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The aim of this report is to analyse and assess the policy
landscape faced by UK energy users both households and firms and
explore the potential forimprovement. We highlight a number of
reform options and recommendationsfor firm and household energy use
policies. They include some changes that could be implemented
quickly and more radical reforms that would require further
consultation and time.http:
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Comparing the structures and challenges of democratic
constitutionalism in India and the European Union, this book
explores how democracy is possible within vastly diverse societies
of continental scale, and why a constitutional framework is best
able to secure the ideals of collective autonomy and individual
dignity. It contributes to an emerging comparative discussion on
structures of power, separation of powers and a comparative law of
democracy, which has been long neglected in comparative
constitutional studies. This timely and invigorating book showcases
a novel comparative approach termed "slow comparison" counters the
conceptual focus on nation-states in comparative studies and
develops a broader understanding of democratic constitutionalism.
In the context of the contemporary crisis of constitutional
democracy, triggered by populism, majoritarianism and
authoritarianism, chapters continue older ongoing debates about
multiculturalism, identity politics and democratic equality that
hold important insights for both India and the EU to deal with
contemporary challenges. This book will be an important read for
scholars of comparative constitutional law and theory. It will also
benefit those studying EU law and Indian constitutional law.
Providing a much-needed study on cybersecurity regime building,
this comprehensive book is a detailed analysis of cybersecurity
norm-making processes and country positions, through the lens of
multi-stakeholder diplomacy. Multi-disciplinary and multi-national
scholars and practitioners use insights drawn from high-level
discussion groups to provide a rigorous analysis of how major cyber
powers view multi-stakeholder diplomacy. Looking at how past
cybersecurity initiatives and multi-stakeholder negotiations in
other fields illuminate its dynamics, this book will help put
states' approaches towards multi-stakeholder cyber diplomacy into
perspective, and frame the role of private actors in cybersecurity
regime building. Evaluating the most promising institutional
arrangements and mechanisms for implementing cybersecurity, this
book combines top-down analyses relevant to the design of
international cybersecurity regimes with bottom-up case studies,
tracing the approaches of important states towards
multi-stakeholder participation in cyber diplomacy. With a wealth
of policy-relevant findings, this book will be welcomed by
practitioners and scholars of international law, international
organisation and international cybersecurity as well as
multi-stakeholder governance and multilateral regimes. Policymakers
and diplomats involved in international cybersecurity processes
will also benefit from its cutting-edge comparative analysis of the
approaches of key cyber powers.
Integrated Methods in Protein Biochemistry: Part C, Volume 679 in
the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the
field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a
variety of topics, including NanoBiT-based methods to monitor the
activation and modulation of RTKs, The interplay of G-protein ss?
subunit and PLC-ss enzyme in PIP2 hydrolysis and downstream
signaling, Biochemical Analysis of Protein-Protein Interfaces
underlying the regulation of Bacterial Secretion Systems, Probing
the structure and function of N-acetylmannosamine-6-phosphate
2-epimerase, Spectroscopic analysis of cysteine dioxygenase: a
mammalian thiol-dioxygenase, DeGlyPHER: MS-based analysis of viral
spike N-glycoforms, and more. Other sections cover Covalent protein
painting: MS-based protein footprinting, Characterization of GPCR
signaling complexes using negative-staining electron microscopy,
Probing protein misfolding and dissociation with free electron
laser, Optimized protocol for the characterization of Cas12a
activities, Proximity proteomics for the identification and
characterization of extracellular vesicles, Functional
characterization of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs),
Characterization of RRE domain in RiPP biosynthesis, The
Preparation of Recombinant Arginyltransferase 1 (ATE1) for
Structural and Biophyiscal Characterizations, Testing anti-cancer
drugs with Holographic Incoherent-light-source Quantitative Phase
Imaging, and more.
Integrated Methods in Protein Biochemistry: Part B, Volume 678 in
the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the
field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a
variety of topics, including Precise modification of native
proteins, purification, and analysis of bioconjugates,
NanoBiT-based methods to monitor the activation and modulation of
RTKs, The interplay of G-protein ss? subunit and PLC-ss enzyme in
PIP2 hydrolysis and downstream signaling, Structure and function of
bacterial secretion system, Tools and protocols for probing protein
sumoylation, Spectroscopic analysis of cysteine dioxygenase: a
mammalian thiol-dioxygenase, DeGlyPHER: MS-based analysis of viral
spike N-glycoforms, and more. Additional sections cover Covalent
protein painting: MS-based protein footprinting, Characterization
of GPCR signaling complexes using negative-staining electron
microscopy, Probing protein misfolding and dissociation with free
electron laser, Optimized protocol for the characterization of
Cas12a activities, Proximity proteomics for the identification and
characterization of extracellular vesicles, Structural and
Functional characterization of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases,
and much more.
Integrated Methods in Protein Biochemistry: Part A, Volume 677, the
latest release in the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new
advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting
chapters on topics such as DNA and protein engineering to create
protein bioswitches with new functions, Interaction and cross-talk
of prelamin A with integral membrane zinc metalloproteases, An
experimental protocol to study lipid transfer proteins, Synthesis
of small heat shock proteins, Druggable p-p interacting sites for
Co-chaperone DNAJA1 and its partner proteins, An experimental
protocol for glycoconjugate analysis, Methods for proximity-based
biotinylation combined with Mass Spectrometry, and more. Additional
chapters cover Synthetic antibody fragments as conformational
sensors of protein activation and trafficking, Expression,
purification, functional analysis and crystallization of Rag
GTPase, Purification of bacterial transcription elongation
complexes by photoreversible immobilization, Inhibition of
c-Myc-MAX heterodimerization, Fluorogenic RNA aptamers to probe
transcription by multi-subunit RNA polymerases, and much more.
In Humanities Perspectives in Peace Education: Re-Engaging the
Heart of Peace Studies, scholar-teachers across a variety of
humanities fields explore the content, methods, and pedagogies that
are unique to their respective disciplines in contributing to the
study of peace and justice. In recent decades, even as peace
scholarship has burgeoned, many peace studies texts- including
those that purport to be interdisciplinary in nature-have
emphasized social science perspectives and, in some cases, have
foregone exploration of the role of the humanities altogether in
comprehensive peace education. While humanities scholars continue
to stake out space for peace scholarship within their fields, no
volume has attempted to collect the wisdom of multiple humanities
disciplines in order to make the case for their critical role in
authentic peace education. Humanities Perspectives in Peace
Education addresses that shortcoming in the field of peace studies
by exploring the ways in which the humanities are uniquely situated
to contribute particular content, knowledge, skills, and values
required of comprehensive peace education, scholarship, and
activism. These include the development of empathy and
understanding, creative vision and imagination, personal and
communal transformation toward "the good" in society (such as the
pursuit of justice, nonviolence, freedom, and human thriving), and
field-specific analytical lenses of their own, among other
contributions. Both teachers and students of peace will find value
in this interdisciplinary humanities volume. Each chapter of
Humanities Perspectives in Peace Education offers a deep-dive into
a particular humanities field-including philosophy, literature,
language and culture studies, rhetoric, religion, history, and
music-to mine the field's unique contributions to peace and justice
studies. Scholars ask: "What are we missing in peace education if
we fail to include this academic discipline?" Chapters include
suggestions for peace pedagogies within the humanities field as
well as bibliographies and suggestions for further reading.
The technological advancements of today not only affect
individual's personal lives. They also affect the way urban
communities regard the improvement of their resident's lives.
Research involving these autonomic reactions to the growing needs
of the people is desperately needed to transform the cities of
today into the cities of the future. Driving the Development,
Management, and Sustainability of Cognitive Cities is a pivotal
reference source that explores and improves the understanding of
the strategic role of sustainable cognitive cities in residents'
routine life styles. Such benefits to residents and businesses
include having access to world-class training while sitting at
home, having their wellbeing observed consistently, and having
their medical issues identified before occurrence. This book is
ideally designed for administrators, policymakers, industrialists,
and researchers seeking current research on developing and managing
cognitive cities.
Biomolecular Interactions: Part A, Volume 169, the latest release
in the Methods in Cell Biology series, highlights new advances in
the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on
a variety of timely topics, including Emerging Mechanisms of
Targeted Protein Degradation by Molecular Glues, Design and use of
programmable DNA Hydrogels, Oligomerization of membrane receptors:
Approaches to measure in live cells, Interactions of
alpha-synuclein with biomolecules, Gel-electrophoresis based method
for biomolecular interaction, Recombinant centrosome expression in
bacterial system, Reconstituting CCL5-CCR5 complex for structural
and mechanistic analysis, Protein engineering and design in ion
channel receptors, and much more.
As technology weaves itself more tightly into everyday life,
socio-economic development has become intricately tied to these
ever-evolving innovations. Technology management is now an integral
element of sound business practices, and this revolution has opened
up many opportunities for global communication. However, such swift
change warrants greater research that can foresee and possibly
prevent future complications within and between organizations. The
Handbook of Research on Engineering Innovations and Technology
Management in Organizations is a collection of innovative research
that explores global concerns in the applications of technology to
business and the explosive growth that resulted. Highlighting a
wide range of topics such as cyber security, legal practice, and
artificial intelligence, this book is ideally designed for
engineers, manufacturers, technology managers, technology
developers, IT specialists, productivity consultants, executives,
lawyers, programmers, managers, policymakers, academicians,
researchers, and students.
Deleuze's fondness for geography has long been recognised as
central to his thought. This is the first book to introduce
researchers to the breadth of his engagements with space, place and
movement. Focusing on pressing global issues such as urbanization,
war, migration, and climate change, Arun Saldanha presents a
detailed Deleuzian rejoinder to a number of theoretical and
political questions about globalization in a variety of
disciplines. This systematic overview of moments in Deleuze's
corpus where space is implicitly or explicitly theorized shows why
he can be called the twentieth century's most interesting thinker
of space. Anyone with an interest in refining such concepts as
territory, assemblage, body, event and Anthropocene will learn much
from the "geophilosophy" which Deleuze and Guattari proposed for
our critical times.
G-Protein-Coupled Receptors: Signaling, Trafficking, and
Regulation, a new volume in the Methods in Cell Biology series
continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters
authored by leaders in the field. This volume covers research
methods in G-Protein-Coupled Receptors, and includes sections on
such topics signaling, trafficking and regulation.
G Protein-Coupled Receptors, Part B, Volume 195 represents the
largest class of cell H103 surface proteins that have intricate
involvement in nearly every physiological process in our body.
Approximately one third of the clinically prescribed medicines
target GPCRs and the quest to improve the exiting GPCR-targeting
therapeutics continues. Sections in this volume include Adhesion G
protein-coupled receptors: Structure and functions, Molecular and
cellular mechanisms underlying brain region-specific cannabinoid
receptor modulation by estradiol across the rodent estrus cycle,
Probing the orphan receptors: Tools and directions, Asymmetric
activation of Class C GPCRs, Common and selective signal
transduction mechanisms of GPCRs, and much more.
This book covers the advanced fabrication techniques, challenges,
and applications of photonic crystals for next-generation systems
in various applications such as high-speed networks, photonic
integrated circuits, health care, sensors, energy, and
environmental. This book highlights the literature and works put
forward by various scientists, researchers, and academicians in
photonic crystals and their real-time applications. The content of
the book appeals to readers such as students, researchers, and
industrial engineers who are working in the design and development
of photonics-based concepts, components, and devices for various
applications.
Ideal for college students in intermediate finance courses, this
book uniquely applies mathematical formulas to teach the
underpinnings of financial and lending decisions, covering common
applications in real estate, capital budgeting, and commercial
loans. An updated and expanded version of the time-honored classic
text on financial math, this book provides, in one place, a
complete and practical treatment of the four primary venues for
finance: commercial lending, financial formulas, mortgage lending,
and resource allocation or capital budgeting techniques. With an
emphasis on understanding the principles involved rather than blind
reliance on formulas, the book provides rigorous and thorough
explanations of the mathematical calculations used in determining
the time value of money, valuation of loans by commercial banks,
valuation of mortgages, and the cost of capital and capital
budgeting techniques for single as well as mutually exclusive
projects. This new edition devotes an entire chapter to a method of
evaluating mutually exclusive projects without resorting to any
imposed conditions. Two chapters not found in the previous edition
address special topics in finance, including a novel and innovative
way to approach amortization tables and the time value of money for
cash flows when they increase geometrically or arithmetically. This
new edition also features helpful how-to sections on Excel
applications at the end of each appropriate chapter. Lays the
foundation of all the topics that are typically covered in a
financial management textbook or class Demonstrates how the mastery
of a few basic concepts-such as the time value of money under all
possible situations-allows for a precise understanding of more
complex topics in finance Describes how all advanced capital
budgeting techniques can be reduced to the simplest technique-the
payback period method Examines traditional financial techniques
using simple interest rate and accounting rate of return methods to
conclusively show how these practices are now defunct
Martin Luther King famously declared that ‘I have decided to
stick with love . . . Hate is too great a burden to bear’. In
these luminous daily readings, Arun Arora helps us consider the
biblical picture of the Church as the people of God, drawn from
every tribe, every tongue and every nation. Themes of racial
justice, hospitality and welcome are explored alongside the stories
of saints from across the globe. Beginning with reflections from
Isaiah and Revelation, the meditations lead us on to consider the
missionaries, martyrs and mystics who light our Advent way.
This book, written in three parts, covers the basics of the
international trade, financing and the legal framework related to
the law of carriage of goods by sea, elaborates on bills of lading
in depth and sea waybills and ship's delivery orders in brief and
charterparties in depth. While the book is based on the English
law, cases and materials from other jurisdictions, particularly
Singapore, Malaysia, India, the USA, and Australia are brought in
to provide an international perspective. The practical analyses,
commentary and critiques of cases would be a useful guide for
practitioners in developing case arguments. Although written with
practitioners, academicians and students in mind, the book will
also serve as a useful guide for sea carriers, freight forwarders,
international traders, financiers, etc. as the complex subject is
presented in reader-friendly and easy to grasp manner.
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