Príbeh o stretnutí letca, ktorého lietadlo havarovalo v africkej púšti, a malého chlapca z ďalekej planéty je vhodný pre čitateľov všetkých generácií. Vyzýva nás k premýšľaniu nad otázkami dobra a zla a hľadania podstaty priateľstva, skutočnej krásy a zodpovednosti za tých, ktorých máme radi. Antoina de Saint-Exupéryho, francúzskeho spisovateľa, novinára a pilota, k napísaniu Malého princa inšpirovala skutočná havária v Líbyjskej púšti. Kniha bola po prvýkrát vydaná v roku 1943. Odvtedy sa Malý princ dočkal prekladov do viac ako 360 jazykov a je po Biblii druhou najprekladanejšou knihou na svete. V publikácii nájdete upravenú verziu rozprávky, ktorá je prerozprávaná jednoduchou angličtinou. Kniha je výbornou voľbou pre začínajúcich čitateľov, či už dieťaťa, alebo dospelého. Na každej strane nájdete slovenský zrkadlový preklad, ktorý vám umožní obratom skontrolovať, či cudzojazyčnému textu rozumiete správne. Audionahrávku vo formáte MP3, na ktorej text v angličtine rozpráva rodený hovorca, nájdete na stránkach vydavateľstva.

The Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements is a contemporary and definitive compilation of chemical properties of all of the actinide elements, especially of the technologically important elements uranium and plutonium, as well as the transactinide elements. In addition to the comprehensive treatment of the chemical properties of each element, ion, and compound from atomic number 89 (actinium) through to 109 (meitnerium), this multi-volume work has specialized and definitive chapters on electronic theory, optical and laser fluorescence spectroscopy, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, organoactinide chemistry, thermodynamics, magnetic properties, the metals, coordination chemistry, separations, and trace analysis. Several chapters deal with environmental science, safe handling, and biological interactions of the actinide elements. The Editors invited teams of authors, who are active practitioners and recognized experts in their specialty, to write each chapter and have endeavoured to provide a balanced and insightful treatment of these fascinating elements at the frontier of the periodic table. Because the field has expanded with new spectroscopic techniques and environmental focus, the work encompasses five volumes, each of which groups chapters on related topics. All chapters represent the current state of research in the chemistry of these elements and related fields.

The recent revolution in differential topology related to the discovery of non-standard (”exotic”) smoothness structures on topologically trivial manifolds such as R4 suggests many exciting opportunities for applications of potentially deep importance for the spacetime models of theoretical physics, especially general relativity. This rich panoply of new differentiable structures lies in the previously unexplored region between topology and geometry. Just as physical geometry was thought to be trivial before Einstein, physicists have continued to work under the tacit — but now shown to be incorrect — assumption that differentiability is uniquely determined by topology for simple four-manifolds. Since diffeomorphisms are the mathematical models for physical coordinate transformations, Einstein's relativity principle requires that these models be physically inequivalent. This book provides an introductory survey of some of the relevant mathematics and presents preliminary results and suggestions for further applications to spacetime models.

This book presents a detailed description, analysis, comparison of the latest research and developments in photovoltaic energy. Discussing everything from semiconductors to system integration, and applying various advanced technologies to stand alone and electric utility interfaced in normal and abnormal operating conditions of PV systems, this book provides a thorough introduction to the topic. This book brings together research from around the world, covering the use of technologies such as embedded systems, the Internet of things and blockchain technologies for PV systems for different applications including controllers, solar trackers and cooling systems. The book is of interest to electronic and mechanical engineers, researchers and students in the field of photovoltaics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Cloud Computing, ICC 2019, held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in December 2019. The two-volume set presents 53 full papers, which were carefully reviewed and selected from 174 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Cyber Security; Data Science; Information Technology and Applications; Network and IoT.

As the number of processor cores and IP blocks integrated on a single chip is steadily growing, a systematic approach to design the communication infrastructure becomes necessary. Different variants of packed switched on-chip networks have been proposed by several groups during the past two years. This book summarizes the state of the art of these efforts and discusses the major issues from the physical integration to architecture to operating systems and application interfaces. It also provides a guideline and vision about the direction this field is moving to. Moreover, the book outlines the consequences of adopting design platforms based on packet switched network. The consequences may in fact be far reaching because many of the topics of distributed systems, distributed real-time systems, fault tolerant systems, parallel computer architecture, parallel programming as well as traditional system-on-chip issues will appear relevant but within the constraints of a single chip VLSI implementation.

This contributed volume is primarily intended for graduate and professional audiences. The book provides a basic understanding of urban air quality issues, root causes for local and urban air pollution, monitoring and modelling techniques, assessment, and control options to manage air quality at local and urban scale. The book also offers useful information on indoor air quality and smart sensors, which are gaining much importance in current times.

How can industry profit from the biochemical tricks of cold-adapted organisms? This book covers a range of aspects in this fascinating field, from genetic tools to environmental biotechnology.

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