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As the theories and methods have evolved over the years, the
mechanics of solid bodies has become unduly fragmented. Most books
focus on specific aspects, such as the theories of elasticity or
plasticity, the theories of shells, or the mechanics of materials.
While a narrow focus serves immediate purposes, much is achieved by
establishing the common foundations and providing a unified
perspective of the discipline as a whole. Mechanics of Solids and
Shells accomplishes these objectives. By emphasizing the underlying
assumptions and the approximations that lead to the mathematical
formulations, it offers a practical, unified presentation of the
foundations of the mechanics of solids, the behavior of deformable
bodies and thin shells, and the properties of finite elements. The
initial chapters present the fundamental kinematics, dynamics,
energetics, and behavior of materials that build the foundation for
all of the subsequent developments. These are presented in full
generality without the usual restrictions on the deformation. The
general principles of work and energy form the basis for the
consistent theories of shells and the approximations by finite
elements. The final chapter views the latter as a means of
approximation and builds a bridge between the mechanics of the
continuum and the discrete assembly. Expressly written for
engineers, Mechanics of Solids and Shells forms a reliable source
for the tools of analysis and approximation. Its constructive
presentation clearly reveals the origins, assumptions, and
limitations of the methods described and provides a firm, practical
basis for the use of those methods.
Few events over the past few decades have given rise to an amount
of debate and speculation concerning the state of the European
Union (EU) and the future of European integration as the economic
and financial crisis that began in 2007. In spite of substantial
media, policy-making and academic attention, the fundamental
questions of why and how the euro area (EA) has remained not only
intact but also expanded and integrated further during the crisis
require deeper theoretical investigation. One needs to understand
not only the economics but also the politics and institutions of
the crisis. A lack of such an understanding is the reason why a
number of observers, at least initially, had a hard time making
sense of policy-makers' decisions (and pace thereof), including why
the EA did not implode as some predicted. Economic theories provide
a certain perspective for why the crisis occurred and what economic
policies were and are needed to resolve it; however, they fail to
capture the deeper roots and management of the crisis. In order to
improve our understanding of a discussion that has oscillated
between fears of EA disintegration on the one hand and the concrete
advancement of integration during the crisis on the other, this
special collection brings together leading scholars of European
integration who apply key theoretical approaches - from liberal
intergovernmentalism and neofunctionalism to other prominent
theoretical accounts that have been applied to European integration
such as historical institutionalism, critical political economy,
normative theory, and a public opinion approach - to the economic
and financial crisis. The contributions seek to analyse, understand
and/or explain the events that occurred and the (re)actions to them
in order to draw conclusions concerning the applicability and
usefulness of their respective theoretical perspectives. This book
was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public
Policy.
Few events over the past few decades have given rise to an amount
of debate and speculation concerning the state of the European
Union (EU) and the future of European integration as the economic
and financial crisis that began in 2007. In spite of substantial
media, policy-making and academic attention, the fundamental
questions of why and how the euro area (EA) has remained not only
intact but also expanded and integrated further during the crisis
require deeper theoretical investigation. One needs to understand
not only the economics but also the politics and institutions of
the crisis. A lack of such an understanding is the reason why a
number of observers, at least initially, had a hard time making
sense of policy-makers' decisions (and pace thereof), including why
the EA did not implode as some predicted. Economic theories provide
a certain perspective for why the crisis occurred and what economic
policies were and are needed to resolve it; however, they fail to
capture the deeper roots and management of the crisis. In order to
improve our understanding of a discussion that has oscillated
between fears of EA disintegration on the one hand and the concrete
advancement of integration during the crisis on the other, this
special collection brings together leading scholars of European
integration who apply key theoretical approaches - from liberal
intergovernmentalism and neofunctionalism to other prominent
theoretical accounts that have been applied to European integration
such as historical institutionalism, critical political economy,
normative theory, and a public opinion approach - to the economic
and financial crisis. The contributions seek to analyse, understand
and/or explain the events that occurred and the (re)actions to them
in order to draw conclusions concerning the applicability and
usefulness of their respective theoretical perspectives. This book
was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public
Policy.
Updated to reflect the latest scientific advances and technologies
in the diagnosis and treatment of pleural diseases, this new Second
Edition explores the structure and function of these diseases and
malignancies, from tuberculosis and asbestos to pleurisy and
pneumothorax. Edited by leading international authorities in
pulmonary medicine, this comprehensive guide is an invaluable
resource for pulmonologists, radiologists, and critical care
physicians. Pleural Disease, Second Edition highlights: molecular
and diagnostic approaches interventional applications, including
pleural thoracentesis and closed biopsy, chest tube insertion,
pleural lavage, medical thoracoscopy, and VATS biomarkers and
proteomics translational medicine approaches, new treatment
methodologies, and clinical manifestations various diagnostic tests
and the importance of clinical evaluation in the differential
diagnosis of a pleural effusion new surgical and non-surgical
techniques to identify and diagnose pleural diseases, including:
medical thoracoscopy, pleural lavage, intrapleural fibrinolytics,
image-guided small bore catheters, video-assisted thoracoscopic
surgery (VATS), pleuroperitoneal shunt, and extrapleural
pneumonectomy
As the theories and methods have evolved over the years, the mechanics of solid bodies has become unduly fragmented. Most books focus on specific aspects, such as the theories of elasticity or plasticity, the theories of shells, or the mechanics of materials. While a narrow focus serves immediate purposes, much is achieved by establishing the common foundations and providing a unified perspective of the discipline as a whole.
Mechanics of Solids and Shells accomplishes these objectives. By emphasizing the underlying assumptions and the approximations that lead to the mathematical formulations, it offers a practical, unified presentation of the foundations of the mechanics of solids, the behavior of deformable bodies and thin shells, and the properties of finite elements. The initial chapters present the fundamental kinematics, dynamics, energetics, and behavior of materials that build the foundation for all of the subsequent developments. These are presented in full generality without the usual restrictions on the deformation. The general principles of work and energy form the basis for the consistent theories of shells and the approximations by finite elements. The final chapter views the latter as a means of approximation and builds a bridge between the mechanics of the continuum and the discrete assembly.
Expressly written for engineers, Mechanics of Solids and Shells forms a reliable source for the tools of analysis and approximation. Its constructive presentation clearly reveals the origins, assumptions, and limitations of the methods described and provides a firm, practical basis for the use of those methods.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Annual
Privacy Forum, APF 2014, held in Athens, Greece, in May 2014. The
12 revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed
and selected from 21 submissions. The topics include: the concept
and implementation of "privacy by design," with applications to
encrypted databases; the study of video surveillance architectures
and new networking concepts and innovative solutions for identity
management. The papers address the technical, legal, and economic
aspects of these problems.
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the First Annual
Privacy Forum, APF 2012, held in Limassol, Cyprus, in October 2012.
The 13 revised papers presented in this volume were carefully
reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. They are organized in
topical sections named: modelling; privacy by design; identity
management and case studies.
This volume, dedicated to Professor Dimitri Beskos, contains
contributions from leading researchers in Europe, the USA, Japan
and elsewhere, and addresses the needs of the computational
mechanics research community in terms of timely information on
boundary integral equation-based methods and techniques applied to
a variety of fields.
The contributors are well-known scientists, who also happen to
be friends, collaborators as past students of Dimitri Beskos.
Dimitri is one the BEM pioneers who started his career at the
University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA, in the 1970s and is
now with the University of Patras in Patras, Greece.
The book is essentially a collection of both original and review
articles on contemporary Boundary Element Methods (BEM) as well as
on the newer Mesh Reduction Methods (MRM), covering a variety of
research topics. Close to forty contributions compose an over-500
page volume that is rich in detail and wide in terms of breadth of
coverage of the subject of integral equation formulations and
solutions in both solid and fluid mechanics.
Updated to reflect the latest scientific advances and technologies
in the diagnosis and treatment of pleural diseases, this new Second
Edition explores the structure and function of these diseases and
malignancies, from tuberculosis and asbestos to pleurisy and
pneumothorax. Edited by leading international authorities in
pulmonary medicine, this comprehensive guide is an invaluable
resource for pulmonologists, radiologists, and critical care
physicians. Pleural Disease, Second Edition highlights: molecular
and diagnostic approaches interventional applications, including
pleural thoracentesis and closed biopsy, chest tube insertion,
pleural lavage, medical thoracoscopy, and VATS biomarkers and
proteomics translational medicine approaches, new treatment
methodologies, and clinical manifestations various diagnostic tests
and the importance of clinical evaluation in the differential
diagnosis of a pleural effusion new surgical and non-surgical
techniques to identify and diagnose pleural diseases, including:
medical thoracoscopy, pleural lavage, intrapleural fibrinolytics,
image-guided small bore catheters, video-assisted thoracoscopic
surgery (VATS), pleuroperitoneal shunt, and extrapleural
pneumonectomy
Although the first Agro-Food products based on modem biotechnology
(e. g. recombinant chymosin for cheese production; tomato puree
based on genetically engineered tomatoes; herbicide-resistant,
genetically modified soybean; insect resistant maize) have been
introduced in the EU markets in recent years, the application of
this technology is still being intensively discussed in the
European Union. Recent opinion polls indicate as well that
consumers' acceptance of genetically engineered food and
agro-products still is relatively low (e. g. European Commission
1997, Hampel et al. 1997), at least in some member states of the
EU. In contrast, representatives from politics and industry
underline the necessity to apply modem biotechnology in the
Agro-Food sector as well, mainly to ensure the competitiveness of
EU agriculture and food industry and for employment reasons.
Against this background there seems to be a need for a scientific
analysis of the future impacts of modem biotechnology in the
Agro-Food sector of the EU. Recent studies trying to analyse this
issue (e. g. OECD 1992, Teuber 1992) usually comprise
extrapolations of status-quo analyses. What has not been exploited
so far in this context are systematic technology forecasting
approaches which do not include only one single country, but get
information on an international level. Therefore, the impacts of
modem biotechnology on the Agro-Food sector in five member
countries of the EU (Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and
Spain) have been analysed with the help of the Delphi methodology
which represents one of the most reliable tools for technology
forecasting."
Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegrundet 1849, ist die weltweit
alteste, traditionsreichste und umfangreichste Editionsreihe
griechischer und lateinischer Literatur von der Antike bis zur
Neuzeit. Pro Jahr erscheinen 4-5 neue Editionen. Samtliche Ausgaben
werden durch eine lateinische oder englische Praefatio erganzt. Die
wissenschaftliche Betreuung der Reihe obliegt einem Team
anerkannter Philologen: Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore
di Pisa) Marcus Deufert (Universitat Leipzig) James Diggle
(University of Cambridge) Donald J. Mastronarde (University of
California, Berkeley) Franco Montanari (Universita di Genova)
Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath (Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen)
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Demosthenes' oration On the Chersonese is a masterpiece of
rhetorical brilliance and contains some of the best examples of his
skill as a political orator, coming as one of his final surviving
speeches in the corpus. It was delivered to the Athenians in 341
BC, at a time of turbulent events when Athens was coming under
increasing pressure resulting from the actions of Philip of
Macedon. The Chersonese was a region of great importance for
Athens. At the time of the speech, Philip was in the middle of an
extensive military and diplomatic campaign in Thrace that would
threaten the security of the Athenian grain trade from the Black
Sea. The resulting pressure in the Chersonese, however, was seen by
Demosthenes as an attempt by Philip to weaken Athens as a prelude
to taking the whole of Greece. In this context he argued in the
speech that the general Diopeithes, who had been sent out to the
Chersonese in 346 with a naval force, be supported in the face of
protest from Philip regarding Diopeithes' actions in the wider
area. He focuses on Athenian relations with Philip in this crucial
northern region and why Philip was a threat to Athenian interests
in the area. This edition with Greek text, translation and
commentary contains the first detailed commentary on this speech.
The introduction explains the historical background in some detail,
as well as examining Demosthenes' deliberative oratory, the
structure and style of the speech, and relationship to the speeches
that followed, including the famous Third Philippic. The commentary
focuses on all political, military, social and religious references
presented by Demosthenes, as well as oratorical aspects.
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Privacy Technologies and Policy - 4th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2016, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, September 7-8, 2016, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Stefan Schiffner, Jetzabel Serna, Demosthenes Ikonomou, Kai Rannenberg
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This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the
4th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2016, held in Frankfurt/Main,
Germany, in September 2016. The 12 revised full papers presented in
this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32
submissions. The papers are organized in three sessions: eIDAS and
data protection regulation; IoT and public clouds; and privacy
policies and privacy risk presentation.
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Privacy Technologies and Policy - Third Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2015, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, October 7-8, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Bettina Berendt, Thomas Engel, Demosthenes Ikonomou, Daniel Le Metayer, Stefan Schiffner
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the Third Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2015, held in
Luxembourg, Luxembourg, in October 2015. The 11 revised full papers
presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from
24 submissions. The topics focus on privacy by design (PbD), i.e.
the attempt to combine technical and organizational measures to
ensure the basic rights of the individual. The papers are organized
in three sessions: measuring privacy; rules and principles; legal
and economic perspectives on privacy.
This volume, dedicated to Professor Dimitri Beskos, contains
contributions from leading researchers in Europe, the USA, Japan
and elsewhere, and addresses the needs of the computational
mechanics research community in terms of timely information on
boundary integral equation-based methods and techniques applied to
a variety of fields.
The contributors are well-known scientists, who also happen to
be friends, collaborators as past students of Dimitri Beskos.
Dimitri is one the BEM pioneers who started his career at the
University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA, in the 1970s and is
now with the University of Patras in Patras, Greece.
The book is essentially a collection of both original and review
articles on contemporary Boundary Element Methods (BEM) as well as
on the newer Mesh Reduction Methods (MRM), covering a variety of
research topics. Close to forty contributions compose an over-500
page volume that is rich in detail and wide in terms of breadth of
coverage of the subject of integral equation formulations and
solutions in both solid and fluid mechanics.
Demosthenes (384322 BCE), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law
courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past
greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to the
rise of Philip of Macedon to supremacy. We possess by him political
speeches and law-court speeches composed for parties in private
cases and political cases. His early reputation as the best of
Greek orators rests on his steadfastness of purpose, his sincerity,
his clear and pungent argument, and his severe control of language.
In his law cases he is the advocate, in his political speeches a
castigator not of his opponents but of their politics. Demosthenes
gives us vivid pictures of public and private life of his time. The
Loeb Classical Library edition of Demosthenes is in seven volumes.
The first of the seven volumes of the Demosthenes edition contains
nine famous speeches in which he attempted to rouse athenian alarm
about Macedonian ambitions: the three Olynthiacs, the four
Philippics, On the Peace, and On the Chersonese. Here too are
Philip of Macedon's letter to Athens declaring war and the Answer
to Philip's letter.
Demosthenes (384-322 BCE), orator at Athens, was a pleader in
law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past
greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to the
rise of Philip of Macedon to supremacy. We possess by him political
speeches and law-court speeches composed for parties in private
cases and political cases. His early reputation as the best of
Greek orators rests on his steadfastness of purpose, his sincerity,
his clear and pungent argument, and his severe control of language.
In his law cases he is the advocate, in his political speeches a
castigator not of his opponents but of their politics. Demosthenes
gives us vivid pictures of public and private life of his time.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Demosthenes is in seven
volumes.
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