<p>History has shown how powerful societies decline when natural resources are unable to be replenished. This book explores the challenges facing coastal areas during in the near future. It emphasizes beliefs that the convergence of seemingly disparate viewpoints and uncertain and limited information is possible only by using available risk assessment methodologies and decision-making tools such as multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA).</p>
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This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships. It showcases research on families across a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, from both rural and urban areas, offering insights on children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. While mobile communication diffuses through Asia at a blistering pace, families in the region are also experiencing significant changes in light of unprecedented economic growth, globalisation, urbanisation and demographic shifts. Asia is therefore at the crossroads of technological transformation and social change. This book analyses the interactions of these two contemporaneous trends from the perspective of the family, covering a range of family types including nuclear, multi-generational, transnational, and multi-local, spanning the continuum from the media-rich to the media have-less. <p></p>
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<p>This volume contains the proceedings of the international workshop Variational Problems in Materials Science. Coverage includes the study of BV vector fields, path functionals over Wasserstein spaces, variational approaches to quasi-static evolution, free-discontinuity problems with applications to fracture and plasticity, systems with hysteresis or with interfacial energies, evolution of interfaces, multi-scale analysis in ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, and much more.</p>
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<p>This thesis establishes an exciting new beginning for Laser Plasma Accelerators (LPAs) to further develop toward the next generation of compact high energy accelerators.</p> <p>Design, installation and commissioning of a new experimental setup at LBNL played an important role and are detailed through three critical components: e-beam production, reflection of laser pulses with a plasma mirror and large wake excitation below electron injection threshold.</p> <p>Pulses from a 40 TW peak power laser system were split into a 25 TW pulse and a 15 TW pulse. The first pulse was used for e-beam production in the first module and the second pulse was used for wake excitation in the second module to post-accelerate the e-beam. As a result, reliable e-beam production and efficient wake excitation necessary for the staged acceleration were independently demonstrated.</p> <p>These experiments have laid the foundation for future staging experiments at the 40 TW peak power level.</p>
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From the multi-award-winning author of No Ballet Shoes in Syria, comes a story of migration, conservation, healing and hope as a grieving boy forms an unbreakable bond with an injured bird. Nero Book Awards 2024 Shortlist - Children's Fiction After the tragic death of his mother, eleven year old Will is sent to temporarily stay with his uncle in the mountains. After years trapped in a high-rise flat, with only birds for company, Will doesn't know how he'll survive a place like this, but he soon finds solace in the woods, when he's surrounded by birdsong. With his new friend Omar - a refugee from Afghanistan - Will discovers an osprey nest, with two small chicks inside. He forms an unbreakable bond with the birds, especially the smallest chick, who they name Whitetip. But when tragedy almost strikes again one stormy night, and Whitetip is knocked out of the nest - breaking a wing, Will is determined to save her. Smuggling her down from the mountain, he finds a way to keep her alive. As Will helps Whitetip to grow and to heal, he finds a strength inside himself that he never knew he had. Maybe, finally, Will can find a way to take flight too... "Vivid and deeply empathetic, Catherine is a wonderful storyteller." - Phil Earle "A wonderfully moving story about the healing power of nature, perfect for fans of Phil Earle and Katya Balen" - Anthony McGowan "Unputdownable. A gift to nature loving young people" - Hilary McKay "A heart-felt story about the healing power of nature. Moving and powerful, I loved it" - Gill Lewis Look out for more beautiful stories by Catherine Bruton, such as: - No Ballet Shoes in Syria (WINNER of Books Are My Bag Readers Award 2019 and Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2020) - Another Twist in the Tale - Following Frankenstein
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<p><strong>Miasto zmian szybszych niż techno</strong></p> <p></p> <p>Wyjścia do klubów okupione wielogodzinnym czekaniem w kolejce i naznaczone widzimisię bezwzględnego bramkarza. Synergia squatów, street artu, sceny muzycznej i środowisk queerowych w kształtowaniu wizerunku miasta. Castingi, które czynią wynajęcie mieszkania niemal niemożliwym. Życie lokalne skupione w obrębie <em>Kiez</em>u, pod nadzorem sprzedawcy ze <em>Spätiego</em>. Nauka o multi-kulti zaczynająca się na placach zabawach. Gentryfikacja skutecznie zmieniająca miejską tkankę, spychająca artystów i ośrodki kultury poza ścisłe centrum.</p> <p></p> <p>Czym jest to charakterystyczne berlińskie powietrze, <em>Berliner Luft</em>, którym tak wielu chce oddychać ?</p> <p></p> <p><em>Taki jest Berlin. O mieście kontrastów i ciągłych zmian</em> to książka o współczesnym Berlinie i jego aktualnych problemach. Traktuje o metropolii, która mimo skomplikowanej historii, jest dziś kosmopolitycznym i otwartym ośrodkiem, ceniących wolność indywidualistów. To także zestawienie wyjątkowych berlińskich miejsc, które warto poznać, bo mogą niedługo odejść w zapomnienie. To próba uchwycenia szybko przemijającego <em>Zeitgeistu</em> stolicy, w której króluje obsesja na punkcie chwili obecnej, bez specjalnego oglądania się za siebie i niepotrzebnego rozmyślania o przyszłości.</p> <p></p> <p>W czym tkwi fenomen tego ekscentrycznego miasta i jego siła? Skąd pochodzą jego niesamowita energia i oryginalność? Poznaj Berlin poza utartymi szlakami.</p>
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<p>This multi-contributed volume provides a practical, applications-focused introduction to nonlinear acoustical techniques for nondestructive evaluation. Compared to linear techniques, nonlinear acoustical/ultrasonic techniques are much more sensitive to micro-cracks and other types of small distributed damages. Most materials and structures exhibit nonlinear behavior due to the formation of dislocation and micro-cracks from fatigue or other types of repetitive loadings well before detectable macro-cracks are formed.  Nondestructive evaluation (NDE) tools that have been developed based on nonlinear acoustical techniques are capable of providing early warnings about the possibility of structural failure before detectable macro-cracks are formed. This book presents the full range of nonlinear acoustical techniques used today for NDE. The expert chapters cover both theoretical and experimental aspects, but always with an eye towards applications. Unlike other titles currently available, which treat nonlinearity as a physics problem and focus on different analytical derivations, the present volume emphasizes NDE applications over detailed analytical derivations. The introductory chapter presents the fundamentals in a manner accessible to anyone with an undergraduate degree in Engineering or Physics and equips the reader with all of the necessary background to understand the remaining chapters. This self-contained volume will be a valuable reference to graduate students through practising researchers in Engineering, Materials Science, and Physics.</p> <p><br></p> <ul> <li>Represents the first book on nonlinear acoustical techniques for NDE applications<br></li> <li>Emphasizes applications of nonlinear acoustical techniques<br></li> <li>Presents the fundamental physics and mathematics behind nonlinear acoustical phenomenon in a simple, easily understood manner<br></li> <li>Covers a variety of popular NDE techniques based on nonlinear acoustics in a single volume</li> </ul> <p></p>
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Wie organisieren transnationale Familien ihre multi-lokalen Lebenswelten? Welche Bedeutung kommt innerfamiliären Hierarchien zu? Welche sozialwissenschaftlichen Methodologien sind geeignet, um das transnationale Familienleben im gesellschaftlichen Kontext zu erforschen? Anhand der biographieanalytischen Untersuchung einer Familie aus dem ehemaligen Jugoslawien zeigt Eveline Ammann Dula die Verknüpfung der Mikro-, Meso- und Makro-Ebenen von Migrationsprozessen auf und betrachtet biographische Narrationen als Artikulation transnationaler sozialer Räume. Sie zeigt dabei die wechselseitige Beeinflussung und intergenerationale Übertragung von Migrationserfahrungen auf. Die empirische Studie schließt an die Transnationale Migrationsforschung, die Biographieforschung und die Intersektionalitätsforschung an.
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