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This comment points out the medieval precedents of many developments characterized as new in the early modern manufacture, sale, and consumption of fashionable textiles and clothing, although these developments were more rapid and intense in the later centuries.
RoCKIn@Work was focused on benchmarks in the domain of industrial robots. Both task and functionality benchmarks were derived from real world applications. All of them were part of a bigger user story painting the picture of a scaled down real world factory scenario. Elements used to build the testbed were chosen from common materials in mod‐ ern manufacturing environments
Service robots performing complex tasks involving people in houses or public environments are becoming more and more common, and there is a huge interest from both the research and the industrial point of view. The RoCKIn@Home challenge has been designed to compare and evaluate different approaches and solutions to tasks related to the development of domestic and service robots.
The presence of robots in agriculture has grown significantly in recent years, overcoming some of the challenges and complications of this field. This chapter aims to collect a com‐ plete and recent state of the art about the application of robots in agriculture.
Resilience and risk are fundamental concepts for critical infrastructure protection, but it is complex to assess them. Modelling critical infrastructure interdependency helps in evaluating the resilience and risk metrics. We propose the MHR approach as a road-map to model infrastructures and it is implemented using CISIApro 2.0
This book offers a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of breast cancer biology. It is a complete and descriptive reference on motioning pathways and new treatment options for the future transnational scientists and clinicians working on cancer research and treatment. We greatly appreciate the work of all the contributors to this book. They have brought with them tremendo…
This essay considers how early modern Chinese romance novels conceive of female agency and how this conception was received by prominent cultural elites in eighteenth-century England. In his notes to Hau Kiou Choaan, the first English translation of a full-length Chinese novel, Thomas Percy referred to the novel’s heroine as a “masculine woman”, displaying a peculiar misreading of its tro…
Mediterania timur adalah pusat perdagangan selama berabad-abad, terletak di persimpangan yang sekarang menjadi Eropa, Asia, dan Afrika. Itu adalah tempat di mana produk dan produk eksotis dapat diperdagangkan atau ditukar dengan barang-barang yang asalnya mungkin ribuan mil jauhnya. Tetapi di mana pun perdagangan terjadi, pertukaran ide, teknologi, dan budaya yang serupa juga terjadi. Buku ini …
Di Eropa Timur dan Levant Utsmaniyah, pencetakan bahasa Arab dimulai dengan karya Antim the Iberian, seorang sarjana dan metropolitan Wallachia, dan Athanasios III Dabbā Buku tersebut menyajikan pers Arab pertama di tanah Utsmaniyah, yang didirikan pada tahun 1705 di Aleppo karena transfer alat dan keahlian percetakan Rumania, dan pers Lebanon kemudian yang menghasilkan buku-buku Arab Kristen.…