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The Black Sea Flood question : Changes in coastline, climate and human settlement
Each of the 35 papers marshals its own evidence for or against the flood hypothesis. No summary or overall resolution to the flood question is presented, but instead access is provided to a broad range of interdisciplinary information that crosses previously impenetrable language barriers so that new work in the region can proceed with the benefit of a wider frame of reference. The three fundamental scenarios describing the late glacial to Holocene rise in the level of the Black Sea—catastrophic, gradual, and oscillating—are presented in the early pages, with the succeeding papers organized by geographic sector: northern (Ukraine), western (Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria), southern (Turkey), and eastern (Georgia and Russia), as well as three papers on the Mediterranean. The volume thus brings together eastern and western scholarship to share research findings and perspectives on a controversial subject. In addition, appendices are included containing some 600 radiocarbon dates from the Pontic region obtained by USSR and western laboratories.
The biopsychosocial model of health and disease : New philosophical and scientific developments
A systematic update of the philosophical and scientific foundations of the biopsychosocial model of health, disease and healthcare. First proposed, the Biopsychosocial Model is much cited in healthcare settings worldwide, but has been increasingly criticised for being vague, lacking in content, and in need of reworking in the light of recent developments. The book confronts the rapid changes to psychological science, neuroscience, healthcare, and philosophy that have occurred since the model was first proposed and addresses key issues such as the model’s scientific basis, clinical utility, and philosophical coherence. The book conceptualise biology and the psychosocial as in the same ontological space, interlinked by systems of communication-based regulatory control which constitute a new kind of causation. These are distinguished from physical and chemical laws, most clearly because they can break down, thus providing the basis for difference between health and disease. This work offers an urgent update to the model’s scientific and philosophical foundations, providing a new and coherent account of causal interactions between the biological, the psychological and social.
The Automotive Development Process : A Real Options Analysis
The global automotive industry is currently undergoing significant changes and the companies are not only faced with opportunities, but also with new risks. Traditional automotive industry giants are fighting to maintain their market share and their profitability, and at the same time Asian automotive companies are increasing their share of the market and their profitability at high rates. He develops a real options model capable of modeling and valuing in monetary terms the effects of interproject correlation coefficients and volatilities in order to compute the optimal number of design alternatives to develop in parallel.
The Asian Monsoon
This is a comprehensive interdisciplinary text book summarizing new knowledge of Asian monsoon climate variability, dynamics, modeling, and prediction from intraseasonal to geological time scales, and human influence and its links to environmetal/economic issues.
The Arctic Basin : Results from the Russian Drifting Stations
The authors describe in The Russian North Pole Drifting Stations for the first time the history of establishing drifting stations in the Arctic Basin since 1937. They set out the main aims and goals of the observations made and outline the methods of organizing the drifting stations, gear and equipment for life support and scientific observations at the North Pole drifting stations and during the airborne high-latitudinal expeditions. The main scientific results and the analysis of data obtained during metereological, oceanographic, ice and geophysical observations are presented and the book contains illustrations, maps and tables that can be used by a wide range of specialists investigating the nature of the Arctic region.
The architecture of persistence : Designing for future use
Why do some buildings last for generations as beloved and useful places, while others do not? How can designers today create buildings that remain useful into the future? While architects and theorists have offered a wide range of ideas about building for change, this book focuses on persistent architecture: the material, spatial, and cultural processes that give rise to long-lived buildings. Organized in three parts, this book examines material longevity in the face of constant physical and cultural change, connects the dimensions of human use and contemporary program, and discusses how time informs the design process. Featuring dozens of interviews with people who design and use buildings, and the close analysis of over a hundred historic and contemporary projects, the principles of persistent architecture introduced here address urgent challenges for contemporary practice while pointing towards a more sustainable built environment in the future. The Architecture of Persistence: Designing for Future Use offers practitioners, students, and scholars a set of principles and illustrative precedents exploring architecture's unique ability to connect an instructive past, a useful present, and an unknown future
The Agulhas Current
The Agulhas Current is one of the major currents of the world ocean. In the network of currents that connect the major ocean basins, it forms a key link. This linkage may be of critical importance in the way the ocean affects the earth's climate and climate change. Based on the research findings of 60 years, the author describes the origins of the Agulhas Current, its behaviour, its influence on the adjacent continental shelf, its effect on local weather as well as its role in linking the Indian and the Atlantic Ocean. The text is well-illustrated and includes small asides on the history of research on the Agulhas Current. An exhaustive bibliography gives easy access to present knowledge on this important current system.
The Aging Spine
Draws our attention with intensity to the problem of the changes related to aging of our musculoskeletal system and the associated socioeconomic implications. This book covers most of the important problems, which are included in the specter of aging spine: osteoporosis, spinal stenosis, and tumors of the spine.
The Agile Enterprise: Reinventing your Organization for Success in an On-Demand World
One of the first widely available resources on the subject of adaptive enterprise. The text takes on a new and burgeoning field of study and development and provides the opportunity to help shape and guide the thinking of decision makers in the world of both public and private sectors.
Testing the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) : An applied study on companies listed in DSE
Examines the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) in Damascus Stock Exchange (DSE), by using the monthly excess returns of (26) companies listed in (DSE), for the period of (2019-2021), and the monthly excess return of (DSE) index (DWX) for the same period. The researcher concluded that there is a significant relation between the volatility of the market excess return and the volatility of the excess returns of stocks of the examined companies...
Testing and Tuning Market Trading Systems : Algorithms in C++
Build, test, and tune financial, insurance or other market trading systems using C++ algorithms and statistics. This book discusses and dissects this case study approach. Seemingly good backtest performance isn't enough to justify trading real money. You need to perform rigorous statistical tests of the system's validity. Then, if basic tests confirm the quality of your idea, you need to tune your system, not just for best performance, but also for robust behavior in the face of inevitable market changes.
Tesla’s practices and its influence on sustainability
Focuses on the impact of Tesla’s practices on CO2 tones saved and Goodwill, we collected quarterly, secondary data from 2016 to Q1 2023 from Tesla’s official website and we analyzed the data through Eviews version 10. The results showed that there is an impact of Tesla’s practices on CO2 tones saved where R² registered 71%, this means that Tesla’s practices may explain 71% of changes in tons saved of CO2 emissions...
Terrorism, criminal law and politics the decline of the political offence exception to extradition
Recent atrocities have insured that terrorism and how to deal with terrorists legally and politically. This book presents a study of changes in the legal treatment of those perpetrating crimes of a political character over several decades.
Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World
Over 100 authors present 25 contributions on the impacts of global change on terrestrial ecosystems including: key processes of the earth system such as the CO2 fertilization effect, shifts in disturbances and biome distribution, the saturation of the terrestrial carbon sink, and changes in functional iodiversity, ecosystem services such the production of wheat, pest control, and carbon storage in croplands, and sensitive regions in the world threaten by rapid changes in climate and land use such as high latitudes ecosystems, tropical forest in Southeast Asia, and ecosystems dominated by Monsoon climate.The book also explores new research developments on spatial thresholds and nonlinearities, the key role of urban development in global biogeochemical processes, and the integration of natural and social sciences to address complex problems of the human-environment system.
Tensions in Teaching about Teaching : Understanding Practice as a Teacher Educator
This series in Teacher Education has been created in order to offer clear and strong examples of self-study of teaching and teacher education practices. It explicitly values the work of teachers and teacher educators and through the research of their practice, offers insights into new ways of encouraging educational change.
Temporal dimensions of landscape ecology : Wildlife responses to variable resources
In Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology: Wildlife Responses to Variable Resources, the authors discuss the effects that temporal changes in resources have on animal populations.
Teeth
Contains comprehensive and detailed coverage of the current state of knowledge about the development, structure, ultrastructure and chemistry of the various components of teeth. It will become the standard work on the subject for clinicians and researchers in dentistry. Emphasis is on the human tooth, although comparative anatomical aspects are also considered. After a general survey of the development of teeth, the changes in tissue at eruption, the structure, ultrastructure and chemistry of dentin, dental pulp and tooth enamel are reviewed, together with special aspects of tooth mineralisation. Important hints as to methods for the technically complicated examination of tooth enamel are given. Impressive original illustrations of the structure of enamel are presented to their best advantage and contribute to the overall value of this distinguished handbook.
Technology Portfolio Planning and Management : Practical Concepts and Tools
Focuses specifically on the concepts and tools for the planning and management of an investment portfolio by a government or a business organization for either the development or the application of technologies. A portfolio is a coordinated combination of technologies that achieve a common objective for the decision-maker. Thus, the book will focus on those concepts and tools for selecting and modifying such a combination of technologies that will be either developed by a technology supply organization, such as a national laboratory or a corporate research center, or adopted by a technology application organization, such as a government administrative office or a corporation management department, to either advance public goals (such as space exploration or disease eradication) or enhance corporate strategies (such as improving productivity or increasing competitiveness).
Technology of Breadmaking
To study breadmaking is to realize that, like many other food processes, it is constantly changing as processing methodologies become increasingly more sophisticated, yet at the same time we realize that we are dealing with a foodstuff, the forms of which are very traditional. New ideas and raw materials are constantly being presented to bakers from wheat breeders, millers and ingredient and equipment suppliers for their evaluation. In addition there are on-going changes in legislation and consumer demands. To meet such pressures bakers must be able to better integrate their key raw material, wheat flour, with other ingredients and processing methods to deliver bread of the appropriate quality.
Technologies for E-Services ; 3rd International Workshop, TES 2002, Hong Kong, China, August 23-24, 2002, Proceedings
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2002 VLDB workshop on Technologies for E-Services (VLDB-TES 02) isthe third workshop in a series of annual workshops endorsed by the VLDBConference. It serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas, results and experiencein the area of e-commerce and e-business.VLDB-TES 02 took place in Hong Kong, China. It featured the presentationof 14 regular papers, focused on major aspects of e-business solutions. these papers address such topics as: database issues for e-services; b2b integration; model transformation; information fusion; process-based application development and information integration.
