This book is a professional guide to choosing the most appropriate materials and adhesives for product development applications from the onset. Each chapter focuses on a particular material family. The book covers ferrous and non-ferrous metals, plastics, and adhesives - including steels, cast-iron, aluminum, and titanium, as well as plastics such as PVC, acrylics, and nylons. Unique to this book on material selection, the final chapter discusses critical aspects of adhesives. An ideal text for senior level or graduate courses in mechanical engineering and materials science, it embodies the author's own experience and lectures on this subject, taught at UCLA Extension.
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Adhesives
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Undergraduate

This book discusses the combination of fibers with polymer matrices from both non-renewable and renewable resources. The first source to focus on biobased materials, it explains the rise of petrochemical and plastic products, the problems associated in their disposal, and how biopolymers offer a realistic solution to these problems. The authors discuss recent trends and opportunities for the future use of biocomposites as alternatives to petroleum-based composites, integrating the principles of sustainability, industrial ecology, eco-efficiency, and green chemistry and engineering into developing next-generation materials, products, and processes.
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Biomaterials - Materials Science
Polymers & Plastics
Composites
Reference
Professional

Rebelión en el desierto nació como un resumen de contenido fundamentalmente político y reflexivo hecho sobre Los siete pilares de la sabiduría. Lawrence aseguraba a sus amigos militares, varios de los cuales habían compartido con él andanzas por el desierto, que se proponía sólo la eliminación de aquellos fragmentos de la novela en los que fuera más perceptible su borrachera de literatura. Pero lo cierto es que al final, acaso venturosamente, el resumen se le fue de las manos e incluyó ?aparte de suprimir, en efecto, cuanto lastraba pesadamente la información que pretendía ofrecer en la novela? observaciones de una profundidad tan severa y poco autocomplaciente, y de una inteligencia tan sutil como aguda y hasta lacerante, que hoy, a la vista del devenir histórico de esa parte del mundo, Palestina, o si se prefiere, las actuales Siria y Jordania, y el Estado de Israel, cobran una importancia suprema.
Rebelión en el desierto es, pues, una novela de aventura real, donde veremos a Lawrence comandando columnas de árabes, atacando las vías férreas de los turcos, enfrentándose a las ametralladoras y a la aviación de los alemanes que sostenían militarmente la presencia turca en Palestina... En aquel marco no precisamente incomparable de la Primera Guerra Mundial, combatió por lo que le pedía el Alto Mando británico y por su afán denodado de ayudar a la construcción de una nación árabe que se opusiera al imperialismo turco, a pesar incluso de muchas tribus árabes, y además tuvo tiempo de pensar en el futuro, en las consecuencias de la propia política británica de aquel tiempo.

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A complete guide to the law of open source for developers, managers, and lawyers

Now that open source software is blossoming around the world, it is crucial to understand how open source licenses work—and their solid legal foundations. Open Source Initiative general counsel Lawrence Rosen presents a plain-English guide to open source law for developers, managers, users, and lawyers. Rosen clearly explains the intellectual property laws that support open source licensing, carefully reviews today’s leading licenses, and helps you make the best choices for your project or organization. Coverage includes:

• Explanation of why the SCO litigation and other attacks won’t derail open source
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• The “reciprocal bargain” at the heart of the GPL
• Alternative licenses: Mozilla, CPL, OSL and AFL
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• Choosing the right license: considering business models, product architecture, IP ownership,
license compatibility issues, relicensing, and more
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• Shared source, eventual source, and other alternative models to open source
• Protecting yourself against lawsuits

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