This book defies long standing assumptions about indigenous societies in the Americas and shows that non-heteronormative sexualities were already present among native peoples in different regions of what is now Latin America before the arrival of European colonizers. Presenting data collected from both literature and field research, the authors give examples of native queer traditions in differ…
Collaboration among industry, universities and research institutes plays a vital role in stimulating open innovation, which in turn leads to new products, processes, services and business models. This book brings together a number of real-life examples of how to govern and manage open innovation collaboration projects more effectively, and provides timely insights that project consortia, govern…
This textbook provides students and academics with a conceptual understanding of fire behavior and fire effects on people and ecosystems to support effective integrated fire management. Through case studies, interactive spreadsheets programmed with equations and graphics, and clear explanations, the book provides undergraduate, graduate, and professional readers with a straightforward learning …
This book gathers outstanding papers presented at the Conference on Automation Innovation in Construction (CIAC-2019). In recent years, there have been significant transformations in the construction sector regarding production and the use of computers and automation to create smart and autonomous systems. At the same time, innovative construction materials and alternative technologies are cruc…
This volume contains the proceedings of the XIX International Colloquium on Mechanical Fatigue of Metals, held at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, 5-7 September 2018. This International Colloquium facilitated and encouraged the exchange of knowledge and experiences among the different communities involved in both basic and applied research in the field of the fat…
Dalam meningkatkan pertumbuhan dan kestabilan aktivitas ekonomi dan penanaman modal (investasi) khusunya di daerah harus lah disertai dengan pemberian insentif atau kemudahan investasi kepada masyarakat dan penanam modal (investor). Insentif harus diberikan oleh pemerintah daerah terhadap para investor yang berupa dukungan kebijakan fiskal dan non fiskal. Yang berupa pengurangan pajak, fasilita…
This book introduces a new and powerful approach based on rigorous process simulations conducted with professional simulators like HYSYS to predict the performance of supersonic separators (SS). The book addresses the utilization of SSs for the offshore processing of CO2-rich natural gas as an alternative to Joule-Thomson expansion, glycol absorption, membrane permeation and chemical absorption…
This volume presents a new contribution for the field of Tissue Engineering with a focus on the development of mathematical and computational methods that are relevant to understand human tissues, as well to model, design, and fabricate optimized and smart scaffolds. The multidisciplinary character of this field has motivated contributions from different areas with a common objective to replac…
This study discusses the fatigue resistance of leaf spring construction steel with repeated torsion loading. In this test, the leaf spring steel is stressed repeatedly in order to get the required results. The study was conducted using a fatigue test tool with the repeated torsion method. The material being analyzed is leaf spring steel. The test was carried out using 5 variations of different …
Penelitian ini berjudul “Perilaku Seks Bebas Dikalangan Mahasiswa Perantau Di Universitas Sriwijaya”. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perilaku seks bebas dikalangan mahasiswa perantau Universitas Sriwijaya serta mengetahui bentuk-bentuk perilaku seks bebas yang biasa mereka lakukan dan pandangan mereka tentang perilaku seks bebas yang mereka lakukan. Metode yang digunakan dala…
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