1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792010603321

Titolo

China's environmental policy and urban development [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joyce Yanyun Man

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2013

ISBN

1-55844-280-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ManJoyce Y

Disciplina

307.760951

Soggetti

Urbanization - China

Environmental policy - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Chapter 1:  China's Environmental Policy A Critical Survey""; ""Chapter 2:  Environmental Policies, Regulations, and Investment in China ""; ""Chapter 3: Government Decentralization, Energy Saving, and Environmental Protection ""; ""Chapter 4: Decentralization and the Environment""; ""Chapter 5: Income Growth, Urbanization, Changing Lifestyles, and CO2 Emissions in China ""; ""Chapter 6: Passenger Transportation Systems in Large Chinese Cities and Life-Cycle Green house Gas Emissions ""; ""Chapter 7: The Greenness of China's Cities""

""Chapter 8: Urban Planning""""Chapter 9: Carbon Footprint in the Least Developed Regions""; ""Chapter 10: Environment-Related Taxes in China""; ""Chapter 11: The Incidence of Carbon Tax in China""; ""Chapter 12: The Effectiveness of Pollution- Control Policies in China""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910166645203321

Autore

William Martin Connelly

Titolo

Thalamic Function - Beyond a Simple Relay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Soggetti

Neurosciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The thalamus is often described as a relay. Typified by sensory pathways, this concept leads to thalamic nuclei being viewed as areas that passively streams information from a single source to the cortex, without affecting the nature of that information. However, diverse intrathalamic connections, the varying synaptic and membrane properties of thalamic neurons and the large number of inputs from non-sensory sources make the idea that the thalamus is just a passive relay unlikely. Furthermore, a large number of thalamic nuclei are not primarily driven by sensory signals nor do they exclusively target the cortex, meaning the thalamus must do more than simply pass sensory signals to the cortex. Finally, there is a wealth of research demonstrating that the thalamus does indeed function in ways that are not captured by the concept of a simple relay. So why, given all of this, is the primary paradigm for describing the thalamus, a relay? This Research Topic covers original research, reviews and hypotheses on thalamic function that explore the concept that the thalamus performs computational tasks other than simply passively relaying information.