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Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures V (Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems #1)

Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures VI (Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems #5)

Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures VII & VIII (Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems #8)

Instabilities in Field Theory: A Primer with Applications in Modified Gravity (SpringerBriefs in Physics)

This book presents the most common types of instabilities arising in classical field theories, namely tachyonic, Laplacian, ghost-like or strong coupling instabilities, also commenting on their quantum implications. The authors provide a detailed account on the Ostrogradski theorem and its implications for higher-order time-derivative field theories. After presenting the general concepts and formalism, they dive into its applications to particular field theories, using mainly modified gravity theories as examples. The book is intended for advanced undergraduate/graduate students, but can also be useful for researchers, for having a unified exposition of general results on instabilities in field theory and examples of their applications.

Instability and Transition: Materials of the workshop held May 15-June 9, 1989 in Hampton, Virgina Volume 1 (ICASE NASA LaRC Series)

These two volumes contain the proceedings of the workshop on the Institute for Computer Instability and Transition, sponsored by Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE) and the Langley Research Center (LaRC), during May 15 to June 9, 1989. The work­ shop coincided with the initiation of a new, focused research pro­ gram on instability and transition at LaRC. The objectives of the workshop were to (i) expose the academic community to current technologically important issues of instability and transition in shear flows over the entire speed range, (ii) acquaint the academic com­ munity with the unique combination of theoretical, computational and experimental capabilities at LaRC and foster interaction with these facilities, (iii) review current state-of-the-art and propose fu­ ture directions for instability and transition research, (iv) accelerate progress in elucidating basic understanding of transition phenomena and in transferring this knowledge into improved design methodolo­ gies through improved transition modeling, and (v) establish mech­ anisms for continued interaction. The objectives (i) to (iii) were of course immediately met. It is still premature to assess whether ob­ jectives (iv) and (v) are achieved. The workshop program consisted of tutorials, research presenta­ tions, panel discussions, experimental and computational demonstra­ tions, and collaborative projects.

Installation Methods of Offshore Oil-Gas Well Conductor

The oil–gas conductor is the key part that connects subsea facilities and offshore equipment. The installation, construction and the stability control in subsequent operation of the conductor are main technical problems in the field of offshore oil and gas engineering. The book focuses on installation of oil and gas conductor in the offshore oil field. It includes three parts. The first part introduces the main installations and structural features of the wellhead above water and the wellhead under water. Then, it summarizes methods and theories of oil and gas conductor design. Finally, the differences in the construction techniques and supporting equipment of the three oil and gas well conductor installation methods are systematically described. This book contains a complete set of equipment, construction process and design methods for oil and gas conductor installation with multidisciplinary knowledge of geotechnical engineering, civil engineering, and structural dynamics. Scientific researchers and college students engaged in marine oil and gas engineering, petroleum engineering, marine engineering will find this book as a valuable reference.

Instant Storm Forecasting

Instant Storm Forecasting is an invaluable reference for anyone pursuing outdoor activities. Using dramatic photographs of cloud formations, helpful tables and practical explanations, Alan Watts equips the reader with the tools to assess the chances of being caught out in a storm, and judge how severe that storm might be. He explains how strong winds build up, how thunder and hail stones are formed and what causes hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons and waterspouts. This comprehensive little book makes fascinating reading as well as being an essential guide for anyone about to encounter the elements.Praise for Instant Weather Forecasting:'Excellent value and a good cockpit companion' Classic Boat 'Useful in every clubhouse' Golf Monthly'A surefire bestseller' The Yachtsman 'Another gem that's a dog-eared favourite' Coastal Cruising'Well worth a place on the bookshelf or in the car or rucksack' The Countryman'A handy and information-packed little volume' Birdwatch

Instant Storm Forecasting

Instant Storm Forecasting isan invaluable reference for anyone pursuing outdoor activities. Usingdramatic photographs of cloud formations, helpful tables and practicalexplanations, Alan Watts equips the reader with the tools to assess thechances of being caught out in a storm, and judge how severe that stormmight be. He explains how strong winds build up, how thunder and hailstones are formed and what causes hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons andwaterspouts. This comprehensive little book makes fascinating readingas well as being an essential guide for anyone about to encounter theelements.Praise for Instant Weather Forecasting:'Excellent value and a good cockpit companion' Classic Boat 'Useful in every clubhouse' Golf Monthly'A surefire bestseller' The Yachtsman 'Another gem that's a dog-eared favourite' Coastal Cruising'Well worth a place on the bookshelf or in the car or rucksack' The Countryman'A handy and information-packed little volume' Birdwatch

Instant Weather Forecasting: You Can Predict the Weather

Instant Weather Forecasting has been a perennial bestseller since it was first published nearly 50 years ago. A brilliant concept, its winning formula of 24 clear colour photographs of cloud formations and their accompanying explanatory text enables the reader to read the sky, pick up the clues, and predict what the weather will do.This revised and updated 5th edition takes into account the new ways users can receive professional weather forecasts, factor them into their own cloud observations, and develop an even better understanding of how the weather will change.This bestselling gem of a book will continue to be invaluable to anyone participating in outdoor activities, from farming, gardening and walking to riding, golfing, flying, sailing, fishing - and of course holidaymakers.

Instant Weather Forecasting

Instant Weather Forecastinghas been a perennial bestseller since it was first published nearly 40years ago. A brilliant concept, its winning formula of 24 colourphotographs of cloud formations and their accompanying explanatory textenables the reader to read the sky, pick up the clues, and predict whatthe weather will do.With a revised and updated text, along withnew colour photographs and diagrams, this bestselling gem of a bookwill be invaluable to anyone participating in outdoor activities, fromfarming, gardening and walking to riding, golfing, flying, sailing andfishing - and of course holidaymakers.'Excellent value and a good cockpit companion' Classic Boat'A surefire bestseller' The Yachtsman'Another gem that's a dog-eared favourite' Coastal Cruising'A handy and information-packed little volume' Birdwatch

Instant Weather Forecasting: You Can Predict The Weather

Instant Weather Forecastinghas been a perennial bestseller since it was first published nearly 40years ago. A brilliant concept, its winning formula of 24 colourphotographs of cloud formations and their accompanying explanatory textenables the reader to read the sky, pick up the clues, and predict whatthe weather will do.With a revised and updated text, along withnew colour photographs and diagrams, this bestselling gem of a bookwill be invaluable to anyone participating in outdoor activities, fromfarming, gardening and walking to riding, golfing, flying, sailing andfishing - and of course holidaymakers.'Excellent value and a good cockpit companion' Classic Boat'A surefire bestseller' The Yachtsman'Another gem that's a dog-eared favourite' Coastal Cruising'A handy and information-packed little volume' Birdwatch

Instant Weather Forecasting: You Can Predict the Weather

Instant Weather Forecasting has been a perennial bestseller since it was first published nearly 50 years ago. A brilliant concept, its winning formula of 24 clear colour photographs of cloud formations and their accompanying explanatory text enables the reader to read the sky, pick up the clues, and predict what the weather will do.This revised and updated 5th edition takes into account the new ways users can receive professional weather forecasts, factor them into their own cloud observations, and develop an even better understanding of how the weather will change.This bestselling gem of a book will continue to be invaluable to anyone participating in outdoor activities, from farming, gardening and walking to riding, golfing, flying, sailing, fishing - and of course holidaymakers.

Instant Wind Forecasting

Instant Wind Forecasting is a quick reference guide for all who work or play outdoors whether dinghy, coastal or offshore sailors, fishermen, motorboaters, farmers, golfers, walkers or pilots. It will help them make meaningful predictions based on the look of the sky and the feel of the day. This book is the perfect companion to Alan Watt's international bestseller Instant Weather Forecasting. Its easily accessible format and revolutionary presentation has established the author's reputation as a layman's meteorologist.'Still the best book of its kind around' All At Sea 'Worthwhile having either at home or on board' The Gaffers Log

Instant Wind Forecasting

Instant Wind Forecasting is a quick reference guide for all who work or play outdoors whether dinghy, coastal or offshore sailors, fishermen, motorboaters, farmers, golfers, walkers or pilots. It will help them make meaningful predictions based on the look of the sky and the feel of the day. This book is the perfect companion to Alan Watt's international bestseller Instant Weather Forecasting and his latest book Instant Storm Forecasting. Its easily accessible format and revolutionary presentation has established the author's reputation as a layman's meteorologist.'Still the best book of its kind around' All At Sea 'Worthwhile having either at home or on board' The Gaffers Log

Instanton Counting, Quantum Geometry and Algebra (Mathematical Physics Studies)

This book pedagogically describes recent developments in gauge theory, in particular four-dimensional N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theory, in relation to various fields in mathematics, including algebraic geometry, geometric representation theory, vertex operator algebras. The key concept is the instanton, which is a solution to the anti-self-dual Yang–Mills equation in four dimensions. In the first part of the book, starting with the systematic description of the instanton, how to integrate out the instanton moduli space is explained together with the equivariant localization formula. It is then illustrated that this formalism is generalized to various situations, including quiver and fractional quiver gauge theory, supergroup gauge theory. The second part of the book is devoted to the algebraic geometric description of supersymmetric gauge theory, known as the Seiberg–Witten theory, together with string/M-theory point of view. Based on its relation to integrable systems, how to quantize such a geometric structure via the Ω-deformation of gauge theory is addressed. The third part of the book focuses on the quantum algebraic structure of supersymmetric gauge theory. After introducing the free field realization of gauge theory, the underlying infinite dimensional algebraic structure is discussed with emphasis on the connection with representation theory of quiver, which leads to the notion of quiver W-algebra. It is then clarified that such a gauge theory construction of the algebra naturally gives rise to further affinization and elliptic deformation of W-algebra.

Instauration der Erde: Konstitutives Erzählen im Anthropozän und die kritischen Zonen der Literatur (Environmental Humanities #2)

Mit dem Anthropozän wird oft das Entstehen einer planetaren Universalität und die ‚Wiederkehr der großen Erzählungen‘ verknüpft. Die Verflechtungen von Menschen und Erde werden hier zur Grundlage kultureller Selbstverständigung. Das Buch untersucht strukturelle Merkmale und Problemkonstellationen dieser erdgebundenen konstitutiven Erzählungen. Wie können sie globale Ungleichheiten berücksichtigen? Wie lassen sie die Erde und andere Spezies zu Wort kommen? Inwiefern sind diese Erzählungen selbst planetare Kräfte? Und: Wie kann das Eigenwissen der Literatur unseren Blick auf die Erde erweitern? Diese Fragen werden im Dialog von Wissenschaft und Literatur untersucht. Eingehende Lektüren verbinden kanonische Texten des Anthropozän-Diskurses (z.B. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour und Isabelle Stengers) mit literarischen Stimmen (Ursula K. Le Guin, Daniel Falb, Christoph Ransmayr).

Institutional Arrangements for Conservation, Development and Tourism in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Dynamic Perspective

This book presents an overview of different institutional arrangements for tourism, biodiversity conservation and rural poverty reduction in eastern and southern Africa. These approaches range from conservancies in Namibia, community-based organizations in Botswana, conservation enterprises in Kenya, private game reserves in South Africa, to sport hunting in Uganda and transfrontier conservation areas. The book presents a comparative analysis of these arrangements and highlights that most arrangements emerged in the 1990s through either a decentralized or centralized change trajectory that was sponsored by donors. They aim to address some of the challenges of the ‘fortress’ types of conservation by combining principles of community-based natural resource management with a neoliberal approach to conservation, evident in the use of tourism as the main mechanism for accruing benefits from wildlife. The book illustrates the empirical relevance of these novel arrangements by presenting their growth in numbers and discuss how these arrangements differ in their form. With respect to the conservation and development impacts of these arrangements, we show that they have secured large amounts of land for conservation, but also generated governance challenges and disputes on tourism benefit sharing, affecting the stability of these arrangements to generate socioeconomic and conservation benefits.

An Institutional Basis for Environmental Stewardship: The Structure and Quality of Property Rights (Environment & Policy #35)

What is the role of government in environmental politics and policy? The answer to this question used to be relatively clear. Government was to regulate the environmental performance of state and non-state actors, to set standards, impose charges, and establish more or less stringent criteria of acceptable behavior. With the increasing appearance of the issues of globalization and global governance in the political science literature, however, the focus has turned to the role of non-state actors. Academic research and the popular debate have identified business, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and civil society as such as increasingly important and potentially powerful actors in the political arena. At the same time, some observers have proclaimed the influence of government to be declining. Others have argued that the role of government primarily is changing rather than declining. Those who adopt the latter perspective postulate that the new role for government in this changing political and socio-economic context is to set the framework for action. In this perspective, government is still of fundamental importance for the functioning of the society, the economy, and political decision-making, but its role is different in that government 'merely' provides the institutional framework facilitating desired outcomes.

Institutional Capacity for Climate Change Response: A New Approach to Climate Politics (The Earthscan Science in Society Series)

In a period of rapid climate change and climate governance failures, it is crucial to understand and address how effectively different political institutions can and should react to climate change. The term 'institutional response capacity' can be defined as a measurement for how effective political institutions may respond to threats and challenges such as climate change. This book sets out to provide a venue for the discussion of how to conduct climate politics by offering new perspectives on how social and political institutions are capable of responding to climate change. In doing so, the book explores how democracy, institutional design and polycentric governance influence social and political entities’ capacity to mitigate, adapt, address and transform climate change. The book offers building blocks for a new agenda of climate studies by focusing on institutional response capacity and by offering a new approach to climate governance at a time when many political initiatives have failed. This interdisciplinary volume is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers in the areas of anthropology, political science, geography and environmental studies.

Institutional Capacity for Climate Change Response: A New Approach to Climate Politics (The Earthscan Science in Society Series)

In a period of rapid climate change and climate governance failures, it is crucial to understand and address how effectively different political institutions can and should react to climate change. The term 'institutional response capacity' can be defined as a measurement for how effective political institutions may respond to threats and challenges such as climate change. This book sets out to provide a venue for the discussion of how to conduct climate politics by offering new perspectives on how social and political institutions are capable of responding to climate change. In doing so, the book explores how democracy, institutional design and polycentric governance influence social and political entities’ capacity to mitigate, adapt, address and transform climate change. The book offers building blocks for a new agenda of climate studies by focusing on institutional response capacity and by offering a new approach to climate governance at a time when many political initiatives have failed. This interdisciplinary volume is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers in the areas of anthropology, political science, geography and environmental studies.

Institutional Challenges to Intermodal Transport and Logistics: Governance in Port Regionalisation and Hinterland Integration

While the operational realities of intermodal transport are relatively well known, the institutional challenges are less well understood. This book provides an overview of intermodal transport and logistics including the policy background, emerging industry trends and academic approaches. Establishing the three key features of intermodal transport geography as intermodal terminals, inland logistics and hinterland corridors, Jason Monios takes an institutional approach to understanding the difficulties of successful intermodal transport and logistics. Key areas of investigation include the policy and planning background, the roles of public and private stakeholders and the identification of emerging strategy conflicts. Substantial empirical content situates the theoretical and practical issues in real-world examples via three detailed case study chapters (covering the USA, UK and Europe), making the book useful to students as well as practitioners desiring an understanding of how intermodal transport and logistics work in practice. The identified challenges to intermodal transport and logistics are used to demonstrate how competing port and inland strategies can inhibit the necessary processes of integration required to underpin successful intermodal transport. The book concludes with a look at the future of institutional adaptation that may enhance the capacity of freight actors to engage with intermodal transport developments.

Institutional Challenges to Intermodal Transport and Logistics: Governance in Port Regionalisation and Hinterland Integration (Transport And Mobility Ser.)

While the operational realities of intermodal transport are relatively well known, the institutional challenges are less well understood. This book provides an overview of intermodal transport and logistics including the policy background, emerging industry trends and academic approaches. Establishing the three key features of intermodal transport geography as intermodal terminals, inland logistics and hinterland corridors, Jason Monios takes an institutional approach to understanding the difficulties of successful intermodal transport and logistics. Key areas of investigation include the policy and planning background, the roles of public and private stakeholders and the identification of emerging strategy conflicts. Substantial empirical content situates the theoretical and practical issues in real-world examples via three detailed case study chapters (covering the USA, UK and Europe), making the book useful to students as well as practitioners desiring an understanding of how intermodal transport and logistics work in practice. The identified challenges to intermodal transport and logistics are used to demonstrate how competing port and inland strategies can inhibit the necessary processes of integration required to underpin successful intermodal transport. The book concludes with a look at the future of institutional adaptation that may enhance the capacity of freight actors to engage with intermodal transport developments.

Institutional Innovations in the Delivery of Farm Services in India: A Smallholder Perspective

This book uses primary evidence to assess the value of agro-input and service delivery business models in terms of their inclusiveness, effectiveness and impact from a small farmer perspective, in the form of case studies in three Indian states: Punjab, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The services discussed include custom rental of farm machinery and equipment, franchising for backward and forward linkage for farmers and the supermarkets for delivery of farm inputs, and extension services. The book examines agro-input and service delivery business models as institutional innovations for inclusive and effective delivery of such services in the small farmer context, based on primary data from the agencies designing and implementing such models and the farmers who make use of these inputs and services. Further, it identifies major issues and challenges in the delivery of farm inputs and services across regions and types of farmers and examines possible policy and enabling provisions to promote cost-effective and high-quality agro-input delivery channels.

Institutional Interconnections and Cross-Boundary Cooperation in Inclusive Business: Case Studies from India and Africa

The success or failure of inclusive business often depends on institutional interconnections. By examining case studies of inclusive business projects in India and several African nations, Institutional Interconnections and Cross-Boundary Cooperation in Inclusive Business asks how these connections can be developed to help alleviate poverty through business activities in developing countries. Conceptual orientations of what inclusion means can act to restrict the value orientation of an inclusive business project and its management practices. A significant approach of this book is an understanding that the economically disadvantaged have their own institutions to which they credibly commit, and that they are important, valuable, and dignified stakeholders or partners in an inclusive business project. By giving more weight to these institutions, it is possible to understand that some local companies may engage in inclusive practices by involving these actors as part of their regular business activities. Using concepts of mainstream, marginalized, and hybrid inclusion, this book explores the nature and characteristics of institutional interconnections in inclusive business in a study that will appeal to researchers and practitioners of strategy, international business, and corporate social responsibility.

Institutional Interconnections and Cross-Boundary Cooperation in Inclusive Business: Case Studies from India and Africa

The success or failure of inclusive business often depends on institutional interconnections. By examining case studies of inclusive business projects in India and several African nations, Institutional Interconnections and Cross-Boundary Cooperation in Inclusive Business asks how these connections can be developed to help alleviate poverty through business activities in developing countries. Conceptual orientations of what inclusion means can act to restrict the value orientation of an inclusive business project and its management practices. A significant approach of this book is an understanding that the economically disadvantaged have their own institutions to which they credibly commit, and that they are important, valuable, and dignified stakeholders or partners in an inclusive business project. By giving more weight to these institutions, it is possible to understand that some local companies may engage in inclusive practices by involving these actors as part of their regular business activities. Using concepts of mainstream, marginalized, and hybrid inclusion, this book explores the nature and characteristics of institutional interconnections in inclusive business in a study that will appeal to researchers and practitioners of strategy, international business, and corporate social responsibility.