“…Articles investigate innovative processing methods with the goal of valorizing solid waste from different civil and industrial activities. Topics includes studies on construction and building, mining, plastics, and WEEE, referring to the treatment techniques used and, where appropriate, the critical raw materials that can be valorized. …”

“…The applicability of electro-mechanical actuators (EMAs) in aerospace has been proved in terms of dynamic performances, but it still entails several concerns in terms of reliability/safety and operation in a harsh environment. In civil aircrafts, EMAs are often avoided for safety-critical functions (flight controls, brakes, landing gears, and nose wheel steering), essentially because the statistical database on the components' fault modes is poor. …”

“…Action research, involving researchers, companies and civil society actors, directly questions the methods of knowledge production in a perspective of social transformation. …”

“…Light alloys and high-temperature alloys are widely used as key engineering materials in both the civil and military industries due to their excellent comprehensive properties and performance. …”

“…Various avenues are being explored by the international community, States and civil society to make the relationship between social well-being and the state of the environment more explicit. …”

“…In the end, this Element points to an uneasy, shifting balance in nonprofit sector advocacy between informal, decentralized, issue-based coalitions focused on short-term, if vital, legislative victories, on one hand, and the public good mandate embraced by some sector-wide advocates, which attends to longer time horizons and a broad conception of the defense of civil society, on the other. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core…”

“…A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828-1893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in Africa. …”

“…Practical material relating to a wide variety of applications including, among others, mechatronics, civil engineering, irrigation and water management, and biological systems is also provided. …”

“…The second part focuses on cultural policy issues and challenges in the context of sustainable development, investigating participatory approaches and bottom-up processes, the role of governments and civil society, as well as performing arts organizations and universities in policy making and implementation processes. …”

“…This is the first comprehensive history of pre-Civil War American radicalism, mapping the journeys of the land reformers, Jacksonian radicals and militant abolitionists on the long road to the failed slave revolt of Harpers Ferry in 1859. …”

“…Es un intento de acercamiento de la realidad penitenciaria –tan desconocida– a la ciudadanía, a la sociedad civil, para dignificar y tener presentes a las personas que carecen de libertad, así como a todos aquellos que las custodian y vigilan…”

“…Chapters then consider the roles and interplay of various domestic and international actors involved in human rights implementation, including parliaments, national courts, civil society and treaty bodies. The Handbook concludes by assessing tools of implementation, including monitoring systems, the role of negotiations and diplomacy, compliance hearings and the use of IT for compliance. …”

“…It includes several contributions in the fields of the recently adopted instruments of Private International Law (e.g., mediation in civil and commercial matters, maintenance obligations or conflict of law rules on divorce), some national experiences when applying these instruments (in particular in the new EU Member States) and also, the ongoing works in order to review some current instruments (Brussels I) or to approve new ones (e.g., successions or matrimonial property regimes). …”
Sumario

“…Fruto de ese trabajo es Palabras mayores, una suma de historias, recuerdos, anhelos y enseñanzas de una generación, los nacidos antes o inmediatamente después de la guerra civil, a quienes prácticamente hemos dejado de escuchar; un libro que rescata muchas experiencias y enseñanzas útiles para el presente de unas gentes extraordinarias que pasaron en pocas décadas del Neolítico a Internet…”

“…At various times over the past millennium bishops of Rome have claimed a universal primacy of jurisdiction over all Christians and a superiority over civil authority. Reactions to these claims have shaped the modern world profoundly. …”

“…Martí Gómez, uno de los mejores periodistas en activo de nuestro país, traza un completo retrato de la vida de los Lara, desde la llegada a Barcelona de José Manuel Lara Hernández al final de la Guerra Civil hasta nuestros días. ".…”