“…For example, pounding-tuned mass dampers are employed to alleviate the excessive vibration of power transmission towers, and self-powered magnetorheological dampers are used to suppress the undesirable vibration of long stay cables. …”

“…Dabei bieten Serien in hohem Maße ein identitäts- und gemeinschaftsstiftendes Potential, dem sich die vorliegende Studie aus gesprächsanalytischer Perspektive widmet. …”

“…In the performed numerical studies, different methods such as finite volume method, lumped analysis and molecular dynamics are employed. Heat and mass transfer in structural ceramic blocks is analyzed by an analytical and phenomenological approach. …”

“…From atomic bomb fallouts to shampoo microplastics, the Earth's environmental woes are indelibly linked to modern societies overconsumption of resources and the mass-waste that this creates, particularly Global North countries across Europe and North America. …”

“…They take aim at policing and mass incarceration, the racial partitioning of workplaces and residential communities, the expropriation and underdevelopment of Black populations at home and abroad. …”

“…In view of the general trend that the development of the global energy industry is oriented toward green, low-carbon, and efficient utilization, scientific research teams in various fields dominated by the coal industry have conducted much research on coal and coal-like materials by borrowing the technologies and concepts of modern materials science and rock mass mechanics, hoping to explore new directions for the high value-added utilization of structural coal resources and the development of new coal-like materials. …”

“…From these foundations, the author examines topics related to the emerging risks of advanced AI technologies, to include: The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for social manipulation, disinformation, psychological operations, deception and fraud The implementation of LLMs to construct fully autonomous social engineering systems for targeted attacks or for mass manipulation at scale The technical use of LLMs and the underlying transformer architecture for use in technical weapons systems to include advanced next-generation malware, physical robotics, and even autonomous munition systems Speculative future risks such as the alignment problem, disembodiment attacks, and flash wars. …”

“…The book's scope includes evaluations of the causes of international sanctions and their impact, the Kim regime's mitigation of sanctions through marketisation and a digital economy as well as barriers to aid monitoring and the reason for the absence of any mass anti-regime movement. It also posits that North Korea is a fragile state but cloaked by the image of a strong regime. …”

“…As the EU continues its integration process, the concepts of culture and transnational European belonging remain ambivalent, whether in the realm of socio-historical representation or mass politics. Engaging with recent scholarly debates surrounding the formation of collective transnational identities, this collection draws on the latest empirical case studies to explore the meaning and composition of European identity, the mechanisms that create and shape it and the question of whom it includes. …”

“…As mainstream public relations has become established and critical public relations is reaching a critical mass in the discipline, this book captures both the coherence and the plural nature of this fast-growing area. …”

“…Die technischen Beschreibungen der Waffen sind sehr allgemein, es fehlen u.a. Maße, Wurfgewichte, Reichweiten. Die Fotos von erhaltenen und restaurierten Wurfmaschinen bleiben ohne Bildunterschrift. …”
Sumaruio

“…When she spoke out about the mass political indoctrination she saw around her in the United States, Park faced censorship and even death threats. …”

“…Based on enduring rhetorical principles, these persuasive techniques and the psychology behind them have become increasingly sophisticated during the 'age of persuasion', a century of applied research in advertising, advocacy, public relations, mass entertainment and social control. Media, Persuasion and Propaganda guides the reader through the many varieties of persuasion and its performance, exploring the protocols of rhetoric unique to the medium, from orality and print to film and digital images. …”

“…This book examines the country's recent past since 2005, when a mass movement agitated against Syrian dominance in the wake of the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri. …”

“…He suggests that it is time to prepare ourselves and our institutions for a world that is phasing out mass employment in the production and marketing of goods and services. …”

“…Psychology of Entertainment will appeal to scholars, researchers, and graduate students in media studies and mass communication, psychology, marketing, and other areas contributing to the entertainment studies area…”
Sumario

“…Unique among introductions, this volume places the Old Testament in its liturgical context, showing how its passages are employed in the current Lectionary used at Mass. Accessible to nonexperts, this thorough and up-to-date introduction to the Old Testament can serve as an idea textbook for biblical studies. …”

“…El libro recorre la historia de las investigaciones sobre la transmisión de la información (Shannon y Wiener), también el desarrollo de la "mass communication research" (Lazarsfeld, Merton, Lasswell) y los primeros estudios culturales, pero también presta atención a las investigaciones que han ido superando aquellas teorías y que han confluido en los modernos estudios de comunicación. …”
Accés restringit als usuaris de la UAB

“…Highlighting the naivete that plagued the vanquished and the wrath that justified mass slaughter, Hanson delivers a sobering call to contemporary readers to heed the lessons of obliteration lest we blunder into catastrophe once again"-- Proporcionado por el editor…”

“…"Climate change will not lead to mass migration." "Immigration mainly benefits the wealthy, not workers." …”