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Global Warming — The Research Challenges

A Report of Japan’s Global Warming Initiative

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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013

Of interest to both researchers and policy makers Suitable for course use
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by Baxter E. Vieux
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006

5 REFERENCES 127 7 DIGITAL TERRAIN 129 1. 1 INTRODUCTION 129 1. 2 DRAINAGE NETWORK 130 1. 3 DEFINITION OF CHANNEL NETWORKS 135 1. 4 RESOLUTION DEPENDENT EFFECTS 138 1. 5 CONSTRAINING DRAINAGE DIRECTION 141 1. 6 SUMMARY 145 1. 7 REFERENCES 146 8 PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT 149 1. 1 INTRODUCTION 149 1....
Cover of Glaciations in North and South America from the Miocene to the Last Glacial Maximum
by Nat Rutter, Andrea Coronato, Karin Helmens
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012

Improved dating methods have increased our ability to more precisely determine the timing and durations of glaciations. Utilizing glacial and loess deposits, we have compared glaciations that occurred in North and South America in order to determine if events are synchronous or not, to explore forcing...
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by Bradley D. Fahlman
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011

The 2nd edition of Materials Chemistry builds on the strengths that were recognized by a 2008 Textbook Excellence Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA). Materials Chemistry addresses inorganic-, organic-, and nano-based materials from a structure vs. property treatment, providing...
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The Sun

A User's Manual

by Claudio Vita-Finzi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008

This is an account of the many ways in which the Sun affects our planet, how its influence has changed over the last few centuries and millennia, and the extent to which we can predict its future impact. The book is the first to integrate astronomical, geological, climatic and social aspects of the...
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by Russell DiSilvestro
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010

Many debates about the moral status of things—for example, debates about the natural rights of human fetuses or nonhuman animals—eventually migrate towards a discussion of the capacities of the things in question—for example, their capacities to feel pain, think, or love. Yet the move towards...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2012

The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation. Biosemiotics provides a new conceptual space that attracts a multitude of thinkers in the biological and cognitive sciences and the humanities who recognize continuity in the biosphere from...
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Essential Readings in Biosemiotics

Anthology and Commentary

by Donald Favareau
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010

Synthesizing the findings from a wide range of disciplines – from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics – the emerging field of Biosemiotics explores the highly complex phenomenon of sign processing in living systems. Seeking to advance a naturalistic understanding of the evolution...
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The Origins of Life

The Primogenital Matrix of Life and Its Context

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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013

Life appears ungraspable, yet its understanding lies at the heart of current preoccupations. In our attempt to understand life through its origins, the ambition of the present collection is to unravel the network of the origin of the various spheres of sense that carry it onwards. The primogenital...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013

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The Ganga

Water Use in the Indian Subcontinent

by Pranab Kumar Parua
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010

From time immemorial the Bengal Delta had been an important maritime des- nation for traders from all parts of the world. The actual location of the port of call varied from time to time in line with the natural hydrographic changes. From the early decades of the second millennium AD, traders from...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010

Geotechnologies and the Environment: Environmental Applications and Mana- ment presents an engaging and diverse array of physically-oriented GIScience applications that have been organized using four broad themes. While the book’s themes are by no means mutually exclusive, Hoalst-Pullen and Patterson...
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Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development

Approaches for Achieving Sustainable Urban Form in Asian Cities

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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013

This book attempts to provide insights into the achievement of a sustainable urban form, through spatial planning and implementation; here, we focus on planning experiences at the levels of local cities and some metropolitan areas in Asian countries. This book investigates the impact of planning policy...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

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