This special issue stresses the importance of material culture in diplomatic studies science and technology. In our studies, objects are considered powerful tokens complexity encounters asymmetry international relations. The contributors committed to theorizing about role exchanges during postwar period and, at same time, diplomacy constituting materiality nuclear things. Our approach combines ...

Cell Culture Bioreactors Basic Types of Bioreactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Stirred Tank (Well Mixed) vs. Tubular Reactor (Plug Flow) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Segregated Bioreactors (Dead Zone Present) Compartmentalized Bioreactors . . 4 Implication When Growth or Reaction Occurs in the Reactor . . . . . ....

Intelligent agents embedded in cultural processes demonstrate remarkable powers of creation, transformation, stability and regulation. As G.P. Murdock said in his 1971 Huxley Lecture, culture and social structure are not divine law within which individuals simply satisfy their assigned objectives and then die. Culture gives agents the power to hyper-adapt: not only can they achieve local minima...

1. Characteristics of Culture 1.1. Tradition 1.2. Teaching 2. Material Culture 2.1. Eating culture 2.2. Housing 2.3. Tools 2.4. Trade and economy 3. Intellectual culture 3.1. Language 3.2. Art 3.3. Science and technology 3.4. Religion and belief 3.5. Philosophy 4. Culture as Social Organization 4.1. Family structures 4.2. Group rules 4.3. State 5. The value of culture Bibliography Biographical ...