Fifteen papers taken from a workshop held in Liege in 2001 aimed at bringing together those researching microlith industries from across Europe. Whilst new ideas and new data are presented in most papers, the most significant outcome of this exchange of ideas was the opportunity to assess technological and stylistic similarities between assemblages among case studies from Poland, Germany, Hungary, Israel, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and China. Papers in English.

The majority of the 17 papers in this volume were presented as conference papers at the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference in 1999 at Cardiff, Wales, in the session Peopling the Mesolithic in a Northern Environment. The approach adopted was to investigate the social Mesolithic, a radical departure from traditional approaches to the period, which tends to focus on flint typologies rather than people. Many of the themes and debates raised by these papers have been discussed and argued at a number of subsequent conferences, sessions and day schools on reconstructing the social...

The Peloponnese forms an approximate cultural province. The precise delimitation of a cultural province, even for a restricted archaeological period, is not always easy to define. Over a time-span of some three thousand years, which witnessed probably considerable climatic and ecological changes, and certainly the development of a great diversity of pottery types, it is not to be expected that cultural boundaries should remain constant. In the earliest stages of the Neolithic period it could be argued on the ceramic evidence that all the Greek mainland, from Macedonia to Laconia, constituted...

Brause and Mayher's powerful message is that many teachers do not realize their potential as educators because they lack sound knowledge to back up and properly implement their ideas. They provide guidance on how to read research and how to conduct research in the classroom. They aim to engender in teachers an awareness of the possibility of research to broaden their outlook of their profession.

Replacing and superseding all other works in this area, Dr. Lucinda L. Veeck's An Atlas of Human Gametes and Conceptuses is the only book no w in print that shows the typical and atypical morphology of human ooc ytes, sperm, and preembryos collected and cultured during the course o f in vitro fertilization treatment. Brilliantly illustrated with hundr eds of original photographs in color as well as black and white, the b ook also details and fully illustrates specific new reproductive techn ologies and provides the reader with both a glossary and a concise his tory of in vitro fertilization....

This volume is based on the course notes of the 2nd NCN Pedagogical School, the second in the series of Pedagogical Schools in the frame work of the European TMR project, "Breakthrough in the control of nonlinear systems (Nonlinear Control Network)." The school consists of four courses that have been chosen to give a broad range of techniques for the analysis and synthesis of nonlinear control systems, and have been developed by leading experts in the field. The topics covered are: Differential Algebraic Methods in Nonlinear Systems; Nonlinear QFT; Hybrid Systems; Physics in Control.
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In the increasingly competitive modern world, the industrial sector faces new challenges such as improving productivity and reducing costs while taking into account the process operational constraints.
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Elayne oakes, Dianne Willis andSteve Clarke The effectiveuse of knowledge management in organisations is an essential factor in their successful operation, but knowledge management is a many faceted domain, in which there is a danger of emphasising only a limited view. The purpose of this book is therefore to present for discussion those issues which practitioners and researchers havefound to be critical to understanding and progress within the knowledge management domain. This seems to haveled quite naturally to the study of knowledge management from three perspectives: tech nology,...

This study produces a chronology and examines the regional distribution of the highly decorative Cucuteni pottery in the area between the Carpathians and the Dneiper. It focuses on the spread of the Tripolye culture and settlement in the early agricultural period. The study includes a catalogue of Cucuteni pottery.

This detailed study compares the results of previously published excavations in what is termed the North Pontic region (Southern Russia and the Ukraine). It explores the question of whether a 'Scythian' ethnic grouping can be identified and its culture defined. It also examines issues of Greek colonization and asks what is actually meant when objects are identified as being in a 'Greek style'.