Introduction -- The Mediterranean Idea: From the Roman Mare Nostrum to the Book of the Sea by Naḥum Slouschz (1948) -- Mediterranean as a Supra-Regional Interaction Sphere during Late Prehistory An Overview on Problems and Prospects -- Settlements in the Hellenistic Period in Cilicia -- Anthroscapes: A Robust Basis for Mapping Land Quality and Sustainable Land Use Patterns -- Visible / Invisi…
The anatomy of a crisis -- Protecting your brands and reputation -- Preparing for the unthinkable -- The Internet—a two-edged sword -- Tactics to avoid being caught off-guard -- Product tampering—a constant threat -- Issues tracking and management -- Meeting the media -- Do I need help? -- Sources of technical help -- The powers of enforcement authorities -- Managing a crisis -- Diet and he…
Introduction -- Part I. Affect, Performance and the Neoliberal State -- Chapter 1. The Affective Performance of State Love; Sue-Ellen Case -- Chapter 2. ‘Not Now, Not Ever’; Denise Varney -- Chapter 3. Performing Sovereignty against Jurisprudential Death in an Australian State of Exception; Sandra D’urso -- Chapter 4. Imagining Love in a Neoliberal Japan; Nobuko Anan -- Chapter 5. Nisti S…
Chapter 1. Introduction (Van Rhee/Fu) -- Chapter 2. The Supreme People’s Court of Mainland China (Fu) -- Chapter 3. The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (Andrews) -- Chapter 4. Supreme Courts in the Nordic Countries (Oyrehagen Sunde) -- Chapter 5.The Supreme Cassation Court of the Netherlands (Verkerk/Van Rhe) -- Chapter 6.The Supreme Cassation Court of Spain (De Benito) -- Chapter 7. Supr…
Component-Based Software Development for Embedded Systems – An Introduction -- Component-Based Software Development for Embedded Systems – An Introduction -- Specification and Verification -- Specification and Verification of Applications Based on Function Blocks -- A Model-Based Approach to Formal Specification and Verification of Embedded Systems Using Colored Petri Nets -- Modular Verifi…
On the Impossibility of Detecting Uniform Motion -- Exploring the Internal Logic of Galileo’s Principle of Relativity -- Relativity in Euclidean Space and in Spacetime -- Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World: Spacetime Is Real -- Quantum Mechanics and the Nature of Spacetime -- The Nature of Spacetime and Validity of Scientific Theories -- Propagation of Light in Non-Inertial Refere…
Toward an Interdisciplinary Methodology -- Stochastic Modelling -- Black Death: The Background -- Mathematical Formulation of the Knowledge Bases -- Spatiotemporal Mapping of the Epidemic -- Epea Pteroenta.If you want to achieve something, if you want to write a book, paint a picture, be sure the center of your existence is somewhere else and that it’s solidly grounded; only then will you be …
Mapping Problems in the Design Flow -- Optimization Methods -- Optimization Approach Based on Simulated Annealing -- Efficient Algorithms and Data Structures -- Placement -- Routing -- Dealing with Physical Phenomena: Parasitics, Crosstalk and Process Variations -- Conclusions.Mixed-Signal Layout Generation Concepts covers important physical-design issues that exist in contemporary analog and m…
Optical Microscopy, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Ion Microscopy and Nanofabrication -- Confocal Scanning Optical Microscopy and Nanotechnology -- Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy in Nanosciences -- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy -- Visualization of Nanostructures with Atomic Force Microscopy -- Scanning Probe Microscopy for Nanoscale Manipulation and Patterning -- Scanning Thermal and Thermo…