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Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music-making to vocal sexual harassment. William Cheng shows how video games empower their designers, composers, players, critics, and scholars to tinker (often transgressively) with practices and...

Recent Trends in Cold-Formed Steel Construction, Second Edition focuses on the application and use of this important construction material. In this updated edition, new chapters take on these developments, offering updates on cutting-edge new technologies and design methods for using cold-formed steel as a structural material and providing technical guidance on how to design and build sustainable and energy-efficient cold-formed steel buildings. Sections introduce codes, specifications and design methods, provide computational analysis of cold-formed steel structures, examine the structural...

The four-point bending fatigue lives of Ti-6Al-4V and 316L stainless steel are improved more than 17 and 22 times when a 200-nm-thick thin film metallic glasses (TFMGs) are coated. TFMGs (Zr50Cu27Al16Ni7) with unique physical and mechanical properties such as high hardness, and toughness have attracted interest in the past decade. With the aim of taking the advantages to their applications, TFMGs are coated on a series of crystalline substrates, i.e., Ti-6Al-4V, and 316L stainless steel to improve their four-point bending fatigue properties. Compared with traditional hard coating, TFMG with...

Machining dynamics play an essential role in the performance of machine tools and machining processes in manufacturing. Current advances in computational modelling, sensors, diagnostic equipment and analysis tools, 3D surface metrology and manufacturing science are giving researchers and practising engineers a new perspective on the machining process.

Machining Dynamics: Fundamentals and Applications reflects the new integrated approach to studying machining dynamics by presenting state-of-the-art applications, practices and research in the field. Written by experts...

Faser-Bragg-Gitter-Sensoren bieten viele Vorteile gegenuber herkommliche Messverfahren zur Dehnungsmessung, wie beispielsweise elektrische Dehnungsmessstreifen. Sie vertragen deutlich mehr Lastwechselzyklen und ermoglichen aufgrund ihrer kompakten Bauweise eine Einbettung in Faserverbundwerkstoffe. Da das Funktionsprinzip auf Licht und Glasfaser basiert, sind diese Sensoren unempfindlich gegenuber elektromagnetischen Feldern und konnen keinen elektrischen Strom leiten. Daher sind sie besonders fur Umgebungen geeignet, wo elektrische Messverfahren auf Grund starker elektromagnetischer...

Taking a comparative approach, this fieldwork-based study explores the lives and thoughts of Buddhist nuns in present-day Taiwan and Sri Lanka. The author examines the postcolonial background and its influence on the modern situation, as well as surveying the main historical, economic, and social factors which influence the position of nuns in society.

Based on original research, including interviews with nuns in both countries, the book examines their perspectives on controversial issues and in particular those concerning the status of women in Buddhism. Concerns discussed include...

This classic Chinese epic features a new introduction by Daniel Kane, Head of Chinese Studies at Macquarie University and Cultural Counselor at the Australian Embassy in Beijing in 1996.

China's most popular traditional novel, The Monkey King's Amazing Adventures is the story of the Monkey King, his incredible origin and downfall, and his epic quest to redeem himself with his trusted companions, as they face fantastic foes, demons, and monsters and have amazing adventures in their travels to the Western paradise.

No matter what obstacle was put before him, the clever,...

Recent Trends in Cold-Formed Steel Construction discusses advancements in an area that has become an important construction material for buildings. The book addresses cutting-edge new technologies and design methods using cold-formed steel as a main structural material, and provides technical guidance on how to design and build sustainable and energy-efficient cold-formed steel buildings.

Part One of the book introduces the codes, specifications, and design methods for cold-formed steel structures, while Part Two provides computational analysis of cold-formed steel...