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Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering
The Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering is designed to be the authoritative and comprehensive reference covering all major aspects of the science of earthquake engineering, specifically focusing on the interaction between earthquakes and infrastructure. The encyclopedia comprises approximately 265 contributions. Since earthquake engineering deals with the interaction between earthquake distu…
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- 978-3-642-35344-4
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- 954 b/w illustrations, 1477 illustrations in colour
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Encyclopedia of Analytical Surfaces
This encyclopedia presents an all-embracing collection of analytical surface classes. It provides concise definitions and description for more than 500 surfaces and categorizes them in 38 classes of analytical surfaces. All classes are cross references to the original literature in an excellent bibliography. The encyclopedia is of particular interest to structural and civil engineers and serve…
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- 978-3-319-11773-7
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- Original Russian edition published by URSS/Librokom, 2010
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Emotional Feedback for Mobile Devices
This book investigates the functional adequacy as well as the affective impression made by feedback messages on mobile devices. It presents an easily adoptable experimental setup to examine context effects on various feedback messages and applies it to auditory, tactile and auditory-tactile feedback messages. This approach provides insights into the relationship between the affective impression…
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- 978-3-319-17193-7
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- 16 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
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Emotional Engineering Volume 4
This book describes the important role of emotion in a hyper-connected society and how product development and manufacture change. It explores how our work and lifestyle may be affected by forthcoming technologies and presents key research on multisensory informatics, one of the most important tools for making the most of emotion. This fourth volume of the Emotional Engineering Series focuse…
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- 978-3-319-29433-9
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- 40 b/w illustrations, 85 illustrations in colour
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Emotional Engineering (Vol. 3)
This book examines how theories of human emotion can be applied to engineering in order to improve product design and value. ‘Emotional Engineering Vol. 3’ establishes the idea that customer satisfaction can be maximised by using knowledge and experience in a more flexible manner to respond to a fast-changing world. This integration of emotion and knowledge introduces the reader to the conc…
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- 978-3-319-11555-9
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- 19 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
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Modelling Behaviour
This book reflects and expands on the current trend in the building industry to understand, simulate and ultimately design buildings by taking into consideration the interlinked elements and forces that act on them. This approach overcomes the traditional, exclusive focus on building tasks, while posing new challenges in all areas of the industry from material and structural to the urban scale.…
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- 978-3-319-24206-4
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- XXV, 544
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Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes:Proceedings of the 3rd Inte…
Innovative processes for the development of products and services are more and more considered as an organisational capability, which is recognised to be increasingly important for business success in today’s competitive environment. However, management and academia need a more profound understanding of these processes and to develop improved management approaches to exploit such business pot…
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- 978-3-662-44008-7
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- VIII, 203
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Mobile Mapping: Space, Cartography and the Digital
This book argues for a theory of mobile mapping, a situated and spatial approach towards researching how everyday digital mobile media practices are bound up in global systems of knowledge and power. Drawing from literature in media studies and geography - and the work of Michel Foucault and Doreen Massey - it examines how geographical and historical material, social, and cultural conditions ar…
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- 9789048535217
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- 302.23 WIL m
Media and Participation A site of ideological-democratic struggle
Participation has become fashionable again, but at the same time it has always played a crucial role in our contemporary societies, and it has been omnipresent in a surprisingly large number of societal fields. In the case of the media sphere, the present-day media conjuncture is now considered to be the most participatory ever, but media participation has had a long and intense history. To dea…
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- 9781841504070
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Media and Participation A site of ideological-democratic struggle
Participation has become fashionable again, but at the same time it has always played a crucial role in our contemporary societies, and it has been omnipresent in a surprisingly large number of societal fields. In the case of the media sphere, the present-day media conjuncture is now considered to be the most participatory ever, but media participation has had a long and intense history. To dea…
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