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Eastern Medieval Architecture

The Building Traditions of Byzantium and Neighboring Lands

By: Robert G. Ousterhout

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Eastern Medieval Architecture

The Building Traditions of Byzantium and Neighboring Lands

By: Robert G. Ousterhout

The rich and diverse architectural traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and adjacent regions are the subject of this book, including the social and cultural developments of the Byzantine Empire, the Caucasus, the Balkans, and Russia, as well as parallel developments in Crusader and early Islamic architecture.

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Master Builders of Byzantium

By: Robert Ousterhout

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UPenn Museum of Archaeology

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Eastern Medieval Architecture

The Building Traditions of Byzantium and Neighboring Lands

By: Robert Ousterhout

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Eastern Medieval Architecture

The Building Traditions of Byzantium and Neighboring Lands

By: Robert Ousterhout

The rich and diverse architectural traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and adjacent regions are the subject of this book. Representing the visual residues of a "forgotten" Middle Ages, the social and cultural developments of the Byzantine Empire, the Caucasus, the Balkans, Russia, and the Middle East parallel the more familiar architecture of Western Europe. The book offers an expansive view of the architectural developments of the Byzantine Empire and areas under its cultural influence, as well as the intellectual currents that lie behind their creation. The book alternates chapters that address chronological or regionally-based developments with thematic studies that focus on the larger cultural concerns, as they are expressed in architectural form.

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Oxford University Press

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0190058404

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The Architecture of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul

By: Robert G. Ousterhout

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The Architecture of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul

By: Robert G. Ousterhout

The Kariye Camii remains one of the most important and best-known monuments of the Byzantine world. Rebuilt and decorated in the early 14th century by statesman-scholar Theodore Metochites, the monument played a key role in the development of Late Byzantine art. Ousterhout presents a structural history and architectural analysis of this building.

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Dumbarton Oaks

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0884021653

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A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia

By: Robert G. Ousterhout

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A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia

By: Robert G. Ousterhout

Based on four seasons of fieldwork, this book presents the results of the first systematic site survey of a region rich in material remains. From architecture to fresco painting, Cappadocia represents a previously untapped resource for the study of material culture and the settings of daily life within the Byzantine Empire.

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0884023109

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The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

By: Marshall Kirk McKusick,George V. Neville-Neil,Robert N. M. Watson

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The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

By: Marshall Kirk McKusick,George V. Neville-Neil,Robert N. M. Watson

This book contains comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative technical information on the internal structure of the FreeBSD open-source operating system. Coverage includes the capabilities of the system; how to effectively and efficiently interface to the system; how to maintain, tune, and configure the operating system; and how to extend and enhance the system. The authors provide a concise overview of FreeBSD's design and implementation. Then, while explaining key design decisions, they detail the concepts, data structures, and algorithms used in implementing the systems facilities. As a result, this book can be used as an operating systems textbook, a practical reference, or an in-depth study of a contemporary, portable, open-source operating system. -- Provided by publisher.

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Pearson Education

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0321968972

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Integrating Functional and Temporal Domains in Logic Design

The False Path Problem and Its Implications

By: Patrick C. McGeer,Robert K. Brayton

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Integrating Functional and Temporal Domains in Logic Design

The False Path Problem and Its Implications

By: Patrick C. McGeer,Robert K. Brayton

This book is an extension of one author's doctoral thesis on the false path problem. The work was begun with the idea of systematizing the various solutions to the false path problem that had been proposed in the literature, with a view to determining the computational expense of each versus the gain in accuracy. However, it became clear that some of the proposed approaches in the literature were wrong in that they under estimated the critical delay of some circuits under reasonable conditions. Further, some other approaches were vague and so of questionable accu racy. The focus of the research therefore shifted to establishing a theory (the viability theory) and algorithms which could be guaranteed correct, and then using this theory to justify (or not) existing approaches. Our quest was successful enough to justify presenting the full details in a book. After it was discovered that some existing approaches were wrong, it became apparent that the root of the difficulties lay in the attempts to balance computational efficiency and accuracy by separating the tempo ral and logical (or functional) behaviour of combinational circuits. This separation is the fruit of several unstated assumptions; first, that one can ignore the logical relationships of wires in a network when considering timing behaviour, and, second, that one can ignore timing considerations when attempting to discover the values of wires in a circuit.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461539609

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Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950

Holy Wisdom Modern Monument

By: Robert S. Nelson

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Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950

Holy Wisdom Modern Monument

By: Robert S. Nelson

Hagia Sophia, the Church of Holy Wisdom, sits majestically atop the plateau that commands the straits separating Europe and Asia. Located near the acropolis of the ancient city of Byzantium, this unparalleled structure has enjoyed an extensive and colorful history, as it has successively been transformed into a cathedral, mosque, monument, and museum. In Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950, Robert S. Nelson explores its many lives. Built from 532 to 537 as the Cathedral of Constantinople, Hagia Sophia was little studied and seldom recognized as a great monument of world art until the nineteenth century, and Nelson examines the causes and consequences of the building's newly elevated status during that time. He chronicles the grand dome's modern history through a vibrant cast of characters—emperors, sultans, critics, poets, archaeologists, architects, philanthropists, and religious congregations—some of whom spent years studying it, others never visiting the building. But as Nelson shows, they all had a hand in the recreation of Hagia Sophia as a modern architectural icon. By many means and for its own purposes, the West has conceptually transformed Hagia Sophia into the international symbol that it is today. While other books have covered the architectural history of the structure, this is the first study to address its status as a modern monument. With his narrative of the building's rebirth, Nelson captures its importance for the diverse communities that shape and find meaning in Hagia Sophia. His book will resonate with cultural, architectural, and art historians as well as with those seeking to acquaint themselves with the modern life of an inspired and inspiring building.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226571718

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The Religious and Cultural Landscape of Ottoman Manastır

By: Robert Mihajlovski

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The Religious and Cultural Landscape of Ottoman Manastır

By: Robert Mihajlovski

In this ground-breaking work on the Ottoman town of Manastir (Bitola), Robert Mihajlovski, provides a detailed account of the development of Islamic, Christian and Sephardic religious architecture and culture as it manifested in the town and precincts.

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A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia

By: Robert G. Ousterhout

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A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia

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Later Byzantine Painting

Art, Agency, and Appreciation

By: Robert S. Nelson

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Later Byzantine Painting

Art, Agency, and Appreciation

By: Robert S. Nelson

Written over nearly three decades, the fifteen essays involve the three a's of the title, art, agency, and appreciation. The first refers to the general subject matter of the book, Byzantine art, chiefly painting, of the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries, the second to its often human-like agency, and the last to its historical reception. Responding to different issues and perspectives that have animated art history and Byzantine studies in recent decades, the essays have wide theoretical range from art historical formalism, iconography, archaeology and its manuscript equivalent codicology, to statistics, patronage, narratology, and the histories of science and collecting. The series begins with art works themselves and with the imagery and iconography of church decoration and manuscript illumination, shifts to the ways that objects act in the world and affect their beholders, and concludes with more general appreciations of Byzantine art in case studies from the thirteenth century to the present.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040232310

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Antagonistic Tolerance

Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites and Spaces

By: Robert M. Hayden,Aykan Erdemir,Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir,Timothy D. Walker,Devika Rangachari,Manuel Aguilar-Moreno,Enrique López-Hurtado,Milica Bakić-Hayden

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Antagonistic Tolerance

Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites and Spaces

By: Robert M. Hayden,Aykan Erdemir,Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir,Timothy D. Walker,Devika Rangachari,Manuel Aguilar-Moreno,Enrique López-Hurtado,Milica Bakić-Hayden

Antagonistic Tolerance examines patterns of coexistence and conflict amongst members of different religious communities, using multidisciplinary research to analyze groups who have peacefully intermingled for generations, and who may have developed aspects of syncretism in their religious practices, and yet have turned violently on each other. Such communities define themselves as separate peoples, with different and often competing interests, yet their interaction is usually peaceable provided the dominance of one group is clear. The key indicator of dominance is control over central religious sites, which may be tacitly shared for long periods, but later contested and even converted as dominance changes. By focusing on these shared and contested sites, this volume allows for a wider understanding of relations between these communities. Using a range of ethnographic, historical and archaeological data from the Balkans, India, Mexico, Peru, Portugal and Turkey, Antagonistic Tolerance develops a comparative model of the competitive sharing and transformation of religious sites. These studies are not considered as isolated cases, but are instead woven into a unified analytical framework which explains how long-term peaceful interactions between religious communities can turn conflictual and even result in ethnic cleansing.

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Master Builders of Byzantium

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The Land Called Holy

Palestine in Christian History and Thought

By: Robert Louis Wilken

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The Land Called Holy

Palestine in Christian History and Thought

By: Robert Louis Wilken

Drawing on both primary texts and archaelogy, Wilken traces the Christian conception of a Holy Land from its origins inthe Hebrew Bible to the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in the seventh century.

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Yale University Press

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0300060831

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Self-adaptive Software

Revised Papers. Oxford, UK, April 17-19, 2000

By: Paul Robertson,Robert Laddaga

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Self-adaptive Software

Revised Papers. Oxford, UK, April 17-19, 2000

By: Paul Robertson,Robert Laddaga

Self-adaptive software evaluates its own behavior and changes its behavior when the evaluation indicates that the software does not accomplish what it is intended to do or when better functionality or better performance is possible. The self-adaptive approach in software engineering builds on well-known features like the use of errors and the handling of exceptions in languages like Lisp or Java and aims at improving the robustness of software systems by gradually adding new features of self-adaption and autonomity. This book originates from the First International Workshop on Self-Adaptive Software, IWSAS 2000, held in Oxford, UK in April 2000. The revised full papers presented in the volume together with an introductory survey by the volume editors assess the state of the art in this emerging new field and set the scene for future research and development work.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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Cross-Talk Noise Immune VLSI Design Using Regular Layout Fabrics

By: Robert K. Brayton,Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

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Cross-Talk Noise Immune VLSI Design Using Regular Layout Fabrics

By: Robert K. Brayton,Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

This book was motivated by the problems being faced with shrinking IC process feature sizes. It is well known that as process feature sizes shrink, a host of electrical problems like cross-talk, electromigration, self-heat, etc. are becoming important. Cross-talk is one of the major problems since it results in unpredictable design behavior. In particular, it can result in significant delay variation or signal integrity problems in a wire, depending on the state of its neighboring wires. Typical approaches to tackle the cross-talk problem attempt to fix the problem once it is created. In our approach, we ensure that cross-talk is eliminated by design. The work described in this book attempts to take an "outside-the-box" view and propose a radically different design style. This design style first imposes a fixed layout pattern (or fabric) on the integrated circuit, and then embeds the circuit being implemented into this fabric. The fabric is chosen carefully in order to eliminate the cross-talk problem being faced in modem IC processes. With our choice of fabric, cross-talk between adjacent wires on an IC is reduced by between one and two orders of magnitude. In this way, the fabric concept eliminates cross-talk up-front, and by design. We propose two separate design flows, each of which uses the fabric concept to implement logic. The first flow uses fabric-compliant standard cells as an im plementation vehicle. We call these cells fabric cells, and they have the same logic functionality as existing standard cells with which they are compared.

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1461514770

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The Lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the Monk Romanus

By: John Rufus (Bishop of Maiuma),Robert R. Phenix

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The Lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the Monk Romanus

By: John Rufus (Bishop of Maiuma),Robert R. Phenix

The context of the history of Georgia from the fourth to the sixth centuries -- Christianity and monasticism in Georgia in the fourth and fifth centuries -- Peter's genealogy in the life of Peter the Iberian : hagiographic ancestry -- The history of the christological controversies and their context in Palestine from the fourth to the sixth centuries -- Monasticism in fifth-century Palestine -- On the death of Theodosius -- The anti-chalcedonian defeat in Palestine -- Authorship -- John Rufus -- Rhetoric and genre in the life of Peter the Iberian -- Text-critical overview -- Versions and original text -- Synopsis of the Vita Petri Iberi and the De obitu Theodosii -- Outline of the Vita Petri Iberi -- Outline of the De obitu Theodosii -- Genealogical tables of the families of Peter the Iberian and Zuzo -- Chronological timeline -- Texts and translations -- Life of Peter the Iberian -- On the death of Theodosius.

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Society of Biblical Lit

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1589832000

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The Beginnings of the Cult of Relics

By: Robert Wiśniewski

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The Beginnings of the Cult of Relics

By: Robert Wiśniewski

Christians have often admired and venerated the martyrs who died for their faith, but for a long time thought that the bodies of martyrs should remain undisturbed in their graves. Initially, the Christian attitude towards the bones of the dead, saint or not, was that of respectful distance. The Beginnings of the Cult of Relics examines how this attitude changed in the mid-fourth century. Robert Wi'niewski investigates how Christians began to believe in the power of relics, first over demons, then over physical diseases and enemies. He considers how the faithful sought to reveal hidden knowledge at the tombs of saints and why they buried the dead close to them. An essential element of this new belief was a strong conviction that the power of relics was transferred in a physical way and so the following chapters study relics as material objects. Wi'niewski analyses how contact with relics operated and how close it was. Did people touch, kiss, or look at the very bones, or just at tombs and reliquaries which contained them? When did the custom of dividing relics begin? Finally, the book deals with discussions and polemics concerning relics, and attempts to find out the strength of the opposition which this new phenomenon had to face, both within and outside Christianity, on its way to become an essential element of medieval religiosity.

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0199675562

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Photographic Regional Atlas of Non-metric Traits and Anatomical Variants in the Human Skeleton

By: Robert W. Mann,David R. Hunt,Scott Lozanoff

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Photographic Regional Atlas of Non-metric Traits and Anatomical Variants in the Human Skeleton

By: Robert W. Mann,David R. Hunt,Scott Lozanoff

Photographic Regional Atlas of Non-Metric Traits and Anatomical Variants in the Human Skeleton provides a unique collection of photographs derived from a broad array of novel skeletal specimens from across the globe. This atlas depicts skeletal features that are compiled to facilitate simple and direct access to some of the most interesting specimens currently known. This reference book is intended for clinicians, anatomists, anthropologists, forensic scientists, pathologists, biologists and other allied medical professionals who are fascinated with the expression of morphological features of the skeleton. It is particularly useful to the human biologist investigating genetic relatedness among and between skeletal samples utilizing non-metric trait analyses since this atlas provides a comprehensive visual guide for not only the identification and nomenclature of skeletal morphological features, but also for the appreciation of the range of anatomical expression. Photographic Regional Atlas of Non-Metric Traits and Anatomical Variants in the Human Skeleton draws from skeletal features observed from over 10,000 skeletons in collections throughout the world and provides a comprehensive yet concise presentation for rapid and reliable referral. Traits are arranged and presented based on skeletal region that facilitates ease of use for the reader when attempting to identify a feature of interest. Photographs are vividly displayed which enhances the reader's ability to compare the standard reference to a desired feature. The authors draw on their own decades of experience in skeletal anatomy to provide the best photographic atlas available for referencing daunting anatomical variations and non-metric trait morphology. As a result, Photographic Regional Atlas of Non-Metric Traits and Anatomical Variants in the Human Skeleton provides a one-of-a-kind reference that serves as a crucial component in the pursuit of skeletal anomaly research and education.

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Charles C Thomas Publisher

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039809103X

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Pilgrimage to Images in the Fifteenth Century

The Origins of the Cult of Our Lady of Częstochowa

By: Robert Maniura

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Pilgrimage to Images in the Fifteenth Century

The Origins of the Cult of Our Lady of Częstochowa

By: Robert Maniura

A case study of the meaning and purpose of pilgrimage, based on the image of the 'scarred Virgin', Our Lady of Czestochowa. The tradition of pilgrimage to an image is so well-established as to be taken for granted. Throughout Christian history large numbers of people have made journeys to images associated with miracles, yet the phenomenon has never been a subject of detailed scholarly scrutiny. This book explores the issue through a case study of the origins of pilgrimage to one such image, Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland. The shrine remains one of the most prominent pilgrimage destinations in the Catholic world: the striking focal panel painting shows the Virgin Mary with an apparently scarred face, and the legend of the picture's origin claims that it was painted by St Luke and desecrated by iconoclasts. The author assesses the significance of the stories attached to the shrine, and goes beyond them to consider the practices and responses of the pilgrims. Drawing on the earliest surviving miracle collections, he also explores the interaction between the pilgrims and the image of the 'scarred' Virgin. ROBERT MANIURA is Lecturer in the History of Renaissance Art, Birkbeck College, University of London.

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Boydell Press

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1843830558

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Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings

Human Factors and Team Psychology in a High-Stakes Environment

By: Michael St.Pierre,Gesine Hofinger,Robert Simon

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Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings

Human Factors and Team Psychology in a High-Stakes Environment

By: Michael St.Pierre,Gesine Hofinger,Robert Simon

This book is unique in providing a comprehensive overview of the human factors issues relevant to patient safety during acute care. By elucidating the principles of human behavior and decision-making in critical situations and identifying frequent sources of human error, it will help healthcare professionals provide safer, more effective treatment when dealing with emergencies characterized by uncertainty, high stakes, time pressure, and stress. The third edition has emerged from an ongoing synergistic relationship between clinicians and behavioral scientists on both sides of the Atlantic to update and enhance each chapter -- blending the strengths of the two professions into a readily accessible text. Among other improvements, readers will find sharper articulation of concepts and significantly more information on the organizational impact on individual and team performance. Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings is the required reference for all who are learning about, teaching, or providing acute and emergency healthcare. It will be of high value for undergraduate and graduate medical and nursing program and offer a much-needed resource for those who use high-fidelity healthcare simulation to teach teamwork.

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3319414275

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems

10th International Conference, KES 2006, Bournemouth, UK, October 9-11 2006, Proceedings

By: Bogdan Gabrys,Robert J. Howlett

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems

10th International Conference, KES 2006, Bournemouth, UK, October 9-11 2006, Proceedings

By: Bogdan Gabrys,Robert J. Howlett

The three volume set LNAI 4251, LNAI 4252, and LNAI 4253 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2006, held in Bournemouth, UK in October 2006. The 480 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from about 1400 submissions. The papers present a wealth of original research results from the field of intelligent information processing.

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3540465359

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Simulations for Solid State Physics Hardback with CD-ROM

An Interactive Resource for Students and Teachers

By: Robert H. Silsbee,Joerg Draeger

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Simulations for Solid State Physics Hardback with CD-ROM

An Interactive Resource for Students and Teachers

By: Robert H. Silsbee,Joerg Draeger

Interactive resource centering around fourteen high quality computer simulations covering essential topics in solid state physics.

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CUP Archive

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0521590949

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Shared Stories, Rival Tellings

Early Encounters of Jews, Christians, and Muslims

By: Robert C. Gregg

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Shared Stories, Rival Tellings

Early Encounters of Jews, Christians, and Muslims

By: Robert C. Gregg

Provides an extensive yet accessible guide to many ancient texts Includes artwork as well as historical writings to illuminate religious interpreters' genius and impact Explores the historical contexts of the divides between Jews, Christians, and Muslims

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190231491

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Tory Insurgents

The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays

By: Robert M. Calhoon,Timothy M. Barnes,Robert S. Davis

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Tory Insurgents

The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays

By: Robert M. Calhoon,Timothy M. Barnes,Robert S. Davis

A new edition of the germinal study of Loyalism in the American Revolution Building on the work of his 1989 book The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays, accomplished historian Robert M. Calhoon returns to the subject of internal strife in the American Revolution with Tory Insurgents. This volume collects revised, updated versions of eighteen groundbreaking articles, essays, and chapters published since 1965, and also features one essay original to this volume. In a model of scholarly collaboration, coauthors Calhoon, Timothy M. Barnes, and Robert Scott Davis are joined in select pieces by Donald C. Lord, Janice Potter, and Robert M. Weir. Among the topics broached by this noted group of historians are the diverse political ideals represented in the Loyalist stance; the coherence of the Loyalist press; the loyalism of garrison towns, the Floridas, and the Western frontier; Carolina loyalism as viewed by Irish-born patriots Aedanus and Thomas Burke; and the postwar reintegration of Loyalists and the disaffected. Included as well is a chapter and epilogue from Calhoon's seminal—but long out-of-print—1973 study The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781. This updated collection will serve as an unrivaled point of entrance into Loyalist research for scholars and students of the American Revolution.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1611172284

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Bioadhesive Drug Delivery Systems

By: Vincent M. Lenaerts,Robert Gurny

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Bioadhesive Drug Delivery Systems

By: Vincent M. Lenaerts,Robert Gurny

This comprehensively written text covers, in-depth, all aspects of bioadhesive systems. Bioadhesive systems are presently playing a major role in the field because of their ability to maintain a dosage form at a precise body-site for a prolonged period of time over which the active principle is progressively released. Included in this book are descriptions of the different mucosae in healthy and pathological situations, a theoretical approach of polymers-mucin interactions, and a comparative description of the methods used to evaluate bioadhesion. Up-to-date reviews of pharmaceutical applications are also given - subdivided according to the route of administration and type of system. It also contains a chapter devoted to the fundamentals of bioadhesion. This reference is an indispensable guide for researchers in the pharmaceutical field as well as academic researchers.

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CRC Press

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084935367X

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Travels in the History of Architecture

By: Robert Harbison

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Travels in the History of Architecture

By: Robert Harbison

Mies van der Rohe, master of modern architecture, declared that “Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together.” In Travels in the History of Architecture, renowned architectural writer Robert Harbison takes a closer look at these bricks, providing an engaging and concise companion to the great themes and aesthetic movements in architecture from antiquity to the present day. Travels in the History of Architecture beings its journey with the great temples of the Egyptians and the shrines of Classical Greece and Rome and then provides a complete survey of architecture through the present day. Each chapter of this dynamic and approachable volume focuses on a movement in architectural history, including Byzantine, Baroque, Mannerism, Historicism, Functionalism, and Deconstruction. Unique to this work is Harbison’s wide-ranging approach, which draws on references and examples outside of architecture—from literature, art, sculpture, and history—to further illustrate and contextualize the themes and ideas of each period. For example, the travel writing of Pausanias illustrates the monuments of ancient Greece, a poem in praise of marble decoration reveals how the builders of the cathedral of Hagia Sophia viewed their creation, and a French rococo painting speaks to the meaning behind the design of the English landscape garden. Original, yet authoritative, Travels in the History of Architecture will be in an indispensable guide for everyone curious to know more about the world’s most famous structures, as well as for students of art and architectural history seeking a definitive introduction.

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1861896905

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Parallel Processing, 1980 to 2020

By: Robert Kuhn,David Padua

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Parallel Processing, 1980 to 2020

By: Robert Kuhn,David Padua

This historical survey of parallel processing from 1980 to 2020 is a follow-up to the authors’ 1981 Tutorial on Parallel Processing, which covered the state of the art in hardware, programming languages, and applications. Here, we cover the evolution of the field since 1980 in: parallel computers, ranging from the Cyber 205 to clusters now approaching an exaflop, to multicore microprocessors, and Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) in commodity personal devices; parallel programming notations such as OpenMP, MPI message passing, and CUDA streaming notation; and seven parallel applications, such as finite element analysis and computer vision. Some things that looked like they would be major trends in 1981, such as big Single Instruction Multiple Data arrays disappeared for some time but have been revived recently in deep neural network processors. There are now major trends that did not exist in 1980, such as GPUs, distributed memory machines, and parallel processing in nearly every commodity device. This book is intended for those that already have some knowledge of parallel processing today and want to learn about the history of the three areas. In parallel hardware, every major parallel architecture type from 1980 has scaled-up in performance and scaled-out into commodity microprocessors and GPUs, so that every personal and embedded device is a parallel processor. There has been a confluence of parallel architecture types into hybrid parallel systems. Much of the impetus for change has been Moore’s Law, but as clock speed increases have stopped and feature size decreases have slowed down, there has been increased demand on parallel processing to continue performance gains. In programming notations and compilers, we observe that the roots of today’s programming notations existed before 1980. And that, through a great deal of research, the most widely used programming notations today, although the result of much broadening of these roots, remain close to target system architectures allowing the programmer to almost explicitly use the target’s parallelism to the best of their ability. The parallel versions of applications directly or indirectly impact nearly everyone, computer expert or not, and parallelism has brought about major breakthroughs in numerous application areas. Seven parallel applications are studied in this book.

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Springer Nature

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3031017684

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The Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus

Studies on a Thessalian Country Shrine

By: Robert S. Wagman

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The Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus

Studies on a Thessalian Country Shrine

By: Robert S. Wagman

Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus is the first book-length study of one of Greece’s most cited nymph sanctuaries. The volume includes a revised catalog, extensive new commentaries on the cave’s famous inscriptions, and a first-time investigation of the site’s topographical and archaeological layout. Also known as Alogopati or Karapla cave, the Pharsalian shrine holds a special place among ancient nymph caves as the only such site to feature an inscribed poetic chronicle of the shrine’s foundation and its founder, the mysterious nymph worshipper Pantalces. Based on years of fieldwork and archival research, Cave of the Nymphs challenges some commonly held views about the origin of this rock-cut ‘tale’ and offers a fresh perspective for understanding the Pharsalian cave in its proper historical context.

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BRILL

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9004297626

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Airway Smooth Muscle

Modulation of Receptors and Response

By: Devendra K. Agrawal,Robert G. Townley

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Airway Smooth Muscle

Modulation of Receptors and Response

By: Devendra K. Agrawal,Robert G. Townley

Airway smooth muscle plays a dominant role in bronchial asthma, as well as a significant role in various pulmonary diseases, such as chronic bronchitis, cystic fibrosis and emphysema. Myogenic, neurogenic, and humoral factors control airway smooth-muscle tone. This text provides a state-of-the-art summary and critical discussion of airway smooth muscle from a multidisciplinary point of view. Topics discussed include morphology, biochemical regulation, mechanical and electrophysiological behavior and reflex control of smooth muscle; the epithelium-derived relaxing factor; and methods to measure smooth muscle function in vivo in humans and experimental animals, as well as in vitro in isolated airway tissues. Also discussed are calcium and potassium channels and receptors for adrenergic, cholinergic and histaminergic systems in modulating receptor-response coupling in airway smooth muscle. Airway Smooth Muscle: Modulation of Receptors and Response provides essential information for researchers, teachers, pulmonary specialists and allergists, and students interested in learning about airway smooth muscle.

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CRC Press

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084935904X

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Pilgrimage As Rite of Passage

A Guidebook for Youth Ministry

By: Robert Brancatelli

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Pilgrimage As Rite of Passage

A Guidebook for Youth Ministry

By: Robert Brancatelli

An experiential program for youth making the transition to adulthood that includes catechetical sessions, a medicine walk, an overnight pilgrimage, and a period of mystagogia.

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Paulist Press

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0809137984

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An Atlas of Orbitocranial Surgery

By: Robert F Keating,William B Stewart,Bryant A Toth

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An Atlas of Orbitocranial Surgery

By: Robert F Keating,William B Stewart,Bryant A Toth

Illustrations by William Winn

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386

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CRC Press

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1853173762

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Mathog's Atlas of Craniofacial Trauma

By: Robert H Mathog,Terry Shibuya,Michael A. Carron

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Mathog's Atlas of Craniofacial Trauma

By: Robert H Mathog,Terry Shibuya,Michael A. Carron

Mathog’s Atlas of Craniofacial Trauma covers a practical step-by-step approach of procedures to treat craniofacial fractures. This definitive book on surgery for craniofacial trauma covers a wide range of procedures that cross a number of specialties. Each procedure has been updated to reflect current methods being utilized today. Although the focus is on the facial skeleton, there are adequate presentations to orient the reader to vascular, central nervous system, dental, and ophthalmic injuries, which is important as most of these injuries cross specialties. This completely revised Second Edition will have multiple new chapters, including Imaging of Craniofacial Fractures; Plates, Materials, and Instrumentation; Multidisciplinary Approach to Trauma; Free Flap Reconstruction of the Mandible.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451177720

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9781451177725

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