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This book provides an overview of all the components necessary to set-up an optimal design environment for electromagnetic devices. The ana1ysis tool is based on the finite element method (FEM) and/or the boundary element method (BEM). Possible approaches in order to apply these numerical analysis methods in solving optimal design problems, such as geometric parametrization techniques and design sensitivity computation are reviewed and discussed in some depth. Relevant theory, fundamental terminology and concepts used in stating and solving optimal design problems by specific deterministic

The editors of this book have brought together a fine selection of scientific articles centred around the changing nature of (tele)communication policy and written by renowned Belgian and international scholars. Indeed, privatisation and liberalisation in the field of public services at the end of the millennium did prompt a number of new questions and challenges for operators, policymakers and academics alike. In recent years main policy debates were all about the introduction of competition. This book on the other hand focuses mainly on finding ways to re-concile economic and social

The advent of quantum mechanics has changed our scientific world view in a fundamental way. But contrary to the revolutionary ideas of the relativity theory being linked from the start with deep structural changes in the geometrical nature of our world, the deep structural changes about the nature itself of our whole reality cannot be traced within the standard formulation. In this book the main researchers in the field try to fill the gap, explaining the recent results of the research concerning the structure of quantum theory.

This collection of essays adresses not only conservator/restorers, but also a wide range of others concerned with art, including artists, museum and exhibition staff, scientists, collectors and, last but not least, the individual lover of art.
The first 8 writings contain a chronological view of conservation/restoration's expanding and difficult concerns within modern and postmodern art up to now. The effects art can have are made transparent by studies on phenomena apparent in modern art's conservation/restoration, including the insight art may give a person, who is able to touch it

Gerard Mortier headed the Brussels opera (The Monnaie) from 1981 to 1991. They were turbulent and beautiful years, years in which Mortier raised the artistic level of the house substantially. He created a new repertoire, a new public, and a new style of operatic interpretation, thereby invigorating artistic life in Belgium and abroad. Mortier endeavored to create a general model for the management of operatic production, an essential element of which was an active communication policy. He explained, argued, discussed, and created interest through a barrage of interviews, articles, lectures,

The contributions to this book cover the ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus over Nagorno, Karabakh, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and the conflict in the North Caucasus between the Ingush and Ossetes. Alexei Zverev gives a broad overview of a1l these conflicts. Ghia Nodia"s contribution focuses on the consequences of Georgian independence for the conflict with South Ossetia. Dmitri Trenin and Dmitri Danilov discuss Russia"s interests and policies in the region. Eric Remacle and Olivier Paye deal with the mediation policies of the CSCE and the UN in the main conflicts there. Firouzeh Nahavandi

Stakeholder consultations are an important part of EU policy-making. On the one hand, the thousands of interest representation groups in Brussels target the European institutions, and more specifically the European Commission, with position papers and input on the various issues on the agenda. On the other hand, the European Commission itself is trying to structure this dialogue and to make it an essential element not only of decision-making in particular but of democratic life at the EU level in general. Since the beginning of the 1990s the European Commission has issued a series of

Lextension de Bruxelles au 19e sicle navait rien de spontan, ni de mcanique. Elle tait une entreprise collective o linventivit et les stratgies jouaient un rle de premier ordre. Chaque tape de lagglomration et chaque rouage de lurbanisation devait y tre explicit, tant les obstacles y taient nombreux. Car il fallait russir fabriquer le territoire de la capitale belge en labsence dune unit urbaine. Il fallait oprer une transformation dlicate qui consistait installer la capitale sur des terres rurales sans perdre le soutien des diles locaux, tout en mnageant les intrts des propritaires et,

There are two reasons why the free and open-source software issue has become such an inspirational and powerful force today: the rise of the Internet and the growing tendency to protect all intellectual property. Internet technology made it possible to handle massive decentralized projects and irreversibly changed our personal communication and information research. Intellectual property, on the other hand, is a legal instrument which - due to recent excesses - became the symbol of exactly the opposite of what it had been developed for: the protection of the creative process. As a result,

Promoting high quality research and education in the field of transport, within its region, is the main goal of the Benelux Interuniversity Association of Transport Economists BIVEC-GIBET for short. Founded in 1978, in the course of a quarter century the Association has evolved from a small group of transport economists into a solid and broad-based network of a diversity of transport experts. Thus, it presently unites both academic staff and professional people qualifi ed in fi elds such as transport economics, logistics, regional economics, transport geography and transport law.

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