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The evolutionary biology of human body fatness : thrift and control

Obrazy
Autor
Jonathan C. K. Wells
Ausstellungsort
Cambridge
Ausgabejahr
2010
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface . . ix

1 Introduction . . 1
2 Human fatness in broad context . . 16
3 Proximate causes of lipid deposition and oxidation . . 49
4 The ontogenetic development of adiposity . . 92
5 The life-course induction of adiposity . . 118
6 The fitness value of fat . . 153
7 The evolutionary biology of adipose tissue . . 195
8 Adiposity in hominin evolution . . 215
9 Adiposity in human evolution . . 244
10 The evolution of human obesity . . 270

References . . 302
Index . . 363

Serie
(Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology ; 58)

Biodiversity in environmental assessment

Obrazy
Autor
Roel Slootweg [et al.]
Ausstellungsort
Cambridge
Ausgabejahr
2010
Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors . . ix
Foreword . . xi
Preface . . xiii
List of abbreviations . . xvi

Part I. Setting the stage
1 Introduction . . 3
2 Interpretation of biodiversity . . 14
3 Biodiversity conservation and development: challenges for impact assessment . . 59

Part II. Assessment tools
4 The impact assessment framework . . 87
5 Environmental assessment . . 125
6 Biodiversity in Environmental Impact Assessment . . 154
7 Biodiversity-inclusive Strategic Environmental Assessment . . 205

Part III. Emerging issues
8 Reconciling conservation and development: the role of biodiversity offsets . . 255
9 Valuation of ecosystem services: lessons from influential cases . . 287

Epilogue - Topics in need of further elaboration . . 328
Annex: valuation of ecosystem services: influential cases . . 334
Rerences . . 398
Index . . 434

Serie
(Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation)

Graphite testing for nuclear applications : the significance of test specimen volume and geometry and the statistical significance of test specimen population

Obrazy
Autor
editors: Nassia Tzelepi, Mark Carroll
Ausstellungsort
West Conshohocken
Ausgabejahr
2014
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Overview . . vii
Effect of Test Specimen Size on Graphite Strength . . 1
The Use of Small Graphite Specimen Test Data for Large Core Components for HTGR . . 30
Applicability and Limitations of Miniature Specimens for Properties Determination of Fine-Grained Graphite . . 65
Small-Scale Approaches to Evaluate the Mechanical Properties of Quasi-Brittle Reactor Core Graphite . . 84
Quality Control Using Inferential Statistics in Weibull-Based Reliability Analyses . . 105
The Scaling of the Strength of Nuclear Graphite with Particular Emphasis on Statistical Aspects and Implications for Testing . . 123
Sample Size Effects on Ultrasonic Measurements of Elastic Moduli-Experimental and Theoretical Investigations . . 144
Small Specimen Data from a High Temperature HFIR Irradiation Experiment . . 172
Specimen Size Effects in the Determination of Nuclear Grade Graphite Thermal Diffusivity . . 186
Size Effect on the Fracture Properties of Nuclear Graphite . . 199

Serie
(Selected Technical Papers ; 1578)

Brilliant! : Shuji Nakamura and the revolution in lighting technology

Obrazy
Autor
Bob Johnstone
Ausstellungsort
Amherst
Ausgabejahr
2015
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface To The Updated Edition . . I
Introduction . . 9

Out Of The Blue . . 21
The Floodgates Open . . 147
Flight Of The Golden Goose . . 211
The End Of Edison . . 257

Conclusion . . 297
Afterword: Led 2.0 . . 303
Acknowledgments . . 317
Sources . . 319
Index . . 331

Arresting contagion : science, policy, and conflicts over animal disease control

Obrazy
Autor
Alan L. Olmstead, Paul W. Rhode
Ausstellungsort
Cambridge
Ausgabejahr
2015
Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables . . IX

1 An Enduring Struggle . . 1
2 Livestock Disease Environment and Industry Dynamics . . 19
3 The Battle to Create the Bureau of Animal Industry . . 42
4 The BAI in Action: Establishing the Area Eradication Model . . 63
5 Bad Blood: Deciphering Texas Fever and Confining Its Spread . . 94
6 Contagions and Crises: Foot-and-Mouth Disease . . 115
7 The Hog Cholera Puzzle: Controversy and Discovery . . 138
8 Trichinosis, Trade, and Food Safety . . 156
9 The Benevolence of the Butcher: The Creation of Federal Meat Inspection . . 172
10 Bovine Tuberculosis and the Milk Problem . . 219
11 The Eradication oi Texas Fever: Conflict and Cooperation . . 251
12 An Impossible Undertaking: Eradicating Bovine Tuberculosis . . 278
13 Getting Off the Fix: Hog Cholera Eradication . . 302
14 The Mirror of the Past . . 316

Abbreviations . . 325
Notes . . 327
Bibliography . . 405
Acknowledgments . . 447
Index . . 449

Learning to teach design and technology in the secondary school : a companion to school experience

Obrazy
Autor
edited by Gwyneth Owen-Jackson
Ausstellungsort
London

Verlag

Ausgabejahr
2015
Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures . . VII
List of tables . . VIII
List of contributors . . IX
Acknowledgements . . XII

Introduction . . 1

PART I: DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY IN SCHOOL . . 5
1 Design and technology in the secondary school . . 7
2 Design and technology in the primary school . . 18

PART II: PREPARING TO TEACH DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY . . 35
3 Health and safety in design and technology . . 37
4 Preparing to teach design . . 57
5 Preparing to teach electronics, actuation and control technologies . . 77
6 Preparing to teach food technology . . 99
7 Preparing to teach materials technology . . 120
8 Preparing to teach textiles technology . . 136
9 Preparing to teach graphics . . 150
10 Preparing to teach with digital technologies . . 161

PART III: TEACHING DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY . . 179
11 Pupil learning in design and technology . . 181
12 Teaching design and technology . . 199
13 Assessing design and technology . . 221
14 Planning to teach design and technology . . 241

PART IV: DEVELOPING YOUR TEACHING . . 267
15 Developing links with other subjects . . 269
16 Developing values . . 287
17 Developing work with disruptive technologies . . 303
18 Your professional development . . 323

Index . . 337

Serie
(Learning to Teach Subjects in the Secondary School Series)

The silent epidemic : coal and the hidden threat to health

Obrazy
Autor
Alan H. Lockwood
Ausstellungsort
Cambridge

Verlag

Ausgabejahr
2012
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments . . IX
1 Introduction . . 1 
2 Coal . . 9 
3 The Pollutants . . 17 
4 From Mine to Ash . . 47 
5 Mitigation of Pollutants from Burning Coal . . 67 
6 Pathophysiology: How Pollution Damages Cells and Tissues . . 85 
7 Basic Health Considerations . . 99 
8 Diseases of the Respiratory System . . 111 
9 Diseases of the Cardiovascular System . . 131 
10 Diseases of the Nervous System . . 141 
11 Health Effects on the Horizon . . 155 
12 Coal, Global Wanning, and Health . . 165 
13 Energy and Health Care Economics . . 193 
14 Policy Implications . . 207 

Glossary . . 221 
Index . . 225

The hope and vision of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Obrazy
Autor
Michael A. Day
Ausstellungsort
New Jersey
Ausgabejahr
2016
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface . . IX
Acknowledgments . . XV

1. Introduction . . 1
   Biographical Sketch . . 1
   Recent Scholarship and the "Oppenheimer Challenge" . . 17
2. Oppenheimer's Hope and Vision 1957-1959 . . 23
   Background . . 23
   A Vital Center for Oppenheimer's Thought . . 25
   Philosophy and the Public Sphere . . 35
3. MacLeish, Oppenheimer, and "The Conquest of America" . . 41
   Background . . 41
   The Conquest of America . . 45
   Oppenheimer-MacLeish Exchange . . 50
   Oppenheimer's Reith Lectures . . 54
   MacLeish's Suspicion of Science . . 59
4. Rabi, Oppenheimer, and the Universal Culture of Science . . 65
   Background . . 65
   Oppenheimer's Response to Rabi . . 69
   Focusing Oppenheimer's Hope and Vision . . 71
   Rabi's Philosophical Views and Outlook . . 77
   MacLeish, Oppenheimer, and Rabi . . 85
5. International Control of Atomic Energy . . 89
   Acheson-Lilienthal Proposal . . 89
   Moral Ramifications . . 100
6. Complementarity in Atomic Physics . . 111
   Oppenheimer and Complementarity . . 111
   Bohr, Einstein, and Oppenheimer . . 120
7. Oppenheimer — Philosophical Exploration I . . 125
   Oppenheimer and Modernity . . 125
   Oppenheimer and Pragmatism . . 132 
8. Oppenheimer — Philosophical Exploration II . . 143
   Oppenheimer, Moral Dilemmas, and Moral Luck . . 143
   Oppenheimer and Narrative . . 154
9. Oppenheimer and International Relations . . 163
   Realism, Liberal Internationalism, and Constructivism . . 164
   David Mitrany and International Functionalism . . 174
   Oppenheimer and Epistemic Communities . . 182
10. Oppenheimer and the Nuclear Revolution . . 189
    Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty . . 190
    Nuclear Disarmament . . 199
    Nuclear One Worldism . . 208

Epilogue . . 215
Endnotes . . 229
Index . . 253

Le vie della ripresa : Studi su Kierkegaard

Obrazy
Autor
Virgilio Melchiorre
Ausstellungsort
Milano
Ausgabejahr
2016
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prefazione . . VII
Abbreviazioni . . IX
I. Kierkegaard e il fideismo . . 3
II. Metafisica e storia . . 39
III. Il principio di analogia come categoria metafisica . . 61
IV. Possibilità e realtà nell'estetica di Kierkegaard . . 73
V. Kierkegaard e Hegel: la polemica sul «punto di partenza» . . 123
VI. La dialettica della «ripresa» . . 141
VII. Istante, totalità, ripresa . . 165
VIII. Posi Scriptum: ancora sulla ripresa . . 177
XIX. «De omnibus dubitandum...»: una postilla teoretica sul moderno e sull'antimoderno . . 183
X. La coscienza tragica . . 203
XI. Esperienza religiosa e filosofia . . 241
XII. 11 paradosso come passione del pensiero . . 273
XIII. Il cristianesimo in Kierkegaard . . 299
XIV. Pentimento e ripresa in Kierkegaard. Dal Qohelet ai gigli del campo . . 321
XV. L'arte come seconda immediatezza . . 337
XVI. L'io diviso: ripresa e variazioni da un testo di Kierkegaard . . 351
XVII. Due itinerari critici sulla modernità . . 365
XVIII. La contemporaneità del discepolo come prospettiva escatologica . . 373
XX. Il Diario del seduttore, un percorso dialettico nell'opera di Kierkegaard . . 413

Indice dei nomi . . 429

Serie
(Metafisica e Storia della Metafisica ; 41)