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The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France

Primitive Accumulation and Markets from the Old Regime to the post-WWII Era

By: Xavier Lafrance,Stephen Miller

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The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France

Primitive Accumulation and Markets from the Old Regime to the post-WWII Era

By: Xavier Lafrance,Stephen Miller

Historians, since the 1960s, argue that the French economy performed as well as did any economy in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries thanks to the opportunities for profit available on the market, especially the large consumer market in Paris. Whatever economic weaknesses existed did not stem from the social structure but from exogenous forces such as wars, the lack of natural resources or slow demographic growth. This book challenges the foregoing consensus by showing that the French economy performed poorly relative to its rivals because of noncapitalist social relations. Specifically, peasants and artisans controlled lands and workshops in autonomous communities and did not have to improve labor productivity to survive. Merchants and manufacturers cornered markets instead of being subject to the market’s competitive imperatives. Thus, distinctive features of capitalism—primitive accumulation (the dispossession of peasants and artisans) and the competitive obligation faced by merchants and manufacturers to reinvest profits in order to keep the profits—did not prevail until the state imposed them in a process lasting for a century after the 1850s. For this reason, it was not until the 1960s that France caught up to (and in some cases surpassed) its economic rivals.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000990648

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Food Process Engineering

Safety Assurance and Complements

By: F. Xavier Malcata

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Food Process Engineering

Safety Assurance and Complements

By: F. Xavier Malcata

Food Process Engineering: Safety Assurance and Complements pursues a logical sequence of coverage of industrial processing of food and raw material where safety and complementary issues are germane. Measures to guarantee food safety are addressed at start, and the most relevant intrinsic and extrinsic factors are reviewed, followed by description of unit operations that control microbial activity via the supply of heat supply or the removal of heat. Operations prior and posterior are presented, as is the case of handling, cleaning, disinfection and rinsing, and effluent treatment and packaging, complemented by a brief introduction to industrial utilities normally present in a food plant. Key Features: Overviews the technological issues encompassing properties of food products Provides comprehensive mathematical simulation of food processes Analyzes the engineering of foods at large, and safety and complementary operations in particular, with systematic derivation of all relevant formulae Discusses equipment features required by the underlying processes

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CRC Press

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1000692884

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Lasers for Ischemic Heart Disease

Update on Alternatives for the Treatment of Diffuse Coronary Artery Disease

By: Xavier M. Mueller

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Lasers for Ischemic Heart Disease

Update on Alternatives for the Treatment of Diffuse Coronary Artery Disease

By: Xavier M. Mueller

With the growing age of the population, the proportion of elderly patients with diffuse coronary artery disease and severe comorbidities is increasing. The characteristics of these patients render them unsuitable for currently recognized revascularization procedures (CABG, PTCA). Therefore, there is an urgent need for new treatment modalities which could alleviate their symptoms and increase blood flow to the ischemic myocardium, while being less invasive for their fragile condition. The aim of this book is to provide an anatomical and physiological background as well as a complete review of the alternative methods of revascularization which are under development, namely transmyocardial laser revascularization, therapeutic angiogenesis and neurostimulation.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642567983

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Atlas of Practical Cardiac Applications of MRI

By: Guillem Pons-Lladó,Francesco Carreras,Xavier Borrás,Maite Subirana,Luís J. Jiménez-Borreguero

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Atlas of Practical Cardiac Applications of MRI

By: Guillem Pons-Lladó,Francesco Carreras,Xavier Borrás,Maite Subirana,Luís J. Jiménez-Borreguero

Glossary 4 Chapter 1: Basics of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and 6 Normal Views 1. 1 Definition and Physical Basics 6 a. Definition and historical background 6 b. Physical basics 6 1. 2 Technical Modalities 10 a. Spin echo 12 b. Gradient echo 12 c. Fast gradient echo 13 d. Specialized techniques 13 e. Techniques under clinical investigation 13 1. 3 Study Methodology: Normal Anatomy 13 a. Technical equipment 13 b. Medical personnel 13 c. Preparation of the patient 13 d. Normal MRI anatomy 17 References 17 Chapter 2: Ventricular Morphology and Function: Study of 26 Cardiomyopathies 2. 1 Morphological Study of Heart Chambers 26 a. Left ventricle 26 b. Right ventricle 31 2. 2 Ventricular Function 31 a. Left ventricular function 31 b. Right ventricular function 33 2. 3 Cardiomyopathies 33 a. Dilated cardiomyopathy 33 b. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 33 c. Restrictive cardiomyopathy 35 d. Arrhythmogenic dysplasia of the right ventricle 35 References 35 (f) Chapter 3: Acquired Diseases of the Aorta 38 I c 3. 1 Technical Aspects of the Aortic Study by MRI: Imaging the Normal Aorta 38 3. 2 Aortic Aneurysm 43 3. 3 Aortic Dissection and Related Entities OJ 43 a. Strategy for the study of aortic dissection by MRI 43 I b. Differential diagnosis of aortic dissection by MRI 47 References 49 c o U . ;jj Chapter 4: Study of Valvular Heart Disease 54 4. 1 Introduction 54 4. 2 Velocity Calculation and Flow Quantitation 54 4.

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940114544X

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Care in Technology

By: Xavier Guchet

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Care in Technology

By: Xavier Guchet

Today, it is widely recognized that in order to meet environmental challenges, it will not simply be enough to make our lifestyles ÂgreenerÂ; also critical is putting an end to the modern conception of the human as Âmaster and possessorÂ of nature. However, to bear fruit, this change in anthropology must also be accompanied by a revision in our conception of technology. Since the Enlightenment and the development of industrialization, technology no longer seems to be subject to the guiding principles set by the Greeks: prudence and the search for the right measure in all, which leads to the care of beings and the world. Care in Technology analyzes the historical changes that have led technology to become an unthinkable part of care, and care an unthinkable part of technology. It also establishes the conditions for care to once again become a regulatory principle of the activity of engineers who design technology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111982138X

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Shakespeare's Spiral

Tracing the Snail in King Lear and Renaissance Painting

By: François-Xavier Gleyzon

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Shakespeare's Spiral

Tracing the Snail in King Lear and Renaissance Painting

By: François-Xavier Gleyzon

Shakespeare's Spiral aims to explore a figure forgotten in the dramatic texts of Shakespeare and in Renaissance painting: the snail. Taking as its point of departure the emergence of the gastropod object/subject in the text of King Lear as well as its iconic interface in Giovanni Bellini's painting Allegory of Falsehood (circa 1490), this study sets out to follow the particular path traced by the snail throughout the oeuvre. From the central scene in which the metaphor of the snail and of its shell is specifically made manifest when Lear discovers, in a raging storm, the spectacle of Edgar disguised as Poor Tom coming out of his shelter (III.3.6-9) to the monster, this fiend, displaying on the cliffs of Dover, "horms whelked and waved like the enridg d sea" (IV.6.71), this work is the trace of a narrative - of a journey of the gaze - during the course of which the cryptic question of the gastropod - "Why a Snail ...]?" (I.5.26) - does not cease to be developed and transformed. Incorporating a wide-ranging post-structuralist critique, the study aims to bring to light the particular functions of this "revealing detail" in both its textual and visual dimension so as to put forward a new and innovatory understanding of the tragedy of King Lear.

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0761841377

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Chaos, Complexity and Transport

Theory and Applications : Proceedings of the CCT '07, Marseille, France, 4-8 June 2007

By: Xavier Leoncini

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Chaos, Complexity and Transport

Theory and Applications : Proceedings of the CCT '07, Marseille, France, 4-8 June 2007

By: Xavier Leoncini

This book aims to provide the readers with a wide panorama of different aspects related to Chaos, Complexity and Transport. It consists of a collection of contributions ranging from applied mathematics to experiments, presented during the CCT''07 conference (Marseilles, June 4OCo8, 2007). The book encompasses different traditional fields of physics and mathematics while trying to keep a common language among the fields, and targets a nonspecialized audience.

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World Scientific

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9812818804

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The Rise of Digital Management

From Industrial Mobilization to Platform Capitalism

By: François-Xavier de Vaujany

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The Rise of Digital Management

From Industrial Mobilization to Platform Capitalism

By: François-Xavier de Vaujany

This book analyzes the history of management, placing it in perspective with both American history and the genealogy of digital technology. Focusing on the years of industrial mobilization in the United States (from 1937 to 1945) and their extension into the Cold War, it shows particularly how "scientific management" was reconfigured and re-legitimized in favor of a new profoundly American geopolitics. In a context where the future was at a standstill, this research also explains what became of the managerial processes at the heart of capitalism from the 40s onwards: the shift from a managerial capitalism of calculation to a narrative capitalism made up of "desiring machines". This digital management no longer simply contributes, along with others, to unveiling and revealing the future. Aligned with the American obsession with novelty, it is the very process of revelation and unveiling, with managers and consumers alike becoming the intersecting subjects of desires borne of managerial apocalypses. To explore this period of American history, the author has combined a triple narrative anchored in three types of archives: an intimate history of this reconfiguration from the presence in New York of Saint-Exupéry, Burnham and Wiener; a description of the great historical moment of industrial mobilization; and a philosophical speculation about reconfiguration and its links to American history.

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1040033873

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An American in Barcelona

Dr. Pearson, The Man Who Brought Light to Catalonia

By: Xavier Moret

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An American in Barcelona

Dr. Pearson, The Man Who Brought Light to Catalonia

By: Xavier Moret

DIVAn inspirational novel of the real-life engineer whose ambitious project to build an electrical grid in Catalonia changed Barcelona forever/divDIV /divDIVXavier Moret illuminates the story of the American engineer Frederick Stark Pearson, an entrepreneur with a global vision, whose innovative business ventures brought electricity to Catalonia. From his arrival in Barcelona in June 1911, Dr. Pearson played a key role in the industrialization of the city, building tram and train networks to benefit from this new form of energy. However, tragedy strikes when Dr. Pearson dies aboard the Lusitania, torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. Suddenly, his ambitious project of urban and spatial planning is in jeopardy./divDIV /divDIVMoret compellingly envisions these historic events and the daily life of the American and Spanish pioneers in the local villages and work camps—a world reminiscent of the Wild West. He interweaves this story with his account of his own passionate commitment to chronicling Dr. Pearson’s remarkable achievements, and how this process of research and discovery ultimately changed his life./div

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Moving to Opportunity

The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty

By: Xavier de Souza Briggs,Susan J. Popkin,John Goering

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Moving to Opportunity

The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty

By: Xavier de Souza Briggs,Susan J. Popkin,John Goering

Moving to Opportunity tackles one of America's most enduring dilemmas: the great, unresolved question of how to overcome persistent ghetto poverty. Launched in 1994, the MTO program took a largely untested approach: helping families move from high-poverty, inner-city public housing to low-poverty neighborhoods, some in the suburbs. The book's innovative methodology emphasizes the voices and choices of the program's participants but also rigorously analyzes the changing structures of regional opportunity and constraint that shaped the fortunes of those who "signed up." It shines a light on the hopes, surprises, achievements, and limitations of a major social experiment. As the authors make clear, for all its ambition, MTO is a uniquely American experiment, and this book brings home its powerful lessons for policymakers and advocates, scholars, students, journalists, and all who share a deep concern for opportunity and inequality in our country.

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Oxford University Press

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0199741867

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Lucky Luke - Volume 41 - The Daily Star

By: Xavier Fauche,Jean Leturgie

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Lucky Luke - Volume 41 - The Daily Star

By: Xavier Fauche,Jean Leturgie

Horace Greeley is heading west with his printing press and his rock-solid belief in the power of the press, printing issues of his Daily Star as he goes. But his insistence on publishing the truth isn’t making him universally loved. When Lucky Luke meets the quirky journalist, he agrees to help him settle in Dead End Gulch and protect him against those who would rather not see their dirty deeds in print.

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1849187495

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Adrenal cancer

By: Bertagna Xavier

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Adrenal cancer

By: Bertagna Xavier

Adrenal Cortical Carcinoma is classically associated with a dismal prognosis. Yet its clinical presentation is changing (more and more classified as “incidentaloma”). New insights have emerged on its pathophysiological mechanisms (through the genetic elucidation of familial syndromes), and Reference Centers within National and European Networks are now offering more standardized and efficient multidisciplinary clinical management of these difficult patients. All these important aspects are described by experts in nine chapters dealing with epidemiology, prognosis, and clinical management, pathology, molecular pathophysiological mechanisms, modern imaging approaches, surgical and chemotherapeutical approaches of primary and secondary lesions, and the particular aspects of adrenal cortical carcinoma in children. This book, with its many figures and photographs, will be of major interest to endocrinologists, radiologists and nuclear medicine experts, pathologists, surgeons, oncologists, pediatricians. After a thorough reading, one will better recognize a suspicious adrenal “incidentaloma”, diagnose steroid hypersecretion, suspect a familial disease, consult with the pathologist and surgeon, manipulate difficult drugs like O,p'DDD, participate in multidisciplinary discussions with oncologists, radiotherapeutists, molecular biologists… Modern medicine in action!

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John Libbey Eurotext

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2742008551

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Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations

By: Luis A. Caffarelli,Xavier Cabré

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Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations

By: Luis A. Caffarelli,Xavier Cabré

The goal of the book is to extend classical regularity theorems for solutions of linear elliptic partial differential equations to the context of fully nonlinear elliptic equations. This class of equations often arises in control theory, optimization, and other applications. The authors give a detailed presentation of all the necessary techniques. Instead of treating these techniques in their greatest generality, they outline the key ideas and prove the results needed for developing the subsequent theory. Topics discussed in the book include the theory of viscosity solutions for nonlinear equations, the Alexandroff estimate and Krylov-Safonov Harnack-type inequality for viscosity solutions, uniqueness theory for viscosity solutions, Evans and Krylov regularity theory for convex fully nonlinear equations, and regularity theory for fully nonlinear equations with variable coefficients.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821804375

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Homogenization Theory for Multiscale Problems

An introduction

By: Xavier Blanc,Claude Le Bris

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Homogenization Theory for Multiscale Problems

An introduction

By: Xavier Blanc,Claude Le Bris

The book provides a pedagogic and comprehensive introduction to homogenization theory with a special focus on problems set for non-periodic media. The presentation encompasses both deterministic and probabilistic settings. It also mixes the most abstract aspects with some more practical aspects regarding the numerical approaches necessary to simulate such multiscale problems. Based on lecture courses of the authors, the book is suitable for graduate students of mathematics and engineering.

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Springer Nature

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3031218337

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Toward Responsible Innovation: Responsibility And Philosophy For A Humanely Sustainable Future

By: Xavier Pavie

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Toward Responsible Innovation: Responsibility And Philosophy For A Humanely Sustainable Future

By: Xavier Pavie

For fifty years, innovations have taken on a new dimension: the Internet, DNA sequencing, genomic manipulations, advances in transhumanism, nanotechnologies ... and much more. These recent innovations are not without addressing new issues whose consequences are as important as irreversible. The innovator, of whom Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are emblematic contemporary figures, appears as a personality as brilliant as he is destructive, who aspires to change the world regardless of the violence that may ensue. With this then, emerges the need to establish responsible innovation, in which the innovator should be accountable for his actions and review his position as a hero. To establish this new ethic, philosophy is a necessary recourse, since it questions, among other things, the self-control of the Stoics, the prudence of Aristotle, respect of Kant, the will power of Nietzsche and the power of Foucault.

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9811243247

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Dionysism and Comedy

By: Xavier Riu

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Dionysism and Comedy

By: Xavier Riu

This book investigates the idea of comic seriousness in Old Comedy. The issue has been a vexing one in classical studies, and the most traditional stance has been that Aristophanes' comedies reflect his personal ideology, reducing the plays to little more than political speeches. Riu concludes, in contrast, that we should abandon our preconceptions about comic seriousness and approach the language of Aristophanes with care and precision, alert to the nuances of meaning that the comic genre entails. Attempting to set Old Comedy in its proper context, Riu explores the myth and ritual of Dionysus in the city-state (including a reading of Euripides'Bacchae and other sources) and relates the patterns found in those myths to the works of Aristophanes. The book concludes with a section on the relationship between comedy and reality, the import of insults in comedy, comedy as ritual, the relationship between author and character, and the seriousness of comedy. With an appendix that examines the exceptional case ofClouds, Dionysism and Comedy is an important resource for students and scholars of classical comedy and the comedic genre

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847694429

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9780847694426

Yes, They Will Pass! Civil War in 24 tweets

By: Xavier Marce

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Yes, They Will Pass! Civil War in 24 tweets

By: Xavier Marce

Could the democracy of a European Union nation be in danger in the 21st century? Find the answer in this political and journalistic thriller that imagines a fiction that could seem more real than one would like to believe. 24 tweets, 24 hours, 24 people, 24 chapters... That tell how the destiny of a country changed. On November 23, 2023, a shocking event takes place that completely changes the history of Spain. Some will call it "Coup d'état", others "Auto-coup d'état", but all will agree in defining it as "The 24-hour Spanish civil war". Told through the testimonies collected by the journalist and researcher Juan Vega a year later, this document captures, in a terrifyingly plausible way, a fictional Spain that could well be the real one much sooner than the average citizen imagines. Prepare to be surprised and open your eyes to a fictional journalistic-political thriller inspired by current events in Spain. Through 24 tweets, people and chapters, the author Xavier Marcé makes a fierce criticism of journalism, politics and current society, in what is possibly his most controversial novel. 'Yes, They Will Pass!' is a fiction novel by the creator of the 'Mark of Odin' saga and 'The Stone Lotus' thriller and is part of the 2nd Line of the XaviVerso, the literary universe of the author Xavier Marcé, where everything is connected. More information about this novel at https://sipasaran.es/en.

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La Marca de Odin

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8412644247

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Lyman-alpha as an Astrophysical and Cosmological Tool

Saas-Fee Advanced Course 46. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

By: Mark Dijkstra,J. Xavier Prochaska,Masami Ouchi,Matthew Hayes

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Lyman-alpha as an Astrophysical and Cosmological Tool

Saas-Fee Advanced Course 46. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

By: Mark Dijkstra,J. Xavier Prochaska,Masami Ouchi,Matthew Hayes

The hydrogen Lyman-alpha line is of utmost importance to many fields of astrophysics. This UV line being conveniently redshifted with distance to the visible and even near infrared wavelength ranges, it is observable from the ground, and provides the main observational window on the formation and evolution of high redshift galaxies. Absorbing systems that would otherwise go unnoticed are revealed through the Lyman-alpha forest, Lyman-limit, and damped Lyman-alpha systems, tracing the distribution of baryonic matter on large scales, and its chemical enrichment. We are living an exciting epoch with the advent of new instruments and facilities, on board of satellites and on the ground. Wide field and very sensitive integral field spectrographs are becoming available on the ground, such as MUSE at the ESO VLT. The giant E-ELT and TMT telescopes will foster a quantum leap in sensitivity and both spatial and spectroscopic resolution, to the point of being able, perhaps, to measure directly the acceleration of the Hubble flow. In space, the JWST will open new possibilities to study the Lyman-alpha emission of primordial galaxies in the near infrared. As long as the Hubble Space Telescope will remain available, the UV-restframe properties of nearby galaxies will be accessible to our knowledge. Therefore, this Saas-Fee course appears very timely and should meet the interest of many young researchers.

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Springer Nature

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3662596237

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Materials for Sustainable Energy Applications

Conversion, Storage, Transmission, and Consumption

By: David Munoz-Rojas,Xavier Moya

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Materials for Sustainable Energy Applications

Conversion, Storage, Transmission, and Consumption

By: David Munoz-Rojas,Xavier Moya

The impending energy crisis brought on by the running out of finite and non-homogenously distributed fossil fuel reserves and the worldwide increase in energy demand has prompted vast research in the development of sustainable energy technologies in the last few decades. However, the efficiency of most of these new technologies is relatively small and therefore it needs to be increased to eventually replace conventional technologies based on fossil fuels. The required efficiency increase primarily relies on the ability to improve the performance of the functional materials which are at the heart of these technologies. The purpose of this book is to give a unified and comprehensive presentation of the fundamentals and the use and design of novel materials for efficient sustainable energy applications, such as conversion, storage, transmission, and consumption. The book presents general coverage of the use and design of advanced materials for sustainable energy applications. Thus, the book addresses all the relevant aspects, such as materials for energy conversion, storage, transmission, and consumption.

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9814411825

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Global Climate

Current Research and Uncertainties in the Climate System

By: Xavier Rodo,Francisco Comin

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Global Climate

Current Research and Uncertainties in the Climate System

By: Xavier Rodo,Francisco Comin

Uncertainty for Everyone The one thing that is certain about the world is that the world is uncertain. I have here, the question that apart of the matter, living matter, has to resolve in each and every one of its moments of existance. The environment of a living being is apart of the living being where it turns out, the rest of the living beings live. This is the drama of life on earth. Every living individual debates with his environment, exchanging matter, energy and information in the hope of staying alive, the same as all living beings who share that same environment. The adven ture of a living being (of all living beings ) is to maintain reasonable independ ence in face ofthe fluctuations ofuncertainty within the environment. The range of restrictions and mutual relationships is colossal. How is the tran seendental pretension of staying alive regulated? There is an equation imposed by the laws ofthermodynamics and the mathematical theory ofinformation about the interaction ofa living being with his environment which we could state like this: The complexity 01 a living individual plus his capacity for anticipation in re spect to his environment is identical to the uncertainty of the environmentplus the capacity of that living being to change the environment.

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3662052857

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Thinking English Grammar

To Honour Xavier Dekeyser, Professor Emeritus

By: Xavier Dekeyser

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Thinking English Grammar

To Honour Xavier Dekeyser, Professor Emeritus

By: Xavier Dekeyser

Thinking English Grammar. To Honour Xavier Dekeyser, Professor Emeritus contains papers by 34 colleagues of professor Dekeyser on subjects that have interested him throughout his career. His research has mainly been devoted to the history of English, and it is only natural that the first and longest section should consist of 11 papers on variation in English, both diachronic and synchronic. The second, barely shorter with its 9 papers, is devoted to the description of various aspects of modern English; some of these papers shade off into theoretical linguistics. Professor Dekeyser having obtained his Ph.D. on grammaticography, there is a third section on "Grammar from the Past", with 5 papers. The final section, 9 papers on "Language Teaching and Contrast", honours the eminent teacher of literally thousands of budding anglicists.

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