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Description / Table of Contents: Here is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary description of C and N fluxes between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere; issues related to C and N management in different ecosystems; and the approaches to mitigate the emission of greenhouse gases."Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment" is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary description of C and N fluxes between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere; issues related to C and N management in different ecosystems and their implications for the environment and global climate change; and, the approaches to mitigate emission of greenhouse gases. Drawing upon the most up-to-date books, journals, bulletins, reports, symposia proceedings and internet sources documenting interrelationships between different aspects of C and N cycling in the terrestrial environment, "Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment" fills the gap left by most of the currently available books on C and N cycling. They either deal with a single element of an ecosystem, or are related to one or a few selected aspects like soil organic matter (SOM) and agricultural or forest management, emission of greenhouse gases, global climate change or modeling of SOM dynamics.

Description / Table of Contents: Data management has become an essential requirement for information professionals in the last decade, particularly for the higher education research community, as more and more digital information is created and stored. As budgets shrink and funders of research increasingly demand evidence of value for money and demonstrable benefits for society, there is increasing pressure to provide plans of sustainable management of data. Ensuring that important information remains discoverable, accessible and intelligible and is shared as part of a larger web of data will mean research has a life beyond its initial purpose and can offer real utility to the wider institution and beyond. This edited collection, bringing together leading figures in the field from the UK and around the world, provides an introduction to all the key data issues facing the HE and information management communities.Using the authors' expertise and relevant international case studies, it defines what is required to achieve a culture of effective data management offering practical advice on the skills required, legal and contractual obligations, strategies and management plans and the data management infrastructure of specialists and services. Each chapter covers a critical element of data management including: the meaning of data management; the lifecycle of data management; the policy environment; an organisational approach to achieving digital sustainability; data management plans and planning; roles and responsibilities for libraries and librarians; the challenge to university information services; an analysis of the New World approach; and resources and sources of support to data management. This is essential reading for librarians and information professionals working in the higher education sector, the research community, policy makers and university managers. It will also be a useful introduction for students taking courses in information management, archivists and national library services.

Description / Table of Contents: Dieses Buch behandelt zunächst die Grundlagen von Kerberos und erklärt dabei auch neuere und fortgeschrittene Themen wie Principal-Aliase, KDC-Referrals und die aus Microsofts Active Directory bekannte Constrained Delegation.Die darauf folgenden Praxiskapitel beschreiben den Aufbau und die Verwaltung von Kerberos, Heimdal und Active Directory. Außerdem werden die Integration von Linux-Betriebssystemen und Einbindung grundlegender Netzwerkdienste unter Unix/Linux erläutert. Dabei werden auch folgende Themengebiete im Hinblick auf Kerberos behandelt: LDAP (OpenLDAP) NFSv4 CIFS (Samba) Apache Webserver PKINIT und Smartcards Linux-Active-Directory-IntegrationFür eine erfolgreiche Einführung von Kerberos ist das Verständnis seiner Funktionsweise unerlässlich. Dieses Verständnis ist gleichermaßen für die "Kerberisierung", also die Einbindung Kerberosfähiger Anwendungen, notwendig. Aus diesem Grund werden die theoretischen Themen sehr gründlich behandelt.Um das theoretisch Gelernte schnell umzusetzen und selbst auszuprobieren, beschreibt das Buch außerdem eine konkrete Beispielumgebung, die auf Ubuntu 10.04, Windows 7 und Windows Server 2008 R2 basiert.

Description / Table of Contents: This book provides an overview of the field of visualization techniques for time-oriented data. It analyses the specifics and similarities of the investigated techniques in order to identify clusters for structuring and making the field manageable.Time is an exceptional dimension that is common to many application domains such as medicine, engineering, business, science, biography, history, planning, or project management. Understanding time-oriented data enables us to learn from the past in order to predict, plan, and build the future. Due to the distinct characteristics of time, appropriate visual and analytical methods are required to explore and analyze them. This book starts with an introduction to visualization and a number of historical examples of visual representations. At its core, the book presents and discusses a systematic view of the visualization of time-oriented data. This view is structured along three key questions. While the aspects of time and associated data describe what is being visualized, user tasks are related to the question why something is visualized. These characteristics and tasks determine how the visualization is to be designed. To support visual exploration, interaction techniques and analytical methods are required as well, which are discussed in separate chapters. The concepts explained in this book are illustrated with numerous examples.A large part of this book is devoted to a structured survey of existing techniques for visualizing time and time-oriented data. Overall, 101 different visualization techniques are presented on a per-page basis; each of these self-contained descriptions is accompanied by an illustration and corresponding references. This survey serves as a reference for scientists conducting related research as well as for practitioners seeking information on how their time-oriented data can best be visualized in order to gain valuable insights.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Identitäten Authentisierung Rollen Ressourcen Autorisierung Berechtigungskonzept Berechtigungsprozesse Technologisches Gesamtbild in kleinen, mittleren und großen Unternehmen Zentrale Berechtigungssysteme

Description / Table of Contents: Mit Java hat sich in der Industrie eine Programmiersprache durchgesetzt, die weit über die Konzepte traditioneller Programmiersprachen hinausgeht.Dieses Buch setzt keine Kenntnisse in anderen Programmiersprachen voraus, sondern richtet sich an jene Schüler, Studenten und Praktiker, die nicht nur in Java schnuppern, sondern die Grundlagen von Java und vielleicht auch schon die fortgeschrittenen Themen professionell erlernen wollen.Behandelt werden alle grundlegenden Sprachmittel, die zur Erstellung von Java-Programmen erforderlich sind. Alle zum Verständnis erforderlichen Hintergrundinformationen werden anschaulich und präzise dargestellt.

Description / Table of Contents: The volume highlights developments in our understanding of the palaeogeographical, palaeobiological, palaeoclimatic and cryospheric evolution of Antarctica. It focuses on the sedimentary record from the Devonian to the Quaternary Period. It features tectonic evolution and stratigraphy, as well as processes taking place adjacent to, beneath and beyond the ice-sheet margin, including the continental shelf.The contributions in this volume include several invited review papers, as well as original research papers arising from the International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences in Edinburgh, in July 2011. These papers demonstrate a remarkable diversity of Earth science interests in the Antarctic. Following international trends, there is particular emphasis on the Cenozoic Era, reflecting the increasing emphasis on the documentation and understanding of the past record of ice-sheet fluctuations. Furthermore, Antarctic Earth history is providing us with important information about potential future trends, as the impact of global warming is increasingly felt on the continent and its ocean.

Description / Table of Contents: Das mobile Web stellt Webdesigner vor völlig neue Herausforderungen: Mit was für einem Device greift ein Nutzer auf eine Website zu? Welche Hardware bringt ein Gerät mit? Welche Bildschirmgröße und -auflösung hat es? All diese Faktoren beeinflussen die Darstellung der Website und machen ein flexibles Design immer wichtiger. Responsive Webdesign setzt genau hier an: Es sorgt dafür, dass sich eine Website an das Gerät anpasst, mit dem sie aufgerufen wird.Dieses hoch gelobte Buch richtet sich an Webdesigner und -entwickler, die Grundkenntnisse in HTML und CSS mitbringen und sich nun mit Responsive Webdesign vertraut machen möchten. Behandelt werden sowohl technische Aspekte als auch konzeptionelle Fragen, die dieser Designansatz mit sich bringt.Was ist Responsive Webdesign?Mit dieser Frage beschäftigen Sie sich zu Beginn des Buchs. Sie erfahren, wie Sie ein Design entwickeln, das Ihre Inhalte auf allen Geräten so übersichtlich und benutzerfreundlich wie möglich darstellt. Zum Einsatz kommt dabei eine Kombination aus Fluid Layouts, Media Queries und Responsive Media.Feilen Sie an der User ExperienceWas ist zu bedenken, wenn eine Website sowohl auf Smartphones als auch auf Desktoprechnern angenehm zu nutzen sein soll? Wie sollten die Bedienelemente der Website beschaffen sein? Welche Interaktionsmöglichkeiten wollen Sie bieten? Und ganz wichtig: Was bedeutet das für die Inhalte Ihrer Website? Fragen wie diese werden eingehend diskutiert und mit Praxisbeispielen illustriert. So entwickeln Sie ein gutes Gespür, worauf Sie bei eigenen Projekten achten sollten.Verbessern Sie die PerformanceBenutzer erwarten heutzutage nicht nur, dass eine Website angenehm zu bedienen ist, sondern auch, dass sie schnell lädt. Sorgen Sie deshalb unbedingt für eine gute Performance Ihrer Website! Lernen Sie verschiedene Möglichkeiten kennen, das Download-Volumen Ihrer Website zu reduzieren und sie so vor allem für mobile Surfer attraktiver zu machen.

Description / Table of Contents: Content: Intro & Welcome. - Introduction. - Campus Map. - Location & Dinner. - Excursions. - Natural and cultural heritage of Potsdam by bike / Bernhard Diekmann. - Quaternary geology and geomorphology by bus / Olaf Juschus. - Scientific programme. - Schedule - Overview. - Programme - Tuesday. - Programme - Thursday. - Programme - Friday. - Poster Session 1. - Sediment cores from innter Upernavik Isfjord: preliminary results / Amalie E. Cordua et al. - A younger dryas glacier readvance/retreat on Greenland's north coast, and notes on the ice sheet's response to YD cooling/warming / Svend Funder et al. - The Fast Full Stokes solver - an accurate, efficient and flexible tool for palaeo-ice sheet simulations / Josefin Ahlkrona et al. - Model of the late glacial Svalbard Ice Sheet using a coupled approximation of the full Stokes method / Evan James Gowan et al. - Numerically modelling the growth and collapse of the Barents Sea ice sheet / Henry Patton et al. - Late Weichselian and deglacial ice sheet configurations and dynamics inferred from submarine landforms and sediment cores in north-eastern Svalbard / Anne Elina Flink et al. - Ice stream dynamics and its implications on the sedimentary processes on the continental shelf edge and slope north of Nordaustlandes, Svalbard / Oscar Jacob Fransner. - Geomorphological reconstruction of the dynamics of a SW Greenland tidewater glacier through the Holocene / James Lea. - Modeling the response of two neighbouring Svalbard ice streams to similar climate forcing / James Lea et al. - Tentative age model of marine glacial landforms and related glaciations on the East Siberian and Chukchi margins / Frank Niessen et al. - Glacimarine sediment facies and morphology of the Disko Bugt trough Mouth fan, West Greenland / Colm O'Cofaigh et al. - A new quaternary sediment sequence from the eastern Mendeleev Ridge: preliminary stratigraphic subdivision based on IRD and microfossil records / Ekaterina Taldenkova et al. - A number of several warmer spells noted on eastern Svalbard during Younger Dryas - a bidecadal resolution of paleoceanographic record of Atlantic Water variability / Magdalena Lacka et al. - Quantitative micropalaeontological and sedimentary facies analysis of surface samples from the Lomonosov Ridge / Mike Marcell Zwick et al. - Specificities of sea surface evolution across the last two interglacial cycles in the southwestern Nordic Seas - a comparison / Anastasia Zhuravleva et al. - Early Holocene Atlantic Water advection and ice coverage in the Arctic Gateway / Robert F. Spielhagen et al. - Mid to late Holocene palaeoceanographic evolution of the East Greenland Current based on foraminiferal assemblage data / Kerstin Perner et al. - Past environmental variability in the eastern Fram Strait from the early deglaciation to the early Holocene reconstructed from benthic microfossils and IRD records / Yaroslav Ovsepyan. - Present and past flow regime on contourite drifts west of Spitsbergen: preliminary results from Eurofleet 2 PREPARED cruise (June 2014) / Renata G. Lucchi. - Late Quaternary central Arctic Ocean sea-ice variability: First results from biomarker studies of RV Polarstern Cruise PS87 sediment cores / Anne Kremer et al. - Mid to Late Holocene evolution of sea ice distribution and primary production on the East Greenland Shelf and the NW Fram Strait / Henriette Kolling et al. - The western Laptev Sea: High-resolution sea ice distribution and river run-off variability from post-glacial to present / Tanja Hörner et al. - Holocene modulations in the Earth's largest ice and freshwater pathway - the East Greenland Current / Christian Valdemar Dylmer et al. - Late Quaternary sediment supply variability at the Mendeleev Ridge (Arctic Ocean): Insights from grain-size distribution and ice-rafted debris composition / Evgenia Bazhenova et al. - First insights into pre-glacial Pleistocene environments in the Arctic Ocean / Leonid Polyak et al. - Poster Session 2. - Analysis of radiocarbon dates collected from the Holocene raised beach sequences on Svalbard and Franz Josef Land / Michail Anisimov et al. -Reconstruction of postglacial environmental changes at the eastern Laptev Sea continental margin / Nataliya Chistyakova et al. -Late Holocene environmental ice core record from Akademii Nauk ice cap (Severnaya Zemlya) / Diedrich Fritzsche et al. -K Fjord-head delta progradation and permafrost aggradation interpreted from a 60 m frozen sediment core, Adventdalen, Svalbard / Graham Lewis Gilbert et al. -Geochronologic challenges related to spatial and temporal discontinuities of sediments in permafrost environments: the case of Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky, Siberian Arctic / Margret Christine Fuchs et al. -Late Pleistocene and Holocene ice-rich permafrost in the Colville River valley, northern Alaska / Guido Grosse et al. -Biomarker records from the eastern continental margin off Kamchatka Peninsula and Eastern Siberia on deglacial variations in sea surface temperature, air temperature, provenance and terrestrial residence times of terrigenous organic matter in Beringia / Vera Meyer et al. -Validity of the MIS 2 glacial border in the NW Canadian Arctic based on comparing the on- and off-shore clay mineral composition / Georg Schwamborn et al. -Summer and winter proxy data from Ice Complex features in East Siberia dating back to 200 kyr / Sebastian Wetterich et al. -Thermokarst lake history and stable tundra vegetation since the 18th century in a Low Arctic setting, Yukon Territory, Canada / Juliane Wolter et al. -International Permafrost Association / Karina Schollaen et al. -Paleogeographical investigations along the Yukon Coast / Hugues Lantuit et al. - Abstracts & Adresses. - Abstracts. - The fast full stokes solver - an accurate, efficient and flexible tool for palaeo-ice sheet simulations / J. Ahlkrona et al. - Lagoons, beaches and sea-level change on NW Svalbard / H. Alexanderson et al. - Analysis of radiocarbon dates collected from the Holocene raised beach sequences on Svalbard and Franz Josef Land / M. Anisimov et al. - Late Quaternary glaciation of arctic and subarctic Urals / V. Astakhov. - Spatial shifts in North Eurasian ice sheet extent since the Middle Pleistocene / H. A. Bauch et al. - Late Quaternary sediment supply variability at the Mendeleev Ridge (Arctic Ocean): Insights from grain-size distribution and ice-rafted debris composition / E. Bazhenova et al. - Environmental variability in northeastern Siberia inferred from lake sediment records / B. K. Biskaborn et al. - The influence of subglacial hydrology on glacial dynamics during deglaciation of the central Barents Sea / L. R. Bjarnadottir et al. - Reconstruction of postglacial environmental changes at the eastern Laptev Sea continental margin / N. Chistyakova et al. - Sediment cores from inner Upernaviklsfjord: preliminary results / A. E. Cordua et al. - Arctic productivity and orbital climate cycles / T. M. Cronin et al. - Variability of the northward flux of North Atlantic waters though Fram Strait during the Holocene / A. de Vernal et al. - Applications of cavity ring-down spectroscopy to paleoclimate, including high-precision analysis of the triple oxygen isotopes in water and water vapor / K. J. Dennis et al. - Holocene modulations in the earth's largest ice and freshwater pathway - the East Greenland Current / C. Dylmer et al. - Late Weichselian and deglacial ice sheet configurations and dynamics inferred from submarine landforms and sediment cores in north-eastern Svalbard / A. E. Flink et al. - Ice stream dynamics and its implications on the sedimentary processes on the continental shelf edge and slope north of Nordaustlandes, Svalbard / O. Fransner et al. - Ice wedge polygon development on different temporal and spatial scales in the northern Yukon, Canada / M. Fritz et al. - Late Holocene environmental ice core record from Akademii Nauk ice cap (Severnaya Zemlya) / D. Fritzsche et al. - Geochronologic challenges related to spatial and temporal discontinuities of sediments in permafrost environments: the case of Bol'shoy Lyakhosky, Siberian Arctic / M. C. Fuchs et al. - A younger dryas glacier readvance/retreat on Greenland's north coast, and notes on the ice sheet's response to YD cooling/warming / S. Funder et al. - Fjord-head delta progradation and permafrost aggradation interpreted from a 60 m frozen sediment core, Adventdalen, Svalbard / G. L. Gilbert et al. - Model of the late glacial Svalbard Ice Sheet using a coupled approximation of the full Stokes method / E. J. Gowan et al. - Late Pleistocene and Holocene ice-rich permafrost in the Colville River valley, northern Alaska / G. Grosse et al. - The Batagay mega thaw slump, Yana Uplands, Yakutia, Russia: permafrost thaw dynamics on decadal time scale / F. Günther et al. - The western Laptev Sea: High-resolution sea ice distribution and river run-off variability from post-glacial to present / T. Hörner et al. - Deglaciation of the last Scandinavian-Barents ice sheet and variations in the Atlantic water inflow into the Barents Sea / E. Ivanova et al. - Onland deglaciation and provenance changes in SW Barents Sea sediments over the Late Glacial-Holocene / E. Kaparulina et al. - Climate controlled variability of an Arctic sea ice fabric / J. Knies et al. - Mid to Late Holocene evolution of sea ice distribution and primary production on the East Greenland Shelf and the NW Fram Strait / H. Kolling et al. - Late Quaternary central Arctic Ocean sea-ice variability: first results from biomarker studies of RV Polarstern Cruise PS87 sediment cores / A. Kremer et al. - Pleistocene-Holocene terrestrial palaeoenvironmental changes at the New Siberian Islands and adjacent areas (Arctic Siberia) / T. V. Kuznetsova et al. - A number of several warmer spells noted on eastern Svalbard during Younger Dryas - a bidecadal resolution of paleoceanographic record of Atlantic Water variability / M. Lacka et al. - Paleogeographical investigations along the Yukon Coast / H. Lantuit et al. - Modelling the response of two neighbouring Svalbard ice streams to similar climate forcing / J. M. Lea et al. - Geomorphological reconstruction of the dynamics of a SW Greenland tidewater glacier through the Holocene / J. M. Lea. - Past landscape and permafrost dynamics in Arctic Alaska based on sedimentary records / J. Lenz et al. - Present and past flow regime on contourite drifts west of Spitzbergen: preliminary results from Eurofleet 2 PREPARED cruise (June 2014) / R. G. Lucchi et al. - Evidence of the deep marine record of the MWP-1a on the NW-Barents Sea continental margin: Support from palaeomagnetic data / R. G. Lucchi. - Ice stream dynamics during deglaciation of the Laurentide Ice Sheet / M. Margold et al. - Biomarker records from the eastern continental margin off Kamchatka Peninsula and Eastern Siberia on deglacial variations in sea surface temperature, aire temperature, provenance and terrestrial residence times of terrigenous organic matter in Beringia / V. D. Meyer et al. - Permafrost history and environmental change at the margin of Beringia and the Laurentide Ice Sheet, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western Arctic Canada / J. Murton. - Postglacial environments of Nettilling Lake basin (Baffin Island, Canada) inferred by the geochemical and biological proxies / B. Narancic et al. - Tentative age model of marine glacial landforms and related glaciations on the East Siberian and Chukchi margins / F. Niessen et al. - Deglaciation of the Svalbard-Barents Sea ice sheet in the northern Barents Sea, East of Svalbard / R. Noormets et al. - The appearance of pollen on the archipelago Franz-Josef Land of the Arctic Ocean / E. Nosevich et al. - Glacimarine sediment facies and morphology of the Disko Bugt trough Mouth Fan, West Greenland / C. O'Cofaigh et al. - Ice-wedge record of Arctic winter temperatures over the past two millennia - long-term and recent warming in the Siberian Laptev Sea region / T. Opel et al. - Past environmental variability in the eastern Fram Strait from the early deglaciation to the early Holocene reconstructed from benthic microfossils and IRD records / Ya. Ovsepyan et al. - Numerically modelling the growth and collapse of the Barents Sea ice sheet / H. Patton et al. - Mid to late Holocene palaeoceanographic evolution of the East Greenland current based on foraminiferal assemblage data / K. Perner et al. - First insights into pre-glacial Pleistocene environments in the Arctic Ocean / L. Polyak et al. - Future priorities for Arctic Research / V. Rachold. - Early thinning and recession of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet in southernmost Norway - new chronological constraints from cosmogenic 10Be-dates / A. Romundset et al. - The International Permafrost Association: current initiatives for cryospheric research / K. Schollaen et al. - Validity of the MIS 2 glacial border in the NW Canadian Arctic based on comparing the on- and offshore clay mineral composition / G. Schwamborn et al. - Variability of late Holocene ocean and atmosphere circulation in the Labrador Sea and North Atlantic region - or why that which does not fit, fits extra well! / M.-S. Seidenkrantz et al. - Early Holocene atlantic water advection and ice coverage in the Arctic Gateway / R. F. Spielhagen et al.

Description / Table of Contents: The geomorphological and sedimentary record of the Holocene evolution of Jakobshavn Ibrae in Disko Bay, West Greenland / K. Streuff et al. - Catastrophic events shaping Arctic coasts - impact of tsunamis and ice-berg roll waves on coastal evolution in Greenland / M. C. Strzelecki et al. - A new Quaternary sediment sequence from the eastern Mendeleev Ridge: preliminary stratigraphic subdivision based on IRD and microfossil records / E. Taldenkova et al. - Timing and frequency of glacigenic debris flows on the Bear Island Fan - implications for the growth and decay of the Barents ice sheet / E. Pope et al. - The last northern hemispheric deglaciation: missing ice, data / model challenges, and opportunities / T. Tarasov. - Development of northern Nordic Seas deep convection during the Holocene - implications from surface and bottom water foraminiferal [Delta]13C records / M. M. Telesinski et al. - Summer and winter proxy data from ice complex features in East Siberia dating back to 200 kyr / S. Wetterich et al. - Thermokarst lake history and stable tundra vegetation since the 18th century in a low Arctic setting, Yukon territory, Canada / J. Wolter et al. - Specificites of sea surface evolution across the last two interglacial cycles in the southwestern Nordic Seas - a comparison / A. Zhuravleva et al. - Quantitative micropalaeontological and sedimentary facies analysis of surface samples from the Lomonosov Ridge / M. Zwick et al. - Index of authors. - List of participants.

Description / Table of Contents: PAST Gateways (Past Spatial and Temporal Gateways) is an IASC-endorsed network, with the scientific goal to understand and reconstruct Arctic environmental changes during the period preceding instrumental records and across decadal to millennial timescales. The focus of the six-year programme is on the nature and significance of Arctic spatial and temporal gateways, with an emphasis on the transistions between major Late Cenozoic climate events such as interglacial to full glacial and full glacial to deglacial states, as well as more recent Holocene fluctuations.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Preliminaries ; 2 Introductory examples ; 3 IPython: an interactive computing and development environment ; 4 NumPy basics: arrays and vectorized computation ; 5 Getting started with pandas ; 6 Data loading, storage, and file formats ; 7 Data wrangling: clean, transform, merge, reshape ; 8 Plotting and visualization ; 9 Data aggregation and group operations ; 10 Time series ; 11 Financial and economic data applications ; 12 Advanced Numpy ; Appendix: Python language essentials

Description / Table of Contents: Die Langzeitarchivierung von Forschungsdaten ist eine Voraussetzung für gute wissenschaftliche Praxis. Sie weist drei zentrale Bereiche auf: die Dokumentation der Forschungsdaten, deren langfristige Aufbewahrung sowie die Bereitstellung eines Zugangs zu den Daten. Ohne diese infrastrukturellen wie organisatorischen Voraussetzungen sind die Daten für die wissenschaftliche Sekundärnutzung, also für die Überprüfung von Ergebnissen und auch für die Beantwortung neuer Forschungsfragen nur eingeschränkt verfügbar. Das vorliegende Buch gibt einen Überblick über bestehende Standards und liefert einen Beitrag zur Diskussion über Voraussetzungen zur Archivierung von Datenbeständen. Es ist somit gleichermaßen für Infrastruktureinrichtungen, Fachbibliotheken, Archive, Wissenschaftler und alle, die im weitesten Sinne mit der Verfügbarmachung von Forschungsdaten betraut sind, lesenswert. (Vorlage)

Description / Table of Contents: Virtual Research Environments examines making ICT, (Information and Communication Technologies), usable by researchers working to solve "grand challenge" problems in many disciplines from social science to particle physics. It is driven by research the authors have carried out to evaluate researchers' requirements in using information services via Web portals and in adapting collaborative learning tools to meet their more diverse needs, particularly in a multidisciplinary study. This is the motivation for what the authors have helped develop into the UK Virtual Research Environments (VRE) programme. They illustrate generics with specific instances of studies carried out comparing portal technologies and evaluating usability. This work, and further development of collaboration and Webbased research tools has been carried out with international collaborators, in particular using the Sakai framework and other recent Java-language based portal programming frameworks and associated standards.The book is divided into a number of chapters providing motivation, illustrations, comparisons of technology and tools, practical information about deployment and use and comments on issues and difficulties in ensuring uptake of e-Science and Grid technology by already practicing researchers.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Scientific Computing2 Systems of Linear Equations3 Linear Least Squares4 Eigenvalues Problems5 Nonlinear Equations6 Optimization7 Interpolation8 Numerical Integration and Differentiation9 Initial Value Problems for ODEs10 Boundary Value Problems for ODEs11 Partial Differential Equations12 Fast Fourier Transform13 Random Numbers and Simulation

Description / Table of Contents: While the trend towards the growth of megacities creates huge challenges, it also offers the opportunity for reshaping mobility patterns in cities, promoting energy efficiency and principles of low carbon development. In this volume, an overview is provided of solutions comprising concepts for sustainable transportation through intelligent management, innovative instruments for integrated transport planning, modelling systems, adaptation strategies in the transport sector and concepts for enhancing public transit. Developed for five cities of the programme by transdisciplinary and international research teams in close collaboration with local stakeholders, they are presented on the background of big challenges ranging from data collection issues, modelling and planning in a fast growing environment to resistance of citizens against big infrastructure projects.

Description / Table of Contents: Information visualization is the act of gaining insight into data, and is carried out by virtually everyone. It is usually facilitated by turning data - often a collection of numbers - into images that allow much easier comprehension.Everyone benefits from information visualization, whether internet shopping, investigating fraud or indulging an interest in art. So no assumptions are made about specialist background knowledge in, for example, computer science, mathematics, programming or human cognition. Indeed, the book is directed at two main audiences. One comprises first year students of any discipline. The other comprises graduates - again of any discipline - who are taking a one- or two-year course of training to be visual and interaction designers. By focusing on the activity of design the pedagogical approach adopted by the book is based on the view that the best way to learn about the subject is to do it, to be creative: not to prepare for the ubiquitous examination paper. The content of the book, and the associated exercises, are typically used to support five creative design exercises, the final one being a group project mirroring the activity of a consultancy undertaking a design (not an implementation) for a client. Engagement with the material of this book can have a variety of outcomes. The composer of a school newsletter and the applicant for a multi-million investment should both be able to convey their message more effectively, and the curator of an exhibition will have new presentational techniques on their palette. For those students training to be visual/interaction designers the exercises have led to original and stimulating outcomes.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: I. Grüne Transformation ; Fukushima: die Katastrophe und wir ; Schluss, aus! Ausstieg aus der Atomenergie ; Multiple Krisen: Wahrnehmungs- und Reaktionsmuster ; Green New Deal: aber wie? ; Transformation: durch nachhaltige Industriepolitik ; Transformation: Ökosystemleistungen und Grüne Wirtschaft ; Rohstoffeffizienz: Wirtschaft entlasten, Umwelt schonen ; Transformationsforschung: Ökologischer Strukturwandel und Green New Deal ; II. Grüne Allianzen ; Umweltbewegung und Umweltprotest: Sprung in eine grüne Zukunft? ; Neue Organisationen: Aktivierung der Zivilgesellschaft ; Klimaschutz: neue internationale Allianzen ; Klimafinanzierung: wie viel, woher, wofür und für wen? ; Waldschutz: neue internationale Allianzen ; USA und China: Kooperation bei Energie und Klimaschutz ; Allianz Europa-Asien: Neubeginn der globalen Umweltpolitik? ; III. Persistente Konflikte ; Atomenergie: Biblis, das lange Ende einer langen Laufzeit ; Industrielle Landwirtschaft: ein Irrweg ; Agrar- und Ernährungswende: ein Plädoyer ; Klimawandel: Gerechtigkeit bei der globalen Transformation ; Biodiversität: ein Rettungsanker ist geworfen ; Wasser: Knappheit vermeiden, Verschmutzung vermindern ; Landraub: eine moderne Form des Kolonialismus ; Verkehrswachstum: wenig Platz noch an Land und in der Luft ; Strategische Rohstoffe für Windkraft, E-Mobilität & Co. ; Transmutation: nukleare Müllverbrennung? ; IV. Grüne Spuren ; Wege zur 100 % Erneuerbaren Stromversorgung ; Bundeshauptstadt im Klimaschutz: Ergebnisse eines Wettbewerbs ; Unternehmensverantwortung: Arbeitnehmer außen vor? ; Umweltpolitikberatung: Algerien, Marokko, Tunesien ; Die 125 Watt-Lampe: ein grünes Geheimnis ; V. Vor-Reiter ; Jacques Cousteau - ein ökologischer Widerstandskämpfer ; Wangari Maathei - Baumaktivistin und Nobelpreisträgerin ; VI. Umweltinstitutionen

Description / Table of Contents: Content: "Enterprise Integration Patterns":Foreword by John Crupi. Foreword by Martin Fowler. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Solving Integration Problems Using Patterns. The Need for Integration. Integration Challenges. How Integration Patterns Can Help. The Wide World of Integration. Loose Coupling. One-Minute EAI. A Loosely Coupled Integration Solution. Widgets & Gadgets 'R Us: An Example. Summary. 2. Integration Styles. Introduction. File Transfer (by Martin Fowler). Shared Database (by Martin Fowler). Remote Procedure Invocation (by Martin Fowler). Messaging. 3. Messaging Systems. Introduction. Message Channel. Message. Pipes and Filters. Message Router. Message Translator. Message Endpoint. 4. Messaging Channels. Introduction. Point-to-Point Channel. Publish-Subscribe Channel. Datatype Channel. Invalid Message Channel. Dead Letter Channel. Guaranteed Delivery. Channel Adapter. Messaging Bridge. Message Bus. 5. Message Construction. Introduction. Command Message. Document Message. Event Message. Request-Reply. Return Address. Correlation Identifier. Message Sequence. Message Expiration. Format Indicator. 6. Interlude: Simple Messaging. Introduction. JMS Request-Reply Example. .NET Request-Reply Example. JMS Publish-Subscribe Example. 7. Message Routing. Introduction. Content-Based Router. Message Filter. Dynamic Router. Recipient List. Splitter. Aggregator. Resequencer. Composed Message Processor. Scatter-Gather. Routing Slip. Process Manager. Message Broker. 8. Message Transformation. Introduction. Envelope Wrapper. Content Enricher. Content Filter. Claim Check. Normalizer. Canonical Data Model. 9. Interlude: Composed Messaging. Loan Broker Example. Synchronous Implementation Using Web Services (by Conrad F. D'Cruz). Asynchronous Implementation with MSMQ. Asynchronous Implementation with TIBCO ActiveEnterprise (by Michael J. Rettig). 10. Messaging Endpoints. Introduction. Messaging Gateway. Messaging Mapper. Transactional Client. Polling Consumer. Event-Driven Consumer. Competing Consumers. Message Dispatcher. Selective Consumer. Durable Subscriber. Idempotent Receiver. Service Activator. 11. System Management. Introduction. Control Bus. Detour. Wire Tap. Message History. Message Store. Smart Proxy. Test Message. Channel Purger. 12. Interlude: System Management Example. Loan Broker System Management. 13. Integration Patterns in Practice. Case Study: Bond Pricing System (by Jonathan Simon). 14. Concluding Remarks. Emerging Standards and Futures in Enterprise Integration (by Sean Neville). Bibliography. Index.

Description / Table of Contents: The world of scholarship is changing rapidly. Increasing demands on scholars, the growing size and complexity of questions and problems to be addressed, and advances in sophistication of data collection, analysis, and presentation require new approaches to scholarship. A ubiquitous, open information infrastructure for scholarship, consisting of linked open data, open-source software tools, and a community committed to sustainability are emerging to meet the needs of scholars today. This book provides an introduction to VIVO, http://vivoweb.org/, a tool for representing information about research and researchers--their scholarly works, research interests, and organizational relationships. VIVO provides an expressive ontology, tools for managing the ontology, and a platform for using the ontology to create and manage linked open data for scholarship and discovery. Begun as a project at Cornell and further developed by an NIH funded consortium, VIVO is now being established as an open-source project with community participation from around the world. By the end of 2012, over 20 countries and 50 organizations will provide information in VIVO format on more than one million researchers and research staff, including publications, research resources, events, funding, courses taught, and other scholarly activity. The rapid growth of VIVO and of VIVO-compatible data sources speaks to the fundamental need to transform scholarship for the 21st century

Description / Table of Contents: Visualization and analysis tools, techniques, and algorithms have undergone a rapid evolution in recent decades to accommodate explosive growth in data size and complexity and to exploit emerging multi- and many-core computational platforms. High Performance Visualization: Enabling Extreme-Scale Scientific Insight focuses on the subset of scientific visualization concerned with algorithm design, implementation, and optimization for use on todays largest computational platforms.The book collects some of the most seminal work in the field, including algorithms and implementations running at the highest levels of concurrency and used by scientific researchers worldwide. After introducing the fundamental concepts of parallel visualization, the book explores approaches to accelerate visualization and analysis operations on high performance computing platforms. Looking to the future and anticipating changes to computational platforms in the transition from the petascale to exascale regime, it presents the main research challenges and describes several contemporary, high performance visualization implementations.Reflecting major concepts in high performance visualization, this book unifies a large and diverse body of computer science research, development, and practical applications. It describes the state of the art at the intersection of scientific visualization, large data, and high performance computing trends, giving readers the foundation to apply the concepts and carry out future research in this area.

Description / Table of Contents: Informationsgesellschaft und allgegenwärtiges Internet, Information als Wettbewerbs- und Standortfaktor, diese Stichworte verdeutlichen die unternehmerische und gesellschaftliche Bedeutung von Information. Doch nicht nur Information allein, sondern auch die Systeme, die Informationen verarbeiten, speichern und übertragen und die Techniken, auf denen sie beruhen, verdienen Aufmerksamkeit. Informationsmanagement hat die Aufgabe, den im Hinblick auf das Unternehmensziel bestmöglichen Einsatz der Ressource Information zu gewährleisten. Das Buch vermittelt die zentrale Einsicht, dass Informations- und Kommunikationstechniken nicht nur Rationalisierungsmöglichkeiten eröffnen, sondern vor allem Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten für Organisation und neue Geschäftsmodelle bieten. Die sich daraus ergebenden Chancen stehen im Mittelpunkt des Buches. Unterstützung leistet eine an die Struktur des Buches angelehnte Übungsfallstudie. Weitere Fallstudien und Unterlagen sind unter www.informationsmanagement-online.de zu finden.

Description / Table of Contents: This volume presents results of a variety of case studies documenting the Late Palaeozoic climate changes and cyclicity of deposition. The collected papers cover many aspects related to palaeoenvironmental analysis with sedimentological, stratigraphic, palaeobiological, geochemical, and palaeomagnetic studies of the fossil record around the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age and soon after. They span a stratigraphic interval from Carboniferous to Permian-Triassic transition around the world.This book comprising results for a range of disciplines, is a valuable source for not only researchers who are actively working on specific aspects of the Late Palaeozoic and looking for an up-to-date reference on this inhospitable time in the Earth's history. It is also of interest to climate modellers and the wider scientific community with an interest in the latest research on the decline of the Palaeozoic World.

Description / Table of Contents: Humankind has pervasively influenced the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and cryosphere, arguably to the point of fashioning a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. To constrain the Anthropocene as a potential formal unit within the Geological Time Scale, a spectrum of indicators of anthropogenically-induced environmental change is considered, and shown as stratigraphical signals that may be used to characterize an Anthropocene unit, and to recognize its base. This volume describes a range of evidence that may help to define this potential new time unit and details key signatures that could be used in its definition. These signatures include lithostratigraphical (novel deposits, minerals and mineral magnetism), biostratigraphical (macro- and micro-palaeontological successions and human-induced trace fossils) and chemostratigraphical (organic, inorganic and radiogenic signatures in deposits, speleothems and ice and volcanic eruptions). We include, finally, the suggestion that humans have created a further sphere, the technosphere, that drives global change.

Description / Table of Contents: "Big Data" is on the covers of Science, Nature, the Economist, and Wired magazines, on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. But despite the media hyperbole, as Christine Borgman points out in this examination of data and scholarly research, having the right data is usually better than having more data; little data can be just as valuable as big data. In many cases, there are no data -- because relevant data don't exist, cannot be found, or are not available. Moreover, data sharing is difficult, incentives to do so are minimal, and data practices vary widely across disciplines. Borgman, an often-cited authority on scholarly communication, argues that data have no value or meaning in isolation; they exist within a knowledge infrastructure -- an ecology of people, practices, technologies, institutions, material objects, and relationships.After laying out the premises of her investigation -- six "provocations" meant to inspire discussion about the uses of data in scholarship -- Borgman offers case studies of data practices in the sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, and then considers the implications of her findings for scholarly practice and research policy. To manage and exploit data over the long term, Borgman argues, requires massive investment in knowledge infrastructures; at stake is the future of scholarship.

Description / Table of Contents: Dieses Buch vermittelt Softwareentwicklern und -architekten sowie Projektleitern das notwendige Praxiswissen für die Entwicklung verteilter komponentenorientierter Systeme mit Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0. Geschrieben wurde es von erfahrenen Praktikern, unter ihnen ein Mitglied der EJB 3.1 Expert Group. Anhand praxisnaher Beispiele werden die Architektur sowie die zugrunde liegenden Konzepte beschrieben und illustriert. Weitere Themen sind projektrelevante Themen wie Security und Testen sowie Hinweise für die Migration existierender EJB-Applikationen.

Description / Table of Contents: Dieses Buch führt zunächst in die CI-Konzepte ein und zeigt dann ganz konkret deren Umsetzung mit dem Open-Source-Produkt Hudson. Dabei werden u.a. folgende Themen behandelt:- Build-Automatisierung- Visualisierung von Test- und Analyseergebnissen- automatische Benachrichtigungen- verteilte Builds- Entwicklung eigener Plugins.Abschließend zeigt Hudson-Committer Simon Wiest anhand von Praxisbeispielen, wie die CI-Einführung aus technischer und auch aus kultureller Sicht gelingen kann. Nach der Lektüre ist der Leser in der Lage, eine CI-Infrastruktur auf Basis von Hudson für ein Projektteam aufzusetzen und zu betreiben. Er kennt also nicht nur die CI-Konzepte, sondern kann sie auch ganz konkret umsetzen und erweitern, sei es durch existierende Plugins oder durch Eigenentwicklungen.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction: The Nature of Droughts. 2. Types of Drought and their Assessment. 3. The Perturbation of Hydrological Drought. 4. Droughts of the Past: Dendrochronology and Lake Sediments. 5. Water bodies, catchments and the abiotic effects of drought. 6. Drought and Temporary Waters. 7. Drought, Floodplain Rivers and Wetland Complexes. 8. Drought and Perennial Aquatic Systems: Plants and Invertebrates. 9. Drought and Fish of Standing and Flowing Waters. 10. Estuaries and Drought. 11. Human-induced exacerbation of Drought Effects on Aquatic Ecosystems.

Description / Table of Contents: Human activities are significantly modifying the natural global carbon (C) cycles, and concomitantly influence climate, ecosystems, and state and function of the Earth system. Ever increasing amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) are added to the atmosphere by fossil fuel combustion but the biosphere is a potential C sink. Thus, a comprehensive understanding of C cycling in the biosphere is crucial for identifying and managing biospheric C sinks. Ecosystems with large C stocks which must be protected and sustainably managed are wetlands, peatlands, tropical rainforests, tropical savannas, grasslands, degraded/desertified lands, agricultural lands, and urban lands. However, land-based sinks require long-term management and a protection strategy because C stocks grow with a progressive improvement in ecosystem health.

Description / Table of Contents: Forest damage, forest decline, forest dieback - not related to biotic agents - is occurring in the Atlantic and Pacific regions. In Europe and Eastern North America this serious problem is considered to be, at least to some part, related to industrial air pollutants and their atmospheric conversion products, such as acid rain or ozone. Forest declines in the Pacific region have been attributed largely to natural causes involving forest dynamics, since air pollution and other negative anthropogenic influences are practically absent. Presented here are typical decline phenomena in the Pacific and Atlantic region, potential causes, effects and mitigation strategies, and the question whether there are any similarities on a functional or structural basis is addressed.

Description / Table of Contents: Overview of Cyber-Physical Systems.- The Need for a Transdisciplinary Approach to Security of Cyber-Physical Infrastructure.- A Regional and Transdisciplinary Approach to Educating Secondary and College Students in Cyber-Physical Systems.- Cyber-Physical Systems and Stem Development: NASA Digital Astronaut Project- Radically Simplifying Cyber Security.- Cyber-Physical System Architectures for Dynamic, Real-Time "Need-to-Know" Authorization.- Cyber-Physical Systems Security.- Axiomatic Design Theory for Cyber-Physical Systems.- The Importance of Grain Size in Communication within Cyber-Physical Systems.- Focus, Salience, and Priming in Cyber-Physical Intelligence.- An Adaptive Cyber-Physical System Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems Design Automation.- Cyber-Physical Eco-Systems.- Risk Assessment and Management to Estimate Hospital Credibility Score of Patient Health Care Quality.- Use of Session Initiation Protocol in Multimedia Communications.- Principle of Active Condition Control.- Long Range Wireless Data Acquisition Sensor System for Health Care Applications.- Performance Improvement of RFID Systems.- Thinking Embedded, Designing Cyber-Physical.

Description / Table of Contents: Decoding the complete history of Earth and our solar system requires the placing of the scattered pages of Earth history in a precise chronological order, and the 40Ar/39Ar dating technique is one of the most trusteddating techniques to do that. The 40Ar/39Ar method has been in use for more than 40 years, and has constantlyevolved since then. The steady improvement of the technique is largely due to a better understandingof the K/Ar system, an appreciation of the subtleties of geological material and a continuous refinement ofthe analytical tools used for isotope extraction and counting. The 40Ar/39Ar method is also one of the mostversatile techniques with countless applications in archaeology, tectonics, structural geology, orogenic processesand provenance studies, ore and petroleum genesis, volcanology, weathering processes and climate,and planetary geology. This volume is the first of its kind and covers methodological developments, modelling,data handling, and direct applications of the 40Ar/39Ar technique.

Description / Table of Contents: "In this well-illustrated book, Hildebrand expands upon his model for the development of the North American Cordillera detailed in Special paper 457. Starting with an overview of Cordilleran geology he goes on to provide an in depth look at how the Rubian ribbon continent was assembled. He integrates the complex geology of the Cordillera into an actualistic model involving arc magmatism, arc-continent collision, slab failure magmatism, and transcurrent motion in both Rubia and the western North American margin. While much of the focus is on the assembly of the Rubian ribbon continent, Hildebrand explores its interactions with North America during the Sevier and Laramide events and concludes that North America was the lower plate in both"...Provided by publisher

Description / Table of Contents: Ausführlicher Einstieg in HTML, CSS und JavaScript * Designs umsetzen und gute GUIs erstellen * Ereignisse behandeln und Funktionen einsetzen * Serverkommunikation, AJAX und Websockets nutzen * Mit oder ohne HTML5 und CSS3 * Karten einbinden und GPS-Daten auswerten * Responsive Webdesign und Touch Events * Webseiten für einfach alles, was einen Bildschirm hat * Video- und Audiomaterial einbinden * Zeichnen mit Canvas

Description / Table of Contents: The projects in the Future Megacities programme gain valuable experiences in developing energy efficient standards and urban structures with adequate conditions to treat resources with care and avoid unnecessary emissions. To achieve the ambitious objectives, it is essential to convince and enable people to take an active part in sustainable development. This requires qualification and education efforts at different levels, with different target groups and for different topics. This volume presents several proven and evaluated capacity building measures. Proper workmanship, individual responsibility and the ability for personal professional progress are presented in the categories Training Practice and Enabling Local Communities. The authors share their experience and inspire people to set up own comparable projects.