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Carbon City Zero is a collaborative climate action game in which players develop a sustainable city by greening transport, transforming industries, getting citizens on board and showing world leaders how it’s done.
Each player starts with an identical deck, buying additional cards from a shared marketplace to create a more sustainable city. Balancing the need to generate income with reducing carbon, you can follow numerous paths to victory, but collaboration is key. You’ll need to bring together governments, industries and the public. And if you can’t bring carbon levels to zero before it’s too late, everybody loses. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
PLAY AND LEARN: learn about climate action as you play this new board game for all the family
SCREEN-FREE FUN for 2-4 players aged 8 and up
SOMETHING TO TREASURE: this is a quality product made to last, with bespoke illustration and stylish packaging (on FSC stocks)
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Carlos the Jackal (DVD)
Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo, Ahmad Kaabour, Talal El-Jordi, …
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Adapted from a five-and-a-half-hour television miniseries, this
three-hour biopic chronicles 20 years in the life of Venezuelan
revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos the Jackal. Édgar
Ramírez stars in the title role as the ambitious, egotistical, yet
powerfully charismatic man who founded a worldwide terrorist
organisation and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before
finally being captured by the French police.
Dolf Rami contributes to contemporary debates about the meaning and
reference of proper names by providing an overview of the main
challenges and developing a new contextualist account of names.
Questions about the use and semantic features of proper names are
at the centre of philosophy of language. How does a single proper
name refer to the same thing in different contexts of use? What
makes a thing a bearer of a proper name? What is their meaning?
Guided by these questions, Rami discusses Saul Kripke's main
contributions to the debate and introduces two new ways to capture
the rigidity of names, proposing a pluralist version of the causal
chain picture. Covering popular contextualist accounts of names,
both indexical and variabilist, he presents a use-sensitive
alternative based on a semantic comparison between names, pronouns
and demonstratives. Extending and applying his approach to a wide
variety of uses, including names in fiction, this is a
comprehensive explanation of why we should interpret proper names
as use-sensitive expressions.
Aligning Enterprise, System, and Software Architectures covers both
theoretical approaches and practical solutions in the processes for
aligning enterprise, systems, and software architectures. This book
aims to provide architects and researchers with a clear
understanding of all three types of architectures.
Modern technology has impacted healthcare and interactions between
patients and healthcare providers through a variety of means
including the internet, social media, mobile devices, and the
internet of things. These new technologies have empowered,
frustrated, educated, and confused patients by making educational
materials more widely available and allowing patients to monitor
their own vital signs and self-diagnose. Further analysis of these
and future technologies is needed in order to provide new
approaches to empowerment, reduce mistakes, and improve overall
healthcare. Impacts of Information Technology on Patient Care and
Empowerment is a critical scholarly resource that delves into
patient access to information and the effect that access has on
their relationship with healthcare providers and their health
outcomes. Featuring a range of topics such as gamification, mobile
computing, and risk analysis, this book is ideal for healthcare
practitioners, doctors, nurses, surgeons, hospital staff, medical
administrators, patient advocates, researchers, academicians,
policymakers, and healthcare students.
This volume collects the edited and reviewed contributions
presented in the 8th iTi Conference on Turbulence, held in
Bertinoro, Italy, in September 2018. In keeping with the spirit of
the conference, the book was produced afterwards, so that the
authors had the opportunity to incorporate comments and discussions
raised during the event. The respective contributions, which
address both fundamental and applied aspects of turbulence, have
been structured according to the following main topics: I TheoryII
Wall-bounded flowsIII Simulations and modellingIV ExperimentsV
Miscellaneous topicsVI Wind energy
Image and signal processing techniques are receiving increasing
interest because of their numerous real-world applications. Data is
now available in different forms, different wavelengths, and even
in different dimensions, creating the need for novel
multidisciplinary solutions for automated data processing and
analysis. Applied Signal and Image Processing: Multidisciplinary
Advancements highlights the growing multidisciplinary nature of
signal and image processing by focusing on emerging applications
and recent advances in well-established fields. This book covers
state-or-the-art applications in both signal and image processing,
which include optical communication and sensing, wireless
communication management, face recognition and facial imaging,
solar imaging and feature detection, fractal analysis, and video
processing.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
This book covers advanced concepts and creative ideas with regard
to insect biorational control and insecticide resistance
management. Some chapters present and summarize general strategies
or tactics for managing insect pests such as the principles of IPM
in various crop systems and biorational control of insect pests,
advances in organic farming, alternative strategies for controlling
orchard and field-crop pests. Other chapters cover alternative
methods for controlling pests such as disruption of insect
reproductive systems and utilization of semiochemicals and
diatomaceous earth formulations, and developing bioacoustic methods
for mating disruption. Another part is devoted to insecticide
resistance: mechanisms and novel approaches for managing insect
resistance in agriculture and in public health.
This book contains original research chapters related to the
interdisciplinary field of complex networks spanning biological and
environmental networks, social, technological, and economic
networks. Many natural phenomena can be modeled as networks where
nodes are the primitive compounds and links represent their
interactions, similarities, or distances of sorts. Complex networks
have an enormous impact on research in various fields like biology,
social sciences, engineering, and cyber-security to name a few. The
topology of a network often encompasses important information on
the functionality and dynamics of the system or the phenomenon it
represents. Network science is an emerging interdisciplinary
discipline that provides tools and insights to researchers in a
variety of domains. NetSci-X is the central winter conference
within the field and brings together leading researchers and
innovators to connect, meet, and establish interdisciplinary
channels for collaboration. It is the largest and best known event
in the area of network science. This text demonstrates how ideas
formulated by authors with different backgrounds are transformed
into models, methods, and algorithms that are used to study complex
systems across different domains and will appeal to researchers and
students within in the field.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
Among the highlights of this book is the use of novel
insecticides acting on a specific site in an insect group and are
compatible with natural enemies and the environment. One of such
approaches is based on disrupting the activity of biochemical sites
acting on transcription factors such as the Helix-Loop-Helix (bHLH)
family, anti juvenile hormone (AJH) agents that target JH
biosynthetic enzymes, G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR) and
bursicon as a target for insect control. Another one is the
biotechnology or the genetic approach such as gene silencing (RNA
interference) and Bt-crops. Other sections of the book are devoted
to the plant s natural products, optical manipulation and the use
of nanotechnology for improving insect control methods."
This volume is an initiative undertaken by the IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society's Task Force on Security, Surveillance and
Defense to consolidate and disseminate the role of CI techniques in
the design, development and deployment of security and defense
solutions. Applications range from the detection of buried
explosive hazards in a battlefield to the control of unmanned
underwater vehicles, the delivery of superior video analytics for
protecting critical infrastructures or the development of stronger
intrusion detection systems and the design of military surveillance
networks. Defense scientists, industry experts, academicians and
practitioners alike will all benefit from the wide spectrum of
successful applications compiled in this volume. Senior
undergraduate or graduate students may also discover uncharted
territory for their own research endeavors.
This volume collects the edited and reviewed contribution presented
in the 9th iTi Conference that took place virtually, covering
fundamental and applied aspects in turbulence. In the spirit of the
iTi conference, the volume is produced after the conference so that
the authors had the opportunity to incorporate comments and
discussions raised during the meeting. In the present book, the
contributions have been structured according to the topics: I
Experiments II Simulations and Modelling III Data Processing and
Scaling IV Theory V Miscellaneous topics
This book presents a powerful new language and methodology for programming complex reactive systems in a scenario-based manner. The language is live sequence charts (LSCs), a multimodal extension of sequence charts and UML's sequence diagrams, used in the past mainly for requirements. The methodology is play-in/play-out, an unusually convenient means for specifying inter-object scenario-based behavior directly from a GUI or an object model diagram, with the surprising ability to execute that behavior, or those requirements, directly. The language and methodology are supported by a fully implemented tool – the Play-Engine – which is attached to the book in CD form. The design of reactive systems is one of the most challenging problems in computer science. This books starts with a critical insight to explain the difficulty of this problem: there is a fundamental gap between the scenario-based way in which people think about such systems and the state-based way in which these systems are implemented. The book then offers a radical proposal to bridge this gap by means of playing scenarios. Systems can be specified by playing in scenarios and implemented by means of a Play-Engine that plays out scenarios. This idea is carried out and developed, lucidly, formally and playfully, to its fullest. The result is a compelling proposal, accompanied by a prototype software engine, for reactive systems design, which is bound to cause a splash in the software-engineering community. Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA Scenarios are a primary exchange tool in explaining system behavior to others, but their limited expressive power never made them able to fully describe systems, thus limiting their use. The language of Live Sequence Charts (LSCs) presented in this beautifully written book achieves this goal, and the attached Play-Engine software makes these LSCs really come alive. This is undoubtedly a key breakthrough that will start long-awaited and exciting new directions in systems specification, synthesis, and analysis. Gérard Berry, Esterel Technologies and INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France The approach of David Harel and Rami Marelly is a fascinating way of combining prototyping techniques with techniques for identifying behavior and user interfaces. Manfred Broy, Technical University of Munich, Germany
This volume collects the edited and reviewed contribution presented
in the 7th iTi Conference in Bertinoro, covering fundamental and
applied aspects in turbulence. In the spirit of the iTi conference,
the volume is produced after the conference so that the authors had
the opportunity to incorporate comments and discussions raised
during the meeting. In the present book, the contributions have
been structured according to the topics: I Theory II Wall bounded
flows III Pipe flow IV Modelling V Experiments VII Miscellaneous
topics
With the advent of portable and autonomous computing systems, power
con sumption has emerged as a focal point in many research
projects, commercial systems and DoD platforms. One current
research initiative, which drew much attention to this area, is the
Power Aware Computing and Communications (PAC/C) program sponsored
by DARPA. Many of the chapters in this book include results from
work that have been supported by the PACIC program. The performance
of computer systems has been tremendously improving while the size
and weight of such systems has been constantly shrinking. The
capacities of batteries relative to their sizes and weights has
been also improv ing but at a rate which is much slower than the
rate of improvement in computer performance and the rate of
shrinking in computer sizes. The relation between the power
consumption of a computer system and it performance and size is a
complex one which is very much dependent on the specific system and
the technology used to build that system. We do not need a complex
argument, however, to be convinced that energy and power, which is
the rate of energy consumption, are becoming critical components in
computer systems in gen eral, and portable and autonomous systems,
in particular. Most of the early research on power consumption in
computer systems ad dressed the issue of minimizing power in a
given platform, which usually translates into minimizing energy
consumption, and thus, longer battery life."
This book employs epistemological, methodological and discursive
approaches to explore the practices of tourism stakeholders in
Covid-19 affected destinations and to understand and explain their
everyday real-time doings and sayings. It discusses the changing
practices of tourists and stakeholders at both micro and meso
levels and provides a range of contexts and destination case
studies offering insights into supply and demand. The issues
examined in the volume will have continued implications for further
study of the relationships between tourism, crises, pandemics and
global travel. It will be a useful resource for researchers and
students in tourism studies, geography, politics and policy, as
well as sociology, history, crisis management and development
studies.
Experimental Business Research includes papers that were presented
at the First Asian Conference on Experimental Business Research
held at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST),
on December 7-10, 1999. The conference was organized by the Center
for Experimental Business Research (cEBR) at the HKUST. The papers
presented at the conference and a few others that were solicited
especially for this volume contain original research on individual
and interactive decision behavior in various branches of business
research including, but not limited to, economics, marketing,
management, finance, and accounting. Experimental Business Research
is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate level course, and as
a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.
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Hope (Hardcover)
Reena Rami Bakir
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The book came from thoughts and inspirations that occurred to me
when I returned to Canada after separating from my wife and three
beloved children. I believe the poems show a progression from utter
sadness and despair to acceptance, patience, and hope. Underpinning
all the poetry is an unwavering faith in the Almighty Creator,
whose designs and miracles cannot always be fully understood. I
tried to write, too, about the beauty of nature and humanity and,
ultimately, about forgiveness. It is sincerely hoped the reader
will derive some inspiration or hope through their own paths.
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