This chapter presents a portfolio of building materials suitable for façades. It describes the relationship between material type, building element, façade, and the entire building structure. Traditional façades based on static components, as well as adaptive concepts able to interact with changing environmental conditions, are briefly described and illustrated with pictures. Climatic des…
Volume ini menawarkan survei tentang penerimaan Antikuitas Klasik dalam sastra untuk anak-anak dengan menerapkan perspektif regional dari Eropa Timur-Tengah dan Barat, Afrika, Israel, Jepang, Selandia Baru, Rusia, dan Amerika Serikat. Judul Our Mythical Childhood mengisyaratkan potensi tradisi kuno yang sulit dipahami dan paradoksal yang merupakan dasar tetap yang dibagikan oleh banyak orang di…
Abrasion is the primary type of wear in almost all fields of industry. It is particularly relevant to the longevity of pipelines and pumps and to almost all processing industries and applications where a constant interface exists with abrasive substances such as dust, sediments, or fluids with mineral particles. The performance of systems can be degraded depending on the properties of abrasive …
This open access book focuses on the regulatory framework for the sustainability of the insurance market. It analyzes its potential impact on insurance undertakings governance and product design. The book is structured into three parts. It firstly explores the general framework on the sustainability for the insurance market, focusing on the regulation at the European Union level. Secondly, it e…
Buku akses terbuka ini membahas aspek komunikatif dari pandemi COVID-19 saat ini serta epidemi informasi yang salah dari perspektif teori argumentasi. Teori argumentasi secara unik dapat memahami dan menjelaskan tantangan alasan publik yang diekspresikan melalui wacana argumentatif. Buku ini dengan demikian fokus pada sejauh mana bentuk, norma, dan fungsi argumentasi publik telah berubah di ten…
This open access book addresses communicative aspects of the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as the epidemic of misinformation from the perspective of argumentation theory. Argumentation theory is uniquely placed to understand and account for the challenges of public reason as expressed through argumentative discourse. The book thus focuses on the extent to which the forms, norms and function…
This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy.
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. This book presents the Proceedings of the 9th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction Conference. Significant progress in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its wider use in many interactive products are quickly transforming further areas of our life, which results in the emergence of various…