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Chapter 9 Laser Pulses Characterization with Pyroelectric Sensors
(2010)
There are many industrial and medical applications of CO2 (λ=10.6 μm) and Nd:YAG (λ=1.06 μm) infrared lasers for which the quality of the process are tightly connected to the
characteristic of the laser pulse. These two ...
Chapter 2 Microbial evolution
(2015)
In this review we describe the major advances of recent years in the study of the evolutionary mechanisms that shape the genomes of acidophilic organisms, as well as the ecological scenarios in which these changes take ...
Chapter Quantitative explorations of the worldwide distribution of rare characteristics, or
(2011)
In this article, the distribution of rare features among the world’s languages is investigated based on the data from the World Atlas of Language Structures (Haspelmath et al. 2005). A Rarity Index for a language is defined, ...
Wissen in Bewegung
(2016)
Institutions usually do not come into view when it comes to processes of knowledge change. Rather, it is a widely shared belief that change happens when and only outside of these creativity blockers. Now, however, even ...
Reconsidering Constitutional Formation II Decisive Constitutional Normativity: From Old Liberties to New Precedence
(2018)
Precedence of Constitution; Normativity and Constitution; Constitutional History of Europe; Constitutionality of Revolutions; American Constitutional History; Constitutional Normativity; Fundamental Laws; Old Liberties ...
LexArt Words for Painting
(2018)
LexArt. Words for Painting is a dictionary of terms and concepts used by the painters and theorists to describe both practice and theory in France, Germany, England and the Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries. The ...
Powers of Protection
(2021)
This volume explores the most extensive tradition of Buddhist dharani literature and provides access to the earliest available materials for the first time. The Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha collections have been present in South Asia, ...
Playful Mapping in the Digital Age
(2016)
From Mah-Jong, to the introduction of Prussian war-games, through to the emergence of location-based play: maps and play share a long and diverse history. This monograph shows how mapping and playing unfold in the digital ...
Chinese Historical Thinking
(2015)
The book presents Chinese historical thinking by four articles. It is covered the ancient origin and the development to modernity and is commented by seven international experts. Presentation and comments find ›second ...
Logik
(2016)
This book presents the long-awaited critical edition of an unpublished manuscript of 277 pages containing Twardowski’s lecture notes on logic given in German at the University of Vienna. As to length, language and topic, ...
Studies in Multilingualism, Lingua Franca and Lingua Sacra
(2018)
The present book comprises a number of studies centered around the topic of how knowledge diffuses from one culture to another, and how knowledge diffusion is connected with the spread of languages and the conceptual systems ...
Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World
(2020)
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new ...
Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions
(2015)
Islam is often seen as a religious tradition in which hell does not play a particularly prominent role. This volume challenges this hackneyed view. Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions is the first book-length analytic study ...
India’s democracies
(2016)
This volume is about India’s deep and complex relationship with its chosen
form of government. It is an interdisciplinary book with approaches drawn from
history, anthropology, sociology, political science and social ...
The Everyday Life of an Algorithm
(2019)
This open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three ...
Melothesia in Babylonia. Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East
(2014)
This book examines the Babylonian backgroundof melothesia, the science of charting zodiac influences on the human body, which transformed older divination by connecting astrology with medical techniques. Special attention ...
Chapter 13 Cognitive Effects of Bilingualism in Infancy
(2016)
Exposure to multiple languages is a very common phenomenon even during early childhood. Although learning just one language is a major accomplishment in itself, the challenge for infants born in multilingual environments ...
Texts, Transmissions, Receptions
(2015)
The papers collected in this volume study the function and meaning of various kinds of narrative texts from the perspective of New Philology, Linguistics, Iconography and Reception studies. Their purpose is to understand ...
Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940
(2018)
In Ordinary Jerusalem, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and thirty-five scholars depict the ordinary history of an extraordinary global city in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods. Utilizing largely unknown archives, ...
The Patient Griselda Myth
(2019)
The Patient Griselda myth tells the story of a marquis who is reluctant to get married, but, under pressure from his subjects, agrees to take a wife and chooses a poor young country girl for her virtues. Once married, he ...
The Multi-Agent Transport Simulation MATSim
(2016)
"The MATSim (Multi-Agent Transport Simulation) software project was started around 2006 with the goal of generating traffic and congestion patterns by following individual synthetic travelers through their daily or weekly ...
Social Media in Trinidad
(2017)
Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in one of the most under-developed regions in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, this book describes the uses and consequences of social media for its residents. Jolynna Sinanan ...
Early Readers, Scholars and Editors of the New Testament
(2014)
The study of the New Testament text is far broader than the reconstruction
of its earliest attainable wording. As historical artefacts, manuscripts
preserve information about the context in which they were produced ...
Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action
(2014)
In this introduction to the Outstanding contributions to logic volume devoted to Nuel Belnap’s work on indeterminism and free action, we provide a
brief overview of some of the formal frameworks and methods involved in ...
Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality
(2021)
This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a ...
Playful Identities
(2015)
In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day ...
Borderlands
(2021)
The book proposes a profound rethink of the complex relationship between Europe—defined here as the European Union and its members—and the states of the Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe’s ‘southern ...
The Skandapurāṇa Volume IV
(2018)
Skandapurāṇa IV presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 70-95 from the Skandapurāṇa , with an introduction and annotated English synopsis.
The text edited in this volume includes the myths of Viṣṇu’s manifestation as the ...
Progress and pathology
(2020)
This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the long nineteenth century. During this period, popular and medical understandings of ...
Chapter 39 Ethnolects of Dutch
(2013)
In this chapter I discuss the different ethnolects that exist in the Netherlandic-speaking language context. It is convenient, but not entirely accurate, to define these simply as ethnic varieties of Dutch, on a par with ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy
(2020)
This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or ...
Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts
(2020)
This volume is the first English edition of the Nineveh Series on eye disease from the royal library of Ashurbanipal, 7th century BCE. It is the longest surviving ancient work on opthalmology, anticipating by centuries the ...
Time for mapping
(2018)
"The digital era has brought about huge transformations in the map itself, which to date have been largely conceptualised in spatial terms. Novel objects, forms, processes and approaches have emerged and pose new, pressing ...
Chapter 3 Implicature and explicature
(2012)
In this paper, we look in detail at some of the particular micro-processes involved in the online, relevance-driven derivation of explicature and implicatures. But before that, we set out some background intellectual history ...
Chapter 10 Pathogen and Toxin Entry - How Pathogens and Toxins Induce and Harness Endocytotic Mechanisms
(2012)
Humans have been exposed to a plethora of pathogens (bacteria, viruses) ever since. Infectious diseases are among the leading causes of death worldwide. For example, in 2011, 1.34 million people died of tuberculosis, which ...
Poetics and Politics
(2018)
Far from teleological historiography, the pan-European perspective on Early Modern drama offered in this volume provides answers to why, how, where and when the given phenomena of theatre appear in history.
Using theories ...
Empire Under the Microscope
(2022)
This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, ...
Code-switching Between Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives
(2015)
This volume brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives on code-switching. Featuring new data from five continents and languages with a large range of linguistic affiliations, the ...
Advising in austerity: Reflections on challenging times for advice agencies
(2017)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. In a world dominated by austerity politics and policies, Advising in austerity provides a lively and thought-provoking account of the conditions, consequences and challenges ...
Chapter Criterial Freezing in small clauses and the cartography of copular constructions
(2018)
Criterial Freezing is a particular instance of freezing arising in criterial configurations, i.e., in configurations dedicated to the expression of scope-discourse properties. Recent proposals (e.g., Rizzi 2015a,b) try to ...
Chapter Incomplete parenthesis
(2014)
While customarily considered ‘peripheral’ linguistic phenomena, both parenthesis and ellipsis raise interesting and far-reaching theoretical questions. It is worth bearing in mind that research in theoretical linguistics ...
Beyond Waters
(2016)
This book is one of the outcomes of the project Cultivated Wilderness: Socio-economic development and environmental change in pre-Columbian Amazonia (http://www.cultivated-wilderness.org/). The project has particularly ...
Chapter Lexikostatistik 2.0*
(2014)
In the middle of the 20th century there were various attempts to classify
Languages with the help of word lists that correspond to the basic vocabulary of the relevant
Languages are taken to automate. These methods ...
Social Media in Southeast Turkey
(2016)
This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in ...
Chapter 11 Análisis numérico de la reparación y refuerzo de estructuras con FRP
(2014)
This chapter presents a procedure to assess the magnitude of the damage local and global damage in structures subjected to static and dynamic actions, with special
emphasis on the seismic problem. In addition to the ...
Chapter Dependency-sensitive typological distance
(2013)
In this paper, we will develop two kinds of dependency-sensitive distance metrics. The first captures the idea that if it can be shown that one feature can be (partly) predicted by another, then the predictable feature ...
Chapter On a-marking of object topics in the Italian left periphery
(2018)
Standard Italian is known not to mark lexical direct objects through use of a prep-osition.1 This is in contrast with southern varieties, in which lexical direct objects are typically introduced by preposition a, as an ...
Chapter Some new results on gaps between consecutive primes
(2013)
The paper presents a brief history of results about small gaps between con¬secutive primes and mentions some recent results of the author, in some cases only with a sketch of the main ideas, in some cases with detailed proofs
Exile and Return, The Babylonian Context
(2015)
This collection of essays explores new ways of understanding the Babylonian Exile and the return to Yehud – a formative period in ancient Judaism. Drawing among others on new materials from cuneiform texts, the ...
Chapter 8 Voice-enabled assistive robots for handling autism spectrum conditions
(2014)
Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) are neurodevelopmental conditions, characterized by impairments in social interaction, communication (i.e., verbal and non-verbal language), and by restricted interests and repetitive ...
Chapter 6 On representing anchored parentheses in syntax
(2015)
The paper is organised as follows. In order to establish which kinds of parentheses should be considered ‘anchored’, I present a global overview in §2. This is followed by a discussion of the core properties of anchored ...
Chapter Locality and the functional sequence in the left periphery
(2017)
This volume brings together a selection of articles illustrating the multifaceted nature of current research in generative syntax. The authors, including some of the leading figures in the field, present analyses of ...
Chapter Føllesdal and Frege on Reference
(2013)
In this essay I first identify some desiderata for a theory of reference that appear in Føllesdal’s later work (Section 1). We will see that these desiderata are highly Fregean in character. Next I outline a Frege-inspired ...
Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy
(2018)
Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy illuminates the vibrancy of spiritual beliefs and practices which profoundly shaped family life in this era. Scholarship on Catholicism has tended to focus on institutions, but the ...
Inscriptions of the Aulikaras and Their Associates
(2019)
The Aulikaras were the rulers of western Malwa (the northwest of Central India) in the heyday of the Imperial Guptas in the fifth century CE, and rose briefly to sovereignty at the beginning of the sixth century before ...
Dramatic Experience
(2017)
The authors explore the convergence of dramatic theory, theatrical practice, and various modes of audience experience that contributed to the emergence of ‘public sphere(s)’ across early modern Europe — and in Asia.
Evidence Use in Health Policy Making
(2018)
This open access book provides a set of conceptual, empirical, and comparative chapters that apply a public policy perspective to investigate the political and institutional factors driving the use of evidence to inform ...
Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe
(2015)
The name of Bernhard Blumenkranz is well known to all those who study the history of European Jews in the Middle Ages and in particular the history of Jewish-Christian relations. Blumenkranz was born in Vienna in 1913; he ...