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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Sustainable Software Engineering -- An Approach to Describe Design Pattern Structures for Sustainable Software Products -- 1 Motivation -- 2 Design Patterns for Sustainable Software -- 2.1 Software Design Process -- 2.2 Design Pattern Approach -- 2.3 Characteristic Properties -- 2.4 Pattern Description Languages -- 3 A Simple Example -- 4 Formal Pattern Descriptions -- 4.1 Advantages of Formal Descriptions -- 4.2 Example -- 4.3 Embedding of Formal Descriptions into the Framework -- 5 Actors and Sustainability Goals -- 6 Practical Construction of Pattern Collections -- 6.1 Course of the Documentation -- 6.2 Sustainability Pattern Candidates -- 6.3 Anti-patterns -- 6.4 Sustainability of Classic Design Patterns -- 6.5 Potential Difficulties in Using Patterns -- 7 Summary and Outlook -- References -- A Taxonomy About Information Systems Complexity and Sustainability -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Background -- 2.1 On IS Complexity -- 2.2 On Sustainability -- 3 Study Design and Execution -- 3.1 Premise -- 3.2 Research Setting -- 3.3 Data Collection and Analysis -- 4 Findings -- 4.1 Case Analyses -- 4.2 The Taxonomy -- 5 Discussion -- 6 Related Work -- 7 Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Software Design for Sustainability -- Microservice-Based Architecture for the Integration of Data Backends and Dashboard Applications in the Energy and Environment Domains -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Foundations and Related Work -- 3 Architecture for Applications Using Data Backends -- 4 Evaluation -- 5 Conclusion and Outlook -- References -- A Literature Review to Analyze the State of the Art of Virtual Power Plants in Context of Information Security -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Research Methodology -- 3 Types of the Term "Virtual Power Plant" -- 3.1 Syntax of "Virtual Power Plant" -- 3.2 Reason for VPP Ambiguity and Consistency.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Before You Begin -- How to Use This Book -- Preparing for the Firefighter Exam -- Six Test-Day Strategies -- Tips for Test Takers -- How This Book Is Organized -- Special Study Features -- More for You from Peterson's -- You're Well on Your Way to Success -- Part I: Firefighting Basics -- 1 What Firefighters Do -- The Nature of the Work -- Employment Outlook -- Places of Employment -- Essential Job Tasks of Firefighters -- Working Conditions -- First Responder and Emergency Medical Services -- Training and Advancement -- Firefighting in the Twenty-First Century -- Earnings -- Related Occupations -- Additional Information -- Summing It Up -- 2 Firefighter Screening Process -- Notice of Examination -- The Application -- Written Exam Contents -- Medical Standards -- Defining Fitness -- Tips for Staying Fit -- Physical Ability Tests -- The Candidate Physical Ability Test™ -- Personality Tests and Psychological Evaluations -- The Interview -- Summing It Up -- Part II: Diagnosing your Strengths and Weaknessess -- 3 The Diagnostic Test -- Introduction to the Diagnostic Test -- Diagnostic Test Answer Sheet -- Diagnostic Test -- Answer Key and Explanations -- Diagnostic Test Assessment Grid -- Part III: Test Preparation -- 4 Reading Comprehension -- About Reading Comprehension Questions -- Sample Reading Program -- Five Common Types of Reading Comprehension Questions -- Tackling Reading Comprehension Questions -- Summing It Up -- Exercise 1: Reading Comprehension -- Exercise 2: Reading Comprehension -- Answer Keys and Explanations -- 5 Reasoning and Judgment -- What Are Reasoning and Judgment Questions? -- Reasoning and Judgment Strategies -- Guided Practice: Reasoning and Judgment -- Summing It Up -- Exercise: Reasoning and Judgment -- Answer Key and Explanations -- 6 Spatial Orientation.

Front Cover -- Next Generation Biomonitoring: Part 2 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One: Bioinformatics for Biomonitoring: Species Detection and Diversity Estimates Across Next-Generation Sequencin ... -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Materials and Methods -- 2.1. Mock Communities -- 2.2. Library Preparation for Roche 454 -- 2.3. Library Preparation for Illumina MiSeq -- 2.4. Bioinformatics and Data Analysis -- 2.5. Assigning Taxonomy to OTUs and Dereplicated Sequences -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Sequence and Read Depth -- 3.2. OTU Clustering and the Effect of Singletons -- 3.3. Species Detection -- 3.4. OTU Precision -- 3.5. Impact of Merging and Appending MiSeq Reads on Species Detection and OTU Estimates -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1. Read Depth and Singletons -- 4.2. OTU Clustering -- 4.3. Experimental Design -- 4.4. Implications for Biomonitoring -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter Two: Linking DNA Metabarcoding and Text Mining to Create Network-Based Biomonitoring Tools: A Case Study on Borea ... -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Ecological Networks as Biomonitoring Tools -- 1.2. New Tools to Rapidly Assess Biodiversity and Annotate It With Ecological Information -- 1.3. Freshwater Biodiversity Hotspots as Candidates for Exploring Novel Approaches for Biodiversity Assessment -- 1.4. Exploring the Generation of DNA Ecological Networks for Aquatic Biomonitoring -- 2. Building Heuristic Food Webs for Wetland Biomonitoring: A Case Study -- 2.1. DNA Sample Collection, Metabarcoding, and Bioinformatics Pipeline -- 2.2. Development of Text-Mining Pipeline for Traits of Freshwater Organisms -- 2.3. Evaluation, and Iterative Refinements to Text-Mining Pipeline for Body Size -- 2.4. Rule-Based Procedure for Retrieving Trait Information for Heuristic Food Web Construction

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Collapse of the Democratic Presidential Majority -- Realignment: Core Components -- Realignment: Applications and Modifications -- The Stability of Republican Dominance of Presidential Elections -- The Puzzle of Post-1968 Presidential Election Outcomes -- 3 The Decline of New Deal Economic Cleavage: Social Class and Issue Salience -- Social Class and the Basis of the New Deal Coalition -- Composition and Polarization Since 1952 -- Foreign Policy As an Emergent Area of Republican Strength -- The First Mini-Realignment: Secular and Critical Change -- 4 Decreasingly Latent Cleavages: Race and the Roosevelt Coalition from 1948 to 1972 -- Realignment (Largely) Averted: 1948 and the Politics of Race in the 1950s -- The Electoral Impact of Racial Politics in the 1960s -- Race As a Precursor of the Second Mini-Realignment -- 5 The Emergence of the Second Mini-Realignment: Ideological Extremity and Democratic Defection -- Ideological Extremity and the Asymmetry of Partisan Defection -- Partisan Ideological Asymmetry: Perceptions of Electoral Alternatives -- Parties and Candidates -- Perceived Distance and Individual Issue Types -- Party System VIa: Perceived Ideological Extremity and Democratic Defection -- 6 The Fragile Extension of the Second Mini-Realignment: Retrospective Voting and the Politics of Prosperity -- The Peculiar Role of Prospective Issues in the 1980s -- Economics As an Electoral Issue -- Economics and Vote Choice: Bivariate Relationships -- Economics and Vote Choice: Multivariate Effects -- Party System VIb: Republicans As the Party of Prosperity -- 7 Mondale's Revenge: Ideology and Retrospective Evaluations in 1992 -- Partisanship and Defection in 1992 -- The Continuing Balance of Ideological Extremism

"Rural America is at a crossroads in its economic development. Like regions of other First World nations, the traditional economic base of rural communities in the United States is rapidly deteriorating. Natural resources, including agriculture, show little prospect for generating future job growth, and manufacturing has become a new source of instability. Faced with these changes and an increasing vulnerability to international economic events, rural communities have begun to seek high-technology industries and advanced services as candidates for job growth and economic stability. What is the potential for high-tech growth outside the largest cities? What is the role of high-tech industry in the economic development of non-metropolitan America? This book provides a hard-nosed look at the high-tech potential in rural economic development. Some of the questions Glasmeier addresses include: Are rural areas attractive to high tech? Will high tech follow earlier patterns and filter down the lowest-paid jobs to rural areas? Will rural communities be bypassed completely for even lower-wage Third World locations? Glasmeier answers in a sober analysis that separates fact from myth. Empirical data reveals the kinds of high-tech jobs that locate in rural areas, and the kinds of rural areas that attract high-tech jobs. This analysis leads to a highly critical evaluation of state and local economic development policy and recommendations for its improvement. This book is a must for policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and an informed public interested in the promise of high tech and the future of US economic development."--Provided by publisher.

Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- Notes -- Content -- PART I: Political Turnover -- Two Reversals: Why 1992 Was Not 1977 -- I. Introduction -- II. The Arithmetic of Reversal -- III. Issues and Demography -- IV. Who Went Where? -- V. Wedge Issues -- VI. More on the 1992 Election -- VII. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Modelling Victory in the 1992 Election -- I. Introduction -- II. Elements of the Model: Factors in the 1992 Election -- Candidates -- Perfarmance Evaluations -- Party Attachment -- The Social Basis of the Vote -- III. The Model -- IV. Empirical Results -- Utility Parameters-Importance for the Individual Voter -- Vote Probabilities: Party Blocs' Sources of Advantage -- Dispersion of Vote Probabilities -- The Sources of Electoral Turnover: 1992 versus 1988 -- V. Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Group Influences -- Penetrating the System: The Politics of Collective Identities -- I. Religious Parties -- II. Jewish Ethnic Parties -- III. Arab Parties -- IV. Women's Parties -- V. Conclusion -- References -- Equal But Different? The Gender Gap in Israel's 1992 Elections -- I. Political Activity -- Political Efficacy -- Discussion of Political Affairs -- Voting -- Partisan Affiliation -- II. Opinions and Attitudes -- Views on Peace and Security -- Policy Preferences -- Voting Preferences -- III. Some Explanations -- The Development Model -- The Generational Model -- The Autonomy Model -- The Diffusion Model -- IV. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Shas-The Sephardic Torah Guardians: Religious "Movement" and Political Power -- I. The Campaign: "Imagining" the Movement -- II. Teshuva: Spiritual/Moral Movement -- III. Blessings, Prayers, and a Charm.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Albania and EU Accession -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. National Constitution of Albania -- 3. The Role of the Judiciary (National Courts) in Albania -- 4. The Role of the Executive (Government and Administration) in Albania -- Introduction -- 5. The Role of the National Parliament (Assembly) of Albania -- 6. Introduction to the New Accession Approach of EU and Its Member States -- 7. The 12 Key Priorities of the Commission of 11 December 2012 -- 8. Evaluation of Albania's Application for the EU Candidate Status -- Biographical Sketch -- Chapter 2 -- Determinants of Growth in Southeast Europe in Two Decades of Transition -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Macroeconomic and Growth Performances: Some Stylised Facts -- 3. An Overview of the Literature -- 4. The Empirical Framework -- 5. Econometric Results on Real Determinants of Growth -- 6. Evidence on Institutions and Structural Reforms -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Variables and Data Sources -- Appendix B: Full Sample of 27 Transition Economies -- References -- Chapter 3 -- The Coexistence of Inclusionary Policies and Exclusionary Practices of the Roma Minority in Albania: Unclosed Gaps between Theory and Practice -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Framework of EU Conditionality -- 2.1. A Brief Overview of the External Incentives Model -- 2.2 EU Conditionality and Roma Minority Rights -- 3. The Effect of EU Conditionality on Social Integration of Roma Minority in Albania -- 3.1. Profile of Roma Minority in Albania -- 3.2. The Effect of the EU Conditionality on the Adoption of the Albanian Legislation towards Promotion and Protection of Roma Minority Rights: Mechanisms and Instruments -- 3.3. The Effect of EU Conditionality on Social Inclusion of Roma Minority in Albania -- 3.3.1. Access to Education.

"Teaching Sociology Successfully is a comprehensive guide to teaching, learning and delivering sociology, not only with success but with confidence. Carefully combing insightful anecdotes and practical ideas with key theoretical concepts on planning, learning styles and assessment, this book is an essential tool for both new and experienced teachers of sociology. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of the teaching and learning process - from preparing to teach the subject for the first time to measuring student progress over time - in an approachable yet rigorous way. This practical guide will help you to:improve your knowledge of specifications and syllabuses at GCSE and AS/A Level;provide the best pedagogic approaches for teaching sociology;think about learning styles, skills and capacities in relation to teaching sociology;gain practical ideas and activities for improving student's argumentation, evaluation and essay writing skills;apply strategies for teaching abstract sociological theories and concepts;make the teaching of research methods engaging and interesting; deal with practical issues such as planning and assessing learning;encourage students' independent learning and revision;connect ICT, social networking websites and the mass media to further students' sociological knowledge;tackle the thorny issues of politics and controversial topics. Drawing on the author's own experiences, Teaching Sociology Successfully helps readers to identify, unpack and negotiate challenges common to those teaching sociology. Complete with a variety of pedagogical resources, it provides tasks and further reading to support CPD and reflective practice. This book will be an invaluable tool for students on PGCE social science training courses, as well as School Direct candidates and undergraduates studying BEds in similar fields."--Provided by publisher.

Preface -- Organization -- Table of Contents -- Scaling Privacy Guarantees in Code-Verification Elections -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Previous Work -- 1.2 Our Results -- 2 Cryptographic Preliminaries and Tools -- 3 The Vote Verification Protocol -- 3.1 Instantiation of the Vote Verification Protocol -- 3.2 Security and Performance -- 3.3 Instantiation of a Code Verification Protocol -- 4 A Visual Vote Verification Protocol -- 4.1 A 2-VSSD Instantiation -- 4.2 Instantiation of the Visual Vote Verification Protocol -- References -- On the Specification and Verification of Voting Schemes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Semantic Criteria for Analysing Voting Schemes -- 2.1 Basic Criteria -- 2.2 Criteria Characterising the Election Result -- 2.3 Tailor-Made Criteria for Preferential Voting Schemes -- 2.4 Criterion 2: Election Result Consistent with Preferences -- 2.5 Determinism -- 3 Bounded Model Checking for Analysing Voting Schemes -- 4 Case Study: Variants of the Single Transferable Vote Scheme -- 4.1 The Standard Version of STV -- 4.2 The CADE-STV Election Scheme -- 4.3 Effects of the Differences between CADE-STV and Standard STV -- 4.4 Observations on the History of CADE-STV -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Formal Model-Based Validation for Tally Systems -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Irish Voting Scheme -- 1.2 Proportional Representation by Single Transferable Vote -- 1.3 Votail -- 1.4 Related Work -- 1.5 Outline of Paper -- 2 Formalisation -- 2.1 Mathematical Models -- 2.2 Methodology -- 3 Election Outcomes -- 3.1 Last Two Continuing Candidates -- 3.2 Filling of Last Seat -- 3.3 PR-STV -- 4 Procedure for Automated Test Generation -- 4.1 Generation of Ballot Boxes -- 4.2 Open Source Implementation -- 5 Evaluation and Threats to Validity -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Vote Casting in Any Preferred Constituency: A New Voting Channel -- 1 Introduction

What is required of a welfare state? : a comparison of the migration policies employed in both Turkey and Europe with regard to Syrian refugees / İnci Aksu Kargın -- Migration management and municipalities in the context of urban refugees : legal and administrative approach / Hicran Hamza Çelikyay -- The right to work of workers under temporary protection status in Turkey / Mehtap Yücel Bodur -- International migration and immigrants : an evaluation in the context of the new security concept / Emre Çıtak -- The effects of transboundary movements on security and stability / Zeynep Yücel -- Refugees in the Turkish labor market : legal and economic analysis / Yavuz Kağan Yasım -- The economic reflections on the homeland of the reverse brain drain tendency in Turkish scientific diaspora / Atakan Durmaz -- Migration : employment, productivity and openness / M. Kenan Terzioğlu, Merve Öztürk and Ayhan Gençler -- Migration and adaptation / Çiğdem Yüksel, Didem Ayhan and Neşe Mercan -- Immigrants and health / Melike (Çallı) Kaplan -- Migration and urban space : the distribution of Syrian asylum seekers in the space / Eylem Beyazıt -- "Who is who according to whom?" : an analysis of the relationship between teachers candidates' attitudes towards refugees and their understandings of multiculturalism from different perspectives / Banu Yaman Ortaş -- The journeys of Afghan immigrants and the relationship among immigrants / Hayrettin Şahin and Kemal Çiftyildiz -- Turkish migration policies in the context of Syrian refugees through from the Turkish citizens' perspective : the case of Konya / Erhan Örselli and Veysel Babahanoğlu -- Measuring attitudes towards migrants : the case of Bandirma / Neslihan Arslan -- A study on the integration process of Syrians who emigrated to Aydın Province after 2011 / Eren Alper Yılmaz -- Factors affecting households' internal migration intention in Muş Province, Turkey : an ordered discrete choice modeling approach / Kerem Karabulut, Ali Kemal Çelik, Dilek Özdemir and Kübra Karakuş -- The effect of geopolitical factors on migration and settlement geography : the case of Sakarya / Cemile Şahin.

1. An Overview of our research -- 2. Recovery of Food Production from Radioactive Contamination Caused by the Fukushima Nuclear Accident -- 3. Annual Reduction of Transfer Factors of Radiocesium from Soil to Rice Cultivated in a KCl Fertilized and Straw Plowed-in Paddy Field from 2015 to 2021 -- 4. Effects of radiocesium from suspended matter and fallout on agricultural products -- 5. Verification of Uptake and Transport Properties of Cesium in Hydroponically Cultivated Quercus Serrata -- 6. Candidates for breeding target genes related to cesium transport in plants after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident -- 7. Evaluation of the Absorption of Different Forms of Cesium from Soil -- 8. Structure, Composition, and Physicochemical Properties of Radiocesium-Bearing Microparticles Emitted by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident -- 9. Verification of Effects on Crops and Surrounding Environment in Agriculture Using Radioactively Contaminated Grass Silage Compost Made by Aerobic Ultra-High Temperature Fermentation -- 10. Transport of 137Cs into Fruits after External Deposition onto Japanese Persimmon Trees -- 11. Progress Towards Managing Radiocesium Contamination in Orchards -- 12. Overview of Radiocesium Dynamics in Forests: First Decade and Future Perspectives -- 13. Toward the Estimation of Radiocesium Activity Concentration in Trunks of Coppiced Quercus Serrata: Leaf Availability Instead of Felling -- 14. Decomposition of Organic Matters in a Forest Floor Enhanced Downward Migration of Radioactive Cs after the Accident of the FDNPP -- 15. Effect of exchangeable and non-exchangeable potassium in soil on cesium uptake by Quercus serrata seedlings -- 16. Ten-year Transition of Radiocesium Contamination in Wild Mushrooms in the University of Tokyo Forests after the Fukushima Accident -- 17. Challenge to resume production of mushroom bed logs by potassium fertilizer application -- 18. Studies on the revitalization of radioactive-contaminated mushroom log forests: focus on shoots -- 19. Contribution of cesium-bearing microparticles to cesium in soil and river water of the Takase River watershed and their effect on the distribution coefficient -- 20. Global Fallout: Radioactive Materials from Atmospheric Nuclear Tests That Fell Half a Century Ago and Where to Find Them -- 21. Resilience Education Program in Iitate Village for the Young Generation.

Session I: Plenary -- 1. Composite Materials Education in the United States -- 2. Engineering Plastics—Some Factors Affecting Technology Transfer -- Session II: Bolted Connections -- 3. Analysis of the Shearout Failure Mode in Composite Bolted Joints -- 4. Stress and Strength Analysis of Bolted Joints in Composite Laminates -- 5. Some Environmental and Geometric Effects on the Static Strength of Graphite Cloth Epoxy Bolted Joints -- Session III: Environmental Effects -- 6. The Stress-Rupture Behaviour of GRP Laminates in Aqueous Environments -- 7. Water Absorption by Glass Fibre Reinforced Epoxy Resin -- 8. Failure of GRP in Corrosive Environments -- Session IV: Research and Development: Analytical Studies -- 9. Large Deflection Analysis of Bimodular Cross-Ply Strips … -- 10. Analysis of Thermally Stressed Variable Thickness Composite Discs—a CAD Technique -- 11. Optimization of Laminated Shells with Multiple Loading Conditions and Fabrication Constraints -- Session V: Research and Development: Marine Applications -- 12. Recent Developments in Polyester Matrices and Reinforcements for Marine Applications, in Particular Polyester/ Kevlar Composites -- 13. The Testing and Analysis of Novel Top-Hat Stiffener Fabrication Methods for use in GRP Ships -- 14. The Development of Improved FRP Laminates for Ship Hull Construction -- Session VI: Research and Development: Modelling Techniques -- 15. Development of Cylindrically Orthotropic Model Material for Transmission Photoelasticity -- 16. Photoelastic Techniques for the Complete Determination of Stresses in Composite Structures -- 17. A Boundary Layer Approach to the Calculation of Transverse Stresses Along the Free Edges of a Symmetric Laminated Plate of Arbitrary Width Under In-Plane Loading -- Session VII: Physical and Mechanical Characteristics (1) -- 18. On the Orthotropic Elastic Behaviour of a Rubber Composite -- 19. The Viscoelastic Response of a Graphite/Epoxy Laminate -- 20. Viscoelastic Properties of Composite Materials -- Session VIII: Structural Analysis: Platework Systems -- 21. Advances in Vibration, Buckling and Postbuckling Studies on Composite Plates -- 22. On the Use of the Effective Width Concept for Composite Plates -- 23. Unsymmetrical Buckling of Laterally Loaded, Thin, Initially Imperfect Orthotropic Plates -- Session IX: Structural Analysis: Structural Systems -- 24. The Effect of Mode Interaction in Orthotropic Fibre Reinforced Composite Plain Channel Section Columns -- 25. The Stability Analysis of a Continuum/Skeletal Fibre Matrix System -- 26. The Postbuckling Behaviour of Composite Box Sections … -- Session X: Physical and Mechanical Characteristics (2) -- 27. The Effect of Thermal Strains on the Microcracking and Stress Corrosion Behaviour of GRP -- 28. Electrically Conductive Prepreg Systems -- Session XI: Structural Evaluation Techniques -- 29. Analysis of Composite Materials by Dynamic Thermomechanometry (Dynamic Mechanical Analysis) -- 30. Evaluation of Composite Structures by Stress-Wave-Factor and Acoustic Emission -- 31. Vibration Testing of Composite Materials -- Session XII: Design -- 32. A Minimum Energy Composite Automobile -- 33. Structures in Reinforced Composites -- 34. Properties and Performance of GRC -- Session XIII: Experimental Studies -- 35. Buckling of Platestrips—An Evaluation of Six Carbon-Epoxy Laminates -- 36. The Damage Tolerance of High Performance Composites -- 37. Tensile Fatigue Assessment of Candidate Resins for Use in Fibre Reinforced Composite Repair Schemes -- 38. Temperature Increase in SMC Fatigue Testing -- Session XIV: Fabrication Studies including Natural Fibre Composites -- 39. A Unique Approach to Fabricating Precision Space Structures Elements -- 40. Manufacturing Methods for Carbon Fiber/Polyimide Matrix Composites -- 41. The Use of Natural Organic Fibres in Cement: Some Structural Considerations -- 42. On the Possibility of Using Natural Fibre Composites -- Session XV: Fracture and Failure Analysis -- 43. Stress Intensity Factor Measurements in Composite Sandwich Structures -- 44. Progressive Failure Model for Advanced Composite Laminates Containing a Circular Hole -- Session XVI: Research and Development: Analysis of Laminated Structures -- 45. Nonlinear Response of Angle-Ply Laminated Plates to Random Loads -- Session XVII: Physical and Mechanical Characteristics (3) -- 46. Effects of Elastomeric Additives on the Mechanical Properties of Epoxy Resin and Composite Systems -- Session XVIII: Finite Element Studies -- 47. A Comparison of the Failure Pressure as Predicted by Finite Element Stress Analysis with the Results of Full Scale Burst Tests on GRP Flanges -- 48. Elastic-Plastic Flexural Analysis of Laminated Composite Plates by the Finite Element Method.