1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451753003321

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2007

ISBN

1-280-96908-3

9786610969081

0-309-10545-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Disciplina

551.6

Soggetti

Climatic changes

Global temperature changes

Global environmental change

Electronic books.

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 (p. 131-139).

Nota di contenuto

""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""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957458403321

Titolo

Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence / / edited by Douglas A. Vakoch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2011

ISBN

9781438437958

1438437951

9781441692344

1441692347

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (522 p.)

Collana

SUNY scholarly conferences

Altri autori (Persone)

VakochDouglas A

Disciplina

576.8/39

Soggetti

Interstellar communication

Life on other planets

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 --



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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.