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With the building of the International Space Station (ISS), humans are committing
themselves to a continuing presence in space. This enterprise follows earlier space
stations under the Salyut, Skylab, and Mir programs. But the ISS represents a…

A variety of soft actuators has so far been developed not only from the fundamental
viewpoint of basic material science, chemistry, physics, and biology but also from
the engineering viewpoint for the practical applications to light-weight,…

Social media is having a profound, but not yet fully understood impact on public
relations. In the 24/7 world of perpetually connected publics, will public
relations
function as a dark art that spins (or tweets) self-interested variations
of
the…

Trading is a difficult business. Finding a way to build steady profits takes long, hard work or very good luck. Sometimes the effort fails; no matter how much energy is applied, there is no answer to be found. Other times, a successful program has…

The Encyclopedia of Smart Materials (ESM) contains the writings, thoughts, and work of many of the world’s fore- most people (scientists, educators, chemists, engineers, laboratory and innovative practitioners) who work in the field of smart…

So begins Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens was writing about London and Paris in 1775. But Dickens could have been writing about the fi eld of enterprise architecture, the science of aligning business needs and IT solutions, as it…

We review the extensive benchmark data on short‐term memory for order, and discuss the prominent computational theories accounting for serial order memory. On the basis of recent diagnostic results, we identify four explana- tory constructs that we…

This text is intended for students beginning the study of mechanical engineering design.
The focus is on blending fundamental development of concepts with practical specification
of components. Students of this text
should find
that it inherently…

Tensions and opportunities
for dutch and eU Foreign Policy

a comparative overview of the
legal systems of twelve muslim
countries in past and present