Where does today's English language come from? This book takes its readers on a journey back in time, from present-day varieties to the Old English of Beowulf and beyond. Written for students with little or no background in linguistics, and reflecting the latest scholarship, it showcases the variation and change present throughout the history of English, and includes numerous exercises and samp…
Electrification, automation of vehicle control, digitalization and new mobility are the mega-trends in automotive engineering, and they are strongly connected. While many demonstrations for highly automated vehicles have been made worldwide, many challenges remain in bringing automated vehicles to the market for private and commercial use. The main challenges are as follows: reliable machine pe…
Unlike other construction materials, road materials have developed minimally over the past 100 years. However, since the 1970s, the focus has been on more sustainable road construction materials such as recycled asphalt pavements. Recycling asphalt involves removing old asphalt and mixing it with new (fresh) aggregates, binders, and/or rejuvenators. Similarly, there are various efforts to use a…
Legume crops provide an excellent source of high quality plant protein and have a key role in arable crop rotations reducing the need for fertilizer application and acting as break-crops. However, these crops are affected by a number of foliar and root diseases, being ascochyta blights the most important group of diseases worldwide. Ascochyta blights are incited by different pathogens in the va…
Modern geometric computing increasingly plays a role in modeling environments and processing sensing information, providing a variety of tools for the efficient design, analysis, and manufacturing of complex shapes. The research area of architectural geometry (AG) has emerged at the common border of architecture, applied geometry, computational design, mathematics, and manufacturing. This book …
This reprint describes recent advances made in the field of antifungal development, especially the discovery of new drugs and drug repurposing. The articles presented in this book provide useful information and insight for the development of new antifungal drugs or intervention strategies. The identification of new, safe molecules, and cellular targets, as well as the elucidation of their antif…
This Open Access Book contains reports on the situation of people in the second half of life during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The analyses are based on the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) and they provide insights on four main areas of life: income and work, subjective health and well-being, social support and loneliness as well as societal participation. This book is useful for scie…
Vila Romano-British dan Pemakaman Anglo-Saxon di Eccles, Kent menyajikan studi tentang lembah Medway tengah dan bawah selama milenium pertama Masehi. Fokus utamanya adalah vila Romawi Eccles dan pemakaman Anglo-Saxon, yang digali antara tahun 1962–1976 dan dipimpin oleh Alec Detsicas. Sebuah laporan tentang vila penting ini sepanjang sejarah panjangnya disajikan, dan penilaian ulang terhadap …
eBook ini adalah kumpulan artikel dari Topik Riset Frontiers. Topik Riset Frontiers adalah merek dagang yang sangat populer dari Seri Jurnal Frontiers: mereka adalah kumpulan dari setidaknya sepuluh artikel, semua berfokus pada subjek tertentu. Dengan campuran kontribusi yang beragam dari Penelitian Asli hingga Artikel Tinjauan, Topik Riset Frontiers menyatukan para peneliti paling berpengaruh,…
Koleksi istimewa ini mengumpulkan beberapa sarjana terkemuka di bidang Studi Afrika, Afrof Amerika, dan Studi Amerika untuk mengeksplorasi cara penulis merebut kembali tubuh perempuan kulit hitam dalam sastra Amerika Afrika dengan menggunakan kerangka teori, sosial, budaya, dan religius dari spiritualitas dan agama. Inti dari diskusi ini adalah agensi perempuan kulit hitam dalam ranah ini—kem…