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Melis, Matthew E. COMGEN, a computer program for generating finite element models of composite materials at the micro level. [Washington, D.C.]: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1990.

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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration., ed. COMGEN, a computer program for generating finite element models of composite materials at the micro level. [Washington, D.C.]: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1990.

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Botswana. Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises Task Force. Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises Task Force report. Gaborone: Govt. Printer, 1998.

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Seibel, Robin. Manipulation of micro scale particles in an optical trap using interferometry. [Cleveland, Ohio]: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Glenn Research Center, 2002.

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Basnyet, Saroj K. Micro-level environmental management: Observations on public and private responses in Kakani Panchayat. Kathmandu, Nepal: International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, 1989.

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D, Peterson L., and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration., eds. Identification of nonlinear micron-level mechanics for a precision deployable joint. [Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1994.

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Réseau Socio-Economie de l'habitat (France). Réhabilitation et embourgeoisement des quartiers anciens centraux: Étude des formes et des processus de micro-ségrégation dans le quartier Saint-Georges à Lyon. Paris: Plan construction et architecture, 1997.

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Bourbia, Fatiha. L'impact des formes urbaines sur le micro-climat et la pérennité constructive des espaces extérieurs: Étude de trois quartiers de Constantine: Souika, Koudiat et Boussouf. 2nd ed. Alger: Office des Publications Universitaires, 2019.

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Fondation Maeght (Saint Paul) (1er avril-25 juin 2001). Joan Miro, métamorphoses des formes: Collection de la Fondation Maeght : [exposition, Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght,1er avril-25 juin 2001]. Saint-Paul-de-Vence: Fondation Maeght, 2001.

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1939-, Shukla Rohit, ed. Forest and tribal life: Study of a micro-region : socio-cultural traits sustaining tribal ecology, a case study of Danta Taluka, Banaskantha District, north Gujarat. New Delhi: Concept Pub. Co., 1990.

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Arnold, J. Douglas, and Zach Metson. Awesome Sega Genesis Secrets 4. Lahaina, HI: Sandwich Islands Publishing, 1994.

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Zaidi, Saba. Device for measuring cellular forces using micro-cantilever arrays. 2010.

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Mark J. &. E. Kinney Penn. Micro Trends - The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes (Vietnamese Edition). Gioi, 2009.

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Prajof, P., S. Mohan Krishna, J. L. Febin Daya, P. V. Brijesh, and Umashankar Subramaniam. Smart Grids and Micro-Grids. Wiley & Sons, Limited, John, 2023.

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Prajof, P., S. Mohan Krishna, J. L. Febin Daya, P. V. Brijesh, and Umashankar Subramaniam. Smart Grids and Micro-Grids: Technology Evolution. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2022.

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Prajof, P., S. Mohan Krishna, J. L. Febin Daya, P. V. Brijesh, and Umashankar Subramaniam. Smart Grids and Micro-Grids: Technology Evolution. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2022.

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Prajof, P., S. Mohan Krishna, J. L. Febin Daya, P. V. Brijesh, and Umashankar Subramaniam. Smart Grids and Micro-Grids: Technology Evolution. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2022.

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Meng, Jing. Fragmented Memories and Screening Nostalgia for the Cultural Revolution. Hong Kong University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888528462.001.0001.

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This book explores the way personal memories and micro-narratives of the Cultural Revolution are represented in post-2001 films and television dramas in mainland China, unravelling the complex political, social and cultural forces imbricated within the personalized narrative modes of remembering the past in postsocialist China. While representations of personal stories mushroomed after the Culture Revolution, the deepened marketization and privatization after 2001 have triggered a new wave of representations of personal memories on screen, which divert from those earlier allegorical narratives and are more sentimental, fragmented and nostalgic. The personalized reminiscences of the past suggest an alternative narrative to official history and grand narratives, and at the same time, by promoting the sentiment of nostalgia, they also become a marketing strategy. Rather than perceiving the rising micro-narratives as either homogeneous or autonomous, this book argues that they often embody disparate qualities and potentials. Moreover, the various micro-narratives and personal memories at play facilitate fresh understandings of China’s socialist past and postsocialist present: the legacies of socialism continue to influence China, constituting the postsocialist reality that accommodates different ideologies and temporalities.

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Alarcon, Eduard, Abdelali El Aroudi, Dimitri Galayko, and Elena Blokhina. Nonlinearity in Energy Harvesting Systems: Micro- and Nanoscale Applications. Springer London, Limited, 2016.

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Nonlinearity in Energy Harvesting Systems: Micro- and Nanoscale Applications. Springer, 2018.

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Alarcon, Eduard, Abdelali El Aroudi, Dimitri Galayko, and Elena Blokhina. Nonlinearity in Energy Harvesting Systems: Micro- and Nanoscale Applications. Springer, 2016.

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Brandt, Marieke. The Interior View of a War. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190673598.003.0001.

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The introductory chapter outlines the research question, research methods, and structure of the book. The book aims at exploring the ‘grassroots’ dynamics of the Houthi conflict in its area of origin by giving full play to the welter of local driving forces. The research question is related to anthropology’s preference for small-scale networks, local communities, and other micro-entities. Based on a bottom-up approach and a triangulation of qualitative content analysis, qualitative social science methodology (ethnographic fieldwork) and digital anthropological fieldwork, the book offers an intimate insight in one of the world’s most neglected and misunderstood conflicts.

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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Implications of Emerging Micro- and Nanotechnologies., ed. Implications of emerging micro- and nanotechnologies. Washington, D.C: National Academies Press, 2002.

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Associates, The. Micro Soft Add-on for Microsoft's Flight Simulator 98'/Royal Air Force. Interactive Magic, 1998.

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Macro and Micro Green- Celebrating the International Year of Forests. Nova Science Pub Inc, 2013.

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Vallas, Steven P. The Puzzle of Precarity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791843.003.0011.

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Social scientific efforts to understand the political and economic forces generating precarious employment have been mired in uncertainty. In this context, the Doellgast–Lillie–Pulignano (D–L–P) model represents an important step forward in both theoretical and empirical terms. This concluding chapter scrutinizes the authors’ theoretical model and assesses the present volume’s empirical applications of it. Building on the strengths of the D–L–P model, the chapter identifies several lines of analysis that can fruitfully extend our understanding of the dynamics of precarization, whether at the micro-, meso-, or macro-social levels of analysis. Especially needed are studies that explore the dynamics of organizational fields as these shape employer strategy and state policy towards employment. Such analysis will hopefully shed light on the perils and possibilities that workers’ organizations face as they struggle to cope with the demands of neoliberal capitalism.

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Trentmann, Frank. Material Histories of the World. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198768784.003.0011.

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The modern world has involved an unprecedented ballooning of stuff. How can historians make sense of this massive surge? This chapter offers some conceptual and methodological tools and suggestions. Instead of opting for either micro or macro histories, it argues that we need to move between these scales to capture, analyse, and explain the forces that drive greater consumption. The chapter links locally situated material culture with the aggregate global analysis of material flows. It discusses the influence of empire and political economy on taste, norms, and conventions and reflects on the dynamics of demand in contemporary societies by showing how everyday practices, energy systems, and networked infrastructures are interdependent and need to be studied together. It challenges a neat separation between demand and supply and calls on historians to straddle different spatial scales of the material world.

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Manipulation of micro scale particles in an optical trap using interferometry. [Cleveland, Ohio]: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Glenn Research Center, 2002.

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Succi, Sauro. LBE for Generalized Hydrodynamics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199592357.003.0025.

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This chapter presents the main techniques to incorporate the effects of external and/or internal forces within the LB formalism. This is a very important task, for it permits us to access a wide body of generalized hydrodynamic applications whereby fluid motion couples to a variety of additional physical aspects, such as gravitational and electric fields, potential energy interactions, chemical reactions and many others. It should be emphasized that while hosting a broader and richer phenomenology than “plain” hydrodynamics, generalized hydrodynamics still fits the hydrodynamic picture of weak departure from suitably generalized local equilibria. This class is all but an academic curiosity; for instance, it is central to the fast-growing science of Soft Matter, a scientific discipline which has received an impressive boost in the past decades, under the drive of micro- and nanotechnological developments and major strides in biology and life sciences at large.

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The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Interferometric Gyroscope (MiG). Storming Media, 2000.

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Andreoni, Antonio, Pamela Mondliwa, Simon Roberts, and Fiona Tregenna, eds. Structural Transformation in South Africa. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192894311.001.0001.

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Taking South Africa as an important case study of the challenges of structural transformation, the book offers a new micro-meso level framework and evidence linking country-specific and global dynamics of change, with a focus on the current challenges and opportunities faced by middle-income countries. Detailed analyses of industry groupings and interests in South Africa reveal the complex set of interlocking country-specific factors which have hampered structural transformation over several decades, but also the emerging productive areas and opportunities for structural change. The structural transformation trajectory of South Africa presents a unique country case, given its industrial structure, concentration, and highly internationalized economy, as well as the objective of black economic empowerment. The book links these micro-meso dynamics to the global forces driving economic, institutional, and social change. These include digital industrialization, global value-chain consolidation, financialization, and environmental and other sustainability challenges which are reshaping structural transformation dynamics across middle-income countries like South Africa. While these new drivers of change are disrupting existing industries and interests in some areas, in others they are reinforcing existing trends and configurations of power. The book analyses the ways in which both the domestic and global drivers of structural transformation shape—and, in some cases, are shaped by—a country’s political settlement and its evolution. By focusing on the political economy of structural transformation, the book disentangles the specific dynamics underlying the South African experience of the middle-income country conundrum. In so doing, it brings to light the broader challenges faced by similar countries in achieving structural transformation via industrial policies.

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Salet, Willem, Camila D'Ottaviano, Stan Majoor, and Daniel Bossuyt, eds. The Self-Build Experience. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447348429.001.0001.

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Comparing self-build experiences in city-regions over three continents, this book spans gigantic local differences. In order to make sense of comparison, a strict selection of paradigm is made to focus the analysis in all cases on the same relationships. The paradigm combines critical economic theory (coined by David Harvey) and cultural institutional analysis (inspired by Henri Lefebvre) in order to focus on the struggle between material and immaterial forces underlying the local performances. The analysis focuses both on the micro level performances and at the trans scalar social and political conditions to these practices. The commissioning role of residents vis-à-vis the role of the leading social movements focus on the social normalisation of moral ownership of the poor residents. The challenge is to sustain this active institutionalisation also in future processes of professionalization as the relationships on the lower segments of housing markets appear to be vulnerable for commercial economic exploitation.

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Gross, Elena, and Raymond Boadi Frempong. Socioeconomic and cultural drivers of women’s formal work in rural Ghana. 22nd ed. UNU-WIDER, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2021/956-3.

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We study socioeconomic indicators of female labour force participation in off-farm formal employment in a subsistence agriculture setting in northern Ghana, where a new commercial farm provides a positive demand shock for low-skilled labour. We use a set of quantitative and qualitative data examining determinants of female labour force participation, the social effects arising from it, and the influence on female decision-making power in their households. In line with other micro-studies, we find that education is not a driver of female labour participation in low-skilled jobs. Women from wealthier households and those with young children have a significantly lower probability of starting off-farm work. Polygamy and male dominance reduce women’s labour force participation. Women who earn off-farm income are strengthened in their intra-household decision-making position and can spend more money on themselves.

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San Martín Martínez, Eduardo. Avances de investigación en Nanociencias, Micro y Nanotecnologías (Vol. III). OmniaScience, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3926/oms.408.

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La ciencia de los materiales a escala nanométrica, está desarrollando materiales en las diversas áreas del conocimiento. Es necesario ahora más que nunca buscar en los desarrollos de la nanotecnología la articulación de forma multidisciplinaria el combate a un enemigo viral, COVID-19, que está provocando muchas muertes e infecciones con efectos secundarios en la humanidad, además paralizando las economías y el comportamiento de las sociedades. La prioridad en nanotecnología en la actualidad debe ser la salud, a través de la aplicación de nanotransportadores de antivirales como los liposomas que transportan el ARNm, se está pudiendo reducir la pandemia en la mayoría de los países. Se puede realizar pruebas con otros nanotransportadores poliméricos que tienen menor tamaño y que no requieren cadenas de frío muy bajas (-70 °C), sino transportarlas a temperaturas de 4 °C. Otras estrategias que se deben desarrollar es evitar los contagios a través de cubrebocas antivirales que contienen nanopartículas metálicas muy potentes para desactivar los virus por su tamaño e interacción química que desnaturaliza al virus. Los otros desarrollos en la nanotecnología en las otras áreas de la ciencia no deben de parar, porque los requerimientos en energía, comunicaciones, alimentos y medio ambiente siguen vigentes en cuanto a las necesidades de mejora y desarrollo de nuevos materiales nanométricos que superan grandemente en sus propiedades físicas, químicas y biológicas a sus formas naturales en bulto.

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Goode, Erich. The Taming of New York's Washington Square. NYU Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479878574.001.0001.

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This book addresses the matter of how social audiences, both formal agents of social control (the NYPD and the Park Enforcement Control) and the ordinary, everyday park-goer, react when they encounter what they consider wrongdoing, or “deviance.” The focus is on the micro or face-to-face interactional level; the larger structural forces are held in abeyance and assumed to operate, but they are not analysed or accounted for here. Likewise, literary and philosophical speculations as well as considering political and ideological implications have been left to other analysts. What constitutes deviance in an unconventional public setting remains the central issue throughout the volume. Visitors to the park—one that is known for celebrating difference and diversity—observe behaviour or utterances by an actor or a speaker in their presence that, they feel goes too far in violating their sense of acceptable norms. What do they do? How do they sanction the offender? The analysis in this book presents the reader with a series of anecdotes—events or episodes observed or statements overheard by the researcher that audiences, judging by their reactions, consider untoward. The action-reaction-interaction dynamics constitutes the lodestone of this volume. Washington Square Park is a “text”; this book represents a sociological “reading” of that text.

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Gurukkal, Rajan. History and Theory of Knowledge Production. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199490363.001.0001.

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This book seeks to provide an introductory outline of the history and theory of knowledge production, notwithstanding the vastness of the subject. It is to try and do a history of intellectual formation or history of ideas. One can see it as a textbook of historical epistemology, which in spatio-temporal terms historicizes knowledge production and contextualizes methodological development. It addresses itself as the historical process of the social constitution of knowledge, that is, the social history of the making of knowledge. Its objective is to make researchers of knowledge knowledgeable about the significant elements that underlie the history of knowledge. These elements constitute contemporary compulsions that make, shape, and regulate knowledge. Understanding what they mean and how they work is essential to prepare researchers as self-consciously realistic about the socio-economic and cultural process of knowledge production. What forces engender knowledge, how certain forms of it acquire precedence over the rest, and why are questions examined. Who decides what knowledge means or what should be recognized as knowledge becomes important here. We confine the discussion of knowledge systems to the broad heads, namely, the non-European, specifically the Indian and the European. Examining the process of the rise of science and new science, the book ends up reviewing speculative thoughts and imagination about the dynamics of subatomic micro-universe as well as the mechanics of the galactic macro-universe.

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Committee on Work and Organizations, Group for Advancement of Psychiatry. Psychiatry of Workplace Dysfunction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190697068.001.0001.

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Relationships have always been at the heart of business. Successful businesses develop and sustain solid relationships with suppliers, employees and customers. However, the forces of technology, globalization and litigation have dramatically reshaped workplace relationships, transforming them and in some instances damaging or dissolving them. As humans have a fundamental need to work, organizations have a similar need for workers to perform tasks optimally. Data show that attending to workplace relationships and engaging employees increases productivity, creativity, and loyalty, yielding both short-term and long-term benefits. Disruptions of these relationships can lead to significant impairment in performance as well as deterioration in workers’ mental health. The tools that managers once relied upon to restore relationships have been weakened in part because of technology, globalization and litigation. The principles discussed in this book are designed to foster high-functioning workplace relationships. The authors’ psychiatric training, coupled with the breadth of their collective years of business and legal consultation experience, offers unique wisdom about developing and sustaining a relationship-focused perspective at work. The insights integrate cutting edge previously unpublished information with prior research and understanding of the psychological dynamics and principles of the workplace on both macro and micro levels—all presented in lay terminology punctuated by useful graphics with a minimum of technical terms, making the book easily understood by mental health professionals, managers, and employees audiences alike.

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Varin, Caroline. Boko Haram and the War on Terror. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400620331.

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A comprehensive analysis of the rise of Boko Haram from a small religious cult to a major terrorist group, placing them within the context of Nigerian politics and the international War on Terror. In 2009, Nigerian security forces stormed a religious cult by the name of Boko Haram, killing its leader and thousands of followers. Six years later, Boko Haram is an enemy to reckon with, boasting 15,000 members and taking credit for 20,000 deaths. This book looks at the successful rise of this terrorist group, probing the religious and political environment that enabled a relatively small cult to threaten a nation. The study draws on the author's fieldwork in Nigeria, where she had access to officials, activists, psychologists, and military personnel. Written in a clear and accessible manner, it offers a micro-to-macro investigation of the Boko Haram as a phenomenon. It also provides readers with an understanding of the regional dynamics that obstructed political and military cooperation among neighboring countries, enabling Boko Haram's success. This book traces the group's religious origins in the early 2000s and documents its violent political claims in Nigeria and across the border in Northern Cameroon, Niger, and Chad. Finally, it examines the impact of the international War on Terror and presents a comparative study of other contemporary terrorism movements and their networks.

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Mate, C. Mathew, and Robert W. Carpick. Tribology on the Small Scale. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199609802.001.0001.

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Friction, lubrication, adhesion, and wear are prevalent physical phenomena in everyday life and in many key technologies. The goal of this book is to incorporate a bottom up approach to friction, lubrication, and wear into a versatile textbook on tribology. This is done by focusing on how these tribological phenomena occur on the small scale—the atomic to the micrometer scale—a field often called nanotribology. The book covers the microscopic origins of the common tribological concepts: roughness, elasticity, plasticity, friction coefficients, and wear coefficients. Some macroscale concepts (like elasticity) scale down well to the micro- and atomic scale, while other macroscale concepts (like hydrodynamic lubrication) do not. In addition, this book also has chapters on topics not typically found in tribology texts: surface energy, surface forces, lubrication in confined spaces, and the atomistic origins of friction and wear. These chapters covered tribological concepts that become increasingly important at the small scale: capillary condensation, disjoining pressure, contact electrification, molecular slippage at interfaces, atomic scale stick-slip, and bond breaking. Numerous examples are provided throughout the book on how a nanoscale understanding of tribological phenomena is essential to the proper engineering of important new technologies such as MEMS, disk drives, and nanoimprinting. For the second edition, all the chapters have been revised and updated, with many new sections added to incorporate the most recent advancements in nanoscale tribology. Another important enhancement to the second edition is the addition of problem sets at the end of each chapter.

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Lepora, Nathan F. Biohybrid systems. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199674923.003.0048.

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This chapter introduces the “biohybrid systems” section of the Handbook of Living Machines and briefly reviews some important examples of systems formed by coupling biological to engineered components. These include brain–machine interfaces, both non-invasive, using different external measurement and scanning devices, and invasive approaches focusing on implantable probes. Next we consider fabrication methods for micro- and nanobiohybrid systems and an example of a biohybrid system at the organism level, in the form of a robot–animal biohybrid, developed using methods from synthetic biology. There are many application for biohybrid systems in healthcare: we include exemplar chapters describing intelligent prostheses such as artificial hands with tactile sensing capabilities, sensory organ–chip hybrids in the form of cochlear implants, and artificial implants designed to replace damaged neural tissue and restore lost memory function.

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Annereau-Fulbert, Marie. Por los senderos mayas de las Tierras Altas de Chiapas y Guatemala. Herencias y nuevos retos de la investigación. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Departamento de Publicaciones del Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19130/iifl.0023570001.smayas.

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Esta obra reúne una selección de textos cuyo hilo conductor son los senderos históricos particulares de los pueblos mayas de las Tierras Altas. Busca reflejar la diversidad de las áreas de estudio: antropología, arqueología, historia y lingüística en un diálogo necesario y muchas veces complejo. Sin embargo, varios textos entran en diálogo y la unidad le otorga una misma inquietud: dejar de generalizar los procesos históricos de la región, privilegiando una mirada a micro-escala que nos permite resaltar las rupturas y contradicciones de los fenómenos observados, por retomar viejos temas a la luz de una lectura renovada de los documentos de archivos y de quien los escribe, por compartir las desdichas del trabajo de campo en las comunidades que nos exhortan a pensar en nuevas formas de colaboración entre los investigadores y los pueblos mayas.

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Reintges, Chris H., and Sonia Cyrino. Analyticization and the syntax of the synthetic residue. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198747307.003.0010.

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Current understanding of syntactic variation and change relies on the notion of parameters of varying magnitude (micro- and macroparameters). This chapter focuses on the flipside of parameter change, namely the retention and survival of synthetic morphological structure in a context of widespread analyticization. The global effects of synthetic-to-analytic drift are examined in two diachronic scenarios: one in which the process has almost, though not entirely been completed (Coptic Egyptian), and another one in which the process is still under way (Brazilian Portuguese). Coptic has gone very far in abandoning its former synthetic features and thus exhibits a high degree of analyticity. In Brazilian Portuguese, the analyticization process is an advanced state, with synthetically inflected tenses exhibiting a decreasing productivity and gradually being replaced by the corresponding auxiliary verb constructions in the spoken language. The restriction on verb movement is a side effect of ongoing analyticization that affects language’s word order.

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Mendenhall, Emily. Rethinking Diabetes. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501738302.001.0001.

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Rethinking Diabetes investigates how "global" and "local" factors transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied from place to place. The book argues that neoliberal capitalism fuels the intrinsic links between hunger and crisis, structural violence and fear, and cumulative trauma and psychiatric distress that are embodied in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (hereafter, "diabetes"). It suggests that a global story of modernization as the primary force in the spread of global diabetes overlooks the micro-level stressors that respond to structural inequalities and drive the underlying psychophysiological processes linking hunger, crisis, oppression, unbridled stress, and chronic psychological distress to diabetes. The narratives in this book unveil how deeply embedded such factors are in how diabetes is experienced and (re)produced among low-income communities around the world. Yet, the book focuses on four life stories – one from each context – to consider how diabetes is perceived and experienced in the United States, India, South Africa, and Kenya. These discrete chapters investigate how social, cultural, and epidemiological factors shape people's experiences and why we need to take these differences seriously when we think about what drives diabetes and how it affects the lives of the poor.

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Military, U. S., Department of Defense, and U. S. Air Force. 2009-2047 U. S. Air Force Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and UAV Flight Plan - Current Program, Action Plan, Nano, Micro, Man-Portable, Air-Launched, Predator, Reaper, Global Hawk, Raven. Independently Published, 2017.

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Wadle, Ryan. Afghanistan War. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400607417.

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Providing an invaluable introductory resource for students investigating the war in Afghanistan, this book highlights the evolution of the conflict through the documents that helped to shape it. This carefully curated primary source collection includes more than 80 documents from the national and international participants in nearly four decades of conflict that led to the Afghanistan War. Readers will gain an understanding of the macro and micro costs of the war on the participants and the political, social, economic, and military factors that have allowed the fighting to persist. Authored by a former member of the Afghanistan Study Team at the U.S. Army's Combat Studies Institute, readers will gain special insight into the military dynamics of the war in Afghanistan and how the war has changed those who have fought in it. The book is divided into four chapters that cover the primary phases of the war in Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and Civil War, 1979–2001; Operation ENDURING FREEDOM and Reconstruction Begins, 2001–2003; The Taliban Return, 2003–2009; and The Surge, Drawdown, and an Uncertain Future, 2009–2017. This structure enables readers to clearly understand how the war evolved and the most significant developments that shaped each period.

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Morcillo, Santiago. Sexo por dinero. Teseo, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.55778/ts878831114.

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<p>La prostitución puede pensarse como una institución paradójica, que construye fetichismo desde la marginalidad. Llamada “vida alegre” pero también “mala vida”, entre una supuesta trasgresión y una sanción moral se configura un espacio de exclusión marcado por la estigmatización y la subalternidad. ¿Cómo se hace posible habitar, o transitar, esa vida? Esta fue la pregunta que me lanzó a investigar las experiencias de las mujeres que protagonizan este libro.</p><p>Conocer las vidas de las mujeres que se dedican al comercio sexual nos puede enseñar mucho sobre las formas en que nuestra sociedad organiza no solo las sexualidades y el dinero, sino también el uso del tiempo y los espacios, los significados del cuerpo y sus zonas, los vínculos comerciales y socio-afectivos. Aquí, a partir de un recorrido por estas dimensiones de las experiencias de vender sexo, se intenta comprender las identificaciones ambivalentes ligadas a la prostitución.</p><p>En el contexto de un debate feminista sobre la prostitución que ha conducido a concepciones polarizadas, resulta fructífero reconstruir las posiciones de las propias involucradas desde los relatos de sus experiencias para comprender cómo estas se insertan en los entramados más amplios de relaciones sociales. Sin olvidar el marco de las asimetrías estructurales, se interpretan en un nivel micro-sociológico los relatos de mujeres que se dedicanal comercio sexual en diversos escenarios.</p>

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Seymour, Mark. Emotional Arenas. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198743590.001.0001.

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Based on the records of a murder trial that transfixed the nation, this book is a social history of 1870s Italy that develops a new paradigm for the history of emotions - the ‘emotional arena’. The decade following Italian unification formed a context of notable cultural variety and fluidity, and the experience and expression of emotions could be as variable as the regions making up the new nation. Through a close examination of a range of specific spaces in which lives, loves, and deaths unfolded – such as marital homes, places of socializing and entertainment, funerals, and a Roman courtroom – the book argues that social ‘arenas’ are crucial to the historical development of emotional cultural rules and styles. The narrative is driven by the failed marriage of a decorated but allegedly impotent Risorgimento soldier, his wife’s affair with a circus artiste (who had a string of previous lovers), and the illicit new couple’s murder of the husband. Hundreds of witnesses – from local professionals to servants and even circus clowns – interviewed across the length and breadth of the peninsula, left their personal views on marriage, love, sexuality, and infidelity. These provide a series of peepholes into little-known corners of the new nation’s social fabric. A careful yet imaginative reading of the prosecution records and contemporary newspaper coverage allows exploration of the highly emotional experiences generated by this story. The result is a classic Italian micro-history with surprising relevance for today’s emotionally volatile times.

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Tye, Michael. Vagueness and the Evolution of Consciousness. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198867234.001.0001.

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Either consciousness appeared suddenly in living beings so that its appearance is like that of a light switch being turned on or it arose through intermediate stages. On the former view, consciousness is an on/off matter, but once it arose, it became richer and richer through time rather as a beam of light may become brighter and broader in its sweep. On the latter view, consciousness is not an on/off matter. There are shades of gray. Consciousness arose gradually just as life did, becoming richer through time as animal brains became more complex. I argue that both these views encounter insuperable difficulties and thus that a kind of paradox arises. The way out of the paradox is to accept that the various species of consciousness are vague, admitting of borderline cases, and are to be accounted for within a representationalist view of conscious states but that consciousness itself, or rather a central element of consciousness I call “consciousness*”, is sharp. Consciousness*, I claim, is a fundamental feature of micro-reality, and thus it did not evolve, unlike conscious states. The view with which I end up presents novel solutions to three important problems (of undirected consciousness, of combination, and of tiny, psychological subjects). It also takes up the question of how consciousness can be causally efficacious with respect to animal behavior. The final chapter of the book turns to the question of where in the brain macro-consciousness is located and which animal brains so evolved as to support conscious states.

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Anderson, Raymond A. Credit Intelligence & Modelling. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192844194.001.0001.

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This book, “Forest Paths” for short, started as a detailed guide for the construction of predictive models for credit and other risk assessment, for use in big-bank retail lending. It became a textbook covering credit processes (from marketing through to fraud), bureau and rating agencies, and various tools. Included are detailed histories (economics, statistics, social science}, which much referencing. It is unique in the field, with chatpers’-end questions. The primary target market is corporate and academic, but much would be of interest to a broader audience. There are eight modules: 1) an introduction to credit risk assessment and predictive modelling; 2) micro-histories of credit, credit intelligence, credit scoring, plus industrial revolutions, economic ups and downs, and both personal registration and identification; 4) mathematical and statistical tools used to develop and assess predictive models; 5) project management and data assembly; 6) data preparation from sampling to reject inference; 7) model training through to implementation; and 8) appendices, including an extensive glossary, bibliography, and index. Although the focus is credit risk, especially in the retail consumer and small-business segments, many concepts are common across disciplines as diverse as psychology, biology, engineering, and computer science, whether academic research or practical use. It also covers issues relating to the use of machine learning for credit risk assessment. Most of the focus is on traditional modelling techniques, but the increasing use of machine learning is recognised, as are its limitations. It is hoped that the contents will inform both camps.

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Pérez Torrado, Francisco José, Alejandro Rodríguez González, Claudio Moreno Medina, María del Carmen Cabrera Santana, Juan Carlos Carracedo Gómez, Santiago Díaz Rodríguez, José-Luis Fernández-Turiel, Constantino Criado Hernández, Meritxell Aulinas Juncá, and Claudia Prieto-Torrell. VOLCANOES IN MOTION: EL HIERRO AND LA PALMA. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Servicio de Publicaciones y Difusión Científica, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.20420/volim1.2023.583.

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We explain, through a collection of ten panels distribuited in five thematic blocks, the geological history of the El Hierro and La Palma islands in the framework of intraplate volcanic islands evolution. In the first two panels we explain how the Canary Islands were formed and evolved, and the birth of El Hierro, the youngest island of the archipelago. Next, we observe the landscapes of El Hierro as a response to macro-scale, such as giant landslides and rifts, and micro-scale phenomena (volcanic cones, lava fields and shore platforms). The last eruption of the El Hierro island in 2011-12 that gave rise to the Tagoro submarine volcano is also exposed. In addition, we present how the Herreños have adapted to the territory, knowing how to take advantage of its scarce water resources and adapt their way of life to the volcanic landscape, achieving that the entire island was declared in 2000 a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve and Geopark in 2015. In the last two panels we expose the geological evolution of the island of La Palma and its last eruption of the Tajogaite volcano in 2021. THEMATIC BLOCK I. A SEA OF VOLCANOES:“Origin of the Canary islands”, “And El Hierro was born”. THEMATIC BLOCK II. VOLCANIC LANDSCAPES:"Megaestructures", “Structures on the ground”. THEMATIC BLOCK III. EXPLORE THE VOLCANIC PARADISE:“Walking among volcanoes”, "The last volcano of El Hierro" THEMATIC BLOCK IV. LIVING AMONG VOLCANOES:"The water in El Hierro",“What the land tell us” THEMATIC BLOCK V. LA PALMA: THE PRETTY ISLAND: "And La Palma was born",“The 2021 eruption”.

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