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 Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia: Volume 1 & 2
This illustrated reference work covers a wide range of festivals that have sacred origins and are, or have been, part of a folk tradition, a world religion, or a major civilization.
• More than 150 A–Z entries on the content and context of each festival, tracing its historical development and geographic variations, from... | | Design Creativity 2010
What is ‘design creativity’? It is impossible to answer this question without considering why human beings can – and do – ‘design’. Design creativity is instrumental in not only addressing social problems faced across the world, but also evoking an innate appreciation for beauty and a sense of... | | New Perspectives in Magnesium Research: Nutrition and Health
A definitive review in the field of magnesium research, this book brings together the proceedings of the 11th International Magnesium Symposium in Osaka, Japan from October 22-26, 2006. Written by authorities in the area, the book provides a thorough overview of progress in the area of magnesium research. The author is one of the world's... |
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Payment System Technologies and Functions: Innovations and Developments
Payment systems are the indispensable infrastructure for financial markets and business activities. Every commercial trade and financial transaction is finalized only when the final settlement is made through a payment system. If operational failures would occur in a payment system, preventing smooth transfers of funds, national economies and... | | Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2005: 6th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Jeju Island, Korea, November 11-13, 2005
We are delighted to welcome readers to the proceedings of the 6th Pacific-Rim
Conference on Multimedia (PCM). The first PCM was held in Sydney, Australia, in
2000. Since then, it has been hosted successfully by Beijing, China, in 2001, Hsinchu,
Taiwan, in 2002, Singapore in 2003, and Tokyo, Japan, in 2004, and finally Jeju, one... | | |
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Emerging Wireless Technologies and the Future Mobile Internet
The current Internet is an outgrowth of the ARPANET (Advanced Research
Projects Agency Network) that was initiated four decades ago. The TCP/IP
(Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) designed by Vinton Cerf and
Robert Kahn in 1973 did not anticipate, quite understandably, such extensive
use of wireless channels and... | | Digital Video Broadcasting: Technology, Standards, and Regulations
Many books and articles on the transition of television from analog to
digital transmission have been published in recent years. This transition
is still in its infancy, but it will inevitably take place in the years to
come. Due to digitization, the existing barriers between audio, video, and
data generation and transmission... | | Electric Refractory Materials
This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of electric refractory materials as exotic materials
(i.e., metallic and semiconducting refractory materials) from fundamental properties to application
in a wide variety of electronics. The metallic ceramics or metalloids are the transition metal
carbides, nitrides, and diborides of... |
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