NATO’s 2010 Strategic Concept officially broadened the alliance’s mission beyond collective defense, reflecting a peaceful Europe and changes in alliance activities. NATO had become an international security facilitator, a crisis-manager even outside Europe, and a liberal democratic club as much as a mutual-defense organization. However, Russia’s re-entry into great power politics has changed NATO’s strategic calculus.Russia’s aggressive annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its ongoing...

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Discover the ancient, invisible language of nature!How did chemical means of communication develop over the course of evolution? Why are chemical signals so crucial for the survival of plants and animals? This nonfiction book takes you on an exciting journey into the world of chemical communication.Billions of years ago, when the Earth was shaken by volcanoes and meteorite impacts, the first living organisms began to use chemical signals in order to survive...

Transforming NATO: New Allies, Missions, and Capabilities, by Ivan Dinev Ivanov, examines the three dimensions of NATO’s transformation since the end of the Cold War: the addition of a dozen new allies; the undertaking of new missions such as peacekeeping, crisis response, and stabilization; and the development of new capabilities to implement these missions. The book explains these processes through two mutually reinforcing frameworks: club goods theory and the concept of complementaritie...

Can you really start earning more than $1k per month as a freelance online writer part-time, worldwide? You can! This book will show you just how to do so.Written by an expert in the field, the book contains valuable tips and advice on how to start your online freelancing career, even if you don’t know English well enough. It will take you through all of the steps of building a stable income stream for your household and will even give you further information on how to retain that ...

Now for the first time, one comprehensive book summarizes and analyzes the numerous scientific papers and reviews covering selected aspects of the structure, biological activities, and clinical effects of immune interferon, also known as interferon-gamma(IFN-gamma). Interferon-gamma is a natural immune booster which has been synthesized and widely used in clinical cases ranging from infectious diseases to cancer, as well as various metabolic disorders. Having developed their own brand of i...

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This book reports on topics at the interface between mechanical and chemical engineering, emphasizing aspects related to design, simulation, and manufacturing. It covers recent findings concerning the mechanics of fluids, solids, and structures, and numerical and computational methods for solving coupled problems in manufacturing. Further, it reports on recent developments in chemical process technology, heat and mass transfer research, and energy-efficient technologies, describing applica...

This book explores topics at the interface between mechanical and chemical engineering, with a focus on design, simulation, and manufacturing. Covering recent developments in the mechanics of solids and structures; numerical simulation of coupled problems, including wearing, compression, detonation and collision; and chemical process technologies, including ultrasonic technology, capillary rising process, pneumatic classification, membrane electrolysis and absorption processes, it reports ...

This book reports on topics at the interface between mechanical and materials engineering, emphasizing aspects related to design, simulation, and manufacturing. It covers advanced methods in design and process engineering applied to mechatronic systems, industrial equipment, turbines, and drives. It covers cutting-edge theoretical and experimental findings relating to material behavior, composites, nanomaterials, and coatings design. Based on the 7th International Conference on Design, Sim...

This open access book offers a timely snapshot of Augmented Reality (AR) technology, with an emphasis on its application within the mechanical and manufacturing engineering domains, for both educational and industrial purposes. Reporting on the experience of the authors, the book introduces readers to the principles of product design, with an emphasis on modern strategies and approaches for user-centered design, creativity, and design for manufacturing and sustainability. It guides to the ...

The Cloud Computing and Services Science book comprises a collection of the best papers presented at the International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER), which was held in The Netherlands in May 2011. In netting papers from the conference researchers and experts from all over the world explore a wide-ranging variety of the emerging Cloud Computing platforms, models, applications and enabling technologies. Further, in several papers the authors exemplify essential ...