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Seminar on Fission

Het Pand, Gent, Belgium, 17-20 May 2010

By: Cyriel Wagemans,Jan Wagemans,P. D'hondt

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Seminar on Fission

Het Pand, Gent, Belgium, 17-20 May 2010

By: Cyriel Wagemans,Jan Wagemans,P. D'hondt

This conference is the seventh in a series of topical meetings dealing with the nuclear fission process, mainly at low excitation energy. During these meetings, actual topics are discussed by a group of experts. These proceedings give an overview of the topics treated, and permit a rapid overview of the current activities in the field.

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9814322733

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Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Dynamical Aspects of Nuclear Fission

Casta-Papiernicka, Slovak Republic, 23-27 October, 2001

By: Jan Kliman

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Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Dynamical Aspects of Nuclear Fission

Casta-Papiernicka, Slovak Republic, 23-27 October, 2001

By: Jan Kliman

The aim of the DANF conference was to present and discuss new theoretical and experimental results in the field of nuclear fission dynamics. The conference program was designed to cover a wide range of physical phenomena including spontaneous and induced fission at low and intermediate energies and fragmentation of hot nuclei. Among the topics discussed at the conference were: the development of various theories, experiments on the synthesis of superheavy elements, fusion-fission processes and the decay of complex nuclear systems, binary and ternary fission, nuclear structure of neutron-rich nuclei and the peculiarities of exotic nuclear reactions. Attention was also paid to the recent progress in developing radioactive ion beam facilities. The development of new methods was also on the conference agenda.

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World Scientific

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9812776729

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Reactor Dosimetry in the 21st Century

Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry : Brussels, Belgium, 18-23 August 2002

By: Jan Wagemans

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Reactor Dosimetry in the 21st Century

Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry : Brussels, Belgium, 18-23 August 2002

By: Jan Wagemans

This book presents the state of the art in reactor dosimetry as applied to nuclear power plants and to high performance research reactors, accelerator-driven systems and spallation sources. The reader will also find the latest advances in computer code development for radiation transport and shielding. In addition, the book focuses on radiation measurement techniques.

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9812384480

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Dynamical Aspects of Nuclear Fission

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference, Smolenice Castle, Slovak Republic : 2-6 October 2006

By: Jan Kliman,M. G. Itkis,Stefan Gmuca

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Dynamical Aspects of Nuclear Fission

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference, Smolenice Castle, Slovak Republic : 2-6 October 2006

By: Jan Kliman,M. G. Itkis,Stefan Gmuca

This proceedings volume is sixth in the series of international conferences covering the fission, quasi-fission, fusion-fission phenomena and synthesis of superheavy nuclei, mainly at low or near barrier energies. Both experimental and theoretical issues are covered. The topics are discussed by a group of participants, and an overview of the current activities in the field is given.

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9812837523

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Foreign Aid and Its Unintended Consequences

By: Dirk-Jan Koch

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Foreign Aid and Its Unintended Consequences

By: Dirk-Jan Koch

Foreign aid and international development frequently bring with it a range of unintended consequences, both negative and positive. This book delves into these consequences, providing a fresh and comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing them. The book starts by laying out a theoretical framework based on complexity thinking, before going on to explore the ten most prevalent kinds of unintended effects of foreign aid: backlash effects, conflict effects, migration and resettlement effects, price effects, marginalization effects, behavioural effects, negative spillover effects, governance effects, environmental effects, and ripple effects. Each chapter revolves around a set of concrete case studies, analysing the mechanisms underpinning the unintended effects and proposing ways in which policymakers, practitioners, and evaluators can tackle negative side effects and maximize positive side effects. The book also includes personal testimonies, a succinct overview of unintended effects, and suggestions for further reading. Providing a clear overview of what side effects to anticipate when planning, executing, and evaluating aid, this book will be an important resource for students, development practitioners, and policymakers alike.

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Taylor & Francis

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100099998X

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The Anatomy of Bias

How Neural Circuits Weigh the Options

By: Jan Lauwereyns

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The Anatomy of Bias

How Neural Circuits Weigh the Options

By: Jan Lauwereyns

An integrative account of the neural underpinnings of decision making, emphasizing the ways in which some information sources are given more weight than others. I will recklessly endeavor to scavenge materials from these various fields with the single aim of producing a coherent, but open-minded account of attention, or bias versus sensitivity, or how the activities of neurons allow us to decide one way or another that, with a faint echo of Hamlet in the background, something appears to be or not to be.—from The Anatomy of Bias. In this engaging, even lyrical, book, Jan Lauwereyns examines the neural underpinnings of decision-making, using "bias" as his core concept rather than the more common but noncommittal terms "selection" and "attention." Lauwereyns offers an integrative, interdisciplinary account of the structure and function of bias, which he defines as a basic brain mechanism that attaches different weights to different information sources, prioritizing some cognitive representations at the expense of others. Lauwereyns introduces the concepts of bias and sensitivity based on notions from Bayesian probability, which he translates into easily recognizable neural signatures, introduced by concrete examples from the experimental literature. He examines, among other topics, positive and negative motivations for giving priority to different sensory inputs, and looks for the neural underpinnings of racism, sexism, and other forms of "familiarity bias." Lauwereyns—a poet and essayist as well as a scientist—connects findings and ideas in neuroscience to analogous concepts in such diverse fields as post-Lacanian psychoanalysis, literary theory, philosophy of mind, evolutionary psychology, and experimental economics. With The Anatomy of Bias, he gives readers that rarity in today's world of proliferating and ever more narrowly focused technical research papers: a work of sustained, rational thinking, elegantly expressed.

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MIT Press

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0262291606

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Introduction to Discourse Studies

New edition

By: Jan Renkema,Christoph Schubert

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Introduction to Discourse Studies

New edition

By: Jan Renkema,Christoph Schubert

This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook, which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone interested in the analysis of texts and discourses. Supported by an international advisory board of 14 leading experts, it deals with all main subdomains in discourse studies, from pragmatics to cognitive linguistics, from critical discourse analysis to stylistics, and many more. The book approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European as well as the Asian traditions. It provides an ‘academic toolkit’ for future courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of professional literature. The chapters are subdivided in modular sections that can be studied separately. The pedagogical objectives are further supported by over 500 index entries covering frequently used concepts that are accurately defined with examples throughout the text; more than 150 test-yourself questions, all elaborately answered, which are ideal for self-study; nearly 100 assignments that provide ample material for lecturers to focus on specific topics in their courses. Jan Renkema is Emeritus Professor of Discourse Quality at the Department of Communication and Information Sciences at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He is also editor of Discourse, of Course (2009) and author of The Texture of Discourse (2009). In 2009, a Chinese edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies was published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. Christoph Schubert is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Vechta University, Germany. He is author of an Introduction to English text linguistics (2nd ed. 2012) and co-editor of Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse (2016) and Variational Text Linguistics (2016).

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027263108

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Once upon a Time in the West

Essays on the Politics of Thought and Imagination

By: Jan Zwicky

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Once upon a Time in the West

Essays on the Politics of Thought and Imagination

By: Jan Zwicky

Western civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky’s trenchant exploration of the root of global cultural and ecological collapse: a way of thinking that is also linked to some of the West’s most noted achievements. The Renaissance merged imperial enterprise with Islamic algebra and recently recovered Greek mathematics to precipitate mechanized industry and resource extraction; these in turn made possible the growth of capitalism, the military-industrial complex, and Big Technology. Despite its self-image as objective, Zwicky argues, the West’s style of thought is not politically neutral, but intensely anthropocentric. It has led those who adopt it to regard the more-than-human world as nothing more than timber licences and drilling sites, where value is not recognized unless it is monetized. Oblivious to context and blind to big-picture thinking, it analyzes, mechanizes, digitizes, and systematizes, while rejecting empathy and compassion as distorting influences. Lyric comprehension, in Zwicky’s view, offers an alternative to this way of thinking, and she provides a wide range of examples. Once upon a Time in the West documents how a narrow epistemological style has left Western thought blind to critical features of reality, and how the terrifying consequences of that blinkered vision are now beginning to unfold.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0228018307

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9780228018308

Popularization and Knowledge Mediation in the Law. Popularisierung und Wissensvermittlung im Recht

By: Jan Engberg,Karin Luttermann,Silvia Cacchiani

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Popularization and Knowledge Mediation in the Law. Popularisierung und Wissensvermittlung im Recht

By: Jan Engberg,Karin Luttermann,Silvia Cacchiani

This volume widens the scope of Legal Linguistics from the traditional focus on performative texts like statutes to the popularization of legal knowledge for different purposes. The chapters, written in English, German or French, discuss the theoretical basis and methods and investigate popularization efforts by national institutions, law firms and community websites. The objects of study cover a variety of modes and media from different national contexts reaching from print folders over online written texts to YouTube videos and movies.

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3643909241

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Virtual Crowds

Steps Toward Behavioral Realism

By: Mubbasir Kapadia,Nuria Pelechano,Jan Allbeck,Norm Badler

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Virtual Crowds

Steps Toward Behavioral Realism

By: Mubbasir Kapadia,Nuria Pelechano,Jan Allbeck,Norm Badler

This volume presents novel computational models for representing digital humans and their interactions with other virtual characters and meaningful environments. In this context, we describe efficient algorithms to animate, control, and author human-like agents having their own set of unique capabilities, personalities, and desires. We begin with the lowest level of footstep determination to steer agents in collision-free paths. Steering choices are controlled by navigation in complex environments, including multi-domain planning with dynamically changing situations. Virtual agents are given perceptual capabilities analogous to those of real people, including sound perception, multi-sense attention, and understanding of environment semantics which affect their behavior choices. The roles and impacts of individual attributes, such as memory and personality are explored. The animation challenges of integrating a number of simultaneous behavior and movement demands on an agent are addressed through an open source software system. Finally, the creation of stories and narratives with groups of agents subject to planning and environmental constraints culminates the presentation.

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Springer Nature

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3031025865

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Seminar on Fission

Corsenk Priory, Belgium, 18-21 September 2007

By: Cyriel Wagemans,Jan Wagemans,P. D'hondt

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Seminar on Fission

Corsenk Priory, Belgium, 18-21 September 2007

By: Cyriel Wagemans,Jan Wagemans,P. D'hondt

This conference is the sixth in a series of topical meetings dealing with the nuclear fission process, mainly at low excitation energy. During these meetings, actual topics are discussed by a group of experts. These proceedings give an overview of the topics treated at the conference and permit a rapid overview of the current activities in the field. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Angular Momentum in Fission (1,186 KB). Contents: Angular Momentum in Fission (F GAnnenwein et al.); Proton Induced Fission on Actinide Nuclei at Medium Energy (S Isaev et al.); Fission Cross Sections of Minor Actinides and Application in Transmutation Studies (A Letourneau et al.); Ternary Fission of Cf Isotopes (S Vermote et al.); Scission Neutron Emission in Fission (F-J Hambsch et al.); Fission Fragment Properties from a Microscopic Approach (N Dubray et al.); Development of PSD and ToF + PSD Techniques to Fission Experiments (M Sillanpnn et al.); Fission in Spallation Reactions (J Cugnon et al.); and other papers. Readership: Researchers and graduate students in fundamental nuclear physics, astrophysics and applied nuclear physics.

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981279106X

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Jan Yoors, 1922-1977

By: Jan Yoors,Jeannine J. Falino,Elsje Janssen,Sergio Servellón

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Jan Yoors, 1922-1977

By: Jan Yoors,Jeannine J. Falino,Elsje Janssen,Sergio Servellón

Naar aanleiding van de retrospectieve tentoonstelling 'Jan Yoors' in het FeliXart Museum, wordt een publicatie uitgebracht door het FeliXart Museum en Pandora Publishers. Het boek is niet louter een tentoonstellingscatalogus, maar is vooral een omvangrijk referentiewerk over Jan Yoors, bestaande enerzijds uit een overzicht van maar liest 140 wandtapijten, gouaches, tekeningen en foto's, en anderzijds uit wetenschappelijke artikels van specialisten van de moderne tapijtweefkunst en van het modernisme. Alle bijdragen zijn geïllustreerd met foto's en archiefdocumenten. 0Exhibition: FeliXart Museum, Drogenbos, Belgium (28.10.2012-24.2.2013). 0.

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9053253432

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Book's by Jan Wagemans

Seminar on Fission

Seminar on Fission

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Dynamical Aspects of Nuclear Fission

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Dynamical Aspects of Nuclear Fission

Reactor Dosimetry in the 21st Century

Reactor Dosimetry in the 21st Century

Dynamical Aspects of Nuclear Fission

Dynamical Aspects of Nuclear Fission

Foreign Aid and Its Unintended Consequences

Foreign Aid and Its Unintended Consequences

The Anatomy of Bias

The Anatomy of Bias

Introduction to Discourse Studies

Introduction to Discourse Studies

Once upon a Time in the West

Once upon a Time in the West

Popularization and Knowledge Mediation in the Law. Popularisierung und Wissensvermittlung im Recht

Popularization and Knowledge Mediation in the Law. Popularisierung und Wissensvermittlung im Recht

Virtual Crowds

Virtual Crowds

Seminar on Fission

Seminar on Fission

Jan Yoors, 1922-1977

Jan Yoors, 1922-1977

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