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Note: Geotechnical damage in the downstream reaches of the Tone river in the 2011 East Japan EarthquakeAmplification Effects of Thin Soft Surface Layers: A Study for NBCC 2015 -- New design spectra in Eurocode 8 and preliminary application to the seismic risk of Thessaloniki, Greece -- Incorporating Site Response into Seismic Hazard Assessments for Critical Facilities: A Probabilistic Approach -- Stress Scaling Factors For Seismic Soil Liquefaction Engineering Problems: A Performance-Based Approach -- Site amplification formula using Average Vs in equivalent surface layer based on vertical array strong motion records -- Observations from Istanbul vertical arrays and site specific response analysis -- Combined failure mechanism of a breakwater subject to Tsunami during 2011 East Japan Earthquake -- Lessons Learned From Dams Behavior Under Recent Earthquakes -- Nonlinear dynamic analyses of liquefaction effects on dams -- The Effects of Liquefaction on Earthquake Ground Motions -- Shaking model tests on liquefaction mitigation of embedded lifeline -- Effect of Long Duration of the Main Shock and a Big Aftershock on the Liquefaction-Induced Damage During the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake -- Liquefaction Observed During the 2010 Chile Earthquake -- A Case Study of Silty Sand Liquefaction- 2010 Hsin Hwa Liquefaction in Taiwan -- Post-earthquake analysis for a seismic retrofitting: the case history of a piled foundation in Augusta (Italy) -- Pile design in laterally spreading soil: Feedback from numerical predictions and model test results -- Integrating use of Swedish weight sounding tests for earthquake reconnaissance investigations..

Note: 1. Geomaterials and crustal geomechanics -- 2. Elements of rheology -- 3. Forces and stresses -- 4. Elements of kinematics -- 5. Elements of linear elasticity -- 6. From continuum mechanics to fluid mechanics -- 7. Elements of linear fracture mechanics -- 8. Laboratory investigations on geomaterials under compression -- 9. Homogenized geomaterials -- 10. Fractures and faults -- 11. Elements of seismology -- 12. Elements of solid-fluid interactions -- 13. Methods for stress fields evaluation from in situ observations -- 14. Elements of stress fields and crustal rheology -- References -- Appendix A. Elements of tensors in rectangular coordinates -- Index..

Note: Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: We Become What We Measure; Casting a Spell; Exploring a Path; 1. More, Better, Faster: The Beginnings ; Productivity, Growth, and Success; Goals and Measures; Values and Measures; 2. The Origins of Bling: The Spirit of Economic Growth ; The World of Growth: Refining the Measure; Business Accounting Goes National; 3. The Crucible of Crisis: The Great Depression and the Need for Economic Indicators ; 4. Born from Disaster: The Making of a Key Measure ; The Challenge; The Players; The Method; The Findings. , The Big Conundrum: Translating Findings into Action5. Forged in War; 6. Global Domination: The Age of GDP ; For Richer or Poorer; A Stunted Priesthood; Stopgap Consensus; Going Global; New Rules; GDP Junkies; Shackled in Fool's Gold; 7. Today's ABC of GDP ; It's an Emperor, but Does It Have Clothes?; Why It Matters; 8. More Is Not Enough ; The Little Big Number: Our Report Card for Success; Emerging Dissent; 9. "The People of Plenty Are a People of Waste"; Breaking the Spell; 10. From Alchemy to Reason: What If? A Thought Experiment; Mental Cobwebs; One More Time: Simon Kuznets. , Clearing a Path11. Looking Forward; A Daring Vision; A Moment of Possibility; Appendix A. The Measure as Guide; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Note: Introduction to performance tuningProfiling MATLAB® performance -- Standard performance-tuning techniques -- MATLAB®-specific techniques -- Implicit parallelization (vectorization and indexing) -- Explicit parallelization using MathWorks toolboxes -- Explicit parallelization by other means -- Using compiled code -- Memory-related techniques -- Graphics and GUI -- I/O techniques..

Note: Foreword; Preface; Contents; Authors' Biography; Chapter 1: Paths to the New Arctic; Chapter 2: Indigenous Peoples in the New Arctic; Chapter 3: Pioneering Nation: New Narratives About Greenland and Greenlanders Launched Through Arts and Branding; Chapter 4: Perpetual Adaption? Challanges for the Sami and Reindeer Husbandry in Sweden; Chapter 5: On Past, Present and Future Arctic Expeditions; Chapter 6: Arctopias: The Arctic as No Place and New Place in Fiction; Chapter 7: The Fleeting Glaciers of the Arctic; Chapter 8: Arctic Carbon Cycle: Patterns, Impacts and Possible Changes; Chapter 9: Arctic Vegetation Cover: Patterns, Processes and Expected Change; Chapter 10: Human Development in the New Arctic; Chapter 11: Issues in Arctic Tourism; ...

Note: Contents: 1 Introduction. - 2 Basic Physical Properties of Soil. - 2.1 Geometry of the Soil Matrix. - 2.2 Soil Structure. - 2.3 Fractal Geometry. - 2.4 Geometry of the Pore Space. - 2.5 Specific Surface Area. - 2.6 Averaging. - 2.7 Bulk Density, Water Content and Porosity. - 2.8 Relationships between Variables. - 2.9 Typical Values of Physical Properties. - 2.10 Volumes and Volumetric Fractions for a Soil Prism. - 2.11 Soil Solid Phase. - 2.12 Soil Texture. - 2.13 Sedimentation Law. - 2.14 Exercises. - 3 Soil Gas Phase and Gas Diffusion. - 3.1 Transport Equations. - 3.2 The Diffiisivity of Gases in Soil. - 3.3 Computing Gas Concentrations. - 3.4 Simulating One-Dimensional Steady-State Oxygen Diffusion in a Soil Profile. - 3.5 Numerical Implementation. - 3.6 Exercises. - 4 Soil Temperature and Heat Flow. - 4.1 Differential Equations for Heat Conduction. - 4.2 Soil Temperature Data. - 4.3 Numerical Solution of the Heat Flow Equation. - 4.4 Soil Thermal Properties. - 4.5 Numerical Implementation. - 4.6 Exercises. - 5 Soil Liquid Phase and Soil-Water Interactions. - 5.1 Properties of Water. - 5.2 Soil Water Potential. - 5.3 Water Potential-Water Content Relations. - 5.4 Liquid- and Vapour-Phase Equilibrium. - 5.5 Exercises. - 6 Steady-State Water Flow and Hydraulic Conductivity. - 6.1 Forces on Water in Porous Media. - 6.2 Water Flow in Saturated Soils. - 6.3 Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity. - 6.4 Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity. - 6.5 Exercises. - 7 Variation in Soil Properties. - 7.1 Frequency Distributions. - 7.2 Probability Density Functions. - 7.3 Transformations. - 7.4 Spatial Correlation. - 7.5 Approaches to Stochastic Modelling. - 7.6 Numerical Implementation. - 7.7 Exercises. - 8 Transient Water Flow. - 8.1 Mass Conservation Equation. - 8.2 Water Flow. - 8.3 Infiltration. - 8.4 Numerical Simulation of Infiltration. - 8.5 Numerical Implementation. - 8.6 Exercises. - 9 Triangulated Irregular Network. - 9.1 Digital Terrain Model. - 9.2 Triangulated Irregular Network. - 9.3 Numerical Implementation. - 9.4 Main. - 9.5 Triangulation. - 9.6 GIS Functions. - 9.7 Boundary. - 9.8 Geometrical Properties of Triangles. - 9.9 Delaunay Triangulation. - 9.10 Refinement. - 9.11 Utilities. - 9.12 Visualization. - 9.13 Exercise. - 10 Water Flow in Three Dimensions. - 10.1 Governing Equations. - 10.2 Numerical Formulation. - 10.3 Coupling Surface and Subsurface Flow. - 10.4 Numerical Implementation. - 10.5 Simulation. - 10.6 Visualization and Results. - 10.7 Exercises. - 11 Evaporation. - 11.1 General Concepts. - 11.2 Simultaneous Transport of Liquid and Vapour in Isothermal Soil. - 11.3 Modelling evaporation. - 11.4 Numerical Implementation. - 11.5 Exercises. - 12 Modelling Coupled Transport. - 12.1 Transport Equations. - 12.2 Partial Differential Equations. - 12.3 Surface Boundary Conditions. - 12.4 Numerical Implementation. - 12.5 Exercises. - 13 Solute Transport in Soils. - 13.1 Mass Flow. - 13.2 Diffusion. - 13.3 Hydrodynamic Dispersion. - 13.4 Advection-Dispersion Equation. - 13.5 Solute-Soil Interaction. - 13.6 Sources and Sinks of Solutes. - 13.7 Analytical Solutions. - 13.8 Numerical Solution. - 13.9 Numerical Implementation. - 13.10 Exercises. - 14 Transpiration and Plant-Water Relations. - 14.1 Soil Water Content and Soil Water Potential under a Vegetated Surface. - 14.2 General Features of Water Flow in the SPAC. - 14.3 Resistances to Water Flow within the Plant. - 14.4 Effect of Environment on Plant Resistance. - 14.5 Detailed Consideration of Soil and Root Resistances. - 14.6 Numerical Implementation. - 14.7 Exercises. - 15 Atmospheric Boundary Conditions. - 15.1 Radiation Balance at the Exchange Surface. - 15.2 Boundary-Layer Conductance for Heat and Water Vapour. - 15.3 Evapotranspiration and the Penman-Monteith Equation. - 15.4 Partitioning of Evapotranspiration. - 15.5 Exercise. - Appendix A: Basic Concepts and Examples of Python Programming. - A.1 Basic Python. - A.2 Basic Concepts of Computer Programming. - A.3 Data Representation: Variables. - A.4 Comments Rules and Indendation. - A.5 Arithmetic Expression. - A.6 Functions. - A.7 Flow Control. - A.8 File Input and Output. - A.9 Arrays. - A.10 Reading Date Time. - A.11 Object-Oriented Programming in Python. - A.12 Output and Visualization. - A.13 Exercises. - Appendix B: Computational Tools. - B.1 Numerical Differentiation. - B.2 Numerical Integration. - B.3 Linear Algebra. - B.4 Exercises. - List of Symbols. - List of Python Variables. - List of Python Projects. - References. - Index.

Note: Foreword; Prologue; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Early Earth Systems; 1.1 Archaean and Proterozoic Atmospheres; 1.2 Early Biospheres; 1.3 Greenhouse States and Glaciations; Chapter 2: Phanerozoic Life and Mass Extinctions of Species; 2.1 Acraman Impact and Acritarchs Radiation; 2.2 Cambrian and Late Ordovician Mass Extinction; 2.3 Late and End-Devonian Mass Extinctions; 2.4 Late Permian and Permian-Triassic Mass Extinctions; 2.5 End-Triassic Mass Extinction; 2.6 Jurassic-Cretaceous Extinction; 2.7 K-T (Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary) Mass Extinction; 2.8 Paleocene-Eocene Extinction. , 2.9 The End-Eocene FreezeChapter 3: Cenozoic Biological Evolution (by Colin Groves); 3.1 The Evolution of Mammals; 3.2 From Primates to Humans; 3.3 From Genetic Evolution to Cultural Evolution; Chapter 4: Fire and the Biosphere; 4.1 An Incendiary Biosphere; 4.2 The Deep-Time History of Fire; 4.3 Fire and Pre-historic Human Evolution; 4.4 Neolithic Burning and Early Civilizations; Chapter 5: The Anthropocene; 5.1 The Modern Atmosphere; 5.2 Neolithic Burning and Early Global Warming; 5.3 The Great Carbon Oxidation Event; 5.4 The Sixth Mass Extinction of Species; 5.5 The Faustian Bargain. , 5.6 The Post-anthropocene WorldChapter 6: Rare Earth; Chapter 7: Prometheus: An Epilogue; References; About the Book and the Authors; Index.

Note: Introduction / Guri Bang -- To be or not to be : a low-carbon economy : a decade of climate politics in Brazil / Solveig Aamodt -- China : every day is a winding road / Iselin Stensdal -- EU climate and energy policy : demanded or supplied? / Jon Birger Skjærseth -- Climate politics, emission scenarios and negotiation stances in India / Sunil Tankha and Trude Rauken -- Japan's climate policy : post-Fukushima and beyond / Masahiko Iguchi -- Russia's climate policy / Anna Korppoo -- The United States : Obama's push for climate policy change / Guri Bang -- Comparative analysis and conclusions / Guri Bang..

Note: ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Conventions""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1. Introduction""; ""PART I The Early Years""; ""2. Early attempts at monetary union and the Hague Summit""; ""3. The Werner Report and the collapse of Bretton Woods""; ""4. The 'snake in the tunnel' reappears""; ""5. Monetarism arrives amidst currency turmoil""; ""6. The Delors Report""; ""7. Onward to Maastricht""; ""8. The Maastricht Treaty""; ""9. Converging to crisis and austerity""; ""10. The ideological straitjacket""; ""11. The Stability and Growth Pact (SGP)"". , ""12. The convergence farce: smokescreens and denial""""PART II The Path to Crisis""; ""13. The first few years: smug self-congratulation and mass delusion""; ""14. The 2003 fiscal crisis""; ""15. The German 'jobwunder'""; ""16. European Groupthink: denial on a grand scale""; ""PART III The Options for Europe""; ""17. A monetary framework for fiscal policy activism""; ""18. Framing the debate: two alternative visions of the economy""; ""19. The basic principles of functional finance""; ""20. The federal solution""; ""21. Overt Monetary Financing""; ""22. Abandoning the euro"". , ""23. Employment guarantees""""References""; ""Index"".

Note: Exploring the politics of inclusive development : towards a new conceptual approach / Sam Hickey, Kunal Sen, and Badru BukenyaThe political determinants of economic growth : an analytical review / Kunal Sen -- The politics of what works for the poor in public expenditure and taxation / Paul Mosley -- Governing natural resources for inclusive development / Anthony Bebbington -- The politics of what works in service delivery / Claire Mcloughlin -- Political factors in the growth of social assistance / Armando Barrientos and Sony Pellissery -- The politics and process of rule of law systems in developmental states / Deval Desai and Michael Woolcock -- The gendered politics of securing inclusive development / Sohela Nazneen and Simeen Mahmud -- Ethnicity, state capacity, and development : reconsidering causal connections / Prerna Singh and Matthias vom Hau -- The politics of aid revisited : a review of evidence on state capacity and elite commitment / Arjan de Haan and Ward Warmerdam -- China in Africa : impacts and prospects for accountable development / Giles Mohan..

Note: Contents: Executive summary ; Chapter 1. Modelling the economic consequences of climate change ; Chapter 2. The damages from selected climate change impacts to 2060 ; Chapter 3. The bigger picture of climate change ; Chapter 4. The benefits of policy action ; Annex I. Description of the modelling tools

Note: Contents: I Ausgangslage: Besonderheiten des Kontexts Wissenschaft und PersonalauswahlHerausforderungen der Personalauswahl in der Wissenschaft: Berufungsverfahren an deutschen Universitäten -- Geschlecht und Personalauswahl an Hochschulen und außerhochschulischen Forschungseinrichtungen -- Chancengleichheit durch professionelle Personalauswahl in der Wissenschaft -- II Handlungsempfehlungen zur Personalauswahl an Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen - idealtypischer Prozess -- Anforderungsanalyse für offene Positionen in der Wissenschaft -- Passende Talente ansprechen - Rekrutierung und Gestaltung von Stellenausschreibungen -- Sichtung von Bewerbungsunterlagen -- Arbeitsproben -- Einsatz strukturierter Interviewtechniken bei der Auswahl von Wissenschaftler_innen -- Entscheidungsfindung -- Onboarding und Führung in den ersten 100 Tagen -- III Handlungsempfehlungen zur Personalauswahl an Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen - Professor_innen -- Professor_innenauswahl in universitären Berufungsverfahren: Idealtypische Gestaltung auf Basis der wissenschaftlichen Personalforschung -- Myths about Meritocracy and Transparency: The Role of Gender in Academic Recruitment -- Die ideale Berufungsverhandlung -- IV Good Practice: Standards und Projekte an Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen im deutschsprachigen Raum -- Die Besten finden, die Besten binden - Effektives Personalmanagement an der RWTH Aachen University -- Professionelles Berufungsmanagement an der TUM -- Wissenschaft und Transfer in einem Job geht nicht? Doch! - Personalauswahl bei Fraunhofer.- Systematische Personalauswahl über differenzierte Anforderungsprofile und strukturierte Interviews -- Aktive Rekrutierung von Wissenschaftlerinnen als Bestandteil eines wertschätzenden Berufungsmanagements an der Universität Konstanz -- Assessment Center in Berufungsverfahren der Universität Bremen -- Eignungsinterview - Drei Werkzeugkästen: das EOG, die TAToo und das DIPA -- Searching for Excellence & Diversity® Workshop: Improving Faculty Diversity by Educating Faculty Search Committees. , Beitr. überw. dt.; teilw. engl.

Note: The reasoning of the Court -- Procedural aspects -- Civil and political rights -- Economic, social, and cultural rights -- Reparations and provisional measures -- Enforced disappearances and amnesty laws -- Groups in vulnerability -- The Court and national judges and tribunals -- Interaction between the Inter-American Court and other international courts -- Reforming the inter-American system..

Note: Contents: CHAPTER 1 Introduction ; CHAPTER 2 A Classical Monetary Model ; CHAPTER 3 The Basic New Keynesian Model ; CHAPTER 4 Monetary Policy Design in the Basic New Keynesian Model ; CHAPTER 5 Monetary Policy Tradeoffs: Discretion versus Commitment ; CHAPTER 6 A Model with Sticky Wages and Prices ; CHAPTER 7 Unemployment in the New Keynesian Model ; CHAPTER 8 Monetary Policy in the Open Economy ; CHAPTER 9 Lessons, Extensions, and New Directions ; Index

Note: Introduction : a focus on migrant inclusion and the politics of immigration and asylum in EuropeThe nation-state and NGOo political activity -- Domestic opportunities and constraints -- Cooperation along two dimensions : public visibility and intensity of commitment -- Asymmetries within the movement : the provision and receipt of less publicly visible movement "goods" -- Cooperation within the state : publicly visible campaigns and common projects -- Cooperation beyond the state : transnational activism in the public realm -- NGOs as multilevel actors : toward a more complete understanding..

Note: Contents: 1. Introduction and summary, 2. Resource use in an urbanizing world, 3. Agropolis – the city in its local landscape, 4. Living in Petropolis, 5. Cities and entropy, 6. The urban metabolism, 7. From Petropolis to Ecopolis, 8. Case studies

Note: Dissertation, Universität Potsdam, 2015 , Table of contents Preface Table of contents Summary Zusammenfassung 1. Introduction 1.1. Environmental conditions on past and present Mars 1.2. Detection of methane on Mars 1.3. Methanogenic archaea 1.4. Description of study sites 1.5. Aims and approaches 1.6. Overview of the publications 2. Publication I: Methanosarcina soligelidi sp. nov., a desiccationandfreeze-thaw-resistant methanogenic archaeon from a Siberianpermafrost-affected soil 3. Publication II: Methanobacterium movilense sp. nov.,ahydrogenotrophic, secondary-alcohol-utilizing methanogen fromthe anoxic sediment of a subsurface lake 4. Publication III: Influence of Martian Regolith Analogs on the activityand growth of methanogenic archaea,with special regard to long-term desiccation 5. Publication IV: Laser spectroscopic real time measurements ofmethanogenic activity under simulated Martian subsurface conditions 6. Synthesis and Conclusion 6.1. Synthesis 6.2. Conclusion and future perspectives 7. References 8. Acknowledgments

Note: Dissertation, Universität Potsdam, 2015 , Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abstract Zusammenfassung List of figures and tables List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction 1.1. Preface and thesis organization 1.2. Research motivation and relevance 1.3. Background knowledge 1.3.1. Terrigenous sediments 1.3.2. Hala Lake 1.3.3. The North Pacific 1.3.4. The Bering Sea 1.4. Aims and objectives 1.5. Methodological overview 1.5.1. Fieldwork 1.5.2. Age-depth modeling 1.5.3. Key proxies: grain size and clay minerals 1.5.4. Supplementary methodology: remote sensing, seismic sub-bottom profiling and geochemistry 1.6. Overview and status of the manuscripts 2 Manuscript 1 : Linkages between Quaternary climate change and sedimentary processes in Hala Lake, northern Tibetan Plateau, China Abstract 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Regional setting 2.3. Materials and methods 2.3.1. Remote sensing of the study area 2.3.2. Fieldwork 2.3.3. Radiocarbon dating of recovered sediment cores 2.3.4. Laboratory work 2.3.5. Statistical data treatment 2.4. Results and interpretation 2.4.1. Remote sensing on the spatial heterogeneity of lake ice and length of lake ice-free days 2.4.2. Seismic sub-bottom profiling 2.4.3. Age and sedimentary characteristics of the sediment core record 2.4.4. Grain-size modeling results 2.5. Discussion 2.5.1. Last Glacial Maximum (~24-17 cal. ka BP) 2.5.2. Time-equivalent of Heinrich Event 1 (~17-15.4 cal. ka BP) 2.5.3. Time-equivalent of Bolling-Allerod (~15.4-13 cal. ka BP) 2.5.4. Time-equivalent of Younger Dryas (~12.9-11.6 cal. ka BP) 2.5.5. Holocene (~11.6 cal. ka BP to present) 2.6. Conclusions Acknowledgments 3 Manuscript 2: Modern modes of provenance and dispersal of terrigenous sediments in the North Pacific and the Bering Sea: Implications and perspectives for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions Abstract 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Study area and regional setting 3.3. Material and methods 3.4. Results 3.4.1. Grain size distribution 3.4.2 Bulk mineralogy 3.4.3. Mineralogy of the clay fraction 3.5. Discussion 3.5.1. Sedimentary processes 3.5.2. Sediment provenance 3.5.3 Implications for palaeoenvironmental studies 3.6. Conclusions Acknowledgements 4 Manuscript 3: Provenance and dispersal of terrigenous sediments in the Bering Sea slope: Implications for late glacial land-ocean linkages Abstract 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Regional setting 4.3. Material and methods 4.4. Results and interpretation 4.4.1. Lithology and stratigraphy 4.4.2. Grain size distribution 4.4.3. Clay mineralogy 4.5. Discussion 4.5.1. Processes of terrigenous sediment supply 4.5.2. Detrital sediment sources 4.5.3. Detrital sediment supply and its relation to regionalpalaeoenvironmental changes 4.5.3.1. Time interval 32-15.7 ka BP: Background sedimentation at low sea level 4.5.3.2. Time interval 15.7-14.5 ka BP: Regional Meltwater Pulse 4.5.3.3. Time interval 14.5-12.9 ka BP: First biological bloom event 4.5.3.4. Time interval 12.9-6 ka BP: Cooling episode, rejuvenation of biological productivity and onset ofmodern conditions 4.5.4. Palaeoenvironmental implications 4.6. Conclusions Acknowledgements 5 Synthesis 5.1. The North Hemisphere synchronization of millennial climate oscillations during the last Glacial: teleconnections from Westerlies and thermohaline Circulation 5.2. The regional asynchronization of millennial climate oscillations during the last Glacial: discrepancy and "recording capacity" 5.3. Secondary connections between global climate transmissions: winter cyclone in the North Pacific 5.4. Future perspectives 6 References 7 Appendix Extended results: Core SO202-39-3 from the mid-latitude North Pacific 7.1. Material 7.2. Results 7.3. Oscillation of eolian sediment transport 7.4. Conclusions

Note: Contents Part I Introduction 1 Cardiac Development and Animal Models of Congenital Heart Defects / Robert G. Kelly 2 Normal Cardiac Anatomy and Clinical Evaluation / David J. Driscoll Part II Development of the Heart and Its Vessels 3 First and Second Heart Field / Margaret Buckingham 4 Neural Crest / Bijoy Thattaliyath and Mary Hutson 5 Inflow Tract Development / Andy Wessels 6 Epicardium and Coronary Arteries / José C. Martín-Robles and José M. Pérez-Pomares 7 Establishment of Cardiac Laterality / George C. Gabriel and Cecilia W. Lo 8 Cardiac Conduction System / Rajiv Mohan and Vincent M. Christoffels 9 Hemodynamics During Development and Postnatal Life / David Sedmera 10 Evolutionary Aspects of Cardiac Development / Bjarke Jensen and Antoon F.M. Moorman Part III Central Molecular Pathways 11 Inter- and Intracellular Signaling Pathways / Jörg Heineke 12 Cardiac Transcription Factors and Regulatory Networks / Marcel Grunert, Cornelia Dorn, and Silke Rickert-Sperling 13 Post-transcriptional Regulation by Proteins and Non-coding RNAs / Amelia E. Aranega and Diego Franco 14 Post-translational Modification / Jun Wang and Robert J. Schwartz 15 Epigenetics / Rajan Jain, Mudit Gupta, and Jonathan A. Epstein 16 Environmental Signals / George A. Porter Jr. 17 The Contractile Apparatus of the Heart / Ingo Morano 18 Technologies to Study Genetics and Molecular Pathways / Cornelia Dorn, Marcel Grunert, Ana Dopazo, Fátima Sánchez-Cabo, Alberto Gatto, Jésus Vázquez, Silke Rickert-Sperling, and Enrique Lara-Pezzi Part IV Atrial Septal Defect 19 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Atrial Septal Defect / David J. Driscoll 20 Human Genetics of Atrial Septal Defect / Rabia Khan and Patrick Y. Jay 21 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Atrial Septal Defect / Patrick Y. Jay, Karl R. Degenhardt, and Robert H. Anderson Part V Ventricular Septal Defect 22 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Ventricular Septal Defect / David J. Driscoll 23 Human Genetics of Ventricular Septal Defect / Katherina Bellmann, Andreas Perrot, and Silke Rickert-Sperling 24 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Ventricular Septal Defect / Lucile Houyel Part VI Atrioventricular Septal Defect 25 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Atrioventricular Septal Defect / David J. Driscoll 26 Human Genetics of Atrioventricular Septal Defect / Cheryl L. Maslen 27 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Atrioventricular Septal Defect / Andy Wessels Part VII Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return 28 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return / David J. Driscoll 29 Human Genetics of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return / Robert E. Poelmann, Monique R.M. Jongbloed, Marco C. DeRuiter, and Adriana C. Gittenberger-de Groot 30 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return / Robert E. Poelmann, Adriana C. Gittenberger-de Groot, Monique R.M. Jongbloed, and Marco C. DeRuiter Part VIII Tetralogy of Fallot and Double Outlet Right Ventricle 31 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Tetralogy of Fallot and Double Outlet Right Ventricle / David J. Driscoll 32 Human Genetics of Tetralogy of Fallot and Double Outlet Right Ventricle / Cornelia Dorn, Andreas Perrot, and Silke Rickert-Sperling 33 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Tetralogy of Fallot and Double Outlet Right Ventricle / Robert G. Kelly Part IX d-Transposition of the Great Arteries 34 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of d-Transposition of the Great Arteries / David J. Driscoll 35 Human Genetics of d-Transposition of the Great Arteries / Patrice Bouvagnet and Anne Moreau de Bellaing 36 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of d-Transposition of the Great Arteries / Amy-Leigh Johnson and Simon D. Bamforth Part X Defects of Situs 37 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Defects of Situs / David J. Driscoll 38 Human Genetics of Defects of Situs / Andreas Perrot and Silke Rickert-Sperling 39 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Defects of Situs / Nikolai T. Klena, George C. Gabriel, and Cecilia W. Lo Part XI Semilunar Valve and Aortic Arch Anomalies 40 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Semilunar Valve and Aortic Arch Anomalies / David J. Driscoll 41 Human Genetics of Semilunar Valve and Aortic Arch Anomalies / Matina Prapa and Siew Yen Ho 42 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Semilunar Valve and Aortic Arch Anomalies / Amy-Leigh Johnson and Simon D. Bamforth Part XII Coronary Artery Anomalies 43 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Coronary Artery Anomalies / David J. Driscoll 44 Human Genetics of Coronary Artery Anomalies / Beatriz Picazo and José M. Pérez-Pomares 45 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Coronary Artery Anomalies / Juan A. Guadix and José M. Pérez-Pomares Part XIII Truncus Arteriosus 46 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Truncus Arteriosus / David J. Driscoll 47 Human Genetics of Truncus Arteriosus / Hiroyuki Yamagishi 48 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Truncus Arteriosus / Amy-Leigh Johnson and Simon D. Bamforth Part XIV Tricuspid Atresia and Univentricular Heart 49 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Tricuspid Atresia and Univentricular Heart / David J. Driscoll 50 Human Genetics of Tricuspid Atresia and Univentricular Heart / Abdul-Karim Sleiman, Liane Sadder, and George Nemer 51 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Tricuspid Atresia and Univentricular Heart / Kamel Shibbani and George Nemer Part XV Ebstein Anomaly 52 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Ebstein Anomaly / David J. Driscoll 53 Human Genetics of Ebstein Anomaly / Gregor U. Andelfinger 54 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Ebstein Anomaly / Gregor U. Andelfinger Part XVI Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome 55 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome / David J. Driscoll 56 Human Genetics of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome / Woodrow D. Benson 57 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome / Florian Wünnemann and Gregor U. Andelfinger Part XVII Cardiomyopathies 58 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Cardiomyopathies / David J. Driscoll 59 Human Genetics of Cardiomyopathies / Alexa M.C. Vermeer, Arthur A.M. Wilde, and Imke Christiaans 60 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Cardiomyopathies / Enkhsaikhan Purevjav

Note: Introduction: heritage and climate change: the future is not the past , Narratives of change on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site , Heritage and climate change: a fatal affair , Climate and cultural heritage: an experiment with the weather memory bank , Diverse epistemic traditions in transformative climate change research and adaptation: heritage and legacy , "We now have a name for some of the big changes happening on our bubu [country]": the role of indigenous knowledge for the management of cultural landscapes in a changing climate: a case study of the Kuku Nyungkal people from the Queensland Wet Tropics, Australia , Climate change and the changing nature of conservation , Historical chestnut cultures, climate and rural landscapes in the Apennines , Part II. Creative responses to heritage and climate change relations: processes, policies and possibilities ; Heritage and climate change: organizational conflicts and conundrums , Heritage development and community resilience: insights for the era of climate change , Strategies for coping with the wicked problem of climate change: a natural heritage perspective , Buffer mechanisms for managing diversity and world heritage in the Cape Floral Region (South Africa) , "From dust to dust": earth buildings, process and change , Relationships between climate change and built heritage: the case of dense urban cities in Hong Kong and China , Taking the middle path to the coast: how community collaboration can help save threatened sites , Conclusion: valuing the ever-changing past

Note: Practices, governance and sustainability / Theodore SchatzkiLinking low carbon policy and social practice / Elizabeth Shove -- Beyond individual responsibility : social practice, capabilities and the right to environmentally sustainable ways of living / Gordon Walker -- Beyond behaviour change : practical applications of social practice theory in behaviour change programs / Yolande Strengers, Susie Moloney, Cecily Maller and Ralph Horne -- Interventions in practices : sustainable mobility policies in England / Nicola Spurling and Andrew McMeekin -- Governing and governed by practices : exploring interventions in low-carbon housing policy and practice / Rachel Macrorie, Chris Foulds and Tom Hargreaves -- Smart grids and the governing of energy use : reconfiguring practices? / Harriet Bulkeley, Gareth Powells, Sandra Bell and Steve Lyon -- The practices of material divestment : extending the life of domestic durable goods / Andrew Glover -- Resurrecting sustainable practices : using memories of the past to intervene in the future / Cecily Maller and Yolande Strengers -- Flow and intervention in everyday life : situating practices / Sarah Pink and Kerstin Leder-Mackley -- Method as intervention : intervening in practice through quantitative and mixed methodologies Alison Browne, Will Medd, Ben Anderson and Martin Pullinger -- Conclusion : transforming practice interventions / Cecily Maller and Yolande Strengers..

Note: Contents: Preface. - Chapter 1: Concepts for a better world. - What is sustainability?. - The value of nature. - Conclusion: “Sustainability” – a difficult concept to define. - Chapter 2: How the sea serves us. - The bounty of the sea. - Oceans under threat. - Conclusion: Marine ecosystem services at risk. - Chapter 3: Politics and the oceans. - On the difficulty of governing the sea. - Conclusion: The ideal of good marine policy. - Chapter 4: Hope for the oceans. - Roadmap towards a sustainable future?. - Protecting the seas is possible. - Conclusion: How marine conservation can work. - Overall conclusion. - Glossary. - Contributors. - Bibliography. - Table of figures. - Index. - Abbreviations. - Partners and Acknowledgements. - Publication details.

Note: Ersch. unregelmäßig , Beiträge teilweise in Englisch

Note: Pt. 1. Geopolitics and strategic resources -- pt. 2. Law of the sea -- pt. 3. Arctic institutions and specific fields of cooperation -- pt. 4. National approaches to the Arctic.

Note: Contents: 1 Introduction. - 1.1 Basic Concepts and Definitions. - 1.1.1 What Gas Seepage Is, What It Is Not. - 1.1.2 A Jungle of Names: Seeps, Macroseeps, Microseepage, Microseeps, and Miniseepage. - 1.1.3 Seepage id est Migration. - 1.1.4 Microbial, Thermogenic, and Abiotic Methane. - 1.2 Significance of Seepage and Implications. - 1.2.1 Seepage and Petroleum Exploration. - 1.2.2 Marine Seepage on the Crest of the Wave. - 1.2.3 From Sea to Land. - 1.2.4 A New Vision. - References. - 2 Gas Seepage Classification and Global Distribution. - 2.1 Macro-Seeps. - 2.1.1 Gas Seeps. - 2.1.2 Oil Seeps. - 2.1.3 Gas-Bearing Springs. - 2.1.4 Mud Volcanoes. - 2.1.5 Miniseepage. - 2.1.6 The Global Distribution of Onshore Macro-Seeps. - 2.2 Microseepage. - 2.3 Marine Seepage Manifestations. - References. - 3 Gas Migration Mechanisms. - 3.1 Fundamentals. - 3.1.1 Sources and Pathways. - 3.1.2 Diffusion and Advection. - 3.2 Actual Mechanisms and Migration Forms. - 3.2.1 Bubble and Microbubble Flow. - 3.2.2 Gas Seepage Velocity. - 3.2.3 Matter Transport by Microbubbles. - 3.2.4 The Concept of Carrier Gas and Trace Gas. - References. - 4 Detecting and Measuring Gas Seepage. - 4.1 Gas Detection Methods. - 4.1.1 Above-Ground (Atmospheric) Measurements. - 4.1.2 Ground Measurements. - 4.1.3 Measurements in Aqueous Systems. - 4.2 Indirect Methods. - 4.2.1 Chemical-Mineralogical Alterations of Soils. - 4.2.2 Vegetation Changes (Geobotanical Anomalies). - 4.2.3 Microbiological Analyses of Soils. - 4.2.4 Radiometric Surveys. - 4.2.5 Geophysical Techniques. - References. - 5 Seepage in Field Geology and Petroleum Exploration. - 5.1 Seepage and Faults. - 5.2 Microseepage Applied to Areal Petroleum Exploration. - 5.2.1 Which Gas Can Be Measured?. - 5.2.2 Microseepage Methane Flux Measurements. - 5.3 Seep Geochemistry for Petroleum System Evaluation. - 5.3.1 Recognising Post-genetic Alterations of Gases. - 5.3.2 Assessing Gas Source Type and Maturity. - 5.3.3 The Presence of Undesirable Gases (CO2, H2S, N2). - 5.3.4 Helium in Seeps… for Connoisseurs. - References. - 6 Environmental Impact of Gas Seepage. - 6.1 Geohazards. - 6.1.1 Methane Explosiveness. - 6.1.2 The Toxicity of Hydrogen Sulphide. - 6.1.3 Mud Expulsions and the Degradation of Soil-Sediments. - 6.2 Stray Gas, Natural versus Man-Made. - 6.3 Hypoxia in Aquatic Environments. - 6.4 Gas Emissions to the Atmosphere. - 6.4.1 Methane Fluxes and the Global Atmospheric Budget. - 6.4.2 Ethane and Propane Seepage, a Forgotten Potential Source of Ozone Precursors. - 6.5 Natural Seepage and CO2 Geological Sequestration. - References. - 7 Seepage in Serpentinised Peridotites and on Mars. - 7.1 Seeps and Springs in Active Serpentinisation Systems. - 7.1.1 Where Abiotic Methane Is Seeping. - 7.1.2 How Abiotic Methane in Land-Based Serpentinisation Systems Is Formed. - 7.1.3 How to Distinguish Abiotic and Biotic Methane. - 7.1.4 Seepage to the Surface. - 7.1.5 Is Abiotic Gas Seepage Important for the Atmospheric Methane Budget?. - 7.2 Potential Methane Seepage on Mars. - 7.2.1 Looking for Methane on Mars. - 7.2.2 A Theoretical Martian Seepage. - References. - 8 Gas Seepage and Past Climate Change. - 8.1 Past Seepage Stronger than Today. - 8.2 Potential Proxies of Past Seepage. - 8.3 Methane and Quaternary Climate Change. - 8.3.1 Traditional Models: Wetlands versus Gas Hydrates. - 8.3.2 Adding Submarine Seeps. - 8.3.3 Considering Onshore and Offshore Seepage in Total. - 8.3.4 CH4 Isotope Signatures in Ice Cores. - 8.4 Longer Geological Time Scale Changes. - 8.4.1 The Concept of Sedimentary Organic Carbon Mobilization. - 8.4.2 Paleogene Changes. - References. - 9 Seeps in the Ancient World: Myths, Religions, and Social Development. - 9.1 Seeps in Mythology and Religion. - 9.2 Seeps in Social and Technological Development. - References. - Epilogue. - Index.

Note: Preface to the fourth editionIntroduction and overview -- Macroeconomic accounts, market structure, and behavioral functions -- Economic structure and aggregate accounts -- Economic structure and macroeconomics -- A general accounting framework -- Production structure in an open economy -- The structure of labor markets -- Policy consistency and solvency -- Fiscal rules and fiscal discipline -- Fiscal rules, public investment and growth -- Appendix: Fiscal effects of privatization..

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Note: Introduction to Petroleum Geology Introduction to Sedimentology -- Sedimentary Geochemistry -- Sandstones and Sandstone Reservoirs -- Carbonate Sediments -- Mudrocks, Shales, Silica Deposits and Evaporites -- Stratigraphy -- Sequence Stratigraphy, Seismic Stratigraphy -- Heat Transport in Sedimentary Basins -- Subsurface Water and Fluid Flow in Sedimentary Basins -- Introduction to Geomechanics: Stress and Strain in Sedimentary Basins -- The Structure and Hydrocarbon Traps of Sedimentary Basins -- Compaction of Sedimentary Rocks Including Shales, Sandstones and Carbonates -- Source Rocks and Petroleum Geochemistry -- Petroleum Migration -- Well Logging: Principles, Applications and Uncertainties -- Seismic Exploration -- Explorational Rock Physics - The Link Between Geological Processes and Geophysical Observables -- 4D Seismic -- Interpretation of Marine CSEM - and Marine MT Data for Hydrocarbon Prospecting -- Production Geology -- Introduction to Reservoir Modelling -- Unconventional Hydrocarbons. Oil Shales, Heavy Oil, Tar Sand, Shale Gas, Shale Oil and Gas Hydrates -- Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) -- Geology of the Norwegian Continental Shelf -- Exploration Strategy..

Note: 1. Personal beginningsPart I. The Changing Arctic -- 2. The Arctic Messenger -- Part II. Working Together -- 3. The Arctic Messenger gains a voice : the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme -- Part III. What Is the Present State of Knowledge? -- 4. Radioactivity -- 5. Heroic efforts -- 6. Acidification and Arctic haze -- 7. Stratospheric ozone depletion -- 8. Persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals (including mercury) -- 9. Conducting marine science in the Arctic -- 10. Climate change in the Arctic -- Part IV. What Does This All Mean? -- 11. Thoughts on education, the training of Arctic scientists and Arctic research -- 12. The long and short of it : has the Arctic message been noticed? -- 13. Epilogue: keeping the Rovaniemi flame alive..

Note: Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Abbreviations; PART I Introduction; 1. Changing regulatory arrangements in food governance; 2. Conceptualizing regulatory arrangements: Complex networks and regulatory roles; PART II Public policy responses to food safety challenges; 3. Regulation of food safety in the EU: Explaining organizational diversity among Member States; 4. Buying biosecurity: UK compensation for animal diseases; 5. Being well fed: Food safety regimes in China. , 6. The political economy of Chinese food safety regulation: Distributing adulterated milk powder in mainland China and TaiwanPART III New forms of private food governance; 7. Authority and legitimacy in governing global food chains; 8. The effectiveness of private food governance in fostering sustainable development; 9. Food quality through networks in the European wine industry; 10. Markets regulating markets: Competitive private regulation by halal certificates; PART IV How public and private regulation meet. , 11. Are we being served? The relationship between public and private food safety regulation12. Between public and private requirements: Challenges and opportunities for the export of tropical fruits from developing countries to the EU; 13. The meta-governance of co-regulation: Safeguarding the quality of Dutch eggs; Index.

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Note: SECTION 1 - INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF REMOTE SENSING FOR WETLAND MAPPING: Wetlands: An Overview / Ralph W. Tiner --- Classification of Wetland Types for Mapping and Large-Scale Inventories / Ralph W. Tiner --- Introduction to Wetland Mapping and Its Challenges / Ralph W. Tiner --- Early Applications of Remote Sensing for Mapping Wetlands / Ralph W. Tiner --- Advances in Remotely Sensed Data and Techniques for Wetland Mapping and Monitoring / Megan W. Lang, Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez, Ralph W. Tiner, and Victor V. Klemas --- SECTION 2 - SUMMARIES OF REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR APPLICATION FOR MAPPING WETLANDS: Mapping and Monitoring Surface Water and Wetlands with Synthetic Aperture Radar / Brian Brisco --- Wetland InSAR: A Review of the Technique and Applications / Shimon Wdowinski and Sang-Hoon Hong --- Radar and Optical Image Fusion and Mapping of Wetland Resources / Elijah Ramsey III and Amina Rangoonwala --- Theory and Applications of Object-Based Image Analysis and Emerging Methods in Wetland Mapping / Joseph F. Knight, Jennifer M. Corcoran, Lian P. Rampi, and Keith C. Pelletier --- Unmanned Aerial Systems and Structure from Motion Revolutionize Wetlands Mapping / Marguerite Madden, Thomas Jordan, Sergio Bernardes, David L. Cotten, Nancy O’Hare, and Alessandro Pasqua --- SECTION 3 - APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING FOR MAPPING SPECIFIC WETLAND HABITATS: Remote Sensing of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation and Coral Reefs / Sam Purkis and Chris Roelfsema --- Remote Sensing of Mangroves / Victor V. Klemas --- Tidal Marsh Classification Approaches and Future Marsh Migration Mapping Methods for Long Island Sound, Connecticut and New York / Mark Hoover and Adam Walton Whelchel --- Using Moderate-Resolution Satellite Sensors for Monitoring the Biophysical Parameters and Phenology of Tidal Marshes / Deepak R. Mishra and Shuvankar Ghosh --- Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Mapping / Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez, Zachary M. Laubach, Anthony J. Landon, Elizabeth C. Banda, Michael J. Battaglia, Sarah L. Endres, Mary Ellen Miller, Robb D. Macleod, and Colin N. Brooks --- Mapping Wetlands and Surface Water in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America / Jennifer Rover and David M. Mushet --- Mapping the State and Dynamics of Boreal Wetlands Using Synthetic Aperture Radar / Daniel Clewley, Jane Whitcomb, Mahta Moghaddam, and Kyle McDonald --- Fusion of Multispectral Imagery and LiDAR Digital Terrain Derivatives for Ecosystem Mapping and Morphological Characterization of a Northern Peatland Complex / Antonio Difebo, Murray Richardson, and Jonathan Price --- Airborne LiDAR-Based Wetland and Permafrost-Feature Mapping on an Arctic Coastal Plain, North Slope, Alaska / Jeffrey G. Paine, John R. Andrews, Kutalmis Saylam, and Thomas A. Tremblay --- Hybrid Mapping of Pantropical Wetlands from Optical Satellite Images, Hydrology, and Geomorphology / Thomas Gumbricht --- Capturing the Dynamics of Amazonian Wetlands Using Synthetic Aperture Radar: Lessons Learned and Future Directions / Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, John Melack, Annia Susin Streher, Jefferson Ferreira-Ferreira, and Luiz Felipe de Almeida Furtado --- Mapping China’s Wetlands and Recent Changes with Remotely Sensed Data / Zhenguo Niu --- Mapping Invasive Wetland Plants / Carol A. Johnston --- Multisatellite Remote Sensing of Global Wetland Extent and Dynamics / Catherine Prigent and Fabrice Papa --- SECTION 4 - PROMISING DEVELOPMENTS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES: Promising Developments and Future Challenges for Remote Sensing of Wetlands / Megan W. Lang, Sam Purkis, Victor V. Klemas, and Ralph W. Tiner

Note: IntroductionScience in Society -- Knowing and Acting -- Trans-disciplinary Deliberation -- Conclusions/Recommandations..

Note: Contents: 1. Introduction ; 2. Tropical forests ; 3. Tropical forests and development ; 4. Monitoring tropical forests ; 5. Cheaper, cooler, faster ; 6. Making forests worth more alive than dead ; 7. How to stop deforestation ; 8. Global consumer demand ; 9. The international politics of deforestation and climate change ; 10. Forest politics in developing countries ; 11. The politics of REDD+ in rich countries ; 12. Finance for tropical forests ; 13. Conclusion

Note: Introduction -- Asian Stakes and Arctic Governance -- The Northern Sea Route: Smooth Sailing Ahead? -- The Polar Code and Arctic Navigation -- Arctic: The Next Great Game in Energy Geopolitics? -- Norway's High North Policy and New Asian Stakeholders -- Russia's China Policy in the Arctic -- Russia's Strategic Concerns in the Arctic and Its Impact on Japan-Russia Relations -- The Arctic and India: Strategic Awareness and Scientific Engagement -- The Maritime Tiger: Exploring South Korea's Interests and Role in the Arctic -- The Legal Regime of the Arctic and India's Role and Options -- China's Role in Arctic Affairs in the Context of Global Governance -- Overview of Korea's Arctic Policy Development

Note: IntroductionDrilling in the arctic -- Identifying international environmental law -- The right to resources and the no harm principle -- Human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples -- Caution and precaution -- The environmental impact assessment -- Monitoring and follow-up -- Legal consequences of failures to protect the environment -- State responsibility for wrongful conduct -- Liability for damage in the absence of a state's wrongful conduct -- The extent and limitations of international law in the marine arctic..

Note: IntroductionMethodology of Seismic Tomography -- Subduction Zone Tomography -- Large Earthquakes and Seismotectonics -- Hotspots and Mantle Plumes -- East Asia Structure and Tectonics -- Global Tomography and Deep Earth dynamics -- Seismic Tomography of the Moon..

Note: PrefaceAcknowledgments -- Introduction the political economy of currency choice -- A theory of currency policy preferences -- The United States : from greenbacks to gold, 1862-79 -- The United States : silver threats among the gold, 1880-96 -- European monetary integration : from bretton woods to the euro and beyond -- Latin American currency policy, 1970-2010 -- The political economy of Latin American currency crises -- The politics of exchange rates : implications and extensions -- Conclusions -- References -- Index..

Note: Contents: Part I. Getting Started: 1. What is 'Markets and Strategies'? ; 2. Firms, consumers and the market ; Part II. Market Power: 3. Static imperfect competition ; 4. Dynamic aspects of imperfect competition ; Part III. Sources of Market Power: 5. Product differentiation ; 6. Advertising and related market strategies ; 7. Consumer inertia ; Part IV. Pricing Strategies and Market Segmentation: 8. Group pricing and personalized pricing ; 9. Menu pricing ; 10. Intertemporal price discrimination ; 11. Bundling ; Part V. Product Quality and Information: 12. Asymmetric information, price and advertising signals ; 13. Marketing tools for experience goods ; Part VI. Theory of Competition Policy: 14. Cartels and tacit collusion ; 15. Horizontal mergers ; 16. Strategic incumbents and entry ; 17. Vertically related markets ; Part VII. R&D and Intellectual Property: 18. Innovation and R&D ; 19. Intellectual property ; Part VIII. Networks, Standards and Systems: 20. Markets with network goods ; 21. Strategies for network goods ; Part IX. Market Intermediation: 22. Markets with intermediated goods ; 23. Information and reputation in intermediated product markets ; Appendix A. Game theory ; Appendix B. Competition policy

Note: New citizens, new societies: new sciences, new philosophies?Objectivity for sciences from below -- Women, gender, development: maximally objective research? -- Do Micronesian navigators practice science? -- Pluralism, multiplicity, and the disunity of sciences -- Must sciences be secular? -- After Mr. Nowhere: new proper scientific selves..

Note: The politics of green transformations / Ian Scoones, Peter Newell and Melissa LeachWhat is green? : transformation imperatives and knowledge politics / Melissa Leach -- Invoking "science" in debates about green transformations : a help or a hindrance? / Erik Millstone -- Emancipating transformation : from controlling "the transition" to culturing plural radical progress / Andy Stirling -- The politics of green transformations in capitalism / Peter Newell -- The political dynamics of green transformations : feedback effects and institutional context / Matthew Lockwood -- Green transformations from below? : the politics of grassroots innovation / Adrian Smith and Adrian Ely -- Mobilizing for green transformations / Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones -- The green entrepreneurial state / Mariana Mazzucato -- Financing green transformations / Stephen Spratt -- Green transformation : is there a fast track? / Hubert Schmitz..

Note: Prologue: autumn aromaWhat's left? -- Arts of noticing -- Contamination as collaboration -- Some problems with scale -- Interlude: smelling -- After progress : salvage accumulation -- Working the edge "freedom" -- Open ticket, Oregon -- War stories -- What happened to the state? : two kinds of Asian Americans in translation -- Between the dollar and the yen -- From gifts to commodities and back -- Salvage rhythms : business in disturbance -- Interlude: tracking -- Disturbed beginnings : unintentional design -- The life of the forest : coming up among pines -- History -- Resurgence -- Serendipity -- Ruin in gaps and patches -- In science as translation -- Flying spores -- Interlude: dancing -- In the middle of things -- Matsutake crusaders -- Ordinary assets -- Anti-ending : some people I met along the way -- Spore trail: the further adventures of a mushroom -- Notes -- Index..

Note: The present and future of rock testing: highlighting the ISRM suggested methods Laboratory testing Suggested method for determination of the Schmidt Hammer rebound hardness: revised version Suggested methods for determining the dynamic strength parameters and mode-I fracture toughness of rock materials Suggested method for the determination of mode II fracture toughness Suggested method for reporting rock laboratory test data in electronic format Upgraded suggested method for determining sound velocity by ultrasonic pulse transmission technique Suggested method for determining the abrasivity of rock by the Cerchar Abrasivity test Suggested method for determining the mode I static fracture toughness using semi-circular bend specimen Suggested methods for determining the creep characteristics of rock Suggested method for laboratory determination of the shear strength of rock joints: revised version Suggested method for the needle penetration test Field testing Suggested method for rock fractures observations using a borehole digital optical televiewer Suggested method for measuring rock mass displacement using a sliding micrometer Suggested method for step-rate injection method for fracture in-situ properties (SIMFIP): Using a 3-Components Borehole Deformation Sensor Suggested Methods for rock stress estimation—Establishing a model for the in situ stress at a given site Monitoring Suggested method for monitoring rock displacements using the global positioning system (GPS) Suggested methods for rock failure criteria: general introduction Introduction to suggested methods for failure criteria Mohr–Coulomb failure criterion The Hoek–Brown failure criterion Three-dimensional failure criteria based on the Hoek–Brown criterion Drucker-Prager criterion Lade and modified Lade 3D rock strength criteria A failure criterion for rocks based on true triaxial testing A survey of 3D laser scanning techniques for application to rock mechanics and rock engineering