1. Cycles, Feedbacks and Main Issues -- Global Cycles: Overview and Introduction -- The Nature of Land-Biosphere-Atmospheric Feedbacks in the Hydrological Cycle -- Scale Issues -- Multiple Equilibria -- 2. Systems Approach: The Nature of Coupled Models -- Introduction -- Fluxes, Compartments and Ordering of Feedbacks -- Non-Linearities -- Parameterization of Complex Hydrological Systems -- 3. S…
Main Topics You Can Find in this “ICME-13 Topical Survey” -- Introduction -- Survey on the State-of-the-art -- Summary and Looking Ahead.Open AccessThis book summarizes the vast amount of research related to teaching and learning probability that has been conducted for more than 50 years in a variety of disciplines. It begins with a synthesis of the most important probability interpretation…
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The Concept of Invariance and Change: Theoretical Background -- Understanding Phenomena from the Aspect of Invariance and Change -- The Concept of Invariance and Change in the Mathematical Knowledge of Students -- The Basic Interplay between Invariance and Change -- Some Introductory Activities in Invariance and Change -- References -- Invariant Quantities – Wha…
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Degree Generation. Higher Education and Social Class -- Chapter 2. Researching Class and Higher Education -- Chapter 3. Two Universities: One City -- Chapter 4. Getting In -- Chapter 5. Getting On -- Chapter 6. Getting Out -- Chapter 7. Narratives of Class and 'Race' -- Chapter 8. Conclusion. .This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility fro…
First-Best Public Provision of Pure Public Goods -- Second-Best Public Provision of Pure Public Goods -- Determining Demand for Public Goods: Voting and Mechanisms -- Determining the Demand for Public Goods: Surveys and Indirect Estimation -- Privately Provided Public Goods -- Extensions -- Neutrality Results -- Empirical Evidence on Charitable Contributions -- Further Evidence on Privately Pro…
Introduction -- Introduction to SharePoint Technologies -- What is Microsoft SharePoint -- Why is it valuable?- What are the building blocks?- Using This Book -- Using the Features -- Using the Portal -- Portal Areas -- Portal Listings -- Special Areas -- Portal Search -- My Site -- Sites and Workspaces -- Standard Templates -- Security -- Search -- Custom Lists and Data -- Creating Custom List…
Normative Multiagent Systems and Trust Dynamics -- Toward Trustworthy Adjustable Autonomy in KAoS -- Contract Nets for Evaluating Agent Trustworthiness -- The EigenRumor Algorithm for Calculating Contributions in Cyberspace Communities -- A Temporal Policy for Trusting Information -- A Design Foundation for a Trust-Modeling Experimental Testbed -- Decentralized Reputation-Based Trust for Assess…
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1. The Environmental Communication under the magnifying lens -- 2. Journalism and Environment: two opposed trends which attract each other -- 3. Which shades of “green” are the new Nets of communication disseminating? -- 4. Communicating the Environment at the state of art. Ciak /Action!- 5. Communicating the Environment in the Green and Circular Economy -- 6. Communicating the Environment …
1. Introduction -- 2. Current Trends -- 3. Coming Out and Being Out -- 4. Religion and Spirituality -- 5. Family Life -- 6. The SJS Project: Phases of Research.This book utilizes personal narratives and survey data from over 500 respondents to explore the diversity of experiences across Asian and Pacific Islander LGBT communities within the United States. Additionally, the authors document and …