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Tabla de Contenidos: “…MILLIONS OF NUMBERS WITHOUT SOUL -- NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF GROUNDWATER CIRCULATION WELLS: A STOCHASTIC APPROACH TO EVALUATE THEIR EFFECTIVENESS -- COMPOSITIONAL FINGERPRINTING TOOLS FOR HYDROCARBON CONTAMINATED SITE CHARACTERIZATION: SOURCE APPORTIONMENT AND SPILL DATING APPLICATIONS AT TWO FIELD CASE STUDIES -- MULTI-ISOTOPIC APPROACH FOR THE GROUNDWATER FLOW AND CONTAMINANTS CHARACTERIZATION IN A COMPLEX CONTAMINATED SITE: EX-ACNA DI CENGIO (SV) -- AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO EVALUATE THE NATURAL ATTENUATION AS POTENTIAL REMEDIATION ACTION -- INNOVATIVE TOOLS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES FOR THE REMEDIATION OF CONTAMINATED AQUIFERS -- INTEGRATED USE OF BIODEGRADABLE SURFACTANTS AND ISCO REAGENTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF HYDROCARBON CONTAMINATED SOILS AND AQUIFERSHYDROGEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A CLOSED MSW LANDFILL USING MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND GROUNDWATER NUMERICAL MODELLING -- URBAN HYDROGEOLOGY -- HOW MODELS SURPRISE -- NULLSPACE MONTE CARLO PARTICLE TRACKING TO IDENTIFY SOURCE AREAS OF GROUNDWATER POLLUTION IN THE N-W MILANO FUA (AMIIGA PROJECT-CE No 32) -- WATER RESOURCES PROVIDED BY THE MAJOR AQUIFERS IN THE PROVINCE OF SIENA WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE PROVINCIAL TERRITORIAL PLAN (PTCP) -- HYDROGEOLOGICAL SETTING OF A ROME CITY SECTOR: SHALLOW GROUNDWATER IN THE RIGHT BANK OF TIBER RIVER INSIDE THE G.R.A HIGHWAY -- A PRELIMINARY METHOD FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF GROUNDWATER FLOODING SUSCEPTIBILITY IN URBAN AND RURAL AREAS -- HYDROTHERMAL MANAGEMENT OF AN ATES SYSTEM IN WALLONIA, BELGIUM -- EVALUATION OF HYDROFACIES CONNECTIVITY AND HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES BY USING FACIES AND SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY ANALYSIS: THE CASE OF THE PALATINE HILL, CENTRAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREA OF ROME -- EVALUATION OF NITRATE TRENDS IN GROUNDWATER: A CASE STUDY IN A GROUNDWATER BODY IN SOUTHERN ITALY -- PRESERVING ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGES FROM FLOOD HAZARD: USE OF 3D GEOLOGICAL MODELS AS A BASE FOR CONCEPTUAL HYDROGEOLOGICAL SCHEME IN THE AREA OF THE COLISEUM (ROME) -- FOLLOW-UP INVESTIGATION ON GROUNDWATER FLOWPATH AT REGIONAL SCALE USING A MULTI-ISOTOPIC APPROACH: THE CASE STUDY OF LOMBARDY REGION -- ASSESSING AQUIFER VULNERABILITY TO SEAWATER INTRUSION ACCOUNTING FOR SURFACE WATER BODIES -- EVALUATION OF THE DEPOSITION, INFILTRATION AND DRAINAGE OF THE ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS IN THE VADOSE ZONE -- HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE? ESTIMATING GROUNDWATER RECOVERY TIME FROM NITRATE CONTAMINATION IN THE HIGHLY IMPACTED LOMBARDY PLAIN (NORTHERN ITALY) -- BAYESIAN APPROACH FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF SHALLOW AND DEEP AQUIFERS SUSCEPTIBILITY TO POINT SOURCES CONTAMINATION IN THE PROVINCE OF MILAN, ITALY -- MODELLING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GROUNDWATER AND THE UNDERGROUND INFRASTRUCTURES USING MODFLOW-USG AND ARCGIS PRO: THE CASE STUDY OF MILAN METROPOLITAN CITY Davide Sartirana, Gennaro Alberto Stefania, Mattia De Amicis, Tullia Bonomi GROUNDWATER MODELING AND ISOTOPE INVESTIGATIONS FOR THE WATER SAFETY PLAN IMPLEMENTATION IN MILAN METROPOLITAN AREA -- ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN DEPOSITION IN A HIGHLY HUMAN IMPACTED AREA IN NORTHERN ITALY -- THERMODIMENSIONAL ASSESSMENT OF GWHPS: COMPARE WITH ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS APPROACH -- USING WATER LEVEL AND TEMPERATURE COUPLED DATA SERIES TO IMPROVE HYDROGEOLOGICAL PARAMETRIZATION IN A COMPLEX ALLUVIAL SYSTEM -- AQUIFER VULNERABILITY IN PARTS OF YENAGOA, SOUTHERN NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA -- GEOCHEMICAL STUDY TO IDENTIFY THE SOURCE OF NITRATE IN THE CARBONATE AQUIFER (SOUTHERN ITALY)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Adding an Extra Notes Page for a Slide -- Adding a New Slide from Notes Page View -- Printing Notes Pages -- Displaying Notes on a Separate Monitor -- Chapter 6 Show Time! -- The Quick Way to Print -- Printing from Backstage View -- Printing more than one copy -- Changing printers -- Printing part of a document -- Using Print Preview -- Setting Up a Slide Show -- Starting a Slide Show -- Working in Presenter View -- Keyboard and Mouse Tricks for Your Slide Show -- Using Presentation Tools -- Using the Laser Pointer feature -- Scribbling on your slides -- Rehearsing Your Slide Timings -- Using Custom Shows -- Creating a custom show -- Showing a custom show -- Hiding slides -- Showing Your Presentation Online -- Part 2 Creating Great-Looking Slides -- Chapter 7 All about Fonts and Text Formatting -- Changing the Look of Your Text -- Two ways to apply formatting -- Changing the size of characters -- Choosing text fonts -- Adding color to your text -- Adding shadows -- Big Picture Text Formatting -- Biting the bulleted list -- Creating numbered lists -- Setting tabs and indents -- Spacing out -- Lining things up -- Making columns -- Creating Fancy Text with WordArt -- Chapter 8 Designing Your Slides -- Looking at the Design Tab -- Working with Themes -- Applying themes -- Using theme colors -- Using theme fonts -- Applying theme effects -- Changing the Slide Size -- Applying Background Styles -- Using a gradient fill -- Using other background effects -- Using the Design Ideas Feature to Design Your Slides -- Chapter 9 Animating Your Slides -- Using Slide Transitions -- Using the Morph Transition -- Using the Animations Tab -- Using Advanced Animation -- Understanding advanced animation -- Using the Animation pane -- Adding an effect -- More about animating text -- Timing your animations -- Making Text Jiggle -- Using the Animation Painter…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Before You Master -- The Master Track Is for Mastering Tracks -- Applying presets and effects to the master track -- Using presets -- Tweaking effects -- Tweaking master EQ -- Tweaking master echo and master reverb -- Tweaking the compressor and other master effects -- Setting the master volume -- One More Thing Before You Call It "Done" -- Part 4 Making Music with Your iDevice -- Chapter 12 Getting Started -- Global Settings -- Allowing GarageBand access -- Global GarageBand preferences -- Project-Specific GarageBand Settings -- Metronome and count-in -- Tempo, time, and key -- Tempo -- Time and key -- Other settings -- The Control Bar -- Sharing Projects with a Mac (and Vice Versa) -- Chapter 13 Making Music with Live Loops -- Loop Basics -- Find more loops -- More about loops -- Grokking the loop grid -- Working with Loops -- Adding Apple loops to cells -- Finding a loop you love -- Listening to loops…”

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