This unit is intended to present students the possibilities in the 21st century. After learning it the students should be able to obtain an insight into our life as well as our lifestyles get a good understanding of the trends for the 21st century

1 Intellectual property The Dutch legal system of intellectual property rights is highly determined by European legis lative initiatives. Both the European Directive on software protection and the European Directive on Data base protection have been implemented into Dutch law. This implied a Iment of the Copyright Law as well as the introduction of sui generis law on the protection for those databases that do not meet the requirement of under the Dutch Copyright

Exercise 2.3(Inverted Pendulum: Gaussian Membership Functions): Suppose that for the inverted pendulum example, we use Gaussian membership functions as defined in Table 2. 4 on page 53 rather than the triangular membership functions. To do this, use the same center values as we had for the triangular membership functions, use the\left\and\right\membership functions shown in Table 2. 4 for the outer edges of the input

Builds on PHA as a foundation (expands PHA) Considers system as a whole and identifies how system operation nterfaces and interactions between subsystems interface and interactions between system and operators component failures and normal (correct) behavior

n contrast to alcohols with their rich chemical reactivity, ethers (compounds contain- ing a C-0-C unit) undergo relatively few chemical reactions. As you saw wher we discussed Grignard reagents in Chapter 14 and lithium aluminum hydride reduc- tions in Chapter 15, this lack of reactivity of ethers makes them valuable as solvents in a number of synthetically important transformatio. In the present chapter you will learn

Solid wastes include all solid or semisolid materials that the possessor no longer considers of sufficient value to retain. The management of these waste materials is the fundamental concern of all the activities encompassed in solid waste management—whether the planning level is local, regional or subregional, or state and federal. For this reason, it is important to know as much about municipal solid waste (MSW) as possible. The purpose of this chapter is to identify the sources, types, and composition of solid wastes

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are liquids or solids that contain organic carbon (carbon bonded to carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, or sulfur, but not carbonate carbon as in CaCO3 nor carbide carbon as in CaC2 or CO or CO2), which vaporize at significant rates. VOCs are probably the second-most widespread and diverse class of emissions after particulates

Corporate law is a field that underwent as thorough a revolution in the 1980s as can be imagined, in scholarship and practice, methodological and organizational, in which finance and the economic theory of the firm were used to inform the field. The timing of this revolution was not a fortuitous occurrence: it followed a revolution in corporate finance and

One of the most powerful tools for the analysis of electromagnetics problems is the integral solution to Maxwell’s equations formulated by Stratton and Chu [187, 188]. These authors used the vector Green’s theorem to solve for E˜ and H˜ in much the same way as is done in static fields with the scalar Green’s theorem. An alternative approach is to use the Lorentz reciprocity theorem of § 4.10.2, as done by Fradin [74]. The reciprocity

In recent years, there has been surge in academic interest in the \ownership\ of corporations, and in the links between ownership and performance The interest in this issue is driven by rapid changes going on in international capital markets, as well as in the corporate sector in many countries