexities of these phenomena. New groups of migrants and types of migrations are identified -- such as young migrants, often students or graduates, …
ABSTRACT This book presents an alternative view of caste in Indian society by analysing caste structure and change in local communities in Orissa from historical and anthropological perspectives. Focusing on the agricultural society in the Khurda district of Orissa between the eighteenth century and 2019, the book links discussions on the current transformation of society and politics in In…
Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. Before Einstein offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth century.
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary greatness. The ten new critical essays here, written by leading specialists in nineteenth-century …