Sensory Perceptions in Language, Embodiment and Epistemology, Annalisa Baicchi, Rémi Digonnet, & Jodi L. Sandford (Eds.) (2018), Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-91276-9

Nathan Sivin, Health Care in Eleventh-Century China (Cham, Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London: Springer, 2015), pp. xvii, 223, $119, e-book, ISBN: 978-3-319-20427-7; $159, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-319-20426-0.

The history of medicine in China is often studied through the lens of a textual approach, grounded on classical manuals or on the accounts of practitioners who, until fairly recently, were mostly involved with curing the ailments of the upper class. As such, the ‘other’ types of response to illness, namely the folk therapy, religious rites and other magical treatments tend to be left outside th...

BALANCED ETHICS REVIEW: A GUIDE FOR INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD MEMBERS Simon N. Whitney Springer, New York, 2016. 131 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-20704-9 (paper); 978-3-319-20705-6 (online).

When several decades ago the IRB system was established trying to balance major moral consideration in research with human subjects, the main impetus were severe cases of unethical behaviour and experiences, often protected by state and institutional administration. The first phase of the IRB aimed at protecting subjects from serious hazards, while in later stages the IRB turned to „lesser risk...

Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and ‎Intercultural Communication: Ethnopragmatics and Semantic ‎Analysis, Lauren Sadow, Bet Peeters & Kerry Mullan (Eds.) ‎‎(2019), Springer, ISBN 978-981-32-9982-5‎

Sighard Neckel, Anna Katharina Schaffner, Greta Wagner (eds), Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Affliction (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. ix+316, £88/£70, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 978-3-319-52886-1 / 978-3-319-52887-8.

thinking about this material culture, we can shed light on the relationship of time to imperialism and the transmission of cartographic and ethnographic knowledge during the colonial period’ (p. 119). Her study exploits long-overlooked design features of these little dials. For instance, dials frequently included gazetteers, lists of places and their latitudes where the dials might be used. The...

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algorithms are worthy of considering and efficiently to be utilized in the network topological deployment and keeping the network integrity, (2) the Partial Swarm Optimization is much algorithmically easier and reliable, (3) Intelligent computation is a kind of optimal methodology to improve the network integrity.

, U . K . Isbn : 978 - 988 - 98671 - 9 - 5 Wce 2008

techniques that provide firewall-level authentication to ensure authorized access to potentially vulnerable network services. Although these techniques serve as powerful protection mechanism against the intruders, they still suffer from a major problem. The lack of association between the authentication process and the follow-on TCP connection to be established is the most crucial problem still...