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Drawing together key frameworks and disciplines that illuminate the
importance of communication around climate change, this Research
Handbook offers a vital knowledge base to address the urgency of
conveying climate issues to a variety of audiences. International
scholars survey the key disciplinary foundations of climate change
communication including: climate science, audience studies,
sociology, and the efficacy of diverse communication forms ranging
from science communication, political communication and visual
communication to film, theatre and the novel. Featuring key ideas
critical to the contemporary climate discussion, such as climate
denial, psychology, the use of images, journalism, campaigns,
health, justice and climate change fiction, this timely Research
Handbook intervenes in the global debate to offer a pathway for
researchers and communicators to stimulate new methods of
conceptualising and communicating climate mitigation. Presenting an
in-depth exploration of climate change messaging in relation to
interpretive communities, this book is crucial reading for scholars
and students of media and communications, climate science and
environmental studies. Its key practical insights will also benefit
practitioners of climate communication and science.
The first volume to explore the effectiveness of instructional
methods for college-level Spanish heritage learners In the United
States, heritage language speakers represent approximately 22
percent of the population and 29 percent of the school-age
population. Until now, though, few studies have examined the
outcomes of classroom teaching of heritage languages. Outcomes of
University Spanish Heritage Language Instruction in the United
States sheds light on the effectiveness of specific instructional
methods for college-level heritage learners. The first of its kind,
this volume addresses how receiving heritage classroom instruction
affects Spanish speakers on multiple levels, including linguistic,
affective, attitudinal, social, and academic outcomes. Examining
outcomes of instruction in the Spanish language—the most common
heritage language in the United States—provides insights that can
be applied to instruction in other heritage languages. These
thematically linked empirical studies and their pedagogical
implications build a foundation for heritage language instruction
and directions for future research. Scholars and educators alike
will welcome this volume.
The atomic structures of macromolecules provide the key to
understanding how life works. Aaron Klug led the way in the
development of methods for solving such structures and is one of
the pioneers of structural molecular biology. He was awarded a
Nobel Prize in 1982 for his work. Illuminating both his personal
life and scientific achievements, this unique biography begins with
Klug's youth in Durban and his studies at Johannesburg, Cape Town
and then Trinity College, Cambridge. Holmes proceeds to explore
Klug's career from his work on the structure of viruses with
Rosalind Franklin at Birkbeck College, London to his time as
Director of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in
Cambridge and as President of the Royal Society. Drawing on their
long-term collaboration, interviews and unique access to Klug's
archives, Holmes provides a fascinating account of an innovative
man and his place in the history of structural molecular biology.
The first volume to explore the effectiveness of instructional
methods for college-level Spanish heritage learners In the United
States, heritage language speakers represent approximately 22
percent of the population and 29 percent of the school-age
population. Until now, though, few studies have examined the
outcomes of classroom teaching of heritage languages. Outcomes of
University Spanish Heritage Language Instruction in the United
States sheds light on the effectiveness of specific instructional
methods for college-level heritage learners. The first of its kind,
this volume addresses how receiving heritage classroom instruction
affects Spanish speakers on multiple levels, including linguistic,
affective, attitudinal, social, and academic outcomes. Examining
outcomes of instruction in the Spanish language—the most common
heritage language in the United States—provides insights that can
be applied to instruction in other heritage languages. These
thematically linked empirical studies and their pedagogical
implications build a foundation for heritage language instruction
and directions for future research. Scholars and educators alike
will welcome this volume.
RNA viruses provide unique insights into the patterns and processes
of evolutionary change in real time. The study of viral evolution
is especially topical given the growing awareness that emerging and
re-emerging diseases (most of which are caused by RNA viruses)
represent a major threat to public health. However, while the study
of viral evolution has developed rapidly in the last 30 years,
relatively little attention has been directed toward linking work
on the mechanisms of viral evolution within cells or individual
hosts, to the epidemiological outcomes of these processes. This
novel book fills this gap by considering the patterns and processes
of viral evolution across their entire range of spatial and
temporal scales. The Evolution and Emergence of RNA Viruses
provides a comprehensive overview of RNA virus evolution, with a
particular focus on genomic and phylogenetic approaches. This is
the first book to link mechanisms of viral evolution with disease
dynamics, using high-profile examples in emergence and evolution
such as influenza, HIV, dengue fever, and rabies. It also reveals
the underlying evolutionary processes by which emerging viruses
cross species boundaries and spread in new hosts.
Researchers in many disciplines now face the formidable task of processing massive amounts of high-dimensional and highly structured data. Advances in data collection and information technologies have coupled with innovations in computing to make commonplace the task of learning from complex data. As a result, fundamental statistical research is being undertaken in a variety of different fields. Driven by the difficulty of these new problems, and fueled by the explosion of available computer power, highly adaptive, non-linear procedures are now essential components of modern ¿data analysis,¿ a term that we liberally interpret to include speech and pattern recognition, classification, data compression and image processing. The development of new, flexible methods combines advances from many sources, including approximation theory, numerical analysis, machine learning, signal processing and statistics. This volume collects 31 papers from a unique workshop designed to promote communication between these different disciplines. Held in the spring of 2001 at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA, the meeting brought together eminent experts from machine learning, artificial intelligence, applied mathematics, image analysis, signal processing, information theory, and optimization. In addition to presentations on fundamental methodological work, there were talks on complex applications like environmental modeling, network analysis, and bioinformatics. Statistics
RNA viruses provide unique insights into the patterns and processes
of evolutionary change in real time. The study of viral evolution
is especially topical given the growing awareness that emerging and
re-emerging diseases (most of which are caused by RNA viruses)
represent a major threat to public health. However, while the study
of viral evolution has developed rapidly in the last 30 years,
relatively little attention has been directed toward linking work
on the mechanisms of viral evolution within cells or individual
hosts, to the epidemiological outcomes of these processes. This
novel book fills this gap by considering the patterns and processes
of viral evolution across their entire range of spatial and
temporal scales. The Evolution and Emergence of RNA Viruses
provides a comprehensive overview of RNA virus evolution, with a
particular focus on genomic and phylogenetic approaches. This is
the first book to link mechanisms of viral evolution with disease
dynamics, using high-profile examples in emergence and evolution
such as influenza, HIV, dengue fever, and rabies. It also reveals
the underlying evolutionary processes by which emerging viruses
cross species boundaries and spread in new hosts.
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