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Study Guide for Let Nobody Turn Us Around

By: Karen Williams,Andrea Queeley

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Study Guide for Let Nobody Turn Us Around

By: Karen Williams,Andrea Queeley

The Study Guide for Let Nobody Turn Us Around, 2/e offers key points, comprehension and thought questions, essay questions, suggested research topics, classroom exercises, and media and Internet resources as well as additional selected readings for each section of the book as well as the preface and introduction. Appendices provide guidelines on citation styles and style manuals (MLA, CMS, CBE, APA, and APSA), directions for citing Internet and other electronic sources, suggested Internet resources in four social sciences (anthropology, history, political science, and sociology), a checklist on quoting and paraphrasing, and the table of contents of the second edition of Let Nobody Turn Us Around.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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A Future History of Water

By: Andrea Ballestero

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A Future History of Water

By: Andrea Ballestero

Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human right and a human right something different from a commodity. Andrea Ballestero shows how these ephemeral distinctions are made through four technolegal devices—formula, index, list and pact. She argues that what is at stake in these devices is not the making of a distinct future but what counts as the future in the first place. A Future History of Water is an ethnographically rich and conceptually charged journey into ant-filled water meters, fantastical water taxonomies, promises captured on slips of paper, and statistical maneuvers that dissolve the human of human rights. Ultimately, Ballestero demonstrates what happens when instead of trying to fix its meaning, we make water’s changing form the precondition of our analyses.

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Duke University Press

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1478004517

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The Medici: Portraits and Politics 1512–1570

By: Keith Christiansen,Carlo Falciani,Andrea Bayer,Elizabeth Cropper,Davide Gasparotto,Sefy Hendler,Antonella Fenech Kroke,Tommaso Mozzati,Elizabeth Pilliod,Julia Siemon,Linda Wolk-Simon

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The Medici: Portraits and Politics 1512–1570

By: Keith Christiansen,Carlo Falciani,Andrea Bayer,Elizabeth Cropper,Davide Gasparotto,Sefy Hendler,Antonella Fenech Kroke,Tommaso Mozzati,Elizabeth Pilliod,Julia Siemon,Linda Wolk-Simon

Between 1512 and 1570, Florence underwent dramatic political transformations. As citizens jockeyed for prominence, portraits became an essential means not only of recording a likeness but also of conveying a sitter’s character, social position, and cultural ambitions. This fascinating book explores the ways that painters (including Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, and Francesco Salviati), sculptors (such as Benvenuto Cellini), and artists in other media endowed their works with an erudite and self-consciously stylish character that made Florentine portraiture distinctive. The Medici family had ruled Florence without interruption between 1434 and 1494. Following their return to power in 1512, Cosimo I de’ Medici, who became the second Duke of Florence in 1537, demonstrated a particularly shrewd ability to wield culture as a political tool in order to transform Florence into a dynastic duchy and give Florentine art the central position it has held ever since. Featuring more than ninety remarkable paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and medals, this volume is written by a team of leading international authors and presents a sweeping, penetrating exploration of a crucial and vibrant period in Italian art.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588397300

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Six Doors to the Seventh Dimension

By: Timothy Carson,Genevieve Andrea Howard

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Six Doors to the Seventh Dimension

By: Timothy Carson,Genevieve Andrea Howard

Like a who-done-it of the spirit, Six Doors to the Seventh Dimension escorts travelers through the house of life, revealing at each threshold another critical aspect of the way to wholeness, harmony, and peace. Like a labyrinth of word and image, the pages of this metaphorical travelogue wind toward the mystical center that binds all things together. Those who make this pilgrimage will never again see themselves or the cosmos in the same light.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1625645325

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Metti a Emiliano

By: Roberto Lorusso,Pietro Andrea Annicelli

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Metti a Emiliano

By: Roberto Lorusso,Pietro Andrea Annicelli

Michele Emiliano protagonista, a Bari e in Puglia, d'una esperienza politica e amministrativa particolarmente interessante e innovativa nella realt politica italiana. Ecco i come e i perch raccontati da osservatori e protagonisti: Ludovico Abaticchio, Dino Amenduni, Nino Anaclerio, Pierluigi Balducci, Lino Banfi, Rosina Basso Lobello, Paolo Bevilacqua, Tobia Binetti, Nicola Bonerba, Dino Borri, Marco Brando, Carlo Bruni, Danilo Calabrese, Giovanni Campobasso, Antonio Cantoro, Cinzia Capano, Michele Capriati, Donato Carrisi, Franco Cassano, Domenico Castellaneta, Angelo Cera, Franco Chiarello, Graziano Conversano, Raimondo Cucciola, Nicola De Bartolomeo, Antonio De Caro, Fortunata Dell'Orzo, Cinzia De Marzo, Fabio Di Fonte, Antonio Di Matteo, Gemma Dipoppa, Simonetta Emiliano, Francesco Ferrante, Francesco Fistetti, Enrico Fornaro, Costantino Foschini, Dario Ginefra, Mario Gismondi, Giuseppe Goffredo, Gero Grassi, Eugenio Iorio, Marco Lacarra, Vito Leccese, Francesco Lenoci, Adriana Logroscino, Fabrizio Lombardo Pijola, Antonio Madaro, Enzo Magist, Alfredo Mantovano, Biagio Marzo, Augusto Masiello, Maria Maugeri, Michele Mazzarano, Susi Mazzei, Domenico Mennitti, Nichi Muciaccia, Gennaro Nunziante, Rocco Palese, Carlo Paolini, Vittorio Parisi, Federico Pirro, Adriana Poli Bortone Massimo Posca, Franco Punzi, Enzo Purgatorio, Luigi Quaranta, Antonella Rinella, Elio Sannicandro, Maria Santacroce, Alba Sasso, Giovanni Sasso, Leonardo Scorza, Vittorio Sgarbi, Ippazio Stef no, Salvatore Tatarella, Leonardo Tomasicchio, Andrea Troisi, Walter Veltroni, Nichi Vendola, Marcello Vernola, Cesare Veronico, Fabrizio Versienti, Gianfranco Viesti, Luciano Violante, Pierfelice Zazzera.Michele Emiliano is the protagonist, in Bari and in Puglia, of a political and administrative experience particularly interesting and innovative in the reality of Italian politics.

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Di Marsico Libri

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8889979364

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Writers' and Artists' Hideouts

Great Getaways for Seducing the Muse

By: Andrea Brown

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Writers' and Artists' Hideouts

Great Getaways for Seducing the Muse

By: Andrea Brown

Literary agent Andrea Brown combines her love of travel and adventure with her search for perfect places to seduce the muse and delivers a charming, practical guide that enlightens the curious traveler and provides astute advice from editors, literary agents, authors, illustrators, art directors, and other creative people on harnessing one's creativity.

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Quill Driver Books

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1884956343

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Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks

Technologies, Analysis and Design

By: Roberto Verdone,Davide Dardari,Gianluca Mazzini,Andrea Conti

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Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks

Technologies, Analysis and Design

By: Roberto Verdone,Davide Dardari,Gianluca Mazzini,Andrea Conti

When choosing the technology options to develop a wireless sensor network (WSN), it is vital that their performance levels can be assessed for the type of application intended. This book describes the different technology options – MAC protocols, routing protocols, localisation and data fusion techniques – and provides the means to numerically measure their performance, whether by simulation, mathematical models or experimental test beds. Case studies, based on the authors' direct experience of implementing wireless sensor networks, describe the design methodology and the type of measurements used, together with samples of the performance measurements attained. Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks will enable you to answer vital questions such as: - How long will my network remain alive given the amount of sensing required of it? - For how long should I set the sleeping state of my motes? - How many sensors should I distribute to meet the expected requirements of the application? - What type of throughput should I expect as a function of the number of nodes deployed and the radio interface chosen (whether it be Bluetooth or Zigbee)? - How is the Packet Error Rate of my Zigbee motes affected by the selection of adjacent frequency sub bands in the ISM 2.4GHz band? - How is the localisation precision dependant on the number of nodes deployed in a corridor? Communications and signal processing engineers, researchers and graduate students working in wireless sensor networks will find this book an invaluable practical guide to this important technology. "This book gives a proper balance between theory and application; it is a book for those R&D engineers that want to appreciate both why, how and in which domains Wireless Sensor Networks can be best applied." --Fabio Bellifemine, Telecom Italia "This book is a thorough and accessible exposition on wireless sensor networks with a good balance between theory and practice; it is valuable for both students and practicing engineers, and is an essential addition for engineering libraries." --Professor Moe Win, Associate Professor at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Only book to examine wireless sensor network technologies and assess their performance capabilities against possible applications - Enables the engineer to choose the technology that will give the best performance for the intended application - Case studies, based on the authors' direct experience of implementing wireless sensor networks, describe the design methodology and the type of measurements used, together with samples of the performance measurements attained

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Academic Press

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0080558615

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Cognitive Radio Techniques

Spectrum Sensing, Interference Mitigation, and Localization

By: Kandeepan Sithamparanathan,Andrea Giorgetti

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Cognitive Radio Techniques

Spectrum Sensing, Interference Mitigation, and Localization

By: Kandeepan Sithamparanathan,Andrea Giorgetti

Providing an in-depth treatment of the core enablers of cognitive radio technology, this unique book places emphasis on critical areas that have not been sufficiently covered in existing literature. You find expert guidance in the key enablers with respect to communications and signal processing. The book presents fundamentals, basic solutions, detailed discussions of important enabler issues, and advanced algorithms to save you time with your projects in the field. For the first time in any book, you find an adequately detailed treatment of spectrum sensing that covers nearly every aspect of the subject. Moreover, this valuable resource provides you with thorough working knowledge of localization and interference mitigation as enablers of cognitive radio technology. The book includes all the necessary mathematics, statistical and probabilistic treatments, and performance analysis to give you a comprehensive understanding of the material.

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Artech House

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1608072037

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9781608072033

Chinatown Unbound

Trans-Asian Urbanism in the Age of China

By: Kay Anderson,Ien Ang,Andrea Del Bono,Donald McNeill,Alexandra Wong

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Chinatown Unbound

Trans-Asian Urbanism in the Age of China

By: Kay Anderson,Ien Ang,Andrea Del Bono,Donald McNeill,Alexandra Wong

‘Chinatowns’ are familiar places in almost all major cities in the world. In popular Western wisdom, the restaurants, pagodas, and red lanterns are intrinsically equated with a self-contained, immigrant Chinese district, an alien enclave of ‘the East’ in ‘the West’. By the 1980s, when these Western societies had largely given up their racially discriminatory immigration policies and opened up to Asian immigration, the dominant conception of Chinatown was no longer that of an abject ethnic ghetto: rather, Chinatown was now seen as a positive expression of multicultural heritage and difference. By the early 21st century, however, these spatial and cultural constructions of Chinatown as an ‘other’ space – whether negative or positive – have been thoroughly destabilised by the impacts of accelerating globalisation and transnational migration. This book provides a timely and much-needed paradigm shift in this regard, through an in-depth case study of Sydney’s Chinatown. It speaks to the growing multilateral connections that link Australia and Asia (and especially China) together; not just economically, but also socially and culturally, as a consequence of increasing transnational flows of people, money, ideas and things. Further, the book elicits a particular sense of a place in Sydney’s Chinatown: that of an interconnected world in which Western and Asian realms inhabit each other, and in which the orientalist legacy is being reconfigured in new deployments and more complex delimitations. As such, Chinatown Unbound engages with, and contributes to making sense of, the epochal shift in the global balance of power towards Asia, especially China.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1786608995

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Geometric Analysis and PDEs

Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, June 11-16, 2007

By: Matthew J. Gursky,Ermanno Lanconelli,Andrea Malchiodi,Gabriella Tarantello,Xu-Jia Wang,Paul C. Yang

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Geometric Analysis and PDEs

Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, June 11-16, 2007

By: Matthew J. Gursky,Ermanno Lanconelli,Andrea Malchiodi,Gabriella Tarantello,Xu-Jia Wang,Paul C. Yang

This volume contains lecture notes on key topics in geometric analysis, a growing mathematical subject which uses analytical techniques, mostly of partial differential equations, to treat problems in differential geometry and mathematical physics.

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Springer

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364201674X

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Between the Forest and the Road

The Waorani Struggle for Living Well in the Ecuadorian Oil Circuit

By: Andrea Bravo Díaz

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Between the Forest and the Road

The Waorani Struggle for Living Well in the Ecuadorian Oil Circuit

By: Andrea Bravo Díaz

During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the ways in which people experience well-being or aspire to live well in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Waponi Kewemonipa (living well) is a Waorani notion that embraces ideas of good conviviality, health and certain ecological relations. For the Waorani living along the oil roads, living well has taken many pathways. Notably, they have developed new spatial organizations as they move between several houses, and navigate between the economy of the market and the economy of the forest.

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Berghahn Books

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1805390589

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Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy

Endangered Species Policy in Canada and the United States

By: Andrea Olive

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Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy

Endangered Species Policy in Canada and the United States

By: Andrea Olive

Canada and the United States are similar in terms of the species of wildlife that mingle freely across their shared border. Despite this similarity, however, there are significant differences between approaches to wildlife management in these two nations. In Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy, Andrea Olive examines the divergent evolution of endangered species policy on either side of the 49th parallel. Examining local circumstances in areas as distant and diverse as southern Utah and the Canadian Arctic, Olive shows how public attitudes have shaped environmental policy in response to endangered species law, specifically the Species at Risk Act in Canada and the Endangered Species Act in the U.S. Richly researched and accessibly written, this is the first book to compare endangered species policy on both sides of the Canada–U.S. border. It will appeal to students and scholars of environmental policy, politics, and ethics, and anyone interested in current approaches to wildlife management.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442668911

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The New York Public Library Amazing World Geography

A Book of Answers for Kids

By: The New York Public Library,Andrea Sutcliffe

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The New York Public Library Amazing World Geography

A Book of Answers for Kids

By: The New York Public Library,Andrea Sutcliffe

Follow the Ring of Fire from New Zealand to South America. Navigate the Blue Nile and walk the Great Wall of China. Meet the first person to reach the South Pole and witness the "Green Revolution" in India. Explore the people, landscapes, and languages of our fascinating planet and uncover the answers to all your questions about world geography . . . How old is the earth? See page 8. Can volcanoes form underwater? See page 14. What are maquiladoras? See page 50. Why are rain forests so important? See page 63. Where and what are the Pillars of Hercules? See page 77. Is the Red Sea really red? See page 88. What languages are spoken in Africa? See page 112. Do any plants or animals live in Antarctica? See page 133.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471431532

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9780471431534

Food, Philosophy, and Intellectual Property

Fifty Case Studies

By: Enrico Bonadio,Andrea Borghini

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Food, Philosophy, and Intellectual Property

Fifty Case Studies

By: Enrico Bonadio,Andrea Borghini

This is a book about food, philosophy, and intellectual property rights. Taken separately, these are three well-known subjects, but it is uncommon to consider them together. The book comprises 50 case studies, organized around eight themes: images; genericity and descriptiveness; language traps; procedures; menus, recipes, and creativity; boundaries; biotech; and empowerment. The introductory chapter frames the selection of cases and encourages readers to look beyond them, envisaging new lenses to look at food vis-à-vis intellectual property. The terrain encompassed is wide-ranging and reaches out to fine-grained aspects of food products, recipes, and cooking. Conceived for a wide scope of readers, the volume ultimately interrogates the links between food and cultural identity, bringing to the fore the ethical, political, and aesthetic worth of culinary arts and gastronomic experiences. This accessible book will be of value to scholars, students, practitioners, and others with interests in the areas of intellectual property, food law, and food studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040097197

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9781040097199

Psychoneuroimmunology, Stress, and Infection

By: Herman Friedman,Thomas W. Klein,Andrea L. Friedman

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Psychoneuroimmunology, Stress, and Infection

By: Herman Friedman,Thomas W. Klein,Andrea L. Friedman

Psychoneuroimmunology is the emerging science devoted to studying the two-way relationship between the nervous and immune systems. Psychoneuroimmunology, Stress, and Infection highlights the latest information concerning microbial infections in both man and animals as related to stress and especially stress hormones. The volume focuses on psychoneuroimmunology as it impacts the immune system in general and also the relationship between neurological events which influence susceptibility and/or resistance to infectious agents such as bacteria, fungi and viruses, as well as parasites. Prominent researchers describe the involvement of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis on immunity as a function of the nervous system. The text discusses hormones such as prolactin and growth hormone and steroid induced susceptibility to infection and neuropeptides, including vasoactive intestinal peptide, and substance P. The effects of catacholamines on immunity and susceptibility to infection are also covered. This reference also details the involvement of immune cells in the synthesis of neuropeptides, including hormones and endorphins, their effect on the brain as well as the effects of interleukins and tumor necrosis factor on the central nervous system. The book concludes with an interesting look at the relationship between aging, psychoneuroimmunology, and infection. Although there is much new knowledge concerning the nature and mechanism of immune responses, including the mediators involved, Psychoneuroimmunology, Stress, and Infection also presents important discussions and reviews that are long overdue and provide a major contribution to the area of biomedical knowledge in general and psychoneuroimmunology in particular.

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CRC Press

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1000722554

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9781000722550

Implementing Race-neutral Measures in State Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Programs

By: Patrick Casey,Andrea Thomas,James S. Thiel,National Cooperative Highway Research Program

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Implementing Race-neutral Measures in State Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Programs

By: Patrick Casey,Andrea Thomas,James S. Thiel,National Cooperative Highway Research Program

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 416: Implementing Race-Neutral Measures in State Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Programs explores race-neutral strategies being used effectively by state departments of transportation (DOTs) to meet their Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) participation goals. It also reviews and synthesizes problems faced by state DOTs in the administration of their DBE programs and identifies race-neutral remedies used to overcome these challenges. As state DOT's carry out their highway construction programs, they are required to direct a portion of their federal-aid fund expenditures toward small businesses called DBEs. A DBE is defined as a small, for-profit business concern that is at least 51% owned and controlled by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. States are required to meet the maximum feasible portion of their DBE participation goals using race-neutral means designed to remove barriers and enhance opportunities for all small businesses, not just DBEs.

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0309143322

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Practical Partial Discharge Measurement on Electrical Equipment

By: Greg C. Stone,Andrea Cavallini,Glenn Behrmann,Claudio Angelo Serafino

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Practical Partial Discharge Measurement on Electrical Equipment

By: Greg C. Stone,Andrea Cavallini,Glenn Behrmann,Claudio Angelo Serafino

Practical Partial Discharge Measurement on Electrical Equipment Accessible reference dealing with (partial discharge) PD measurement in all types of high voltage equipment using modern digital PD detectors Practical Partial Discharge Measurement on Electrical Equipment is a timely update in the field of partial discharges (PD), covering both holistic concepts and specific modern applications in one volume. The first half of the book educates the reader on what PD is and the general principles of how it is measured and interpreted. The second half of the book is similar to a handbook, with a chapter devoted to PD measurements in each type of high voltage (HV) equipment. These chapters contain specific information of the insulation system design, causes of PD in that equipment, off-line and on-line measurement methods, interpretation methods, and relevant standards. The work is authored by four well-known experts in the field of PD measurement who have published hundreds of technical papers on the subject and performed thousands of PD measurements on all the different types of HV equipment covered in the book. The authors have also had relationships with PD detector manufacturers, giving them key insights into test instruments and practical measurements. Sample topics covered in the work include: Physics of PD, discharge phenomena (contact sparking and vibration sparking), and an introduction to PD measurement (electrical, optical, acoustic, and chemical) Electrical PD detection (types of sensors), RF PD detection (antenna, TEV), and PD instrumentation and display Off-line and on-line PD measurements, general principles of PD interpretation, and laboratory PD testing of lumped test objects PD in different types of HV equipment (power cables, power transformers, air insulated metal-clad switchgear, rotating machines, gas-insulated switchgear, and more) For HV equipment OEMs, users of HV equipment, or employees of companies that provide PD testing services to clients, Practical Partial Discharge Measurement on Electrical Equipment is an essential reference to help understand general concepts about the topic and receive expert guidance during specific practical applications.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119833310

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9781119833314

Discrete Variational Problems with Interfaces

By: Roberto Alicandro,Andrea Braides,Marco Cicalese,Margherita Solci

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Discrete Variational Problems with Interfaces

By: Roberto Alicandro,Andrea Braides,Marco Cicalese,Margherita Solci

Many materials can be modeled either as discrete systems or as continua, depending on the scale. At intermediate scales it is necessary to understand the transition from discrete to continuous models and variational methods have proved successful in this task, especially for systems, both stochastic and deterministic, that depend on lattice energies. This is the first systematic and unified presentation of research in the area over the last 20 years. The authors begin with a very general and flexible compactness and representation result, complemented by a thorough exploration of problems for ferromagnetic energies with applications ranging from optimal design to quasicrystals and percolation. This leads to a treatment of frustrated systems, and infinite-dimensional systems with diffuse interfaces. Each topic is presented with examples, proofs and applications. Written by leading experts, it is suitable as a graduate course text as well as being an invaluable reference for researchers.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009298801

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Cold War and Decolonisation

Australia’s Policy towards Britain’s End of Empire in Southeast Asia

By: Andrea Benvenuti

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Cold War and Decolonisation

Australia’s Policy towards Britain’s End of Empire in Southeast Asia

By: Andrea Benvenuti

Australia’s policy towards Britain’s end of empire in Southeast Asia influenced the course of this decolonization in the region. In this book, Andrea Benvenuti discusses the development of Australia’s foreign and defence policies towards Malaya and Singapore in light of the redefinition of Britain’s imperial role in Southeast Asia and the formation of new post-colonial states. Placed within the emerging literature on the global impact of the Cold War, the book sheds new light on the choices made – by Australia, by Britain and the new emerging states – in these crucial years.

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9814722197

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