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Overview: Offers an interdisciplinary approach, aimed at connecting the dots between the underlying physics/mathematics and macroscopic world-scale phenomena.Focusses on complex systems, with chapters dedicated.This undergraduate text explores a variety of large-scale phenomena - global warming, ice ages, water, poverty - and uses these case studies as a motivation to explore nonlinear dynamics, power-law statistics, and complex systems. Although the detailed mathematical descriptions of these topics can be challenging, the consequences of a system being nonlinear, power-law, or complex are in

Overview: Includes supplementary material: education is and what its functions should be. As Thomas explains, migrant communities need a culture-sensitive education, that is, an education that can both accommodate their special cultural needs and prepare them for life in an increasingly globalized world. To meet this need, Thomas discusses planning strategies and the special role of teachers in transmitting this education. As Thomas warns, however, a culture sensitive education is continually threatened by the dominance of the West and religious traditions, such as Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduis

Overview: Over a decade has passed since the first edition of this critically acclaimed volume was published. Much is new, but much has remained the same. The reader will find that the primary efferent biological mechanisms of the stress response are largely the same as described in 1989. This underscores the br- liance of Selye, Cannon, Mason, Gellhorn, and Levi as they sought to elu- date the anatomical and physiological constituents of human stress. New information has been generated regarding the microanatomy, biochemistry, and genetic aspects of the human stress response. Furthermore, the

Overview: The Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy organizes each year in the late winter or early spring an advanced course. The format of the school is always iden­ tical: three leading lecturers are invited to cover the subject in nine or ten lectures each and to deliver a written version of their lecture notes. Lectures are held in the morning and late afternoon, thus leaving ample time for discussion and skiing. These arrangements prove very convivial and lead to an excellent atmosphere in which to learn exciting new subjects and establish contacts with colleagues. A wide variety

Overview: Drawing on the Latin American political economy, this book brings to the fore empirical questions on different patterns of involvement of IFIs in pursuing politically-sensitive reforms, the capacity of local actors to influence outcomes, the context in which they interact, the type of policy ideas conveyed, and the policy process that are advanced.978-1-349-30561-2978-0-230-23392-8Series ISSN 2662-2483 Series E-ISSN 2662-2491

Overview: The Optical Society of America Conference on Applications of High Fields and Short Wavelength Sources, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, from March 20-22, 1997, was an exceptionally exciting conference. This conference was the seventh in a series of topical con­ ferences, held every two years, which are devoted to the generation and application of high field and short wavelength sources. The meeting was truly international in scope, with equal participation from both within and outside of the US. In the past two years, there has been dramatic progress in both laser and x-ray coher­

Overview: Discusses the pros and cons of philosophical claims on absolutes.Analyzes the writings of modern philosophers who claim that there is an absolute norm.Draws upon the rich pool of philosophical ideas t.Premodern societies believed in something sacred that obliged unconditionally. Modern societies rely on fallible science. Do they also need something absolute, a secular sacred? Steinvorth analyzes the writings of modern philosophers who claim that there is an absolute norm: the norm to be rational and authentic. In his view, their claim is true if it is reinterpreted. The norm is not m

Overview: State-of-the-art surveys of key research areas within the field of international environmental politics which collectively provide a comprehensive and pluralistic overview you of the field.Eight thoroThis book provides authoritative and up-to-date research for anyone interested in the study of international environmental politics. It demonstrates how the field of international environmental politics has evolved and identifies key questions, topics and approaches to guide future research.978-1-137-33899-0978-1-137-33897-6

Overview: How have animation fans in Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Canada formed communities and dealt with conflicts across cultural and geographic distance? This book traces animation fandom from its roots in early cinema audiences, through mid-century children‘s cartoon fan clubs, to today‘s digitally-networked transcultural fan cultures.978-1-349-50275-2978-1-137-47610-4

Overview: Highlights recent advances in our understanding of the interorgan metabolism of amino acids, as well as their roles in regulating cell-specific gene expression, anti-inflammatory responses, and whole-.This book explains about amino acids (AAs) which are not only building blocks of protein, but are also signaling molecules as well as regulators of gene expression and the protein phosphorylation cascade.  Additionally, AAs are key precursors for syntheses of hormones and low-molecular-weight nitrogenous substances with each having enormous biological importance.  For example, physiolog

Overview: 978-3-531-12795-8978-3-322-92507-7

Overview: Discusses recent advances in natural computation, fuzzy systems, and knowledge discovery.Covers proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems, and Knowledge Di.This book consists of papers on the recent progresses in the state of the art in natural computation, fuzzy systems, and knowledge discovery. The book is useful for researchers, including professors, graduate students, as well as R & D staff in the industry, with a general interest in natural computation, fuzzy systems, and knowledge discovery. The work printed in this book was presente

Overview: As part of the scientific activity in connection with the 70th birthday of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, an international conference on algebraic topology was held. In the resulting proceedings volume, the emphasis is on substantial survey papers, some presented at the conference, some written subsequently.978-3-540-54098-4978-3-540-47403-6Series ISSN 0075-8434 Series E-ISSN 1617-9692

Overview: 978-1-349-17469-0Series ISSN 2947-2563 Series E-ISSN 2947-2571

Overview: Xiang Li geht der Frage nach, wie ein effizientes Aussprachetraining im Bereich der Prosodie für Deutsch als Fremdsprache in China aussieht. Die Prosodie gehört wegen ihrer Komplexität und schweren Greifbarkeit zu den schwierigsten phonodidaktischen Themen und Forschungsgegenständen. Li diskutiert zunächst die Besonderheiten des Lehrens und Lernens im Bereich der Prosodie. Es folgen eine kontrastive Analyse der prosodischen Merkmale des Chinesischen und Deutschen sowie eine Darstellung der darauf beruhenden potenziellen Interferenzfehler. Ausgehend von den Rahmenbedingungen im DaF-Un

Overview: In this book, academic researchers and technologists will findimportant information on the interaction of polymeric andnon-polymeric inhibitors with a variety of scale forming crystals suchas calcium phosphates, calcium carbonate, calcium oxalates, bariumsulfate, calcium pyrophosphates, and calcium phosphonates. Moreover,the book delivers information to plant managers and formulators whowould like to broaden and deepen their knowledge about processesinvolved in precipitation of sparingly soluble salts and learn moreabout the inhibitory aspects of various commercially availablemateria

Overview: 978-3-662-38752-8978-3-662-39641-4Series ISSN 0254-1971 Series E-ISSN 2309-3706

Overview: .Applied and Computational Control, Signals, and Circuits:Recent. .Developments. is an interdisciplinary book blendingmathematics, computational mathematics, scientific computing andsoftware engineering with control and systems theory, signalprocessing, and circuit simulations. The material consists of sevenstate-of-the-art review chapters, each written by a leading expert inthat field. Each of the technical chapters deals exclusively with someof the recent developments involving applications and computations ofcontrol, signals and circuits. Also included is a Chapter focusing onthe

Overview: Represents different types of progress in hydrogeology.This book includes several sub-themes that connect all of the chapters.This book is based upon a group of invited speakers and their topics from ​This book represents different types of progress in hydrogeology, including conceptualization changes, different approaches to simulating groundwater flow and transport new hydrogeophysical methods. Each chapter extends or summarizes a recent development in hydrogeology, with forward-looking statements regarding the challenges and strengths that are faced. While the title and scope is b

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in February 2016..The 17 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 initial submissions. The papers are organized in two sections: agents and artificial intelligence. They address open research trends and highlight in an innovative manner the trends in intelligent multi-agent systems, natural language processing, and knowledge representation..978-3-319-