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UNINA9910150357003321 |
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Advanced electrode materials / / edited by Ashutosh Tiwari, Filiz Kuralay and Lokman Uzun |
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Beverly, Massachusetts : , : Scrivener Publishing, , [2016] |
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©[2016] |
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1-119-24285-1 |
1-119-24284-3 |
1-119-24265-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (533 pages) : illustrations |
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Advanced Materials Series |
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Electric batteries - Electrodes - Materials |
Electrochemistry |
Nanostructured materials |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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UNINA9910299560503321 |
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Water and the future of humanity : revisiting water security / / Gunkian Think Tank on Water and the Future of Humanity |
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New York, : Springer Science, 2014 |
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1 online resource (xxi, 241 pages) : color illustrations, maps |
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Water security |
Water-supply - Risk assessment |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Our Water, Our Future -- Drivers of Water Demand, Course Changes, and Outcomes -- Water Management in a Variable and Changing Climate -- Water for a Healthy Environment -- Integrated Urban Water Resources Management -- Water and Food Security: Growing Uncertainties and New Opportunities -- Water and Energy -- Water Projections and Scenarios: Thinking About Our Future -- Our Water Future: Leadership and Individual Responsibility. |
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This unique, engaging, and highly authoritative volume enlightens readers on changes needed in the way society accesses, provides, and uses water. It further shines a light on changes needed in the way we use food, energy, and other goods and services in relation to water, and offers projections and recommendations, up to 2050, that apply to water access challenges facing the poor and the common misuse of water in industry, agriculture, and municipalities. Written by an unparalleled slate of experts convened by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the book takes on one of the most critical issues on the planet today. In a frank yet optimistic assessment of major developmental challenges, but also opportunities, facing future generations, the author elucidates linkages between water and a range |
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of other drivers from various disciplinary and stakeholder perspectives. Ultimately portraying the belief that Humanity can harness its visionary abilities, technologies, and economic resources for increased wellbeing and sound stewardship of resources, the book presents an optimistic statement stressing actions scientists, policy makers, and consumers can and must take to meet the water management challenges of a warming planet anticipating nine billion inhabitants by 2050. Gulbenkian Think Tank on Water and the Future of Humanity: Benedito Braga, Pres. World Water Council & Prof. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil; Colin Chatres, Director General of the International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka; William J. Cosgrove, Pres. of Ecoconsult Inc. & Senior Adviser for the UN World Water Development Report, Canada; Luis Veiga da Cunha, Prof. Environmental Science and Engineering, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; Peter Gleick, Pres. of the Pacific Institute, USA; Pavel Kabat, Director, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria; and Prof. & Chair, Earth Systems Science, Wageningen University, The Netherlands; Mohamed Ait Kadi, President of the General Council of Agricultural Development, Morocco; Daniel P. Loucks, Prof. of Civil Engineering, Cornell Univ. USA; Jan Lundqvist, Senior Scientific Advisor, Stockholm International Water Institute, Sweden; Sunita Narain, Director, Center for Science & Environment, New Delhi, India; Jun Xia, Pres., International Water Resources Association, Chair Prof. & Dean, The Research Institute for Water Security (RIWS), Wuhan University, China. . |
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UNINA9910220102603321 |
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Autore |
Ware Willis H |
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Titolo |
RAND and the information evolution : a history in essays and vignettes / / Willis H. Ware |
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Santa Monica, CA, : Rand Corp., 2008 |
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9786612451232 |
9781282451230 |
1282451235 |
9780833048165 |
0833048163 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (229 p.) |
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Information technology - Research - United States - History |
Computer science - Research - United States - History |
Military research - United States - History - 20th century |
Research institutes - United States - History - 20th century |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and index. |
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Cover; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Figures; Photographs; Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE - Introduction; Purpose and Scope; Organization of the Document; CHAPTER TWO - The Department; The Genesis of RAND; RAND Contributions to the Development of Computing; CHAPTER THREE - RAND's First Computer People; CHAPTER FOUR - RAND's Early Computers; CHAPTER FIVE - A Building for People with Computers; CHAPTER SIX - Project Essays; CHAPTER SEVEN - Lore, Snippets, and Snapshots; CHAPTER EIGHT - Epilogue; Bibliography; Index |
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This professional memoir describes RAND's contributions to the evolution of computer science, particularly during the first decades following World War II, when digital computers succeeded slide rules, mechanical desk calculators, electric accounting machines, and analog computers. RAND's accomplishments included important advances not only in hardware and software but also in analytic techniques that exploited the speed and power of computers. From the beginning, |
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RAND researchers were focused on using computers to improve applied studies that addressed complex, real-world problems. They also |
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