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Seasonal Forecasts, Climatic Change and Human Health : Health and Climate

Awareness that many key aspects of public health are strongly influenced by climate is growing dramatically, driven by new ...

Selected Topics in Cancer Modeling : Genesis, Evolution, Immune Competition, and Therapy

A major challenge in the modeling and simulation of tumor growth is the mathematical description of living matter, which ...

Smallholder Tree Growing for Rural Development and Environmental Services

Recent history reveals both that the large-scale reforestation projects of the 20th century have often been less successful ...

Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity : Cross-National Perspectives in Classifications and Identity Politics

This open access book examines the question of collecting and disseminating data on ethnicity and race in order to describe ...

Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes

Education systems generally aim to narrow the achievement gap between low- and high-SES students and to improve the performance ...

Solid-State Fermentation Bioreactors

Although solid-state fermentation (SSF) has been practiced for many centuries in the preparation of traditional fermented ...

Sprites, Elves and Intense Lightning Discharges

Particularly intense lightning discharges can produce transient luminous events above thunderclouds, termed sprites, elves ...

Student Misconceptions and Errors in Physics and Mathematics Exploring Data from TIMSS and TIMSS Advanced

This book explores the nature and extent of students’ misconceptions and misunderstandings related to core concepts in ...

Systems Modeling and Simulation

The Asia Simulation Conference 2006 (JSST 2006) was aimed at exploring challenges in methodologies for modeling, control ...

Teacher Quality, Instructional Quality and Student Outcomes : Relationships Across Countries, Cohorts and Time

This volume offers insights from modeling relations between teacher quality, instructional quality and student outcomes in ...

Teaching Tolerance in a Globalized World

This open access thematic report identifies factors and conditions that can help schools and education systems promote tolerance ...

Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology

In Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology: Wildlife Responses to Variable Resources, the authors discuss the effects that ...

The Andes

Convergent plate margins and subduction zones are first order features shaping the Earth. Convergent continental margins ...

The Asian Monsoon

This is a comprehensive interdisciplinary text book summarizing new knowledge of Asian monsoon climate variability, dynamics, ...

The Black Sea Flood Question

Each of the 35 papers marshals its own evidence for or against the flood hypothesis. No summary or overall resolution to ...

The Continental-Scale Greenhouse Gas Balance of Europe

The book assesses the current greenhouse gas (GHG) monitoring capabilities of Europe, identifies and quantifies the uncertainties ...

The Earths Atmosphere : Its Physics and Dynamics

This book covers a wide area of the atmospheric science, focusing particularly on those physical and dynamical aspects of ...

The Economics of Big Science Essays by Leading Scientists and Policymakers

The essays in this book identify the key ingredients for success in capitalizing on public investments in scientific projects ...

The Globalization of Science Curricula

This open access book provides a significant and timely investigation into the impacts that globalization has exerted on ...

The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE)

This book describes the state-of-the art instruments for measuring the solar irradiance from soft x-ray to the near infrared ...

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