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META-X®-Software for Metapopulation Viability Analysis

By: Karin Frank,Helmut Lorek,Frank Köster,Michael Sonnenschein,Christian Wissel,Volker Grimm

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META-X®-Software for Metapopulation Viability Analysis

By: Karin Frank,Helmut Lorek,Frank Köster,Michael Sonnenschein,Christian Wissel,Volker Grimm

Meta-X is a user-friendly computer program that allows students, teachers, and researchers to perform a metapopulation viability analysis i.e. to assess the extinction risk of (meta)populations on discrete, partially isolated patches of habitat, in a comfortable way. The CD comes with an extensive handbook which explains the basic concept of the program and takes you on a guided tour through a model experiment. It further provides the necessary scientific background on both metapopulation dynamics and population viability analysis. A special feature of Meta-X is that it supports comparative analyses of alternative scenarios. This predestines Meta-X to serve as an aid for decision making in conservation management and landscape planning. Furthermore, handbook and software together provide an invaluable help in research and teaching.

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Springer

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3642557236

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9783642557231

Dwelling Urbanism

City Making through Corporeal Practice in Mexico City

By: Christian von Wissel

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Dwelling Urbanism

City Making through Corporeal Practice in Mexico City

By: Christian von Wissel

City dwellers are direct agents in the making of cities; yet how do they actually constitute and sustain the urban and its forms? How do they practice the urban and through this practice shape the city-in-the-making that emerges along with them on the backs of their working bodies? Dwelling Urbanism re-thinks the urban from this perspective of corporeal making and with regard to the cityness that it bears. It delves into the thick of life in the periphery of Mexico City, uncovering the everyday actions and efforts that practitioners of space accomplish when building houses, creating jobs and putting themselves to work as infrastructure. How are consequential conjunctions, how is access to, and presence in the city actively grown? And what does such thinking the city as a verb, as citying, imply for urban planning?

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Birkhäuser

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3035618313

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The Craft of Church Planting

Exploring the Lost Wisdom of Apprenticeship

By: Christian Selvaratnam

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The Craft of Church Planting

Exploring the Lost Wisdom of Apprenticeship

By: Christian Selvaratnam

Drawing on insights from the training practices of the English medieval craft guilds, a global survey of 500 church planters, interviews with artists and church planting trainers and the authors 30 years of ministry experience, 'The Craft of Church Planting' offers a distinctive and imaginative perspective on the methods used to train future practitioners in the art of church planting. Demonstrating how training for the next generation of church planting leaders might be informed by the historic master-apprentice model, guild learning communities, creativity and an artisan approach to ministry, this book is a vital resource to inform the methods of training for the next generation of church planters.

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174

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SCM Press

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0334061830

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9780334061830

Aquatic Animal Nutrition

A Mechanistic Perspective from Individuals to Generations

By: Christian E. W. Steinberg

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Aquatic Animal Nutrition

A Mechanistic Perspective from Individuals to Generations

By: Christian E. W. Steinberg

This book is a unique cross fertilization of aquatic ecology and aquaculture. It shows how diets structure the digestive tract and its microbiota and, in turn, the microbiota influences life history traits of its host, including behavior. Short-term starvation can have beneficial effects on individuals themselves and succeeding generations which may acquire multiple stress resistances – a mechanism strengthening the persistence of populations. From terrestrial, but not yet from aquatic animals, it is understood that circadian the rhythmicity makes toxins or good food. On the long-term, the dietary basis impacts succeeding generations and can trigger a sympatric speciation by (epi)-genetics. This volume defines gaps in nutritional research and practice of farmed fishes and invertebrates by referring to knowledge from marine and freshwater biology. It also points out that dietary benefits and deficiencies have effects on several succeeding generations, indicating that well designed diets may have the potential to successfully improve broodstock and breeding effort.

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490

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3319917676

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9783319917672

Quantum Chromodynamics on the Lattice

An Introductory Presentation

By: Christof Gattringer,Christian B. Lang

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Quantum Chromodynamics on the Lattice

An Introductory Presentation

By: Christof Gattringer,Christian B. Lang

This introduction to quantum chromodynamics presents the basic concepts and calculations in a clear and didactic style accessible to those new to the field. Readers will find useful methods for obtaining numerical results, including pure gauge theory and quenched spectroscopy.

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Springer

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3642018505

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Environmental Standards

Combined Exposures and Their Effects on Human Beings and Their Environment

By: Christian Streffer,Josef Bücker,Adrienne Cansier,Dieter Cansier,Carl Friedrich Gethmann,Robert Guderian,Gerd Hanekamp,Dietrich Henschler,Gerald Pöch,Eckard Rehbinder,Ortwin Renn,Marco Slesina,Kerstin Wuttke

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Environmental Standards

Combined Exposures and Their Effects on Human Beings and Their Environment

The rapid growth of the world population - nearly six-fold over the last hundred years - combined with the rising number of technical installations especially in the industrialized countries has lead to ever tighter and more strained living spaces on our planet. Because ofthe inevitable processes oflife, man was at first an exploiter rather than a careful preserver of the environment. Environmental awareness with the intention to conserve the environment has grown only in the last few decades. Environmental standards have been defined and limit values have been set largely guided, however, by scientific and medical data on single exposures, while public opinion, on the other hand, now increasingly calls for astronger consideration of the more complex situations following combined exposures. Furthermore, it turned out that environmental standards, while necessarily based on scientific data, must also take into account ethical, legal, economic, and sociological aspects. A task of such complexity can only be dealt with appropriately in the framework of an inter disciplinary group.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540440976

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9783540440970

Dataclysm

Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves

By: Christian Rudder

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Dataclysm

Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves

By: Christian Rudder

A New York Times Bestseller An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly are. For centuries, we’ve relied on polling or small-scale lab experiments to study human behavior. Today, a new approach is possible. As we live more of our lives online, researchers can finally observe us directly, in vast numbers, and without filters. Data scientists have become the new demographers. In this daring and original book, Rudder explains how Facebook "likes" can predict, with surprising accuracy, a person’s sexual orientation and even intelligence; how attractive women receive exponentially more interview requests; and why you must have haters to be hot. He charts the rise and fall of America’s most reviled word through Google Search and examines the new dynamics of collaborative rage on Twitter. He shows how people express themselves, both privately and publicly. What is the least Asian thing you can say? Do people bathe more in Vermont or New Jersey? What do black women think about Simon & Garfunkel? (Hint: they don’t think about Simon & Garfunkel.) Rudder also traces human migration over time, showing how groups of people move from certain small towns to the same big cities across the globe. And he grapples with the challenge of maintaining privacy in a world where these explorations are possible. Visually arresting and full of wit and insight, Dataclysm is a new way of seeing ourselves—a brilliant alchemy, in which math is made human and numbers become the narrative of our time.

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Crown

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0385347383

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9780385347389

Fixing Higher Education

A Business Manager’s Take on How to Boost Productivity in Higher Education

By: Christian Schierenbeck

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Fixing Higher Education

A Business Manager’s Take on How to Boost Productivity in Higher Education

By: Christian Schierenbeck

Christian Schierenbeck makes a provocative case that higher education across the globe suffers from a profound productivity crisis which prevents broad access to affordable and high-quality educational services. He shows how the vast productivity gap in higher education could be closed if academic managers borrowed some of the managerial practices applied by the world’s leading business enterprises. In order for this to happen in practice, the author argues for radical changes in the policy framework for higher education.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3658002131

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9783658002138

The Mammals of the Southern African Sub-region

By: J. D. Skinner,Christian T. Chimimba

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The Mammals of the Southern African Sub-region

By: J. D. Skinner,Christian T. Chimimba

This comprehensive volume covers all mammals that occur naturally on the African mainland south of the Cunene and Zambezi rivers, and also in the subregion's coastal waters. Extensively revised and updated for the new edition, it now includes the latest data from from mammal research in southern Africa along with the radical taxonomic changes across all levels of mammalian classification. Containing contributions from specialists on each mammalian order, each species description has been reviewed by a range of independent and internationally recognised authorities. Along with the latest taxonomic information, the distribution maps and illustrations have been updated and redrawn, several new colour plates have been added, and the whole design has been enhanced to aid access to key information. This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of southern-African mammals and forms an essential reference for zoologists, evolutionary biologists and anyone wanting an overview of the region's wildlife.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107394058

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9781107394056

META-X®-Software for Metapopulation Viability Analysis

By: Karin Frank,Helmut Lorek,Frank Köster,Michael Sonnenschein,Christian Wissel,Volker Grimm

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META-X®-Software for Metapopulation Viability Analysis

By: Karin Frank,Helmut Lorek,Frank Köster,Michael Sonnenschein,Christian Wissel,Volker Grimm

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Dwelling Urbanism

City Making through Corporeal Practice in Mexico City

By: Christian von Wissel

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City Making through Corporeal Practice in Mexico City

By: Christian von Wissel

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Book's by Christian Wissel

META-X®-Software for Metapopulation Viability Analysis

META-X®-Software for Metapopulation Viability Analysis

Dwelling Urbanism

Dwelling Urbanism

The Craft of Church Planting

The Craft of Church Planting

Aquatic Animal Nutrition

Aquatic Animal Nutrition

Quantum Chromodynamics on the Lattice

Quantum Chromodynamics on the Lattice

Environmental Standards

Environmental Standards

Dataclysm

Dataclysm

Fixing Higher Education

Fixing Higher Education

The Mammals of the Southern African Sub-region

The Mammals of the Southern African Sub-region

META-X®-Software for Metapopulation Viability Analysis

META-X®-Software for Metapopulation Viability Analysis

Dwelling Urbanism

Dwelling Urbanism

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