Field sampling for environmental science and management / / Richard Webster and R. Murray Lark

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462344003321
• Autore: Webster R (Richard), <1933-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-283-60650-X; 9786613918956; 1-136-47035-2; 0-203-12864-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): LarkR. M
• Disciplina: 363.70072/7
• Soggetti: Environmental sampling; Environmental sampling - Statistical methods; Environmental sciences - Methodology; Environmental management - Methodology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-188) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Field Sampling for Environmental Science and Management; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Aims and concepts; Chapter 3 Simple random sampling; Chapter 4 Efficiency, economy and logistics; Chapter 5 Prediction from spatial classifications; Chapter 6 Sampling from designed experiments; Chapter 7 Sampling for regression and calibration; Chapter 8 Nested sampling and analysis; Chapter 9 Geostatistics: model-based prediction; Appendix; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Scientists and consultants need to estimate and map properties of the terrestrial environment. These include plant nutrients and parasites in soil, gaseous emissions from soil, pollutant metals and xenobiotics in waste and contaminated land, salt in groundwater and species abundances above ground. The scale varies from small experimental plots to catchments, and the land may be enclosed in fields or be open grassland, forest or desert. Those who sample the variables to obtain the necessary data need guidance on the design and analysis of ; sampling methods for their conclusions and recommenda

Seeing double [[electronic resource] ] : intercultural poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria / / Susan A. Stephens

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455648603321
• Autore: Stephens Susan A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
• ISBN: 9786612356674; 0-520-92738-9; 1-282-35667-4; 1-59734-889-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Collana: Hellenistic culture and society ; ; 37; The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
• Disciplina: 881/.09932
• Soggetti: Greek poetry, Hellenistic - Egypt - Alexandria - History and criticism; Egyptian poetry - Egypt - Alexandria - History and criticism; Comparative literature - Greek and Egyptian; Comparative literature - Egyptian and Greek; Language and culture - Egypt - Alexandria; Poetics - History - To 500; Electronic books.; Alexandria (Egypt) Intellectual life
• 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. 259-267) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Conceptualizing Egypt -- 2. Callimachean Theogonies -- 3. Theocritean Regencies -- 4. Apollonian Cosmologies -- 5. The Two Lands -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Passages Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded ; understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens argues that poets such as Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius proved instrumental in bridging the distance between the two distinct and at times diametrically opposed cultures under Ptolemaic rule. Her work successfully positions Alexandrian poetry as part of the dynamic in which Greek and Egyptian worlds were bound to interact socially, politically, and imaginatively.The Alexandrian poets were image-makers for the Ptolemaic court, Seeing Double suggests; their poems were political in the broadest sense, serving neither to support nor to subvert the status quo, but to open up a space in which social and political values could be imaginatively re-created, examined, and critiqued. Seeing Double depicts Alexandrian poetry in its proper context-within the writing of foundation stories and within the imaginative redefinition of Egypt as "Two Lands"-no longer the lands of Upper and Lower Egypt, but of a shared Greek and Egyptian culture.