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Since its inception in 1991, EUROMAT has been held each year on behalf of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), and alternates between general and topical prospectives. This year's theme, Advances in Mechanical Behaviour, Plasticity and Damage, was proposed by the Societe Francaise...

Extrait : La perspective est la première chose qu’un jeune Peintre doit apprendre pour savoir mettre chaque chose à sa place, et pour lui donner la juste mesure qu’elle doit avoir dans le lieu où elle est : ensuite il choisira un bon maître qui lui fasse connoître les beaux contours des figures,...

Extrait :  La perspective est la première chose qu’un jeune Peintre doit apprendre pour savoir mettre chaque chose  à sa place, et pour lui donner la juste mesure qu’elle doit avoir dans le lieu où elle est : ensuite il  choisira un bon maître qui lui...

La perspective est la première chose qu’un jeune Peintre doit apprendre pour savoir mettre chaque chose à sa place, et pour lui donner la juste mesure qu’elle doit avoir dans le lieu où elle est : ensuite il choisira un bon maître qui lui fasse connoître les beaux...

Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption. Our drive to consume—our desire for food, clothing, smart phones, and megahomes—evolved from our ancestors' drive to survive....

Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches...

La perspective est la première chose qu’un jeune Peintre doit apprendre pour savoir mettre chaque chose à sa place, et pour lui donner la juste mesure qu’elle doit avoir dans le lieu où elle est : ensuite il choisira un bon maître qui lui fasse connoître les beaux contours des figures,...

World egg consumption is increasing, particularly in developing countries. This creates new challenges, particularly for more intensive systems which have played a major role in increasing production and productivity. Intensive systems face a continuing threat from zoonoses. At the same time, consumer...

Analyses of big datasets signal important directions for the archaeology of religion in the Archaic to Mississippian Native North America Across North America, huge data accumulations derived from decades of cultural resource management studies, combined with old museum collections, provide...

Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...

Volume therapy or infusion therapy is used worldwide for the treatment of hypovolemia caused by surgical blood and plasma losses, trauma, burns, or infections. Interestingly, significant differences exist between countries regarding the use of plasma substitutes. In the United States, crystalloids...

1.1 Life Cycle Assessment (LeA): a fascinating and sophisticated tool The greening of the economy is not a new task, but it is a challenge for which a lot of tasks still have to be done. It is known that the main source of environ­ mental deterioration by industry is not any more the chimneys and...

Volume 51 contains a total of 60 lectures covering 12 topics: History Poetry Natural Science Philosophy Biography Prose Fiction Criticism and the Essay Education Political Science Drama Voyages and Travels Religion

Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?     During the Pleistocene era, the people now...