This Special Issue "Advanced Nanoindentation in Materials" contains some of the latest developments in the field of small-scale contact mechanics for a wide range of materials and biological cells. The featured manuscript revealed a new ultra-high strain rate nanoindentation method that will enable new scientific understanding of time-dependent material properties. The book also presents unique…
The Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit-sharing is an international environmental agreement that concerns environmental sustainability, other sustainable development issues and equity. It addresses a complex subject matter that affects a range of research, development and commercial activities and is relevant to different areas of international law such as human rights, intellectual property …
Ini adalah buku akses terbuka. Ranavirus, virus DNA untai ganda (keluarga Iridoviridae) yang menyebabkan penyakit sistemik yang mengancam jiwa pada berbagai amfibi, reptil, dan ikan, telah berkontribusi pada kematian massal populasi liar maupun terpenangkap di seluruh dunia. Virus-virus ini sedang muncul dan semakin bertanggung jawab atas penurunan populasi vertebrata ektotermik. Karena amfibi,…
Armed conflict, today, has diverged from war as it was known in generations past, and from this, has tested the means by which conflicts and violence are regulated. Written with an eye to a region plagued by such conflicts, War and Law in the Islamic World examines the origins and roles that two distinct systems of governance – Islamic law and international humanitarian law – have played in…
Buku akses terbuka ini membahas perencanaan misi swarm drone otonom sebagai sistem terdistribusi. Ini dipahami sebagai alat yang serbaguna, yang mencakup aspek deskriptif, desain, dan aplikatif. Pengembangan sektor UAV memerlukan pendekatan interdisipliner untuk mengatasi tantangan dan mengeksplorasi bidang aplikasi baru. Pemahaman yang komprehensif tentang sistem UAV sangat penting untuk membu…
Buku akses terbuka ini menawarkan perspektif baru tentang ketidakpastian masa depan yang dihadapi oleh umat manusia. Para cendekiawan terkemuka dari bidang studi masa depan, perencanaan, geografi, sejarah, sosiologi, desain, dan humaniora mengedukasi mengenai peran rumit geografi dalam membangun pengetahuan untuk mengantisipasi kemungkinan, membayangkan alternatif, dan mengimplementasikan masa …
Language is not neutral; it determines, and is determined, by perspective. This volume explores the role of an influential vocabulary of war, sanitised language, the language that seeks to clean up the appearance of events through euphemism, abstract words and opaque phrases. Critical discourse analysis of the language of recent military campaigns shows that the public authorities do not explai…