Title : Automotive Battery Technology (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology / Automotive Engineering : Simulation and Validation Methods)
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ISBN/ASIN : 3319025228
Publication Date : 2014-02-12
Publisher : Springer
Paperback : 100 pages

Description :

The use of electrochemical energy storage systems in automotive applications also involves new requirements for modeling these systems, especially in terms of model depth and model quality. Currently, mainly simple application-oriented models are used to describe the physical behavior of batteries. This book provides a step beyond of state-of-the-art modeling showing various different approaches covering following aspects: system safety, misuse behavior (crash, thermal runaway), battery state estimation and electrochemical modeling with the needed analysis (pre/post mortem). All this different approaches are developed to support the overall integration process from a multidisciplinary point-of-view and depict their further enhancements to this process.

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Title : The Material Realization of Science: From Habermas to Experimentation and Referential Realism (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)
Author : Hans Radder
ISBN/ASIN : 9400741065
Publication Date : 2012-05-04
Publisher : Springer
Paperback : 205 pages

Description :

This book develops a conception of science as a multi-dimensional practice, which includes experimental action and production, conceptual-theoretical interpretation, and formal-mathematical work. On this basis, it addresses the topical issue of scientific realism and expounds a detailed, referentially realist account of the natural sciences. This account is shown to be compatible with the frequent occurrence of conceptual discontinuities in the historical development of the sciences. Referential realism exploits several fruitful ideas of Jürgen Habermas, especially his distinction between objectivity and truth; it builds on a in-depth analysis of scientific experiments, including their material realization; and it is developed through an extensive case study in the history and philosophy of quantum mechanics. The new postscript explains how the book relates to several important issues in recent philosophy of science and science studies.

“I highly recommend this book. Radder is probably the first philosopher of science to make productive epistemological use of the notion of ‘experimental system’. The postscript is most valuable since it connects his work not only to the topical debates in philosophy of science, but also to history of science and science studies.”

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

About the first edition:

“The debate on realism has recently become rather stale by repetition, but Radder introduces original insights and has written a lively and well-argued contribution to it. The book is to be recommended also as a clear introduction to the complex of relevant issues.”

Mary Hesse, University of Cambridge

“Radder presents an ingenious approach to the issue of scientific realism and conceptual discontinuity. I believe his idea that conceptual discontinuity presupposes other types of continuity is extremely important.”

Mark Rowlands, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Hans Radder is professor of philosophy of science and technology at VU University Amsterdam. He is the author of In and About the World and The World Observed/The World Conceived. He edited The Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation and The Commodification of Academic Research: Science and the Modern University, and is coeditor of Science Transformed? Debating Claims of an Epochal Break.

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Title : Methods and Procedures for Building Sustainable Farming Systems: Application in the European Context
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ISBN/ASIN : 9400750021
Publication Date : 2012-10-17
Publisher : Springer
Paperback : 277 pages

Description :

Showing how the method of sustainability assessment plays a key role in choosing the best agricultural productive mode, this book guides the reader through the process of selecting, from among the various approaches for building farming systems, the method of decision-making that will result in the most appropriate outcome, given the context. Case studies hail from polities as diverse as Portugal and Canada, Argentina and Lebanon. The work thus offers a valuable critical survey of the assessment methods that account for sustainability and economics, and which have developed considerably in the last two decades. The heterogeneous approaches covered here make this volume appropriate for consultation in a wide variety of social, political and geographical contexts.

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Title : Mental Well-Being: International Contributions to the Study of Positive Mental Health
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ISBN/ASIN : 940075194X
Publication Date : 2012-11-09
Publisher : Springer
Paperback : 388 pages

Description :

This book provides a new generation of research in which scholars are investigating mental health and human development as not merely the absence of illness or dysfunction, but also the presence of subjective well-being. Subjective well-being is a fundamental facet of the quality of life. The quality of an individual’s life can be assessed externally and objectively or internally and subjectively. From an objective standpoint, other people measure and judge another’s life according to criteria such as wealth or income, educational attainment, occupational prestige, and health status or longevity. Nations, communities, or individuals who are wealthier, have more education, and live longer are considered to have higher quality of life or personal well-being. The subjective standpoint emerged during the 1950s as an important alternative to the objective approach to measuring individual’s well-being. Subjectively, individuals evaluate their own lives as evaluations made, in theory, after reviewing, summing, and weighing the substance of their lives in social context.

Research has clearly shown that measures of subjective well-being, which are conceptualized as indicators of mental health (or ‘mental well-being’), are factorially distinct from but correlated with measures of symptoms of common mental disorders such as depression. Despite countless proclamations that health is not merely the absence of illness, there had been little or no empirical research to verify this assumption. Research now supports the hypothesis that health is not merely the absence of illness, it is also the presence of higher levels of subjective well-being.

In turn, there is growing recognition of the personal and social utility of subjective well-being, both higher levels of hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing. Increased subjective well-being has been linked with higher personal and social ‘goods’: higher business profits, more worker productivity, greater employee retention; increased protection against mortality; increased protection against the onset and increase of physical disability with aging; improved cognitive and immune system functioning; and increased levels of social capital such as civic responsibility, generativity, community involvement and volunteering. This edited volume brings together for the first time the growing scientific literature on positive mental health that is now being conducted in many countries other than the USA and provides students and scholars with an invaluable source for teaching and for generating new ideas for furthering this important line of research.

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Title : Medical Sociology on the Move: New Directions in Theory
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ISBN/ASIN : 9400761929
Publication Date : 2013-04-16
Publisher : Springer
Paperback : 267 pages

Description :

This book provides readers with a single source reviewing and updating sociological theory in medical or health sociology. The book not only addresses the major theoretical approaches in the field today, it also identifies the future directions these theories are likely to take in explaining the social processes affecting health and disease. Many of the chapters are written by leading medical sociologists who feature the use of theory in their everyday work, including contributions from the original theorists of fundamental causes, health lifestyles, and medicalization. Theories focusing on both agency and structure are included to provide a comprehensive account of this important area in medical sociology.

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Title : Plasmonics: Theory and Applications (Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics)
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ISBN/ASIN : 940077804X
Publication Date : 2014-01-22
Publisher : Springer
Paperback : 453 pages

Description :

This contributed volume summarizes recent theoretical developments in plasmonics and its applications in physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, and medicine. It focuses on recent advances in several major areas of plasmonics including plasmon-enhanced spectroscopies, light scattering, many-body effects, nonlinear optics, and ultrafast dynamics. The theoretical and computational methods used in these investigations include electromagnetic calculations, density functional theory calculations, and nonequilibrium electron dynamics calculations. The book presents a comprehensive overview of these methods as well as their applications to various current problems of interest.

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Title : Radiology of HIV/AIDS: A Practical Approach
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ISBN/ASIN : 9400778228
Publication Date : 2014-01-17
Publisher : Springer
Paperback : 902 pages

Description :

This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern methodology, diagnostic methods and techniques of HIV/AIDS imaging. It starts with a general review of HIV/AIDS imaging and evidence based medicine (EBM). In the following chapters, authors introduce 13 of most common types of AIDS/HIV-associated diseases separately. High-quality examples combined with computed tomography (CT), Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), gross anatomy and pathology images are clearly illustrated. Moreover, the use of functional imaging in HIV/AIDS diagnosis and differential diagnosis is an essential part that diagnostic doctors will find to be useful.

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Title : Progress in Heritable Soft Connective Tissue Diseases (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)
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ISBN/ASIN : 9400778929
Publication Date : 2014-01-30
Publisher : Springer
Paperback : 245 pages

Description :

This volume is a reference handbook focusing on diseases like Marfan syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Loeys-Dietz syndrome and other heritable soft connective tissue diseases. The book presents detailed information for both basic scientists and for clinicians seeing patients. It is also a stepping stone for new investigations and studies that goes beyond the facts about the composition and biochemistry of the connective tissue and extracellular matrix, as the authors connect individual components to specific aspects of various soft tissue disorders and to the actual or potential treatment of them.

Progress in Heritable Soft Connective Tissue Diseases features very prominent physicians and scientists as contributors who bring their most recent discoveries to the benefit of readers. Their expertise will help clinicians with proper diagnosis of sometimes elusive and uncommon heritable diseases of soft connective tissues.

This book also offers an update on the pathophysiology of these diseases, including an emphasis on unifying aspects such as connections between embryonic development of the different types of connective tissues and systems, and the role of TGF-beta in development and physiology of soft tissues. This new set of data explains, at least in part, why many of these disorders are interconnected, though the primary pathophysiological events, such as gene mutations, may be different for each disorder.

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Title : The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology)
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ISBN/ASIN : 9400779135
Publication Date : 2014-01-21
Publisher : Springer
Paperback : 245 pages

Description :

This book considers the question: to what extent does it make sense to qualify technical artefacts as moral entities? The authors’ contributions trace recent proposals and topics including instrumental and non-instrumental values of artefacts, agency and artefactual agency, values in and around technologies, and the moral significance of technology. 

The editors’ introduction explains that as ‘agents’ rather than simply passive instruments, technical artefacts may actively influence their users, changing the way they perceive the world, the way they act in the world and the way they interact with each other. 

This volume features the work of various experts from around the world, representing a variety of positions on the topic. Contributions explore the contested discourse on agency in humans and artefacts, defend the Value Neutrality Thesis by arguing that technological artefacts do not contain, have or exhibit values, or argue that moral agency involves both human and non-human elements.

The book also investigates technological fields that are subject to negative moral valuations due to the harmful effects of some of their products. It includes an analysis of some difficulties arising in Artificial Intelligence and an exploration of values in Chemistry and in Engineering. The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts is an advanced exploration of the various dimensions of the relations between technology and morality

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Title : Lipid Hydroperoxide-Derived Modification of Biomolecules (Subcellular Biochemistry)
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ISBN/ASIN : 9400779194
Publication Date : 2014-01-15
Publisher : Springer
Paperback : 202 pages

Description :

Lipid peroxidation is an important cellular process which can lead to detrimental effects if it is not regulated efficiently. Lipid hydroperoxide is formed in an initial step of lipid peroxidation. Lipid hydroperoxide is also known as a potential source of singlet oxygen. Harmful aldehydes are formed when the lipid hydroperoxide is degraded. The formed aldehyde has high reactivity against thiol or amine moieties. Therefore, it could act as a signaling molecule, which might induce the changing of gears inside a cell. Recent studies have shown that lipid hydroperoxide or a slightly modified product of the lipid hydroperoxide reacts with biomolecules such as proteins and aminophospholipids, which leads to formation of amide-type adducts. Amide-type adducts could be one of markers for oxidative stress and could also be an important player in some diseases. In this book, the chemistry and biochemistry of lipid hydroperoxide along with their conjugates with biomolecules are described.

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Title : The Motor Car: Past, Present and Future (Mechanical Engineering Series)
Author : Giancarlo Genta
ISBN/ASIN : 9400785518
Publication Date : 2014-01-17
Publisher : Springer
Paperback : 500 pages

Description :

This book is an introduction to automotive engineering, to give freshmen ideas about this technology. The text is subdivided in parts that cover all facets of the automobile, including legal and economic aspects related to industry and products, product configuration and fabrication processes, historic evolution and future developments.

The first part describes how motor vehicles were invented and evolved into the present product in more than 100 years of development. The purpose is not only to supply an historical perspective, but also to introduce and discuss the many solutions that were applied (and could be applied again) to solve the same basic problems of vehicle engineering. This part also briefly describes the evolution of automotive technologies and market, including production and development processes.

The second part deals with the description and function analysis of all car subsystems, such as:

· vehicle body,

· chassis, including wheels, suspensions, brakes and steering mechanisms,

· diesel and gasoline engines,

· electric motors, batteries, fuel cells, hybrid propulsion systems,

· driveline, including manual and automatic gearboxes.

This part addresses also many non-technical issues that influence vehicle design and production, such as social and economic impact of vehicles, market, regulations, particularly on pollution and safety.

In spite of the difficulty in forecasting the paths that will be taken by automotive technology, the third part tries to open a window on the future. It is not meant to make predictions that are likely to be wrong, but to discuss the trends of automotive research and innovation and to see the possible paths that may be taken to solve the many problems that are at present open or we can expect for the future.

The book is completed by two appendices about the contribution of computers in designing cars, particularly the car body and outlining fundamentals of vehicle mechanics, including aerodynamics, longitudinal (acceleration and braking) and transversal (path control) motion.

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Title : Advances in Biofuel Production: Algae and Aquatic Plants
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ISBN/ASIN : 1926895959
Publication Date : 2013-11-25
Publisher : Apple Academic Press
Paperback : 398 pages

Description :

Due to their high growth rate, algae, microalgae, and aquatic plants are becoming the most promising photosynthetic organisms for biofuel production. Advances in Biofuel Production: Algae and Aquatic Plants explores current investigations and application of the fields of biofuel production and bioengineering and considers from a global context the evolving processes of algal biofuel production. The book looks at how biomass, specifically sugars, nonedible plant materials, and algae (which are designated first, second, and third fuels respectively) are used in the production of fuel. The feasibility of such projects, current methodologies, and how to optimize biofuel production are presented.

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Title : Migration and Social Upheaval as the Face of Globalization in Central Asia (Social Sciences in Asia)
Author : Marlène Laruelle
ISBN/ASIN : 9004226818
Publication Date : 2013-04-04
Publisher : BRILL
Paperback : 422 pages

Description :

Since the start of the 1990s, Central Asia has been the main purveyor of migrants in the post-Soviet space. These massive migrations impact issues of governance; patterns of social adaptation; individual and collective identity transformations; and gender relation in Central Asia.

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Title : The Embodied Text: Establishing Textual Identity in Early Chinese Manuscripts (Studies in the History of Chinese Texts)
Author : Matthias L. Richter
ISBN/ASIN : 9004236570
Publication Date : 2013-01-09
Publisher : BRILL
Paperback : 220 pages

Description :

Book by Matthias L. Richter

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Title : The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and its Influences (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 2; South Asia)
Author : John Siudmak
ISBN/ASIN : 9004243151
Publication Date : 2013-04-05
Publisher : BRILL
Paperback : 546 pages

Description :

The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and Its Influences is a stylistic study of the corpus of stone sculpture, mostly fragmentary, in the Sri Pratap Singh Museum in Srinagar, and elsewhere in Kashmir, in comparison with other examples in collections both in India and abroad.

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Title : New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities: Emerging Social, Legal and Governance Orders
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ISBN/ASIN : 9004249907
Publication Date : 2013-03-21
Publisher : BRILL
Paperback : 296 pages

Description :

New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities offers nine empirical studies to examine the social, legal and governance dimensions of the great urban transformation in Republican China pertaining to the cultural realm of the urban space.

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Title : Kabuki at the Crossroads: Years of Crisis, 1952-1965
Author : Samuel L. Leiter
ISBN/ASIN : 9004250093
Publication Date : 2013-04-17
Publisher : Global Oriental
Paperback : 764 pages

Description :

Samuel L. Leiter’s Kabuki at the Crossroads is a thorough account of Japan’s most famous traditional theatre as it struggled to survive in the maelstrom of post-Occupation Japan’s rapidly changing entertainment world.

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Title : Commodities and Colonialism: The Story of Big Sugar in Indonesia, 1880-1942 (Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde)
Author : G. Roger Knight
ISBN/ASIN : 9004250514
Publication Date : 2013-03-01
Publisher : BRILL
Paperback : 304 pages

Description :

In “Commodities and Colonial Production,” G.Roger Knight provides an account of colonial Indonesia’s world-class sugar industry from the 1880s through to the beginning of the Second World War.

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Title : Fragmenting Modernisms: Chinese Wartime Literature, Art, and Film, 1937-49 (China Studies)
Author : Carolyn FitzGerald
ISBN/ASIN : 9004250980
Publication Date : 2013-06-07
Publisher : BRILL
Paperback : 364 pages

Description :

In Fragmenting Modernisms , Carolyn FitzGerald traces the evolution of Chinese modernism during the War of Resistance against Japan (1937-45) and Chinese Civil War (1945-49) through a series of close readings of fiction, poetry, film, and visual art.

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Title : Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja (Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land)
Author : Edwin de Jong
ISBN/ASIN : 9004252401
Publication Date : 2013-06-01
Publisher : BRILL
Paperback : 332 pages

Description :

“The practice of everyday life in Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) is structured by a series of public events, of which funerals are the most important. Even after Indonesia was hit by an economic crisis in the late 1990s, thousands of extravagant funeral ceremonies, requiring huge expenditures, were still organized each year. To understand the paradoxes and complexities of Torajan livelihoods, Edwin de Jong develops an approach that goes beyond existing economically biased perspectives on livelihoods by including both the cultural and the economic realm, positioned in the socio-political world with a transnational perspective, placed against a historical background, while not losing sight of diversity and individual creativity. It also advances the ethnography of Tana Toraja and the comparative study between numerous similar societies”–

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