Buku akses terbuka ini menunjukkan beberapa hal penting yang dipresentasikan pada Kongres Teknik Mesin XV Ibero-Amerika. Makalah-makalah ini mengeksplorasi bidang-bidang terdepan dalam Teknik Mesin, yang berisi penelitian mekanika fluida, sistem energi, tribologi, ilmu material, robotika, mekatronika, biomekanika, instrumentasi, termodinamika, dan keberlanjutan mekanis. ;;; CIBIM / CIBEM dalam …
Step into the world of 16th-century Castile, where a devout community of Franciscan women preserved the public preaching of their visionary abbess, Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534), through writing. This groundbreaking book uncovers how her sermons were recorded, explores the materiality of the surviving codices, and reveals their role in the controversial censorship and blocking of Juana’s canon…
This open access book compiles the proceedings of the tenth edition of the International Congress on Science, Technology and Innovation for Society, a key event that addresses in a practical and multidisciplinary way smart technologies and their impact on crucial sectors such as sustainability, environment, information and telecommunications, industry and mobility. Through studies with diverse …
This open access book examines global plastic pollution, an issue that has become a critical societal challenge with implications for environmental and public health. This volume provides a comprehensive, holistic analysis on the plastic cycle and its subsequent effects on biota, food security, and human exposure. Importantly, global environmental change and its associated, systems-level proces…
This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the impact of early globalization on Iberian and Western European institutions, social development and political economies. In spite of globalization’s minor impor…
This book describes the fundamental concepts underlying radiation-induced failure mechanisms in electronic components operating in harsh environments, such as in space missions or in particle accelerators. In addition to providing an extensive overview of the dynamics and composition of different radiation environments, the authors discuss the failure mechanisms, known as single-event effects (…
Mengapa negara-negara dan wilayah yang secara historis Katolik umumnya lebih korup dan kurang kompetitif dibandingkan dengan yang secara historis Protestan?. Bagaimana institusionalisasi agama memengaruhi kemakmuran negara-negara di Eropa dan Amerika?. Buku akses terbuka ini membahas pertanyaan-pertanyaan kritis ini dengan menjelaskan faktor-faktor religius hegemonik dan emansipatoris yang meny…
In this volume amulets and talismans are studied within a broader system of meaning that shapes how they were manufactured, activated and used in different networks. Text, material features and the environments in which these artifacts circulated, are studied alongside each other, resulting in an innovative approach to understand the many different functions these objects could fulfil in pre-mo…
This open access book presents multiple disciplinary perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in the South African mountain city of Phuthaditjhaba. These challenges are embedded in the complex environmental, socio-cultural and political contexts of the region. Established as the capital of the QwaQwa ‘homeland’ under Grand Apartheid, this city is now home…
Der Band stellt die maßgeblichen Theorien der Ethik vor: die Kantische Ethik, den Utilitarismus, die Tugendethik und den Kontraktualismus. Diskutiert werden auch die wesentlichen Probleme der Moraltheorie, wie z.B. die Ursprünge und die Reichweite moralischer...