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This book is an interdisciplinary and accessible guide to
environmental physics. It allows readers to gain a more complete
understanding of physical process and their interaction with
ecological ones underpin important environmental issues. The book
covers a wide range of topics within environmental physics,
including: * natural and anthropogenic canopies, including forests,
urban or wavy terrains;* the fundamentals of heat transfer;*
atmospheric flow dynamics;* global carbon budget;* climate change;
and* the relevance of biochar as a global carbon sink. Including
solved exercises, numerous illustrations and tables, as well as an
entire chapter focused on applications, book is of interest to
researchers, students and industrial engineers alike.
This book is an interdisciplinary and accessible guide to
environmental physics. It allows readers to gain a more complete
understanding of physical process and their interaction with
ecological ones underpin important environmental issues. The book
covers a wide range of topics within environmental physics,
including: * natural and anthropogenic canopies, including forests,
urban or wavy terrains;* the fundamentals of heat transfer;*
atmospheric flow dynamics;* global carbon budget;* climate change;
and* the relevance of biochar as a global carbon sink. Including
solved exercises, numerous illustrations and tables, as well as an
entire chapter focused on applications, book is of interest to
researchers, students and industrial engineers alike.
Bayesian nonparametric and semiparametric mixture models have
become extremely popular in the last 10 years because they provide
flexibility and interpretability while preserving computational
simplicity. This book is a contribution to this growing literature,
discussing the design of models for collections of distributions
and their application to density estimation and nonparametric
regression. All methods introduced in this book are discussed in
the context of complex scientific applications in public health,
epidemiology and finance.
During the Trump administration, more people sought sanctuary in
churches in Philadelphia than any other city in the United States.
The city was also on the front lines of progressive policy making,
defending its sanctuary policies in federal court. In this
collection of essays and interviews, a diverse set of authors
examine the promise and limits of sanctuary. Contributors include
Carmela Apolonio Hernandez, who spent over three years living in
sanctuary to resist deportation, community organizers who work to
build a more just and inclusive city, and leading academics who
explore the origins of sanctuary and its intersections with the
workplace, policing, and university campuses. Collectively, these
authors offer a roadmap for how sanctuary is created and sustained
and argue for a future in which no human being is illegal.
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