Volume ini merupakan kumpulan esai reflektif dan ilmiah yang diterbitkan untuk merayakan hari jadi ke-90 The Institute of Optics (IoO) di University of Rochester, institusi pendidikan optik pertama dan tertua di Amerika Serikat. Sebagai kelanjutan dari volume peringatan ke-75, buku ini mendokumentasikan evolusi institut selama lima belas tahun terakhir sekaligus memberikan penghormatan terhadap…
The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of alcohol and drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon. Emphasising medical attitudes and theories regarding alcohol and the changing perception of alcohol consumption in psychiatry and mental health, it explores the shift from the…
Albumin is playing an increasing role as a versatile, biodegradable drug carrier in clinical theranostics. By applying different techniques, smart drug-delivery systems can be developed from albumin in order to improve drug delivery of different active pharmaceutical ingredients, even small-molecule drugs, peptides or enzymes. Principally, three drug delivery technologies can be distinguished f…
Michael M. J. Fischer examines documentary filmmaking, literature, and innovative dance from Southeast Asia and Singapore for their para-ethnographic insights into politics, culture, and aesthetics.
Transport bakteri di lingkungan mirip sungai yang bergejolak dibahas, di mana populasi bakteri sering ditemukan menempel pada padatan. Mode transport ini diselidiki dengan mempelajari pengendapan transien partikel berat dalam aliran saluran yang bergejolak yang menampilkan dasar sedimen. Metode numerik digunakan untuk menyelesaikan sepenuhnya turbulensi dan partikel berukuran terbatas, yang mem…
Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made deposits of bitumen available for surface mining. Less well known is the discovery that this flood…
Venetian playwright and pioneer of modern theatre Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793) led a ‘double life’ as a librettist, authoring nearly as many libretti as comedies- libretti which, born from the same mind and the same hand that brought forth his famous, and famously controversial, overhaul of the practices of comic theatre, could not but push the limits of the standing tradition to open a new ch…
Hasil pemilihan presiden 2018 di Brasil mengejutkan banyak pihak. Sejak saat itu, berbagai perdebatan dan semakin banyak teks telah mencoba memahami apa yang disebut sebagai pergeseran konservatif di negara tersebut. Sebuah laporan mendalam yang menarik tentang politik dan masyarakat di Brasil saat ini, volume baru ini menyatukan berbagai perspektif berbeda untuk membantu kita lebih memahami pe…
Drawing on historical and ethnographic research on tuberculosis in India, Bharat Jayram Venkat explores what it means to be cured and what it means for a cure to be partial, temporary, or selectively effective.
Day care in Alberta has had a remarkably durable history as a controversial issue. Since the late 1950s, disputes over day care programs, policies, and funding have been a recurring feature of political life in the province. Alberta's Day Care Controversy traces the development of day care policies and programs in Alberta, with particular emphasis on policy decisions and program initiatives tha…