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Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) have played an important role in
warfare over the past two decades, including to conduct
counterterrorism operations. To better understand the utility of
UASs, this latest report from CSIS adopts a comparative case study
approach and examines the Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020, Ukraine war
in 2022, and Northern Edge-21 exercise in the Indo-Pacific in 2021.
These cases demonstrate that UASs have been increasingly integrated
into combined arms warfare, a major change from the past. In
addition, UASs are likely to play an increasingly important role in
several types of missions as part of strategic competition and
warfare with such countries as China and Russia.
There is now an increased awareness of the importance of polar
regions in the Earth system, as well as their vulnerability to
anthropogenic derived change, including of course global climate
change. This new edition offers a concise but comprehensive
introduction to polar ecology and has been thoroughly revised and
updated throughout, providing expanded coverage of marine
ecosystems and the impact of humans. It incorporates a detailed
comparison of the Arctic and Antarctic systems, with a particular
emphasis on the effects of climate change, and describes marine,
freshwater, glacial, and terrestrial habitats. This breadth of
coverage is unique in the polar biology literature. As with other
titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, particular emphasis is
placed on the organisms that dominate these extreme environments
although pollution, conservation and experimental aspects are also
considered. This accessible text is suitable for both senior
undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in polar
ecology, often as part of a wider marine biology degree programme.
It will also be of value and use to the many professional
ecologists and conservation biologists requiring a concise overview
of the topic.
Placed uniquely at the intersection of common law and civil law,
mixed legal systems are today attracting the attention both of
scholars of comparative law, and of those concerned with the
development of a European private law. Pre-eminent among the mixed
legal systems are those of Scotland and South Africa. In South
Africa the Roman-Dutch law, brought to the Cape by the Dutch East
India Company in 1652 was, from the early nineteenth century
onwards, infused with and remoulded by the common law of the
British imperial master. In Scotland a more gradual and elusive
process saw the Roman-Scots law of the early period fall under the
influence of English law after the Act of Union in 1707. The
result, in each case, was a system of law which drew from both of
the great European traditions whilst containing distinctive
elements of its own. This volume sets out to compare the effects of
this historical development by assessing whether shared experience
has led to shared law. Key topics from the law of property and
obligations are examined, collaboratively and comparatively, by
teams of leading experts from both jurisdictions. The individual
chapters reveal an intricate pattern of similarity and difference,
enabling courts and legal writers in Scotland and South Africa to
learn from the experience of a kindred jurisdiction. They also, in
a number of areas, reveal an emerging and distinctive jurisprudence
of mixed systems, and thus suggest viable answers to some of the
great questions which must be answered on the path towards a
European private law.
There is now an increased awareness of the importance of polar
regions in the Earth system, as well as their vulnerability to
anthropogenic derived change, including of course global climate
change. This new edition offers a concise but comprehensive
introduction to polar ecology and has been thoroughly revised and
updated throughout, providing expanded coverage of marine
ecosystems and the impact of humans. It incorporates a detailed
comparison of the Arctic and Antarctic systems, with a particular
emphasis on the effects of climate change, and describes marine,
freshwater, glacial, and terrestrial habitats. This breadth of
coverage is unique in the polar biology literature.
As with other titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, particular
emphasis is placed on the organisms that dominate these extreme
environments although pollution, conservation and experimental
aspects are also considered. This accessible text is suitable for
both senior undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in
polar ecology, often as part of a wider marine biology degree
program. It will also be of value and use to the many professional
ecologists and conservation biologists requiring a concise overview
of the topic.
The first compilation of research and concepts from genetic
epistemology that directly addresses issues related to learning,
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