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Visual culture, performance and spectacle lay at the heart of all aspects of ancient Greek daily routine, such as court and assembly, cult and ritual, and art and culture. Seeing was considered the mo

This book is a comprehensive introduction on infrared anti-transparent materials and their applications in anti-reflective and protective coatings. Optical, mechanical and thermal properties and prepa

This book deals with the existence and stability of solutions to initial and boundary value problems for functional differential and integral equations and inclusions involving the Riemann-Liouville,

From Homer to Sophocles and Greek Middle Comedy, and from Plato and Protagoras to Ovid, this volume features a panoramic and cross-generic overview of the diverse handling and ad hoc elaboration of th

Carbon Materials such as nanoparticles, fibres, adamantly- and graphene like structures are widely used in sciences and engineering. Applications range from energy and gasstorage, to electronics and o

The monograph begins with a systematic introduction of chaos and chaos synchronization, and then extends to the methodologies and technologies in secure communication system design and implementation.

This work treats in one volume the most important fields in Islamic studies: Persian literature and philology; Islamic history and historiography; Arabic literature and philology; and Islamic philosop

This work grapples with key issues of reality (both potentiality and actuality), scale (both local and global), context (scale and approximation, plus asymmetry/symmetry), and process (both emergence

Night and day, light and darkness, shape our world: light signifies life, knowledge and all that is good, while darkness suggests death, ignorance and evil. And yet the darkness of the night allows no

This volume contains 30 chapters on communication and technology, focusing on semiotic codes and technologies and their changes and innovations in newspaper wire services, telecommunication networks,

This work concisely presents methods for integrated marketing, sales, and customer management, and is orientated to practice and implementation. It sketches a modern and forward-looking marketing appr

Editors Linn, Bermel, and Ferguson present students, academics, and researchers with a collection of academic papers and scholarly articles focused on the status of English as a language and attitudes

Editors Stell and Yakpo present students, academics, and researchers with a collection of academic papers and scholarly articles focused on various linguistic, sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistics p

Editors Kiss and Alexiadou present students, academics, and researchers with the first volume of a three-volume collection of academic essays and scholarly articles focused on the theory and applicati

Enlarging the semantic field, Thoma, Henning, and Schmid bring together two apparently incompatible terms—social and capital. They and their contributors analyze and assess from different interdiscipl

Linguistics scholars based in Europe and the UK, the US, and Australia address various facets of core modality, peripheral modality, and evidentiality and modality in discourse. Fourteen contributions

Suzuki presents his research into verse types and their realizations, anacrusus and catalexis, resolutions, the cadence, alliteration, and the stanza. This is a formal and functional study of the thre

This book provides an edition and study of the Ugaritic and Akkadian incantation and anti-witchcraft texts from Ugarit. All texts have been newly collated and are edited here alongside translations, h

The first volume of this two-volume set is slim (60 pages) and contains the introduction, text, and translation and includes a bibliography and the author's praemonenda with regard to the scope and me

Mostly European scholars of philosophy probe, scrutinize, and sometimes reject the arguments and conclusion of Michael S. Moore's (law and philosophy, U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) Causation and Re

Scientists and engineers survey recent developments in analyzing wave propagation and scattering problems, covering both forward and inverse problems, and applications in the earth sciences. Among the

Featuring studies on Platonism and neo-Platonism by scholars from twelve countries, this collection includes material on unity, intellect, and beauty; happiness and virtue, the soul and body; Platonop

Literature scholars and historians draw from literary and historical texts to shed light on medieval and early modern perceptions of what constituted criminal behaviors, and how society responded puni

Scholars of literature and culture explore how catastrophes and crises become embedded in cultural memory. Their topics include how metaphors and narratives shape the cultural life of crises and catas

Mathematicians Deuflhard (Free U. Berlin) and Weiser explain to graduate students and researchers the numerical solution of elliptic and parabolic systems, and of hyperbolic conservation laws excludin

Classicists and church historians examine texts mostly from 350-450, when martyr cults and texts flourished and laid the foundation on which much of later medieval and Byzantine hagiography would be b

Images and inscriptions indicate how priests and cult personnel saw themselves and were viewed by others. Cultural records like dedications, honorific statues and decrees are central to understanding

This two part book focuses on the science and art of foreign language teaching in Asia and beyond. Part 1, “Theoretical foundation and research”, examines theoretical and empirical research that has o

Revised and expanded versions of 11 presentations discuss Nietzchean beginnings and developments; dissolving an opposition; instinct, language, and philosophy; and the critique of morality and the aff

Based on interviews and field research,the authors explore the sets of ideas Arab tribespeople from Ras Al-Khaimah had about tribe and community; social and economic networks, and jural contracts for

Presenting a thoughtful and thorough analysis, and heavily illustrated with superb drawings, plans, and b&w plates of the sculpture, this volume describes the meaning and possible ceremonial uses

This festschrift will be of interest to scholars of Jewish and Christian apocalyptic and mystical texts. After two essays on the life and work of Rachel Elior (Jewish philosophy and Jewish mystical th

This volume is dedicated to the ideals and standards of a number of Greek and Roman authors and artists: Hesiod, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle (to the orator), Philo, Clemens of Alexandria and Origenes

Theories of myth, mythical motifs in comparison, visual myths, national myth receptions, and myth and science and the science of myth are explored in 19 essays. Nine of them are in English, and discus

Lucan's life and times : vitae and other evidence -- Lucan's antiphrastic epos -- Book IV and its place in the poem -- Language and style -- Diction -- Syntax and word order -- Rhetorical devices -- M

Blockchains are seen as a technology for the future, which reduce the cost of trust and revolutionize transactions between individuals, companies and governments. The sense of using blockchains is to minimize the probability of errors, successful frauds and paper-intensive processes. For these reasons, blockchains already have and will have a significant impact to the society and every day's life, especially in field of Machine to Machine (M2M) communications, which are one of the basic technologies for Internet of Things (IoT). Therefore, blockchains with their inherent property to provide security, privacy and decentralized operation are engine for todays and future reliable, autonomous and trusted IoT platforms. Specially, a disruptive role of ledger technologies in future smart personal mobility systems, which combine smart car industry, smart energy/smart cities will be explained in the book, considering its importance for development of new industrial and business models.

This book shows how to analyse and simulate power electronics circuits using the software PSIM(R). It helps engineers and students in understanding, simulating and designing appropriate circuit compon

THE SERIES: INTELLIGENT BIOMEDICAL DATA ANALYSISBy focusing on the methods and tools for intelligent data analysis, this series aims to narrow the increasing gap between data gathering and data comprehension. Emphasis is also given to the problems resulting from automated data collection in modern hospitals, such as analysis of computer-based patient records, data warehousing tools, intelligent alarming, effective and efficient monitoring. In medicine, overcoming this gap is crucial since medical decision making needs to be supported by arguments based on existing medical knowledge as well as information, regularities and trends extracted from big data sets.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in various fields is of major importance to improve the use of resourses and time. This book provides an analysis of how AI is used in both the medical field and beyond. Topics that will be covered are bioinformatics, biostatistics, dentistry, diagnosis and prognosis, smart materials, and drug discovery as they intersect with AI. Also, an outlook of the future of an AI-assisted society will be explored.

Stochastic processes occur everywhere in sciences and engineering, and need to be understood by applied mathematicians, engineers and scientists alike. This book introduces the reader gently to the su