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This book analyzes the family and residential trajectories of men and women across the twentieth century, which are placed in a long-term generational perspective and in the historical context wher...

In this book, important works and approaches of policy-oriented emotion research are brought into a systematic context. For this purpose, three different types of emotions are elaborated, which in ...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, DGCI 2014, held in Siena, Italy, September 2014. The 34 rev...

The future quality of life on Earth fundamentally depends on trends in world climate. The oceans playa dominant role in regulating global climate by help ing to control greenhouse gases, global hea...

The two-volume set LNCS 7324/7325 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Image and Recognition, ICIAR 2012, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in June 2012. The 107 revi...

I Stationary Contacts.- § 1. Introduction. A simplified summary of the theory of stationary electric contacts.- § 2. The contact surface.- § 3. The contact resistance. General theory.- § 4. Calcula...

I Presentations of CAD Systems.- CATIA/IBM, Dassault.- Curve and Surface Representation in Catia System.- A Case for CAD.- Digitising Sculptured Surfaces.- ICEM / Control Data.- Representations and...

This book offers an essential introduction to the linear and non-linear behavior of solid materials, and to the concepts of deformation, displacement and stress, within the context of continuum mec...

This book explores the intersections between nineteenth-century social reform movements in the United States. Delving into the little-known history of women who joined income-sharing communities du...

Decompositions and absolute neighborhood retracts.- A short proof of a kirby flattening theorem.- General position and algebraic independence.- Vertical general position.- Semicellular sets in crum...

This multi-authored effort, Mathematics of the nineteenth century (to be fol lowed by Mathematics of the twentieth century), is a sequel to the History of mathematics from antiquity to the early ni...

This monograph contains a collection of 16 papers that were presented at the confer ence "Free Boundary Problems: Numerical 7reatment and Optimal Control", held at the Mathematisches Forschungsinst...

The study of the informal dimension of EU politics is more important than ever in order to understand how the EU system works. This book presents an innovative and original study on informal cross-...

This book discusses the fundamental issues regarding the effect of real estate regulation on housing, urban development, and considerations of justice and efficiency. Bringing together the contribu...

The book provides an introduction to an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that can be called "global linguistics" (GL). GL emerges to tackle the ever-growing phenomenon of intercultural communicat...