This book can serve both students and researchers, as excellent guides to improve their knowledge on forest science

This book covers the agricultural value chain issues that occur in different parts of the world and aims to increase our understanding about the sustainable agricultural value chain paradigm.

This book seeks to discuss emerging advances in the Ebola control.

This book discusses multiways in the porous materials. It involves materials with a large number of holes, and it highlights the synthesis, structure, and surface properties of porous materials closely related to more applications, such as support, catalyst, energy storage, chemical reactions, and optical applications.

This book reports on novel methods of fabricating nanofibers, nanofiber yarns, and collagen nanofibers; functionalities of photochromic nanofibers, bead-on-string nanofibers, and bio-regeneration nanofibers; as well as piezoelectric nanoparticle-reinforced nanofibers.

This volume contains a number of recent researches on synthesis, growth, characterization, development, and potential applications on carbon materials especially CNTs in nanoscale. It is a promising novel research from top to bottom that has received a lot of interest in the last few decades. It covers the advanced topics on the physical, chemical, and potential applications of CNTs.

Rivoluzionario e controrivoluzionario, individualista e comunitario, cosmopolita e nazionalista, realista e fantastico, retrogrado e utopista, ribelle e malinconico, democratico e aristocratico: il romanticismo sembra davvero un enigma indecifrabile che sfugge a ogni possibile definizione. A tal punto che un noto critico americano non ha esitato a invitare i critici letterari a sbarazzarsi di un termine che dà adito a un così gran numero di irritanti contraddizioni. L'invito, però, è caduto nel vuoto. Anzi, a parere della maggior parte degli studiosi, il fatto che da secoli si parli di romanticismo deve corrispondere a una qualche realtà. Il problema sorge, tuttavia, quando si tratta di cogliere questa realtà, di indicare la fonte che alimenta il romanticismo e lo fa dilagare in ogni direzione. E «l'occasionalismo soggettivo» di cui parla Cari Schmitt, l'abbandono a un lirismo caratterizzato da un'assoluta «deficienza morale»?

A Eleusi, il centro iniziatico maggiore di tutta la grecità, nel mese di Boedromione (il nostro settembre-ottobre) affluivano tutti coloro che avessero i requisiti necessari per ricevere l'iniziazione, ovvero avere "mani pure", non macchiate da delitto, e parlare la lingua greca. Sicuramente furono iniziati ai livelli più alti Sofocle, Eschilo, Pindaro, Platone. La suprema iniziazione, a cui si poteva accedere dopo avere fatto trascorrere un lungo periodo dalla partecipazione al rituale collettivo dei Grandi Misteri, dischiudeva all'esperienza diretta dell'"unità di tutte le cose" e della morte-rinascita, simboleggiata dalla spiga, che il mistero condivideva con Dioniso, il dio che muore e rinasce, come l'Osiride degli Egiziani. L'Orfismo introduce nella grecità una via ascetica e purificatoria, fondata sulla credenza nella reincarnazione, e nella necessità di un tragitto di progressiva liberazione dalla prigione della materia per ricongiungersi con la propria essenza divina..

This book includes papers presented at the 2017 Joint meeting of Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses Section and Protein Crops Working Group of EUCARPIA-Oil and Protein Crops Section. The theme of the meeting “Breeding Grasses and Protein Crops in the Era of Genomics” has been divided into six parts: (1) Utilisation of genetic resources and pre-breeding, (2) Genetic improvement of quality and agronomic traits, (3) Breeding for enhanced stress tolerance (4) Implementation of phenomics and biometrics, (5) Development of genomic tools and bioinformatics and (6) Reports of Parallel Sessions.

„Verantwortung heisst im wesentlichen: wissen, dass man ein Beispiel setzt, dass Andere ‚folgen’ werden; in dieser Weise ändert man die Welt“.

This book introduces the theory of stochastic processes with applications taken from physics and finance. Fundamental concepts like the random walk or Brownian motion but also Levy-stable distributions are discussed. Applications are selected to show the interdisciplinary character of the concepts and methods. In the second edition of the book a discussion of extreme events ranging from their mathematical definition to their importance for financial crashes was included.

R.N. Wilson's two-volume treatise on reflecting telescope optics has become a classic in its own right. It is intended to give a complete treatment of the subject, addressing professionals in research and industry as well as students of astronomy and amateur astronomers. This first volume, Basic Design Theory and its Historical Development, is devoted to the theory of reflecting telescope optics and systematically recounts the historical progress.

This book reviews forecasting data mining models, from basic tools for stable data through causal models, to more advanced models using trends and cycles. These models are demonstrated on the basis of business-related data, including stock indices, crude oil prices, and the price of gold. The book’s main approach is above all descriptive, seeking to explain how the methods concretely work; as such, it includes selected citations, but does not go into deep scholarly reference. The data sets and software reviewed were selected for their widespread availability to all readers with internet access.

This book discusses the history of nuclear decommissioning as a science and industry. It explores the early, little-known period when the term “decommissioning” was not used in the nuclear context and the end-of-life operations of a nuclear facility were a low priority. It then describes the subsequent period when decommissioning was recognized as a separate phase of the nuclear lifecycle, before bringing readers up to date with today’s state of the art.