"A cultural geneaology of the influence of Victor Papanek on the world of transdisciplinary design"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and in general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations - the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations…
A humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT.When Warren Kendall Lewis left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to enter MIT, he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession that would bring untold good to his country but would also contribute to the death of his family's farm. In …
"A Bradford book."Alice ter Meulen integrates current research in natural language semantics, with detailed analyses of English discourse, and logical tools from a variety of sources into an information theory that provides the foundation for computational systems to reason about change and the flow of time. The topic of temporal meaning in texts has received considerable attention in recent ye…
Virginia Valian uses concepts and data from psychology, sociology, economics, and biology to explain the disparity in the professional advancement of men and women. Why do so few women occupy positions of power and prestige? Virginia Valian uses concepts and data from psychology, sociology, economics, and biology to explain the disparity in the professional advancement of men and women. Accordi…
https://mts.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/methods-of-protein-detection-in-cancer-for-diagnosis-prognosis-and-therapyEmerging proteomic technologies offer new insight in the study of malignant tumor to identify protein biomarkers for early detection, stratification, prediction and monitoring of treatment, as well as to detect target molecules for therapy. The tumor protein biomarker is resp…
https://mts.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/particle-filter-based-approach-for-remaining-useful-life-prediction-of-high-speed-shaft-bearing-in-wThis work involves a novel data-driven procedure using vibration analysis for bearing health prognosis. In this work, we investigate the time-domain features and applying spectral kurtosis features in order to extract the damage indicators which even…
https://mts.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/phytocosmetics-and-phytopharmaceuticals-from-african-medicinal-plantsAfrica contains some of the richest biodiversity in the world, blessed with bountiful plants of economic importance and plants of medicinal importance which when developed would reduce our expenditure on imported drugs to meet our health needs. Plants are source of phytochemicals …
https://mts.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/critical-studies-on-the-kinetics-isotherms-and-activation-energy-of-sorption-phenomenon-for-optimizeThe secondary effect discovery of synthetic sorbents opened another research direction for many field of studies. However, the sorption parameters of lignocellulosic sorbents are rarely reported most importantly, kenaf shive. This paper centered at t…
https://mts.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/phenotypic-analysis-of-pigeon-pea-reveal-genotypic-variability-under-different-environmental-interacPigeon pea is one of the most important leguminous crop globally. However it is a neglected pulse crops in South Africa in terms of research and production. Most farmers grow local landraces with low yields and there is lack of diverse material. The …