Author: Andre Van Holk
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Keywords: international, congress, slavists, literature, september, sofia, contributions, dutch
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 1988-01
List price: $93.00
ISBN-10: 9051830319
ISBN-13: 9789051830316

Author: A.G.F.Van Holk
Publisher: Rodopi Bv Editions
Keywords: studies, text, linguistics, slavic, literature, amp, poetics, outline, polish, space, linguistic, russian, theme, drama
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 1996-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 9051839995
ISBN-13: 9789051839999

Since the appearance of Lotman’s Poetics of the Artistic Text (1970) and Universe of the Mind (1990), and Eco’s Introduction to Semiotics (1972), the investigation of the working of signs in language, the arts and the sciences has witnessed an ever-increasing impact on our understanding of human culture. In this book an attempt is made at developing a linguistic model for the semiotics of culture, and to apply this to the analysis of a number of Russian and Polish dramatic texts, mostly from the nineteenth-century. In the first five chapters such well known plays as Ostrovskij

Authors:Friedrich Pfeiffer, Holk Cruse,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: german, laufen, autonomes
Number of Pages: 295
Published: 2005-04-13
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 3540250441
ISBN-13: 9783540250449

Laufen ist eine der genialsten Erfindungen der Natur. Aber erst in neuerer Zeit haben sich Technologien entwickelt, die den erfolgreichen Bau von autonomen Laufmaschinen realistisch erscheinen lassen. Dieses Buch beinhaltet die Ergebnisse des DFG Schwerpunktprogramms SPP1039 "Autonomes Laufen" – entstanden aus einer intensiven Zusammenarbeit einiger der führenden Ingenieure, Biologen und Informatiker auf diesem Gebiet. Es werden technische Realisierungen von Laufmaschinen ebenso präsentiert wie neueste biologische Erkenntnisse, deren Ergebnisse unmittelbar in solche technischen Umsetzungen

Authors:Dominique François, André Pineau, André Zaoui,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: solid, mechanics, applications, plasticity, elasticity, behaviour, materials, volume, mechanical
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1998-11-30
List price: $285.00
ISBN-10: 079234894X
ISBN-13: 9780792348948

Advances in technology are demanding ever-increasing mastery over the materials being used: the challenge is to gain a better understanding of their behaviour, and more particularly of the relations between their microstructure and their macroscopic properties. This two-volume work, of which this is the first volume, aims to provide the means by which this challenge may be met. Starting from the mechanics of deformation, it develops the laws governing macroscopic behaviour -- expressed as the constitutive equations -- always taking account of the physical phenomena which underlie rheological b

Authors:Dominique François, André Pineau, André Zaoui,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mechanics, contact, solid, applications, fracture, damage, behaviour, materials, volume, viscoplasticity, mechanical
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1998-11-30
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 0792348958
ISBN-13: 9780792348955

Designing new structural materials, extending lifetimes and guarding against fracture in service are among the preoccupations of engineers, and to deal with these they need to have command of the mechanics of material behaviour. The first volume of this two-volume work deals with elastic and elastoplastic behaviour; this second volume continues with viscoelasticity, damage, fracture (resistance to cracking) and contact mechanics. As in Volume I, the treatment starts from the active mechanisms on the microscopic scale and develops the laws of macroscopic behaviour. Chapter I deals with

Authors:Andre Bationo, Andre Bationo, Boaz Waswa, Job Kihara,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: saharan, africa, challenges, opportunities, sub, management, integrated, soil, fertility, advances
Number of Pages: 1094
Published: 2007-11-14
List price: $279.00
ISBN-10: 1402057598
ISBN-13: 9781402057595

Food insecurity is a central concern and a fundamental challenge for human welfare and economic growth in Africa. Low agricultural production, results in low incomes, poor nutrition, vulnerability to risks and lack of empowerment. Land degradation and soil fertility depletion are considered the major threats to food security and natural resource conservation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Investments in technology, policy and institutional reforms are needed to increase agricultural productivity to ensure food security and sustained national economies. Past research has generated numerous soil f

Authors:Andre Kamkin, Andre Kamkin, Irina Kiseleva,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: cells, tissues, mechanosensitivity, channels, ion, mechanosensitive
Number of Pages: 386
Published: 2007-12-04
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 140206425X
ISBN-13: 9781402064258

This book presents the latest findings in mechanosensitive ion channel research compiled by a number of internationally recognized experts in the field of mechanosensitivity, specializing in mechanosensitive or mechanically gated ion channels and the underlying mechanosensitive signaling cascades. "Mechanosensitivity in Cells and Tissues: Mechanosensitive Ion Channels" defines and discusses key problems of cellular mechanobiology, describing the methods for studying mechanosensitive ion channels, the role of lipid bilayer mechanics in mechanosensation, and the molecular organization, physiolog