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This book explores how integrated management of environmental resources via a Nexus Approach can help to achieve Sustainable Development Goals SDGs It takes a process oriented view on what should or needs to be done to implement a Nexus Approach and how this relates to SDGs After sketching the background and conceptual outline contributions to the book explore key aspects of monitoring and implementation Specifically they focus on the importance of monitoring resource use and how to advance it at the international level to support SDG implementation exemplify the resources perspective on the nexus approach by exploring how to close the nitrogen cycle and stay within planetary boundaries elaborate on proven and emerging strategies for nexus implementation highlighting means to enhance monitor and analyse stakeholder participation explain how the horizontal and vertical nexus dimensions interact and can support SDG implementation The book sheds new light on key aspects of the interrelation between SDGs and the Nexus Approach and provides specific recommendations how to advance it

Designed for courses on Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization and Evolutionary Algorithms.This textbook is the second edition of Evolutionary Algorithms for Solving Multi-Objective Problems, significantly augmented with contemporary knowledge and adapted for the classroom. All the various features of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are presented in an innovative and student-friendly fashion, incorporating state-of-the-art research results. The diversity of serial and parallel MOEA structures are given, evaluated and compared. The book provides detailed insight into the application of MOEA techniques to an array of practical problems. The assortment of test suites are discussed along with the variety of appropriate metrics and relevant statistical performance techniques.Distinctive features of the new edition include:- Designed for graduate courses on Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization, with exercises and links to a complete set of teaching material including tutorials.- Updated and expanded MOEA exercises, discussion questions and research ideas at the end of each chapter.- New chapter devoted to coevolutionary and memetic MOEAs with added material on solving constrained multi-objective problems.- Additional material on the most recent MOEA test functions and performance measures, as well as on the latest developments on the theoretical foundations of MOEAs.- An exhaustive index and bibliography.This self-contained reference is invaluable to students, researchers and in particular to computer scientists, operational research scientists and engineers working in evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms and artificial intelligence.

This book discusses many advances in optical physic, and is aimed at advanced undergraduates taking courses in atomic physics, or graduate students in the fields of lasers, astrophysics, and physical chemistry. The book is intended mainly for experimentalists, and the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with free atoms is introduced using classical or semi-classical calculations wherever possible. Topics discussed include the spontaneous emission of radiation, stimulated transitions and the properties of gas and turnable dye lasers, and the physics and applications of resonance fluorescence, optical double resonance, optical pumping, and atomic beam magnetic resonance experiments.

David C. Culver (Editor), William WhiteEncyclopedia of Caves is a self-contained, beautifully illustrated work dedicated to caves and their unique environments. It includes more than 100 comprehensive articles from leading scholars and explorers in 15 different countries. Each entry is detailed and scientifically sound, yet accessible for students and non-scientists. This large-format reference is enchanced with hundreds of full-color photographs, maps, and drawings from the authors' own work, which provide unique images of the underground environment. The Encyclopedia of Caves is an essential interdisciplinary resource for scientists, students, and caving enthusiasts. * Presents a cross-section of contemporary knowledge of caves ranging from biology, geology, and human uses to exploration techniques * Brings together 107 in-depth articles from respected international authors * Showcases hundreds of color and black & white photographs, maps, charts, and illustrations * Highlights many of the great caves of the world * Makes information easy to find with alphabetical listings, cross references, suggestions for further reading, plus a full glossary and index

The first stand alone textbook for at least ten years on this increasingly hot topic in times of global climate change and sustainability in ecosystems Ecological biochemistry refers to the interaction of organisms with their abiotic environment and other organisms by chemical means Biotic and abiotic factors determine the biochemical flexibility of organisms which otherwise easily adapt to environmental changes by altering their metabolism Sessile plants in particular have evolved intricate biochemical response mechanisms to fit into a changing environment This book covers the chemistry behind these interactions bottom up from the atomic to the system s level An introductory part explains the physico chemical basis and biochemical roots of living cells leading to secondary metabolites as crucial bridges between organisms and the respective ecosystem The focus then shifts to the biochemical interactions of plants fungi and bacteria within terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems with the aim of linking biochemical insights to ecological research also in human influenced habitats A section is devoted to methodology which allows network based analyses of molecular processes underlying systems phenomena A companion website offering an extended version of the in

This is the first book to collate and synthesize the recent burgeoning primary research literature on dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition.The author presents a new ecological approach to the understanding of dog behaviour, demonstrating how dogs can be the subject of rigorous and productive scientific study without the need to confine them to a laboratory environment.This second, fully updated edition of Dog Behaviour, Evolution and Cognition starts with an overview of the conceptual and methodological issues associated with the study of the dog, followed by a brief description of their role in human society. An evolutionary perspective is then introduced with a summary of current research into the process of domestication. The central part of the book is devoted to issues relating to the cognitive aspects of behaviour which have received particular attention in recent years from both psychologists and ethologists. The book''s final chapters introduce the reader to many novel approaches to dog behaviour, set in the context of behavioural development and genetics.This second edition recognises and discusses the fact that dogs are increasingly being used as model organisms for studying aspects of human biology, such as genetic diseases and ageing. Specific attention is also given in this edition to attachment behaviour which emerges between humans and dogs, the importance of inter-specific communication in the success of dogs in human communities and the broad aspects of social cognition and how this may contribute to human-dog cooperationDirections for future research are highlighted throughout the text which also incorporates links to human and primate research by drawing on homologies and analogies in both evolution and behaviour.The book will therefore be of relevance and use to anyone with an interest in behavioural ecology including graduate students of animal behaviour and cognition, as well as a more general audience of dog enthusiasts, biologists, psychologists, veterinarians, and sociologists.

Biology majors and pre-health students at many colleges and universities are required to take a semester of calculus but rarely do such students see authentic applications of its techniques and concepts. Applications of Calculus to Biology and Medicine: Case Studies from Lake Victoria is designed to address this issue: it prepares students to engage with the research literature in the mathematical modeling of biological systems, assuming they have had only one semester of calculus. The text includes projects, problems and exercises: the projects ask the students to engage with the research literature, problems ask the students to extend their understanding of the materials and exercises ask the students to check their understanding as they read the text. Students who successfully work their way through the text will be able to engage in a meaningful way with the research literature to the point that they would be able to make genuine contributions to the literature.Readership: Undergraduates in biomathematics, mathematical biology, mathematical modeling, applied mathematics, and dynamical systems.

Nueva edición completamente actualizada y revisada de un clásico de la zoología, líder en nuestro mercado. Expone de forma clara, amena y didáctica los conceptos y principios en los que se fundamenta la zoologia. En esta nueva edicon resalta, todavia mas, la importancia del papel de la experimentacion y de los estudios comparativos en zoologia. Vision integradora de la organizacion animal. Sigue manteniendo su enfasis en los principios de la evolucion animal y en el enfoque filogenetico. Combina la cobertura clasica de la biologia animal con la investigacion, las nuevas filogenias y las nuevas tecnologias. Importancia e incremento de los auxiliares didacticos: prologo en cada capitulo que introduce los contenidos del mismo; bibliografia comentada, notas aclaratorias, resumenes, nuevas preguntas de autoevaluacion y glosario con mas de 1100 terminos. Contenido muy bien apoyado por figuras y esquemas de gran calidad y a todo color, en gran parte nuevo para esta edicion. Al final de cada capitulo se incluyen vinculos de internet con paginas web relacionadas con la zoologia. OLC en ingles en la direccion: www.mhhe.com/hickmanipz13 (donde se encuentra, entre otras cosas, el apendice historico, UNICO, en el que se listan los descubrimientos clave en zoologia).