Institutional innovation in water management : the Scottish experience By W R Derrick Sewell, J T Coppock, Alan Pitkethly
2003 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 0203210735 | PDF | 4 MB
Content: List of figures. List of tables. Preface. Institutional innovation in water management. Antecedents. Reshaping the management of water supplies. Broadening the perspective in the management of water quality. Scottish water management reconsidered. Expanding the range of choice. Retrospect and prospect. Bibliography

Inside Bluebeard's Castle: Music and Drama in Béla Bartók's Opera By Carl S. Leafstedt
1999 | 254 Pages | ISBN: 0195109996 | PDF | 6 MB
This is the first book-length examination of Bartók's 1911 opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, one of the twentieth century's enduring operatic works. Writing in an engaging style, Leafstedt adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the opera by introducing, in addition to music-dramatic analysis, a number of topics that are new to the field of Bartók studies. These new areas of critical and scholarly terrain include a detailed literary study of the libretto and a gender-focused analysis of the opera's female character, Judith. Leafstedt begins with a short introductory chapter that places Duke Bluebeard's Castle within the context of Bartók's early composing career, his discovery of folk music, and its impact on his later work. The book goes on to explore the composition's troubled history, its failure to win two early Hungarian opera competitions, and the three versions of the ending that resulted, discussed here in depth for the first time. The core of the book is devoted to the musical and dramatic organization of the opera and offers an analysis of the seven individual door scenes, including a detailed analysis of scene six, the "lake of tears" scene, illustrating the work's complex tonal organization and dramatic structure. A separate chapter places this darkly psychological version of the Bluebeard story within the broader context of European history and literature. Throughout the book, Leafstedt draws on original Hungarian source material, much of it newly translated by the author and available here for the first time in English, and he includes a generous selection of musical examples. Inside Bluebeard's Castle is an ideal starting point for research in twentieth-century music, Hungarian cultural history, and opera studies, as well as an invaluable guide for anyone interested in Bartók's only opera.

Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare: Proceedings of 10th KES-InMed 2022 by Yen-Wei Chen
English | PDF | 2022 | 309 Pages | ISBN : 9811934398 | 8.4 MB
This book presents the proceedings of the KES International Conferences on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare (KES-InMed-22), held in Rhodes, Greece, on June 20-22, 2022. Covering a number of key areas, including digital IT architecture in health care; advanced ICT for medicine and health care; biomedical engineering, trends, research, and technologies; and healthcare support systems, this book is a valuable resource for researchers, managers, industrialists, and anyone wishing to gain an overview of the latest research in these fields.

, "Informal Nationalism After Communism: The Everyday Construction of Post-Socialist Identities "
English | ISBN: 1784539414 | 2018 | 232 pages | EPUB | 1525 KB
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, nation building and identity construction in the post-socialist region have been the subject of extensive academic research. The majority of these studies have taken a 'top-down' approach - focusing on the variety of ways in which governments have sought to define the nascent nation states - and in the process have often oversimplified the complex and overlapping processes at play across the region. Drawing on research on the Balkans, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, this book focuses instead on the role of non-traditional, non-politicised and non-elite actors in the construction of identity. Across topics as diverse as school textbooks, turbofolk and home decoration, contributors - each an academic with extensive on-the-ground experience - identify and analyse the ways that individuals living across the post-socialist region redefine identity on a daily basis, often by manipulating and adapting state policy.In the process, Nation Building in the Post-Socialist Region demonstrates the necessity of holistic, trans-national and inter-disciplinary approaches to national identity construction rather than studies limited to a single-state territory.

Inflation How It Works: Find Out How Inflation Works and How to Earn Using It by Mike Carlige
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B3F6W5GZ | 55 pages | EPUB | 1.32 Mb
The Inflation Book helps you learn, in a short and easy way, how to make money from Inflation by learning what you should buy, when you should buy it, how to store it and how to sell it. It helps beginning and even intermediate investors learn everything they need to know in order to be successful in this market.

S. Irudaya Rajan, "India Migration Report 2021: Migrants and Health"
English | ISBN: 1032259426 | 2022 | 324 pages | PDF | 5 MB
India Migration Report 2021 presents a detailed study on the health of migrants. It highlights major healthcare challenges faced by migrant labourers, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced authorities, policymakers and many other stakeholders to turn their attention to healthcare delivery unlike ever before.

Evgeny Katz, "Implantable Bioelectronics"
English | 2014 | pages: 473 | ISBN: 3527335250 | PDF | 100,2 mb
Here the renowned editor Evgeny Katz has chosen contributions that cover a wide range of examples and issues in implantable bioelectronics, resulting in an excellent overview of the topic. The various implants covered include biosensoric and prosthetic devices, as well as neural and brain implants, while ethical issues, suitable materials, biocompatibility, and energy-harvesting devices are also discussed.

Vittorio Castelli, Lawrence D. Bergman, "Image Databases: Search and Retrieval of Digital Imagery"
English | 2001 | pages: 608 | ISBN: 0471321168 | PDF | 4,7 mb
The explosive growth of multimedia data transmission has generated a critical need for efficient, high-capacity image databases, as well as powerful search engines to retrieve image data from them. This book brings together contributions by an international all-star team of innovators in the field who share their insights into all key aspects of image database and search engine construction. Readers get in-depth discussions of the entire range of crucial image database architecture, indexing and retrieval, transmission, display, and user interface issues. And, using examples from an array of disciplines, the authors present cutting-edge applications in medical imagery, multimedia communications, earth science, remote sensing, and other major application areas.

Damir Kapidžić, "Illiberal Politics in Southeast Europe: How Ruling Elites Undermine Democracy "
English | ISBN: 1032076895 | 2021 | 236 pages | EPUB | 1515 KB
The world is increasingly becoming less democratic and this trend has not left Southeast Europe untouched. But instead of democratic breakdown what we are witnessing is a gradual decline and the rise of competitive authoritarian regimes.

George C Daughan, "If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy-from the Revolution to the War of 1812"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0465025145, 0465016073 | EPUB | pages: 576 | 2.3 mb
The American Revolution-and thus the history of the United States-began not on land but on the sea. Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride not by jumping on a horse, but by scrambling into a skiff with two other brave patriots to cross Boston Harbor to Charlestown. Revere and his companions rowed with muffled oars to avoid capture by the British warships closely guarding the harbor. As they paddled silently, Revere's neighbor was flashing two lanterns from the belfry of Old North Church, signaling patriots in Charlestown that the redcoats were crossing the Charles River in longboats. In every major Revolutionary battle thereafter the sea would play a vital, if historically neglected, role. When the American colonies took up arms against Great Britain, they were confronting the greatest sea-power of the age. And it was during the War of Independence that the American Navy was born. But following the British naval model proved crushingly expensive, and the Founding Fathers fought viciously for decades over whether or not the fledgling republic truly needed a deep-water fleet. The debate ended only when the Federal Navy proved indispensable during the War of 1812. Drawing on decades of prodigious research, historian George C. Daughan chronicles the embattled origins of the U.S. Navy. From the bloody and gunpowder-drenched battles fought by American sailors on lakes and high seas to the fierce rhetorical combat waged by the Founders in Congress, If By Sea charts the course by which the Navy became a vital and celebrated American institution.