“…This is due not only to the understanding that it provides of the world on different scales, but also to its intervention on the economic, social and cultural levels, helping to promote active citizenship and contributing to sustainable development and quality of life.ALT_QUEBRA_LINHAStarting from this premise and from the need to bring together Portuguese geographers for the debate on how geography can study space, understand places, organize territories, feel people, promote development, create options for political decision-making and even decide upon and promote development around theoretical and methodological questions of the application of geographic studies, the Portuguese Geographers' Association organized, in collaboration with the Department of Geography at the University of Coimbra and CEGOT, the 7th Conference of Portuguese Geography, "Advantages of active geography: local development, environment, planning and technology". The main results are presented here in the form of this book…”

“…After the introductory chapter, which is about the main branches and aims of biogeography in service of solving global problems, - we can find three chapters as parts of the first section. …”

“…Neuronal cells (neurons) mainly transmit signals by action potentials or spikes. …”

“…Driven by huge demand, the massive IoT (mIoT) or massive machine type communication (mMTC) has been identified as one of the three main communication scenarios for 5G. In addition to connectivity, computing and storage and data management are also long-standing issues for low-cost devices and sensors. …”

“…As regards nutrition, athletes and their coaches ask themselves a lot of questions, and each of them deserves a clear answer! This is the main objective of this book, which gathered the world's greatest specialists of sports nutrition in order to bring the eagerly expected answers... …”

“…The objective is rather to problematise the link between historical discourse on race wars during the 17th and 18th centuries and the biological racism of the late 19th century through the general hypothesis of the development of biopower in the West. The main aim here, beyond any desire for celebratory exegesis, is to open up new avenues for reflection which, on occasion, extend, but can also displace and challenge, the path forged by Foucault…”

“…The question of the "meaning" of proper names has given rise to many reflections, both in the West and in India.If the debates, in the West, mainly concern logic and philosophy, linguistics participating only marginally, it is primarily grammarians ( vaiy à kara ṇ a ) and logicians ( naiy à yika ) who, in India, got hold of the problem. …”

“…The author is interested mainly in the origins and motivations of various beliefs and behaviors which at first sight may appear to be syncretic. …”

“…Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities operate in later life there has been an excessive preoccupation with economic resources. …”

“…Several questions concerning this matter have recently been highly controversial before German courts. The main issue is whether an investor who exercises the right to revoke his accession to an investment company is thus able to withdraw his initial share independent of the present value of his holding…”

“…Headache, as a main neurological problem in everyday life, still takes place as a contributor on top of the list of many partially solved neurological conditions. …”

“…Book chapters are separated into two main sections: (i) seismic and sequence stratigraphy and (ii) integrated stratigraphy. …”

“…Current clinical efforts are mainly focused on the diagnosis and treatment of myocardial infarction. …”

“…Current clinical efforts are mainly focused on the diagnosis and treatment of myocardial infarction. …”

“…Que se passe-t-il lorsqu'on regarde une peinture de très près, l'œil presque contre la toile, voire avec une loupe ou un face-à-main comme font les amateurs sur L'Enseigne de Gersaint de Watteau, ou quand, tel Swann, on prête l'oreille à quelques notes ou à une phrase musicale ? …”

“…The book brings together chapters that address questions about the new economic and social configuration in which the economic importance of knowledge stands out as the main source for the creation of wealth, replacing physical capital and / or natural resources, which are decisive for the organization of production until the 20th century.In addition to conceptual considerations, the chapters that make up the work discuss results of research carried out by teams of researchers in Grenoble (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble 1 and Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble 2), France, and in Rio Grande do Sul (Federal University Rio Grande do Sul), Brazil, addressing topics that, in more general terms, refer to the debate on interaction between science, technology, innovation and local and regional development. …”

“…If in the first phase the main figures are heralds of eighteenth-century philosophical and scientific currents, in the second phase new ideas arise that allow the renewal of the relations between neurology and psychiatry, and a more psychological and psychotherapeutic attitude is disclosed. …”

“…The ways in which the Internet is managed and controlled -often labeled as Internet Governance- are usually considered as standing on four main pillars: Technology, Market Laws, State Regulation and Uses. …”

“…The Jesuit evangelists used in this analysis include European, mainly Iberian and French, missionaries. The non-European converts dealt with in this discussion are Japanese and Amerindian peoples. …”

“…You can find the answers to all these questions in the book. It describes the main trends in development of our digital society. …”