Contemporary musicians. Volume 76 : profiles of the people in music

Table of Contents: “…Mac Miller, Rapper with a fast flow -- Rudresh Mahanthappa, Blender of Indian music and jazz -- Marilyn Manson, Shock rocker -- Jon McLaughlin, Performer of piano-driven pop -- mewithoutYou, Christian hard rockers -- Anne Akiko Meyers, Talented concert violinist -- Olly Murs, Pop singer with a "cheeky chappy" persona -- Willie Nelson, Celebrated and prolific country singer -- Prince Royce, Bachata singer with an urban style -- Bonnie Raitt, Iconic blues guitarist and singer -- Lee Ranaldo, Influential rock guitarist -- Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Group that performs a mixture of blues, country and roots music -- The Rocket Summer, Multi-instrumentalist who creates sunny, upbeat tunes -- Rodrigo y Gabriela, Acoustic guitar duo -- Rodriguez, American singer who hit it big abroad -- Rush, Canadian progressive rock trio -- Rusko, DJ who dabbles in dubstep -- Matthew Ryan, Creator of Americana/folk tunes -- Santigold, Singer of complex pop music -- Sigur Rs̤, Trance-rock tunesmiths -- Silversun Pickups, Dream-pop group -- Simian Mobile Disco, Techno/house duo -- Smashing Pumpkins, Band with an eclectic mix of dreamy, alternative, and metal sounds -- Garrison Starr, Singer who blends folk, rock and country -- Laura Story, Christian singer/songwriter with a down-to-earth style -- Sun Kil Moon, A singer/songwriter who creates acoustic balladry and intimate lyricism -- SWV, R&B trio -- Temper Trap, Group with a panoramic pop-rock sound -- The Tallest Man On Earth, Solo singer with introspective lyrics and weathered vocals -- Turnpike Troubadours, Rock group that also blends country and bluegrass into their sound -- Doc Watson, Grammy-Award-winning folk artist -- Bob Welch, Blues/rock guitarist and solo singer -- Wilson Phillips, Group known for its light-pop harmonies -- Bobby Womack, Legendary soul singer -- Chris Young, Chart-topping country singer.…”
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Sustainability assessment : a rating system framework for best practices : with a theoretical application to the surface mining recovery process for the development and operations... by Poveda, C. A. (Cesar A.)

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The Fundamental Concept of a Crime in International Criminal Law a Comparative Law Analysis. by Marchuk, Iryna

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Materials engineering and automatic control III : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 3 rd International Conference on Materials Engineering and Automatic Control (ICMEAC 2014)...

Table of Contents: “…Effect of Fiber Treatment on Stress-Strain Behavior of Kenaf Fibers Reinforced Thermoplastic Polyurethane CompositesPotential of Integrated Membrane Bioreactor in Batik Dye Degradation -- A Review; Effect of Calcination Temperature on Synthesis of N-Fe-TiO2 for Photocatalytic Degradation of Methylene Blue under Visible Light; Dye Decolourization of the Remazol Dye in Textile Effluent by Using Bambusa heterostachya; The Potential Use of Tacca leontopetaloides as Green Material in Manufacturing Automotive Part; Numerical Simulation on Moulded Thin-Walled Parts via Injection Moulding Process.…”
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Avant-garde and criticism

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Principles of electron optics : basic geometrical optics. by Hawkes, Peter W.

Table of Contents: “…Hamiltonian Optics; 5.1 Introduction of the characteristic function; 5.2 The Hamilton-Jacobi equation; 5.3 The analogy with light optics; 5.4 The influence of vector potentials; 5.5 Gauge transformations; 5.6 Poincarés integral invariant; 5.7 The problem of uniqueness; 5.8 Résumé; PART II -- CALCULATION OF STATIC FIELDS.…”
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McEvoy's Handbook of Photovoltaics : Fundamentals and Applications. by Kalogirou, Soteris

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; McEvoy's Handbook of Photovoltaics; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Contributors; Biography; Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; I-1 Solar Cells; I-1-A Principles of Solar Cell Operation; 1 Introduction; 2 Electrical Characteristics; 2.1 The ideal solar cell; 2.2 Solar cell characteristics in practice; 2.3 The quantum efficiency and spectral response; 3 Optical Properties; 3.1 The antireflection coating; 3.2 Light trapping; 4 Typical Solar Cell Structures; 4.1 The p-n junction solar cell; 4.1.1 The p-n junction.…”
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Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles by Christian Schuetz, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…3.4 Consumption -- 3.4.1 Calculating Fuel Consumption -- 3.4.2 Consumption Measurement and CO2 and Energy Equivalents -- 3.5 Driving Cycles -- 3.5.1 History -- 3.5.2 New European Driving Cycle (NEDC) -- 3.5.3 NEDC Cycle for Hybrid Drives -- 3.5.4 United States Cycles -- 3.5.5 Asian Cycles -- 3.5.6 WLTP-Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicles Test Procedure -- 3.5.7 Realistic Driving Cycles -- 3.6 Possibilities for Reducing Fuel Consumption -- 3.6.1 Energy Flow Diagram -- 3.6.2 Engine Efficiency and Engine Maps -- 3.6.3 Ancillary Components -- 3.6.4 Transmission -- 3.6.5 Vehicle Mass…”
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The legal framework of EU-China investment relations : a critical appraisal by Shan, Wenhua

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Advanced surface engineering materials

Table of Contents: “…Optical Emission Spectroscopy Investigation of Direct Current Micro-plasma for Carbon Structures Growth / Dana-Cristina Toncu -- Advanced Titanium Surfaces and Its Alloys for Orthopedic and Dental Applications Based on Digital SEM Imaging Analysis / Sahar A Fadlallah, Sahar A Fadlallah, Amira S Ashour, Nilanjan Dey -- Deep-blue Organic Light-emitting Diodes: From Fluorophores to Phosphors for High-efficiency Devices / Frederic Dumur -- Plasma-material Interactions Problems and Dust Creation and Re-suspension in Case of Accidents in Nuclear Fusion Plants: A New Challenge for Reactors like ITER and DEMO / A Malizia, LA Poggi, JF Ciparisse, S Talebzadeh, M Gelfusa, A Murari, P Gaudio.…”
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Information and Communications Security 25th International Conference, ICICS 2023, Tianjin, China, November 18–20, 2023, Proceedings

Table of Contents: “…Symmetric-Key Cryptography -- SAT-aided Differential Cryptanalysis of Lightweight Block Ciphers Midori, MANTIS and QARMA -- Improved Related-Key Rectangle Attack against the Full AES-192 -- Block Ciphers Classification Based on Randomness Test Statistic Value via LightGBM -- Cryptanalysis of Two White-Box Implementations of the CLEFIA Block Cipher -- PAE: Towards More Efficient and BBB-secure AE From a Single Public Permutation -- Public-Key Cryptography -- A Polynomial-time Attack on G2SIDH -- Improvements of Homomorphic Secure Evaluation of Inverse Square Root -- Oblivious Transfer from Rerandomizable PKE -- Forward Secure Lattice-based Ring Signature Scheme in the Standard Model -- Applied Cryptography -- Secure Multi-Party Computation with Legally-Enforceable Fairness -- On-demand Allocation of Cryptographic Computing Resource with Load Prediction -- Private Message Franking with After Opening Privacy -- Semi-Honest 2-Party Faithful Truncation from Two-Bit Extraction -- Outsourcing Verifiable Distributed Oblivious Polynomial Evaluation from Threshold Cryptography -- Authentication and Authorization -- PiXi: Password Inspiration by Exploring Information -- Security Analysis of Alignment-Robust Cancelable Biometric Scheme for Iris Verification -- A Certificateless Conditional Anonymous Authentication Scheme for Satellite Internet of Things -- BLAC: A Blockchain-based Lightweight Access Control Scheme in Vehicular Social Networks -- Privacy and Anonymity -- Link Prediction-Based Multi-Identity Recognition of Darknet Vendors -- CryptoMask: Privacy-preserving Face Recognition -- Efficient Private Multiset ID Protocols -- Zoomer: A Website Fingerprinting Attack against Tor Hidden Services -- An Enhanced Privacy-preserving Hierarchical Federated Learning Framework for IoV -- Security and Privacy of AI -- Revisiting the Deep Learning-based Eavesdropping Attacks via Facial Dynamics from VR Motion Sensors -- Multi-scale Features Destructive Universal Adversarial Perturbations -- Pixel-Wise Reconstruction of Private Data in Split Federated Learning -- Neural Network Backdoor Attacks Fully Controlled by Composite Natural Utterance Fragments -- Black-Box Fairness Testing with Shadow Models -- Graph Unlearning using Knowledge Distillation -- AFLOW: Developing Adversarial Examples under Extremely Noise-limited Settings -- Learning to Detect Deepfakes via Adaptive Attention and Constrained Difference -- A Novel Deep Ensemble Framework for Online Signature Verification Using Temporal and Spatial Representation -- Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies -- SCOPE: A Cross-Chain Supervision Scheme for Consortium Blockchains -- Subsidy Bridge: Rewarding Cross-blockchain Relayers with Subsidy -- Towards Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Anomaly Detection of Blockchain-based Cryptocurrency Transactions -- Blockchain based Publicly Auditable Multi-Party Computation with Cheater Detection -- BDTS: Blockchain-based Data Trading System -- Illegal Accounts Detection on Ethereum using Heterogeneous Graph Transformer Networks -- System and Network security -- DRoT: A Decentralised Root of Trust for Trusted Networks -- Finding Missing Security Operation Bugs via Program Slicing and Differential Check -- TimeClave: Oblivious In-enclave Time series Processing System -- Efficient and Appropriate Key Generation Scheme in Different IoT Scenarios -- A Fake News Detection Method Based on A Multimodal Cooperative Attention Network.…”
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Developing costimulatory molecules for immunotherapy of diseases by Mir, Manzoor Ahmad

Table of Contents: “…Different Oligomeric States of CD80 and CD86 -- PD-L1/B7-H1 Costimulatory Molecule -- B7-H2/B7RP-1/LICOS Costimulatory Molecule -- B7-DC/PD-L2 Costimulatory Molecule -- B7-H3 Costimulatory Molecule -- B7-H4 or B7x/B7S1 Costimulatory Molecule -- CD28 Molecule -- CTLA-4 Molecule -- ICOS Molecule -- The Programmed Death-1 -- CD40 Costimulatory Molecule -- CD40L/CD154 Costimulatory Molecule -- Pathways in the TNFR/TNF Family -- 4-1BB/4-1BBL -- OX40/OX40L -- HVEM/LIGHT -- ICOS, GITR, and CD27/CD70 -- Summary -- References…”
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Plant Phosphorus Nutrition.

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Enabling Technologies for Effective Planning and Management in Sustainable Smart Cities

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Critical Thinking in Contemporary Dermatology: Cognitive Essays

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Emerging technologies for food processing

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Interlanguage and Learnability : From Chinese to English. by Yip, Virginia

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Justes, justice, justification Harmoniques pauliniennes dans l'évangile de Luc by Singer, Christophe, Singer, Christophe

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Molecular bases of neurodegenerative disorders of the retina.

Table of Contents: “…Rajala* -- INTRODUCTION -- Grb14 Role in Insulin Receptor Signaling -- Negative Regulatory Role of Grb14 on Insulin Receptor Signaling -- Light-Dependent Translocation of Grb14 in Rod Photoreceptor Cells -- Cross-Talk between Rhodopsin Activation and Grb14 Signaling -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Cellular Mechanisms of Cone Defects in Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channel Deficiency -- Xi-Qin Ding1,*, Hongwei Ma1, Martin Biel2 and Stylianos Michalakis2 -- INTRODUCTION.…”
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Nuclear corrosion science and engineering

Table of Contents: “…Part 4 Corrosion monitoring and control in nuclear power applications: Electrochemical techniques for monitoring and controlling corrosion in water-cooled nuclear reactor systems -- On line electrochemical monitoring in light water nuclear reactor (LWR) systems -- Modelling corrosion in nuclear power plant systems -- Lifetime prediction techniques for nuclear power plant systems. …”
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