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Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Einleitung ; Theorie der Beschaffung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Beschaffungspraxis ; Übungsfälle

Description / Table of Contents: The Oman Mountains contain one of the world's best- exposed and best-understood fold-thrust belts and the largest, best-exposed and most intensively studied ophiolite complex on Earth. This volume presentsnew international research from authors currently active in the field focusing on the geology of the Oman Mountains, the foreland region, the carbonate platforms of Northern and Central Oman and the underlying basement complex. In addition there is a particular focus on geoconservation in the region.The volume is divided into three main sections that discuss the tectonics of the Arabian plate using insights from geophysics, petrology, structural geology, geochronology and palaeontology; the petrology andgeochemistry of the Oman Ophiolite and the sedimentary and hydrocarbon systems of Oman, drawing on the geophysics, structure and sedimentology of these systems. The volume is enhanced by numerous colour images

Description / Table of Contents: This text book provides the theoretical background of rock fracture mechanics and displacement discontinuity methods used for the modelling of geomechanical problems. The computer program FRACOD is used to analyse the fracture problems, assessing fracture initiation and propagation in tension (Mode I), shear (Mode II) and mixed mode I and II of solid intact or jointed geomaterials. The book also presents the fundamentals of thermo-mechanical coupling and hydro-mechanical coupling. Formulations of multiple regional mechanical, thermal and hydraulic functions, which allow analyses of fracture mechanics problems for structures made of brittle, rock-like materials, are provided. In addition, instructive examples of code verification and applications are presented. Additional material: The 2-D version of the FRACOD program, a manual on the program and a wealth of verification examples of classical problems in physics, mechanics and hydromechanics are available at http://extras.springer.com. A large number of applications related to civil, mining, petroleum and environmental engineering are also included.- The first textbook available on modelling of rock fracture propagation - Introduces readers to the fundamentals of rock fracturing - Uses a modern style of teaching with theory, mathematical modelling and applications in one package - The basic version of the FRACOD software, manual, verification examples and applications are available as additional material - The FRACOD program and manual enable the readers to solve fracture propagation problems on their own.

Description / Table of Contents: Content: 1 Mechanical Testing of Ceramics 2 Ductile Ceramics 3 Imperfections (Defects) in Ceramics 4 Deformation in Ceramics 5 The Strength and Strengthening of Ceramics 6 Time-Dependent Deformation Creep 7 Cyclic Stress Fatigue 8 Fracture 9 Mechanical Properties of Nano-Grain-Size Ceramics

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

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Einführung ; 1 Was verstehen wir unter Klima? ; 2 Die Entdeckung von Klimawandel ; 3 Was leistet Wissenschaft? ; 4 Welchen Wert haben Werte? ; 5 Woran wir glauben ; 6 Wovor wir uns fürchten ; 7 Wie kommunizieren wir Risiken? ; 8 Was ist Fortschritt? ; 9 Wer regiert das Klima? ; 10 Jenseits von Klimawandel

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: PART I: CONFLICT: BARRIERS TO A NEW AGREEMENT ; 1. Observations from the climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa ; 2. Does fairness matter in international environmental governance ; 3. Formation of climate agreements: The role of uncertainty and learning ; 4. Burden sharing in global climate governance ; 5. Negotiating to avoid 'gradual' versus 'dangerous' climate change: An experimental test of two prisoners' dilemmas ; 6. U.S. climate policy and the shale gas revolution ; PART 2:RESOLUTION: PATHS TOWARD A NEW AGREEMENT ; 7. The role of inequality in international environmental agreements with endogenous minimum participation requirements ; 8. Climate policy coordination through institutional design: an experimental examination ; 9. Improving the design of international environmental agreements ; 10. Managing dangerous anthropogenic interference: decision rules for climate governance ; 11. Exclusive approaches to climate governance: More effective than the UNFCCC? ; 12. Bottom up or top down ; PART 3:GOVERNANCE: STRUCTURES FOR A NEW AGREEMENT ; 13. Rethinking the legal form and principles of a new climate agreement ; 14. Technology agreements with heterogenous countries ; 15. International guidance for border carbon adjustments to address carbon leakage ; 16. The effect of enforcement in the presence of strong reciprocity: an application of agent-based modeling ; 17. EU emissions trading: achievements, challenges, solutions ; 18. The EU's quest for linked carbon markets: turbulence and headwind

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I - People ; 1 Arrow's Ambitions ; 2 McKenzie's Frustrations ; 3 Debreu's Silence ; Part II - Context ; 4 Sites ; 5 Community ; Part III - Credit ; 6 Three Proofs ; 7 Aftermath ; 8 The Proofs Become History ; Conclusion ; Coda

Description / Table of Contents: The Caledonides are a major orogenic belt that stretches from the Arctic, through Scandinavia, East Greenland, Britain and Ireland into the Atlantic coast of North America. Following the break-up of Rodinia, the Caledonides formed in the Palaeozoic by the drifting of various continents and their eventualaggregation in the Silurian and Devonian. The orogen subsequently fragmented during the opening of the Atlantic Ocean. This volume brings together 25 papers presenting the results of modern research that investigates the orogenic processes and the provenance of specific components of the belt. The contributions reflect different lines of research, linking traditional field studies with modern analytical techniques.In addition three overview papers summarize the main features of the belts in Scandinavia, Svalbard,East Greenland, Britain and Ireland, highlighting the advances made since the last major synthesis of theScandinavian Caledonides 30 years ago, and discussing important open questions.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction and contextual background ; 2. Methodological approach ; 3. Current initiatives promoting youth entrepreneurship in Egypt and Tunisia ; 4. Evaluation of initiatives promoting youth entrepreneurship in Tunisia and Egypt

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction ; 2 Background ; 3. Opportunities offered by the carbon market for the management and destruction of ODS banks ; 4 Barriers to development of ODS destruction projects in developing countries ; 5 Possible solutions to the identified barriers , 6 Conclusions

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction: The Ostroms' Research Program for the Study ofInstitutions and Governance: Theoretical and Epistemic Foundations ; Part One: Public Choice and Political Economy ; Chapter One: Public Choice: A Different Approach to the Study of Public Administration ; Chapter Two: Polycentricity: The Structural Basis of Self-Governing Systems ; Chapter Three: The Quest for Meaning in Public Choice ; Part Two: Beyond Public Choice: Institutions, Rules and Governance Systems ; Chapter Four: An Agenda for the Study of Institutions ; Chapter Five: A Behavioural Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action ; Chapter Six: Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems ; Part Three: Epistemic and Social Philosophical Perspectives ; Chapter Seven: Beyond Positivism ; Chapter Eight: A Conceptual-Computational Logic for Federal Systems of Governance ; Chapter Nine: Epistemic Choice and Public Choice

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction ; PART I: PRINCIPLES ; 1. The Law of Treaties; or, Should this Book Exist? ; 2. The Law of Treaties through the Interplay of its Different Sources ; 3. Regulating Treaties: A Comparative Perspective ; 4. Theorizing Treaties: The Consequences of the Contractual Analogy ; 5. The Effects of Treaties in Domestic Law ; PART II: DIMENSIONS ; 6. The Temporal Dimension: Non-retroactivity and Its Discontents ; 7. The Spatial Dimension: Treaties and Territory ; 8. The Personal Dimension: Challenges to the pacta tertiis Rule ; PART III: TENSIONS ; 9. Formalism versus Flexibility in the Law of Treaties ; 10. Integrity versus Flexibility in the Application of Treaties ; 11. Pacta sunt servanda versus Flexibility in the Suspension and Termination of Treaties ; 12. Uniformity versus Specialisation (1): The Quest for a Uniform Law of Inter-State Treaties ; 13. Uniformity versus Specialisation (2): A Uniform Regime of Treaty Interpretation? PART IV: INTERACTIONS AND RUPTURES ; 14. Regime-collisions: Tensions Between Treaties (and How to Solve Them) ; 15. Responding to Deliberately-created Treaty Conflicts ; 16. Treaty Breaches and Responses ; 17. Succession to Treaties and the Inherent Limits of International Law ; 18. Treaties and Armed Conflict ; PART V: EXPANSIONS ; 19. Treaties and International Organisations: Uneasy Analogies ; 20. Treaty Law and Multinational Enterprises: More than Internationalized Contracts? ; 21. Treaties and Individuals: Of Beneficiaries, Duty-bearers, Users, and Participants

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Introduction ; 2 Overview of IMAGE 3.0 ; 3 Drivers ; 4 Human system ; 4.1 Energy Supply and Demand ; 4.2 Agriculture and land use ; 5 Interaction between the Human and the Earth system ; 5.1 Land cover and land use ; 5.2 Emissions ; 6 Earth system ; 6.1 Carbon cycle and natural vegetation ; 6.2 Crops and grass ; 6.3 Water ; 6.4 Nutrients ; 6.5 Atmospheric composition and climate ; 7 Impacts ; 7.1 Overview ; 7.2 Terrestrial biodiversity ; 7.3 Aquatic biodiversity ; 7.4 Flood Risks ; 7.5 Land degradation ; 7.6 Ecosystem services ; 7.7 Human development ; 8 Policy responses ; 8.1 Climate policy ; 8.2 Air pollution and energy policies ; 8.3 Land and biodiversity policies ; 9 Concluding remarks ; 10 References

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction ; 2. Overall socio-economic status of North African countries ; 3. State of manufacturing production in North African countries ; 4. State of manufactured exports in North Africa ; 5. Discussion and conclusion

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction ; 2. Background and related empirical literature ; 3. Data description and methodology ; 4. Empirical results ; 5. Conclusions

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Prologue ; Why we need to transform ourselves ; Planet Earth in the Anthropocene - the Age of Humans ; Hot stuff: climate change ; We're not that stupid. A glance into the past ; Technically, everything is possible ; A task fot the whole world ; Who is going to pay for it? ; The State also has a role to play ; Politicians can't manage it alone

Description / Table of Contents: Als die deutsche Bundesregierung im Juni 2011 die Energiewende verkündete, läutete sie damit gleichzeitig das Ende der Kernenergienutzung zur Stromproduktion ein. Bis zum Jahr 2022 soll kein deutsches Kernkraftwerk mehr Strom produzieren. Allerdings ist die Frage nach der Endlagerung radioaktiver Abfälle nicht beantwortet. Bislang ist weltweit noch kein Endlager für wärmeentwickelnde Abfälle in Betrieb. Hinsichtlich der Langzeitsicherheit eines Endlagers ist neben Art und Menge der Abfälle auch die Dauer entscheidend, über die die Abfälle sicher aufbewahrt werden müssen. Eine Möglichkeit, das Langzeit-Gefährdungspotenzial wärmeentwickelnder Abfälle zu verringern, könnte Partitionierung und Transmutation (P&T) sein, eine Technik, die sich derzeit in Forschung und Entwicklung befindet.In einem interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekt wurden die technischen und gesellschaftlichen Chancen und Risiken von P&T anhand von Szenarien untersucht. Das übergeordnete Ziel war es, eine sachgerechte und ausgewogene Grundlage zu erarbeiten, anhand derer entschieden werden kann, wie sich Deutschland in Fragen der P&T-Forschung zukünftig positionieren möchte. Die vorliegende acatech STUDIE fasst die Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojekts zusammen und gibt Aufschluss über die Möglichkeiten und Perspektiven von P&T in Deutschland.

Description / Table of Contents: This revised and updated edition focuses on constrained ordination (RDA, CCA), variation partitioning and the use of permutation tests of statistical hypotheses about multivariate data. Both classification and modern regression methods (GLM, GAM, loess) are reviewes and species functional traits and spatial structures are analysed. Nine case studies of varying difficulty help to illustrate the suggestes analytical methods, using the latest version of Canoco 5. All studies utilise descriptive and manipulative approaches, and are supported by data sets and project files available from the book website: http://regent.prf.jcu.cz/maed2/. Written primarily for community ecologists needing to analyse data resulting from field observations and experiments, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers dealing with both simple and complex ecological problems, such as the variation of biotic communities with environmental conditions or their response to experimental manipulation.

Description / Table of Contents: Das Werk stellt eine unverzichtbare Arbeitsunterlage dar, da es eine Klammer für die umfangreichen Bereiche Vermessung und Geoinformation bildet. Es bietet in dieser Form eine einzigartige Zusammenfassung der einzelnen Fachthemen, die bislang nicht in einem Gesamtwerk zu finden waren. Die Ausgabe 2015 widmet sich den Themenschwerpunkten Gesellschaftliche Verankerung und institutionelles Gefüge, Aufgabenfelder und Wirkungsbereiche, Technische Netzwerke und Transfer sowie Forschung und Lehre.Das Jahrbuch ist mit seiner einzigartigen Themenzusammenstellung ein unentbehrliches Nachschlagewerk in den Bereichen Vermessung und Geoinformation.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction: One Way or Another, Everything Changes ; PART ONE - BAD TIMING ; 1 The Right is Right: The Revolutionary Power of Climatre Change ; 2 Hot Money: How Free Market Fundamentalism Helped Overheat the Planet ; 3 Public and Paid for: Overcoming the Ideological Blocks to the Next Economy ; 4 Planning and Banning: Slapping the Invisible Hand, Building a Movement ; 5 Beyond Extractivism: Confronting the Climate Denier Within ; PART TWO - MAGICAL THINKING ; 6 Fruits, Not Roots: The Disastrous Merger of Big Business and Big Green ; 7 No Messiahs: The Green Billionaires Won't Save Us ; 8 Dimming the Sun: The Solution to Pollution Is ... Pollution? ; 9 Blockadia: The New Climate Warriors ; 10 Love Will Save This Place: Democracy, Divestment, and the Wins So Far ; 11 You and What Army? Indigenous Rights and the Power of Keeping Our Word ; 12 Sharing the Sky: The Atmospheric Commons and the Power of Paying Our Debts ; 13 The Right to Regenerate: Moving from Extraction to Renewal ; Conclusion: The Leap of Years: Just Enough Time for Impossible

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Kapitel 1 Aufstieg eines globalen Rohstoffs ; Kapitel 2 Der Aufbau des Kriegskapitalismus ; Kapitel 3 Der Lohn des Kriegskapitalismus ; Kapitel 4 Jagd nach Arbeitern und Eroberung von Land ; Kapitel 5 Die Sklaverei auf dem Vormarsch ; Kapitel 6 Der Industriekapitalismus im Aufwind ; Kapitel 7 Die Mobilisierung von Fabrikarbeitern ; Kapitel 8 Die Bildung globaler Netzwerke ; Kapitel 9 Ein Krieg und sein weltweiter Widerhall ; Kapitel 10 Der Umbau des Baumwollimperiums ; Kapitel 11 Kreative Zerstörungen ; Kapitel 12 Unter nationaler Flagge: der neue Baumwollimperialismus ; Kapitel 13 Rückkehr in den globalen Süden ; Kapitel 14 Kette und Schuss. Ein Epilog

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: EINLEITUNG ; ABSCHNITT I: GRUNDLAGEN ; 1. Problemaufriss ; 2. Ziele und Alternativen ; ABSCHNITT II: STRATEGIEPFADE ; 3. Effizienzstrategie ; 4. Erneuerbare Energien ; 5. Notwendige Infrastruktur ; 6. Bewertung der technischen Bedingungen ; ABSCHNITT III: DIREKTE AKTEURE ; 7. Leitplanken für die Energiewende ; 8. Grundlagen der Akteursanalyse ; 9. Die globale Ebene ; 10. Die Rolle der EU ; 11. Nationalstaaten - Beispiel Deutschland ; 12. Bundesländer ; ABSCHNITT IV: INDIREKTE AKTEURE ; 13. Überregionale Unternehmen und Verbände ; 14. Kommunen ; 15. Kommunale Unternehmen ? Stadtwerke ; 16. Energiegenossenschaften ; 17. Einzelne Akteure und Gruppen ; Abschnitt V: Schlusskapitel

Description / Table of Contents: Inhaltsverzeichnis des Einführunosbandes: Widmung. - Vorangestelltes Nachwort. - Danksagung. - Einführung. - Notabene : LI Übersicht über die Teile des Gesamtvorhabens. - Artikel 00: Über die Schwierigkeiten des Anfangens. - Artikel 01: Zur Glaziologie und ihren Sparten, speziell zur Eiszeitglaziologie. - Anmerkungen zu Artikel 00. - Anmerkungen zu Artikel 01. - Literaturnachweis. - Porträtverzeichnis. - Personen-Index .

Description / Table of Contents: Seit 1985 beschäftige ich mich mit dem Problem des Entstehens, der Mechanik und der Wirkungsweise der Binnenlandvereisungen von Nordeuropa, die einst die nord- und mitteleuropäischen Landschaften prägten. Nachdem ich sehr bald erkannt hatte, dass in der bis damals vorliegenden Literatur zum Problem der Mechanik der Eisströme dieser Vereisungen (im Unterschied zur Mechanik der Gebirgsgletscher und der Eisströme Antarktikas / Grönlands) kein Werk von Belang zu finden ist, vertiefte ich mich in das Studium der gletscherkundlichen Literatur und der eiszeitglaziologiedienlichen Arbeiten der pleistozängeologischen und -geographischen Literatur, wobei mir der Umstand, in jenen Jahren mein Berufserwerbsleben nahezu abgeschlossen zu haben, den Einstieg in dieses Vollzeitstudium erst ermöglichte. Mein Arbeitsgebiet ist seither die Eiszeitglaziologie, d. i. der von mir unkonventionell abgegrenzte Teil der Glaziologie, der sich mit den kaltzeitinitiiert entstandenen schneebürtigen Binnenlandvereisungen des Pleistozän von Nordeuropa beschäftigt; diese Vereisungen unterscheiden sich ihrem Wesen nach von den warmzeitlich ent- bzw. bestehenden Gebirgsgletschern und den Eisschilden Antarktikas und Grönlands. Die Eiszeitglaziologie sehe ich als eine eigenständig bestehende Sparte der Glaziologie neben den etablierten Sparten (Rezent-)Gletscher-kunde, Schnee-, Firn-, Gletschereis- und Lawinenkunde sowie der Wissenschaft vom Eis Antarktikas / Grönlands: Die Eiszeitglaziologie grenzt sich ab von der Pleistozängeologie, die in der Literatur gern als ,Glazialgeologie' bezeichnet wird; in dem Maße, wie sie sich auf die Beobachtungen der Pleistozängeologie an den Hinterlassenschaften der vorzeitlichen Vereisungen stützen muss, ist sie auf deren Erkenntnisse angewiesen. Mit der Erarbeitung einer Theorie des Entstehens, der Mechanik und der Wirkungsweise der pleistozänen Binnenlandvereisungen von Nordeuropa [Eiszeitglaziologie-Theorie] bemühe ich mich, die Überlebtheit der alten Paradigmen über das Wesen dieser Vereisungen nachzuweisen. Der vorliegende Band führt in die Problematik dieser Aufgabe ein.

Description / Table of Contents: Your Python code may run correctly, but you need it to run faster. By exploring the fundamental theory behind design choices, this practical guide helps you gain a deeper understanding of Python's implementation. You'll learn how to locate performance bottlenecks and significantly speed up your code in high-data-volume programs. This book includes war stories from companies that use high performance Python for social media analytics, productionized machine learning, and other situations.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword ; Water ; People and governance ; Forests and wildlife ; Land and agriculture ; Industry and mining ; Air pollution ; Climate change ; Elections 2014

Description / Table of Contents: The focus of this R&D project is the development of a new integrated workflow using state of the art optimization techniques combined with the adjoint method for history matching. The integration concept is aimed at developing a robust workflow supporting decision processes for evaluating alternative production scenarios of oil and gas fields. For this purpose, SenEx, which is an advanced sensitivity computation tool capable of modifying rock properties on grid-block level, has been linked to the existing optimization framework MEPO. The Hotlink thus developed has been tested, reviewed and enhanced. Within the framework of this re-search project, the developed workflows have been applied to a spectrum of history match-ing problems with varying complexities.In general, multiple geological realizations were used to capture existing uncertainty in an extended optimization workflow, including history matching and production optimization. Us-ing this method, history match is typically achieved with significantly less number of iterations compared to existing methods. The workflow applied is useful for evaluating alternative re-development scenarios, quantifying uncertainties and generating realistic history matched models. Benchmarking work performed provided better insights into benefits and limitations of the adjoint method.

Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS: PREFACE. - INTERACT PARTNER STATIONS AND INTERACT OBSERVER STATIONS. - ABOUT INTERACT. - INTRODUCTION. - 1 Management planning. - 1.1Introduction to management planning. - 1.2 Master Plan/Strategic Plan and other management planning documents. - 1.2.1Vision and mission statements. - 1.2.2 Conceptual framework for the station. - 1.2.3 Terms of Reference (ToR) for station operations. - 1.2.4Strategy, including Programme and Implementation Plan. - 1.3 Other plans and regulations. - 1.3.1Land Use Plan. - 1.3.2Facility Plan. - 1.3.3 Business Plan / Financial Plan. - 1.3.4 Other relevant plans. - 1.3.5 Policies. - 1.3.6 Description of procedures, rules and recommendations. - 1.4Check lists. - 31.4.1Application handling - check list. - 1.4.2 Visitor information - check list. - 1.4.3 Emergency operations - check lists. - 1.4.6Inventories - check lists. - Key considerations. - Examples. - 2 Policies. - 2.1Introduction. - 2.2 Examples of types of policies. - Key considerations. - Examples. - 3 Staff. - 3.1Organisation, roles and responsibilities. - 3.2 Attracting and keeping good staff. - Key considerations. - Station examples. - 4 Visitors. - 4.1Introduction. - 4.2 Pre-visit phase (application phase). - 4.2.1Communication with potential applicants. - 4.2.2 Important information that can be included in information documents to visitors. - 4.3 Visit phase. - 4.3.1Communication with visitors at the station. - 4.3.2Creating a good work environment at the station. - 4.3.3 Conflict mitigation and mental health problems. - 4.4 Post-visit phase. - Key considerations. - Examples. - Station examples. - 5 Permit issues. - 5.1Introduction. - 5.2 National/regional/local legislation and permits. - 5.3 Communication with authorities and local communities. - 5.4 Application procedures and forms for station access. - 5.4.1Application guidelines for applicants. - 5.4.2 Application handling procedures for station management. - 5.4.3 Application form. - 5.4.4 Permit or user agreement. - 5.5 Communication with applicants. - 5.6 GIS based project management tool developed under INTERACT. - 5.6.1System specification. - 5.6.2Migration - inclusion of additional stations. - 5.6.3 Research on environmental informatics. - 5.6.4Typical development and implementation procedures. - Key considerations. - Examples. - 6Health and safety. - 6.1Introduction. - 6.2 Health and safety policies. - 6.2.1 Health policy - required health status for access to station. - 6.2.2 Under-aged, senior and family policy. - 6.2.3 Insurance policy and disclaimer. - 6.3 Important risks and mitigation measures. - 6.3.1Risk assessment. - 6.3.2Transport - risks and mitigation measures. - 6.3.3 Field work - risks and mitigation measures. - 6.3.4 At station - risks and mitigation measures. - 6.4 Emergency preparedness. - 6.5 Medical facilities. - 6.6 Health and safety training. - Key considerations. - Examples. - Station examples. - 7 Environmental impact. - 7.1Introduction. - 7.2 Legislation and standards. - 7.3 Environmental Impact Assessment. - 7.4 Limiting environmental impacts. - 7.5 Eco-policies. - Key considerations. - 8 Outreach and marketing. - 8.1Introduction. - 8.2 Stakeholders and marketing/outreach mechanisms. - 8.2.1Stakeholder groups - marketing. - 8.2.2Stakeholder groups - outreach. - 8.2.3 Marketing and outreach mechanisms. - 8.3 Developing a marketing and outreach strategy (or a communication strategy). - 8.4 Local involvement/Citizen Science. - Key considerations. - Examples. - Station examples. - 9 Research and monitoring. - 9.1Introduction. - 9.2 Organisational set-up of science and logistics functions. - 9.3 Research and monitoring strategy and working programme. - 9.4 International scientific networks and organisations with an arctic focus. - 9.4.1Arctic Council. - 9.4.2 Multi-disciplinary international organisations and projects. - 9.4.3 Single discipline/parameters networks. - 9.5 International assessments and strategies of relevance to development of science/monitoring strategies. - Key considerations. - Station examples. - 10 Training and education. - 10.1Introduction. - 10.2 Training. - 10.3 Education. - Key considerations. - Examples. - Station examples. - 11Knowledge capture and data management. - 11.1Introduction. - 11.2 Operational data for station management. - 11.3 Research data management. - 11.3.1Introduction to metadata and DOI. - 11.3.2 Data discovery and data publication. - 11.3.3 Data policies. - 11.4 Data-related outreach and education. - 11.5 Formulation of a 'Data Management Plan'. - Key considerations. - APPENDICES. - Appendices, Chapter 1 Management planning. - 1.1 Land Use Plan - Kings Bay logistics company, Svalbard. - 1.2 User information check list - Toolik Field Station, Alaska, USA. - Appendices, Chapter 2 Policies (station examples). - 2.1a Environmental policy - NERC Arctic Research Station, Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. - 2.1b Environmental policy - Sverdrup Station, Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. - 2.2a Ethics policy - NERC Arctic Research Station, Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. - 2.2b Ethics policy; alcohol and drugs policy - Sverdrup Station, Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. - 2.2c Ethics policy; alcohol and drugs policy - Toolik Field Station, Alaska, USA. - 2.3 Extreme weather/winter operation policy - Toolik Field Station, Alaska, USA. - 2.4a Health and safety policy - NERC Arctic Research Station, Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. - 2.4b Health and safety policy - Sverdrup Station, Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. - 2.5 Information policy (data and publication sharing policy) - NERC Arctic Research Station, Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. - 2.6 Sponsorship policy - NERC Arctic Research Station, Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. - 2.7 Staff policy - Sverdrup Station, Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. - 2.8a Transport; snow machine/snowmobile use policy - Barrow Arctic Research Center/Barrow Environmental Observatory, Alaska, USA.. - 2.8b Transport; snow machine/snowmobile use policy - Toolik Field Station, Alaska, USA. - 2.9 Under-aged and family policy - Toolik Field Station, Alaska, USA. - Appendices, Chapter 4 Visitors. - 4.1User guide - Sermilik Research Station, Greenland. - 4.2 Permit issues - FINSE Alpine Research Center, Norway. - 4.3 Visitor information - Kolari Research Unit, Finland. - 4.4 Visitor information - Abisko Scientific Research Station, Sweden. - Appendices, Chapter 5 Permit issues. - 5.1 Application form - Abisko Scientific Research Station, Sweden. - 5.2 Application form for protected areas - Metsähallitus, Finland. - 5.3 Application form - Finse Alpine Research Center, Norway. - 5.4Application form - Zackenberg Research Station, Greenland. - 5.5 Generalised application form based on best practice examples. - Appendices, Chapter 6 Health and safety. - 6.1Insurance statement, independent groups - Government of Greenland. - 6.2 Insurance statement, self-insured institutions - Government of Greenland. - 6.3 Risk assessment - Sermilik Research Station, Greenland. - 6.4 Declaration of indemnity - Samoylov Research Station/AWI, Russia/Germany. - Appendices, Chapter 7 Environmental management. - 7.1Example of generalised contents from Environmental Impact Assessment. - 7.2 EIA Screening Checklist with thought example (in grey text) - EU. - 7.3 Environmental impact and mitigation measures for research station operations. - Appendices, Chapter 9 Research and monitoring. - 9.1Example of research and monitoring strategy and working programme contents - Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring. - 9.2 Example of monitored variables - Abisko Scientific Research Station, Sweden. - Appendices, Chapter 11 Knowledge capture and data management. - 11.1 Development of local data capture and storing mechanism. - INDEX.

Description / Table of Contents: INTERACT is a one-stop shop for access to research infrastructures in the Arctic and in alpine areas of the Northern Hemisphere. The main objective of INTERACT is to build capacity for identifying, understanding, predicting and responding to changes throughout the wide environmental and land-use envelopes of the Arctic and alpine areas of the Northern Hemisphere. The INTERACT network of field stations provides a unique platform for terrestrial sciences and the network hosts and operates top level research and monitoring projects and programmes within a wide range of scientific disciplines. This book is about management of arctic and northern alpine research stations. In the book, INTERACT's station managers share their knowledge and experiences gained from managing a set of very different research stations in very different environmental and climatic settings. The target audience for the book is mainly managers of research stations in arctic and alpine areas, but it is the hope that it will also be a useful tool for others being involved in science coordination and logistics, for example research institutions, chief scientists and expedition planners.

Description / Table of Contents: Das HR-Praxishandbuch jetzt in der 4. Auflage! Lernen Sie, wie Sie alle im Personaleralltag wichtigen Aufgaben problemlos meistern: Schrittweise, detailliert und leicht verständlich vermittelt Ihnen dieses Buch die Grundlagen und zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie in SAP ERP HCM sicher navigieren. Sie finden z.B. das notwendige Wissen für die Personaladministration, das Reporting, die Zeitwirtschaft, die Entgeltabrechnung und das Reisekostenmanagement. Viele Screenshots, anschauliche Beispiele, Tipps und Übungsaufgaben versetzen Sie in die Lage, Ihre Arbeit in der Personalwirtschaft mit SAP effizienter zu gestalten.Diese 4. Auflage wird komplett überarbeitet, zu SAP ERP 6.0 (EHP 6 und 7) aktualisiert und um Informationen zu Self-Services, Formularen und den neuen Regelungen der Entgeltabrechnung erweitert.

Description / Table of Contents: Aus dem Inhalt: Grundlagen und Navigation, Aufbau von SAP ERP HCM, Personaladministration, Pflege ausgewählter Infotypen der Personaladministration, Reports und Querys in der Personaladministration, Zeitwirtschaft, Personalabrechnung, Organisationsmanagement, Veranstaltungsmanagement, Reisemanagement, Employee und Manager Self-Services in SAP NetWeaver Portal, HCM Prozesse und Formulare, Hilfefunktionen

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Introduction to Computers and C++ ; 2 Introduction to C++ Programming; Input/Output and Operators ; 3 Introduction to Classes, Objects and Strings ; 4 Control Statements: Part 1; Assignment, ++ and -- Operators ; 5 Control Statements: Part 2; Logical Operators ; 6 Functions and an Introduction to Recursion ; 7 Class Templates array and vector; Catching Exceptions ; 8 Pointers ; 9 Classes: A Deeper Look; Throwing Exceptions ; 10 Operator Overloading; Class string ; 11 Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance ; 12 Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism ; 13 Stream Input/Output: A Deeper Look ; 14 File Processing ; 15 Standard Library Containers and Iterators ; 16 Standard Library Algorithms ; 17 Exception Handling: A Deeper Look ; 18 Introduction to Custom Templates ; 19 Custom Templatized Data Structures ; 20 Searching and Sorting ; 21 Class string and String Stream Processing: A Deeper Look ; 22 Bits, Characters, C Strings and structs ; 23 Other Topics

Description / Table of Contents: Orogenic andesites have long intrigued scientists because of their remarkable compositional similarities to the continental crust. The significance of orogenic andesites as proxies to continental crust formation has been recognized for over 30 years, but no consensus model of andesite genesis exists. Much of the controversy revolves around whether orogenic andesites are primary melts of slab and mantle materials, or instead evolve from basaltic mantle melts at shallower crustal levels. In three sections, this book provides an overview of andesite genesis at convergent margins that focuses on the slab mantle interaction, crustal processing and andesite evolution through the life of volcanic arcs. Without favouring a particular view, the books aims to engender cross-fertilization and discussion that will smooth the pathway towards a holistic communal model of andesite petrogenesis and its role within the broader geochemical cycles of the Earth.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: PART 1 FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS. - 1 Introduction. - 1.1 Climate archives, variables and dating. - 1.2 Noise and statistical distribution. - 1.3 Persistence. - 1.4 Spacing. - 1.5 Aim and structure of this book. - 1.6 Background material. - 2 Persistence models. - 2.1 First-Order Autoregressive Model. - 2.1.1 Even spacing. - 2.1.2 Uneven Spacing. - 2.2 Second-Order Autoregressive Model. - 2.3 Mixed Autoregressive Moving Average Model. - 2.4 Other models. - 2.4.1 Long-memory process. - 2.4.2 Nonlinear and non-gaussian models. - 2.5 Climate theory. - 2.5.1 Stochastic climate models. - 2.5.2 Long memory of temperature fluctuations?. - 2.5.3 Long memory of river runoff. - 2.6 Background material. - 2.7 Technical issues. - 3 Bootstrap confidence intervals. - 3.1 Error bars and confidence intervals. - 3.1.1 Theoretical example: Mean estimation of Gaussian White Noise. - 3.1.2 Theoretical example: Standard deviation estimation of Gaussian White Noise. - 3.1.3 Real world. - 3.2 Bootstrap principle. - 3.3 Bootstrap resampling. - 3.3.1 Nonparametric: Moving block bootstrap. - 3.3.2 Parametric: Autoregressive Bootstrap. - 3.3.3 Parametric: Surrogate Data. - 3.4 Bootstrap Confidence Intervals. - 3.4.1 Normal confidence interval. - 3.4.2 Student's t confidence interval. - 3.4.3 Percentile confidence interval. - 3.4.4 BCa Confidence Interval. - 3.5 Examples. - 3.6 Bootstrap hypothesis tests. - 3.7 Notation. - 3.8 Background material. - 3.9 Technical issues. - PART 2 UNIVARIATE TIME SERIES. - 4 Regression I. - 4.1 Linear regression. - 4.1.1 Weighted least-squares and ordinary least-squares estimation. - 4.1.2 Generalized least-squares estimation. - 4.1.3 Other estimation types. - 4.1.4 Classical confidence intervals. - 4.1.5 Bootstrap confidence intervals. - 4.1.6 Monte Carlo Experiments: Ordinary least-squares estimation. - 4.1.7 Timescale errors. - 4.2 Nonlinear regression. - 4.2.1 Climate Transition Model: Ramp. - 4.2.2 Trend-Change Model: Break. - 4.3 Nonparametric regression or smoothing. - 4.3.1 Kernel estimation. - 4.3.2 Bootstrap confidence intervals and bands. - 4.3.3 Extremes or outlier detection. - 4.4 Background material. - 4.5 Technical issues. - 5 Spectral analysis. - 5.1 Spectrum. - 5.1.1 Example: AR(1) process, discrete time. - 5.1.2 Example: AR(2) process, discrete time. - 5.1.3 Physical meaning. - 5.2 Spectral estimation. - 5.2.1 Periodogram. - 5.2.2 Welch's overlapped segment averaging. - 5.2.3 Multitaper estimation. - 5.2.4 Lomb-Scargle estimation. - 5.2.5 Peak detection: red-noise hypthesis. - 5.2.6 Example: Peaks in monsoon spectrum. - 5.2.7 Aliasing. - 5.2.8 Timescale errors. - 5.2.9 Example: Peaks in monsoon spectrum (continued). - 5.3 Background material. - 5.4 Technical Issues. - 6 Extreme value time series. - 6.1 Data types. - 6.1.1 Event times. - 6.1.2 Peaks over threshold. - 6.1.3 Block extremes. - 6.1.4 Remarks on data selection. - 6.2 Stationary models. - 6.2.1 Generalized extreme value distribution. - 6.2.2 Generalized pareto distribution. - 6.2.3 Bootstrap confidence intervals. - 6.2.4 Example: Elbe summer floods, 1852-2002. - 6.2.5 Persisitence. - 6.2.6 Remark: Tail estimation. - 6.2.7 Remark: Optimal estimation. - 6.3 Nonstationary models. - 6.3.1 Time-dependent generalized extreme value distribution. - 6.3.2 Inhomogenous poisson process. - 6.3.3 Hybrid: Poisson-Extreme value distribution. - 6.4 Sampling and time spacing. - 6.5 Background material. - 6.6 Technical issues. - PART 3 BIVARIATE TIME SERIES. - 7. Correlation. - 7.1 Pearson's Correlation Coefficient. - 7.1.1 Remark: Alternative correlation measures. - 7.1.2 Classical confidence intervals, nonpersistent processes. - 7.1.3 Bivariate time series models. - 7 .1.4 Classical Confidence Intervals, Persistent Processes. - 7.1.5 Bootstrap Confidence Intervals. - 7.2 Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient. - 7.2.1 Classical Confidence Intervals, Nonpersistent Processes. - 7.2.2 Classical Confidence Intervals, Persistent Processes. - 7.2.3 Bootstrap Confidence Intervals. - 7.3 Monte Carlo Experiments. - 7.4 Example: Elbe Runoff Variations. - 7.5 Unequal Timescales. - 7.5.1 Binned Correlation. - 7.5.2 Synchrony Correlation. - 7.5.3 Monte Carlo Experiments. - 7.5.4 Example: Vostok Ice Core Records. - 7.6 Background Material. - 7. 7 Technical Issues. - 8 Regression II. - 8.1 Linear Regression. - 8.1.1 Ordinary Least-Squares Estimation. - 8.1.2 Weighted Least-Squares for Both Variables Estimation. - 8.1.3 Wald-Bartlett Procedure. - 8.2 Bootstrap Confidence lntervals. - 8.2.1 Simulating Incomplete Prior Knowledge. - 8.3 Monte Carlo Experiments. - 8.3.1 Easy Setting. - 8.3.2 Realistic Setting: Incomplete Prior Knowledge. - 8.3.3 Dependence on Accuracy of Prior Knowledge. - 8.3.4 Mis-Specified Prior Knowledge. - 8.4 Example: Climate Sensitivity. - 8.5 Prediction. - 8.5.1 Example: Calibration of a Proxy Variable. - 8.6 Lagged Regression. - 8.6.1 Example: CO2 and Temperature Variations in the Pleistocene. - 8.7 Background Material. - 8.8 Technical Issues. - PART 4 OUTLOOK. - 9 Future Directions. - 9 .1 Timescale Modeling. - 9.2 Novel Estimation Problems. - 9.3 Higher Dimensions. - 9.4 Climate Models. - 9.4.1 Fitting Climate Models to Observations. - 9.4.2 Forecasting with Climate Models. - 9.4.3 Design of the Cost Function. - 9.4.4 Climate Model Bias. -9.5 Optimal Estimation. - 9.6 Background Material. - References. - Author Index. - Subject Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Climate is a paradigm of a complex system. Analysing climate data is an exciting challenge, which is increased by non-normal distributional shape, serial dependence, uneven spacing and timescale uncertainties. This book presents bootstrap resampling as a computing-intensive method able to meet the challenge. It shows the bootstrap to perform reliably in the most important statistical estimation techniques: regression, spectral analysis, extreme values and correlation. This book is written for climatologists and applied statisticians. It explains step by step the bootstrap algorithms (including novel adaptions) and methods for confidence interval construction. It tests the accuracy of the algorithms by means of Monte Carlo experiments. It analyses a large array of climate time series, giving a detailed account on the data and the associated climatological questions.