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Description / Table of Contents: The West Africa margin, formed by the progressive separation of the South American and African continents, has enjoyed a rich and varied exploration history and become a significant hydrocarbon-producing region. The amalgamation of hydrocarbon exploration approaches and imaginative ideas, leveraged with modern technologies, is yielding significant scientific and economic successes within the region. The main objective of this Special Publication is to provide an overview of the advancement in understanding of the crustal structure, tectonic evolution and Mesozoic to Cenozoic stratigraphy of the West Africa margin both onshore and offshore, with a particular focus on the petroleum geology.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to the sedimentology of paralic reservoirs: recent advances / Gary J. Hampson, Antony D. Reynolds, Boris Kostic and Martin R. Wells / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 444, 1-6, 9 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP444.14 --- Subsurface characterization of paralic reservoirs --- Paralic reservoirs / Antony D. Reynolds / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 444, 7-34, 20 July 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP444.10 --- Stratigraphic architecture of the Knarr Field, Norwegian North Sea: sedimentology and biostratigraphy of an evolving tide- to wave-dominated shoreline system / James M. Churchill, Matthew T. Poole, Silje S. Skarpeid and Matthew I. Wakefield / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 444, 35-58, 12 August 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP444.4 --- Challenges in characterizing subsurface paralic reservoir geometries: a detailed case study of the Mungaroo Formation, North West Shelf, Australia / G. Heldreich, J. Redfern, B. Legler, K. Gerdes and B. P. J. Williams / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 444, 59-108, 8 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP444.13 --- Analysis of floodplain sedimentation, avulsion style and channelized fluvial sandbody distribution in an upper coastal plain reservoir: Middle Jurassic Ness Formation, Brent Field, UK North Sea / Yvette S. Flood and Gary J. Hampson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 444, 109-140, 29 June 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP444.3 --- Tidal heterogeneity in paralic systems --- Deflection of the progradational axis and asymmetry in tidal seaway and strait deltas: insights from two outcrop case studies / Sergio G. Longhitano and Ron J. Steel / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 444, 141-172, 13 July 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP444.8 --- Tidally influenced shoal water delta and estuary in the Middle Jurassic of the Søgne Basin, Norwegian North Sea: sedimentary response to rift initiation and salt tectonics / Donatella Mellere, Aruna Mannie, Sergio Longhitano, Mike Mazur, Hyelni Kulausa, Samme Brough and James Cotton / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 444, 173-213, 21 September 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP444.11 --- Sedimentology and stratigraphic architecture of a Miocene retrogradational, tide-dominated delta system: Balingian Province, offshore Sarawak, Malaysia / Meor H. Amir Hassan, Howard D. Johnson, Peter A. Allison and Wan H. Abdullah / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 444, 215-250, 30 August 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP444.12 --- Stratigraphic evolution of an estuarine fill succession and the reservoir characterization of inclined heterolithic strata, Cretaceous of southern Utah, USA / Cari L. Johnson, L. Stright, R. Purcell and P. Durkin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 444, 251-286, 29 June 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP444.1 --- Recognizing seasonal fluvial influence in ancient tidal deposits / Annalize Q. McLean and Brent Wilson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 444, 287-303, 13 July 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP444.6 --- Analogue studies --- Evolution and architectural styles of a forced-regressive Holocene delta and megafan, Mitchell River, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia / T. I. Lane, R. A. Nanson, B. K. Vakarelov, R. B. Ainsworth and S. E. Dashtgard / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 444, 305-334, 7 July 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP444.9 --- Transgressive successions of the Mahakam Delta Province, Indonesia / Joseph J. Lambiase, Ridha S. Riadi, Nadia Nirsal and Salahuddin Husein / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 444, 335-348, 29 June 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP444.2 --- Time–space variability of paralic strata deposited in a high accommodation, high sediment supply setting: example from the Cretaceous of Utah / Julia S. Mulhern and Cari L. Johnson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 444, 349-392, 29 June 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP444.7 --- Anatomy of a mixed-influence shelf edge delta, Karoo Basin, South Africa / Luz E. Gomis-Cartesio, Miquel Poyatos-Moré, Stephen S. Flint, David M. Hodgson, Rufus L. Brunt and Henry DeV. Wickens / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 444, 393-418, 14 July 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP444.5

Description / Table of Contents: Simon Norris: Radioactive waste confinement: clays in natural and engineered barriers – introduction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:1-8, first published on March 1, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP443.26 --- Large-scale geological characterization --- K. Vandersteen, B. Leterme, and M. Gedeon: Regional aquifer hydrogeochemistry in the confined aquifer system below the Boom Clay (NE Belgium): data analysis and modelling / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:9-28, first published on June 22, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.7 --- Peter Gravesen, Stig A. Schack Pedersen, Bertel Nilsson, and Merete Binderup: An assessment of Palaeogene and Neogene clay deposits in Denmark as possible host rocks for final disposal of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:29-38, first published on June 22, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.3 --- General strategy for clay-based disposal systems --- S. Doudou, E. J. Harvey, P. J. Richardson, S. M. Wickham, P. Van Marcke, D. Raymaekers, and W. Wacquier: Approaches to evaluate and underpin the technical feasibility of the Belgian disposal concept / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:39-48, first published on June 24, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.11 --- S. Doudou, M. J. White, M. Johnson, J.-M. Bosgiraud, and Pär Grahm: DOPAS full-scale experiments: approaches to compliance assessment / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:49-58, first published on August 26, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.16 --- Jiří Svoboda, Jaroslav Pacovský, Markéta Dvořáková, Irena Hanusová, Petr Večerník, and Dagmar Trpkošová: DOPAS EPSP experiment / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:59-72, first published on August 26, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.17 --- Dagmar Trpkošová, Petr Večerník, Jenny Gondolli, Václava Havlová, Jiří Svoboda, and Irena Hanusová: Laboratory experiments on bentonite pellet saturation / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:73-83, first published on November 3, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.22 --- Geomechanics --- Hua Shao, Sebastian Göthling, Wenting Liu, Jürgen Hesser, Jacques Morel, and Jürgen Sönnke: Quantitative characterization of the excavation damaged zone fracture network in the Meuse/Haute-Marne Underground Research Laboratory: in situ experiment and numerical interpretation of helium injection test / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:85-96, first published on October 13, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.21 --- Xueqing Su, Son Nguyen, Ehsan Haghighat, Stanislaw Pietruszczak, Denis Labrie, Jean-Dominique Barnichon, and Hadj Abdi: Characterizing the mechanical behaviour of the Tournemire argillite / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:97-113, first published on October 12, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.20 --- L.-M. Guayacán-Carrillo, J. Sulem, D. M. Seyedi, S. Ghabezloo, A. Noiret, and G. Armand: Convergence analysis of an unsupported micro-tunnel at the Meuse/Haute-Marne Underground Research Laboratory / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:115-125, first published on December 20, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.24 --- Andrés Alcolea, Uli Kuhlmann, Paul Marschall, Andrea Lisjak, Giovanni Grasselli, Omid Mahabadi, Rémi de La Vaissière, Helen Leung, and Hua Shao: A pragmatic approach to abstract the excavation damaged zone around tunnels of a geological radioactive waste repository: application to the HG-A experiment in Mont Terri / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:127-147, first published on June 24, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.8 --- Hua Shao, Benjamin Paul, Xuerui Wang, Jürgen Hesser, Jens Becker, Benoit Garitte, and Herwig Müller: The influence of different supports on the properties of the excavation damaged zone along the FE tunnel in the Mont Terri Underground Rock Laboratory / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:149-157, first published on September 26, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.18 --- Mass transfer --- S. M'Jahad, C. A. Davy, F. Skoczylas, and J. Talandier: Characterization of transport and water retention properties of damaged Callovo-Oxfordian claystone / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:159-177, first published on December 22, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.23 --- P. Jean-Baptiste, B. Lavielle, E. Fourre, T. Smith, and M. Pagel: Vertical distribution of helium and 40Ar/36Ar in porewaters of the Eastern Paris Basin (Bure/Haute-Marne): constraints on transport processes through the sedimentary sequence / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:179-192, first published on December 21, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.25 --- Kateřina Kolomá and Radek Červinka: Study of 85Sr transport through a column filled with crushed granite in the presence of bentonite colloids / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:193-203, first published on July 8, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.14 --- M. Aertsens, L. Van Laer, N. Maes, and J. Govaerts: An improved model for through-diffusion experiments: application to strontium and tritiated water (HTO) diffusion in Boom Clay and compacted illite / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:205-210, first published on June 24, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.9 --- Shuo Meng and Wilfried Pfingsten: Multispecies random walk simulations in radial symmetry: model concept, benchmark, and application to HTO, 22Na and 36Cl diffusion in clay / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:211-224, first published on August 18, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.15 --- Philipp Schaedle, Thomas Kaempfer, Guillaume Pépin, Jacques Wendling, and Juergen Brommundt: Combining high-resolution two-phase with simplified single-phase simulations in order to optimize the performance of PA/SA simulations for a deep geological repository for radioactive waste / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:225-234, first published on June 22, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.4 --- Erdem Toprak, Sebastia Olivella, and Xavier Pintado: Coupled THM modelling of engineered barriers for the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel isolation / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:235-251, first published on September 26, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.19 --- Olivier Bildstein, Jean-Éric Lartigue, Michel L. Schlegel, Christian Bataillon, Benoît Cochepin, Isabelle Munier, and Nicolas Michau: Gaining insight into corrosion processes from numerical simulations of an integrated iron-claystone experiment / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:253-267, first published on June 22, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.2 --- Bentonite evolution --- Klaus-Peter Kröhn: Bentonite re-saturation: different conceptual models – similar mathematical descriptions / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:269-279, first published on July 6, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.12 --- F. Dolder, U. Mäder, A. Jenni, and B. Münch: Alteration of MX-80 bentonite backfill material by high-pH cementitious fluids under lithostatic conditions – an experimental approach using core infiltration techniques / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:281-305, first published on June 24, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.10 --- Heini M. Reijonen and Nuria Marcos: Chemical erosion of the bentonite buffer: do we observe it in nature? / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:307-317, first published on June 24, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.13 --- Gas transfer --- Luc-Vincent Bénet, Étienne Blaud, and Jacques Wendling: Modelling of water and gas flow through an excavation damaged zone in the Callovo-Oxfordian argillites in the framework of a single porosity model / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:319-332, first published on June 24, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.6 --- Jan Smutek, Lucie Hausmannova, and Jiri Svoboda: The gas permeability, breakthrough behaviour and re-sealing ability of Czech Ca–Mg bentonite / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:333-348, first published on June 22, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.5 --- E. Jacops, N. Maes, C. Bruggeman, and A. Grade: Measuring diffusion coefficients of dissolved He and Ar in three potential clay host formations: Boom Clay, Callovo-Oxfordian Clay and Opalinus Clay / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 443:349-360, first published on June 22, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP443.1

Description / Table of Contents: Soumyajit Mukherjee, Achyuta Ayan Misra, Gérôme Calvès, and Michal Nemčok: Tectonics of the Deccan Large Igneous Province: an introduction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 445:1-9, first published on December 7, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP445.14 --- Vivek S. Kale, Gauri Dole, Devdutt Upasani, and Shilpa Patil Pillai: Deccan Plateau uplift: insights from parts of Western Uplands, Maharashtra, India / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 445:11-46, first published on July 20, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP445.2 --- Souvik Mitra, Kaushik Mitra, Saibal Gupta, Satadru Bhattacharya, Prakash Chauhan, and Nirmala Jain: Alteration and submergence of basalts in Kachchh, Gujarat, India: implications for the role of the Deccan Traps in the India–Seychelles break-up / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 445:47-67, first published on August 31, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP445.9 --- Vamdev Pathak, S. K. Patil, and J. P. Shrivastava: Tectonomagmatic setting of lava packages in the Mandla lobe of the eastern Deccan volcanic province, India: palaeomagnetism and magnetostratigraphic evidence / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 445:69-94, first published on July 21, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP445.3 --- M. Nemčok and S. Rybár: Rift–drift transition in a magma-rich system: the Gop Rift–Laxmi Basin case study, West India / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 445:95-117, first published on July 20, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP445.5 --- Achyuta Ayan Misra, Smita Banerjee, Nishikanta Kundu, and Brunti Mukherjee: Subsidence around oceanic ridges along passive margins: NE Arabian Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 445:119-149, first published on October 12, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP445.10 --- Harsh K. Gupta, Kusumita Arora, N. Purnachandra Rao, Sukanta Roy, V. M. Tiwari, Prasanta K. Patro, H. V. S. Satyanarayana, D. Shashidhar, C. R. Mahato, K. N. S. S. S. Srinivas, M. Srihari, N. Satyavani, Y. Srinu, D. Gopinadh, Haris Raza, Monikuntala Jana, Vyasulu V. Akkiraju, Deepjyoti Goswami, Digant Vyas, C. P. Dubey, D. Ch. V. Raju, Ujjal Borah, Kashi Raju, K. Chinna Reddy, Narendra Babu, B. K. Bansal, and Shailesh Nayak: Investigations of continued reservoir triggered seismicity at Koyna, India / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 445:151-188, first published on October 24, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP445.11 --- Prantik Mandal: Influence of Deccan volcanism/synrift magmatism on the crust–mantle structure and its implications for the seismogenesis of earthquakes occurring in the Kachchh rift zone / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 445:189-218, first published on July 11, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP445.6 --- Mita Rajaram, S. P. Anand, V. C. Erram, and B. N. Shinde: Insight into the structures below the Deccan Trap-covered region of Maharashtra, India from geopotential data / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 445:219-236, first published on September 16, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP445.8 --- D. M. Maurya, Vikas Chowksey, A. K. Patidar, and L. S. Chamyal: A review and new data on neotectonic evolution of active faults in the Kachchh Basin, Western India: legacy of post-Deccan Trap tectonic inversion / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 445:237-268, first published on September 19, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP445.7 --- Achyuta Ayan Misra and Soumyajit Mukherjee: Dyke–brittle shear relationships in the Western Deccan Strike-slip Zone around Mumbai (Maharashtra, India) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 445:269-295, first published on June 22, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP445.4 --- Wei Ju, Guiting Hou, and K. R. Hari: Dyke emplacement in the Narmada rift zone and implications for the evolution of the Deccan Traps / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 445:297-315, first published on May 30, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP445.1 --- R. D. Kaplay, M. D. Babar, Soumyajit Mukherjee, and T. Vijay Kumar: Morphotectonic expression of geological structures in the eastern part of the South East Deccan Volcanic Province (around Nanded, Maharashtra, India) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 445:317-335, first published on November 8, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP445.12 --- M. D. Babar, Ramakant D. Kaplay, Soumyajit Mukherjee, and P. S. Kulkarni: Evidence of the deformation of dykes from the Central Deccan Volcanic Province, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 445:337-353, first published on November 8, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP445.13

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Wolf Mayer: Introduction: enquiries into the history of geology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:1-8, first published on February 28, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP442.41 --- Tracing the history of INHIGEO (International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences) --- Irena Malakhova: The founding of INHIGEO: documents and letters, with comments / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:9-19, first published on February 16, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP442.38 --- Algimantas Grigelis and Stanisław Czarniecki: International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences: the earliest events / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:21-27, first published on November 9, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.30 --- Kennard B. Bork and Barry J. Cooper: INHIGEO in recent times / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:29-39, first published on July 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.15 --- Mike R. Johnston and Kenneth L. Taylor: Historians of geology in the field: a half-century of INHIGEO excursions / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:41-54, first published on July 22, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.17 --- Martin Rudwick: Insiders and outsiders: INHIGEO seen from the sidelines / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:55-62, first published on November 9, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.25 --- Why study the history of geology --- Barry J. Cooper: Changing reflections on the history of geology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:63-67, first published on November 9, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.23 --- On theories, ideas and concepts in geology --- Martina Kölbl-Ebert: Thinking about the geosciences in their religious/philosophical context / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:69-79, first published on May 23, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.5 --- Grzegorz Racki: Methodological uniformitarianism of Hugo Kołłątaj: an unknown Polish precursor of the Lyellian geological paradigm / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:81-91, first published on December 2, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.29 --- Stefan Cwojdzinski: History of a discussion: selected aspects of the Earth expansion v. plate tectonics theories / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:93-104, first published on November 11, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.24 --- D. Letsch: Swiss contributions to mid-nineteenth century tectonic research: a step backwards or the prologue to the nappe tectonics revolution? / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:105-116, first published on May 26, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.1 --- Kenneth L. Taylor: Before volcanoes became ordinary / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:117-126, first published on December 2, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.27 --- Guillermo E. Alvarado and Lina C. Patino: The history of volcanology in Costa Rica: from the Amerindian legends to the beginning of the twenty-first century / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:127-140, first published on November 9, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.35 --- Antony R. Orme: Dynamic geomorphology: historical convergence towards modern practice / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:141-154, first published on December 23, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.34 --- Spencer G. Lucas and Guillermo E. Alvarado: Vertebrate palaeontology in Central America: a narrative and analytical history / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:155-169, first published on May 23, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.9 --- Sally Newcomb: Progression of instrument use and practice in mineralogy and petrology, 1750–1950 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:171-180, first published on November 11, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.22 --- Teaching the history of geoscience --- Silvia F. de M. Figueirôa: Innovation and critical thinking: contributions of the history and philosophy of geological sciences to teaching, especially undergraduate teaching / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:181-188, first published on June 13, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.7 --- Renee M. Clary: Controversies in the history of geology and their educational importance for facilitating understanding of the nature of science / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:189-198, first published on November 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.36 --- Yufeng Zhou: Review of the history of higher education in geology during the past 100 years in China / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:199-203, first published on July 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.14 --- On the contribution of women to the geosciences --- M. Kölbl-Ebert and S. Turner: Towards a history of women in the geosciences / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:205-216, first published on August 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.16 --- Biographical studies --- Zoya A. Bessudnova: The first Russian monograph on the History of Geology by Grigory E. Shchurovsky, professor of Moscow University: on the 150th anniversary of the publication / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:217-227, first published on November 17, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.31 --- K. R. Aalto: Clarence Dutton's geology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:229-238, first published on July 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.18 --- Alberto C. Riccardi: Life and geological studies of Joaquín Frenguelli / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:239-251, first published on June 29, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.6 --- T. Sato, T. Yamada, and M. Yajima: Teiichi Kobayashi: his life and works, with an emphasis on his contribution to the history of the geosciences in Japan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:253-262, first published on November 11, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.19 --- Government agencies, institutions and societies --- Marianne Klemun: Spaces and places: an historical overview of the development of geology in Austria (Habsburg Monarchy) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:263-270, first published on November 11, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.20 --- Isabel Rábano: Early history of the Spanish Geological Survey: the Commission for the Geological Map of Spain (1849–1910) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:271-278, first published on May 25, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.3 --- Teresa Salomé Mota and Ana Carneiro: The ups and downs of geology in Portugal: the Geological Survey, a historical perspective / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:279-287, first published on May 25, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.2 --- Luz Fernanda Azuela: Towards a nationwide geological survey in nineteenth century Mexico / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:289-301, first published on June 30, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.11 --- Lucero Morelos-Rodríguez: Brief history of geological and mining exploration in nineteenth century Mexico / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:303-313, first published on May 25, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.8 --- Alberto C. Riccardi: Geographical and geological explorations of the La Plata Museum 1884–1905 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:315-326, first published on July 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.13 --- Philippe Taquet: A look into the history of geology in France / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:327-332, first published on November 11, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.21 --- Jiuchen Zhang: Social functions of historical studies of Chinese geology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:333-339, first published on June 29, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.4 --- Regional geological studies --- Björn Sundquist: Early geological studies and mapping in Sweden / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:341-352, first published on June 29, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.10 --- John Diemer: Murchison in Sweden: consolidating Lower Silurian stratigraphy in the summer of 1844 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:353-366, first published on November 9, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.26 --- A. Grigelis: The earliest geological observations in Lithuania: a historical viewpoint / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:367-376, first published on February 28, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP442.40 --- Marek Graniczny, Krystyna Wołkowicz, Halina Urban, and Stanisław Wołkowicz: Contribution of Polish geologists to geology in Siberia and the Far East / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:377-386, first published on February 23, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP442.39 --- Renee M. Clary and Tom Sharpe: The furthest end of the Earth: the role of geological research in Antarctic exploration, 1895–1922 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:387-399, first published on December 2, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.28 --- Reviews on the history of petroleum exploration and production --- StanisŁaw WoŁkowicz, Marek Graniczny, Krystyna WoŁkowicz, and Halina Urban: History of the oil industry in Poland until 1939 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:401-411, first published on December 2, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.32 --- Francesco Gerali and Paolo Riguzzi: Gushers, science and luck: Everette Lee DeGolyer and the Mexican oil upsurge, 1909–19 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:413-424, first published on December 2, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.37 --- Francesco Gerali and Jenny Gregory: Harsh oil: finding petroleum in early twentieth century Western Australia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:425-436, first published on December 2, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.33 ---

Description / Table of Contents: The NE Atlantic region: a reappraisal of crustal structure, tectonostratigraphy and magmatic evolution – an introduction to the NAG-TEC project / Gwenn Péron-Pinvidic, John R. Hopper, Martyn Stoker, Carmen Gaina, Thomas Funck, Uni E. Árting and Johannes Cornelis Doornenbal / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 1-10, 12 July 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.17 --- Stratigraphy --- An overview of the Upper Palaeozoic–Mesozoic stratigraphy of the NE Atlantic region / M. S. Stoker, M. A. Stewart, P. M. Shannon, M. Bjerager, T. Nielsen, A. Blischke, B. O. Hjelstuen, C. Gaina, K. McDermott and J. Ólavsdóttir / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 11-68, 11 August 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.2 --- Geochronology and volcanism --- Compilation and appraisal of geochronological data from the North Atlantic Igneous Province (NAIP) / Camilla M. Wilkinson, Morgan Ganerød, Bart W. H. Hendriks and Elizabeth A. Eide / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 69-103, 8 November 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.10 --- Regional distribution of volcanism within the North Atlantic Igneous Province / Jim Á Horni, John R. Hopper, Anett Blischke, Wolfram H. Geisler, Margaret Stewart, Kenneth McDermott, Maria Judge, Ögmundur Erlendsson and Uni Árting / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 105-125, 11 July 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.18 --- The Greenland–Iceland–Faroe Ridge Complex / Árni Hjartarson, Ögmundur Erlendsson and Anett Blischke / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 127-148, 19 April 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.14 --- Seismic volcanostratigraphy of the NE Greenland continental margin / Wolfram H. Geissler, Carmen Gaina, John R. Hopper, Thomas Funck, Anett Blischke, Uni Arting, Jim á Horni, Gwenn Péron-Pinvidic and Mansour M. Abdelmalak / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 149-170, 14 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.11 --- Crustal structure --- A review of the NE Atlantic conjugate margins based on seismic refraction data / Thomas Funck, Ögmundur Erlendsson, Wolfram H. Geissler, Sofie Gradmann, Geoffrey S. Kimbell, Kenneth McDermott and Uni K. Petersen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 171-205, 12 October 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.9 --- Moho and basement depth in the NE Atlantic Ocean based on seismic refraction data and receiver functions / Thomas Funck, Wolfram H. Geissler, Geoffrey S. Kimbell, Sofie Gradmann, Ögmundur Erlendsson, Kenneth McDermott and Uni K. Petersen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 207-231, 13 July 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.1 --- A 3D regional crustal model of the NE Atlantic based on seismic and gravity data / C. Haase, J. Ebbing and T. Funck / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 233-247, 12 October 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.8 --- Focused studies --- Controls on the location of compressional deformation on the NW European margin / G. S. Kimbell, M. A. Stewart, S. Gradmann, P. M. Shannon, T. Funck, C. Haase, M. S. Stoker and J. R. Hopper / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 249-278, 12 August 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.3 --- Isostasy as a tool to validate interpretations of regional geophysical datasets – application to the mid-Norwegian continental margin / Sofie Gradmann, Claudia Haase and Jörg Ebbing / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 279-297, 23 February 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.13 --- The Jan Mayen microcontinent: an update of its architecture, structural development and role during the transition from the Ægir Ridge to the mid-oceanic Kolbeinsey Ridge / A. Blischke, C. Gaina, J. R. Hopper, G. Péron-Pinvidic, B. Brandsdóttir, P. Guarnieri, Ö. Erlendsson and K. Gunnarsson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 299-337, 8 September 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.5 --- The stratigraphy and structure of the Faroese continental margin / Jana Ólavsdóttir, Óluva R. Eidesgaard and Martyn S. Stoker / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 339-356, 22 July 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.4 --- Review of velocity models in the Faroe–Shetland Channel / Uni K. Petersen and Thomas Funck / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 357-374, 9 September 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.7 --- Mesozoic and older rift basins on the SE Greenland Shelf offshore Ammassalik / Joanna Gerlings, John R. Hopper, Michael B. W. Fyhn and Nicolas Frandsen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 375-392, 13 April 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.15 --- The oceanic domain and regional kinematics --- Break-up and seafloor spreading domains in the NE Atlantic / Carmen Gaina, Aziz Nasuti, Geoffrey S. Kimbell and Anett Blischke / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 393-417, 3 February 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.12 --- Seamounts and oceanic igneous features in the NE Atlantic: a link between plate motions and mantle dynamics / Carmen Gaina, Anett Blischke, Wolfram H. Geissler, Geoffrey S. Kimbell and Ögmundur Erlendsson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 419-442, 8 September 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.6 --- The oil perspective --- Geology and seepage in the NE Atlantic region / Geert-Jan Vis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447, 443-455, 7 April 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.16

Description / Table of Contents: Differential geometry is a very active field of research and has many applications to areas such as physics and gravity, for example. The papers in this book cover a number of subjects which will be of interest to workers in these areas. It is hoped that the papers here will be able to provide a useful resource for researchers with regard to current fields of research in this important area.

Description / Table of Contents: Microwave systems are key components of every modern wireless communication system. The main objective of this book was to collect as many different state-of-the-art studies as possible in order to cover in a single volume the main aspects of microwave systems and applications. This book contains 17 chapters written by acknowledged experts, researchers, academics, and microwave engineers, providing comprehensive information and covering a wide range of topics on all aspects of microwave systems and applications. This book is divided into four parts. The first part is devoted to microwave components. The second part deals with microwave ICs and innovative techniques for on-chip antenna design. The third part presents antenna design cases for microwave systems. Finally, the last part covers different applications of microwave systems.

Description / Table of Contents: This book discusses energy efficient buildings and the role they play in our efforts to address climate change, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by considering buildings and the construction sector's unique position along a critical path to decarbonisation from a multi-perspective and holistic viewpoint. Topics covered in the book range from daylighting, building topology comparison, building envelope design, zero energy homes in hot arid regions, life-cycle considerations and energy efficiency analysis to managing energy demand through equipment selection. Each chapter addresses an important aspect of energy efficient building and serves as a vital building block towards constructing a timely and relevant body of knowledge in energy efficient buildings.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Chitosan as Source for Pesticide Formulations by Sebastián D. Ippólito, Julieta R. Mendieta, María C. Terrile, Claudia V. Tonón, Andrea Y. Mansilla, Silvana Colman, Liliana Albertengo, María S. Rodríguez and Claudia A. Casalongué --- Chapter 2: Chitosan in Agriculture: A New Challenge for Managing Plant Disease by Laura Orzali, Beatrice Corsi, Cinzia Forni and Luca Riccioni --- Chapter 3: Chitosan from Marine Crustaceans: Production, Characterization and Applications by Jimena Bernadette Dima, Cynthia Sequeiros and Noemi Zaritzky --- Chapter 4: Alginate and Sericin: Environmental and Pharmaceutical Applications by Thiago Lopes da Silva, Jacyara Moreira Martins Vidart, Meuris Gurgel Carlos da Silva, Marcelino Luiz Gimenes and Melissa Gurgel Adeodato Vieira --- Chapter 5: Chitosan, Chitosan Derivatives and their Biomedical Applications by Gustavo Adolfo Muñoz Ruiz and Hector Fabio Zuluaga Corrales --- Chapter 6: Chitosan: Strategies to Increase and Modulate Drug Release Rate by David Lucio and María Cristina Martínez-Ohárriz --- Chapter 7: Marine Polysaccharides as Multifunctional Pharmaceutical Excipients by G. Thirumurugan and M.D. Dhanaraju --- Chapter 8: Speculations on the Use of Marine Polysaccharides as Scaffolds for Artificial Nerve ‘Side-’Grafts by Sherif M. Amr and Basma Ekram --- Chapter 9: Marine Polysaccharides in Medicine by Rajendra S. Dongre --- Chapter 10: Applications of Chitosan in Wastewater Treatment by Petronela Nechita --- Chapter 11: Flow Properties of Lambda Carrageenan in Aqueous Systems by Andrea Rivera del Rio, Mariana Ramírez-Gilly and Alberto Tecante --- Chapter 12: Chitosan-Based Sustainable Textile Technology: Process, Mechanism, Innovation, and Safety by Jagadish Roy, Fabien Salaün, Stéphane Giraud, Ada Ferri and Jinping Guan --- Chapter 13: Chitosan-Based Thermosensitive Materials by Waldo Argüelles-Monal, Maricarmen Recillas-Mota and Daniel Fernández-Quiroz --- Chapter 14: Chitosan and Phthaloylated Chitosan in Electrochemical Devices by Zurina Osman and Abdul Kariem Arof

Description / Table of Contents: As concerns increase over the scarcity of water resources and the role of anthropogenic activities, water quality is evermore important. Activities ranging from agriculture to mining have had a bearing on the quality of water that they impact. Several studies assessing such impacts have been conducted at local and global scales over the years. This book, consisting of contributions by authors in various water-related fields, delves into some approaches that are used to understand and/or to improve water quality, and these include assessment of water chemistry, biomonitoring, modelling and water treatment. This book will be useful to environmental scientists, water professionals, researchers, academics and students.

Description / Table of Contents: Article --- Men, methods and materials: exploring the historical connections between geology and medicine / Christopher J. Duffin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 1-8, 26 April 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.19 --- Men and methods --- Earth science as a philosophical background to medicine: an essay based on the autobiography of Dr Otto Sperling (1602–81) / Ella Hoch / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 9-33, 10 April 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.18 --- Nathaniel Hodges and the purging wells of Shooter's Hill / John D. Mather and Christopher J. Duffin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 35-45, 19 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.4 --- Water and the city of Milan at the end of the nineteenth century / Alessandro Porro, Antonia Francesca Franchini, Bruno Falconi, Paolo Maria Galimberti and Lorenzo Lorusso / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 47-54, 22 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.9 --- Italian physicians’ contribution to geosciences / Marco Pantaloni, Fabiana Console, Lorenzo Lorusso, Fabio Massimo Petti, Antonia Francesca Franchini, Alessandro Porro and Marco Romano / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 55-75, 22 March 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.17 --- The obstetrician, the surgeon and the premature birth of the world's first dinosaur: William Hunter and James Parkinson / J. J. Liston and L. Alcalá / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 77-101, 18 January 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.7 --- Pau Estorch Siqués (1805–71) and his ‘magnes venenorum’ / F. Sabaté Casellas and B. Torres Gallardo / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 103-106, 2 February 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.12 --- Duncan and Son: changing professional boundaries in the geological and medical sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Tim Carter and Anne Spurgeon / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 107-113, 19 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.8 --- From giant birds to X-rays: Victor Lemoine (1837–97), physician and palaeontologist / Eric Buffetaut / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 115-131, 19 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.3 --- Materials --- Geotherapeutics: the medicinal use of earths, minerals and metals from antiquity to the twenty-first century / Spyros Retsas / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 133-139, 20 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.5 --- Archaeological medicinal earths as antibacterial agents: the case of the Basel Lemnian sphragides / E. Photos-Jones, C. Edwards, F. Häner, L. Lawton, C. Keane, A. Leanord and V. Perdikatsis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 141-153, 2 February 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.6 --- Alectorius: a parasympathomimetic stone? / Joaquin Carrasco and Christopher J. Duffin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 155-162, 21 February 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.15 --- ‘Serpent stones’: myth and medical application / Rachael Pymm / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 163-180, 19 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.1 --- ‘A charm to impose on the vulgar’: the medicinal and magical applications of the snakestone bead within the British Isles / Rachael Pymm / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 181-194, 2 February 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.13 --- The name is the message: eagle-stones and materia medica in South America / Irina Podgorny / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 195-210, 27 February 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.14 --- ‘Fish’, fossil and fake: medicinal unicorn horn / Christopher J. Duffin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 211-259, 1 March 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.16 --- ‘Not used to be worn as a Jewel’: The wearing of precious stones in early modern England – ornaments or medicine? / Tom Blaen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 261-265, 22 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.10 --- Coral in Petrus Hispanus’ ‘Treasury of the Poor’ / Maria Do Sameiro Barroso / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 267-282, 22 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.11 --- Lead, isotopes and ice: a deadly legacy revealed / Beverly P. Bergman / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 283-291, 19 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.2

Description / Table of Contents: The present Special Issue intends to explore new directions in the field of acoustics and ultrasonics. The interest includes, but is not limited to, the use of acoustic technology for condition monitoring of materials and structures. (The basis of this issue comes from selected papers of the 6th International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Non-destructive Testing, ETNDT6 held in Brussels May 27-29th, 2015).

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Raman Microscopy: A Suitable Tool for Characterizing Surfaces in Interaction with Plasmas in the Field of Nuclear Fusion by Cedric Pardanaud, Celine Martin and Pascale Roubin --- Chapter 2: Raman Investigations of Atomic/Molecular Clusters and Aggregates by Zhixun Luo and Jiannian Yao --- Chapter 3: Raman Mapping: Emerging Applications by Cristina Coman and Loredana Florina Leopold --- Chapter 4: Semiconductor Nanowires: Raman Spectroscopy Studies by Marta De Luca and Ilaria Zardo --- Chapter 5: Raman Study of the Crystalline-to-Amorphous State in Alpha- Decay–Damaged Materials by Ming Zhang --- Chapter 6: Raman Spectroscopy for Monitoring Strain on Graphene and Oxidation Corrosion on Nuclear Claddings by Hongyi Mi, Zhenqiang Ma and James P. Blanchard --- Chapter 7: Boosting the Amount of Molecular Information Through Polarized Resolved Resonance Raman Scattering by Søren Hassing --- Chapter 8: Petrographical and Mineralogical Applications of Raman Mapping by Frédéric Foucher, Guillaume Guimbretière, Nicolas Bost and Frances Westall --- Chapter 9: Stimulated Raman Scattering for All Optical Switches by Ariel Flores-Rosas, Evgeny A. Kuzin, Orlando Díaz-Hernández, Gerardo J. Escalera-Santos, Roberto Arceo-Reyes, Baldemar Ibarra- Escamilla and Víctor I. Ruiz-Pérez --- Chapter 10: Raman Spectroscopy of Amino Acid Crystals by Paulo T.C. Freire, Felipe M. Barboza, José A. Lima, Francisco E.A. Melo and Josué Mendes Filho --- Chapter 11: Raman Spectroscopy with X-Rays by Piter Sybren Miedema --- Chapter 12: Using Raman Spectroscopy to Improve Hyperpolarized Noble Gas Production for Clinical Lung Imaging Techniques by Jonathan Birchall, Nicholas Whiting, Jason Skinner, Michael J. Barlow and Boyd M. Goodson --- Chapter 13: Inverse Raman Scattering in Femtosecond Broadband Transient Absorption Experiments by Antonio Aloi and Raffaele Tommasi --- Chapter 14: Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering by Ujjal Kumar Sur --- Chapter 15: The Intricate Nature of SERS: Real-Life Applications and Challenges by Nicoleta Elena Dina and Alia Colniță --- Chapter 16: Precision Target Guide Strategy for Applying SERS into Environmental Monitoring by Lei Ouyang, Dingyi Li, Lihua Zhu and Heqing Tang

Description / Table of Contents: Ionic liquids, including the newer subcategory of deep eutectic solvents, continue to attract a great deal of research attention in an even increasing number of areas, including traditional areas such as synthesis (organic and materials), electrochemistry, and physical property studies and predictions, as well as less obvious areas such as lubrication and enzymatic transformations. In this volume, recent advances in a number of these different areas are reported and reviewed, thus granting some appreciation for the future that ionic liquid research holds and affording inspiration for those who have not previously considered the application of ionic liquids in their area of interest.

Description / Table of Contents: Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but kids don’t learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability. This book addresses these weaknesses and gaps. It starts by providing evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, showing that many governments lack basic capacities even after decades of reforms and capacity-building efforts. The book then analyzes this evidence, identifying capability traps that hold many governments back—particularly related to isomorphic mimicry (where governments copy best practice solutions from other countries that make them look more capable even if they are not more capable) and premature load bearing (where governments adopt new mechanisms that they cannot actually make work, given weak extant capacities). The book then describes a process that governments can use to escape these capability traps. Called PDIA (problem-driven iterative adaptation), this process empowers people working in governments to find and fit solutions to the problems they face. The discussion about this process is structured in a practical manner so that readers can actually apply tools and ideas to the capability challenges they face in their own contexts. These applications will help readers devise policies and reforms that have more impact than those of the past. | Table of Contents Introduction: "The Long Voyage of Discovery" Part 1. The Problem: The Creation and Consolidation of Capability Traps 1: The Big Stuck in State Capability 2: Looking Like a State: The Seduction of Isomorphic Mimicry 3: Premature Load Bearing: Doing Too Much Too Soon 4: Capability for Policy Implementation 5: What Type of Organization Capability is Needed? Part 2. A Strategy for Action: Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) 6: The Challenge of Building (Real) State Capability for Implementation 7: Doing Problem-Driven Work 8: The Searchframe: Doing Experimental Iterations 9: Managing Your Authorizing Environment 10: Building State Capability at Scale Through Groups

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Carrier Mobility in Field-Effect Transistors by Philippe Gaubert and Akinobu Teramoto --- Chapter 2: Resonant Tunneling and Two-dimensional Gate Transistors by Vladimir Popov --- Chapter 3: High Electron Mobility Transistors: Performance Analysis, Research Trend and Applications by Muhammad Navid Anjum Aadit, Sharadindu Gopal Kirtania, Farhana Afrin, Md. Kawsar Alam and Quazi Deen Mohd Khosru --- Chapter 4: Quantum Confinement in High Electron Mobility Transistors by Shovon Pal, Sascha R. Valentin, Arne Ludwig and Andreas D. Wieck --- Chapter 5: Group III–V Semiconductor High Electron Mobility Transistor on Si Substrate by Ravindiran Munusami and Shankar Prabhakar --- Chapter 6: Metal-Semiconductor Interfaces in Thin-Film Transistors by Miguel Dominguez, Pedro Rosales, Alfonso Torres, Jose A. Luna- Lopez, Francisco Flores and Mario Moreno --- Chapter 7: Organic Field-Effect Transistor: Device Physics, Materials, and Process by Jingjing Chang, Zhenhua Lin, Chunfu Zhang and Yue Hao --- Chapter 8: Field-Effect Transistors for Gas Sensing by Toshihiro Yoshizumi and Yuji Miyahara --- Chapter 9: Transistors as an Emerging Platform for Portable Amplified Biodetection in Preventive Personalized Point-of-Care Testing by Zhihui Yi and Jonathan Sayago

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Deposition and Deformation of Modern Accretionary-Type Forearc Basins: Linking Basin Formation and Accretionary Wedge Growth by Atsushi Noda and Ayumu Miyakawa --- Chapter 2: Cenozoic Fault Zone Activity and Geologic Evolution of the Offshore Regions of Fukushima and Miyagi Prefectures, Northeastern Japan, Based on Petroleum Exploration Data by Hiroyuki Arato --- Chapter 3: Three-Dimensional Architecture of the Median Tectonic Line in Southwest Japan Based on Detailed Reflection Seismic and Drilling Surveys by Yasuto Itoh, Tomotaka Iwata and Keiji Takemura --- Chapter 4: Inconsistent Structure and Motion of the Eastern Median Tectonic Line, Southwest Japan, during the Quaternary by Shigekazu Kusumoto, Keiji Takemura and Yasuto Itoh --- Chapter 5: Fission Track Thermochronology of Late Cretaceous Sandstones of the Izumi Group Adjacent to the Median Tectonic Line Active Fault System in Southwest Japan by Yasuto Itoh, Paul F. Green, Keiji Takemura and Tomotaka Iwata --- Chapter 6: Alteration Reaction and Mass Transfer via Fluids with Progress of Fracturing along the Median Tectonic Line, Mie Prefecture, Southwest Japan by Yumi Kaneko, Toru Takeshita, Yuto Watanabe, Norio Shigematsu and Ko-Ichiro Fujimoto --- Chapter 7: Structural Features Along the Median Tectonic Line in Southwest Japan: An Example of Multiphase Deformation on an Arc-Bisecting Fault by Yasuto Itoh and Tomotaka Iwata --- Chapter 8: Paleomagnetic Studies on Miocene Sequences of Hokutan and Tottori Groups in Southwest Japan: Implications for Middle Miocene Rotational Movement of Southwest Japan Block Associated with the Japan Sea Opening by Naoto Ishikawa, Takashi Suzuki and Shiro Ishida --- Chapter 9: Oki-Dozen Dike Swarm: Effect of the Regional Stress Field on Volcano-Tectonic Orientations by Daisuke Miura, Kiyoshi Toshida, Ken-ichi Arai, Takeshi Wachi and Yutaka Wada --- Chapter 10: Effectiveness for Determination of Depositional Age by Detrital Zircon U–Pb Age in the Cretaceous Shimanto Accretionary Complex of Japan by Tetsuya Tokiwa, Makoto Takeuchi, Yusuke Shimura, Kazuho Shobu, Akari Ota, Koshi Yamamoto and Hiroshi Mori

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Perturbed Differential Equations with Singular Points by Keldibay Alymkulov and Dilmurat Adbillajanovich Tursunov --- Chapter 2: Homotopy Asymptotic Method and Its Application by Baojian Hong --- Chapter 3: Green Function by Jing Huang --- Chapter 4: Renormalization Group Theory of Effective Field Theory Models in Low Dimensions by Takashi Yanagisawa --- Chapter 5: Relativistic Perturbation Theory Formalism to Computing Spectra and Radiation Characteristics: Application to Heavy Elements by Alexander V. Glushkov, Olga Yu. Khetselius, Andrey A. Svinarenko, Vasily V. Buyadzhi, Valentin B. Ternovsky, Anna A. Kuznetsova and Petr G. Bashkarev --- Chapter 6: Atoms-Photonic Field Interaction: Influence Functional and Perturbation Theory by Emmanouil G. Thrapsaniotis --- Chapter 7: Detection and Measurement of Quantum Gravity by a Curvature Energy Sensor: H-States of Curvature Energy by Francisco Bulnes

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Applications of Radial Basis Function Schemes to Fractional Partial Differential Equations by Carlos Alberto Torres Martínez and Carlos Fuentes --- Chapter 2: Application of Fractional Calculus to Oil Industry by Benito F. Martínez-Salgado, Rolando Rosas-Sampayo, Anthony Torres-Hernández and Carlos Fuentes --- Chapter 3: Fractals in Antennas and Metamaterials Applications by Wojciech Jan Krzysztofik --- Chapter 4: ASCCC Fractal and Its Application in Antenna Miniaturization by Zeinab Eskandari, Asghar Keshtkar, Javad Ahmadi-Shokouh and Leila Ghanbari --- Chapter 5: Application of Fractal Analysis While Designing of Family of Spacecraft for Needs of Space Industry by Andrew V. Sedelnokov and Ksenia I. Potienko --- Chapter 6: Specific Emitter Identification Based on Fractal Features by Janusz Dudczyk --- Chapter 7: Application of Fractal Dimension in Industry Practice by Vlastimil Hotař --- Chapter 8: Factors Affecting Accuracy and Precision in Measuring Material Surfaces by Jason A. Griggs --- Chapter 9: On the Indicatrixes of Waves Scattering from the Random Fractal Anisotropic Surface by Alexander A. Potapov --- Chapter 10: Fractal Geometry and Porosity by Oluranti Agboola, Maurice Steven Onyango, Patricia Popoola and Opeyemi Alice Oyewo --- Chapter 11: Analysis and Application of Decaying Turbulence with Initial Fractal Geometry by Hiroki Suzuki, Shinsuke Mochizuki, Yasuhiko Sakai and Koji Nagata

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Development for Food Security in Africa: A Case Study of South Africa by Hester Carina Schönfeldt, Nicolette Hall and Beulah Pretorius --- Chapter 2: A Study of Household Food security and Adoption of Biofortified Crop Varieties in Tanzania: The Case of Orange- Fleshed Sweetpotato by Julius J. Okello, Kirimi Sindi, Kelvin Shikuku, Margaret McEwan and Jan Low --- Chapter 3: Current Review of Medical Research in Developing Countries: A Case Study from Egypt by Sherif M. Shehata, Nehal M. ElMashad and Azza M. Hassan --- Chapter 4: Comparing GDP Health and Military Expenditure, Poverty and Child Mortality of 71 Countries from Different Regions by Colin Pritchard and Steven Keen --- Chapter 5: Spot Improvement of Rural Roads Using a Local Resource- Based Approach: Case Studies from Asia and Africa by Yoshinori Fukubayashi and Makoto Kimura --- Chapter 6: Natural Disaster and International Development by Luke Strongman --- Chapter 7: A Study of the Relationship between Foreign Aid and Human Development in Africa by Gabriel Staicu and Razvan Barbulescu --- Chapter 8: Developing Competencies for Rural Development Project Management through Local Action Groups: The Punta Indio (Argentina) Experience by Ricardo Stratta Fernández, Ignacio de los Ríos Carmenado and Miriam López González

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Plant Ecology by Zubaida Yousaf and Habiba Ramazan --- Chapter 2: Detection of Environmental Mutagens Through Plant Bioassays by Özlem Aksoy --- Chapter 3: Ecology of Woody Plants in African Savanna Ecosystems by Allan Sebata --- Chapter 4: Modification in Grassland Ecology under the Influence of Changing Climatic and Land Use Conditions by Jimin Cheng, Chengcheng Gang, Liang Guo, Wei Li, Jingwei Jin, Jishuai Su and Lin Wei --- Chapter 5: Leaf Ecology and Radiocesium Contamination in Trees/Forests by Toshihiro Yoshihara --- Chapter 6: Plant-Microbe Ecology: Interactions of Plants and Symbiotic Microbial Communities by Ying-Ning Ho, Dony Chacko Mathew and Chieh-Chen Huang --- Chapter 7: Phytosociological Surveys in Weed Science: Old Concept, New Approach by Germani Concenço, Patrícia Menegaz de Farias, Néstor Fabio Alzate Quintero, Fábio Schreiber, Leandro Galon, Michely Tomazi, Ivana Santos Moisinho, Mariane Camponogara Coradini, William Christofari Ceolin and André Andres --- Chapter 8: Ecological Response to Global Change: Changes in C:N:P Stoichiometry in Environmental Adaptations of Plants by Renato de Mello Prado and Gilmara Pereira da Silva --- Chapter 9: Biogeographical Areas of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic, Republic of Haiti) by Ana Cano Ortiz, Carmelo María Musarella and Eusebio Cano Carmona

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Computational Aeroelasticity of Flying Robots with Flexible Wings by Sergio Preidikman, Bruno Antonio Roccia, Marcos Leonardo Verstraete, Marcelo Federico Valdez, Dean T. Mook and Balakumar Balachandran --- Chapter 2: Overview of Coandă MAV as an Aerial Robotic Platform by Harijono Djojodihardjo --- Chapter 3: Innovative Propulsion Systems and CFD Simulation for Fixed Wings UAVs by Esteban Valencia and Victor Hidalgo --- Chapter 4: Comparison between Semiempirical and Computational Techniques in the Prediction of Aerodynamic Performance of the Rotor of a Quadcopter by Andres Mauricio Pérez Gordillo --- Chapter 5: Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Aerial Robots by Mahmut Reyhanoglu and Muhammad Rehan --- Chapter 6: Design and Development of Aerial Robotic Systems for Sampling Operations in Industrial Environment by Rodrigo Munguia, Edmundo Guerra, Sarquis Urzua, Yolanda Bolea and Antoni Grau --- Chapter 7: On-Board High-Performance Computing For Multi-Robot Aerial Systems by Leonardo Camargo Forero, Pablo Royo and Xavier Prats --- Chapter 8: Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) for Environmental Monitoring: A Review with Applications in Coastal Habitats by Daniele Ventura, Andrea Bonifazi, Maria Flavia Gravina and Gian Domenico Ardizzone

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Multi-Agent Systems by Jorge Rocha, Inês Boavida-Portugal and Eduardo Gomes --- Chapter 2: Motion Coordination Problems with Collision Avoidance for Multi-Agent Systems by Jesús Santiaguillo-Salinas and Eduardo Aranda-Bricaire --- Chapter 3: Multiagent Systems in Automotive Applications by Raul Campos-Rodriguez, Luis Gonzalez-Jimenez, Francisco Cervantes-Alvarez, Francisco Amezcua-Garcia and Miguel Fernandez-Garcia --- Chapter 4: Time Critical Mass Evacuation Simulation Combining A Multi- Agent System and High-Performance Computing by Leonel Aguilar, Maddegedara Lalith and Muneo Hori --- Chapter 5: Robust Adaptive Cooperative Control for Formation-Tracking Problem in a Network of Non-Affine Nonlinear Agents by Muhammad Nasiruddin bin Mahyuddin and Ali Safaei --- Chapter 6: Management of a Single-User Multi-Robot Teleoperated System for Maintenance in Offshore Plants by Seungyeol Lee and Jeon-Il Moon --- Chapter 7: Multiagent System for Image Mining by Nicksson Ckayo Arrais de Freitas and Marcelino Pereira dos Santos Silva --- Chapter 8: A Toolbox to Analyze Emergence in Multiagent Simulations by Danilo Saft and Volker Nissen --- Chapter 9: Hybrid Architecture to Support Context-Aware Systems by Maricela Bravo, José A. Reyes-Ortiz, Leonardo Sánchez-Martínez and Roberto A. Alcántara-Ramírez --- Chapter 10: Resilience Enhancement in Cyber-Physical Systems: A Multiagent-Based Framework by Fábio Emanuel Pais Januário, Joaquim Leitão, Alberto Cardoso and Paulo Gil

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Economics, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development by Introductory Chapter: Economics, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development --- Chapter 2: Self-Organizing Maps to Analyze Value Creation in Mergers and Acquisitions in the Telecommunications Sector by Julio Navío, Jose M. Martinez-Martinez, Alberto Urueña, Juan J. Garcés and Emilio Soria --- Chapter 3: Do Foreign Investors Crowd Out or Crowd In Domestic Investment? A Panel Analysis for OECD Countries by Burçak Polat --- Chapter 4: Analysis of ‘Dutch Disease Effects’ on Asian Economies by Hiroyuki Taguchi --- Chapter 5: Ricardo’s Law of Comparative Advantage and the Law of Association: A Subjective Analysis by Er’el Granot --- Chapter 6: International Trade: The Position of Africa in Global Merchandise Trade by Nahanga Verter

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Paradigm Shift in Corporate Reporting by Pınar Okan Gökten and Beyhan Marşap --- Chapter 2: Integrated Reporting: A Template for Energy Companies by Gülçin Yıldırım, Tuğçe Uzun Kocamış and Figen Öker Türüdüoğlu --- Chapter 3: Greening Accounting: An Inevitable Link to Help Firms Connect with Sustainability by Somnath Debnath --- Chapter 4: Greening Accounting II: Exploring Feasibility of Environmental Accounting Framework by Somnath Debnath --- Chapter 5: Adaptation of International Accounting Standards: Case of Portugal by Helena Isabel Barroso Saraiva, Maria-Céu F.G. Alves and Vítor M.S. Gabriel --- Chapter 6: M2M-Fair Value Accounting by Yıldız Özerhan and Banu Sultanoğlu --- Chapter 7: Reporting for Carbon Trading and International Accounting Standards by Figen Öker and Hümeyra Adıgüzel --- Chapter 8: Accounting Choices in Corporate Financial Reporting: A Literature Review of Positive Accounting Theory by İdil Kaya --- Chapter 9: Value Relevance of Accounting Data in an Emerging Market: Did Accounting Reforms Make a Difference? by Mine Aksu, Ayse Tansel Cetin and Can Simga Mugan --- Chapter 10: Associativism of Accounting Professionals by Osmar Antonio Bonzanini, Amélia Cristina Ferreira da Silva and Teresa Gabriela Marques Leite --- Chapter 11: Behavioral Accounting and its Interactions by Filiz Angay Kutluk --- Chapter 12: The Future of Accounting Profession in an Era of Start-Ups by Burak Özdoğan --- Chapter 13: Graphical and Textual Presentations in Financial Reports by Seedwell T.M. Sithole --- Chapter 14: Historical Development of Government Accounting by Mihriban Coşkun Arslan --- Chapter 15: Public Accounting Reform from Institutional Theory Perspectives: Case of Turkey by Ceray Aldemir and Tuğba Uçma Uysal --- Chapter 16: The Factors Used to Create Performance-Based Budgeting: A Research on Turkey by Hakan Vahit Erkutlu, Şükran Güngör Tanç and Seyhan Çil Koçyiğit --- Chapter 17: The Managerial Perspective and Systems of Accountability in Judicial Offices by Ubaldo Comite

Description / Table of Contents: In the face of climate change and resource scarcity, energy supply systems are on the verge of a major transformation, which mainly includes the introduction of new components and their integration into the existing infrastructures, new network configurations and reliable topologies, optimal design and novel operation schemes, and new incentives and business models. This revolution is affecting the current paradigm and demanding that energy systems be integrated into multi-carrier energy hubs. It is greatly increasing the interactions between today’s energy systems at various scales (ranging from the multinational, national, community scales down to the building level) and future intelligent energy systems, which are able to incorporate an increasing amount of often fluctuating, renewable energy sources (RESs). It is also increases the need for the integration of energy storage options into the energy mix, not only to reduce the need for increased peak generation capacity, but also to enhance grid reliability and support higher penetration of RESs. Moreover, this transformation is accommodating active participation of end-users as responsive prosumers at different scales, which in turn help to reduce energy costs to all consumers, increase reliability of service and mitigate carbon footprints. However, this plan of action necessitates regulatory frameworks, strategic incentives and business models for efficient deployment. This Special Issue will cover these promising and dynamic areas of research and development, and will allow gathering of contributions in design, control and optimization of integrated energy systems. This Special Issue also seeks papers to report advances in any aspect of these developments. The manuscripts should be unpublished and report significant advancement.

Description / Table of Contents: There is observational evidence that global mean sea levels are rising and there is concern that the rate of rise will accelerate throughout the 21st century, significantly threatening growing coastal communities. Modern society is vulnerable to even small changes in sea level. More than 600 million people currently live within 10 m of present-day sea level, in an area that generates 10% of the world’s total GDP. An assessment of 136 of the world’s largest port cities estimated that, by the 2070s, the population exposed to flooding risk may grow by more than a factor of three in these cities due to the combined effects of sea level rise, land subsidence, population growth and urbanization, with asset exposure increasing to more than ten times current levels. Therefore, understanding future sea level rise and variability is of utmost importance. In June 2015 we are holding a workshop in Majorca, Spain with a focus on sea level variability and change (see https://slrmallorca.wordpress.com for more details). Over 100 sea level experts from around the world will attend this workshop, from a range of different disciplines. We would like to propose a Research Topic, based on the papers presented at this workshop. The main aims of the workshop are to: 1.) Evaluate the current state-of-knowledge of sea level science; 2.) Identify gaps and unresolved questions in any aspect of sea level science; and 3.) Design future research to address these issue. The workshop will provide a forum for the discussion and the exchange of ideas on key sea level issues, and foster collaboration across the wide range of disciplines involved in sea level research. All aspects of sea level changes will be covered, from global to regional, observations and modelling, processes driving mean sea level changes and extremes, from the geological scale to the instrumental era and future projections and including impacts on the coastal zones.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Glaciers as an Important Element of the World Glacier Monitoring Implemented in Svalbard by Sara Lehmann-Konera, Marek Ruman, Krystyna Kozioł, Grzegorz Gajek and Żaneta Polkowska --- Chapter 2: A Review on the Little Ice Age and Factors to Glacier Changes in the Tian Shan, Central Asia by Yanan Li, Xiaoyu Lu and Yingkui Li --- Chapter 3: The Amazon Glaciers by Rafael da Rocha Ribeiro, Jefferson Cardia Simões and Edson Ramirez --- Chapter 4: The Unknown Southernmost Glaciers of Europe by Emil Gachev --- Chapter 5: The Role of Microbial Ecology in Glacier Retreat by Eva Garcia-Lopez and Cristina Cid --- Chapter 6: Glacier Forelands – Unique Field Laboratories for the Study of Primary Succession of Plants by Thomas Fickert --- Chapter 7: Animal Successional Pathways for about 200 Years Near a Melting Glacier: A Norwegian Case Study by Sigmund Hågvar, Mikael Ohlson and Daniel Flø

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks: An Overview by Velmani Ramasamy --- Chapter 2: Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) by Noman Shabbir and Syed Rizwan Hassan --- Chapter 3: Gradient Descent Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks by Nuha A.S. Alwan and Zahir M. Hussain --- Chapter 4: A Novel Hybrid Methodology Applied Optimization Energy Consumption in Homogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks by Plácido Rogerio Pinheiro, Álvaro Meneses Sobreira Neto, Alexei Barbosa Aguiar and Pedro Gabriel Calíope Dantas Pinheiro --- Chapter 5: WSN in Conservation Management by Akbar Ghobakhlou and Shane Inder --- Chapter 6: Recent Advances on Implantable Wireless Sensor Networks by Hugo Dinis and Paulo M. Mendes --- Chapter 7: Low-Cost Energy-Efficient Air Quality Monitoring System Using Wireless Sensor Network by Kavi Kumar Khedo and Vishwakarma Chikhooreeah --- Chapter 8: Modern Clustering Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks by I.S. Akila, S.V. Manisekaran and R. Venkatesan --- Chapter 9: Fuzzy Adaptive Setpoint Weighting Controller for WirelessHART Networked Control Systems by Sabo Miya Hassan, Rosdiazli Ibrahim, Nordin Saad, Vijanth Sagayan Asirvadam, Kishore Bingi and Tran Duc Chung --- Chapter 10: A Hybrid Sink Repositioning Technique for Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks by Prerana Shrivastava

Description / Table of Contents: This eBook is the third in a series of books on the critical earthquake response of elastic or elastic-plastic structures under near-fault or long-duration ground motions, and includes four original research papers which were published in the specialty section Earthquake Engineering in ‘Frontiers in Built Environment’. Several extensions of the first eBook and the second eBook are included here. The first article is on the earthquake resilience of residential houses after repeated ground motions with high intensity. The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake brought a significant impact on the earthquake resilience of residential houses under repeated ground motions with high intensity in a few days. The necessary strength upgrade withstanding two repeated high-intensity ground motions was found to be 1.5. The second article is concerned with the smart enhancement of earthquake resilience of building structures under both near-fault and long-duration ground motions. A hybrid system of base-isolation and building connection control was proposed and its earthquake resilience to near-fault and long-duration ground motions was evaluated by a double impulse and a multiple impulse. It was demonstrated that the base-isolation is effective for near-fault ground motions and the building connection system using passive dampers is effective for long-duration ground motions. The third article is related to the robustness evaluation of elastic-plastic base-isolated high-rise buildings under resonant near-fault ground motions. The robustness function was introduced to evaluate quantitatively the robustness of elastic-plastic base-isolated high-rise buildings. The fourth article is an extension of the previously proposed energy balance approach to a bilinear elastic-plastic single-degree-of-freedom system under a long-duration sinusoidal ground motion. A historical difficulty in nonlinear vibration posed by Caughey (1960) and Iwan (1961) has been overcome in a smart manner after half a century. The approach presented in this eBook, together with the previous eBooks, is an epoch-making accomplishment to open the door for simpler and deeper understanding of structural reliability and resilience of built environments in the elastic-plastic and nonlinear range.

Description / Table of Contents: Increasing evidence supports the claim that stress changes play a fundamental role in triggering volcanic eruptions. Stress changes may vary in origin to include earthquakes, erosion and landslide processes, deglaciation, or tidal effects. The local stress can also change as response of magma influx from deeper reservoirs and an increase of the magma/gas pressure. The stress transfer may be of great importance in reawakening a dormant system. As an example, significant statistical correlation of large earthquakes and eruptions in time and space was suggested in many works. The interaction may be two-fold; where magma intrusions may change the stress at active faults and trigger earthquakes, while tectonic earthquakes may affect the magmatic system and change the eruption activity. The change in local tectonic stress has been claimed as trigger of large ignimbrite eruptions or for controlling the eruptive style of explosive eruptions. Sometimes volcano systems that are nested or closely located may become active in chorus; neighbouring volcanoes may interact in the sense that one volcano triggers its neighbouring volcano. However, although there is ample evidence of concurrence, the processes of interacting volcanoes and near- to far-field tectonic stress are not well understood. Some studies suggest that volcanic eruptions are triggered if compressive stress acts at the magma system and “squeezes” out magma. Other studies suggest that extensional stress fields facilitate magma rise and thus encourage eruptions, or that fluctuating compression and extension during the passing of seismic waves trigger eruptions. This research topic tries to address some of the important open questions in interaction between stress field and volcanic eruption, though both review papers and new contributions.

Description / Table of Contents: The deep subsurface is, in addition to space, one of the last unknown frontiers to human kind. A significant part of life on Earth resides in the deep subsurface, hiding great potential of microbial life of which we know only little. The conditions in the deep terrestrial subsurface are thought to resemble those of early Earth, which makes this environment an analog for studying early life in addition to possible extraterrestrial life in ultra-extreme conditions. Early microorganisms played a great role in shaping the conditions on the young Earth. Even today deep subsurface microorganisms interact with their geological environment transforming the conditions in the groundwater and on rock surfaces. Essential elements for life are richly present but in difficultly accessible form. The elements driving the microbial deep life is still not completely identified. Most of the microorganisms detected by novel molecular techniques still lack cultured representatives. Nevertheless, using modern sequencing techniques and bioinformatics the functional roles of these microorganisms are being revealed. We are starting to see the differences and similarities between the life in the deep subsurface and surface domains. We may even begin to see the function of evolution by comparing deep life to life closer to the surface of Earth. Deep life consists of organisms from all known domains of life. This Research Topic reveals some of the rich diversity and functional properties of the great biomass residing in the deep dark subsurface.

Description / Table of Contents: Magnetism defines the complex and dynamic solar corona. It determines the magnetic loop structure that dominates images of the corona, and stores the energy necessary to drive coronal eruptive phenomena and flare explosions. At great heights the corona transitions into the ever-outflowing solar wind, whose speed and three-dimensional morphology are controlled by the global coronal magnetic field. Coronal magnetism is thus at the heart of any understanding of the nature of the corona, and essential for predictive capability of how the Sun affects the Earth. Coronal magnetometry is a subject that requires a concerted effort to draw together the different strands of research happening around the world. Each method provides some information about the field, but none of them can be used to determine the full 3D field structure in the full volume of the corona. Thus, we need to combine them to understand the full picture. The purpose of this Frontiers Research Topic on Coronal Magnetometry is to provide a forum for comparing and coordinating these research methods, and for discussing future opportunities.

Description / Table of Contents: Editorial: Integrative Research on Organic Matter Cycling across Aquatic Gradients / Nicholas D. Ward. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00131 --- Influence of Major Storm Events on the Quantity and Composition of Particulate Organic Matter and the Phytoplankton Community in a Subtropical Estuary, Texas / Nicolas E. Reyna, Amber K. Hardison and Zhanfei Liu. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00043 --- The Fate of Carbon in Sediments of the Xingu and Tapajós Clearwater Rivers, Eastern Amazon / Dailson J. Bertassoli, André O. Sawakuchi, Henrique O. Sawakuchi, Fabiano N. Pupim, Gelvam A. Hartmann, Michael M. McGlue, Cristiano M. Chiessi, Matthias Zabel, Enno Schefuß, Tatiana S. Pereira, Rudney A. Santos, Samantha B. Faustino, Paulo E. Oliveira and Denise C. Bicudo. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00044 --- Flux of Dissolved and Particulate Low-Temperature Pyrogenic Carbon from Two High-Latitude Rivers across the Spring Freshet Hydrograph / Allison N. Myers-Pigg, Patrick Louchouarn and Roman Teisserenc. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00038 --- Environmental Drivers of Dissolved Organic Matter Molecular Composition in the Delaware Estuary / Helena Osterholz, David L. Kirchman, Jutta Niggemann and Thorsten Dittmar. doi: 10.3389/feart.2016.00095 --- Molecular and Optical Properties of Tree-Derived Dissolved Organic Matter in Throughfall and Stemflow from Live Oaks and Eastern Red Cedar / Aron Stubbins, Leticia M. Silva, Thorsten Dittmar and John T. Van Stan. doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00022 --- Composition and Transformation of Dissolved Organic Matter in the Baltic Sea / Michael Seidel, Marcus Manecki, Daniel P. R. Herlemann, Barbara Deutsch, Detlef Schulz-Bull, Klaus Jürgens and Thorsten Dittmar. doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00031 --- Evaluation of Primary Production in the Lower Amazon River Based on a Dissolved Oxygen Stable Isotopic Mass Balance / William C. Gagne-Maynard, Nicholas D. Ward, Richard G. Keil, Henrique O. Sawakuchi, Alan C. Da Cunha, Vania Neu, Daimio C. Brito, Diani F. Da Silva Less, Joel E. M. Diniz, Aline De Matos Valerio, Milton Kampel, Alex V. Krusche and Jeffrey E. Richey. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00026 --- Surface Gradients in Dissolved Organic Matter Absorption and Fluorescence Properties along the New Zealand Sector of the Southern Ocean / Eurico J. D'Sa and Hyun-cheol Kim. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00021 --- The Genesis and Exodus of Vascular Plant DOM from an Oak Woodland Landscape / Peter J. Hernes, Robert G. M. Spencer, Rachael Y. Dyda, Anthony T. O'Geen and Randy A. Dahlgren. doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00009 --- Carbon Dioxide Emissions along the Lower Amazon River / Henrique O. Sawakuchi, Vania Neu, Nicholas D. Ward, Maria de Lourdes C. Barros, Aline M. Valerio, William Gagne-Maynard, Alan C. Cunha, Diani F. S. Less, Joel E. M. Diniz, Daimio C. Brito, Alex V. Krusche and Jeffrey E. Richey. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00076 --- Short-Term Dissolved Organic Carbon Dynamics Reflect Tidal, Water Management, and Precipitation Patterns in a Subtropical Estuary / Peter Regier and Rudolf Jaffé. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00250 --- Impact of Wetland Decline on Decreasing Dissolved Organic Carbon Concentrations along the Mississippi River Continuum / Shuiwang Duan, Yuxiang He, Sujay S. Kaushal, Thomas S. Bianchi, Nicholas D. Ward and Laodong Guo. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00280 --- Microbially-Mediated Transformations of Estuarine Dissolved Organic Matter / Patricia M. Medeiros, Michael Seidel, Scott M. Gifford, Ford Ballantyne, Thorsten Dittmar, William B. Whitman and Mary Ann Moran. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00069 --- Dissolved Organic and Inorganic Carbon Flow Paths in an Amazonian Transitional Forest / Vania Neu, Nicholas D. Ward, Alex V. Krusche and Christopher Neill. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00114

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: An Introduction to the Seismic and Sequence Stratigraphy and to the Integrated Stratigraphy: Concepts and Meanings by Gemma Aiello --- Chapter 2: Sequence Stratigraphy of Fine-Grained “Shale” Deposits: Case Studies of Representative Shales in the USA and China by Shu Jiang, Caineng Zou, Dazhong Dong, Wen Lin, Zhenlin Chen, Lei Chen, Lanyu Wu, Wei Dang and Yajun Li --- Chapter 3: Sequence Stratigraphy of Fluvial Facies: A New Type Representative from Wenliu Area, Bohai Bay Basin, China by Jingzhe Li and Jinliang Zhang --- Chapter 4: Seismic Stratigraphic Features of the Late Miocene-Present Unconformities and Related Seismic Units, Northern Offshore Taiwan by Jih-Hsin Chang, Eason Yi-Cheng Yang, Ho-Han Hsu, Chih-Chieh Su, Char-Shine Liu, Shye-Donq Chiu, Yu-Fang Ma, Yuan-Wei Li, Yen- Chun Lin and Jen-Sen Shen --- Chapter 5: Stratigraphy of Jurassic Sediments of the Southern Siberian Platform (Russia) Studied through Lithologic and Paleobotanical Data by Andrey Olegovich Frolov, Nikolay Ivanovich Akulov and Irina Mikhailovna Mashchuk --- Chapter 6: Stratigraphic Unconformities: Review of the Concept and Examples from the Middle-Upper Paleozoic by Pavel Kabanov --- Chapter 7: Integrated Stratigraphy of the Cenozoic Andean Foreland Basin (Northern Argentina) by Claudia Inés Galli, Ricardo Narciso Alonso and Lidia Beatriz Coira

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Roles of the Environment in Plant Life-History Trade-offs by Yang Liu, Jeffrey L. Walck and Yousry A. El-Kassaby --- Chapter 2: Decoding the Transcriptome of Rice Seed During Development by Arunima Mahto, Iny Elizebeth Mathew and Pinky Agarwal --- Chapter 3: Transcriptome (ESTs) of Avocado “Native” Mexicano Early Seed Development Shows Abundance of Regulatory, Antioxidant and Defense Genes by Luis María Suárez-Rodríguez, Fernando Sánchez-Albarrán, Huber León-Corona and Rodolfo López-Gómez --- Chapter 4: Identification and Mapping of Phosphorylated Isoforms of the Major Storage Protein of Potato Based on Two- Dimensional Electrophoresis by Javier Bernal, María López-Pedrouso, Daniel Franco, Susana Bravo, Lucio García and Carlos Zapata --- Chapter 5: Seed Dormancy by Mustafa Yildiz, Ramazan Beyaz, Mehtap Gursoy, Murat Aycan, Yusuf Koc and Mustafa Kayan --- Chapter 6: Characterization of Genotype by Planting Date Effects on Runner-Type Peanut Seed Germination and Vigor Response to Temperature by Timothy L. Grey, Charles Y. Chen, Russell Nuti, Walter Scott Monfort and George Cutts III --- Chapter 7: Impact of Conditions of Water Supply on the Germination of Tomato and Pepper Seeds by Yekaterina Shapira, Edward Bormashenko, Gene Whyman, Bat- Chen Lubin and Elyashiv Drori --- Chapter 8: Metabolic Processes During Seed Germination by Awatif S. Ali and Alaaeldin A. Elozeiri --- Chapter 9: Free Radicals and Antioxidant System in Seed Biology by Fadime Eryılmaz Pehlivan --- Chapter 10: Anatomical and Chemical Insights into the White Clover (Trifolium repens L.) Seed Coat Associated to Water Permeability by Alberto Aníbal Galussi and María Esther Moya --- Chapter 11: Morphological Studies on Seeds of Scrophulariaceae s.l. and Their Systematic Significance by Balkrishna Ghimire, Go Eun Choi, Hayan Lee, Kweon Heo and Mi Jin Jeong --- Chapter 12: Seed Transmission of Tobamoviruses: Aspects of Global Disease Distribution by Aviv Dombrovsky and Elisheva Smith --- Chapter 13: Biology of Seed Vigor in the Light of -omics Tools by Isaac Oludayo Daniel --- Chapter 14: The Potential of Garden Cress (Lepidium sativum L.) Seeds for Development of Functional Foods by Chandra Shekhar Singh and Vinod Kumar Paswan --- Chapter 15: Genetic Improvement of Oilseed Crops Using Modern Biotechnology by Diego Villanueva-Mejia and Javier Correa Alvarez --- Chapter 16: Application of Mechanics to Plant Seeds as a Granular or Particulate Material by Michal Petrů and Ivan Mašín

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Localization of Buried Objects Using Reflected Wide-Band Underwater Acoustic Signals by Salah Bourennane and Caroline Fossati --- Chapter 2: Routing Protocols for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks: A Survey from an Application Perspective by Qian Lu, Feng Liu, Ying Zhang and Shengming Jiang --- Chapter 3: Nonlinear Unknown-Input Observer-Based Systems for Secure Communication by Robert N.K. Loh and Manohar K. Das --- Chapter 4: Denoising Methods for Underwater Acoustic Signal by Vijaya Baskar Veeraiyan --- Chapter 5: Active and Passive Acoustic Methods for In-situ Monitoring of the Ocean Status by Sara Pensieri and Roberto Bozzano --- Chapter 6: Development of Quantitative Single Beam Echosounder for Measuring Fish Backscattering by Henry M. Manik, Dony Apdillah, Angga Dwinovantyo and Steven Solikin

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Kinematic Performance Measures and Optimization of Parallel Kinematics Manipulators: A Brief Review by Abdur Rosyid, Bashar El-Khasawneh and Anas Alazzam --- Chapter 2: The Inertia Value Transformation in Maritime Applications by Holger Korte, Sven Stuppe, Jan-Hendrik Wesuls and Tsutomu Takagi --- Chapter 3: Path Planning in the Local-Level Frame for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems by Laith R. Sahawneh and Randal W. Beard --- Chapter 4: Forward and Inverse Kinematics Using Pseudoinverse and Transposition Method for Robotic Arm DOBOT by Ondrej Hock and Jozef Šedo --- Chapter 5: How to Expand the Workspace of Parallel Robots by Takashi Harada --- Chapter 6: Kinematic and Biodynamic Model of the Long Jump Technique by Milan Čoh, Milan Žvan and Otmar Kugovnik --- Chapter 7: Kinematic Model for Project Scheduling with Constrained Resources Under Uncertainties by Giuliani Paulineli Garbi and Francisco José Grandinetti --- Chapter 8: WMR Kinematic Control Using Underactuated Mechanisms for Goal Direction and Evasion by Jorge U. Reyes-Muñoz, Edgar A. Martínez-García, Ricardo Rodríguez-Jorge and Rafael Torres-Córdoba --- Chapter 9: A New Methodology for Kinematic Parameter Identification in Laser Trackers by Ana Cristina Majarena, Javier Conte, Jorge Santolaria and Raquel Acero --- Chapter 10: Optimization of Single-Sided Lapping Kinematics Based on Statistical Analysis of Abrasive Particles Trajectories by Adam Barylski and Norbert Piotrowski --- Chapter 11: Optimization Approach for Inverse Kinematic Solution by Panchanand Jha and Bibhuti Bhusan Biswal --- Chapter 12: A Random Multi-Trajectory Generation Method for Online Emergency Threat Management (Analysis and Application in Path Planning Algorithm) by Liang Yang, Yuqing He, Jizhong Xiao, Bing Li and Zhaoming Liu

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: R&D Trends and Evolution - Emerging Concepts, Frameworks, Policies, Management Systems, and Applications by Soha Maad --- Chapter 2: Human Development and Research-Development-Extension Relationships by Orhan Özçatalbaş --- Chapter 3: SMEs Development through Public and Private Partnerships: The Key Role of Research Transfer and Patent Information Analysis by Henri Dou --- Chapter 4: Smart Microgrids: Optimizing Local Resources toward Increased Efficiency and a More Sustainable Growth by Wilfried Elmenreich, Tamer Khatib and Andrea Monacchi --- Chapter 5: Assessing the Possible Potential in Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emission: Application of a Proven Hybrid Method by Oludolapo Akanni Olanrewaju and Charles Mbohwa --- Chapter 6: Research and Devolopment about Metallurgical Industry of Romania by Adrian Ioana, Augustin Semenescu and Mihnea Costoiu

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Non-Traditional Stable Isotopes: Retrospective and Prospective by Fang-Zhen Teng, Nicolas Dauphas, James M. Watkins, p. 1-26 --- Chapter 2. Equilibrium Fractionation of Non-traditional Isotopes: a Molecular Modeling Perspective by Marc Blanchard, Etienne Balan, Edwin A. Schauble, p. 27-64 --- Chapter 3. Equilibrium Fractionation of Non-Traditional Stable Isotopes: an Experimental Perspective by Anat Shahar, Stephen M. Elardo, Catherine A. Macris, p. 65-84 --- Chapter 4. Kinetic Fractionation of Non-Traditional Stable Isotopes by Diffusion and Crystal Growth Reactions by James M. Watkins, Donald J. DePaolo, E. Bruce Watson, p. 85-126 --- Chapter 5. In Situ Analysis of Non-Traditional Isotopes by SIMS and LA–MC–ICP–MS: Key Aspects and the Example of Mg Isotopes in Olivines and Silicate Glasses by Marc Chaussidon, Zhengbin Deng, Johan Villeneuve, Julien Moureau, Bruce Watson, Frank Richter, Frédéric Moynier, p. 127-164 --- Chapter 6. Lithium Isotope Geochemistry by Sarah Penniston-Dorland, Xiao-Ming Liu, Roberta L. Rudnick, p. 165-218 --- Chapter 7. Magnesium Isotope Geochemistry by Fang-Zhen Teng, p. 219-288 --- Chapter 8. Silicon Isotope Geochemistry by Franck Poitrasson, p. 28-344 --- Chapter 9. Chlorine Isotope Geochemistry by Jaime D. Barnes, Zachary D. Sharp, p. 345-378 --- Chapter 10. Chromium Isotope Geochemistry by Liping Qin, Xiangli Wang, p. 379-414 --- Chapter 11. Iron Isotope Systematics by Nicolas Dauphas, Seth G. John, Olivier Rouxel, p. 415-510 Chapter 12. The Isotope Geochemistry of Ni by Tim Elliott, Robert C. J. Steele, p. 511-542 --- Chapter 13. The Isotope Geochemistry of Zinc and Copper by Frédéric Moynier, Derek Vance, Toshiyuki Fujii, Paul Savage, p. 543-600 --- Chapter 14. Germanium Isotope Geochemistry by Eva E. Stüeken, p. 657-682 --- Chapter 15. Selenium Isotopes as a Biogeochemical Proxy in Deep Time by Tim Elliott, Robert C. J. Steele, p. 511-542 --- Chapter 16. Good Golly, Why Moly? The Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Molybdenum by Brian Kendall, Tais W. Dahl, Ariel D. Anbar, p. 683-732 --- Chapter 17. Recent Developments in Mercury Stable Isotope Analysis by Joel D. Blum, Marcus W. Johnson, p. 733-758 --- Chapter 18. Investigation and Application of Thallium Isotope Fractionation by Sune G. Nielsen, Mark Rehkämper, Julie Prytulak, p. 759-798 --- Chapter 19. Uranium Isotope Fractionation by Morten B. Andersen, Claudine H. Stirling, Stefan Weyer, p. 799-850 --- Chapter 20. Medical Applications of Isotope Metallomics by Tim Elliott, Robert C. J. Steele, p. 851-885

Description / Table of Contents: 06 Editorial: Deep Carbon in Earth: Early Career Scientist Contributions to the Deep Carbon Observatory / Donato Giovannelli, Benjamin A. Black, Alysia D. Cox and Cody S. Sheik --- Carbon Degassing at Volcanoes --- 08 Relationship between Diffuse CO2 Degassing and Volcanic Activity. Case Study of the Poás, Irazú, and Turrialba Volcanoes, Costa Rica / Matthieu Epiard, Geoffroy Avard, J. Maarten de Moor, María Martínez Cruz, Gustav Barrantes Castillo and Henriette Bakkar --- 22 Soil CO2 Degassing Path along Volcano-Tectonic Structures in the Pico-Faial-São Jorge Islands (Azores Archipelago, Portugal) / Fátima Viveiros, Márcio Marcos, Carlos Faria, João L. Gaspar, Teresa Ferreira and Catarina Silva --- The Deep Earth --- 40 Transformations and Decomposition of MnCO3 at Earth’s Lower Mantle Conditions / Eglantine Boulard, Yijin Liu, Ai L. Koh, Mary M. Reagan, Julien Stodolna, Guillaume Morard, Mohamed Mezouar and Wendy L. Mao --- 49 Structure and Dynamics of Confined C-O-H Fluids Relevant to the Subsurface: Application of Magnetic Resonance, Neutron Scattering, and Molecular Dynamics Simulations / Siddharth S. Gautam, Salim Ok and David R. Cole --- 68 An Experimental Study of the Carbonation of Serpentinite and Partially Serpentinised Peridotites / Alicja M. Lacinska, Michael T. Styles, Keith Bateman, Matthew Hall and Paul D. Brown --- Activity of Subsurface Communities --- 88 Improved Measurement of Extracellular Enzymatic Activities in Subsurface Sediments Using Competitive Desorption Treatment / Adrienne Hoarfrost, Rachel Snider and Carol Arnosti --- 99 Microbial Sulfide Filter along a Benthic Redox Gradient in the Eastern Gotland Basin, Baltic Sea / Mustafa Yücel, Stefan Sommer, Andrew W. Dale and Olaf Pfannkuche --- 115 Electron Transfer between Electrically Conductive Minerals and Quinones / Olga Taran --- 128 Reactivation of Deep Subsurface Microbial Community in Response to Methane or Methanol Amendment / Pauliina Rajala and Malin Bomberg --- 141 Response of Deep Subsurface Microbial Community to Different Carbon Sources and Electron Acceptors during ~2 months Incubation in Microcosms / Lotta Purkamo, Malin Bomberg, Mari Nyyssönen, Lasse Ahonen, Ilmo Kukkonen and Merja Itävaara --- 155 Guar Gum Stimulates Biogenic Sulfide Production at Elevated Pressures: Implications for Shale Gas Extraction / Sophie L. Nixon, Leanne Walker, Matthew D. T. Streets, Bob Eden, Christopher Boothman, Kevin G. Taylor and Jonathan R. Lloyd --- Serpentinization and the Carbon Cycle --- 166 Serpentinization-Influenced Groundwater Harbors Extremely Low Diversity Microbial Communities Adapted to High pH / Katrina I. Twing, William J. Brazelton, Michael D. Y. Kubo, Alex J. Hyer, Dawn Cardace, Tori M. Hoehler, Tom M. McCollom and Matthew O. Schrenk --- 182 Methane Dynamics in a Tropical Serpentinizing Environment: The Santa Elena Ophiolite, Costa Rica / Melitza Crespo-Medina, Katrina I. Twing, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, William J. Brazelton, Thomas M. McCollom and Matthew O. Schrenk --- Carbon Through Space and Time --- 196 Evaluating the Role of Seagrass in Cenozoic CO2 Variations / Marco Brandano, Marco Cuffaro, Giovanni Gaglianone, Patrizio Petricca, Vincenzo Stagno and Guillem Mateu-Vicens --- 205 The Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert, an Extremely Dry and Carbon Deprived Habitat of Potential Interest for the Field of Carbon Science / Armando Azua-Bustos, Carlos González-Silva and Gino Corsini --- Building a Carbon Network --- 211 Weaving a Knowledge Network for Deep Carbon Science / Xiaogang Ma, Patrick West, Stephan Zednik, John Erickson, Ahmed Eleish, Yu Chen, Han Wang, Hao Zhong and Peter Fox

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Bandwidth Enhancement Techniques by Seyed Ali Razavi Parizi --- Chapter 2: Miniature Planar Antenna Design for Ultra-Wideband Systems by Mohammad Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad Naser-Moghadasi, Ramazan Ali Sadeghzadeh, Bal Singh Virdee and Ernesto Limiti --- Chapter 3: Design and Analysis of Microstrip Patch Antennas Using Artificial Neural Network by Vivek Singh Kushwah and Geetam Singh Tomar --- Chapter 4: Circularly Polarized T-Stub Coupled Microstrip Antenna Structure for WLAN by Milind Thomas Themalil --- Chapter 5: Bio-Inspired Microstrip Antenna by Alexandre Jean René Serres, Georgina Karla de Freitas Serres, Paulo Fernandes da Silva Júnior, Raimundo Carlos Silvério Freire, Josiel do Nascimento Cruz, Tulio Chaves de Albuquerque, Maciel Alves Oliveira and Paulo Henrique da Fonseca Silva --- Chapter 6: Printed Planar Antenna Designs Based on Metamaterial Unit- Cells for Broadband Wireless Communication Systems by Mohammad Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad Naser-Moghadasi, Ramazan Ali Sadeghzadeh, Bal Singh Virdee and Ernesto Limiti --- Chapter 7: Low-SAR Miniaturized Handset Antenna Using EBG by Kamel Salah Sultan, Haythem Hussien Abdullah and Esmat Abdel- Fatah Abdallah

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Parameterization of Stillinger-Weber Potential for Two- Dimensional Atomic Crystals by Jin-Wu Jiang and Yu-Ping Zhou

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 104 Driscoll Ave.- Chapter 2 Codes and Crises.- Chapter 3 Figures and Icons.- Chapter 4 Divided We Stand --- Chapter 5 Patterns and Problems --- Chapter 6 --- Garbage In ≠ Garbage Out --- Chapter 7 Teasing Out the Answers --- Chapter 8 Solutions by Design --- Chapter 9 To the Nines --- Chapter 10 All the Right Angles --- Chapter 11 Pi for All

Description / Table of Contents: This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2017, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in May 2017. The 16 revised full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS), including: licensing, strategies, and practices; case studies; projects, communication, and participation; tools; and project management, development and evaluation

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Industrial Challenges. S-BPM's Industrial Capabilities --- Lot-Size One Production. People-Centred Production Design --- Human-Controlled Production --- Learnings --- The Future: Obstacles and Opportunities

Description / Table of Contents: This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. The Gulf of Mexico is an open and dynamic marine ecosystem rich in natural resources but heavily impacted by human activities, including agricultural, industrial, commercial and coastal development. Nutrients and pollutants from coastal communities and dozens of rivers flow into the Gulf, including material from the Mississippi River watershed, which drains over one third of continental United States. The Gulf of Mexico has been continuously exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons for millions of years from natural oil and gas seeps on the sea floor, and more recently from oil drilling and production activities located in the water near and far from shore. Major accidental oil spills in the Gulf are infrequent; two of the most significant include the Ixtoc I blowout in the Bay of Campeche in 1979 and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010. Unfortunately, baseline assessments of the status of habitats and biota in the Gulf of Mexico before these spills either were not available, or the data had not been systematically compiled in a way that would help scientists assess the potential short-term and long-term effects of such events. This 2-volume series compiles and summarizes thousands of data sets showing the status of habitats and biota in the Gulf of Mexico before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill that began on April 20, 2010. Volume 1 begins with an overview of the following 13 chapters and focuses on the big picture rather than the details of habitat quality and biota.  Volume 1 covers: • Water and sediment quality and contaminants, to provide perspective on environmental conditions in the Gulf. • Natural oil and gas seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, to identify natural sources of exposure to petroleum hydrocarbons. • Coastal habitats, including flora and fauna and coastal geology. • Offshore benthos and plankton, with an analysis of current knowledge on energy capture and energy flows in the Gulf. • Shellfish and finfish resources that provide the basis for commercial and recreational fisheries. Volume 2 covers: • Historical data on commercial and recreational fisheries, with an analysis of marketing trends and drivers. • Ecology, populations and risks to birds, sea turtles and marine mammals in the Gulf of Mexico. • A final chapter extensively illustrated with original images on diseases and mortalities of fish and other animals that inhabit the Gulf of Mexico.  Chapters in these volumes have been peer reviewed by scientific experts in the subject areas covered.  Hopefully, the collection and analysis of such data for the Gulf of Mexico will be continued and sponsored by responsible federal and state agencies with the frequency needed to accurately assess potential damage to natural resources from ecologically harmful events that may occur in the future

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Foreword --- 2. Preface --- 3. Human Marine Resource Use --- 4 Species, Techniques and System Design, Environmental Impact --- 5. Aquaculture Governance --- 6. Aquaculture Economics --- 7. Case Studies --- 8. Synthesis – Pathways Towards Sustainable Ocean Food Production

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Earth's Climate System --- Chapter 2. Forecasting Global Warming --- Chapter 3. Paris INDCs --- Chapter 4. Implementation.

Description / Table of Contents: Satellite Earth Observations in Environmental Problem-Solving --- Policy and Earth Observation Innovation Cycle (PEOIC) Project (Japan) --- Innovation in Earth Observations as a National Strategic Investment: The Experience of the U.S --- Benefits Assessment of Applied Earth Science --- ESA’s Earth Observation Strategy and Copernicus --- Earth Observation--UK Perspective and Policy --- Benefit Assessment of the Application of Satellite Earth Observation for Society and Policy: Assessing the Socio-economic Impacts of the Development of Downstream, Space-based Earth Observation Applications --- Chinese Earth Observation Program and Policy --- Greenhouse Gas Observation from Space --- Japanese Satellite Earth Observation: Status and Policy Issues --- The New 10-Year GEOSS Strategy for 2016 and Beyond --- The Value of Global Earth Observations --- Earth Observation Support to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change: The Example of REDD+ --- Quantitative Assessment of the Earth Observation Data and Methods Used to Generate Reference Emission Levels for REDD+ --- Evaluation of Space Programs: Select Findings from the OECD Space Forum --- Integrating Earth Observation Systems and International Environmental Regimes --- Conclusion

Description / Table of Contents: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book examines how China can increase the share of natural gas in its energy system. China’s energy strategy has global ramifications and impact, and central to this strategy is the country’s transition from coal to gas. The book presents the culmination of a two-year collaboration between the Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC) and Shell.  With the Chinese government’s strategic aim to increase the share of gas in the energy mix from 5.8% in 2014 to 10% and 15% in 2020 and 2030 respectively, the book outlines how China can achieve its gas targets. Providing both quantifiable metrics and policy measures for the transition, it is a much needed addition to the literature on Chinese energy policy. The research and the resulting recommendations of this study have fed directly into the Chinese government’s 13th Five-Year Plan, and provide unique insights into the Chinese government and policy-making. Due to its global impact, the book is a valuable resource for policy makers in both China and the rest of the world

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Europe's Innovation Emergency --- Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the European Union - a Reform Agenda --- Summary and Conclusions

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Strategy Development --- Part 2: Management Techniques --- Part 3: Collaboration Mechanisms --- Part 4: Knowledge Sharing and Learning --- Part 5: Knowledge Capture and Storage

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Risky Play --- 2. Falling Fast --- 3. Moral Risk in a Nursing Home --- 4. Coping with Fallibility in Aviation --- 5. Fallibility and Trust in Healthcare --- 6. Approaches to Help in Organizations --- 7. Ethics of Fallibility

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction and Reflections --- 2. The Establishment of Catchment Management Agencies in South Africa with Reference to the Flussgebietsgemeinschaft Elbe: Some Practical Considerations --- 3. Towards Inclusive Water Governance: OECD Evidence and Key Principles of Stakeholder Engagement in the Water Sector --- 4. Free-Market Economics and Developmental Statism as Political Paradigms: Implications for Water Governance Theory and Practice in Developing Countries --- 5. Urban Water Governance as a Function of the “Urban Hydrosocial Transition” --- 6. Urban Water Governance for the 21st Century: A Portfolio-Based Approach to Planning and Management --- 7. Rights-Based Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century: Beyond an Exclusionary Focus on Domestic Water uses --- 8. Inclusive Transboundary Water Governance --- 9. Mechanisms for Inclusive Governance --- 10. Water Integrity - from Concept to Practice --- 11. Addressing the Groundwater Governance Challenge: A Call from the “Groundwater Governance: A Global Framework for Action” Project --- 12. Water Governance Futures in South Asia and Southern Africa: Déjà vu all Over Again?

Description / Table of Contents: 1.Habitats And Biota Of The Gulf Of Mexico: An Overview --- 2.Water Quality Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- 3.Sediments Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- 4.Sediment Contaminants Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- 5.Oil And Gas Seeps In The Gulf Of Mexico.- 6.Coastal Habitats Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- 7.Offshore Plankton And Benthos Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- 8.Shellfish Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- Appendix A:List of Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Symbols --- Appendix B: Unit Conversion Table.-  Index

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction --- 2. Action on Climate Change: What Does it Mean and Where Does it Lead To? --- Part 1. Policy --- 3. Mainstreaming Impact Evidence in Climate Change and Sustainable Development --- 4. Pathway to Impact: Supporting and Evaluating Enabling Environments for Research for Development --- 5. Lessons from Taking Stock of 12 years of Swiss International Cooperation on Climate Change --- 6. An Analytical Framework for Evaluating a Diverse Climate Change Portfolio --- 7. Enhancing the Joint Crediting Mechanism MRV to Contribute to Sustainable Development --- Part 2. Climate Change Mitigation --- 8. Using Mixed Methods to Assessing Trade-offs Between Agricultural Decisions and Deforestation --- 9. Methodological Approach of the GEF IEO’s Climate Change Mitigation Impact Evaluation: Assessing Progress in Market Change for Reduction of CO2 Emissions --- 10. Integrating Avoided Emissions in Climate Change Evaluation Policies for LDCs: The Case of Passive Solar Houses in Afghanistan --- 11. Sustainable Development, Climate Change, and Renewable Energy in Rural Central America --- 12. Unpacking the Black Box of Technology Distribution, Development Potential and Carbon Markets Benefits --- Part 3. Climate Change Adaptation.-13. What do Evaluations Tell Us About Climate Change Adaptation? Meta-Analysis with a Realist Approach --- 14. Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa --- 15. Using Participatory Approaches in Measuring Resilience and Development in Isiolo County, Kenya --- 16. Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation in Practice: A Child-Centred, Community-Based Project in the Philippines --- 17. Drought Preparedness Policies and Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Measures in Brazil: An Institutional Change Assessment --- 18. The Adaptation M&E Navigator: A Decision Support Tool for the Selection of Suitable Approaches to Monitor and Evaluate Adaptation to Climate Change

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Part I: What are damages in Nuclear Accidents?- Part II: Measurement of Damages --- Part III: Barriers against Transition into Resilience --- Part IV: Research questions for developing knowledge toward transition into resilience --- Epilogue

Description / Table of Contents: Climate services in the Tropics --- Climate planning in medium-size cities of the Tropics --- Setting up and managing automatic weather stations for remote sites monitoring: from Niger to Nepal --- Characterization of climate risks for rice crop in Casamance --- Climate change, drought and food security: a methodology for the vulnerability analysis. The case of the West Arsi Woreda in Ethiopia --- Visualize and communicate extreme weather risk to improve urban resilience --- Climate change adaptation and resilience in Mali --- Building resilience to drought in the Sahel by early risk identification and advices --- Risk analysis and evaluation to improve climate adaptation planning in Western Niger --- A simplified hydrological method for flood risk assessment at sub-basin level in Niger --- Socio-technical transitions and resilient infrastructure: analyzing changes in access to water following infrastructure upgrade in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania --- Monitoring and evaluating advocacy and mainstreaming of climate change adaptation in Haiti --- Knowledge for transformational adaptation planning: comparing the potential of forecasting and back casting methods for assessing people vulnerability --- Possible impact of pelletized crop residues use as a fuel for cooking in Niger --- An effective Mainstreaming DRR and Resilience approach in La Paz (Mexico) and San Jose (Costa-Rica) --- Climate vulnerability reduction credits: measuring results of adaptation; potential applicability for sub-Saharan communities --- Review of pilot projects on index-based insurance in Africa: insights and lessons Learned --- A new perspective for integrating climate change in local development plans

Description / Table of Contents: Preface --- Introduction and Historical Review --- Introductory Theory of Interferometry and Synthesis Imaging --- Analysis of the Interferometer Response --- Geometric Relationships and Polarimetry --- Antennas and Arrays --- Response of the Receiving System --- Design of the Analog Receiving System --- Digital Signal Processing --- Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry --- Calibration and Fourier Transformation of Visibility Data --- Deconvolution, Adaptive Calibration and Applications --- Interferometer Techniques for Astrometry and Geodesy --- Propagation Effects --- Van Cittert-Zernike Theorem, Spatial Coherence and Scattering --- Radio Interference --- Related Techniques --- Principal Symbols --- Index

Description / Table of Contents: Preface --- Gauge Theories and the Standard Model --- QCD: The Theory of Strong Interactions --- The Theory of Electroweak Interactions --- References

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction 2 --- 1.1 Introduction 2 --- 1.2 A Closer Look: Kawerak’s Contribution of Traditional Knowledge 7 --- Map 1.1 Regional Overview 12 --- Chapter 2: Physical Setting 14 --- 2.1 Ocean Currents 16 --- Map 2.1 Ocean Currents 20 --- 2.2 Sea Ice 22 --- Map 2.2a Sea Ice Advance 26 --- Map 2.2b Sea Ice Retreat 28 --- 2.3 Climate 30 --- Maps 2.3a–p Climate 36 --- 2.4 A Closer Look: Bering Sea Weather 38 --- Chapter 3: Biological Setting 42 --- 3.1 Primary Productivity 44 --- Map 3.1 Primary Productivity 46 --- 3.2 Zooplankton 48 --- Map 3.2 Zooplankton 50 --- 3.3 Benthic Biomass 52 --- Map 3.3 Benthic Biomass 56 --- 3.4 Snow and Tanner Crabs 58 --- Map 3.4 Snow Crab 62 --- 3.5 Red King Crab 64 --- Map 3.5 Red King Crab 67 --- Chapter 4: Fishes 72 --- 4.1 Forage Fish Assemblages 74 --- Map 4.1.1 Osmerids 78 --- Map 4.1.2 Pacific Herring 80 --- 4.2 Walleye Pollock 82 --- Map 4.2 Walleye Pollock 84 --- 4.3 North Pacific Cods 85 --- Map 4.3 North Pacific Cods 88 --- 4.4 Atka Mackerel 90 --- Map 4.4 Atka Mackerel 92 --- 4.5 Yellowfin Sole 94 --- Map 4.5 Yellowfin Sole 96 --- 4.6 Pacific Halibut 98 --- Map 4.6 Pacific Halibut 100 --- 4.7 Pacific Salmon 101 --- Map 4.7 Pacific Salmon 104 --- Chapter 5: Birds 110 --- 5.1 Marine Bird Colonies 112 --- Map 5.1.1 Marine Bird Colonies 116 --- Maps 5.1.2a–d Foraging Guilds 118 --- 5.2 Important Bird Areas 120 --- Map 5.2 Important Bird Areas 122 --- 5.3 A Closer Look: Bird Density and Survey Effort 124 --- Map 5.3.1 Annual Bird Density 124 --- Map 5.3.2 Bird Survey Effort 124 --- Maps 5.3.3a–d Seasonal Bird Density 125 --- Marine Waterbirds --- 5.4 Eiders 126 --- Map 5.4.1 King Eider 132 --- Map 5.4.2 Spectacled Eider 134 --- Map 5.4.3 Steller’s Eider 136 --- Map 5.4.4 Common Eider 138 --- 5.5 Long-tailed Duck 140 --- Map 5.5 Long-tailed Duck 144 --- 5.6 Loons 146 --- Map 5.6.1 Yellow-billed Loon 150 --- Map 5.6.2 Red-throated Loon 152 --- 5.7 Red-faced Cormorant 154 --- Map 5.7 Red-faced Cormorant 156 --- 5.8 Phalaropes 157 --- Map 5.8.1 Red-necked Phalarope 160 --- Map 5.8.2 Red Phalarope 160 --- 5.9 Aleutian Tern 161 --- Map 5.9 Aleutian Tern 163 --- 5.10 Kittiwakes 164 --- Map 5.10.1 Red-legged Kittwake 167 --- Map 5.10.2 Black-legged Kittwake 167 --- 5.11 Ivory Gull 168 --- Map 5.11 Ivory Gull 170 --- Seabirds --- 5.12 Murres 171 --- Map 5.12.1 Common Murre 174 --- Map 5.12.2 Thick-billed Murre 174 --- Map 5.12.3 Total Murres 175 --- 5.13 Puffins 176 --- Map 5.13.1 Horned Puffin 179 --- Map 5.13.2 Tufted Puffin 179 --- 5.14 Auklets 180 --- Map 5.14.1 Parakeet Auklet 186 --- Map 5.14.2 Crested Auklet 186 --- Map 5.14.3 Whiskered Auklet 187 --- Map 5.14.4 Least Auklet 187 --- 5.15 Short-tailed Albatross 188 --- Map 5.15 Short-tailed Albatross 190 --- 5.16 Shearwaters 191 --- Map 5.16 Short-tailed / Sooty Shearwater 194 --- Chapter 6: Mammals 204 --- 6.1 Polar Bear 206 --- Maps 6.1a–d Polar Bear Seasonal Distribution 212 --- Pinnipeds --- 6.2 Pacific Walrus 214 --- Map 6.2a Pacific Walrus Summer / Fall 220 --- Map 6.2b Pacific Walrus Winter / Spring 222 --- 6.3 Ice Seals 224 --- Map 6.3.1 Bearded Seal 230 --- Map 6.3.2 Ribbon Seal 230 --- Map 6.3.3 Ringed Seal 231 --- Map 6.3.4 Spotted Seal 231 --- 6.4 Steller Sea Lion 232 --- Map 6.4 Steller Sea Lion 234 --- 6.5 Northern Fur Seal 236 --- Map 6.5 Northern Fur Seal 238 --- Cetaceans --- 6.6 Beluga Whale 240 --- Map 6.6.1 Beluga Whale Stocks 243 --- Map 6.6.2 Beluga Whale 244 --- 6.7 Bowhead Whale 246 --- Maps 6.7a–d Bowhead Whale Seasonal Distribution 250 --- 6.8 Gray Whale 252 --- Map 6.8 Gray Whale 254 --- 6.9 Humpback Whale 255 --- Map 6.9 Humpback Whale 257 --- Chapter 7: Human Uses 266 --- 7.1 A Closer Look: Historical Perspective 268 --- 7.2 Transportation and Energy Infrastructure 270 --- Map 7.2 Transportation and Energy Infrastructure 274 --- 7.3 Petroleum Exploration and Development 276 --- Map 7.3 Petroleum Exploration and Development 282 --- 7.4 A Closer Look: Artificial Islands 284 --- 7.5 Vessel Traffic 285 --- Map 7.5.1 Vessel Density 288 --- Map 7.5.2 Vessel Traffic Patterns 290 --- Maps 7.5.3a–m Vessel Traffic by Month 292 --- 7.6 A Closer Look: Unimak Pass and Bering Strait Vessel Traffic 294 --- 7.7 Fisheries Management Conservation Areas 296 --- Map 7.7 Fisheries Management Conservation Areas 298 --- 7.8 Subsistence 300 --- Maps 7.8.1a–g Subsistence Harvest Areas by Species 306 --- Map 7.8.2 Reported Subsistence Harvest 310 --- 7.9 A Closer Look: The Legal Framework for US Arctic Marine Resource Protection 312 --- 7.10 Conservation Areas 314 --- Map 7.10 Conservation Areas 318 --- Chapter 8: Conservation Summary 326

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction 1 --- Introduction to Open (Robert Biswas-Diener and Rajiv S. Jhangiani) 3 --- A Brief History of Open Educational Resources (T. J. Bliss and M. Smith) 9 --- Open Licensing and Open Education Licensing Policy (Cable Green) 29 --- Openness and the Transformation of Education and Schooling (William G. Huitt and David M. Monetti) 43 --- What Can OER Do for Me? Evaluating the Claims for OER (Martin Weller, Beatriz de los Arcos, Rob Farrow, Rebecca Pitt and Patrick McAndrew) 67 --- Are OE Resources High Quality? (Regan A. R. Gurung) 79 --- Open Practices 87 --- Opening Science (Brian A. Nosek) 89 --- Open Course Development at the OERu (Wayne Mackintosh) 101 --- From OER to Open Pedagogy: Harnessing the Power of Open (Robin DeRosa and Scott Robison) 115 --- Opening Up Higher Education with Screencasts (David B. Miller and Addison Zhao) 125 --- Librarians in the Pursuit of Open Practices (Quill West) 139 --- A Library Viewpoint: Exploring Open Educational Practices (Anita Walz) 147 --- How to Open an Academic Department (Farhad Dastur) 163 --- Case Studies 179 --- The International Journal of Wellbeing: An Open Access Success Story (Dan Weijers and Aaron Jarden) 181 --- Iterating Toward Openness: Lessons Learned on a Personal Journey (David Wiley) 195 --- Open-Source for Educational Materials Making Textbooks Cheaper and Better (Ed Diener, Carol Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener) 209 --- Free is Not Enough (Richard Baraniuk, Nicole Finkbeiner, David Harris, Dani Nicholson and Daniel Williamson) 219 --- The BC Open Textbook Project (Mary Burgess) 227 --- TeachPsychScience.org: Sharing to Improve the Teaching of Research Methods (David B. Strohmetz, Natalie J. Ciarocco and Gary W. Lewandowski, Jr.) 237 --- DIY Open Pedagogy: Freely Sharing Teaching Resources in Psychology (Jessica Hartnett) 245 --- Conclusion 255 --- You Can’t Sell Free, and Other OER Problems (Robert Biswas-Diener) 257 --- Open as Default: The Future of Education and Scholarship (Rajiv S. Jhangiani) 267 --- Index 281

Description / Table of Contents: Active tectonics, earthquakes and palaeoseismicity in slowly deforming continents / Angela Landgraf, Simon Kübler, Esther Hintersberger and Seth Stein / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 1-12, 20 September 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.13 --- Seismology and Hazard --- Challenges in assessing seismic hazard in intraplate Europe / Seth Stein, Mian Liu, Thierry Camelbeeck, Miguel Merino, Angela Landgraf, Esther Hintersberger and Simon Kübler / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 13-28, 4 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.7 --- The largest expected earthquake magnitudes in Central Asia: statistical inference from an earthquake catalogue with uncertain magnitudes / Gert Zöller, Shahid Ullah, Dino Bindi, Stefano Parolai and Natalya Mikhailova / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 29-40, 4 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.3 --- Instrumental magnitude constraints for the 11 July 1889, Chilik earthquake / Frank Krüger, Galina Kulikova and Angela Landgraf / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 41-72, 20 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.8 --- Intraplate seismicity in mid-plate South America: correlations with geophysical lithospheric parameters / Hans Agurto-Detzel, Marcelo Assumpção, Marcelo Bianchi and Marlon Pirchiner / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 73-90, 2 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.5 --- Groundwater recharge as the trigger of naturally occurring intraplate earthquakes / John K. Costain / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 91-118, 12 April 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.9 --- Earthquake Geology --- Views on the dialectics between seismology and palaeoseismology with examples from southern Scandinavia / Nils-Axel Mörner / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 119-126, 29 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.1 --- Active faulting in a populated low-strain setting (Lower Rhine Graben, Central Europe) identified by geomorphic, geophysical and geological analysis / S. Kübler, R. Streich, E. Lück, M. Hoffmann, A. M. Friedrich and M. R. Strecker / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 127-146, 4 August 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.11 --- Seismic slip on the west flank of the Upper Rhine Graben (France–Germany): evidence from tectonic morphology and cataclastic deformation bands / Zoe K. Shipton, Mustapha Meghraoui and Louise Monro / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 147-161, 16 September 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.12 --- The Cadell Fault, southeastern Australia: a record of temporally clustered morphogenic seismicity in a low-strain intraplate region / D. Clark, A. McPherson, M. Cupper, C. D. N. Collins and G. Nelson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 163-185, 18 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.2 --- The Egiin Davaa prehistoric rupture, central Mongolia: a large magnitude normal faulting earthquake on a reactivated fault with little cumulative slip located in a slowly deforming intraplate setting / R. T. Walker, K. W. Wegmann, A. Bayasgalan, R. J. Carson, J. Elliott, M. Fox, E. Nissen, R. A. Sloan, J. M. Williams and E. Wright / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 187-212, 18 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.4 --- Seismites as indicators for Holocene seismicity in the northeastern Ejina Basin, Inner Mongolia / Andreas Rudersdorf, Kai Hartmann, Kaifeng Yu, Georg Stauch and Klaus Reicherter / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 213-231, 29 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.6 --- Surface rupture of the 1911 Kebin (Chon–Kemin) earthquake, Northern Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan / J. Ramón Arrowsmith, Christopher J. Crosby, Andrey M. Korzhenkov, Ernest Mamyrov, Irina Povolotskaya, Benny Guralnik and Angela Landgraf / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 233-253, 20 July 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.10

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to the geometry and growth of normal faults / Conrad Childs, Robert E. Holdsworth, Christopher A.-L. Jackson, Tom Manzocchi, John J. Walsh and Graham Yielding / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 1-9, 5 September 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.24 --- Fault geometric analysis --- The geometry of branch lines / Graham Yielding / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 11-22, 22 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.1 --- Interactions and growth of faults in an outcrop-scale system / A. Nicol, C. Childs, J. J. Walsh, T. Manzocchi and M. P. J. Schöpfer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 23-39, 10 March 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.9 --- Myths about normal faulting / D. A. Ferrill, A. P. Morris, R. N. McGinnis and K. J. Smart / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 41-56, 30 March 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.12 --- Growth of layer-bound normal faults under a regional anisotropic stress field / R. Ghalayini, C. Homberg, J. M. Daniel and F. H. Nader / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 57-78, 6 April 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.13 --- Fault kinematic analysis --- Spatial distribution and evolution of fault-segment boundary types in rift systems: observations from experimental clay models / P. S. Whipp, C. A.-L. Jackson, R. W. Schlische, M. O. Withjack and R. L. Gawthorpe / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 79-107, 31 March 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.7 --- 3D geometry and kinematic evolution of extensional fault-related folds, NW Red Sea, Egypt / Samir M. Khalil and Ken R. McClay / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 109-130, 30 March 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.11 --- Rift migration and lateral propagation: evolution of normal faults and sediment-routing systems of the western Corinth rift (Greece) / Mary Ford, Romain Hemelsdaël, Marco Mancini and Nikolaos Palyvos / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 131-168, 15 August 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.15 --- Interaction between gravity-driven listric normal fault linkage and their hanging-wall rollover development: a case study from the western Niger Delta, Nigeria / Hamed Fazlikhani, Stefan Back, Peter A. Kukla and Haakon Fossen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 169-186, 13 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.20 --- Techniques to determine the kinematics of synsedimentary normal faults and implications for fault growth models / Christopher A.-L. Jackson, Rebecca E. Bell, Atle Rotevatn and Anette B. M. Tvedt / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 187-217, 7 February 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.22 --- Growth and interaction of normal faults and fault network evolution in rifts: insights from three-dimensional discrete element modelling / Emma Finch and Rob Gawthorpe / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 219-248, 30 August 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.23 --- Fault zone structure --- The geometry and dimensions of fault-core lenses / Roy H. Gabrielsen, Alvar Braathen, Magnus Kjemperud and Marie Lovise R. Valdresbråten / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 249-269, 5 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.4 --- Widening of normal fault zones due to the inhibition of vertical propagation / V. Roche, C. Homberg, M. van der Baan and M. Rocher / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 271-288, 5 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.5 --- Fracture networks of normal faults in fine-grained sedimentary rocks: examples from Kilve Beach, SW England / Tore Skar, Silje S. Berg, Roy H. Gabrielsen and Alvar Braathen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 289-306, 26 September 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.10 --- Three-dimensional Distinct Element Method modelling of the growth of normal faults in layered sequences / Martin P. J. Schöpfer, Conrad Childs, Tom Manzocchi and John J. Walsh / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 307-332, 15 September 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.17 --- Throw partitioning across normal fault zones in the Ptolemais Basin, Greece / Efstratios Delogkos, Tom Manzocchi, Conrad Childs, Christos Sachanidis, Tryfon Barbas, Martin P. J. Schöpfer, Alexandros Chatzipetros, Spyros Pavlides and John J. Walsh / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 333-353, 21 November 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.19 --- Fault-related folding --- The relationship between normal drag, relay ramp aspect ratio and fault zone structure / C. Childs, T. Manzocchi, A. Nicol, J. J. Walsh, A. M. Soden, J. C. Conneally and E. Delogkos / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 355-372, 17 August 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.16 --- Occurrence and development of folding related to normal faulting within a mechanically heterogeneous sedimentary sequence: a case study from Inner Moray Firth, UK / A. Lăpădat, J. Imber, G. Yielding, D. Iacopini, K. J. W. McCaffrey, J. J. Long and R. R. Jones / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 373-394, 26 September 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.18 --- The brittle and ductile components of displacement along fault zones / C. Homberg, J. Schnyder, V. Roche, V. Leonardi and M. Benzaggagh / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 395-412, 1 March 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.21 --- Pre-existing structure and reactivation --- The impact of multiple extension events, stress rotation and inherited fabrics on normal fault geometries and evolution in the Cenozoic rift basins of Thailand / C. K. Morley / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 413-445, 13 April 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.3 --- Importance of pre-existing fault size for the evolution of an inverted fault system / Cathal Reilly, Andrew Nicol and John Walsh / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 447-463, 5 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.2 --- Post-Caledonian extension in the West Norway–northern North Sea region: the role of structural inheritance / Haakon Fossen, Hamed Fazli Khani, Jan Inge Faleide, Anna K. Ksienzyk and W. James Dunlap / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 465-486, 5 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.6 --- Influence of fault geometries and mechanical anisotropies on the growth and inversion of hanging-wall synclinal basins: insights from sandbox models and natural examples / O. Ferrer, K. McClay and N. C. Sellier / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 487-509, 15 March 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.8 --- Timing, growth and structure of a reactivated basin-bounding fault / Robert P. Worthington and John J. Walsh / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439, 511-531, 1 July 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP439.14

Description / Table of Contents: I. E. M. Smith and K. Németh: Source to surface model of monogenetic volcanism: a critical review / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:1-28, first published on March 31, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP446.14 --- Volker Lorenz, Peter Suhr, and Stefan Suhr: Phreatomagmatic maar-diatreme volcanoes and their incremental growth: a model / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:29-59, first published on September 27, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.4 --- Karen G. Bemis and Margot Ferencz: Morphometric analysis of scoria cones: the potential for inferring process from shape / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:61-100, first published on January 17, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP446.9 --- Stephan Kurszlaukis and Volker Lorenz: Differences and similarities between emplacement models of kimberlite and basaltic maar-diatreme volcanoes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:101-122, first published on October 5, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.5 --- R. A. F. Cas, J. van Otterloo, T. N. Blaikie, and J. van den Hove: The dynamics of a very large intra-plate continental basaltic volcanic province, the Newer Volcanics Province, SE Australia, and implications for other provinces / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:123-172, first published on November 7, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.8 --- H. Murcia, J. M. Lindsay, K. Németh, I. E. M. Smith, S. J. Cronin, M. R. H. Moufti, N. N. El-Masry, and S. Niedermann: Geology and geochemistry of Late Quaternary volcanism in northern Harrat Rahat, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: implications for eruption dynamics, regional stratigraphy and magma evolution / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:173-204, first published on September 30, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.2 --- Alexandrina Fulop and Stephan Kurszlaukis: Monogenetic v. polygenetic kimberlite volcanism: in-depth examination of the Tango Extension Super Structure, Attawapiskat kimberlite field, Ontario, Canada / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:205-224, first published on September 23, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.7 --- José Jorge Aranda-Gómez, Mariano Cerca, Luis Rocha-Treviño, Jaime Jesús Carrera-Hernández, Gilles Levresse, Jesús Pacheco, Vsevolod Yutsis, Jorge Arturo Arzate-Flores, Elizabeth Chacón, and Hugo Beraldi-Campesi: Structural evidence of enhanced active subsidence at the bottom of a maar: Rincón de Parangueo, México / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:225-254, first published on September 29, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.1 --- R. Saucedo, J. L. Macías, Y. Z. E. Ocampo-Díaz, W. Gómez-Villa, E. Rivera-Olguín, R. Castro-Govea, J. M. Sánchez-Núñez, P. W. Layer, J. R. Torres Hernández, and G. Carrasco-Núñez: Mixed magmatic–phreatomagmatic explosions during the formation of the Joya Honda maar, San Luis Potosí, Mexico / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:255-279, first published on February 28, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP446.11 --- Román Alvarez, Fernando Corbo Camargo, Vsevolod V. Yutsis, and Jorge A. Arzate: A volcanic centre in Mexico's Pacific continental shelf / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:281-293, first published on March 3, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP446.12 --- Román Alvarez, Fernando Corbo Camargo, and Vsevolod V. Yutsis: Geophysical modelling of Isla Isabel: a volcanic island on the Mexican continental margin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:295-310, first published on March 3, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP446.13 --- Walter Báez, Gerardo Carrasco Nuñez, Guido Giordano, José G. Viramonte, and Agostina Chiodi: Polycyclic scoria cones of the Antofagasta de la Sierra basin, Southern Puna plateau, Argentina / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:311-336, first published on September 26, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.3 --- Guadalupe Maro and Pablo J. Caffe: Neogene monogenetic volcanism from the Northern Puna region: products and eruptive styles / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:337-359, first published on September 26, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.6 --- C. Borrero, H. Murcia, J. Agustin-Flores, M. T. Arboleda, and A. M. Giraldo: Pyroclastic deposits of San Diego maar, central Colombia: an example of a silicic magma-related monogenetic eruption in a hard substrate / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:361-374, first published on December 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.10

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: On Nonoscillatory Solutions of Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Dynamical Systems by Elvan Akın and Özkan Öztürk --- Chapter 2: Oscillation Criteria for Second-Order Neutral Damped Differential Equations with Delay Argument by Said R. Grace and Irena Jadlovská --- Chapter 3: Preservation of Synchronization Using a Tracy-Singh Product in the Transformation on Their Linear Matrix by Guillermo Fernadez-Anaya, Luis Alberto Quezada-Téllez, Jorge Antonio López-Rentería, Oscar A. Rosas-Jaimes, Rodrigo Muñoz- Vega, Guillermo Manuel Mallen-Fullerton and José Job Flores- Godoy --- Chapter 4: Generalized Ratio Control of Discrete-Time Systems by Dušan Krokavec and Anna Filasová --- Chapter 5: Predictability in Deterministic Dynamical Systems with Application to Weather Forecasting and Climate Modelling by Sergei Soldatenko and Rafael Yusupov --- Chapter 6: Emergence of Classical Distributions from Quantum Distributions: The Continuous Energy Spectra Case by Gabino Torres-Vega --- Chapter 7: Recent Fixed Point Techniques in Fractional Set-Valued Dynamical Systems by Parin Chaipunya and Poom Kumam --- Chapter 8: Relationship between Interpolation and Differential Equations: A Class of Collocation Methods by Francesco Aldo Costabile, Maria Italia Gualtieri and Anna Napoli --- Chapter 9: Integral-Equation Formulations of Plasmonic Problems in the Visible Spectrum and Beyond by Abdulkerim Çekinmez, Barişcan Karaosmanoğlu and Özgür Ergül --- Chapter 10: Numerical Random Periodic Shadowing Orbits of a Class of Stochastic Differential Equations by Qingyi Zhan and Yuhong Li --- Chapter 11: Solution of Differential Equations with Applications to Engineering Problems by Cheng Yung Ming

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Treatment of Organic Recalcitrant Contaminants in Wastewater by Asmita Gupta and Indu Shekhar Thakur --- Chapter 2: Application of Macrobiological Methods in the Settlement Wastewater Treatment by Dragan Milićević, Slaviša Trajković and Milan Gocić --- Chapter 3: Microbe-Based Strategy for Plant Nutrient Management by Shaon Ray Chaudhuri, Madhusmita Mishra, Sonakshi De, Biswajit Samal, Amrita Saha, Srimoyee Banerjee, Abhinandan Chakraborty, Antara Chakraborty, Sonali Pardhiya, Deepak Gola, Joyeeta Chakraborty, Sourav Ghosh, Kamlesh Jangid, Indranil Mukherjee, Mathummal Sudarshan, Rajib Nath and Ashoke Ranjan Thakur --- Chapter 4: Mitigating Environmental Risks of Wastewater Reuse for Agriculture by Ahmed Al-Busaidi and Mushtaque Ahmed --- Chapter 5: Spreading of Antibiotic Resistance with Wastewater by Sadik Dincer and Esra Sunduz Yigittekin --- Chapter 6: Comparative Assessment of Pharmaceutical Removal from Wastewater by the Microalgae Chlorella sorokiniana, Chlorella vulgaris and Scenedesmus obliquus by Carla Escapa Santos, Ricardo Nuno de Coimbra, Sergio Paniagua Bermejo, Ana Isabel García Pérez and Marta Otero Cabero --- Chapter 7: Pulp Mill Wastewater: Characteristics and Treatment by María Noel Cabrera --- Chapter 8: Molecular Biomonitoring of Microbial Communities in Tannery Wastewater Treatment Plant for the Removal of Retanning Chemicals by Adey Feleke Desta, Joyce Nzioki, Solomon Maina and Francesca Stomeo --- Chapter 9: Application of Mixed Microbial Culture Biofilms for Manganese (II), Cobalt (II), and Chromium (VI) Biosorption by Horizontal Rotating Tubular Bioreactor by Tonči Rezić, Iva Rezić, Michaela Zeiner and Božidar Šantek --- Chapter 10: Electrocoagulative and Biological Treatment of Laundry Wastewater by Terelle Ramcharan and Ajay Bissessur --- Chapter 11: Biohydrogen Production from Wastewaters by Periyasamy Sivagurunathan, Gopalakrishnan Kumar, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi, Guangyin Zhen, Takuro Kobayashi and Kaiqin Xu --- Chapter 12: Valorization of Glucose-Based Wastewater Through Production of Hydrogen, Volatile Fatty Acids and Alcohols by Eduardo Lucena Cavalcante de Amorim, Leandro Takano Sader, Lucas Rodrigues Ramos and Edson Luiz Silva --- Chapter 13: Production of Biogas and Performance Evaluation of Ultrasonic Membrane Anaerobic System (UMAS) for Palm Oil Mill Effluent Treatment (POME) by Abdurahman Hamid Nour and Azhari Hamid Nour

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Synchrotron-Based X-Ray Characterization of Nanomaterials by Mehdi Khodaei and Luca Petaccia --- Chapter 2: Nanocrystallization of Metallic Glasses Followed by in situ Nuclear Forward Scattering of Synchrotron Radiation by Marcel B. Miglierini and Vít Procházka --- Chapter 3: Operando Structural Characterization of the E-ALD Process Ultra-Thin Films Growth by Andrea Giaccherini, Roberto Felici and Massimo Innocenti --- Chapter 4: X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study of Battery Materials by Marco Giorgetti and Lorenzo Stievano --- Chapter 5: Synchrotron Radiation-Based X-Ray Study on Energy Storage Materials by Shoaib Muhammad, Hyunchul Kim and Won-Sub Yoon --- Chapter 6: Studies of Lithium-Oxygen Battery Electrodes by Energy- Dependent Full-Field Transmission Soft X-Ray Microscopy by Dino Tonti, Mara Olivares-Marín, Andrea Sorrentino and Eva Pereiro

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Energy Challenges for ICT by Giorgos Fagas, John P. Gallagher, Luca Gammaitoni and Douglas J. Paul --- Chapter 2: Fundamentals on Energy in ICT by Luca Gammaitoni --- Chapter 3: Measuring Energy by Steve Kerrison, Markus Buschhoff, Jose Nunez-Yanez and Kerstin Eder --- Chapter 4: An Energy-Efficient Design Paradigm for a Memory Cell Based on Novel Nanoelectromechanical Switches by Azam Seyedi, Vasileios Karakostas, Stefan Cosemans, Adrian Cristal, Mario Nemirovsky and Osman Unsal --- Chapter 5: Energy-Aware Software Engineering by Kerstin Eder and John P. Gallagher --- Chapter 6: Energy-Aware High Performance Computing by Martin Wlotzka, Vincent Heuveline, Manuel F. Dolz, M. Reza Heidari, Thomas Ludwig, A. Cristiano I. Malossi and Enrique S. Quintana-Orti --- Chapter 7: Energy-Efficient Communication in Wireless Networks by David Boyle, Roman Kolcun and Eric Yeatman --- Chapter 8: Globally Optimised Energy-Efficient Data Centres by Dirk Pesch, Susan Rea, J. Ignacio Torrens, Vojtech Zavrel, J.L.M. Hensen, Diarmuid Grimes, Barry O'Sullivan, Thomas Scherer, Robert Birke, Lydia Chen, Ton Engbersen, Lara Lopez, Enric Pages, Deepak Mehta, Jacinta Townley and Vassilios Tsachouridis --- Chapter 9: Thermoelectrics, Photovoltaics and Thermal Photovoltaics for Powering ICT Devices and Systems by Lourdes Ferre Llin and Douglas J. Paul

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Volume Holography: Novel Materials, Methods and Applications by Tina Sabel and Marga C. Lensen --- Chapter 2: Volume Holographic Optical Elements as Solar Concentrators by Maria Antonietta Ferrara, Gaetano Bianco, Fabio Borbone, Roberto Centore, Valerio Striano and Giuseppe Coppola --- Chapter 3: Volume Bragg Gratings: Fundamentals and Applications in Laser Beam Combining and Beam Phase Transformations by Ivan Divliansky --- Chapter 4: Holographically Recorded Low Spatial Frequency Volume Bragg Gratings and Holographic Optical Elements by Suzanne Martin, Hoda Akbari, Sanjay Keshri, Dennis Bade, Izabela Naydenova, Kevin Murphy and Vincent Toal --- Chapter 5: Holographic Optical Elements and Application by Nam Kim, Yan-Ling Piao and Hui-Ying Wu --- Chapter 6: Holographic Data Storage Using Parallel-Aligned Liquid Crystal on Silicon Displays by Francisco J. Martínez Guardiola, Andrés Márquez Ruiz, Sergi Gallego Rico, Roberto Fernández Fernández, Jorge Francés Monllor, Manuel Ortuño Sánchez, Inmaculada Pascual Villalobos and Augusto Beléndez Vázquez --- Chapter 7: Microtopography and Thickness Measurement with Digital Holographic Microscopy Highlighting and Its Tomographic Capacity by Miguel León-Rodríguez, Juan A. Rayas-Alvarez, Amalia Martínez- García and Raúl R. Cordero --- Chapter 8: 3D Capture and 3D Contents Generation for Holographic Imaging by Elena Stoykova, Hoonjong Kang, Youngmin Kim, Joosup Park, Sunghee Hong and Jisoo Hong --- Chapter 9: Multiwavelength Digital Holography and Phase-Shifting Interferometry Selectively Extracting Wavelength Information: Phase-Division Multiplexing (PDM) of Wavelengths by Tatsuki Tahara, Reo Otani, Yasuhiko Arai and Yasuhiro Takaki --- Chapter 10: Dynamic Imaging with X-ray Holography by Büttner Felix --- Chapter 11: Indirect Off-Axis Holography for Antenna Metrology by Ana Arboleya, Jaime Laviada, Juha Ala-Laurinaho, Yuri Álvarez, Fernando Las-Heras and Antti V. Räisänen --- Chapter 12: Surface Characterization by the Use of Digital Holography by Dahi Ghareab Abdelsalam, Takeshi Yasui, Takayuki Ogawa and Baoli Yao --- Chapter 13: Digital Holographic Interferometry for Analysing High-Density Gradients in Fluid Mechanics by Jean-Michel Desse and François Olchewsky --- Chapter 14: Holography: The Usefulness of Digital Holographic Microscopy for Clinical Diagnostics by Zahra El-Schich, Sofia Kamlund, Birgit Janicke, Kersti Alm and Anette Gjörloff Wingren --- Chapter 15: Unlabeled Semen Analysis by Means of the Holographic Imaging by Giuseppe Coppola, Maria Antonietta Ferrara, Giuseppe Di Caprio, Gianfranco Coppola and Brian Dale --- Chapter 16: One-Step Holographic Photoalignment for Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Gratings by Kotaro Kawai, Moritsugu Sakamoto, Kohei Noda, Tomoyuki Sasaki, Nobuhiro Kawatsuki and Hiroshi Ono --- Chapter 17: Application of High Performance Photoinitiating Systems for Holographic Grating Recording by C. Ley, C. Carré, A. Ibrahim and X. Allonas --- Chapter 18: Fluorite Crystals with Color Centers: A Medium for Recording Extremely Stable but Broadly Transformable Holograms by Aleksandr I. Ryskin, Aleksandr E. Angervaks and Andrei V. Veniaminov --- Chapter 19: New Photo-Thermo-Refractive Glasses for Holographic Optical Elements: Properties and Applications by Nikonorov Nikolay, Ivanov Sergey, Dubrovin Victor and Ignatiev Alexander --- Chapter 20: Active Holography by Zurab V. Wardosanidze --- Chapter 21: Two-Wave Mixing in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Structures for Dynamic Holography by Vera Marinova, Shiuan Huei Lin and Ken Yuh Hsu

Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Biodiversity Data Impediment to a Sustainable World (Working in a Networked World) --- 2. Essential Biodiversity Variables --- 3. Stratification and Terrestrial Ecosystem Observations --- 4. Ecosystem Services --- 5. Species Observations --- 6. Monitoring Changes in Genetic Diversity --- 7. Marine and Coastal Systems --- 8. Biodiversity Observations for Freshwater Ecosystems --- 9. Remote Sensing for Biodiversity --- 10. Involving Citizen Scientists in Biodiversity Observation --- 11. Biodiversity Modelling --- 12. Cyber-Architecture --- 13. Using Data for Decision-Making: From Observations To Indicators and Other Policy Tools --- 14. Capacity Building in Biodiversity Monitoring – Case Studies

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction --- 2. Action on Climate Change: What Does it Mean and Where Does it Lead To? --- Part 1. Policy --- 3. Mainstreaming Impact Evidence in Climate Change and Sustainable Development --- 4. Pathway to Impact: Supporting and Evaluating Enabling Environments for Research for Development --- 5. Lessons from Taking Stock of 12 years of Swiss International Cooperation on Climate Change --- 6. An Analytical Framework for Evaluating a Diverse Climate Change Portfolio --- 7. Enhancing the Joint Crediting Mechanism MRV to Contribute to Sustainable Development --- Part 2. Climate Change Mitigation --- 8. Using Mixed Methods to Assessing Trade-offs Between Agricultural Decisions and Deforestation --- 9. Methodological Approach of the GEF IEO’s Climate Change Mitigation Impact Evaluation: Assessing Progress in Market Change for Reduction of CO2 Emissions --- 10. Integrating Avoided Emissions in Climate Change Evaluation Policies for LDCs: The Case of Passive Solar Houses in Afghanistan --- 11. Sustainable Development, Climate Change, and Renewable Energy in Rural Central America --- 12. Unpacking the Black Box of Technology Distribution, Development Potential and Carbon Markets Benefits --- Part 3. Climate Change Adaptation.-13. What do Evaluations Tell Us About Climate Change Adaptation? Meta-Analysis with a Realist Approach --- 14. Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa --- 15. Using Participatory Approaches in Measuring Resilience and Development in Isiolo County, Kenya --- 16. Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation in Practice: A Child-Centred, Community-Based Project in the Philippines --- 17. Drought Preparedness Policies and Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Measures in Brazil: An Institutional Change Assessment --- 18. The Adaptation M&E Navigator: A Decision Support Tool for the Selection of Suitable Approaches to Monitor and Evaluate Adaptation to Climate Change

Description / Table of Contents: Air quality in Europe: today and tomorrow --- A framework for Integrated Assessment Modelling --- Current European AQ planning at regional and local scale --- Strengths and weaknesses of the current EU situation --- Two illustrative examples: Brussels and Porto --- Conclusions: A way forward

Description / Table of Contents: The reversible elimination of hydrogen from metal hydrides serves as the basis for unique methods of energy transformation. This technology has found widespread practical utilization in applications such as hydrogen compressors, storage, and sensors, as well as batteries. Moreover, it is plausible that metal hydride technology could be utilized to provide practically viable solutions to the challenges of energy storage. For nearly two decades, an extensive, worldwide research effort has been devoted to complex metal hydrides possessing high volumetric and/or gravimetric hydrogen densities with the goal of their practical utilization as onboard hydrogen storage materials. Additionally, a significant and growing number of efforts have been devoted to developing metal hydrides as advanced sensors and ionic conductors, and for electrochemical and stationary energy storage. This Special Issue will provide a sampling of on-going, state-of-art research on metal hydrides, ranging from fundamental investigations to practical applications with a concentration on topics which are currently of high interest.

Description / Table of Contents: As the fields of organometallic and coordination chemistry of the transition metals has grown more mature, the under-explored chemistry of the rare-earths and actinides has drawn the attention of research groups from across the globe looking for new fundamental discoveries and access to compounds with unique properties. The rare earths – the group 3 metals and the 4f lanthanide series – have long shown many interesting properties in the solid state which exploit their unique electronic configurations. However, it is the molecular chemistry of these metals that has expanded dramatically in recent years as researchers identify the differences between – and unique features of – their molecular compounds. Recent highlights include the identification of new oxidation states and patterns of reactivity as well as applications in medical imaging and health care which represent new and exciting areas of research. The actinides show a wide range of different properties as a consequence of their radioactivity and radiochemistry, but this has not stopped recent rapid progress into the exploration of their unique chemistry. Uranium, in particular, shows huge potential with its transition metal like range of oxidation states (+2 to +6), and in specialised laboratories, the heavier actinides are also beginning to show their unique chemistry as well. This Special Issue aims to bring together these strands of research in an openly-accessible way to allow better communication of these advances to a wider audience. This is necessary as despite these exciting advances, the rare earths and actinides are still much neglected topics in both school and undergraduate curriculums.

Description / Table of Contents: The success of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) brings us into a new era of global daily Earth observations, ranging from the faintest light of human settlements and air glows to the dramatic events of hurricanes and forest fires, as well as the subtle changes in the planet Earth which we call home. At the heart of all satellite applications, calibration/validation of the measurements and derived products is the key. Satellite product calibration and validation have become increasingly more important and challenging in order to meet the stringent requirements for accurate quantitative data for climate change detection, numerical weather prediction, and environmental intelligence. Validation is required not only for the satellite measurements, but also for all geophysical retrievals, including aerosols, cloud properties, radiation budget, sea surface temperature, ocean color, active fire, albedo, snow and ice, vegetation, as well as nightlights from human settlements. Active validation research includes but not limited to, comparisons with similar products from other satellites, with in situ, aircraft measurements, or observations from other platforms. Validation results not only help users and decision makers but also serve as feedback to calibration, which in turn improves the products. This Special Issue of Remote Sensing aims at exploring recent results in the calibration and validation of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (Suomi NPP)/JPSS radiometers.

Description / Table of Contents: The pulse width of an electromagnetic wave is determined by the frequency band width of the wave used. Therefore, one femtosecond is the ultimate in pulse width for an “optical” wave. For this reason, several methods have been proposed for the generation of an ultrashort optical pulse. For example, resonance/non-resonance four-wave mixing would be one of the candidates for generating multi-color laser emission in an extremely wide spectral region, thus breaking the 1-fs barrier. To date, numerous emission lines have been generated from the deep-ultraviolet to the near-infrared region (〈45,000 cm−1). Such generations use a variety of techniques, such as four-wave Raman mixing in molecular hydrogen. This type of technique is promising for the generation of 1-fs optical pulses via phase locking and the Fourier synthesis of the emission lines. For verification, it would be necessary to develop a new method for measuring the pulse width, since the spectral band width approaches or is beyond one octave. Ultrashort optical pulses can be utilized in a variety of applications in science and technology. For example, an ultrashort optical pulse can be used in the studies of ultrafast phenomena. More practically, a laser pulse shorter than 100 fs is reported to be useful in mass spectrometry for observing a molecular ion of triacetone triperoxide, an explosive used in terrorist attacks. A train of ultrashort optical pulses in the terahertz region, which has been generated in the optical cavity to enhance the nonlinear optical effect, would be employed as a clock pulse in optical computation/communication in future advanced industries.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Developing Tree Biomass Models for Eight Major Tree Species in China by WeiSheng Zeng --- Chapter 2: Methods of Estimating Forest Biomass: A Review by Lei Shi and Shirong Liu --- Chapter 3: Above-Ground Biomass Estimation with High Spatial Resolution Satellite Images by Adélia M. O. Sousa, Ana Cristina Gonçalves and José R. Marques da Silva --- Chapter 4: Fatal Accidents During Marine Transport of Wood Pellets Due to Off-Gassing: Experiences from Denmark by Frank Huess Hedlund and Øssur Jarleivson Hilduberg --- Chapter 5: Biomass Valorization: Agricultural Waste in Environmental Protection, Phytomedicine and Biofuel Production by Inyinbor Adejumoke Abosede, Oluyori Abimbola Peter and Adelani-Akande Tabitha Adunola --- Chapter 6: Modeling Biomass Substrates for Syngas Generation by Using CFD Approaches by Nuno Couto and Valter Silva --- Chapter 7: Sustainability of the Biowaste Utilization for Energy Production by Thorsten Ahrens, Silvia Drescher-Hartung and Olga Anne --- Chapter 8: Effects of Fertilizers on Biomass, Sugar Content and Ethanol Production of Sweet Sorghum by Tran Dang Xuan, Nguyen Thi Phuong and Tran Dang Khanh --- Chapter 9: Biomass as Raw Material for Production of High-Value Products by Sibel Irmak --- Chapter 10: Catalytic Biomass Valorization by Aiguo G. Wang, Danielle Austin and Hua Song --- Chapter 11: Biomass Compositional Analysis for Conversion to Renewable Fuels and Chemicals by C. Luke Williams, Rachel M. Emerson and Jaya Shankar Tumuluru --- Chapter 12: Modeling the Calorific Value of Biomass from Fruit Trees Using Elemental Analysis Data by Borja Velázquez-Martí, Isabel López-Cortés, Domingo Salazar- Hernández and Ángel Jesús Callejón-Ferre --- Chapter 13: Microalgal Biomass: A Biorefinery Approach by Luis C. Fernández Linares, Kevin Á. González Falfán and Citlally Ramírez-López --- Chapter 14: Biomass Production on Reclaimed Areas Tailing Ponds by Martin Bosák --- Chapter 15: Biomass Blending and Densification: Impacts on Feedstock Supply and Biochemical Conversion Performance by Allison E. Ray, Chenlin Li, Vicki S. Thompson, Dayna L. Daubaras, Nicholas J. Nagle and Damon S. Hartley --- Chapter 16: Metal Removal by Seaweed Biomass by Claudia Ortiz-Calderon, Héctor Cid Silva and Daniel Barros Vásquez --- Chapter 17: Valorisation of Lignocellulosic Biomass Wastes for the Removal of Metal Ions from Aqueous Streams: A Review by Carlos Escudero-Oñate, Núria Fiol, Jordi Poch and Isabel Villaescusa --- Chapter 18: Progress Towards Engineering Microbial Surfaces to Degrade Biomass by Grace L. Huang and Robert T. Clubb --- Chapter 19: Determination of the Biomass Content of End-of-Life Tyres by Leticia Saiz Rodríguez, José M. Bermejo Muñoz, Adrien Zambon and Jean P. Faure --- Chapter 20: Reaction Behaviors of Bagasse Modified with Phthalic Anhydride in 1-Allyl-3-Methylimidazolium Chloride with Catalyst 4-Dimethylaminopyridine by Hui-Hui Wang, Xue-Qin Zhang, Yi Wei and Chuan-Fu Liu --- Chapter 21: Review of Biomass Thermal Gasification by Mohammed Abed Fattah Hamad, Aly Moustafa Radwan and Ashraf Amin

Description / Table of Contents: As more and more aspects of everyday life are turned into machine-readable data, researchers are provided with rich resources for researching society. The novel methods and innovative tools to work with this data not only require new knowledge and skills, but also raise issues concerning the practices of investigation and publication. This book critically reflects on the role of data in academia and society and challenges overly optimistic expectations considering data practices as means for understanding social reality. It introduces its readers to the practices and methods for data analysis and visualization and raises questions not only about the politics of data tools, but also about the ethics in collecting, sifting through data, and presenting data research. As machine-readable data comes to play an increasingly important role in everyday life, researchers find themselves with rich resources for studying society. The novel methods and tools needed to work with such data require not only new knowledge and skills, but also a new way of thinking about best research practices. This book critically reflects on the role and usefulness of big data, challenging overly optimistic expectations about what such information can reveal, introducing practices and methods for its analysis and visualization, and raising important political and ethical questions regarding its collection, handling, and presentation.

Description / Table of Contents: According to the 2014 revision of the World Urbanization Prospects by UN DESA, urbanization could add another 2.5 billion people to the urban population by 2050, with close to 90 percent of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa. The largest urban growth will take place in India, China and Nigeria. This unprecedented increase in urban population not only poses challenges to providing urban jobs, housing, and infrastructure, but also exerts an increased pressure on urban land and sustainability. As land is a vital yet limited resource, sustainable management of urban land to cater to the needs of this growing urban population is seen as one of the key challenges for achieving an economically efficient, socially equitable, and environmentally safe society. A key tenet for sustainable economic development and smart growth is promoting sustainable urban land development and mitigating land use conflicts. While a large body of literature has dealt with both land use and sustainable development, the study of the interactive effects of these two remains limited. We also need more sophisticated empirical studies examining processes, mechanisms, institutions, equity, and sustainability of urban land use. We also encourage efforts to develop new theories, new concepts and new methods to understand the myriad ways in which urban land and sustainable development correlate each other. This special issue examines patterns, structure, and dynamics of urban land development and sustainability from multiple perspectives, in various contexts and at multiple dimensions (economic, social, political, developmental, environmental, etc.).

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Vortex Structure in the Plasma Flow Channels of the Venus Wake by Héctor Pérez-de-Tejada, Rickard Lundin and Devrie S. Intriligator --- Chapter 2 Interaction of Tropical Cyclones with a Dipole Vortex by Ismael Perez‐Garcia, Alejandro Aguilar‐Sierra and Jaime Hernández --- Chapter 3 Nonlinear Interaction Between Vortex and Wave in Rotating Shallow Water by Norihiko Sugimoto --- Chapter 4 Modelling of Temporal‐Spatial Distribution of Airplane Wake Vortex for Scattering Analysis by Jianbing Li, Zhongxun Liu and Xuesong Wang --- Chapter 5 Vorticity Evolution near the Turbulent/Non-Turbulent Interfaces in Free-Shear Flows by Tomoaki Watanabe, Koji Nagata and Carlos B. da Silva --- Chapter 6 Simulation of Axisymmetric Flows with Swirl in Vorticity- Stream Function Variables Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method by Omar D. Lopez, Sergio Pedraza and Jose R. Toro --- Chapter 7 Thickness and Thermal Conductivities of the Walls and Fluid Layer Effects on the Onset of Thermal Convection in a Horizontal Fluid Layer Heated from Below by Ildebrando Pérez‐Reyes, René Osvaldo Vargas‐Aguilar, Eduardo Valente Gómez‐Benítez and Iván Salmerón‐Ochoa --- Chapter 8 Role of Vortex Dynamics in Relativistic Fluids by Gunraj Prasad --- Chapter 9 Statistics of Gyrotropic Vortex Dynamics in Submicron Magnetic Disks by Gary Matthew Wysin --- Chapter 10 Two-Dimensional Solitons and Vortices in Linear and Nonlinear Lattice Potentials by Jianhua Zeng and Boris A. Malomed --- Chapter 11 Relaxation Theory for Point Vortices by Ken Sawada and Takashi Suzuki --- Chapter 12 Development of Vortex Bioreactor Technology for Decentralised Water Treatment by Andrew Landels, Neil Cagney, Lisa Bauer, Tracey A. Beacham, Stavroula Balabani and Michael J. Allen --- Chapter 13 Vortex Spinning System and Vortex Yarn Structure by Gizem Karakan Günaydin and Ali Serkan Soydan

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Vortex Structures in Ultra-Cold Atomic Gases by Nick Verhelst and Jacques Tempere --- Chapter 2 Direct Generation of Vortex Laser Beams and Their Non-Linear Wavelength Conversion by Andrew James Lee and Takashige Omatsu --- Chapter 3 Superconducting Vortex‐Antivortex Pairs: Nucleation and Confinement in Magnetically Coupled Superconductor‐Ferromagnet Hybrids by Cinzia Di Giorgio, Domenico D'Agostino, Anna Maria Cucolo, Maria Iavarone, Alessandro Scarfato, Goran Karapetrov, Steven Alan Moore, Massimiliano Polichetti, Davide Mancusi, Sandro Pace, Valentyn Novosad, Volodymir Yefremenko and Fabrizio Bobba --- Chapter 4 Optical Vortices Illumination Enables the Creation of Chiral Nanostructures by Takashige Omatsu, Katsuhiko Miyamoto and Ryuji Morita --- Chapter 5 Dynamical Particle Motions in Vortex Flows by Steven Wang and Naoto Ohmura --- Chapter 6 Numerical Simulation of Vortex-Dominated Flows Using the Penalized VIC Method by Seung-Jae Lee --- Chapter 7 Vortex Structures in Saturable Media by İlkay Bakırtaş --- Chapter 8 Holographic Optical Elements to Generate Achromatic Vortices with Ultra-Short and Ultra-Intense Laser Pulses by María-Victoria Collados, Íñigo J. Sola, Julia Marín-Sáez, Warein Holgado and Jesús Atencia --- Chapter 9 Ultrashort Extreme Ultraviolet Vortices by Laura Rego, Julio San Román, Luis Plaja, Antonio Picón and Carlos Hernández-García --- Chapter 10 Fractal Light Vortices by Federico J. Machado, Juan A. Monsoriu and Walter D. Furlan --- Chapter 11 Partially Coherent Vortex Beam: From Theory to Experiment by Xianlong Liu, Lin Liu, Yahong Chen and Yangjian Cai --- Chapter 12 Vortices and Singularities in Electric Dipole Radiation near an Interface by Xin Li, Henk F. Arnoldus and Zhangjin Xu --- Chapter 13 Spin-Wave Dynamics in the Presence of Magnetic Vortices by Sławomir Mamica

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Development of a State-of-the-Art Dry Low NOx Gas Turbine Combustor for IGCC with CCS by Tomohiro Asai, Yasuhiro Akiyama and Satoschi Dodo --- Chapter 2: Modeling and Evaluation of a Coal Power Plant with Biomass Cofiring and CO2 Capture by Dumitru Cebrucean, Viorica Cebrucean and Ioana Ionel --- Chapter 3: Membrane Separation Technology in Carbon Capture by Guozhao Ji and Ming Zhao --- Chapter 4: Emerging New Types of Absorbents for Postcombustion Carbon Capture by Quan Zhuang, Bruce Clements and Bingyun Li --- Chapter 5: Bio-inspired Systems for Carbon Dioxide Capture, Sequestration and Utilization by Gonçalo V. S. M. Carrera, Luís C. Branco and Manuel Nunes da Ponte --- Chapter 6: Synergistic Effect on CO2 Capture by Binary Solvent System by Quan Zhuang and Bruce Clements --- Chapter 7: Maximizing Soil Carbon Sequestration: Assessing Procedural Barriers to Carbon Management in Cultivated Tropical Perennial Grass Systems by Jon M. Wells, Susan E. Crow, Manyowa N. Meki, Carlos A. Sierra, Kimberly M. Carlson, Adel Youkhana, Daniel Richardson and Lauren Deem --- Chapter 8: Relationship Between Mineral Soil Surface Area and Carbon Sequestration Rate for Biosolids Added to Soil by Dongqi Wen, Wenjuan Zhai and Kenneth E. Noll --- Chapter 9: CO2 Conversion to Chemicals and Fuel for Carbon Utilization by Wonjun Cho, Hyejin Yu and Yonggi Mo --- Chapter 10: Challenges Associated with CO2 Sequestration and Hydrocarbon Recovery by Rouzbeh Ghanbarnezhad Moghanloo, Xu Yan, Gregory Law, Soheil Roshani, Garrett Babb and Wesley Herron --- Chapter 11: Economics of Carbon Capture and Storage by John C. Bergstrom and Dyna Ty

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction (P Schroeder, K Anggraeni, S Sartori and U Weber) --- Sustainable Consumption and Production in Asia — Aligning Human Development and Environmental Protection in International Development Cooperation (L Akenji, M Bengtsson and P Schroeder) --- Regional Policy Trends for Strengthening the Inclusion of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in Public Governance (S Castro-Hallgren) --- SWITCH-Asia Programme Impacts: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead (K Anggraeni and P Schroeder) --- SCP in Bangladesh: The Brown Hope of Hazaribagh and the Golden Fibre of Bangladesh (N M Esa Abrar Khan) --- Gross National Happiness and SCP in Bhutan (K P Lama and S T Dorji) --- Sustainable Energy through SCP in Cambodia (R de Jong) --- Sustainable Consumption and Production in Lao PDR (T Phonsavath) --- Promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production for a Better Future in Nepal (R P Chhetri) --- Sustainable Consumption and Production in the Philippines (L L Sta Romana) --- Linking Tourism, Energy and Agriculture through Sustainable Consumption and Production in Sri Lanka (M Tissera, D Samarakoon and G Senanayake) --- Thailand's Sufficiency Economy and Sustainable Consumption and Production (K Merle) --- Sustainable Consumption and Production in Vietnam (N T Thong, D H Nguyen, P T N Bich and L T M Huong) --- Sustainable Tourism in Asia — Current Situation, Trends, and Existing Practices (E Kaiwa) --- Sustainable Societies and Municipal Solid Waste Management in Southeast Asia (C Curea)

Description / Table of Contents: Geomechanics and geology: introduction / Jonathan P. Turner, Dave Healy, Richard R. Hillis and Michael J. Welch / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 458, 1-5, 17 July 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP458.15 --- The geology of geomechanics: petroleum geomechanical engineering in field development planning / M. A. Addis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 458, 7-29, 28 June 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP458.7 --- In situ stress distribution and mechanical stratigraphy in the Bowen and Surat basins, Queensland, Australia / Emma Tavener, Thomas Flottmann and Sam Brooke-Barnett / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 458, 31-47, 24 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP458.4 --- Contemporary stress and neotectonics in the Otway Basin, southeastern Australia / David R. Tassone, Simon P. Holford, Rosalind King, Mark R. P. Tingay and Richard R. Hillis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 458, 49-88, 25 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP458.10 --- State of stress in exhumed basins and implications for fluid flow: insights from the Illizi Basin, Algeria / Joseph M. English, Thomas Finkbeiner, Kara L. English and Rachida Yahia Cherif / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 458, 89-112, 30 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP458.6 --- Chalk reservoir of the Ockley accumulation, North Sea: in situ stresses, geology and implications for stimulation / T. J. Wynn, R. Kumar, R. Jones, K. Howell, D. Maxwell and P. Bailey / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 458, 113-129, 30 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP458.3 --- The edge of failure: critical stress overpressure states in different tectonic regimes / Richard H. Sibson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 458, 131-141, 24 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP458.5 --- Active low-angle normal faults in the deep water Santos Basin, offshore Brazil: a geomechanical analogy between salt tectonics and crustal deformation / Marcos Fetter, Anderson Moraes and Andre Muller / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 458, 143-154, 26 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP458.11 --- Estimating friction in normal fault systems of the Basin and Range province and examining its geological context / Carson A. Richardson and Eric Seedorff / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 458, 155-179, 25 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP458.8 --- Natural CO2 sites in Italy show the importance of overburden geopressure, fractures and faults for CO2 storage performance and risk management / Jennifer J. Roberts, Mark Wilkinson, Mark Naylor, Zoe K. Shipton, Rachel A. Wood and R. Stuart Haszeldine / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 458, 181-211, 19 June 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP458.14 --- An improved procedure for pre-drill calculation of fracture pressure / Richard W. Lahann and Richard E. Swarbrick / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 458, 213-225, 30 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP458.13 --- Relationships between geomechanical properties and lithotypes in NW European chalks / Fanny Descamps, Ophélie Faÿ-Gomord, Sara Vandycke, Christian Schroeder, Rudy Swennen and Jean-Pierre Tshibangu / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 458, 227-244, 25 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP458.9 --- Mechanical constraints on kink band and thrust development in the Appalachian Plateau, USA / Paul Gillespie and Günther Kampfer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 458, 245-256, 12 June 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP458.12 --- Opening-mode fracture systems: insights from recent fluid inclusion microthermometry studies of crack-seal fracture cements / Joseph M. English and Stephen E. Laubach / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 458, 257-272, 24 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP458.1 --- Geomechanical characterization of mud volcanoes using P-wave velocity datasets / Rashad Gulmammadov, Stephen Covey-Crump and Mads Huuse / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 458, 273-292, 24 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP458.2

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Conceptual development toward a rangeland systems framework --- Part: 1 Processes --- 2. Woody plant encroachment --- 3. Ecohydrology: processes and implications for rangelands --- 4. Soil and belowground processes --- 5. Structural heterogeneity as the basis for rangeland management --- 6. Non-equilibrium ecology and resilience theory --- 7. Ecological consequences of climate change on rangelands --- Part: 2 Management --- 8. Rangelands as social-ecological systems --- 9. State and transition models: theory, applications, and challenges --- 10. Livestock production systems --- 11. Adaptive management of rangeland systems --- 12. Managing the livestock-wildlife interface on rangelands --- Part: 3 Challenges --- 13. Invasive plant species and novel rangeland systems --- 14. Rangeland ecosystem services: nature´s supply and humans´ demand --- 15. Managing climate change risks in rangeland systems --- 16. Monitoring protocols: options, approaches, implementation, benefits --- 17. Rangeland systems in developing nations: conceptual advances and societal implications

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: The NIRS Cap: Key Part of Emerging Wearable Brain-Device Interfaces by Amal Kassab and Mohamad Sawan --- Chapter 2: Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS): A Novel Tool for Intravascular Coronary Imaging by Marie-Jeanne Bertrand, Philippe Lavoie-L’Allier and Jean-Claude Tardif --- Chapter 3: Highly Sensitive Singlet Oxygen Spectroscopic System Using InGaAs PIN Photodiode by Iwao Mizumoto, Hiroshi Oguma and Yostumi Yoshi --- Chapter 4: Carbohydrate Analysis by NIRS-Chemometrics by Mercedes G. López, Ana Sarahí García-González and Elena Franco- Robles --- Chapter 5: Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Agricultural Systems by Francisco García-Sánchez, Luis Galvez-Sola, Juan J. Martínez- Nicolás, Raquel Muelas-Domingo and Manuel Nieves --- Chapter 6: Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Combined with Multivariate Tools for Analysis of Trace Metals in Environmental Matrices by Philiswa N. Nomngongo, Tshimangadzo S. Munonde, Anele Mpupa and Nkositetile Raphael Biata

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Numerical Analysis of Three-Dimensional MHD Nanofluid Flow over a Stretching Sheet with Convective Boundary Conditions through a Porous Medium by Stanford Shateyi --- Chapter 2: Cattanneo-Christov Heat Flux Model Study for Water-Based CNT Suspended Nanofluid Past a Stretching Surface by Noreen Sher Akbar, C. M. Khalique and Zafar Hayat Khan --- Chapter 3: Thermophysical Properties of Metal Oxides Nanofluids by Zafar Said and Rahman Saidur --- Chapter 4: Measuring Nanofluid Thermal Diffusivity and Thermal Effusivity: The Reliability of the Photopyroelectric Technique by Monir Noroozi and Azmi Zakaria --- Chapter 5: Problems Faced While Simulating Nanofluids by Adil Loya --- Chapter 6: Enhancing Heat Transfer in Internal Combustion Engine by Applying Nanofluids by Wenzheng Cui, Zhaojie Shen, Jianguo Yang and Shaohua Wu --- Chapter 7: Heat Transfer of Ferrofluids by Seval Genc --- Chapter 8: Nanofluid with Colloidal Magnetic Fe3O4 Nanoparticles and Its Applications in Electrical Engineering by Lucian Pîslaru-Dănescu, Gabriela Telipan, Floriana D. Stoian, Sorin Holotescu and Oana Maria Marinică --- Chapter 9: Magnetic Nanofluids: Mechanism of Heat Generation and Transport and Their Biomedical Application by Prem P. Vaishnava and Ronald J. Tackett --- Chapter 10: Energy Transfer in Mixed Convection MHD Flow of Nanofluid Containing Different Shapes of Nanoparticles in a Channel Filled with Saturated Porous Medium by Aaiza Gul, Ilyas Khan and Sharidan Shafie

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Intermittent Formation, Sedimentation and Deformation History of Cenozoic Forearc Basins along the Northwestern Pacific Margins as an Indicator of Tectonic Scenarios by Osamu Takano --- Chapter 2: Cretaceous Research: Paleolatitudes and Northward Migration of Crustal Fragments in the NW Pacific Inferred from Paleomagnetic Studies by Yasuto Itoh and Reishi Takashima --- Chapter 3: Stratigraphic and Petrological Insights into the Late Jurassic– Early Cretaceous Tectonic Framework of the Northwest Pacific Margin by Reishi Takashima, Hiroshi Nishi and Takeyoshi Yoshida --- Chapter 4: Cretaceous Research: A New Constraint on the Paleostress Regime of Southwest Japan Based on Microfabric Analysis of a Granitic Pluton by Yasuto Itoh --- Chapter 5: Tectonic Synthesis: A Plate Reconstruction Model of the NW Pacific Region Since 100 Ma by Yasuto Itoh, Osamu Takano and Reishi Takashima

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Electrochemical Sensors Technology by Mohammed Muzibur Rahman and Abdullah Mohamed Asiri --- Chapter 2: Enzyme-Based Electrochemical Glutamate Biosensors by Stanley L. Okon and Niina J. Ronkainen --- Chapter 3: Graphene-Paper Based Electrochemical Sensors by Minwei Zhang, Arnab Halder, Xianyi Cao, Chengyi Hou and Qijin Chi --- Chapter 4: Electrochemical Sensors for Monitoring of Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution by Igor Cretescu, Doina Lutic and Liliana Rosemarie Manea --- Chapter 5: Experimental Analysis of Modified CNTs-Based Gas Sensor by Ju Tang, Xiaoxing Zhang, Song Xiao and Yingang Gui --- Chapter 6: Fabrication and Characterization of Metal-Loaded Mixed Metal Oxides Gas Sensors for the Detection of Hazardous Gases by Chang-Seop Lee and Yong Jae Kim --- Chapter 7: Managing H2O Cross-Sensitivity Using Composite Electrolyte NOx Sensors by Erica Perry Murray, Khawlah Kharashi and Kehinde Adedeji

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Recent Advances by Adel El-Shahat --- Chapter 2: Electrical Resistivity Sensing Methods and Implications by Marios Sophocleous --- Chapter 3: Resistivity Model of Frozen Soil and High-Density Resistivity Method for Exploration Discontinuous Permafrost by Wei Shan, Zhaoguang Hu, Ying Guo, Chengcheng Zhang and Yao Liu --- Chapter 4: Measurement of the Electrical Resistivity for Unconventional Structures by Lucian Pîslaru-Dănescu and Lipan Laurențiu Constantin --- Chapter 5: Estimation of Hydrological Parameters from Geoelectrical Measurements by Héctor José Peinado Guevara, Jaime Herrera Barrientos, Omar Delgado Rodríguez, Víctor Manuel Peinado Guevara, Omar Llanes Cárdenas and María Ladrón De Guevara Torres --- Chapter 6: Assessment of Cryoprotectant Concentration by Electrical Conductivity Measurement and Its Applications in Cryopreservation by Zhiquan Shu, Hsiu-Hung Chen, Xiaoming Zhou and Dayong Gao

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: The SF6 Decomposition Mechanism: Background and Significance by Xiaoxing Zhang, Ju Tang, Song Xiao and Fuping Zeng --- Chapter 2: Application of CNTs Gas Sensor in Online Monitoring of SF6 Insulated Equipment by Xiaoxing Zhang, Song Xiao, Ju Tang and Cheng Pan --- Chapter 3: Application of TiO2 Nanotubes Gas Sensors in Online Monitoring of SF6 Insulated Equipment by Ju Tang, Xiaoxing Zhang, Song Xiao and Fuping Zeng --- Chapter 4: Application of Graphene Gas Sensors in Online Monitoring of SF6 Insulated Equipment by Xiaoxing Zhang, Ju Tang, Song Xiao and Cheng Pan --- Chapter 5: Comparative Study of Materials to SF6 Decomposition Components by Xiaoxing Zhang, Ju Tang, Song Xiao, Fuping Zeng, Cheng Pan and Yingang Gui

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Modelling and Simulation of Complex Adaptive System: The Diffusion of Socio-Environmental Innovation in the RENDRUS Network by Aida Huerta Barrientos and Yazmin Dillarza Andrade --- Chapter 2: Rendering Techniques in 3D Computer Graphics Based on Changes in the Brightness of the Object Background by Nika Bratuž, Helena Gabrijelčič Tomc and Dejana Javoršek --- Chapter 3: Modelling and Visualisation of the Optical Properties of Cloth by Tanja Nuša Kočevar and Helena Gabrijelčič Tomc --- Chapter 4: Textile Forms’ Computer Simulation Techniques by Andreja Rudolf, Slavica Bogović, Beti Rogina Car, Andrej Cupar, Zoran Stjepanovič and Simona Jevšnik --- Chapter 5: Computer Simulation of Bioprocess by Jianqun Lin, Ling Gao, Huibin Lin, Yilin Ren, Yutian Lin and Jianqiang Lin --- Chapter 6: Developing a Hybrid Model and a Multi-Scale 3D Concept of Integrated Modelling High-Temperature Processes by Marcin Hojny --- Chapter 7: Computer-Aided Physical Simulation of the Soft-Reduction and Rolling Process by Marcin Hojny --- Chapter 8: Surrogate Modelling with Sequential Design for Expensive Simulation Applications by Joachim van der Herten, Tom Van Steenkiste, Ivo Couckuyt and Tom Dhaene --- Chapter 9: Computer Simulation of High-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields by Andrey D. Grigoriev --- Chapter 10: Modeling and Simulation of Task Allocation with Colored Petri Nets by Mildreth Alcaraz-Mejia, Raul Campos-Rodriguez and Marco Caballero-Gutierrez --- Chapter 11: Multi-Criteria Decision-Making in the Implementation of Renewable Energy Sources by Dejan Jovanovic and Ivan Pribicevic

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: The Importance of Cosmology in Culture: Contexts and Consequences by Nicholas Campion --- Chapter 2: Constraining the Parameters of a Model for Cold Dark Matter by Abdessamad Abada --- Chapter 3: Neutrino Interactions with Nuclei and Dark Matter by Paraskevi C. Divari --- Chapter 4: Relativistic Celestial Metrology: Dark Matter as an Inertial Gauge Effect by Luca Lusanna and Ruggero Stanga --- Chapter 5: Superfluid Quantum Space and Evolution of the Universe by Valeriy I. Sbitnev and Marco Fedi --- Chapter 6: Modified Gravity Theories: Distinguishing from ΛCDM Model by Koichi Hirano --- Chapter 7: The Impact of Baryons on the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe by Weiguang Cui and Youcai Zhang --- Chapter 8: Cosmological Consequences of a Quantum Theory of Mass and Gravity by Brian Albert Robson --- Chapter 9: Deformed Phase Space in Cosmology and Black Holes by E.A. Mena-Barboza, L.F. Escamilla-Herrera, J.C. López-Domínguez and J. Torres-Arenas --- Chapter 10: Semi-Analytic Techniques for Solving Quasi-Normal Modes by Chun-Hung Chen, Hing-Tong Cho and Alan S. Cornell

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Applications of Chemometrics-Assisted Voltammetric Analysis by Ali R. Jalalvand --- Chapter 2: Study of Metrological Properties of Voltammetric Electrodes in the Time Domain by Krzysztof Suchocki --- Chapter 3: Direct Electron Transfer of Human Hemoglobin Molecules on Glass/Tin-Doped Indium Oxide by Flavio Dolores Martínez-Mancera and José Luis Hernández-López --- Chapter 4: Advances and Trends in Voltammetric Analysis of Dyes by Felipe Fantinato Hudari, Michelle Fernanda Brugnera and Maria Valnice Boldrin Zanoni --- Chapter 5: Applications of Voltammetric Analysis to Wine Products by Dolores Hernanz-Vila, M. José Jara-Palacios, M. Luisa Escudero- Gilete and Francisco J. Heredia --- Chapter 6: Modified Electrodes for Determining Trace Metal Ions by Pipat Chooto

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Deep Ultraviolet Single-Photon Ionization Mass Spectrometry by Zhixun Luo --- Chapter 2: Interpretation of Mass Spectra by Teodor Octavian Nicolescu --- Chapter 3: Performing Quantitative Determination of Low-Abundant Proteins by Targeted Mass Spectrometry Liquid Chromatography by Tore Vehus --- Chapter 4: Pesticides and Their Degradation Products Including Metabolites: Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Methods by Renata Raina-Fulton, Nicole Dunn and Zhen Xie --- Chapter 5: Mass Spectrometry for the Sensitive Analysis of Intracellular Nucleotides and Analogues by Kateřina Mičová, David Friedecký and Tomáš Adam --- Chapter 6: LC-HRMS for the Identification of β-Carboline and Canthinone Alkaloids Isolated from Natural Sources by Ana Claudia F. Amaral, Aline de S. Ramos, José Luiz P. Ferreira, Arith R. dos Santos, Jefferson D. da Cruz, Adélia Viviane M. De Luna, Vinicius Vaz C. Nery, Iasmim C. de Lima, Marcelo Henrique da C. Chaves and Jefferson Rocha de A. Silva --- Chapter 7: Applications of Mass Spectrometric Techniques to the Analysis of Fuels and Lubricants by David W. Johnson --- Chapter 8: Mass Spectrometry for the Detection of Endogenous Steroids and Steroid Abuse in (Race) Horses and Human Athletes by Decloedt Anneleen, Van Landschoot Anita and Vanhaecke Lynn --- Chapter 9: Use of Mass Spectrometry for the Determination of Formaldehyde in Samples Potentially Toxic to Humans: A Brief Review by Aline de Souza, Isabela Cristina Matos Cunha, Júnior Olair Chagas, Elisandra Bárbara Pontes Carlos, Luana Lacerda Santos, Thamires Ráfaga Campos e Figueredo, Lucília Alves Linhares Machado, Vanessa Moreira Osório, Karla Moreira Vieira and Fabiana Aparecida Lobo

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: State-of-the-Art Antenna Technology for Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RANs) by Waleed Tariq Sethi, Abdullah Alfakhri, Muhammad Ahmad Ashraf, Amr G. Alasaad and Saleh Alshebeili --- Chapter 2: Cloud Computing for Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis by Shanrong Zhao, Kirk Watrous, Chi Zhang and Baohong Zhang --- Chapter 3: Green-Aware Virtual Machine Migration Strategy in Sustainable Cloud Computing Environments by Xiaoying Wang, Guojing Zhang, Mengqin Yang and Lei Zhang --- Chapter 4: M-ary Optical Computing by Jian Wang and Yun Long --- Chapter 5: Networking Solutions for Integrated Heterogeneous Wireless Ecosystem by Roman Florea, Aleksandr Ometov, Adam Surak, Sergey Andreev and Yevgeni Koucheryavy

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Graphene and Active Metamaterials: Theoretical Methods and Physical Properties by Marios Mattheakis, Giorgos P. Tsironis and Efthimios Kaxiras --- Chapter 2: Magneto-Plasmonics and Optical Activity in Graphene-Based Nanowires by Dmitry A. Kuzmin, Igor V. Bychkov, Vladimir G. Shavrov and Vasily V. Temnov --- Chapter 3: Nanoplasmonics in Metallic Nanostructures and Dirac Systems by Hari P. Paudel, Alireza Safaei and Michael N. Leuenberger --- Chapter 4: Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Effects of Metal Nanoparticles Composites by Kwang-Hyon Kim, Anton Husakou and Joachim Herrmann --- Chapter 5: Understanding the Physical Behavior of Plasmonic Antennas Through Computational Electromagnetics by Xuezhi Zheng, Guy A.E. Vandenbosch and Victor V. Moshchalkov --- Chapter 6: Plasmonic Field Distribution of Homo- and Hetero Dimeric Ag and Au Nanoparticles by Nasrin Hooshmand --- Chapter 7: Optical Absorption and Thermal Effects of Plasmonic Nanostructures by Jingzhi Wu and Yanhong Wang --- Chapter 8: Infrared Solar Thermal-Shielding Applications Based on Oxide Semiconductor Plasmonics by Hiroaki Matsui and Hitoshi Tabata --- Chapter 9: Surface Plasmonics and Its Applications in Infrared Sensing by Guiru Gu, Xuejun Lu, Thitikorn Kemsri and Yingjie Zhang --- Chapter 10: Equivalent Nanocircuit Theory and Its Applications by Qing Zhang, Jun You and Chengpu Liu --- Chapter 11: Nanoplasmonic Waveguides Filled with Electro-Optical Materials by Montasir Qasymeh --- Chapter 12: Impedance Matching Analysis of Cylindrical Plasmonic Nanoantennas Fed by Optical Transmission Lines by Karlo Queiroz da Costa, Janilson Leão Souza and Victor Dmitriev --- Chapter 13: Tapered Plasmonic Nanoantennas for Energy Harvesting Applications by Youssef Mamdouh El-Toukhy, Mohamed Farhat Othman Hameed, Mohamed Hussein and Salah Sabry Ahmed Obayya --- Chapter 14: Plasmonics Devoted to Photocatalytic Applications in Liquid, Gas, and Biological Environments by Carlos J. Bueno-Alejo, Adriana Arca-Ramos and Jose L. Hueso --- Chapter 15: Plasmonic Nanostructures as Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Substrate for Protein Biomarker Sensing by Dan Li and Yuling Wang --- Chapter 16: SERS Application for Analysis of Live Single Cell by Waleed Ahmed El-Said, Hyeon-Yeol Cho and Jeong-Woo Choi --- Chapter 17: Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance for Optical Fiber-Sensing Applications by Pedro J. Rivero, Javier Goicoechea and Francisco J. Arregui --- Chapter 18: Laser Annealing as a Platform for Plasmonic Nanostructuring by Nikolaos Kalfagiannis, Demosthenes C. Koutsogeorgis, Elefterios Lidorikis and Panos Patsalas --- Chapter 19: Fabrication of Plasmonic Crystalline Thin Film of Titanium Nitride (TiN) by Pulsed Laser Deposition with Third Harmonic of Nd:YAG Laser and Its Spectroscopic Analyses by Yasushi Oshikane