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Inventing isn't easy! In this book, twelve "valleys of death" are identified which, following a linear approach, correspond to the various obstacles that limit the various passages from an original…
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Jean-Claude Andre
Inventing isn't easy! After identifying and presenting the 12 "valleys of death", the real obstacles limiting the transition from an original idea to an innovative one, including the notion of…
Demoly,Jean-Claude Andre
Who hasn’t dreamed of seeing matter transformed in a way that suits you? This is the goal of 4D printing, using materials that can change in terms of shape and…
F Demoly,Jean-Claude Andre
Any time objects and their (self-)organization are to be put into use, their models and methods of thinking as well as their designing and manufacturing need to be reinvented.
4D…
In 1984, additive manufacturing represented a new methodology for manipulating matter, consisting of harnessing materials and/or energy to create three-dimensional physical objects. Today, additive manufacturing technologies represent a market of…
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Additive manufacturing, which was first invented in France and then applied in the United States, is now 33 years old and represents a market of around 5 billion euros per…
Digital technology opens up extraordinary fields for applications that will deeply change the nature of jobs and trade, the very concept of work and the expectations of user-producers. The masters…
JC Andre
With a turnover of some 5-15 billion EURO / year, the additive manufacturing has industrial niches bearers thanks to processes and materials more and more optimized. While some niches still…
Als der Berner Patrizier Thuring von Ringoltingen den um 1400 entstandenen Versroman 'Melusine' des Franzosen Coudrette 1456 ins Deutsche ubersetzt (vorangegangen war der sehr viel erfolgreichere 'Roman de Melusine' von…
Eric Schaer,Jean-Claude Andre
Process engineering emerged at the beginning of the 20th Century and has become an essential scientific discipline for the matter and energy processing industries. Its success is incontrovertible, with the…
General circulation model (GCM) experiments in the late 1970’s indicated that the climate is sensitive to variations in evaporation at the land surface.
Jean Racine
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
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Jean Cocteau
Film as poetry–poetry as film–from one of the great European Modernists.
Francois Rozier
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
This book is designed as a resource for those preparing for the NBE PTEeXAM or its equivalents outside of the USA and Canada. The contents follow the syllabus of the…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2015, held in Paris, France, in October 2015. The 70 revised full papers presented were…
Since the inaugural symposium at the Pennsylvania State University in 1977, the venues for the series of biennial symposia on turbulent shear flows have alternated between the USA and Europe…
The 19 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers presented together with five invited talks and the abstracts of 32 poster papers are organized in topical sections on rendering…
Michael Bishop
In Earth and Mind : Dreaming, Writing, Being Michael Bishop examines very recent work by nine major French and Francophone writers : Bonnefoy, Risset, Stetie, Khoury-Ghata, Ben Jelloun, Velter, Bancquart…
The word ‘precarity’ is widely used when discussing work, employment or social classes. However, there is no consensus on the precise meaning of the term or how it should best…
Que puis-je encore faire ? J'ai presque tout tente et nulle part je n'ai trouve la paix . Le lecteur, pour qui Petrarque est d'abord le chantre de Laure, decouvrira…
