Recording Customs in Early Modern Antwerp, a Commercial Metropolis

Shaping Tokyo: Land Development and Planning Practice in the Early Modern Japanese Metropolis

Pre-Modern and Early Modern Persian Literature: Written while Travelling?

In literary histories written in both Iran and the West it has generally be assumed that early modern Persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of Western literary works. This has been and is still a claim. Almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. While there is no point in denying a European influence on early modern Persian literature,...

Hydrocarbon emissions from a modern commercial airliner

We report selected carbon species emission indices (EIs) for a Rolls Royce RB211-535-E4 turbofan engine that were acquired during the NASA EXperiment to Characterize Aircraft Volatile Aerosol and Trace-species Emissions (EXCAVATE). Conducted during winter 2002, the mission focused upon characterizing the exhaust constituents of the NASA Boeing 757 aircraft during ground-based operation. Carbon ...

On Modern Commercial Jet Airplanes

the limits of airplane performance. Recent accidents and incidents have resulted in new flight crew training programs, which in turn have raised interest in AOA in commercial aviation. Awareness of AOA is vitally important as the airplane nears stall. It is less useful to the flight crew in the normal operational range. On most Boeing models currently in production, AOA information is presented...

Managing Information Security in Modern Commercial Environments

The arrival of affordable and reliable network technology in the nineteen-nineties, followed by the move towards global connectivity and the success of the Internet as a medium for carrying out business, have drastically changed the way in which the modern enterprise operates. The positive aspects of this network revolution are difficult to overstate. Large international concerns have been able...