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These 19 peer-reviewed papers cover emerging topics in Advanced Materials (e.g.: polymer composites, nanocomposites, ceramics, thin-film coatings and shape-memory alloys) and thus offer an unique insight into current progress. Review from Book News Inc.: Selected papers from a January 2011 conference held in Pakistan highlight the latest work in advanced materials areas such as polymer composites, thin film coatings, and shape memory alloys. Papers are grouped in sections on composites, nanocomposites, ceramics and oxides, and thin films and surface engineering. Some specific topics addressed

Composite materials. --- Composites (Materials) --- Multiphase materials --- Reinforced solids --- Solids, Reinforced --- Two phase materials --- Materials

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Most of the academic literature on violence in Nigeria is qualitative. It rarely relies on quantitative data because police crime statistics are not reliable, or not available, or not even published. Moreover, the training of Nigerian social scientists often focuses on qualitative, cultural, and political issues. There is thus a need to bridge the qualitative and quantitative approaches of conflict studies. This book represents an innovation and fills a gap in this regard. It is the first to introduce a discussion on such issues in a coherent manner, relying on a database that fills the lacunae in data from the security forces. The authors underline the necessity of a trend analysis to decipher the patterns and the complexity of violence in very different fields: from oil production to cattle breeding, radical Islam to motor accidents, land conflicts to witchcraft, and so on. In addition, they argue for empirical investigation and a complementary approach using both qualitative and quantitative data. The book is therefore organized into two parts, with a focus first on statistical studies, then on fieldwork.

Geography --- Political Science --- violence --- conflicts --- crime --- crime statistics --- quantitative data analysis