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The Japan Society of Civil Engineers has been promoting the development of technologies and the accumulation of knowledge for design and construction, management and maintenance, disaster prevention, and environmental measures for lifeline systems.…

Tensions and opportunities
for dutch and eU Foreign Policy

Literature is a powerful medium for examining justice, judgment, and society’s
treatment of humankind. “Does justice have a dark side?” Many pieces of literature
show the dark side of man’s justice, such as Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter,…

The authors first of all gratefully acknowledge the generosity of patients who have given permission for vignettes from their analyses to be published here. We have taken care that they will be recognisable by no one but themselves. We also thank the…

More than 40 years have elapsed since I was a psychology student at the University
of Warsaw and wrote a seminar paper on temperament, specifically, on Teplov’s
contribution to this field. My first published paper, which appeared in 1958, was…

As everyone makes decisions about what to eat on a daily basis, the topic of
this book is important. This is why I have chosen to facilitate wide distribution
by publishing this work as an Open Access book under a Creative Commons
Attribution…

The creators of curricula at technical universities have known for a long time that
a good designer, apart from the skills of coding, should possess interdisciplinary
knowledge. In addition to teaching mechanics, strength of materials, basics of…

For many of us living in the information age, the digital revolution has had a signifi cant impact on how we live, work and play. In the world of design, its impact has transformed design practices and created new opportunities; it has…

A few years ago, I was on a plane that had to turn
around shortly after takeoff because one of its two
engines had failed. When we were told to get into
crash position, the first thing I thought was, “I don’t
want to die yet! I was looking…