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The human desire for exploration and man's encounters with the unknown are a fundamental part of the cultural history of mankind, from the first stumbling steps on the African plains to the recent explorations of our globalised and urbanised world. From the dawn of the hominids to the days of the modern man, this ever changing terrestrial being has expanded in ever increasing circles of spatial consciousness, in an endeavour to climb over mountains to the next valley, transcend vast oceans and fly ...
Tópico(s): Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
2011 - Springer International Publishing | Studies in space policy
Leah McEwen, Robert E. Buntrock,
The introduction of the Internet into the publication environment has greatly increased the breadth of concerns around stewardship of information. Not only are research libraries dealing with an overall expansion of more traditional scholarly publication genres, an unprecedented number of other information venues are focusing attention on networking pre-published research data. In addition to communication of the latest ideas, significant value lies in appreciating both the super- and substructures ...
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2014 - American Chemical Society | ACS symposium series
P. K. Srivastava, Manju Balhara, Bhoopander Giri,
Soil is a very important and sensitive resource of any country as the crop yield of a nation on which the whole population depends is directly linked to the soil health. The dependence of a nation on others for meeting the demand of its population for food and other crop products is a matter of great concern. The Green Revolution in India intensified agricultural productivity to meet urgent public needs and for the commercialization of crop products. Indeed, Green Revolution helped in achieving ...
Tópico(s): Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
2020 - Springer Nature | Soil biology
Torgeir Moan, Mathias Egeland Eidem,
To improve the efficiency of land transport, bridges, submerged tunnels and subsea tunnels are introduced to replace ferries to cross straits. For wide and especially straits with a large depth or very soft bottom, floating bridges or submerged tunnels are attractive. Modern floating bridges can be traced back to the pontoon bridge design implemented in the 1940s, and the notable Hood Canal bridge in 1961. More recent floating bridges include the two Norwegian floating bridges: the 845-m long Bergsøysund ...
Tópico(s): Concrete Corrosion and Durability
2019 - Springer Nature | Lecture notes in civil engineering
Some contend that almost all universities follow institutional patterns derived from Western models and that all Asian universities are based on European academic models and traditions. However, the Chinese University 3.0 may be exceptional, demonstrating key characteristics of China's scholarly tradition, though it has been strongly influenced by various Western models over the twentieth century. Taking a historical-cultural approach, this chapter constructs the concept of the Chinese University ...
Tópico(s): Global Education and Multiculturalism
2016 - Springer Nature | Education in the Asia-Pacific region
The paper summarizes different approaches for the dissolution of cellulose and the use of these cellulose solutions for analysis, regeneration, and homogeneous modification of the polymer. Aqueous and non-aqueous solvents, melts, and soluble cellulose intermediates are discussed with the focus on new developments for the shaping and the homogeneous conversion of cellulose. It will be shown that these media open up new paths towards nanostructured regenerated cellulose and tailored cellulose derivatives ...
Tópico(s): biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
2010 - American Chemical Society | ACS symposium series
Produção Nacional
Jochen Schöngart, Achim Bräuning, Ana Carolina Maioli Campos Barbosa, Cláudio Sérgio Lisi, J. M. Oliveira,
We review a vast literature of Neotropical forest science and wood anatomical research that identifies 220 tree species from 46 botanical families with confirmed annual tree-ring formation. External factors that trigger annual growth rhythms include rainfall seasonality, annual long-term flooding (flood-pulse), soil water salinity (mangroves), and, with increasing latitude and altitude, photoperiod and temperature. Maximum ages for tropical angiosperms derived from tree-ring analyses generally do ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2017 - Springer Nature | Ecological studies
The word of Mechatronics is already 45 years old. This is an occasion to present the definitions of mechatronics, its history and to show current state of the art in this discipline. The article presents a short overview of the literature related to mechatronics. The development of mechatronics is also illustrated along with development of computers and washing machines . Finally the achievements are summarized and some questions related to mechatronics’ future are stated.
Tópico(s): Design Education and Practice
2015 - Springer Nature | Advances in intelligent systems and computing
Neha Sharma, Madhavi Shamkuwar, Inderjit Singh,
Human beings quest for making comfortable life is due to their inquisitiveness about technical arena. Over the last few decades, mankind had experienced technical transformational journey with the inventions of new technology frontiers. These frontiers have interacted with human beings and performed every possible work in shorter period of time and with a much greater accuracy. With the advent of ‘Smart Concepts’, the world is now becoming more connected. Precisely termed as hyper-connected world. ...
Tópico(s): IoT Networks and Protocols
2018 - Springer Nature | Intelligent systems reference library
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John P. Wourms, Leo S. Demski,
This volume had its origin in a Symposium on the Reproduction and Development of Cartilaginous Fishes that was held at the annual meetings of the American Elasmobranch Society and the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Charleston, South Carolina in June 1990. The aim of this symposium was to bring together many of those scientists interested in chondrichthyan reproduction and development in order to assess the current state of knowledge in these fields.
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
1993 - Springer Nature (Netherlands) | Developments in environmental biology of fishes
Rob Millington, Simon C. Darnell, Tavis Smith,
To explore the connections between sport, sustainability and international development through critical understandings of the place of the environment within the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) sector. The chapter explores both the forces (historical, social, political, economic) and actors (the UN, IOC) that help to explain the current and increasing connections between sport and sustainable development, before assessing the current state of SDP through three themes: the place of environmentalism ...
Tópico(s): Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
2020 - Elsevier BV | Research in the sociology of sport
Xiumin Hong, Jennifer J. Chen,
Tópico(s): Early Childhood Education and Development
2016 - Springer Nature | Education in the Asia-Pacific region
Tópico(s): Food Science and Nutritional Studies
1997 - Springer Nature | Food engineering series
Prashant Johri, Sunil Kumar Khatri, Ahmad T. Al‐Taani, Munish Sabharwal, Shakhzod Suvanov, Avneesh Kumar,
It is quite hard to imagine a smart system like a voice assistant or a chat-bot or a recommender system without natural language processing (NLP). It all starts with an initial unit that first interprets the data (audio or text) provided and then start making sense of the data, and after proper processing of the data, the actual steps are followed by the machine to throw some replies or get the work done. NLP does not fall under a discipline; rather it is a part of several different disciplines, i. ...
Tópico(s): Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
2021 - Springer International Publishing | Lecture notes in networks and systems
Leonard Abbeduto, Yolanda Keller‐Bell, Erica Richmond, Melissa M. Murphy,
Tópico(s): Multilingual Education and Policy
2006 - Academic Press | International review of research in mental retardation
Shyamanta M. Hazarika, Uday Shanker Dixit,
In this chapter, the historyHistory of robotics is traced. The emphasis is on highlighting significant moments in roboticsRobotics history that had far-reaching consequences on the field. A brief presentation of the technical intricacies is followed by highlight of the recent trends. The chapter finally dwells on the direction robotics is surging and poised to change the world in more things than one could possibly imagine.
Tópico(s): Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
2018 - Springer Nature | Materials forming, machining and tribology
A historically oriented review of spatial and longitudinal data analysis is presented. It is argued that these two branches of statistical research developed separately for good historical reasons, but that their common foundation in the analysis of correlated data, coupled with modern computing developments has encouraged their convergence. Current research in generalized linear mixed models and, more generally, in highly structured stochastic systems, exemplifies this convergence.
Tópico(s): Economic and Environmental Valuation
1997 - Springer Nature | Lecture notes in statistics
Katia Frangoudès, José J. Pascual-Fernández, Begoña Marugán Pintos,
In Europe, fisherwomen’s organisations were developed mainly during the 1990s. The need for fisherwomen to become organised or to develop networks has often arisen in response to crises affecting the fisheries industry. The usual pattern was for women to protest against policies that threatened the survival of artisanal fisheries and to seek an improvement in living conditions in their communities. By establishing organisations, women sought to obtain recognition for their contribution to the fisheries ...
Tópico(s): Coastal and Marine Management
2014 - Springer International Publishing | MARE publication series
Martin J. Whitehouse, Christopher M. Fedo,
This chapter describes the history, status, and future prospects of the life in Southern West Greenland. As the most extensive outcrop of Eoarchean rocks on the Earth, the 3.6–3.9 Ga gneiss terrain of southern west Greenland, with its enclaves of supracrustal rocks, represents an obvious target for investigations aimed at finding the Earth's earliest life. Rocks of the Isua Greenstone Belt (IGB) have long represented a fruitful target for early life investigations as the recognition that much of ...
Tópico(s): Geological Studies and Exploration
2007 - Elsevier BV | Developments in precambrian geology