Natāʾij al-afkār ʻalá al-matn al-musammá bi-Iẓhār al-asrār [microform].

Colophon title.

Aṭahʹlī ʻalá al-Iẓhār [microform] : hādhā sharḥ Iẓhār al-asrār al-musammá bi-Natāʼij al-afkār.

Microfilm.

Kitāb Manār al-hudá fī bayān al-waqf wa-al-ibtidāʾ [microform] /

Microfilm.

Speculum boni principis Alphonsus rex Aragoniae : hoc est dicta et facta Alphonsi regis Aragoni, primum IV libris /

Includes Chronologia vitae Alphonsi by David Chytraeus.

Tractatus de alimentis Do. Ioannis Petri Surdi Casalensis iurisconsulti, et senatoris praeclariss. : titulis, seu partibus nouem distinctus, totam alimentorum materiam exactissimè complectens, omnibus tùm theoricis, tùm practicis apprimè vtilis, ac necessarius.

Signatures: [dagger]⁶ a-k⁶ A-3N⁶ 3O⁸.

Christiani orbis perspicillvm, exhibens in europaeis christianorum regnis praecipuas in statu politico & ecclesiastico differentias ... Accedit ... descriptio brevis papae et cardinalium nostrae aetatis ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Johannis Gryphiandri jurisconsulti Oeconomicorum legalium, sive de arte acquirendi & conservandi patrimonii libri duo : in quibus jus civile privatim ad rationes oeconomicas & utilitatem rei familiaris tam in lucris promovendis quàm in damnis avertendis singulari methodo accommodatur.

Includes index.

Passaconaway in the White Mountains /

Mode of access: Internet.

Les Mostaert: Jean Mostaert, dit le maître d'Oultremont. Gilles et Francois Mostaert. Michel Mostaert.

"Catalogue de l'œuvre des Mostaert": p. [151]-152.

Yu shi shu hua ti ba ji.

Mode of access: Internet.

Description des estampes qui forment l'oeuvre gravé de Dirk de Bray,

Mode of access: Internet.

Xin ding Wang shi Luo jing tou jie : 2 juan /

Block print.

Face authentication test on the BANCA database

This work details the results of a face authentication test (FAT2004) (http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/banca/icpr2004) held in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. The contest was held on the publicly available BANCA database (http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/banca) according to a defined protocol (E. Bailly-Bailliere et al., June 2003). The competition also had a sequestered part in which institutions had to submit their algorithms for independent testing. 13 different verification algorithms from 10 institutions submitted results. Also, a standard set of face recognition software packages from the Internet (http://www.cs.colostate.edu/evalfacerec) were used to provide a baseline performance measure.

Book review of Wang, Y., & Pizam, A. (Eds). 2011. Destination Marketing and Management – Theories and Applications.

A contentious issue in the field of destination marketing has been the recent tendency by some authors to refer to destination marketing organisations (DMOs) as destination management organisations. This nomenclature infers control over destination resources, a level of influence that is in reality held by few DMOs. This issue of a lack of control over the destination ‘amalgam’ is acknowledged by a number of the contributors, including the editors and the discussion on destination competitiveness by J.R. Brent Ritchie and Geoffrey Crouch, and is perhaps best summed up by Alan Fyall in the concluding chapter: “...unless all elements are owned by the same body, then the ability to control and influence the direction, quality and development of the destination pose very real challenges’ (p. 343). The title of the text acknowledges both marketing and management, in relation to theories and applications. While there are insightful propositions about ideals of destination management, readers will find there is a lack of coverage of destination management in practise by DMOs. This represents fertile ground for future research.

Graphene nanocomposites

Graphene, one of the allotropes (diamond, carbon nanotube, and fullerene) of carbon, is a monolayer of honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms discovered in 2004. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 was awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for their ground breaking experiments on the twodimensional graphene [1]. Since its discovery, the research communities have shown a lot of interest in this novel material owing to its unique properties. As shown in Figure 1, the number of publications on graphene has dramatically increased in recent years. It has been confirmed that graphene possesses very peculiar electrical properties such as anomalous quantum hall effect, and high electron mobility at room temperature (250000 cm2/Vs). Graphene is also one of the stiffest (modulus ~1 TPa) and strongest (strength ~100 GPa) materials. In addition, it has exceptional thermal conductivity (5000 Wm-1K-1). Based on these exceptional properties, graphene has found its applications in various fields such as field effect devices, sensors, electrodes, solar cells, energy storage devices and nanocomposites. Only adding 1 volume per cent graphene into polymer (e.g. polystyrene), the nanocomposite has a conductivity of ~0.1 Sm-1 [2], sufficient for many electrical applications. Significant improvement in strength, fracture toughness and fatigue strength has also been achieved in these nanocomposites [3-5]. Therefore, graphene-polymer nanocomposites have demonstrated a great potential to serve as next generation functional or structural materials.