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Overheating in buildings is commonplace. This book describes how we
can keep cool without conventional air-conditioning: improving
comfort and productivity while reducing energy costs and carbon
emissions. It provides architects, engineers and policy makers with
a 'how-to' guide to the application of natural cooling in new and
existing buildings. It demonstrates, through reference to numerous
examples, that natural cooling is viable in most climates around
the world. This completely revised and expanded second edition
includes: An overview of natural cooling past and present. Guidance
on the principles and strategies that can be adopted. A review of
the applicability of different strategies. Explanation of
simplified tools for performance assessment. A review of components
and controls. A detailed evaluation of case studies from the USA,
Europe, India and China. This book is not just for the technical
specialist, as it also provides a general grounding in how to avoid
or minimise air-conditioning. Importantly, it demonstrates that
understanding our environment, rather than fighting it, will help
us to live sustainably in our rapidly warming world.
Overheating in buildings is commonplace. This book describes how we
can keep cool without conventional air-conditioning: improving
comfort and productivity while reducing energy costs and carbon
emissions. It provides architects, engineers and policy makers with
a 'how-to' guide to the application of natural cooling in new and
existing buildings. It demonstrates, through reference to numerous
examples, that natural cooling is viable in most climates around
the world. This completely revised and expanded second edition
includes: An overview of natural cooling past and present. Guidance
on the principles and strategies that can be adopted. A review of
the applicability of different strategies. Explanation of
simplified tools for performance assessment. A review of components
and controls. A detailed evaluation of case studies from the USA,
Europe, India and China. This book is not just for the technical
specialist, as it also provides a general grounding in how to avoid
or minimise air-conditioning. Importantly, it demonstrates that
understanding our environment, rather than fighting it, will help
us to live sustainably in our rapidly warming world.
Crop wild relatives (CWR) are species closely related to crop
plants which can contribute beneficial traits, such as pest or
disease resistance and yield improvement. These species are
critical for improving agricultural production and increasing food
security. They are also essential components of natural and
semi-natural habitats as well as agricultural systems, and are
therefore vital in maintaining ecosystem health. However, CWR, like
any other group of wild species, are subject to an increasing range
of threats: habitat loss, degradation and mismanagement,
over-collection and climate change. Through an examination of the
national, regional and global context of CWR, these authoritative
studies present methodologies and case studies that review and
provide recommendations for global conservation and use. Topics
range from the establishment of conservation priorities and
strategies, threat assessment and genetic erosion and pollution.
Advances in molecular and cell biology have led to the development
of a whole range of techniques for manipulating genomes,
collectively termed biotechnology . Although much of the focus in
the plant sciences has been on the direct manipulation of plant
genomes, biotechnology has also catalyzed a renewed emphasis on the
importance of biological and genetic diversity and its
conservation. The methods of biotechnology now permit a greater
understanding of both species and genetic diversity in plants, the
mechanisms by which that variation is generated in nature, and the
significance of that variation in the adaptation of plants to their
environment. They allow the development of rapid methods for
screening germplasm for specific characters and promote more
effective conservation strategies by defining the extent of genetic
diversity. Tissue culture-based techniques are available for
conserving germplasm that cannot be maintained by more traditional
methods. Also sophisticated informatics systems enable information
on plant genetics and molecular biology to be cross-related to
systematic, ecological and other data through international
networks."
Based on the 2010 conference 'Towards the establishment of genetic
reserves for crop wild relatives and landraces in Europe', this
book is the cutting edge discussion of agrobiodiversity
conservation. By considering the benefits of understanding and
preserving crop wild relatives and landraces, it encompasses issues
as wide-ranging and topical as habitat protection, ecosystem health
and food security. Focusing on Europe, but globally relevant,
Agrobiodiversity Conservation is ideal for postgraduate students of
conservation and environmental studies, conservation professionals,
policy makers and researchers.
Maintaining food security in the face of human population increase
and climate change is one of the critical challenges facing us in
the 21st Century. Utilisation of the full range of agrobiodiversity
will be a necessary tool in addressing this challenge. In this book
a team of international contributors review all aspects of
utilization and conservation of crop wild relative (CWR) and
landrace (LR) diversity as a basis for crop improvement and future
food security. Enhancing Crop Genepool Use covers four key areas: *
Characterization techniques - novel 'omics' techniques and
predictive tools that can be used to identify adaptive traits and
expedite plant breeding. * Conservation strategies - how to develop
national, regional and global CWR and LR conservation strategies,
how better to target conservation to meet the needs of the plant
breeding community, and how to integrate CWR and LR diversity into
existing biodiversity conservation programmes. * Facilitating CWR
and LR use - pre-breeding using 'exotic' germplasm, meeting
breeders' needs, integrating the conservation and user communities,
and policy enhancement. * Informatics development - improving
characterization, trait and conservation data management and
accessibility, and inter-information system operability. This book
will appeal to a wide array of specialists and postgraduate
students, such as those working in the fields of agrobiodiversity
conservation and use, conservation, ecology, botany, genetics,
plant breeding and agriculture.
This book addresses the current state of climate change
predictions, and how climate change will affect conservation and
use of crop germplasm, both "ex situ" and "in situ." In addition,
specific examples of germplasm research related to climate change
threats are highlighted. Such activities need to take place under a
regime of access to and use of germplasm through international
conventions and treaties.
DESCRIPTION AngularJS is an innovative web framework from Google
that extends the HTML vocabulary, allowing for the creation of
dynamic, interactive web applications. Out of the box, Angular
provides most of the functionality needed for basic apps, and
because it's smart and intuitive, users can build more interesting
apps. It's easy to customize and extend, and it's designed to be
readable and testable. AngularJS in Action covers everything
readers need to get started with the AngularJS framework. It
explores all the individual components of the framework and teaches
how to customize and extend them. It looks at emerging patterns for
web application architecture and helps readers tackle required
tasks like communicating with a web server back-end. Along the way,
they'll see AngularJS in action by building real world applications
with thoroughly-commented code. RETAIL SELLING POINTS Full
explanations of AngularJS concepts Step-by-step guide to building
common application features In-depth examples AUDIENCE This book
assumes you know at least a little JavaScript. No prior exposure to
AngularJS or other web frameworks is required. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY
JavaScript has experienced a stunning renaissance over the last
couple of years and there has been an explosion of new frameworks
created to solve the architectural problems that comes with
developing more complicated applications. AngularJs is a JavaScript
framework from Google that aims to simplify writing complex web
applications.
Are you frustrated with the monotonous Spanish verb drills that
involve writing page after page of conjugations? Good news! You now
have an alternative, Spanish Verb Conjugation: A Hands-On Guide to
the 7 Compound Tenses. This unique, hands-on approach allows you to
actively learn subject pronouns, auxiliary verbs, past participles,
translations and usage of regular, compound tense verbs through
easy to use formation charts and cards. This hybrid instructional
book and hands-on learning kit will change your perspective on
conjugation and you will never look at Spanish verbs the same way
again!
Brian Ford-Powell's poetry collection will take you from humour to
romance and into many other areas of life - many reflecting his own
broad background. Written in understandable styles, this rhyming
poetry is for everyone.
Are you frustrated with the monotonous Spanish verb drills that
involve writing page after page of conjugations? Good news! You now
have an alternative, Spanish Verb Conjugation: A Hands-On Guide to
the 7 Simple Tenses. This unique, hands-on approach allows you to
actively learn subject pronouns, infinitive verb forms, verb stems,
verb endings, conjugations, translations and usage of regular,
simple tense verbs through easy to use formation charts and cards.
This hybrid instructional book and hands-on learning kit will
change your perspective on conjugation and you will never look at
Spanish verbs the same way again!
For over 30 years we have been in the midst of a paradox. Following
a questionable logic that sees education as a means to economic
ends, efforts to reform education have focused on keeping the US
from slipping in international economic competition. Relying on
testing as a standard, in the end we may have decreased our human
potential and become less competitive. Our system has gotten worse
at its core, in its philosophical tenets and in its ultimate
effects, by placing unwonted pressure on our youth and in stifling
their creativity. While this goes back decades, Respect for
Teachers takes its title from a phrase --perhaps a codeword-- in
President's 2011 State of the Union address and sits down to
consider its implications. Connecting attacks on teachers, unions
and schools and the misrepresentation of research to the promotion
of new economic models in education, it suggests that the Obama
administration may be, without quite realizing it, setting the
stage for rapid privatization of the public system. As this
endangers the egalitarian basis of democracy, it also reminds us
that schooling is big business - many trillions of dollars
world-wide. Joseph Schumpeter once said, "No bourgeoisie ever
disliked war profits." Respect operates under the premise that no
bourgeoisie ever disliked the spoils of school reform, either.
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