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In the Pueblo IV period (1275-1600) potters began to make distinctive polychrome vessels, which have been linked by archaeologists to new ideologies and religious practices in the area. This research examines interaction networks along settlement clusters in the Zuni region of west-central New Mexico in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, using analytical techniques such as INAA sourcing of ceramic pastes.

Zuni Indians --- Pueblo pottery --- Pottery --- Glazing (Ceramics) --- Glazes. --- Antiquities. --- ceramic glaze. --- Émaillage (Ceramique) --- Glaçures. --- Ceramique --- Themes, motives. --- Analysis. --- Themes, motifs. --- New Southwest. --- États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest) --- Southwest, New --- Antiquites. --- Ceramic materials --- Color in the ceramic industries --- Ceramics --- Pottery, Pueblo --- Pueblo Indians --- Pottery, American --- A:shiwi (Zuni) --- A'shiwi (Zuni) --- Zuñian Indians --- Indians of North America --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Archaeology --- Subjects --- United States

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This Brief is aimed at engineers and researchers involved in the refrigeration industry: specifically, those interested in energy utilization and system efficiency. The book presents what the authors believe is the first comprehensive frost melting study involving all aspects of heat and mass transfer. The volume’s description of in-plane and normal digital images of frost growth and melting is also unique in the field, and the digital analysis technique offers an advantage over invasive measurement methods. The scope of book’s coverage includes modeling and experimentation for the frost formation and melting processes. The key sub-specialties to which the book are aimed include refrigeration system analysis and design, coupled heat and mass transfer, and phase-change processes.

Engineering. --- Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer. --- Low Temperature Physics. --- Energy Efficiency (incl. Buildings). --- Ingénierie --- Frost. --- Heat -- Transmission. --- Thawing. --- Mechanical Engineering --- Physics --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Thermodynamics --- Heat --- Transmission. --- Freezing --- Hoarfrost --- Heat transfer --- Thermal transfer --- Transmission of heat --- Energy efficiency. --- Low temperature physics. --- Low temperatures. --- Thermodynamics. --- Heat engineering. --- Heat transfer. --- Mass transfer. --- Frost --- Fusion --- Meltwater --- Energy transfer --- Water --- Freezes (Meteorology) --- Glaze (Meteorology) --- Energy Efficiency. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Power resources --- Energy conservation --- Cryogenics --- Low temperature physics --- Temperatures, Low --- Temperature --- Cold --- Mass transport (Physics) --- Transport theory --- Mechanical engineering --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Dynamics --- Mechanics --- Heat-engines --- Quantum theory

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This book is a collection of papers that originated as a Special Issue, focused on some recent advances related to fiber Bragg grating-based sensors and systems. Conventionally, this book can be divided into three parts: intelligent systems, new types of sensors, and original interrogators. The intelligent systems presented include evaluation of strain transition properties between cast-in FBGs and cast aluminum during uniaxial straining, multi-point strain measurements on a containment vessel, damage detection methods based on long-gauge FBG for highway bridges, evaluation of a coupled sequential approach for rotorcraft landing simulation, wearable hand modules and real-time tracking algorithms for measuring finger joint angles of different hand sizes, and glaze icing detection of 110 kV composite insulators. New types of sensors are reflected in multi-addressed fiber Bragg structures for microwave–photonic sensor systems, its applications in load-sensing wheel hub bearings, and more complex influence in problems of generation of vortex optical beams based on chiral fiber-optic periodic structures. Original interrogators include research in optical designs with curved detectors for FBG interrogation monitors; demonstration of a filterless, multi-point, and temperature-independent FBG dynamical demodulator using pulse-width modulation; and dual wavelength differential detection of FBG sensors with a pulsed DFB laser.

Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) --- composite insulator with embedded FBGs --- glaze icing --- icing detection --- fiber Bragg grating strain sensor --- algorithm --- hand motion capture --- real-time tracking --- fiber Bragg gratings --- landing simulation --- rotorcraft --- coupled sequential method --- landing structural response --- finite element analysis (FEA) --- microwave-photonic sensor systems --- Fiber Bragg Gratings --- Addressed Fiber Bragg Structures --- Multi-Addressed Fiber Bragg Structures --- long-gauge FBG --- damage detection --- highway bridges --- vehicle–bridge interaction --- comparative study --- fiber Bragg grating --- fiber optic sensor --- dynamic chirp --- DFB laser --- chiral structures --- orbital angular momentum --- apodization --- chirp --- coupled modes theory --- FBG --- PWM --- engine --- high temperature --- ECU --- FBG demodulator --- fiber sensing --- high-speed interrogation --- dynamic strain --- microwave photonic sensor system --- numerical simulation --- addressed fiber Bragg structures --- load-sensing bearings --- vehicle dynamics control --- Fibre Bragg Gratings --- neutron diffraction --- X-ray tomography --- tensile test --- fiber Bragg grating sensors --- spectrograph --- high angular dispersion --- curved detectors --- freeform optics