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Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2144

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Developing Minds in the Digital Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Developing Minds in the Digital Age

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The Catch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 583

The Catch

This definitive environmental history of medieval fish and fisheries provides a comprehensive examination of European engagement with aquatic systems between c. 500 and 1500 CE. Using textual, zooarchaeological, and natural records, Richard C. Hoffmann's unique study spans marine and freshwater fisheries across western Christendom, discusses effects of human-nature relations and presents a deeper understanding of evolving European aquatic ecosystems. Changing climates, landscapes, and fishing pressures affected local stocks enough to shift values of fish, fishing rights, and dietary expectations. Readers learn what the abbess Waldetrudis in seventh-century Hainault, King Ramiro II (d.1157) of Aragon, and thirteenth-century physician Aldebrandin of Siena shared with English antiquarian William Worcester (d. 1482), and the young Martin Luther growing up in Germany soon thereafter. Sturgeon and herring, carp, cod, and tuna played distinctive roles. Hoffmann highlights how encounters between medieval Europeans and fish had consequences for society and the environment - then and now.

Dynamic Stabilisation of the Biped Lucy Powered by Actuators with Controllable Stiffness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Dynamic Stabilisation of the Biped Lucy Powered by Actuators with Controllable Stiffness

This book reports on the developments of the bipedal walking robot Lucy. Special about it is that the biped is not actuated with the classical electrical drives but with pleated pneumatic artificial muscles. In an antagonistic setup of such muscles both the torque and the compliance are controllable. From human walking there is evidence that joint compliance plays an important role in energy efficient walking and running. Moreover pneumatic artificial muscles have a high power to weight ratio and can be coupled directly without complex gearing mechanism, which can be beneficial towards legged mechanisms. Additionally, they have the capability of absorbing impact shocks and store and release motion energy. This book gives a complete description of Lucy: the hardware, the electronics and the software. A hybrid simulation program, combining the robot dynamics and muscle/valve thermodynamics, has been written to evaluate control strategies before implementing them in the real biped.

Education in a Globalized World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Education in a Globalized World

The seemingly amorphous phenomenon we call "globalization" involves concrete realities that make it a major source of social change in our contemporary world. Bringing globalization alive for students, this book uses examples and perspectives from economics, technology, and mass media to show how globalization is producing unprecedented impacts on education and culture. Education at all levels--from primary school to university education--is undergoing a world wide transformation of its objectives, values, and practices. New technologies and communication practices have promoted the West's optimism that market forces can replace the former governmental responsibilities for social welfare and...

Resources in Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Resources in Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992-06
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Mapping Academic Values in the Disciplines
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Mapping Academic Values in the Disciplines

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

A broad strand of applied linguistic research has focused on the language of science and scholarship, stressing its role in the construction and negotiation of knowledge claims. Central to the success of such texts is the use of evaluative expressions encoding what is considered to be desirable or undesirable in a given domain. While the speech acts relevant to evaluation have been extensively researched, little is known of the underlying values they encode. This volume seeks to fill the gap by exploring the main facets of academic value in a corpus of research articles from leading journals in anthropology, biology, computer science, economics, engineering, history, mathematics, medicine, physics and sociology. The collocations and qualified entities associated with such variables in the corpus provide insights into how scholars draw on a repertoire of conventional, largely unqualified, axiological meanings instrumental to the production of new knowledge in their field.

Genealogische en heraldische bladen
  • Language: nl
  • Pages: 346

Genealogische en heraldische bladen

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1905
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Algemeen Nederlandsch familieblad
  • Language: nl
  • Pages: 1356

Algemeen Nederlandsch familieblad

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1884
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Accreditation and Evaluation in the European Higher Education Area
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 496

Accreditation and Evaluation in the European Higher Education Area

This volume presents a rich account of the development of accreditation and evaluation in 20 European countries. It shows how accreditation is becoming a main mechanism in the steering of higher education across Europe. The book is unique in its analysis of forces driving towards the spread of different models of accreditation in the emerging European Higher Education area.