1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910583096003321

Titolo

Engineering of high-performance textiles / / edited by Menghe Miao, John H. Xin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Duxford, England : , : Woodhead Publishing, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

0-08-101885-1

0-08-101273-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (546 pages) : illustrations (some color), graphs

Collana

The Textile Institute Book Series

Disciplina

677

Soggetti

Textile fabrics

Textile fibers

Industrial fabrics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Engineering of High-Performance Textiles discusses the fiber-to-fabric engineering of various textile products. Each chapter focuses on practical guidelines and approaches for common issues in textile research and development. The book discusses high-performance fibers and yarns before presenting the engineering fabrics and architectures needed for particular properties required of high-performance textiles. Properties covered include moisture absorption, pilling resistant knitwear, fire retardant fabrics, camouflage fabrics, insect repellent fabrics, filtration, and many more. Coordinated by two highly distinguished editors, this book is a practical resource for all those engaged in textile research, development and production, for both traditional and new-generation textile products, and for academics involved in research into textile science and technology. Offers a range of perspectives on high-performance textiles from an international team of authors with diverse expertise in academic research, textile development and manufacture. Provides systematic and comprehensive coverage of the topic from fabric construction,



through product development, to the range of current and potential applications that exploit high-performance textile technology. Led by two high-profile editors with many years' experience in engineering high-performance textiles.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136756203321

Autore

Bambridge Tamatoa

Titolo

The Rahui : legal pluralism in Polynesian traditional management of resources and territories / / edited by Tamatoa Bambridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

ANU Press, 2016

Acton, Australian Capital Territory : , : Australian National University Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-925022-91-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

ANU Press Pacific series

Classificazione

341.193

Disciplina

342.085297

Soggetti

Legal polycentricity - Polynesia

Polynesia History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Tapu and rahui : traditions and pluralistic organisation of society -- pt. 2. Rahui today as state-custom pluralism.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection deals with an ancient institution in Eastern Polynesia called the rahui, a form of restricting access to resources and/or territories. While tapu had been extensively discussed in the scientific literature on Oceanian anthropology, the rahui is quite absent from secondary modern literature. This situation is all the more problematic because individual actors, societies, and states in the Pacific are readapting such concepts to their current needs, such as environment regulation or cultural legitimacy. This book assembles a comprehensive collection of current works on the rahui from a legal pluralism perspective. This study as a whole underlines the new assertion of identity that has flowed from the cultural dimension of the rahui. Today, rahui have become a means for indigenous communities to be



fully recognised on a political level. Some indigenous communities choose to restore the rahui in order to preserve political control of their territory or, in some cases, to get it back. For the state, better control of the rahui represents a way of asserting its legitimacy and its sovereignty, in the face of this reassertion by indigenous communities.