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Property, Predation, and Protection

Piranha Capitalism in Russia and Ukraine

By: Stanislav Markus

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Property, Predation, and Protection

Piranha Capitalism in Russia and Ukraine

By: Stanislav Markus

What threatens the property rights of business owners? And what makes these rights secure? This book transcends the conventional diagnosis of the issue in modern developing countries by moving beyond expropriation by the state ruler or by petty bureaucratic corruption. It identifies 'agent predation' as a novel threat type, showing it to be particularly widespread and detrimental. The book also questions the orthodox prescription: institutionalized state commitment cannot secure property rights against agent predation. Instead, this volume argues that business actors can hold the predatory state agents accountable through firm-level alliances with foreign actors, labor, and local communities. Beyond securing ownership, such alliances promote rule of law in a rent-seeking society. Taking Russia and Ukraine between 2000 and 2012 as its empirical focus, the book advances these arguments by drawing on more than 150 qualitative interviews with business owners, policy makers, and bureaucrats, as well as an original large-N survey of firms.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316195643

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9781316195642

A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival

By: Stanislav J. Kirschbaum

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A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival

By: Stanislav J. Kirschbaum

This classic book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Slovakia, from its establishment on the Danubian Plain to the present. While paying tribute to Slovakia's resilience and struggle for survival, it describes contributions to European civilization in the Middle Ages; the development of Slovak consciousness in response to Magyarization; its struggle for autonomy in Czechoslovakia after the Treaty of Versailles; its resistance, as the first Slovak Republic, to a Nazi-controlled Europe; its reaction to Communism; and the path that led to the creation of the second Slovak Republic. Now fully updated to the present day, the book examines the vagaries of Slovak post-Communist politics that led to Slovakia's membership in NATO and the European Union.

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1250114756

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9781250114754

Daylight Science and Daylighting Technology

By: Richard Kittler,Miroslav Kocifaj,Stanislav Darula

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Daylight Science and Daylighting Technology

By: Richard Kittler,Miroslav Kocifaj,Stanislav Darula

Sunlight profoundly influences the Earth's atmosphere and biosphere. Nature fuels the evolution of all living things, their visual systems, and the manner in which they adapt, accommodate, and habituate. Sun luminance measurements serve as data to calculate typical changes in the daily, monthly, and annual variability characteristics of daylight. Climate-based sky luminance patterns are used as models in predicting daylighting calculation and computer programs applied in architecture and building design. Historically, daylight science and daylighting technology has prioritized photometric methods of measurements, calculation, and graphical tools aimed at predicting or evaluating the daylighting of architectural design alternatives. However, due to a heightened awareness of general health and well-being, sunlight exposure and freedom from visual discomfort while undertaking visual tasks are now equally prioritized. Therefore, in order to assure optimal environmental quality, daylighting technology must be based on sound science. Daylight Science and Daylighting Technology, by Richard Kittler, Miroslav Kocifaj, and Stanislav Darula, sketches the entire evolution of daylight science from atmospheric science through apt visual workplace psychophysics.

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359

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441988165

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Blow-up for Higher-Order Parabolic, Hyperbolic, Dispersion and Schrodinger Equations

By: Victor A. Galaktionov,Enzo L. Mitidieri,Stanislav I. Pohozaev

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Blow-up for Higher-Order Parabolic, Hyperbolic, Dispersion and Schrodinger Equations

By: Victor A. Galaktionov,Enzo L. Mitidieri,Stanislav I. Pohozaev

Blow-up for Higher-Order Parabolic, Hyperbolic, Dispersion and Schrodinger Equations shows how four types of higher-order nonlinear evolution partial differential equations (PDEs) have many commonalities through their special quasilinear degenerate representations. The authors present a unified approach to deal with these quasilinear PDEs.The book

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CRC Press

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1482251736

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9781482251739

Harmonies of the Mind

Physics and Physiology of Self

By: Stanislav Tregub

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Harmonies of the Mind

Physics and Physiology of Self

By: Stanislav Tregub

The brain is an orchestra playing a harmonious symphony of the Mind that we experience as the unity of our picture of the world and ourselves in this world. Violations of this process, which we call mental pathologies, lead to dissonances and even complete disintegration of the picture. How do billions of neurons perform this symphony? In other words, how does the brain create a coherent and integral model of reality while maintaining the identity of each encoded signal? In neuroscience, this question is called the binding problem. The harmony of the Mind is a physical phenomenon, and it must be explained physically. The author solves this riddle, based on the Theory of Energy Harmony and the Teleological Transduction Theory developed in the previous volumes of the series. The book describes the physical binding mechanism that makes the symphony of the Mind harmonious and reveals the subtle nuances of its physiological implementation in the brain.

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STANISLAV TREGUB

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5604473960

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9785604473962

Physical Ultrasonics of Composites

By: Stanislav Rokhlin,Dale Chimenti,Peter Nagy

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Physical Ultrasonics of Composites

By: Stanislav Rokhlin,Dale Chimenti,Peter Nagy

Physical Ultrasonics of Composites is a rigorous introduction to the characterization of composite materials by means of ultrasonic waves. Composites are treated here not simply as uniform media, but as inhomogeneous layered anisotropic media with internal structure characteristic of composite laminates. The objective here is to concentrate on exposing the singular behavior of ultrasonic waves as they interact with layered, anisotropic materials, materials which incorporate those structural elements typical of composite laminates. This book provides a synergistic description of both modeling and experimental methods in addressing wave propagation phenomena and composite property measurements. After a brief review of basic composite mechanics, a thorough treatment of ultrasonics in anisotropic media is presented, along with composite characterization methods. The interaction of ultrasonic waves at interfaces of anisotropic materials is discussed, as are guided waves in composite plates and rods. Waves in layered media are developed from the standpoint of the "Stiffness Matrix", a major advance over the conventional, potentially unstable Transfer Matrix approach. Laminated plates are treated both with the stiffness matrix and using Floquet analysis. The important influence on the received electronic signals in ultrasonic materials characterization from transducer geometry and placement are carefully exposed in a dedicated chapter. Ultrasonic wave interactions are especially susceptible to such influences because ultrasonic transducers are seldom more than a dozen or so wavelengths in diameter. The book ends with a chapter devoted to the emerging field of air-coupled ultrasonics. This new technology has come of age with the development of purpose-built transducers and electronics and is finding ever wider applications, particularly in the characterization of composite laminates.

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Oxford University Press

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0199723427

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Control of Complex and Uncertain Systems

New Types of Feedback

By: Stanislav V. Emelyanov,Sergey K. Korovin

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Control of Complex and Uncertain Systems

New Types of Feedback

By: Stanislav V. Emelyanov,Sergey K. Korovin

This book describes the evolution of feedback theory, from its simplest form to more complex guises, and connects this to the control of complex systems. It systematically develops a new approach to the synthesis of non-linear feedback controllers under uncertainty. This book aims to increase the understanding of potential reactions of such systems to uncertain forces and unknown factors contained in feedback mechanisms. The theoretical basis for a new generation of perfect automatic systems is introduced.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447107713

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Attachment Structures and Adhesive Secretions in Arachnids

By: Jonas O. Wolff,Stanislav N. Gorb

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Attachment Structures and Adhesive Secretions in Arachnids

By: Jonas O. Wolff,Stanislav N. Gorb

This book surveys attachment structures and adhesive secretions occurring in this class of animals and discusses the relationships between structure, properties, and function in the context of evolutionary trends, and biomimetic potential. Topics comprise mechanical attachment devices, such as clamps, claws, hooks, spines and wraps, as well as hairy and smooth adhesive pads, nano-fibrils, suction cups, and viscid and solidifying adhesives. Attachment is one of the major types of interactions between an organism and its environment. There are numerous studies that deal with this phenomenon in lizards, frogs, insects, barnacles, mussels and echinoderms, but the second largest class of animals, the Arachnida, was highly neglected so far. The authors demonstrated that most arachnid adhesive structures are highly analogous to those of insects and vertebrates, but there are also numerous unique developments with some intriguing working principles. Because arachnid attachment organs have a very strong potential of technological ideas for the development of new materials and systems, inspirations from biology could also be interesting for a broad range of topics in materials and surface engineering.

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Springer

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3319457136

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9783319457130

Chaos, Synchronization and Structures in Dynamics of Systems with Cylindrical Phase Space

By: Nikolai Verichev,Stanislav Verichev,Vladimir Erofeev

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Chaos, Synchronization and Structures in Dynamics of Systems with Cylindrical Phase Space

By: Nikolai Verichev,Stanislav Verichev,Vladimir Erofeev

This book develops analytical methods for studying the dynamical chaos, synchronization, and dynamics of structures in various models of coupled rotators. Rotators and their systems are defined in a cylindrical phase space, and, unlike oscillators, which are defined in Rn, they have a wider “range” of motion: There are vibrational and rotational types for cyclic variables, as well as their combinations (rotational-vibrational) if the number of cyclic variables is more than one. The specificity of rotator phase space poses serious challenges in terms of selecting methods for studying the dynamics of related systems. The book chiefly focuses on developing a modified form of the method of averaging, which can be used to study the dynamics of rotators. In general, the book uses the “language” of the qualitative theory of differential equations, point mappings, and the theory of bifurcations, which helps authors to obtain new results on dynamical chaos in systems with few degrees of freedom. In addition, a special section is devoted to the study and classification of dynamic structures that can occur in systems with a large number of interconnected objects, i.e. in lattices of rotators and/or oscillators. Given its scope and format, the book can be used both in lectures and courses on nonlinear dynamics, and in specialized courses on the development and operation of relevant systems that can be represented by a large number of various practical systems: interconnected grids of various mechanical systems, various types of networks including not only mechanical but also biological systems, etc.

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Springer Nature

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3030361039

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9783030361037

Fighting Terrorism

Surveillance and Targeted Killing in Post-9/11 World

By: Tereza Krauzová,Stanislav Matějka

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Fighting Terrorism

Surveillance and Targeted Killing in Post-9/11 World

By: Tereza Krauzová,Stanislav Matějka

The war on terror, launched by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, has been waged inside as well as outside the U.S. borders. Perception of threat and efforts to ensure national security have led the United States to major reforms in its national security policy, involving new military, security and legislative concepts. On the level of waging war outside the U.S. borders, the United States has introduced the system of Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs), autonomous aircrafts without human pilot aboard, opening the possibility of highly effective computer game-like targeted killing. On the domestic level, new pieces of legislation and other antiterrorism measures have been raising privacy awareness and concerns whether the U.S. government keeps observing the Constitution. Nowadays, as advanced technology offers wide range of possibilities how to intrude one´s privacy and effectively kill people, legal and ethical considerations have to catch up the reality. This work therefore seeks to elaborate on the statutory and constitutional framework of the current U.S surveillance measures as well as the limits of utilization of UAVs.

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Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press

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8024638126

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Handbook of Non-Ferrous Metal Powders

Technologies and Applications

By: Oleg D Neikov,N. A. Yefimov,Stanislav Naboychenko

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Handbook of Non-Ferrous Metal Powders

Technologies and Applications

By: Oleg D Neikov,N. A. Yefimov,Stanislav Naboychenko

The manufacture and use of the powders of non-ferrous metals has been taking place for many years in what was previously Soviet Russia, and a huge amount of knowledge and experience has built up in that country over the last forty years or so. Although accounts of the topic have been published in the Russian language, no English language account has existed until now.Six prominent academics and industrialists from the Ukraine and Russia have produced this highly-detailed account which covers the classification, manufacturing methods, treatment and properties of the non-ferrous metals ( aluminium, titanium, magnesium, copper, nickel, cobalt, zinc, cadmium, lead, tin, bismuth, noble metals and earth metals).The result is a formidable reference source for those in all aspects of the metal powder industry. - Covers the manufacturing methods, properties and importance of the following metals: aluminium, titanium, magnesium, copper, nickel, cobalt, zinc, cadmium, noble metals, rare earth metals, lead, tin and bismuth - Expert Russian team of authors, all very experienced - English translation and update of book previously published in Russian

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0080559409

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Property, Predation, and Protection

By: Stanislav Markus

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Property, Predation, and Protection

By: Stanislav Markus

This book analyzes the threats to the property rights of business owners and investigates what makes these rights secure.

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Book's by Stanislav Markus

Property, Predation, and Protection

Property, Predation, and Protection

A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival

A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival

Daylight Science and Daylighting Technology

Daylight Science and Daylighting Technology

Blow-up for Higher-Order Parabolic, Hyperbolic, Dispersion and Schrodinger Equations

Blow-up for Higher-Order Parabolic, Hyperbolic, Dispersion and Schrodinger Equations

Harmonies of the Mind

Harmonies of the Mind

Physical Ultrasonics of Composites

Physical Ultrasonics of Composites

Control of Complex and Uncertain Systems

Control of Complex and Uncertain Systems

Attachment Structures and Adhesive Secretions in Arachnids

Attachment Structures and Adhesive Secretions in Arachnids

Chaos, Synchronization and Structures in Dynamics of Systems with Cylindrical Phase Space

Chaos, Synchronization and Structures in Dynamics of Systems with Cylindrical Phase Space

Fighting Terrorism

Fighting Terrorism

Handbook of Non-Ferrous Metal Powders

Handbook of Non-Ferrous Metal Powders

Property, Predation, and Protection

Property, Predation, and Protection

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