Tabla de Contenidos: “….); LOS MOVIMIENTOS SOCIALES 2000-2002; ELECCIONES PRESIDENCIALES, DE SENADORES (...); LA ""GUERRA DEL GAS"" EN 2003; EL PROGRAMA CONSTRUCTIVO Y LA ESTRUCTURA (...); REFERÉNDUM Y LEY DE HIDROCARBUROS, 2004; ELECCIONES MUNICIPALES DE DICIEMBRE DE 2004; SE PERFILA EL PROYECTO NACIONAL; ELECCIÓN PRESIDENCIAL, DE SENADORES, DIPUTADOS (...); ELECCIÓN DE LA ASAMBLEA CONSTITUYENTE DEL (...); DOS PROYECTOS DE AUTONOMÍAS…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Satellite Earth Observations in Environmental Problem-Solving -- Policy and Earth Observation Innovation Cycle (PEOIC) Project (Japan) -- Innovation in Earth Observations as a National Strategic Investment: The Experience of the U.S -- Benefits Assessment of Applied Earth Science -- ESA’s Earth Observation Strategy and Copernicus -- Earth Observation--UK Perspective and Policy -- Benefit Assessment of the Application of Satellite Earth Observation for Society and Policy: Assessing the Socio-economic Impacts of the Development of Downstream, Space-based Earth Observation Applications -- Chinese Earth Observation Program and Policy -- Greenhouse Gas Observation from Space -- Japanese Satellite Earth Observation: Status and Policy Issues -- The New 10-Year GEOSS Strategy for 2016 and Beyond -- The Value of Global Earth Observations -- Earth Observation Support to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change: The Example of REDD+ -- Quantitative Assessment of the Earth Observation Data and Methods Used to Generate Reference Emission Levels for REDD+ -- Evaluation of Space Programs: Select Findings from the OECD Space Forum -- Integrating Earth Observation Systems and International Environmental Regimes -- Conclusion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Will Evans, trader to the Navajos -- Starting along the trail -- Views of history around the Four Corners -- Agapito remembers the old days -- Yellow Horse and the Long Walk -- The establishment of trading posts -- Harry Baldwin and the Hogback Post -- Redrock Trading Post -- Little Singer and the beautiful mountain uprising -- Prosperity in reverse -- Oil and gas on Navajo land -- A Christmas Eve in Navajo land -- Navajos I have known -- Costiano -- Black Horse -- Bizhóshí -- Ugly Man -- Fat One and Son of Fat One -- Faith, an episode -- Tragedies in Navajo land -- Sandoval -- Slim policeman -- A dedicated medicine man -- Dan Pete -- Daily life and customs of the Navajo people -- Daily life in a hogan -- Navajo hospitality -- Trading with the Navajos -- Navajo blankets -- Silversmithing -- Cleanliness, clothes, and manners -- Hairstyles -- Tobacco, alcohol, and morality -- Navajo marriage customs and family life -- Divorce -- Tribal traditions and lore -- Sandpaintings -- My first fire dance -- Squaw dance (enemyway) -- Death, witchcraft, and skinwalkers -- Navajos and animals -- Postscript: The death of a man, the end of an era…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Local Maximum-Entropy Approximation Schemes -- Genetic Algorithms for Meshfree Numerical Integration -- An RBF Meshless Method for Injection Molding Modelling -- Strain Smoothing for Stabilization and Regularization of Galerkin Meshfree Methods -- Fuzzy Grid Method for Lagrangian Gas Dynamics Equations -- New Shape Functions for Arbitrary Discontinuities without Additional Unknowns -- A Meshless BEM for 2-D Stress Analysis in Linear Elastic FGMs -- A Particle-Partition of Unity Method Part VII: Adaptivity -- Enriched Reproducing Kernel Particle Approximation for Simulating Problems Involving Moving Interfaces -- Deterministic Particle Methods for High Dimensional Fokker-Planck Equations -- Bridging Scale Method and Its Applications -- A New Stabilized Nodal Integration Approach -- Multigrid and M-Matrices in the Finite Pointset Method for Incompressible Flows -- Assessment of Generalized Finite Elements in Nonlinear Analysis -- A Meshfree Method for Simulations of Interactions between Fluids and Flexible Structures -- Goal Oriented Error Estimation for the Element Free Galerkin Method -- Bubble and Hermite Natural Element Approximations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Variance-Gamma and Related Stochastic Processes -- The Early Years of the Variance-Gamma Process -- Variance-Gamma and Monte Carlo -- Some Remarkable Properties of Gamma Processes -- A Note About Selberg’s Integrals in Relation with the Beta-Gamma Algebra -- Itô Formulas for Fractional Brownian Motion -- Asset and Option Pricing -- A Tutorial on Zero Volatility and Option Adjusted Spreads -- Asset Price Bubbles in Complete Markets -- Taxation and Transaction Costs in a General Equilibrium Asset Economy -- Calibration of Lévy Term Structure Models -- Pricing of Swaptions in Affine Term Structures with Stochastic Volatility -- Forward Evolution Equations for Knock-Out Options -- Mean Reversion Versus Random Walk in Oil and Natural Gas Prices -- Credit Risk and Investments -- Beyond Hazard Rates: A New Framework for Credit-Risk Modelling -- A Generic One-Factor Lévy Model for Pricing Synthetic CDOs -- Utility Valuation of Credit Derivatives: Single and Two-Name Cases -- Investment and Valuation Under Backward and Forward Dynamic Exponential Utilities in a Stochastic Factor Model…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Technological developments in biofuel production""; ""4. Energy and greenhouse gas balances of biofuels""; ""5. Final remarks""; ""References""; ""Chapter 8 The global impacts of US and EU biofuels policies""; ""Wallace E. …”

“…Relata el caso de la empresa Enron Corporation que, en quince años, pasó de ser una pequeña empresa de gas de Texas a convertirse en el séptimo grupo empresarial de mayor valor en Estados Unidos, y que acabó en la quiebra absoluta dando lugar a uno de los mayores escándalos de la historia financiera de Norteamérica, con graves repercusiones políticas, salpicando incluso a la Casa Blanca…”

“…The regulatory function of microorganisms for trace gas cycling has been intensively studied for the greenhouse gases nitrous oxide and methane, but is less well understood for microorganisms that metabolize molecular hydrogen, carbon monoxide, or bVOCs. …”

“…The local stress can also change as response of magma influx from deeper reservoirs and an increase of the magma/gas pressure. The stress transfer may be of great importance in reawakening a dormant system. …”

“…Plasma as the fourth state of matter is an ionized gas consisting of both negative and positive ions, electrons, neutral atoms, radicals, and photons. …”

“…This book draws some facets of their applications, such as hardening process for semiconductor devices, biomedical imaging by radiation luminescent quantum dots, hydrogen gas detection by Raman lidar sensor for explosion risk assessment, water and wastewater purification by radiation treatment for environment, doping by the neutron transmutation doping for the semiconductor industry, and polymerization by irradiation, which is useful for industries requiring resistant and protective coating. …”

“…The reconciliation of economic development, social justice and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is one of the biggest political challenges of the moment. …”

“…Importantly, phenomena from each scale contribute to the larger-scale behavior. The flow of oil and gas in reservoirs, and the flow of groundwater on catchment scale is sensitively linked to pore scale processes and material heterogeneity down to the micrometer scale. …”

“…The chapters included are fundamental science and applications of silicon photonics, optical properties of thin nanocrystalline silicon films, microporous silicon in gas sensing, Mach-Zehnder interferometer cell-based silicon waveguide, experimental study of porous silicon films, and integrated optical switches and their applications…”

“…Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a naturally-occurring biological process in soils, sediments, ruminants, and several other anoxic environments, that cycles carbon and other nutrients, and converts organic matter into a methane-rich gas. As a biotechnology, AD is now well-established for the treatment of the organic fraction of various waste materials, including wastewaters, but is also increasingly applied for an expanding range of organic feedstocks suitable for biological conversion to biogas. …”

“…Technologies covered include: physical processes, such as high pressure processing (HPP); electromagnetic processes, such as pulsed electric field (PEF), irradiation, and UV treatment; other nonthermal processes, such as ozone and chlorine dioxide gas phase treatment; and combination processes. …”

“…Challenges associated with conventional energy resources, such as depletion of fossil fuels, high costs and associated greenhouse gas emissions, have stimulated interests in renewable energy resources. …”

“…Armenia depends on imports to meet much of its energy needs, particularly natural gas from the Russian Federation. It is one of the few ex-Soviet republics to avoid significant energy subsidies, and it is the only country in the Caucasus region to possess a nuclear power plant. …”

“…Sluggish economic growth is expected to dampen global electricity demand growth in 2022 and 2023 to less than half the rate seen in 2021. Despite gas-to-coal switching and low nuclear power plant availability in Europe, global electricity sector emissions may decline slightly in 2022 and 2023 - reflecting a combination of slowing power demand and displacement of fossil fuels by renewables. …”

“…The government has adopted ambitious energy sector targets, including a 50-55% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Luxembourg faces challenges achieving those targets. …”