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Drawing on the work of scholars and practitioners such as Augusto Boal, Gloria Anzaldua, and Trinh Minh-ha, these essays advocate oral history and oral history-based performance as means to challenge and expand upon traditional ways of transmitting historical knowledge. The contributors' central concerns are performative aspects of oral history itself and the theatrical or classroom "re-performance" of oral history. The essays detail classroom and public pedagogies, community-based interventions, processes of developing interview-based performances, and the ethical and political implications of oral history as an embodied form of representation. The essays collected in this volume present the most current scholarship straddling the rich intersection between oral history and performance, and together suggest ways for scholars and performers to use oral history to challenge more traditional modes of knowledge.

In this book key contributions on developments and challenges in research and education on microelectronics, microsystems and related areas are published.Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: emerging fields in design and technology, new concepts in teaching, multimedia in microelectronics, industrial roadmaps and microelectronic education, curricula, nanoelectronics teaching, long distance education.The book is intended for academic education level and targets professors, researchers and PhDs involved in microelectronics and/or more generally, in electrical engineering, microsystems and material sciences.The 2004 edition of European Workshop on Microelectronics Education (EWME) is particularly focused on the interface between microelectronics and bio-medical sciences.

I. Riblets.- Experiments with a 1:4.2 model of a commuter aircraft with riblets in a large wind tunnel.- Heat transfer study of riblets.- Performances of internal manipulators in subsonic three-dimensional Flows.- High resolution conformal mesh computations for V, U or L groove riblets in laminar and turbulent boundary layers.- Coherent structures over a smooth and a triangular riblet drag reducing surface.- Some further experiments on riblet surfaces in a towing tank.- II. LEBUs.- Analytical and experimental study of energy density spectra of the outer region of a manipulated turbulent boundary layer.- Review: effect of the OLDs on near wall coherent structures; discussion and need for future work.- III. Surface Roughness.- Turbulent drag reduction of a d-type rough wall boundary layer with longitudinal thin ribs placed within the traverse grooves.- The correlation of added drag with surface roughness parameters.- IV. Compliant Surfaces.- The optimisation of compliant walls for drag reduction.- Nonlinear evolution of modes in the flow over compliant surfaces.- On conditions of modelling and choice of viscoelastic coatings for drag reduction.- Experimental investigation of one-layer viscoelastic coatings action on turbulent friction and wall pressure pulsations.- V. Polymer Additives.- The pulseless injection of polymeric additives into near-wall flow and perspectives of drag reduction.- Initial section of time-dependence of the Toms effect for solutions of poly (ethylene oxide).- Panel discussions.- List of Referees.- List of Participants.- Author Index.

1. Environmental policy making: an introduction.- A. Decision-Making.- 2. A spatial theoretic approach to environmental politics.- 3. Green legislative politics.- 4. Regulation or taxation.- 5. Decision making about the environment; the role of information.- B. Case-Studies.- 6. Transport policies and the environment: regulation and taxation.- 7. Road pricing: a logical failure.- 8. Dutch manure policy: the lack of economic instruments.- 9. Dutch manure policy: the role of information.- C. Institutions.- 10. The role of property rights in environmental protection.- 11. The ecological social contract.- 12. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all.- About the authors.- Author index.

I wrote this book because I wanted to learn more about interstel­ lar flight. Not the Star Trek notion of tearing around the Galaxy in a huge spaceship-that was obviously beyond existing tech­ nology-but a more realistic mission. In 1989 I had videotaped Voyager 2's encounter with Neptune and watched the drama of robotic exploration over and over again. I started to wonder whether we could do something similar with Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun. Everyone seemed to agree that manned flight to the stars was out of the question, if not permanently then for the indefinitely foreseeable future. But surely we could do something with robotics. And if we could figure out a theoretical way to do it, how far were we from the actual technology that would make it happen? In other words, what was the state of our interstellar technology today, those concepts and systems that might translate into a Voyager to the stars? Finding answers meant talking to people inside and outside of NASA. I was surprised to learn that there is a large literature of interstellar flight. Nobody knows for sure how to propel a space­ craft fast enough to make the interstellar crossing within a time scale that would fit the conventional idea of a mission, but there are candidate systems that are under active investigation. Some of this effort begins with small systems that we'll use near the Earth and later hope to extend to deep space missions.

I Immunochemistry and Immunoassays.- I.1 Antigens.- I.2 Antibodies.- I.3 Antibody production.- I.4 Antibody-antigen reaction.- I.5 Immunoassays.- II Immunoassays in Agriculture.- II.1 Immunoassays for animal husbandry.- II.2 Immunoassays in plant production.- III Immunoassays in the Agrofood Industry.- III.1 Milk and cheese industries.- III.2 Other fermentative processes.- III.3 Immunoassays for meat products.- III.4 Thermo-extrusion.- III.5 Food storage.- IV Immunoassays for the Environment.- IV.1 Water pollution.- IV.2 Soil pollutants.

In this collection of new essays, Sander Gilman muses on Jewish memory and representation throughout the twentieth-century. Bringing together the worlds of literature, medicine, and popular culture in his characteristic ways, Gilman looks at new, post-diasporic ways of understanding the limits of Jewish identity. Topics include the development of the genre of Holocaust comedy, the imagination of the relationship of the body, disease, and identity, and the place of Jews in today's multicultural society.

Exploring fet Concepts for Lab-on-a-Chip.- Monitoring of Cell Growth, Oxygen and ph in Microfermentors.- Observation of Response to Stimuli in Oscillating Cells Patterned by Microfabricated Structure.- On-Chip Agarose Microchamber (AMC) Array Cell-Cultivation System for Topographical Control of Neural Network.- Integrated Size Exclusion and Reversed-Phase Electrochromatography.- Dispersion Analysis of a Solid-Phase Microextraction Chip by Computational Fluid Dynamics.- Interfacing Microchip CE with Icpms for Element Speciation.- Electrodeless Dielectrophoretic Trapping and Separation of Cells.- SiO2 Nozzle Array-Based Patch-Clamp Microsystem.- A Programmable Cell Assay Platform for Kinetic Studies of a Single Cell.- An Integrated Microdialysis-Based System.- User-Assembly, Fully Integrated Micro Chemical Laboratory using Biochemical IC Chips for Wearable/Implantable Applications.- Microfluidic Reactor Array for Multistep Droplet Reactions.- Single Molecular Detection of DNA/Protein and Its Application to Biochips.- DNA Separation in Gradient of Confined Nanospace Generated by Nanoparticles in a Microchannel.- Self-Assembled Magnetic Colloids for DNA Separations in Microfluidic Devices.- A Microfabricated Device for Separating 200KILO-BASE-PAIR DNA Molecules in 15 Seconds.- Airborn Chemistry Levitated Protein Droplets as a Novel Analytical Tool for Nucleation Screening in Macromolecular Crystallisation.- On-Line Monitoring of Airborne Chemistry in Levitated Droplets: in-SITU Synthesis and Application of Sers Active Ag-Sols For Trace Analysis By Raman Spectrometry.- Chip-To-World Interfaces for High-Throughput Lab-On-A-Chip Devices.- The Mems Modeling System by Collaboration of Multi-Scale Simulators and Application to the Microreactor.- Fem Study of Coulter Counter Wggh Water-Based Adaptable Aperture.- Micromanipulating Magnetic Particles in Microfluidic Systems.- Optimal Design of Micromixer Using Nonhomogeneous Multilayer Laminar Flow.- Computational Simulations of Fluid Flow Dynamics, and Bead Packing in Solid Phase Extraction Microsystems.- The Low-Voltage Cascade EOF Pump: Comparing Theory with Published Data.- Universal Joule Heating Model in Electrophoretic Separation Microchips.- Mathematical Model of Interfacial Layer in Ultra-Fine Liquid Drop Based on Molecular Dynamics Simulation.- Development of Micromixer Based on Instability of Interface Between Two Immiscible Liquids.- Theoretical Study of AC Electroosmotic Flows in Non-Uniformly Charged Microchannels.- Numerical Simulation of Mixing in A Micro-Channel with Non-Uniform Zeta Potential Surface.- Injection of Sample Bands from Open Channels into Packed Separation Columns.- Microscale Measurements of Flow Bounded by Air-Water Interfaces.- Virtual Flow Channel: A Novel Micro-Fluidics System with Orthogonal, Dynamic Control Of Sample Flow Dimensions.- Microfabrication of 3-D Oblique Structures by Inclined UV Lithography.- A New Fabrication Technique of A DNA Electrophoresischip by Silicon Micromachining Technology.- Precision Patterning of PDMS Thin Films: A New Fabrication Method and Its Applications.- Fabrication of Microfluidic Channels with Symmetric Cross-Sections for Integrated NMR Analysis.- Precise and Feasible Fabrication Process of Microfluidic Devices on A Borosilicate Glass Chip.- Laminated Electrodes Chip for Pulse-Immunoassay.- Fabrication of On-Chip Sorter Devices with Sub-Micrometer Scale Channels and Self-Aligned Microelectrodes.- Powder Handling Device for Drug Formulations.- Thermal Micropump Using Surface Tension Imbalance in Microchannels.- Optimization of Electrokinetic Pumps for Chip-Based Chromatographic Separations.- Practical Valves and Pumps for Large-Scale Integration into Microfluidic Analysis Devices.- Electro Osmotic Flow Pump Based on The Corbino Disc Geometry.- A Temperature Controlled Micro Valve for Biomedical Applications Using A Temperature Sensitive Hydrogel.- Electroosmotically Driven Two-Liquid Viscous Pump for Nonconducting...

This book marks a major new reassessment of Camus's writing investigating the nature and philosophical origins of Camus's thinking on 'authenticity' and 'the absurd' as these notions are expressed in The Myth of Sisyphus and The Outsider. It shows that these books are the product not only of a literary figure, but of a genuine philosopher as well. Moreover, McBride provides a complete English-language translation of Camus's Mtaphysique chrtienne et Noplatonisme and underlines the importance of this study for the understanding of the early Camus.

The largest workshop ever held has produced the most comprehensive review of Radio Frequency Dosimetry and Bioeffects available. Over 80 of the world's leading scientists and technical experts from nine NATO countries and six NATO Partner for Peace countries, and others, review the state of the art in radio frequency radiation dosimetry, measurements and the relationship between SAR, power density and the biological effects of the electromagnetic fields.

The main purpose of this book is to present, in a unified approach, several algorithms for fixed point computation, convex feasibility and convex optimization in infinite dimensional Banach spaces, and for problems involving, eventually, infinitely many constraints. For instance, methods like the simultaneous projection algorithm for feasibility, the proximal point algorithm and the augmented Lagrangian algorithm are rigorously formulated and analyzed in this general setting and shown to be applicable to much wider classes of problems than previously known. For this purpose, a new basic concept, `total convexity', is introduced. Its properties are deeply explored, and a comprehensive theory is presented, bringing together previously unrelated ideas from Banach space geometry, finite dimensional convex optimization and functional analysis. For making our general approach possible we had to improve upon classical results like the Hölder-Minkowsky inequality of Lp. All the material is either new or very recent, and has never been organized in a book. Audience: This book will be of interest to both researchers in nonlinear analysis and to applied mathematicians dealing with numerical solution of integral equations, equilibrium problems, image reconstruction, optimal control, etc.

Material processing techniques that employ severe plastic deformation have evolved over the past decade, producing metals, alloys and composites having extraordinary properties. Variants of SPD methods are now capable of creating monolithic materials with submicron and nanocrystalline grain sizes. The resulting novel properties of these materials has led to a growing scientific and commercial interest in them. They offer the promise of bulk nanocrystalline materials for structural; applications, including nanocomposites of lightweight alloys with unprecedented strength. These materials may also enable the use of alternative metal shaping processes, such as high strain rate superplastic forming. Prospective applications for medical, automotive, aerospace and other industries are already under development.

This volume contains a number of essays by experts in areas of theoretical physics and astrophysics including cosmology, classical and quantum gravity, string theory and relativistic astrophysics. It will provide the reader with excellent reviews of current research in these frontier areas. Several of the essays emphasise alternative views of the Universe by leading astronomers and physicists who are known for their pioneering contributions. The volume is dedicated to Professor Jayant Narlikar, who has concerned himself with fundamental issues in cosmology and gravitation theory over a long and distinguished research career.

The emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) threatens TB control programs worldwide. Outbreaks of MDRTB in the United States grabbed the attention of the medical community and the general public, and subsequent surveys have found 'hot spots' of MDRTB in low- and middle-income countries on four continents. Unlike other textbooks that contain only a single chapter on MDRTB, this book is devoted to the subject. Contributions from experts from multi disciplines provide detailed descriptions, causation, molecular biology, laboratory diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and public health, aspect of this disease. This book provides an authoritative overview of MDRTB and will be a useful reference book for clinicians, scientists and other health personnel involved in the care of TB and MDRTB patients in industrialized and developing countries.

This volume, based on the International Congress Creatine: From Basic Science to Clinical Application, held in Milan on June 4, 1999, outlines the physiological role of creatine in the human body as well as its possible role in different pathological conditions. Creatine is already used as a dietary supplement to augment muscle performance in healthy individuals and inpatients with immobilizing diseases, such as complex fractures. There is also an increasing interest in its administration in a growing number of clinical conditions. A specific deficit of endogenous synthesis of creatine which responds to high dosage exogenous supplementation has been described. In cardiac failure and in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, creatine improves the contractility of the muscular system. Promising effects of this substance have also been described in animal models of neurodegenerative disorders, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and in some mitochondrial cytopathies. This volume is of obvious interest to basic scientists working on the physiology of creatine and to clinicians interested in its medical indications.

This book is the first comprehensive, in-depth review and summary of the U.N. FCCC AIJ pilot. Over 30 prominent players in the U.N. FCCC AIJ pilot, drawn from 12 countries, prepared the 16 peer-reviewed chapters in this book. Most chapters are extensively illustrated and the book contains a glossary of acronyms and a list of points of contact in the U.N. FCCC AIJ pilot. To help meet the technical and policy needs associated with the U.N. FCCC and complementary treaty negotiations, this book has three broad objectives: review, interpret and compile experiences of AIJ pilot participants and observers; based on empirical data and skilled observations, identify and document lessons learned from the AIJ pilot; and, interpret, summarize and translate lessons learned for future consideration by FCCC parties. Specific topics covered in this book include an introduction to the AIJ pilot and the FCCC guidelines/criteria, AIJ project development and finance, the project development community, an overview of energy and land-use and forestry sector projects, sustainable development, technology transfer, human and institutional capacity building, legal issues, and project monitoring, verification and reporting. This volume will be of interest to the generalists familiar with FCCC issues and negotiations but explores most topics in sufficient technical and policy depth to be must reading for policy analysts, diplomats, environmental protection specialists, scientists, engineers, project developers, attorneys, economists, development workers, foresters, and energy specialists.

Sustainable development and environmental improvement are often regarded as intrinsically valuable a priori. As a result, the policies by which these goals are to be attained is often inadequately scrutinised. In this book, ecological economics addresses the institutional and policymaking aspects of environmental problems, thus covering a broad socioeconomic research agenda, in contradistinction to mainstream economic approaches. The approach advocated here is open to differing viewpoints on the same issue, sees conflict resolution as a social process, and accepts the need for research into political-economic issues, according a prominent position to the aims of society itself. An in-depth analysis of the policy process is followed in order to understand the pitfalls and barriers that will confront society on the road to sustainable development. Readership: The broad approach advocated will appeal to all involved in environmental problems - decision makers, NGO members, and academic scholars.