Ayala Levin charts the settler colonial imagination and practices that undergirded Israeli architectural development aid in Africa.
It is exactly 30 years since Arthur Kleinman introduced the term “sociosomatic” in an attempt to refocus attention in the health and psychological sciences on the often apparent, yet all too frequently neglected, social aspects of illness, disorder, and well-being
The black yeast Aureobasidium pullulans produces abundant soluble β-1,3-1,6-glucan—a functional food ingredient with known health benefits. For use as a food material, soluble β-1,3- 1,6-glucan is produced via fermentation using sucrose as the carbon source
Insulin is an essential protein hormone secreted by the beta cells of the islet of Langerhans in the pancreas which is involved in glucose homeostasis, cell metabolism and mitogenesis
How does one become a recognized architect? Where does the inspiration come from and how is it transformed into buildings, streets and cities? With his Architectural Journal Rob Krier takes the readers on a fascinating journey, guiding one through pivotal moments of early stages of his career as an architect. With a sense of humour, empathy and charm Krier tells a story of his professional path…
Software design patterns are evaluated and recognised architectural solutions for recurring design problems. They are often described in pattern catalogues that contain known patterns for a certain application domain, for example, patterns for object-oriented software by Gamma et al. or patterns for distributed computing by Buschmann et al.. However, design patterns are still often misunder…
Autonomous cyber-physical systems will foreseeably find their way into the reality of our lives. Will criminal law have to react when innovative, autonomous technologies cause bodily injury or homicide? To answer this question, Maximilian Münster examines the standards of criminal product liability that apply in Germany and then evaluates their application to the marketing of autonomous cyber-…
The ADMD3 approach presented in this book enchances the architectural design documentation of decision via reuse of design patterns. It combines the support for evaluation of pattern application, semi-automated documentation of decision rationale and trace links. The approach is based on a new kind of design pattern catalogue, whereby usual pattern descriptions are captured together with questi…