This Editorial presents a representative collection of 15 papers, presented in the Special Issue on Advances in Modeling and Management of Urban Water Networks (UWNs), and frames them in the current research trends. The most analyzed systems in the Special Issue are the Water Distribution Systems (WDSs), with the following four topics explored: asset management, modelling of demand and hydr…
Biocompatible polymers are used for many different purposes (catheters, artificial heart components, dentistry products, etc.). An important field for biocompatible polymers is the production of vision implants known as intraocular lenses or custom-shape contact lenses
The Internet of Things (IoT) encompasses a wide range of applications and service domains, from smart cities, autonomous vehicles, surveillance, medical devices, to crop control. Virtualization in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is widely regarded as the most revolutionary technological technique used in these areas
How did a narrow tactical victory for the British at Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War lead to the failure of the British Southern Campaign? This volume offers an indispensable point of departure for a staff ride to the battlefield at Guilford Courthouse, providing a systematic analysis of this key battle in the American Revolution. Author Harold Allen S…
Kini tersedia dalam Akses Terbuka berkat dukungan Universitas Helsinki. Dalam Poets of Hope and Despair: The Russian Symbolists in War and Revolution (1914-1918), Ben Hellman mengkaji respons artistik serta sikap filosofis dan politik delapan penyair Rusia utama terhadap Perang Dunia Pertama dan revolusi tahun 1917. Bencana sejarah memunculkan firasat kiamat dan dahaga akan metamorfosis spiritu…
Dalam apa yang sering dianggap sebagai 'masyarakat "setelah Tuhan"', jutaan orang Belanda berpartisipasi setiap tahun dalam pertunjukan multi-media publik tentang Pasion Kristus. Apa yang harus dilakukan dengan paradoks ini?. Dalam Playing On: Re-staging the Passion after the Death of God, Mirella Klomp menawarkan analisis teologis tentang pertunjukan ini dan mereka yang terlibat di dalamnya. B…
Buku ini berisi deskripsi gramatikal yang komprehensif tentang Mehri, sebuah bahasa Semit yang tidak tertulis yang digunakan di daerah Dhofar di Oman, bersama dengan korpus lebih dari seratus teks. Topik dalam fonologi, semua aspek morfologi, dan berbagai fitur sintaksis dibahas. Teks-teks tersebut, disajikan dengan komentar yang luas, dikumpulkan oleh mendiang T.M. Johnstone. Beberapa diterbit…
Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers. Sixty years after the Conference of African Writers of English Expression at Makerere University, the dominance in the global canon of African literatures written in European languages ove…
In 1985, the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard curated a groundbreaking exhibition called Les Immatériaux at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition showed how telecommunication technologies were beginning to impact every aspect of life. At the same time, it was a material demonstration of what Lyotard called the post-modern condition. This book features a previously unpublished r…
In 1985, the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard curated a groundbreaking exhibition called Les Immatériaux at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition showed how telecommunication technologies were beginning to impact every aspect of life. At the same time, it was a material demonstration of what Lyotard called the post-modern condition. This book features a previously unpublished r…