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Population Neuroscience
by Tomas PausIs Newton's brain different from Rembrandt's? Does a mother's diet during pregnancy impact brain growth? Do adolescent peers leave a signature in the social brain? Does the way we live in our middle years affect how our brains age? To answer these and many other questions, we can now turn to population neuroscience. Population neuroscience endeavors to identify environmental and genetic factors that shape the function and structure of the human brain; it uses the tools and knowledge of genetics (and the "omics" sciences), epidemiology and neuroscience. This text attempts to provide a bridge spanning these three disciplines so that their practitioners can communicate easily with each other when working together on large-scale imaging studies of the developing, mature and aging brain. By understanding the processes driving variations in brain function and structure across individuals, we will also be able to predict an individual's risk of (or resilience against) developing a brain disorder. In the long term, the hope is that population neuroscience will lay the foundation for personalized preventive medicine and, in turn, reduce the burden associated with complex, chronic disorders of brain and body.
Population Wars: A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence
by Greg GraffinFrom the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by war. Today, those first wars continue to be fought around and literally inside us, influencing our individual behavior and that of civilization as a whole. War between populations - whether between different species or between rival groups of humans - is seen as an inevitable part of the evolutionary process. The popular concept of "the survival of the fittest" explains and often excuses these actions.In Population Wars, Greg Graffin points to where the mainstream view of evolutionary theory has led us astray. That misunderstanding has allowed us to justify wars on every level, whether against bacterial colonies or human societies, even when other, less violent solutions may be available. Through tales of mass extinctions, developing immune systems, human warfare, the American industrial heartland, and our degrading modern environment, Graffin demonstrates how an over-simplified idea of war, with its victorious winners and vanquished losers, prevents us from responding to the real problems we face. Along the way, Graffin reveals a paradox: when we challenge conventional definitions of war, we are left with a new problem, how to define ourselves. Populations Wars is a paradigm-shifting book about why humans behave the way they do and the ancient history that explains that behavior. In reading it, you'll see why we need to rethink the reasons for war, not only the human military kind but also Darwin's "war of nature," and find hope for a less violent future for mankind.
Population and Community Ecology for Insect Management and Conservation
by Johann Baumgärtner Pietro Brandmayr Bryan Rj. ManlyOne of the themes of the 20th International Congress of Entomology held in Florence in August 1996 was Ecology and Population Dynamics, with papers presented on single species dynamics, population interactions, and community ecology. This book contains a selection of the papers that were presented, and gives a late-1990s picture of the latest research in this fast developing area.
Population and Strategies for National Sustainable Development: A guide to assist national policy makers in linking population and environment in strategies for development (Health And Population Set Ser.)
by Gayl D Ness Meghan V GolayThe guide serves as a resource for national-level policy makers and the staff of conservation organizations who wish to integrate population and environmental conditions in planning for sustainable development. It presents the basic rationale for linking population and environmental issues, including the demonstrable impact that growth in population and consumption is having on the environment. At the same time, it acknowledges the difficulty of achieving integration due to long-entrenched disciplinary and institutional specialization. The guide refrains from making blanket prescriptions, but rather emphasizes that policy and planning responses must be attuned to the location-specific nature of population-environment interactions. A number of mechanisms for achieving integration are presented, including placement of demographers within national planning organizations, or creation of country-based networks of population and conservation professionals who meet regularly to share knowledge and experience. For those less familiar with previous research, the book includes a primer on demographic change and models and frameworks for understanding the links between population dynamics (births, deaths, growth, migration) and environmental change.Originally published in 1996
Population and Sustainable Development in India
by Aalok Ranjan ChaurasiaThis book addresses central issues related to population and sustainable development in India, the second most populous country in the world. Using the latest available source of data in the context of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, it analyzes the current state of development in India in terms of economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection, especially focusing on the role of population. The respective chapters explore various aspects, but mainly focus on promoting greater sustainability in terms of population growth, child survival, and economic growth. As such, the book will be of interest to students, researchers, and policymakers in the fields of population studies, economics, and international development.
Population, Development, and the Environment: Challenges to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the Asia Pacific
by Helen JamesThis book takes the reader into some of the most intransigent social, economic, and political issues that impact achieving sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific. Through meticulous analysis of the integrated relationships between population, development, and the environment, the chapters in this volume investigate the impacts of hydropower development on fragile ecosystems; mining, landslides and environmental degradation; deforestation; water and food security; rural-urban migration, poverty alleviation, civil society and community empowerment; and how disaster recovery requires multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary approaches that take into account governance, culture, and leadership. Legal frameworks may be legislated, but are often rarely implemented.The book will be valuable to students of sustainability, population and development, and governmental policy advising sectors as well as the NGO and humanitarian sectors. The distinctive characteristic of this book is that it encapsulates an integrated, multi-disciplinary focus which brings to the discussion both robust empirical research and challenging policy applications in the investigation of how the sustainable development goals may be achieved in Asia and the Pacific.
Population, Sanitation and Health: A Geographical Study Towards Sustainability
by Ranjan Roy Nazrul Islam Rukhsana Asraful Alam Bappa SarkarThis book provides analyses of sanitation, health, population dynamics and demographic variables from different perspectives, including data science, statistics, modeling, economics and natural sciences, to inform sustainable decision making and policies related public health and hygiene and in mainly rural and impoverished areas. The structure is arranged into three broad sections: Part I, Population Dynamics, Environment and Society; Part II, Health, Livelihood and Policy Response; and Part III, Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH). The book makes recommendations for policymakers on designing and delivering social protection policies to deal with different aspects of water, health, sanitation, population, and hygiene, taking the needs of women and rural communities into special consideration. It also aims to educate students and early career researchers, to help them develop novel approaches for sustainability with environmentally sound practices.
Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment
by Lawrence W. Barnthouse Wayne R. Munns Jr. Mary T. SorensenMost ecological risk assessments consider the risk to individual organisms or organism-level attributes. From a management perspective, however, risks to population-level attributes and processes are often more relevant. Despite many published calls for population risk assessment and the abundance of available scientific research and technical tool
Populations and Ecosystems
by Lawrence Hall of Science University of California at BerkeleyNIMAC-sourced textbook
Populations and Ecosystems
by Lawrence Hall of Science University of California at BerkeleyNIMAC-sourced textbook
Populations and Ecosystems Lab Notebook
by University of California at Berkeley Lawrence Hall of ScienceNIMAC-sourced textbook
Populations and Ecosystems Resources
by University of California at Berkeley Lawrence Hall of ScienceNIMAC-sourced textbook
Populations and Ecosystems Resources: Images, Data, and Readings
by Lawrence Hall of ScienceTHE FOSS program for Middle School Science
Por amor a la física
by Walter Lewin Warren Goldstein«Has cambiado mi vida» es una frase muy común en los emails que Walter Lewin recibe a diario de fans cautivados por sus "vídeo clases" sobre las maravillas de la física, y es que desde el momento en que sus clases estuvieron disponibles en internet, Lewin se convirtió en una celebridad en YouTube, y cerca de mil personas descargan sus grabaciones cada día. Durante más de treinta años como profesor en el Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), Lewin perfeccionó su peculiar arte de enseñar y de hacer de la física algo accesible y divertido. En sus cursos, siempre prácticos, ha llegado a colocar su cabeza delante de un martillo demoledor o a aplicarse una sobrecarga de trescientos mil voltios para explicar conceptos básicos a sus estudiantes.En Por amor a la física, Lewin responde a preguntas curiosas: ¿Es posible que seamos más bajos estando de pie que estando tumbados? ¿Por qué los colores del arcoíris siempre están ordenados del mismo modo? ¿Sería posible tocar alguno con la mano? Lewin acompaña a los lectores en un viaje maravilloso abriendo nuestros ojos ante la increíble belleza y el poder con el que la física puede revelarnos los mecanismos ocultos del mundo que nos rodea. «Para mí», escribe Lewin, «la física es una forma de ver lo espectacular y lo mundano, lo inmenso y lo diminuto, como un bonito y emocionante conjunto de interrelaciones», «sumerjo a las personas en su propio mundo, el mundo en el que viven y con el que están familiarizadas pero que todavía no abordan como físicos.»
Por amor a la física: Del final del arco iris a la frontera del tiempo. Un viaje por las maravillas de la física
by Walter Lewin Warren GoldsteinLas esperadas memorias de uno de los intelectuales más impredecibles, combativos e influyentes de los últimos treinta años. «Has cambiado mi vida» es una frase muy común en los emails que Walter Lewin recibe a diario de fans cautivados por sus «videoclases» sobre las maravillas de la física. Durante cuarenta y tres años como profesor en el Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), Lewin ha perfeccionado su peculiar arte de enseñar y de hacer de la física algo accesible y divertido. En sus cursos, siempre prácticos, ha llegado a colocar su cabeza delante de una bola de demolición o a aplicarse una sobrecarga de 300.000 voltios para explicar conceptos básicos a sus alumnos. En Por amor a la física Lewin responde a preguntas curiosas: ¿es posible que seamos más bajos estando de pie que estando tumbados?, ¿por qué los colores del arco iris siempre están ordenados del mismo modo?, ¿sería posible tocar alguno con la mano?... y nos acompaña en un viaje maravilloso abriendo nuestros ojos a la belleza y al poder extraordinarios con los que la física puede revelar los mecanismos ocultos del mundo que nos rodea. Reseñas:«Por amor a la física recoge el asombroso intelecto de Walter Lewin, su pasión por la física y su genio como profesor. Ojalá que este libro atraiga a más gente hasta la órbita de este educador y científico extraordinario.»Bill Gates «Magistral y absorbente.»Leer «La pasión imperturbable por la física de Walter Lewin brilla en cada página de este extraordinario recorrido por el mundo de la ciencia. El entusiasmo por el descubrimiento es contagioso.»Mario Livio, autor de La proporción áurea y ¿Es Dios un matemático? «Fascinante... Las deliciosas memorias de un científico combinadas con una introducción a la física memorable.»Kirkus «Como pueden atestiguar cientos y miles de estudiantesque han asistido a los cursos de Lewin, este genio de las clases transforma las fórmulas del libro de texto en magia... La extraordinaria creatividad de Lewin es como un pasaporte para la aventura.»Booklist «En este libro divertido y excitante, Walter Lewin, un superhéroe del aula, utiliza sus poderes para hacer el bien. El autor comparte la alegría de saber que el mundo es un lugar inteligible.»James Kakalios, profesor y autor de La física de los superhéroes
Por qué amamos, Naturaleza y química del amor romántico
by Helen FisherProvocador, convincente y revelador, este libro ofrece respuestas nuevas a cuestiones tan antiguas como: ¿Por qué nos enamoramos? ¿Qué es el amor? ¿De qué forma podemos mantenerlo vivo? En esta fascinante mirada sobre un impulso tan fundamental, Fisher revela exactamente qué experimentamos cuando nos enamoramos, por qué elegimos a una persona y no a otra, y cómo el amor romántico afecta biológicamente el impulso sexual y los sentimientos de atracción por el otro. También expone las diferencias entre el cerebro femenino y el masculino, y lo que esto implica para nuestra forma de amar. Por último, presenta sugerencias concretas sobre cómo controlar esta pasión ancestral, y explora con optimismo el futuro del amor romántico en el caótico mundo moderno.
Por qué hay osos polares en la nieve . . . y no hay flamencos (Navigadores Ser.)
by Nancy WhiteNIMAC-sourced textbook
Porcelain Analysis and Its Role in the Forensic Attribution of Ceramic Specimens (Cultural Heritage Science)
by Howell G. EdwardsThe material for this book arose from the author’s research into porcelains over many years, as a collector in appreciation of their artistic beauty , as an analytical chemist in the scientific interrogation of their body paste, enamel pigments and glaze compositions, and as a ceramic historian in the assessment of their manufactory foundations and their correlation with available documentation relating to their recipes and formulations. A discussion of the role of analysis in the framework of a holistic assessment of artworks and specifically the composition of porcelain, namely hard paste, soft paste, phosphatic, bone china and magnesian, is followed by its growth from its beginnings in China to its importation into Europe in the 16th Century. A survey of European porcelain manufactories in the 17th and 18th Centuries is followed by a description of the raw materials, minerals and recipes for porcelain manufacture and details of the chemistry of the high temperature firing processes involved therein. The historical backgrounds to several important European factories are considered, highlighting the imperfections in the written record that have been perpetuated through the ages. The analytical chemical information derived from the interrogation of specimens, from fragments, shards or perfect finished items, is reviewed and operational protocols established for the identification of a factory output from the data presented. Several case studies are examined in detail across several porcelain manufactories to indicate the role adopted by modern analytical science, with information provided at the quantitative elemental oxide and qualitative molecular spectroscopic levels, where applicable. The attribution of a specimen to a particular factory is either supported thereby or in some cases a potential reassessment of an earlier attribution is indicated. Overall, the information provided by analytical chemical data is seen to be extremely useful for porcelain identification and for its potential attribution in the context of a holistic forensic evaluation of hitherto unknown porcelain exemplars of questionable factory origins.
Porcelain to Silica Bricks: The Extreme Ceramics of William Weston Young (1776-1847)
by Howell G.M. EdwardsThe title of this book describes the two extremes of ceramic invention from aesthetically beautiful and decorative works of art that graced the tables of the aristocracy to the functional silica brick that lined the smelting furnaces of industrialised nations in the 19th century designed to produce iron, copper and glass. Both of these ceramics are linked to one man, William Weston Young (1776-1847) and with his contemporaries both of these ceramic extremes became world leaders in their own right. The book traces the history of Young and his ambitions, his interactions with numerous associates and the influence these ceramics attained in 19th century society. The book provides a sequel to the two preceding texts on Nantgarw and Swansea porcelains (also published by Springer), which cover one extreme and extends the discourse onto the other extreme, which until now has been relatively ignored despite its scientific and engineering importance. The trilogy has now therefore been completed. This book examines the historical documentation along with scientific analytical data from the last 100 years up to the present in a novel holistic forensic approach.It will be of interest to porcelain collectors, ceramics analysts, museum ceramic curators, ceramic historians, analytical scientists, cultural heritage preservation, industrial archaeologists and industrial museums.
Porcupette Explores the Night
by Susan Yoder AckermanDid you know a baby porcupine is called a porcupette? Learn about porcupines as you follow Porcupette through the forest one night as she looks for a snack!
Porcupines: The Animal Answer Guide (The Animal Answer Guides: Q&A for the Curious Naturalist)
by Uldis RozePorcupines are prickly and often misunderstood creatures—get the facts.Could a porcupine make a good pet? Do they ever stick themselves or other porcupines with their quills? In this latest addition to the Animal Answer Guide series, we learn about these mysterious animals' "pincushion defense," along with the following facts:• Porcupines survive on a diet of leaves, bark, and fruit• Quills are actually modified hairs• There are 26 species of porcupines (and counting)• Old World and New World porcupines have a common ancestor but evolved independently• New World males will gather to fight ferociously over a single femalePorcupines: The Animal Answer Guide presents solid, current science in the field of porcupine biology. Uldis Roze compares and contrasts porcupines in terms of body plan, behavior, ecology, reproduction, and evolutionary relationships. He examines the diversity of porcupines from around the world—from North and South America to Africa and Asia.This guide explores the interactions between humans and porcupines, including hunting, use of quills by aboriginal societies, efforts to poison porcupines, and human and pet injuries (and deaths) caused by porcupines. Roze also highlights the conservation issues that surround some porcupine species, such as the thin-spine porcupine of Brazil, which is so rare that it was thought to be extinct until its rediscovery in the 1980s.
Pore Structure in Food: Simulation, Measurement and Applications
by Zeynep Hicsasmaz Alper GuevenThe pore structure of foods directly affects the success of such food processes as drying, puffing, freeze-drying, and rehydration. Consequently, the pore structure of foods determines what types of food processes will work best with a particular food. This Brief will first discuss in depth the need to correctly measure the pore structure of foods and then will identify and describe in detail the current methods available to measure food porosity. Finally, it will review the applications of these various methods.
Pore Structure of Cement-Based Materials: Testing, Interpretation and Requirements (Modern Concrete Technology)
by Kalliopi K. AligizakiPore Structure of Cement-Based Materials provides a thorough treatment of the experimental techniques used to characterize the pore structure of materials. The text presents the principles and practical applications of the techniques used, organized in an easy-to-follow and uncomplicated manner, providing the theoretical background, the way to anal
Pore-forming Peptides and Protein Toxins (Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Toxic Action)
by Philip Lazarovici Gianfranco Menestrina Mauro Dalla SerraPore-forming proteins and peptides play a central role in bacterial pathogenesis, the immune response, venomous attack, and innate immunity. Pore-forming Peptides and Protein Toxins describes how natural and synthetic peptides and toxins form pores and ionic channels that cause cell membrane collapse and cell death. Written by researchers from around the world, it discusses such topics as the channel-forming properties of Helicobacter pylori and the role of amyloid peptide channels in the development of amyloid diseases. This text provides a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the basic principles and cellular mechanisms of the actions of toxins and their potential use as research tools.
Pornography and The Criminal Justice System
by Carmen M. CusackThis volume assembles hundreds of cases and studies to provide the most accurate and comprehensive picture of the status of pornography in the criminal justice system. Presenting high-level research in an accessible and organized manner, it explores a range of topics, including investigating and prosecuting a case, arguments favoring and opposing d