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Mathematical Footprints
Discovering Mathematics Everywhere
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 1999
MATHEMATICAL FOOTPRINTS takes a creative look at the role mathematics has played since prehistoric times, and will play in the future, and uncovers mathematics where you least expect to find it from its many uses in medicine, the sciences, and its appearance in art to its patterns in nature and its central...
by Samprit Chatterjee, Ali S. Hadi
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Praise for the Fourth Edition:
"This book is . . . an excellent source of examples for regression analysis. It has been and still is readily readable and understandable."
—Journal of the American Statistical Association Regression analysis is a conceptually simple method...
by Judea Pearl
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Written by one of the preeminent researchers in the field, this book provides a comprehensive exposition of modern analysis of causation. It shows how causality has grown from a nebulous concept into a mathematical theory with significant applications in the fields of statistics, artificial intelligence,...
The Long Thaw
How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The human impact on Earth's climate is often treated as a hundred-year issue lasting as far into the future as 2100, the year in which most climate projections cease. In The Long Thaw, David Archer, one of the world’s leading climatologists, reveals the hard truth that these changes in climate will...
Chill, A Reassessment of Global Warming Theory
Does Climate Change Mean the World is Cooling, and If So What Should We Do About It?
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Although the world’s climate has undergone many cyclical changes, the phrase ‘climate change’ has taken on a sinister meaning, implying catastrophe for humanity, ecology and the environment. We are told that we are responsible for this threat, and that we should act immediately to prevent it....
Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate
How Truth Became Controversial
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2004
"Societies unravel when they lose the glue that holds them together."
The opening words of Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate reveal author M. Mihkel Mathiesen's passionate struggle to reveal how the truth has become controversial in the modern community. Mathiesen explores...
Thoughts of a Scientist, Citizen, and Grandpa on Climate Change
Bridging the Gap Between Scientific and Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Global warming has been a subject of great interest to both the scientific community and the general public during the last two decades. The consensus among scientists is that global warming is caused by mans activities. At the same time, however, the publics perceived importance of the global warming...
by Guy Deutscher
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
While the possible depletion of energy sources has been emphasized in most literatures, this book aims to show that the increase of entropy in the biosphere, resulting since the dawn of industrial era, is a cause for urgent concern.
As the entropy release puts a limit on sustainable growth,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The ffiM Japan International Symposium Energy and Environment - Global Warming was held in the Keidanren Guesthouse at the foot of Mt. Fuji, from October 21 to 24, 1990. The symposium was conducted in the context of ffiM Japan's longstanding commitment to good corporate citizenship. On this beautiful...
Atmospheric Research From Different Perspectives
Bridging the Gap Between Natural and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The book, the first in a series arising from the research network The Reacting Atmosphere, explains and outlines the aims of this ambitious cross-disciplinary effort. The central topic is air quality and climate change, and the methods of atmospheric physics and chemistry, applied mathematics and...
Tropospheric Ozone Abatement
Developing Efficient Strategies for the Reduction of Ozone Precursor Emissions in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The occurrence of high concentrations of ozone during summer episodes in the troposphere over Europe is a problem still unsolved. Although a number· of measures have been implemented that will achieve a further reduction of precursor emissions in the next years, this will not be sufficient to reduce...
Climate Change
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Providing a concise, up-to-date presentation of current knowledge of climate change and its implications for society as a whole, this new edition has been thoroughly updated and extended to include the latest information. The text describes the components of the global climate, considers how the many...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Global climate change is expected to have major impacts on water resources and aquatic ecosystems. This prospect presents planners, who are already struggling to meet the demands of growing populations and economies, with new challenges. This volume examines these challenges and the resulting conceptual...
by Zijun Cao, Yu Wang, Dianqing Li
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
This is the first book to revisit geotechnical site characterization from a probabilistic point of view and provide rational tools to probabilistically characterize geotechnical properties and underground stratigraphy using limited information obtained from a specific site. This book not only provides...