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UNINA9910451753003321 |
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Titolo |
Analysis of global change assessments [[electronic resource] ] : lessons learned / / Committee on Analysis of Global Change Assessments, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Division of Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies |
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Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2007 |
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1-280-96908-3 |
9786610969081 |
0-309-10545-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (197 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Climatic changes |
Global temperature changes |
Global environmental change |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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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. 131-139). |
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""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Diversity of Assessments and Their Potential Contributions""; ""3 Major Challenges to Achieving an Effective Assessment Process""; ""4 Case Studies of Global Change Assessments""; ""5 Advice for Effective Assessments""; ""References""; ""Appendixes""; ""A Statement of Task""; ""B U.S. Global Change Research Act of 1990 Public Law 101-606 [S.169]""; ""C Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Products"" |
""D Climate Change Science Program Guidelines for Producing Its Synthesis and Assessment Products""""E Biographical Sketches of Committee Members""; ""F Acronyms"" |
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UNINA9910957458403321 |
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Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence / / edited by Douglas A. Vakoch |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2011 |
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9781438437958 |
1438437951 |
9781441692344 |
1441692347 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (522 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY scholarly conferences |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Interstellar communication |
Life on other planets |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Intro -- Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Latest Advances in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) -- Exoplanets, Extremophiles, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- Current and Nascent SETI Instruments in the Radio and Optical -- Candidate Identification and Interference Removal in SETI@home -- A New Class of SETI BeaconsThat Contain Information -- Getting the World Actively Involved in SETI Searches -- The Effects of the Ionized Interstellar Medium on Broadband Signals of Extraterrestrial Origin -- The Next Steps in SETI-ITALIA Science and Technology -- Project SAZANKA: Multisite and Multifrequency Simultaneous SETI Observations in Japan -- Harvard's Advanced All-sky Optical SETI -- The OZ OSETI Project -- The New Telescope/Photometer Optical SETI Project of SETI Institute and the Lick Observatory -- Large-Scale Use of Solar Power May Be Visible across Interstellar Distances -- Interstellar Radio Links Enabled by Gravitational Lenses of the Sun and Stars -- Cost Analysis of Space Exploration for an Extraterrestrial Civilization -- Understanding the Search Space for SETI -- Part II. Active SETI: Should We Transmit? -- Unpacking the Great Transmission Debate -- |
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Integrating Active and Passive SETI Programs -- Building and Searching for Cost-Optimized Interstellar Beacons -- Seeking Contact -- Pragmatism, Cosmocentrism,and Proportional Consultation for Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- SETI and International Radio Law -- What the World Needs Now -- Limits on Interstellar Messages -- Communication among Interstellar Intelligent Species -- The Chemiosmosis Message -- A Proposal for an Interstellar Rosetta Stone -- Processes in Lingua Cosmica -- Testing SETI Message Designs -- The DISC Quotient. |
On the Universality of Human Mathematics -- Cognitive Foundations of Interstellar Communication -- Culture, Meaning, and Interstellar Message Construction. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Highlights the most recent developments in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and advocates a diverse range of approaches to make SETI increasingly more powerful and effective in the years to come. |
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