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This book presents decade-long advances in atmospheric research in the Mackenzie River Basin in northern Canada, which encompasses environments representative of most cold areas on Earth. Collaborative efforts have yielded knowledge entirely transferable to other high latitude regions in America, Europe and Asia. This book complements the first volume coming from the GEWEX project, dealing with the region's atmospheric dynamics.

Within the central and peripheral nervous systems of animals, including man, inhibition is crucial to counterbalance excitatory neurotransmission, which is predominantly mediated by glutamate and its receptors. Although, particularly in brain, much of this inhibition is provided by classical post-synaptic GABAA receptors, many other proteins and mechanisms regulate excitation. These exist both to "fine tune" neurotransmission and to prevent ov...

Dem komplexer werdenden Immobilienmarkt ist das konventionelle Wertermittlungssystem in Deutschland nicht mehr adäquat. Insbesondere international agierende Investoren benötigen marktgerechte Bewertungsmethoden, um Immobilienanlagen miteinander vergleichen zu können.Das vorliegende Buch beschreibt klar und praxisnah, welche Wertermittlungsverfahren international Verwendung finden. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei die direkte Vergleichswertmethode, ...

This book examines environmental security from the perspective of landscape sciences, identifying the forces that threaten environmental security at all levels. It stems from the last five years of the Pilot Study Project on Use of Landscape Sciences for Environmental Assessment sponsored by the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society. Readers explore concepts of environmental security from subjective and objective perspectives.

In nur einer Generation hat sich die Volksrepublik China nach dem Beginn der Wirtschaftsreformen 1978 von einem wirtschaftlich stagnierenden Land zu einem Zentrum der Weltwirtschaft entwickelt. Was ermöglicht diese rasche und andauernde wirtschaftliche Entwicklung? Wie unterstützt der sich noch reformierende Finanzsektor diesen Entwicklungsprozess? Erstmals werden in diesem Buch grundlegende Überlegungen der Entwicklungstheorie von Joseph Schu...

This book presents decade-long advances in atmospheric research in the Mackenzie River Basin in northern Canada, which encompasses environments representative of the coldest areas on Earth. Collaborative efforts by a team of about 100 scientists and engineers have yielded knowledge entirely transferable to other high latitude regions in America, Europe and Asia.

The behavior of many technical systems important in everyday life can be described using discrete states and state-changing events. Stochastic discrete-event systems (SDES) capture the randomness in choices and over time due to activity delays and the probabilities of decisions. The starting point for the evaluation of quantitative issues like performance and dependability is a formal description of the system of interest in a model. Armin Zi...

A science fiction set in a post-apocalyptic post-photosynthetic future where people have accidentally released a deadly virus that infects plants and the world is slowly running out of food. Decades into this grim reality the status quo is disrupted and a two person team (yup, one man and one woman) is sent out to look for strategically useful information. They start with very different perspectives, encounter other communities and find someth...

The Godfather by Mario Puzo was the reference novel on Italian mafia gangsterism in the 20th century. The Dons Apple is set to take over as the ultimate mafia megathriller in the new millennium.

Dal 1931 ad oggi, i teoremi di incompletezza di Gödel continuano ad affascinare. Più che mai attuali, essi sono invocati, a torto o a ragione, nei dibattuti temi dell'intelligenza artificiale, attizzando le speranze tanto di chi crede nella costruibilità di una mente meccanica, che di chi la nega. Famosi autori infatti, come Penrose (Ombre della mente) e Hofstadter (Gödel, Escher, Bach) rivisitano i teoremi oggi, e con opposti intenti.Tuttavia...

In A.D. 176, Renny (Eireneios) became a sailor at the age of 15 aboard a ship of the grain fleet that traveled from Alexandria to Rome. He survived a storm at sea and capture by pirates. Then his older brother Polo, a centurion, recruited him to become a 'friend of Caesar' to help snare the gang of smugglers who were using that ship. But his mission was discovered, and some gladiators who were part of the gang forced him into the equipment of ...

My First Year In Purgatory" is a memoir with illustrations, about my adventures and insights as a Gen Xer teaching in a crumbling inner city school district. In it, I lead two semi-functional lives: embattled educator by day -whose students make Damien from the "Omen" look like a lightweight, and urban adventurer by night. I witness teachers driven out of classrooms by students they can't control, bullies given free reign to torment the weak, ...

From the Introduction: ...the primary goal will be to formulate an approach to literature - a way of experiencing or "using" literature - based on some points of correspondence which literature has with both Christian spirituality and psychology

B. Wilder, a 25 year old Atlanta native has been writing and reading poetry for over 15 years. A style familiar to that of her literary muses' Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, she introduces a collection of syncopated and sometimes abrupt tempo pieces. You'll find a variety of poetic styles in Thoughts of My Inner City, which chronicles her "short" yet eventful journey. Though sometimes gripping and graphic, "Thoughts of My Inner City" emerges...

A 64 page, self-paced career guide that describes how people attain careers that make them happy. The career guide will help you gain insight into what will make you truly happy in a career and introduce you to career planning strategies, exercises and job search resources that will increase their chances for connecting with a meaningful career. After reading the career guide and working through the exercises, you will understand yourself bett...

Life can be a struggle...hard to figure out. Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do some people seem to "have it all"...effortlessly? Do you think that luck and fate are pre-determined and you have no influence? Do you feel very alone as you journey through this lifetime? Do you feel insignificant in this hustle and bustle around you? In Your Spiritual Home Field Advantage, Dr. Brabo and Dr. Yohn explore these apparent disconnects and...

How can we utilize the energy and creativity of Hip-Hop music and culture to make schools and classrooms more engaging? The H2Ed Guidebook provides answers. The H2Ed Guidebook addresses the tenets of a critical Hip-Hop pedagogy, framing the issues of concern and strength within Hip-Hop culture by providing in-depth analysis from parents, teachers and scholars. And most importantly, the H2Ed Guidebook offers an array of innovative, interdiscipl...

In the aftermath of an historical event there are always unanswered questions but not impenetrable ones if you believe in ghosts. Ghosts, themselves, are a difficult question, however.

Modern Hellenismos is a religious movement that reconstructs the ancient Greek religion in a modern context. The practice uses a method that adapts the old with the new, using the best available archaeological evidence with intellectual honesty. Those attracted to the ancient Greek religion want to know what Hellenists believe. What does Hellenismos say about sin and salvation, creation and the afterlife? Theology is, simply put, a system, sch...

Penned in a distinctive lyrical style, this collection of poems concerns itself with how the living haunt themselves. Each of the pieces are formed around a vivid image--among them, a child's signature in the dust of an old guitar, the stone plinth where a cafe once stood, a white balloon, and a chateau, still furnished with the belongings of its vanished owner. With a powerful and haunting voice, the concept of love underscores the commonplac...