Constructing Meaningful Sustainability Indices -- A Framework for Indicators to Monitor the EU Sustainable Development Strategy -- Measuring Corporate Sustainability Performance and Its Impact on Corporate Financial Performance -- Impact Assessment and Sustainability -- Should Environmental Policy Discriminate Between Exposed and Sheltered Sectors? -- Ecological-Economic Models for Improving th…
Global and general perspectives on the Convention on Biological Diversity -- Global Conservation of Biodiversity from an Economic Point of View -- Financial support for biodiversity protection in developing countries — does the CBD mechanism lead to an appropriate level of biodiversity protection? -- The Cartagena Protocol: trade related measures as a means to protect biological diversity fro…
One -- Globalisation, Education and Policy: Changing Paradigms -- Policy Borrowing in Education: Frameworks for Analysis -- Comparative Education in the Era of Globalisation: Evolution, Missions and Roles -- The Education and Training of Knowledge Workers -- Tacit Skills and Occupational Mobility in a Global Culture -- Development, Globalisation and Decentralisation: Comparative Research Toward…
U.H.F. Bunz: Synthesis and Structure of PAEs -- E. Klemm, T. Pautzsch, L. Blankenburg: Organometallic PAEs -- C.R. Ray, J.S. Moore: Supramolecular Organization of Foldable Phenylene Ethynylene Oligomers -- J. Zheng, T.M. Swager: Poly(arylene ethynylene)s in Chemosensing and Biosensing -- T. Yamamoto, I. Yamaguchi, T. Yasuda: PAEs with Heteroaromatic Rings -- G. Voskerician, C. Weder: Electronic…
TIR Domain-Containing Adaptors Regulate TLR Signaling Pathways -- Toll-Like Receptors: Linking Innate and Adaptive Immunity -- Activation of Insect and Vertebrate Toll Signaling: From Endogenous Cytokine Ligand to Direct Recognition of Pathogen Patterns -- Genetic Analysis of Innate Immunity: Identification and Function of the TIR Adapter Proteins -- NF-?B, an Evolutionarily Conserved Mediator …
Seeing: Blazing Processing Characteristics -- Category Representation and Recognition Evolvement -- Neuroscientific Inspiration -- Neuromorphic Tools -- Insight From Line Drawings Studies -- Retina Circuits Signaling and Propagating Contours -- The Symmetric-Axis Transform -- Motion Detection -- Neuromorphic Architectures: Pieces and Proposals -- Shape Recognition with Contour Propagation Field…
Orbit and Earth Gravity Field -- Earth Magnetic Field -- Neutral Atmosphere and Ionosphere.In the summer of 2000 the German geo-research satellite CHAMP was launched into orbit. Its innovative payload arrangement and the low initial orbit allow CHAMP to simultaneously collect and almost continuously analyse precise data relating to gravity and magnetic fields at low altitude. In addition, CHAMP…
Contextualist Approaches to Epistemology: Problems and Prospects -- Externalism and Modest Contextualism -- Skepticism, Information, and Closure: Dretske’s Theory of Knowledge -- What’s Wrong with Contextualism, and a Noncontextualist Resolution of the Skeptical Paradox -- Contextualism and the Skeptic: Comments on Engel -- How to Be an Anti-Skeptic and a Noncontextualist -- Are Knowledge C…
Biological Background -- Computational Foundations -- LISSOM: A Computational Map Model of V1 -- Development of Maps and Connections -- Understanding Plasticity -- Understanding Visual Performance: The Tilt Aftereffect -- HLISSOM: A Hierarchical Model -- Understanding Low-Level Development: Orientation Maps -- Understanding High-Level Development: Face Detection -- PGLISSOM: A Perceptual Groupi…
Innate and Acquired Drives -- The Conception that Whatever Humans Achieved Derives from the Unrestricted Capacity of Their Brain to Acquire Drives -- Enhancer Regulation: A Neurochemical Approach to the Innate and Acquired Drives -- Approaching Old Problems From A New Angle -- Theoretical Aspects of the Enhancer Regulation Approach -- Conclusion.The main message of this monograph is that the ap…