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This book recognizes Mexico's effects and challenges in a natural
disaster and offers empirical risk-reduction methods in critical
cases. The proposals considered here include real and detailed
analysis, a set of models, frameworks, strategies, and findings in
the three stages of the disaster (before-during-after). This book:
describes the methodology to find secure locations for the Regional
Humanitarian Response Depot; offers recommendations for the sites
and creation of an Export Logistics Cluster; shows how to use
available technology and information to locate volunteers in the
right spots describes mathematical models to help to allocate
procedure of resources for restoring the affected community and
proposes actions to create resilience in the country's main
economic sectors, including agriculture and industry. The processes
applied at recent disasters such as the 19S earthquake and their
results are used as case studies, identifying possibilities for
further improvement. The book also describes new trends for Mexico
due to climate change and makes suggestions for mitigating future
disasters. The proposals are also replicable to other highly
populated societies with similar socio-economic structures.
Finally, this book is the basis for generating more innovative
recommendations by researchers, graduate students, academics,
professionals, and practitioners to obtain better planning and
better collaboration between all the humanitarian chain actors.
This book intends to be of interest as a fundamental tool for
decision-makers, governments, non-governmental organizations, and
enterprises.
This publication is a compilation of studies on religious
instruction in state schools. As Europe goes through a "social
revolution" with the influence of the church and religious
instruction in state schools being opened to discussion, this book
describes the diversity between states and analyzes the legislative
basis of religious instruction in various countries. The
comparative analyses will be of value to researchers in educational
research and to educational policymakers.
Climate change is expected to modify the hydrological cycle and
affect freshwater resources. Groundwater is a critical source of
fresh drinking water for almost half of the world's population and
it also supplies irrigated agriculture. Groundwater is also
important in sustaining streams, lakes, wetlands, and associated
ecosystems. But despite this, knowledge about the impact of climate
change on groundwater quantity and quality is limited. Direct
impacts of climate change on natural processes (groundwater
recharge, discharge, storage, saltwater intrusion, biogeochemical
reactions, chemical fate and transport) may be exacerbated by human
activities (indirect impacts). Increased groundwater abstraction,
for example, may be needed in areas with unsustainable or
contaminated surface water resources caused by droughts and floods.
Climate change effects on groundwater resources are, therefore,
closely linked to other global change drivers, including population
growth, urbanization and land-use change, coupled with other
socio-economic and political trends. Groundwater response to global
changes is a complex function that depends on climate change and
variability, topography, aquifer characteristics, vegetation
dynamics, and human activities. This volume contains case studies
from diverse aquifer systems, scientific methods, and climatic
settings that have been conducted globally under the framework of
the UNESCO-IHP project Groundwater Resources Assessment under the
Pressures of Humanity and Climate Change (GRAPHIC). This book
presents a current and global synthesis of scientific findings and
policy recommendations for scientists, water managers and policy
makers towards adaptive management of groundwater sustainability
under future climate change and variability.
Food Microbiology and Biotechnology: Safe and Sustainable Food
Production explores the most important advances in food
microbiology and biotechnology, with special emphasis on the
challenges that the industry faces in the era of sustainable
development and food security problems. Chapters cover broad
research areas that offer original and novel highlights in
microbiology and biotechnology and other related sciences. The
authors discuss food bioprocesses, fermentation, food microbiology,
functional foods, nutraceuticals, extraction of natural products,
nano- and micro-technology, innovative processes/bioprocesses for
utilization of by-products, alternative processes requiring less
energy or water, among other topics. The volume relates some of the
current developments in food microbiology that address the
relationship between the production, processing, service and
consumption of foods and beverages with the bacteriology, mycology,
virology, parasitology, and immunology. Demonstrating the potential
and actual developments across the innovative advances in food
microbiology and biotechnology, this volume will be of great
interest to students, teachers, and researchers in the areas of
biotechnology and food microbiology.
Food Microbiology and Biotechnology: Safe and Sustainable Food
Production explores the most important advances in food
microbiology and biotechnology, with special emphasis on the
challenges that the industry faces in the era of sustainable
development and food security problems. Chapters cover broad
research areas that offer original and novel highlights in
microbiology and biotechnology and other related sciences. The
authors discuss food bioprocesses, fermentation, food microbiology,
functional foods, nutraceuticals, extraction of natural products,
nano- and micro-technology, innovative processes/bioprocesses for
utilization of by-products, alternative processes requiring less
energy or water, among other topics. The volume relates some of the
current developments in food microbiology that address the
relationship between the production, processing, service and
consumption of foods and beverages with the bacteriology, mycology,
virology, parasitology, and immunology. Demonstrating the potential
and actual developments across the innovative advances in food
microbiology and biotechnology, this volume will be of great
interest to students, teachers, and researchers in the areas of
biotechnology and food microbiology.
Climate change is expected to modify the hydrological cycle and
affect freshwater resources. Groundwater is a critical source of
fresh drinking water for almost half of the world's population and
it also supplies irrigated agriculture. Groundwater is also
important in sustaining streams, lakes, wetlands, and associated
ecosystems. But despite this, knowledge about the impact of climate
change on groundwater quantity and quality is limited. Direct
impacts of climate change on natural processes (groundwater
recharge, discharge, storage, saltwater intrusion, biogeochemical
reactions, chemical fate and transport) may be exacerbated by human
activities (indirect impacts). Increased groundwater abstraction,
for example, may be needed in areas with unsustainable or
contaminated surface water resources caused by droughts and floods.
Climate change effects on groundwater resources are, therefore,
closely linked to other global change drivers, including population
growth, urbanization and land-use change, coupled with other
socio-economic and political trends. Groundwater response to global
changes is a complex function that depends on climate change and
variability, topography, aquifer characteristics, vegetation
dynamics, and human activities. This volume contains case studies
from diverse aquifer systems, scientific methods, and climatic
settings that have been conducted globally under the framework of
the UNESCO-IHP project Groundwater Resources Assessment under the
Pressures of Humanity and Climate Change (GRAPHIC). This book
presents a current and global synthesis of scientific findings and
policy recommendations for scientists, water managers and policy
makers towards adaptive management of groundwater sustainability
under future climate change and variability.
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Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems - 6th International Conference, HoloMAS 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, August 26-28, 2013, Proceedings (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Vladimir Marik, Jose Luis Martinez Lastra, Petr Skobelev
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th
International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and
Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2013, held in Prague, Czech Republic,
in August 2013, in conjunction with DEXA 2013. The 25 revised full
papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully
reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers are organized
in the following topical sections: MAS in automation and
manufacturing; design, simulation and validation; MAS in
transportation systems; industrial applications; and new trends.
This publication is a compilation of studies on religious
instruction in state schools. As Europe goes through a "social
revolution" with the influence of the church and religious
instruction in state schools being opened to discussion, this book
describes the diversity between states and analyzes the legislative
basis of religious instruction in various countries. The
comparative analyses will be of value to researchers in educational
research and to educational policymakers.
This book recognizes Mexico's effects and challenges in a natural
disaster and offers empirical risk-reduction methods in critical
cases. The proposals considered here include real and detailed
analysis, a set of models, frameworks, strategies, and findings in
the three stages of the disaster (before-during-after). This book:
describes the methodology to find secure locations for the Regional
Humanitarian Response Depot; offers recommendations for the sites
and creation of an Export Logistics Cluster; shows how to use
available technology and information to locate volunteers in the
right spots describes mathematical models to help to allocate
procedure of resources for restoring the affected community and
proposes actions to create resilience in the country's main
economic sectors, including agriculture and industry. The processes
applied at recent disasters such as the 19S earthquake and their
results are used as case studies, identifying possibilities for
further improvement. The book also describes new trends for Mexico
due to climate change and makes suggestions for mitigating future
disasters. The proposals are also replicable to other highly
populated societies with similar socio-economic structures.
Finally, this book is the basis for generating more innovative
recommendations by researchers, graduate students, academics,
professionals, and practitioners to obtain better planning and
better collaboration between all the humanitarian chain actors.
This book intends to be of interest as a fundamental tool for
decision-makers, governments, non-governmental organizations, and
enterprises.
A las luz de los eventos de las crisis financieras que se han
iniciado en los primeros once anos del siglo XXI. Estas las
analizamos en el presente libro con base en el estudio que se
presenta en el manejo de la politica monetaria, haciendose enfasis
desde el enfoque neoclasico de los fondos prestables, hasta llegar
al enfoque poskeynesiano. en donde se presenta la importancia de
financiar a la inversion para mejorar la produccion y empleo en las
economias en donde el papel del Estado. Por ello, este libro
representa una importante reflexion sobre la problematica del
mercado financiero y como el Estado puede convertirse en un factor
determinante para lograr la mejora del empleo, consumo y produccion
en la economia mundial actual. Con lo anterior se propone la
Refuncionalizacion del Papel del Estado en la Economia de Mercado
para hacer frente a las crisis economicas."
In the middle of ordinary life, both amid happy events and hard
times, to find reasons to keep on loving is still possible. In each
one of the sixty-five chapters, J. L. Martin Descalzo helps us find
the truth of it.
Eighty-seven reasons from beyond the spiritual legacy of Martmn
Descalzo.
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