“…In dieser Zeit hat er eine Reihe von Büchern über Irland veröffentlicht: Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way (englische und deutsche Version), Ireland's Ancient East (englische Version), Ireland's Coast (englische Version) und andere. …”

“…From such a processual perspective, Africa is not a delineated area, but emerges in a variety of relations which can reach across the continent, but also the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic or Europe. Contributors are: Thierry Boudjekeu, Elena Brugioni, Ute Fendler, Sophie Lembcke, Gilbert Ndi Shang, Samuel Ndogo, Duncan Tarrant, Kumari Issur, CJ Odhiambo, Michaela Ott, Peter Simatei, Clarissa Vierke, Chinelo J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.2.3 Coal Classification2.2.4 Reserves and Resources; 2.2.5 Coal Mining and Production; 2.3 Use of Coal- Power Generation and More; 2.3.1 Steam Coal and its Role in Power Generation; 2.3.2 Coal-Fired Power Plant Technologies; 2.3.3 Cement and Other Industry; 2.3.4 Alternatives to Coal: Shale Gas and Other; 2.3.5 Future Trend: CtL and Coal Bed Methane; 2.4 Overview of Worldwide Steam Coal Supply and Demand; 2.4.1 Atlantic Demand Market: Europe at its Core; 2.4.2 Pacific Demand Market: China, India, Japan, Taiwan, Korea and SEA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reprinted from: Forests 2016, 7(11), 269; doi: 10.3390/f7110269 53 Guglielmo Lione, Paolo Gonthier and Matteo Garbelotto Environmental Factors Driving the Recovery of Bay Laurels from Phytophthora ramorum Infections: An Application of Numerical Ecology to Citizen Science Reprinted from: Forests 2017, 8(8), 293; doi: 10.3390/f8080293 63 Tiziana Panzavolta, Andrea Panichi, Matteo Bracalini, Francesco Croci, Beatrice Ginetti, Alessandro Ragazzi, Riziero Tiberi and Salvatore Moricca Dispersal and Propagule Pressure of Botryosphaeriaceae Species in a Declining Oak Stand is Affected by Insect Vectors Reprinted from: Forests 2017, 8(7), 228; doi: 10.3390/f8070228 87 Simone Prospero and Michelle Cleary Effects of Host Variability on the Spread of Invasive Forest Diseases Reprinted from: Forests 2017, 8(3), 80; doi: 10.3390/f8030080 99 Renata Ruiz Silva, André Costa da Silva, Roberto Antônio Rodella, José Eduardo Serrão, José Cola Zanuncio and Edson Luiz Furtado Pre-Infection Stages of Austropuccinia psidii in the Epidermis of Eucalyptus Hybrid Leaves with Different Resistance Levels Reprinted from: Forests 2017, 8(10), 362; doi: 10.3390/f8100362 120 Jeff Chieppa, Lori Eckhardt and Arthur Chappelka Simulated Summer Rainfall Variability Effects on Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) Seedling Physiology and Susceptibility to Root-Infecting Ophiostomatoid Fungi Reprinted from: Forests 2017, 8(4), 104; doi: 10.3390/f8040104 132 Esther Ortíz de Urbina, Nebai Mesanza, Ana Aragonés, Rosa Raposo, Margarita Elvira-Recuenco, Ricard Boqué, Cheryl Patten, Jenny Aitken and Eugenia Iturritxa Emerging Needle Blight Diseases in Atlantic Pinus Ecosystems of Spain Reprinted from: Forests 2017, 8(1), 18; doi: 10.3390/f8010018 146 James Mehl, Michael J. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Streit's "Nucleus Approach" to World Organization -- The Structural Interdependence of Democracy, Security, and Effective World Organization -- "How the Unit Shapes the End": The Primacy of Individual Equality -- Realism Through Democracy: Dynamics and Traits in Streit's Formal Model -- The Nucleus Idea and the Postwar Euro-Atlantic Institutions -- References -- 9 Current Proposals for Closer Cooperation Among Democracies -- Contemporary Options for Structured Cooperation -- The Promising D10 Proposal and Its Variants -- The Variables Underlying Options for Democratic Alliance -- The Shadow War Already Exists -- Notes -- References -- 10 Representation and Participation of Citizens at the United Nations: The Democratic Legitimacy of the UN and Ways to Improve It -- The Right to Democracy -- International Recognition of Democratic Rights -- Right to a Democratic International Order -- The Democratic Deficit of the UN -- The UN as an Intergovernmental Organization -- A Broken Chain of Legitimation -- A Cosmopolitan Perspective -- A UN Parliamentary Assembly -- Rationale and Concept…”

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“…En la primavera del 1982 dos criminólogos americanos, Willson y Kelling, publicaron un modesto artículo en la revista The Atlantic Monthly, que bajo el título "Broken Windows", pretendía establecer una teoría sobre las causas de la delincuencia, especialmente aquella que tiene lugar en los espacios públicos". …”
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“…Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labour. …”

“…It would have been hard to miss the pivotal role debt has played for contentious politics in the last decades. The North Atlantic Financial Crisis, Global Recession and European Debt Crisis - as well as the recent waves of protest that followed them - have catapulted debt politics into the limelight of public debates. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Motivation xviii About the Authors xxv 1 Globalization: Economies in Collision 1 Motivation 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Trend and Challenges in Global Finance 5 1.2.1 Global Finance and the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis 5 1.2.2 Geopolitics and Finance or Geo-Finance 7 1.2.3 Population Growth 9 1.2.4 Geo-Finance and Gating 9 1.2.5 Culture and Social Norms 10 1.2.6 Emerging Economies, Equalization, and Risks 11 1.2.7 Regulation and Politics 12 1.3 Global Finance and Trade in the Media and News 12 1.3.1 Taxing Foreign Returns When They Are Repatriated 12 1.3.2 Sovereign Gating and Protective Tariffs, Trade Defense 12 1.3.3 Global Insurance and Dependence 13 1.3.4 Finance and Politics 13 1.3.5 EU-US Regulation Risks in a Trans-Atlantic Market 13 1.3.6 Rare Earth and Strategic Trades 14 1.4 Global Risks 15 1.4.1 Factors Affecting Global Risks 15 1.4.2 Global Finance and Risk Theories 17 1.5 Global Finance and Swaps and Financial Products 18 1.6 Currencies and Liquidity 20 1.7 Foreign Exchange Regime and Markets, Global Payment, and Reserve Currency 23 1.7.1 Foreign Exchange Markets and Global Trade Currency 24 1.7.2 Exchange Rate Regimes 28 1.7.3 Foreign Exchange Reserve Currencies 29 1.7.4 Exchange Rate in Emerging Markets 30 1.8 Trade Incentives and Repressions 33 1.9 Historical Evolution 36 1.9.1 The Gold Standard System 36 1.9.2 The Bretton Woods Agreement 37 1.9.3 The Yuan Exchange Rate: An Example 38 1.10 Archaic and Modern Globalization: A Time Path 40 1.11 Discussions on Global Issues 44 References 46 2 Data, Measurements, and Global Finance 51 Motivation 51 2.1 Data and Models 51 2.1.1 National Accounts and Country-Specific Data 52 2.1.2 Financial Data 53 2.1.3 Corporate and Statistical Measurements 53 2.1.4 Big Data and Model-Less Finance 56 2.1.5 Technology and Financial Data 59 2.1.6 Transforming Data Management in Global Finance 60 2.2 Global Finance, Data Reduction, and Statistical Measurements 61 2.2.1 Moments 61 2.2.2 Skew and Kurtosis (Tails) 63 2.2.3 Outliers, Extreme Statistics, and Fat Tails 65 2.2.4 Extreme Risks 65 2.2.5 Time Series and Filtration 66 2.2.6 Dependence 67 2.2.7 Risk Exposure 75 2.3 Volatility and Implied Models Estimates 76 2.3.1 Simple Volatility Estimates 76 2.3.2 Implied Volatility 77 2.3.3 Moving Average and Autoregressive Moving Average Models 79 2.3.4 ARCH-GARCH Volatility Models 80 2.3.5 ARCH-GARCH Model: Empirical Evidence 82 2.4 Stochastic Models 86 2.4.1 The Constant Rate of Return Hypothesis 88 2.4.2 Autoregressive and Mean Reverting Models 90 2.5 Multivariate Probability Models 91 2.5.1 Bernoulli and Codependence: Qualitative Data 92 2.5.2 Multivariate Qualitative Data 93 2.5.3 Copulas and Multivariate Models 96 2.6 Statistical Data Reduction 100 2.7 Complexity: The Global Risk Finance Scourge 102 2.8 Discussion 103 References 104 3 Global Finance: Utility, Financial Consumption, and Asset Pricing 110 Motivation 110 3.1 Introduction: Financial Models and Pricing 110 3.1.1 The Walras-Arrow-Debreu Preference-Free Q Framework 111 3.1.2 Utility Finance 113 3.1.3 Utility Preferences and Pricing 114 3.2 Review: Elements of Utility and Risk 116 3.2.1 Utility and Risk Preferences 117 3.2.2 Selected Utility Functions 119 3.3 The Utility of Consumption and its Price 119 3.3.1 Example: The Financial Utility of Consumption 120 3.3.2 The Utility of Financial Consumption 121 3.4 The Capital Assets Pricing Model 123 3.4.1 Discussion 125 3.4.2 The Jensen Alpha Case: η = α−Rf 0 125 3.4.3 The Arbitrage Pricing Theory 126 3.4.4 The Capital Assets Pricing Model and Foreign Exchange 127 3.4.5 Pricing Foreign Exchange Rates and a Basket of Foreign Exchange Rates 128 3.4.6 Thought Experiment 130 3.4.7 Linear Regressions, Capital Assets Pricing Model, and Global Finance 130 3.5 Review of Elements of Arrow-Debreu and Q Pricing 131 3.5.1 Applications of the Arrow-Debreu Framework 134 3.5.2 Pricing a Foreign Bond and Foreign Exchange Rates 134 3.5.3 Global Investment Pricing: A Binomial Model 137 3.5.4 Global Investment Pricing: A Portfolio Problem 139 3.5.5 Foreign Exchange, Consumer Price Index, and Purchasing Power Parity 141 3.5.6 Relative Purchasing Power Parity 141 3.6 The Multiperiod Consumption-Based Capital Asset Pricing Model 142 3.6.1 Example: Pricing Exports 144 3.6.2 Example: The Multiagent Consumption-Based Capital Asset Pricing Model 145 3.6.3 Example: Portfolio Investment 146 3.6.4 The Capital Assets Pricing Model as a Special Case of the Consumption-Based Capital Asset Pricing Model 149 3.6.5 Foreign Exchange Rates, Bonds, and Equity 150 3.6.6 Example: Rate of Returns in Foreign Equity Markets and the Foreign Exchange Rate 153 3.7 Thought Experiments 154 References 155 4 Macroeconomics, Foreign Exchange, and Global Finance 157 Motivation 157 4.1 Introduction 157 4.2 Fundamental Macroeconomic Models 158 4.2.1 The Keynes Model: Goods and Money Markets in a Closed Economy 159 4.2.2 Macroeconomic Accounting in Open Economies 162 4.3 Balance of Payments Accounts 165 4.3.1 The Structure of Balance of Payments 165 4.3.2 Principles of Balance of Payments 167 4.3.3 Global External Imbalances 168 4.4 The Mundell and Fleming Model: IS-LM-BOP Model 171 4.4.1 Equilibrium Exchange Rate in the Foreign Exchange Market 171 4.4.2 IS-LM-BOP Model 173 4.4.3 Two-Country Model with Mundell-Fleming 175 4.4.4 Extension of the Mundell-Fleming Model: Trade 176 4.5 Macroeconomic Factors Reshaping Global Outlook 178 4.5.1 Foreign Direct Investment 178 4.5.2 External Debt and its Sustainability 182 4.5.3 Government Bonds and other Macroeconomic Factors 184 4.5.4 The Impact of a Strong US Dollar 185 4.5.5 The US Dollar and Commodity Prices 186 4.5.6 Globalization and Economic Inequalities 187 4.6 Conclusion 190 References 191 5 Foreign Exchange Models and Prices 195 Motivation 195 5.1 Introduction 195 5.2 Macroeconomic Models of Foreign Exchange Rates 196 5.2.1 Underlying Factors for Modeling Foreign Exchange Prices 196 5.2.2 Classification of Foreign Exchange Models 197 5.3 Exchange Rates and Purchasing Power Parity 198 5.3.1 Purchasing Power Parity and the Law of One Price 198 5.3.2 Application of the Law of One Price and Purchasing Power Parity 200 5.4 Foreign Exchange Rates and Interest Rates: The Assets Approach 204 5.4.1 Covered Interest Arbitrage 204 5.4.2 Uncovered Interest Parities 205 5.4.3 Real Interest Parity 206 5.4.4 Testing Uncovered Interest Parity 206 5.5 Demand and Supply of Money and Exchange Rates: Monetary Approach 207 5.5.1 The Frenkel-Mussa Model 208 5.5.2 Foreign Exchange Prices and Inflation 209 5.5.3 The Unified Asset/Monetary Approaches 211 5.5.4 Empirical Evidence on the Monetary Model of Exchange Rate 211 5.6 Extensions of the Models 212 5.6.1 The Balassa-Samuelson Model 212 5.6.2 The Dornbusch Overshooting Model 215 5.6.3 The Real Interest Differential Theory 219 5.6.4 Present-Value Models: Complete and Incomplete Markets 219 5.7 Conclusions 221 Appendix 5.A: Suggested Empirical Work for Econometric and Statistical Analysis 222 References 223 6 Asia: Financial Environment and Risks 226 Motivation 226 6.1 Introduction 226 6.2 Driving Engines of Economic Growth in Asia 228 6.2.1 International Trade 229 6.2.2 Exchange Rate 229 6.2.3 Foreign Investments Expansion 234 6.3 Financial Sector Development in Asia 235 6.3.1 Fast-Growing Banking Sector 237 6.3.2 Bond Market Development 239 6.3.3 Stock Market Development 242 6.4 Risks of Investing in Asia 245 6.4.1 Foreign Exchange Risk 245 6.4.2 Foreign Exchange Option 248 6.4.3 Portfolio with Asian Assets 249 6.5 Financial Development in China 251 6.5.1 Importance of the Banking Sector in China 252 6.5.2 State-Owned Enterprises 254 6.5.3 Challenges in Equity Markets in China 257 6.5.4 Stock Market Development in China 257 6.6 Finance in Japan 260 6.6.1 Banking Sector in Japan 260 6.6.2 Effectiveness of Corporate Governance 260 6.6.3 The Importance of Industry 261 6.6.4 Bond Market Volatility in Japan 263 6.7 Conclusion 265 References 266 7 Financial Currency Pricing, Swaps, Derivatives, and Complete Markets 269 Motivation 269 7.1 Introduction 269 7.2 Pricing Consumption Price Index and Foreign Exchange in Complete Financial Markets 272 7.3 A Generalized Consumption Price Index Foreign Exchange Pricing Model 276 7.4 Relative and Foreign Exchange Basket Price Tracking 278 7.4.1 Currency Basket Design 281 7.4.2 A Global Index Consumption Price Index Price Reversion and Foreign Exchange Prices 284 7.4.3 Global Index Reversion…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Defining the business -- Assigning resources to each SBU -- Building the corporate business portfolio - assessing growth opportunities -- Marketing innovation -- Business unit strategic planning -- The business mission -- SWOT analysis -- Critique of conventional SWOT analysis -- Goal formulation -- Strategic formulation -- Programme formulation and implementation -- Feedback and control -- Change today, not tomorrow -- Questions -- Contents of the marketing plan -- Sample marketing plan: €uromart -- Introduction -- Chapter 4 Managing digital technology in marketing -- Understanding digital technologies within marketing management -- The range of technologies in marketing -- Information and interaction perspectives -- Managing digital technologies -- Evaluation and selection of digital technologies -- Supporting the adoption and implementation of digital technologies -- Uniting marketing and IT functions -- Future technologies: opportunities and challenges -- Part 1 Case study: Virgin Atlantic -- PART 2 Capturing Marketing Insights -- Chapter 5 The changing marketing environment and information management -- The company environment -- The marketing environment -- Analysing the macroenvironment -- The sociocultural and demographic environment -- The economic environment -- The social-cultural environment -- The ecological and physical environment -- The technological environment -- The political-legal environment -- Managing the marketing information system -- Components of a modern marketing information system -- Internal records -- The marketing intelligence system -- Databases, data warehousing and data mining -- Chapter 6 Managing market research and forecasting -- The marketing research system -- The marketing research process -- Step 1: define the problem, the decision alternatives and the research objectives -- Step 2: develop the research plan…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 3.3 Individuals and Communities Contribute to Changes in Collective Ideas -- 3.3.1 Right Conditions, Right Environment -- 3.3.2 The Trade Policy Elite: The Creation of an Environment Un-Conducive to Learning and Change -- 3.3.3 Making Learning Possible -- 4 What Lies Ahead -- 4.1 Choices -- 4.2 A Cartography -- 4.3 Structure of the Book -- 2 First Came Economic Cooperation  The Genesis of the Nexus -- 1 The Moral Value of Trade and the Need for International Trade Cooperation -- 1.1 The Senator from Tennessee and the International Dimension of Trade Policy -- 1.2 'When Goods Don't Cross Borders, Soldiers Will' -- 1.3 The Call for an International Trade Conference -- 1.4 Anglo-American Trade Collaboration: The Atlantic Conference -- 1.5 Anderson's Circus -- 1.6 Meade's Multilateral Approach to Trade Agreements -- 1.7 Havana -- 2 International Cooperation to Protect Our Spaceship Earth -- 2.1 The Utilitarian Approach to Environmental Protection -- 2.2 "We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us" -- 2.3 Spaceship Earth -- 2.4 The 'Internationalist' from Oak Lake -- 2.5 On the Road to Stockholm -- 3 The Environment as a Late-Comer -- 3.1 Mr. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cryptic Eucoleus [Capillaria] sp. in the respiratory tract of a cat from Australia -- Comparison of quantitative polymerase chain reaction, Kato-Katz and circulating cathodic antigen rapid test for the diagnosis of Schistosoma mansoni infection: A cross-sectional study in Kirinyaga County, Kenya -- Field evaluation of Veeralin, an alpha-cypermethrin + PBO long-lasting insecticidal net, against natural populations of Anopheles funestus in experimental huts in Muheza, Tanzania -- In vitro anti-Trypanosoma cruzi activity enhancement of curcumin by its monoketone tetramethoxy analog diveratralacetone -- Complexity of malaria transmission dynamics in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest -- Using cerebrospinal fluid to confirm Angiostrongylus cantonensis as the cause of canine neuroangiostrongyliasis in Australia where A. cantonensis and Angiostrongylus mackerrasae co-exist -- Molecular screening for tick-borne bacteria and hematozoa in Ixodes cf. boliviensis and Ixodes tapirus (Ixodida: Ixodidae) from western highlands of Panama -- Illuminating the bacterial microbiome of Australian ticks with 16S and Rickettsia-specific next-generation sequencing -- Biolarviciding for malaria vector control: Acceptance and associated factors in southern Tanzania -- Unexpected failure of Ixodes scapularis nymphs to transmit a North American Borrelia bissettiae strain -- Promastigotes of Leishmania donovani exhibited sensitivity towards the high altitudinal plant Cicer microphyllum -- Towards understanding transfluthrin efficacy in a pyrethroid-resistant strain of the malaria vector Anopheles funestus with special reference to cytochrome P450-mediated detoxification -- Insecticide-impregnated netting: A surface treatment for killing Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae), the vector of Leishmania infantum -- Cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis clade 'Sydney') are dominant fleas on dogs and cats in New South Wales, Australia: Presence of flea-borne Rickettsia felis, Bartonella spp. but absence of Coxiella burnetii DNA -- Babesia gibsoni emerging with high prevalence and co-infections in "fighting dogs" in Hungary -- Morphological and molecular characterization of a new species of Isospora Schneider, 1881 (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from the western wattlebird Anthochaera lunulata Gould in Western Australia -- Unravelling the diversity of the Crassiphialinae (Digenea: Diplostomidae) with molecular phylogeny and descriptions of five new species -- Haemoprotozoan surveillance in peri-urban native and introduced wildlife from Australia -- VectorMap-GR: A local scale operational management tool for entomological monitoring, to support vector control activities in Greece and the Mediterranean Basin -- Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii as causes of reproductive losses in commercial sheep flocks from Argentina -- Molecular detection of Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato) and Rickettsia spp. in hard ticks distributed in Tokachi District, eastern Hokkaido, Japan -- Considerations for anthelmintic resistance emergence in hookworm at a single locus -- Wild deer in the United Kingdom are a potential reservoir for the livestock parasite Babesia divergens -- First description of sarcoptic mange in an Iberian hare (Lepus granatensis) -- Evaluation of buffered Trypanosoma evansi antigen and rapid serum agglutination test (BA/Te) for the detection of anti-T. evansi antibodies in horses in Brazil -- Cryptosporidium of birds in pet markets in Wuhan city, Hubei, China -- Global analysis of cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) gene variation in Dibothriocephalus nihonkaiensis (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidae) -- Insecticidal efficacy of afoxolaner against Stomoxys calcitrans (Diptera: Muscidae) in dogs -- The detection of Schistosoma bovis in livestock on Pemba Island, Zanzibar: A preliminary study -- Sarcoptic mange in the wild boar, Sus scrofa, in Sweden -- Dengue outbreaks in Bangladesh: Historic epidemic patterns suggest earlier mosquito control intervention in the transmission season could reduce the monthly growth factor and extent of epidemics -- Predicting eastern equine encephalitis spread in North America: An ecological study -- Vapor phase repellency and insecticidal activity of pyridinyl amides against anopheline mosquitoes -- Editorial: First anniversary of Current Research in Parasitology &Vector-BorneDiseases…”

“…A self-taught sailor and enthusiastic cartographer, his expeditions across the Atlantic garnered him international fame, a place in history, and the titles of Admiral, Viceroy, and Governor.…”

“…Geographically, the present contributions cover the space from the Levantine coast to the Atlantic shores of the Iberian Peninsula. Chronologically, they range from the earliest moments of the Phoenician presence in the western Mediterranean during the ninth century BCE until the centuries following the destruction of Carthage and its empire. …”

“…Keeping up with the myriad of systems used by hackers in the wild is a formidable task, and scrambling to patch each potential vulnerability or address each new attack one-by-one is a bit like emptying the Atlantic with paper cup. If you're a network administrator, the pressure is on you to defend your systems from attack. …”