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Ecology and Conservation of North American Sea Ducks

Ecology and Conservation of North American Sea Ducks

The past decade has seen a huge increase in the interest and attention directed toward sea ducks the Mergini tribe. This has been inspired in large part by the conservation concerns associated with numerical declines in several sea duck species and populations as well as a growing appreciation for their interesting ecological attributes. Reflecting the considerable research recently conducted on this tribe Ecology and Conservation of North American Sea Ducks examines the 15 extant species of sea ducks from North America. Chapters are organized conceptually to focus on compare and contrast the ecological attributes of the tribe. Experts provide in-depth treatments of a range of topics including: Population dynamics and genetics Infectious diseases and parasites Breeding costs and cross-seasonal affects Contaminant burdens Foraging behavior and energetics Migration strategies molt ecology and habitat affinities and dynamics Breeding systems and reproductive behavior Harvest history Published in collaboration with and on behalf of the American Ornithological Society this volume in the highly-regarded Studies in Avian Biology series presents a comprehensive synthesis of sea duck ecology documents factors that have caused population declines of some species and provides managers with measures to enhance recovery of depressed populations of sea ducks in North America. Capturing the current state of knowledge of this unique tribe it provides a benchmark for where we are in conservation efforts and suggests future directions for researchers managers students conservationists and avian enthusiasts. Key Selling Features: Provides the first comprehensive assessment of the status population dynamics and demography of sea ducks across North America Characterizes phylogeography phylogenetics and population genetics Examines the diseases parasites biological toxins and contaminants affecting sea ducks Provides an up-to-date assessment of migration and molt strategies Documents reproductive energetics strategies and behavior

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Transport Systems and Processes Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation

Red Sea Geothermal Provinces

Red Sea Geothermal Provinces

“Today over two billion people in developing countries live without any electricity. They lead lives of misery walking miles every day for water and firewood just to survive. What if there was an existing viable technology that when developed to its highest potential could increase everyone’s standard of living cut fossil fuel demand and the resultant pollution” said Peter Meisen President Global Energy Network Institute in 1997. Even though energy is available technology was not matured enough to tap this energy in the nineties. Now with the advancement of drilling technology extracting heat from hot rocks has become a reality. Very soon when CO2 replaces the circulation fluid to extract heat from granites then both fossil fuel based and renewable energy sources will coexists balancing the CO2 emissions and providing energy food and water security to the rich and the poor countries. Red Sea rift represents the youngest spreading ridges in the world with a vast amount of heat energy stored on either side. The Red Sea is surrounded by countries with a weak economy. Developing a geothermal energy based economy in countries like Eritrea Djibouti and Ethiopia will provide food and water security to these countries while for other countries geothermal energy will help in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Although geothermal energy sources are available in all the countries since the opening of the Red Sea millions of years ago this was not brought to the light. Oil importing countries became highly dependent on the oil rich countries to sustain their economy and growth and thus remained poor. This book unfolds the huge energy source hydrothermal and EGS for the benefit of the poor countries to reduce poverty and lift the socio economic status of these countries. The book deals with i) future energy demand ii) CO2 emissions associated with fossil fuel based power plants iii) black carbon emissions associated biomass energy source and iv) strategies to reduce CO2 emissions by using geothermal energy as energy source mix in all the countries—oil exporting and oil importing countries— around the Red Sea. The amount of energy available from hot granites in all the countries is well documented. EGS being the future energy source for mankind this book will form the basis for future research by young scientists and academicians. Availability of fresh water is a matter of concern for all countries. The only way to satisfy the thirst of a growing population to meet drinking water demand and food security is to depend on seawater. A large volume of CO2 is being emitted from desalination plants supported by fossil fuel based energy sources. This book describes the advantages of using geothermal energy sources for the desalination process to meet the growing water and food demand of the countries around the Red Sea. Oil rich countries using its geothermal resources can now reduce food imports and become self sufficient in food production. This book gives hope for millions of children living in the underdeveloped countries around the Red Sea to satisfy their hunger and live a decent life with a continuous source of electricity water and food available. This book ends with a note on the economic benefits of geothermal energy vs other renewables. With the signing of the GGA (Global Geothermal Alliance) by several countries during the December 2015 CoP 21 summit in Paris policy makers and administrators will work together in implementing the necessary infrastructure and support to develop this clean energy source. | Red Sea Geothermal Provinces

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Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies

Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies

Taking a broad and innovative informational approach Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies is the first book to apply omic technologies to address issues related to understanding and improving agricultural sustainability in the food production process. The transformation from industrial to sustainable agriculture is discussed within the frameworks of new biotechnologies and global environmental changes. While considering this transformation the book covers:The use of new biotechnologies to help in the creation of more sustainable agricultural practices including methods in molecular biology genetic engineering and the new emerging technologies such as metabolomics metagenomics nutrigenomics and ionomicsThe path to reach the goal of the global sustainable agricultural and food production systems in a world of limited natural resources and growing environmental degradationPrinciples that regulate the new agricultural and food production systems including breeding programs for more sustainable crops soil management and environment preservation It is clear that biotechnological approaches will become increasingly important in the future and that a shift from industrial to a sustainable agriculture will be necessary. While many books tend to make a quick and easy link between these two different worlds Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies describes exactly how omics can contribute to greater food productivity and security and agricultural sustainability in the future.

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Navigating the Engineering Organization A New Engineer's Guide

Navigating the Engineering Organization A New Engineer's Guide

Transitioning new engineers into professionals who can blend in and contribute to the technical organization is at best doubtful. Trained in the nuts and bolts of a technical subject new engineers have little to no training on the soft skills of how to work within an organization. This robust guide shows new engineers how to quickly operate and succeed within their new engineering organization. Navigating the Engineering Organization: A New Engineer’s Guide focuses on the group behaviors of technical organizations. It provides a rigorous organizational framework to operate from and delivers guidance using a dual approach of academic insight and professional experience. Through numerous case studies the book presents actual experiential guidance and offers a method on how to extend the insights covered in the book and turn them into a valuable personal model valid throughout the engineer’s career. It helps readers understand quickly the unique values and expectations within their new engineering organization and guides them in discovering the proper ways to respond to these expectations. They can then act on these insights to deliver successful results now and throughout their careers. The approach and goals found in this book provide a building block to help all new engineers cross the Great Divide from student to professional and succeed in their new engineering organization. | Navigating the Engineering Organization A New Engineer's Guide

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Developments in Maritime Transportation and Harvesting of Sea Resources (Volume 2) Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of the Int

Non-Conservative Systems New Static and Dynamic Stability Criteria

Operations Research New Paradigms and Emerging Applications

Mechatronics and Robotics New Trends and Challenges

Mechatronics and Robotics New Trends and Challenges

The term “mechatronics” was coined in 1969 merging “mecha” from mechanism and “tronics” from electronics to reflect the original idea at the basis of this discipline that is the integration of electrical and mechanical systems into a single device. The spread of this term and of mechatronics itself has been growing in the years including new aspects and disciplines like control engineering computer engineering and communication/information engineering. Nowadays mechatronics has a well-defined and fundamental role in strict relation with robotics. Drawing a sharp border between mechatronics and robotics is impossible as they share many technologies and objectives. Advanced robots could be defined as mechatronic devices equipped with a “smart brain” but there are also up-to-date mechatronic devices used in tight interaction with humans that are governed by smart architectures (for example for safety purposes). Aim of this book is to offer a wide overview of new research trends and challenges for both mechatronics and robotics through the contribution of researchers from different institutions providing their view on specific subjects they consider as “hot topics” in both fields with attention to new fields of application new challenges to the research communities and new technologies available. The reader of this book will enjoy the various contributions as they have been prepared with actual applications in mind along a journey from advanced actuators and sensors to human-robot interaction through robot control navigation planning and programming issues. The book presents several state-of-the-art solutions like multiple-stage actuation to cope with conflicting specification of large motion-spans ultra-high accuracy model-based control for high-tech mechatronic systems modern approaches of software systems engineering to robotics aand humanoids for human assistance. The reader can also find new techniques in approaching the design of mechatronic systems in some possible industrial and service robotics scenarios with a particular attention for the interaction between humans and mechanisms. | Mechatronics and Robotics New Trends and Challenges

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Salt Intrusion Tides and Mixing in Multi-Channel Estuaries PhD: UNESCO-IHE Institute Delft

Management of Wastewater and Sludge New Approaches

Methods in Product Design New Strategies in Reengineering

Methods in Product Design New Strategies in Reengineering

As industries adopt consumer-focused product development strategies they should offer broader product ranges in shorter design times and the processes that can manufacture in arbitrary lot sizes. In addition they would need to apply state-of-the-art methods and tools to easily conduct early product design and development trade-off analysis among competing objectives. Methods in Product Design: New Strategies in Reengineering supplies insights into the methods and techniques that enable implementing a consumer-focused product design philosophy by integrating design and development capabilities with intelligent computer-based systems. The book defines customer focused design and discusses ways to assess changing demands and sources and delves into what is needed to successfully manufacture goods in a demanding market. It reviews proven methods for assessing customer need. Then after showing how changing needs impact the reengineering of products it explains how change can be efficiently achieved. It details how IT advances and technology support customer-focused product development discusses cutting-edge mass customization principles that maximize cost-effective production and illustrates how to implement effective predictive maintenance policies. Methods in Product Design: New Strategies in Reengineering provides methods state-of-the-art technologies and new strategies for customer-focused product design and development that allow organizations to quickly respond to the demanding global marketplace. | Methods in Product Design New Strategies in Reengineering

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Shifting Mobility Part 1: Transforming Planning and Design for New Human Mobility Code

Shifting Mobility Part 1: Transforming Planning and Design for New Human Mobility Code

In the face of resource depletion environmental changes lifestyle changes demographic and digital adaptation old ideologies of city building and expensive and complex automobility solutions are in freefall. These changes are creating severe friction between the old and new paradigms. This book provides new perspectives through the process of ideological disassociation and concepts of human mobility code. The basic premise of the book human mobility is an essential component of our creativity that comes from our unconscious desire to become a part of a community. Several new concepts in the book starts with the hallmark of new discovery of human mobility code and its implications of urban mobility boundary systems to stay within safe planetary zone. A new discovery of human mobility code from comprehensive research finding prove that each individual develops a unique mobility footprint and become our mobility identity. Beyond individual hallmarks human develops collective mobility codes through interaction with the third space on which entire mobility systems lie and are created by the fundamentals of city planning and the design process. Readers are introduced to an innovative mobility planning process and reinvention of multimodal mobility approaches based on new mobility code while formulating new concepts practical solutions and implementation techniques tools policies and processes to reinforce low-carbon mobility options while addressing social equity environmental and health benefits. Finally the book arms us with knowledge to prevent the disaster of full technological enlightenment against our natural human mobility code. | Shifting Mobility Part 1: Transforming Planning and Design for New Human Mobility Code

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Vitamin C New Biochemical and Functional Insights

Vascular Organization of Angiosperms A New Vision

Color Atlas of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Color Atlas of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

New York City has the largest medical examiner’s office in the United States and the Brooklyn division is the busiest of the five boroughs. Charles A. Catanese received his Forensic Pathology fellowship training in New York and then worked full time as a Medical Examiner in the Brooklyn office for more than 10 years. He has personally performed more than 4000 autopsies including over 400 homicides. Dr. Catanese has worked through several disasters including TWA Flight 800 AA Flight 587 and more than nine months on the World Trade Center fatalities. He is currently the Chief Medical Examiner of Orange County New York. Drawing on his wealth of knowledge and experience in solving some of the most difficult cases a forensic examiner could encounter he assembles hundreds of images from his own work experience to present the Color Atlas of Forensic Medicine and Pathology. Featuring twice the number of images as any other forensic pathology atlas the book is filled with high-resolution photos that demonstrate postmortem changes of the human body and the different types of patterns produced in deaths caused by: Natural causes Diagnostic or therapeutic procedures Substance abuse Poisoning Child abuse Firearms Blunt instruments Sharp instruments Burns Asphyxia This easy-to-read atlas created for medical and non-medical personnel covers basic and advanced forensic concepts that relate to all manners of deaths. The carefully worded unambiguous text describing each photo and the side-by-side comparisons of similar yet different pathologies make this remarkable atlas a powerful teaching tool for all those who must confront and solve the mystery of human demise. A fully searchable DVD version is also available.

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The New Cosmic Onion Quarks and the Nature of the Universe

Enterprise Architecture and New Generation Information Systems

Enterprise Architecture and New Generation Information Systems

Based on an extensive research project done by the author in the United States Britain Germany France Switzerland Sweden and Austria from December 1999 to June 2001 Enterprise Architecture and New Generation Information Systems focuses on four main themes: Next Generation Information TechnologyThe Likely Technologies of this DecadeEnterprise ComputingThe Internet as the 21st Century's Answer to MerchandisingWhile the majority of books presently available on information systems are written from the viewpoint of system analysis programming or common applications this text:Brings to the reader's attention the importance of organization and infrastructurePresents a wealth of case studies to explain the need for reengineering and restructuringDetails the latest advances which influence the implementation of advanced technologyWritten in a simple comprehensive manner without specific prerequisites and data processing jargon with concepts and case studies properly explained this book addresses itself to practitioners in computer technology telecommunications and software development who are interested in acquiring skills through knowledge of the most advanced applications tools and methods both present and coming. Enterprise Architecture and New Generation Information Systems will prove appealing to every person charged with planning developing applying and delivering advanced information systems architectural solutions and programming products.

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Beyond Menopause New Pathways to Holistic Health

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Harvest of Fish and Wildlife New Paradigms for Sustainable Management

Harvest of Fish and Wildlife New Paradigms for Sustainable Management

Harvest of Fish and Wildlife: New Paradigms for Sustainable Management unites experts in wildlife and fishery sciences for an interdisciplinary overview of harvest management. This book presents unique insights for embracing the complete social-ecological system to ensure a sustainable future. It educates users on evolutionary and population dynamics; social and political influences; hunter and angler behavior; decision processes; impacts of regulations; and stakeholder involvement. Features: Written by twenty-four teams of leading scientists and managers. Promotes transparent justification for fishing and hunting regulations. Provides examples for integrating decision making into management. Emphasizes creativity in management by integrating art and science. This book appeals to population biologists evolutionary biologists and social scientists. It is a key resource for on-the-ground managers and research scientists developing harvesting applications. As the book’s contributors explain: “Making decisions that are robust to uncertainty…is a paradigm shift with a lot of potential to improve outcomes for fish and wildlife populations. ” –Andrew Tyre and Brigitte Tenhumberg “Temporal shifts in system states…must somehow be anticipated and dealt with to derive harvest policies that remain optimal in the long term. ” –Michael Conroy “Proactive effective management of sportspersons…will be essential in the new paradigm of harvest management. ” –Matthew Gruntorad and Christopher Chizinski | Harvest of Fish and Wildlife New Paradigms for Sustainable Management

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Solvent Extraction and Liquid Membranes Fundamentals and Applications in New Materials

Solvent Extraction and Liquid Membranes Fundamentals and Applications in New Materials

The applications of solvent extraction (SX) and liquid membranes (LM) span chemistry metallurgy hydrometallurgy chemical/mineral processing and waste treatment—making it difficult to find a single resource that encompasses fundamentals as well as advanced applications. Solvent Extraction and Liquid Membranes: Fundamentals and Applications in New Materials draws together a diverse group of internationally recognized experts to highlight key scientific and technological aspects of solvent extraction that are critical to future work in the field. The first chapters identify relevant thermodynamics kinetics and interfacial behavior principles and introduce methods for calculating extraction equilibria and kinetic parameters. The next chapters focus on engineering and technological aspects of various industrial processes and plant applications including optimization and modeling tools and calculations. The final chapters examine new materials for metal extraction and separations covering preparation and application processes for organic and inorganic sorbents solid polymeric extractants and solvent impregnated resins. Solvent Extraction and Liquid Membranes offers a comprehensive review of the most important principles calculations and procedures involved in this widely applicable separation technique. The book’s pedagogical approach will benefit students and researchers in the field as well as working scientists and engineers who wish to apply solvent extraction to their own applications. | Solvent Extraction and Liquid Membranes Fundamentals and Applications in New Materials

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