Conceptions of cosmos [[electronic resource] ] : from myths to the accelerating universe : a history of cosmology / / Helge S. Kragh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464869403321
• Autore: Kragh Helge <1944->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0-19-966514-1; 0-19-152616-9; 1-4294-7052-6; 1-280-75347-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 p.)
• Disciplina: 523.109
• Soggetti: Cosmology - History; 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. [253]-265) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; 1 From myths to the Copernican universe; 1.1 Ancient cosmological thought; 1.2 The Greek cosmos; 1.3 Medieval cosmology; 1.4 The Copernican revolution; 2 The Newtonian era; 2.1 Newton's infinite universe; 2.2 Enlightenment cosmologies; 2.3 Astrophysics and the nebulae; 2.4 Thermodynamics and gravitation; 2.5 The Via Lacta; 3 Foundations of modern cosmology; 3.1 Early relativistic models; 3.2 The expanding universe; 3.3 Towards a finite-age universe; 3.4 Alternative cosmologies; 4 The hot Big Bang; 4.1 Cosmology-a branch of nuclear physics?; 4.2 The steady-state challenge4.3 Relativistic standard cosmology; 5 New horizons; 5.1 Early-universe cosmology; 5.2 Observational surprises; 5.3 Anthropic and other speculations; 5.4 The problem of creation; 5.5 Cosmology in perspective; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents the history of how the universe at large became the object of scientific understanding. Starting with the ancient creation myths, it offers an integrated and comprehensive account of cosmology that covers all major events from Aristotle's Earth-centred cosmos to the recent discovery of the accelearting universe. - ;This book is a ; historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythical and later in a scientific context. Starting with the creation stories of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the book

How Internet protocol-enabled services are changing the face of communications : a look at the voice marketplace : hearing before Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, March 16, 2005

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910694045403321
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (iii, 75 p.)
• Soggetti: Internet telephony - Government policy - United States; Internet industry - Government policy - United States; Telecommunication policy - United States; Internet - Government policy - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Globalization and development : country experiences / / Kartik C. Roy, Anita Medhekar and Hemant Chittoo, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910973027503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers, c2010
• ISBN: 1-61324-958-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Collana: Readings in world development
• Altri autori (Persone): RoyK. C <1941-> (Kartik Chandra); MedhekarA
• Disciplina: 338.9009172/4
• Soggetti: Economic development - Developing countries; Globalization - Economic aspects - Developing countries; Developing countries Economic conditions Case studies
• 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: Intro -- GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT: COUNTRY EXPERIENCES -- GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT: COUNTRY EXPERIENCES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- Chapter 1 GLOBALISATION AND DEVELOPMENT: AN OVERVIEW OF RELEVANT ISSUES -- INTRODUCTION -- GLOBALISATION AND TRADE IN GOODS -- How Did this Situation Come About? -- Instruments Deployed -- 1. Most Favoured Nations (MFN) Agreement -- 2. FDI Inflow to China -- 3. Domestic Production and Trade Policy Reforms in China -- WTO MEMBERSHIP, EXCHANGE RATE AND DOMESTIC SAVINGS -- Exchange Rate -- Domestic Saving and Consumption Repression -- Rural-Urban Divide and Income Distribution: Meeting Their Basic Needs -- OTHER DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- OTHER CONSEQUENCES -- STRUCTURAL REFORM, GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT -- BREAK DOWN OF THE NATION STATE -- APPROPRIATE INSTITUTIONS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- MAIN ISSUES TO BE DISCUSSED -- Trade, Industrialisation and Development -- Food Supply -- Development and Environment -- CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS FOR CORRECTING INFRASTRUCTURE BOTTLENECK IN INDIA -- INTRODUCTION -- ROAD-RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -- COORDINATION OF ROAD AND RAIL -- ; INFRASTRUCTURE BOTTLENECKS -- FIVE YEAR PLANS AND ROAD-RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE -- PPP POLICY FOR ROAD-RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE -- CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 GLOBALISATION AND THE EMERGENCE OF INDIA'S KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY -- INTRODUCTION -- KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH -- KNOWLEDGE, GLOBALISATION AND GROWTH -- ICT GROWTH UNDER GLOBALISATION -- THE EMERGING KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY OF INDIA -- ROLE, GROWTH AND PERFORMANCE OF ICT SECTORS IN INDIA -- (a) The Share of IT Industry in India's GDP -- (b) Share of IT in Domestic and Export Markets.; (c) Decomposition of Earnings of the Indian IT Sector: -- (i) From Export Markets -- (ii) From Domestic Markets -- (d) Employment Generation and its Distribution in India's IT Sector -- PROBLEMS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 GLOBALISATION AND THE GENESIS OF THE ICT/BPO SECTOR IN MAURITIUS -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW: GLOBALISATION AND ICT -- ICT /BPO IN MAURITIUS: SOME KEY FACTS -- IT/BPO SECTOR: OTHER BASES OF DEVELOPMENT -- THE OUTCOME TO DATE -- ENSURING SUSTAINED DEVELOPMENT OF ICT/BPO SECTOR IN MAUTITIUS -- CHALLENGES OF THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 TERTIARY EDUCATION AS HUMAN CAPITAL IN PHILIPPINES DEVELOPMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- STRUCTURE AND OVERSIGHT OF TERTIARY EDUCATION -- CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION MANAGEMENT THEMES -- FACULTY (DIS)ORIENTATION TO THE RESEARCH FUNCTION -- CASE STUDY OF CARLOS HILADO COLLEGE -- CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- Chapter 6 MODERNISATION OF INSTITUTIONS FOR RURAL WATER PROVISION IN CAMBODIA'S DEVELOPMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE AGRARIAN DEVELOPMENT GAP -- SOCIO-ECONOMIC REHABILITATION AND DEVELOPMENT -- IMPROVING RURAL HOUSEHOLD ACCESS TO SAFE WATER -- CLIMATE AND WATER RESOURCES -- WATER RESOURCE ASSESSMENT AND ACCESS -- CONCEPTS, INDICATORS AND INDEXES OF ACCESS TO WATER -- SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS AND WATER ACCESS -- WATER PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION -- GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF NGO RURAL WATER PROJECTS -- CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 BRUNEI DARUSSALAM: RESOURCE CURSE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SYSTEM -- POPULATION AND LABOUR MARKET -- THE 'RENTIR STATE' AS AN ALTERNATIVE -- STIMULATING PRIVATE SECTOR/NON-OIL BASED INDUSTRIES -- WHY IS DIVERSIFICATION SO DIFFICULT? -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.; Chapter 8 TRADE LIBERALISATION IN BANGLADESH UNDER GLOBALISATION -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- ECONOMIC POLICY REFORMS IN BANGLADESH -- TRADE POLICY TRENDS IN BANGLADESH -- EXCHANGE RATE POLICY -- A CRITICAL OVERVIEW OF THE TRADE REGIME -- 1. Tariff Protection -- 2. Non-Tariff Protection -- 3. Contingent Protection Measures -- 4. Export Incentives -- 5. Export Restrictions -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 TRADE RELATED EVENTS AND EMPLOYMENT TRADE RELATIONSHIPS IN AUSTRALIA -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- Benefits from Trade -- Exports, Imports and Employment -- Employment Arguments of Free Trade -- Research Gap -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- AUSTRLIA'S TRADE PATTERN AND PRIOR STUDIES -- Government's Trade Policy -- Australia's Major Trading Partners -- Prior Studies on Australian Trade -- DATA AND METHODOLOGY -- Data for the Analysis -- Methodology -- THE EFFECT OF TRADE ON EMPLOYMENT -- Investigation of the Stationary ; Behavior of the Model Variables -- VECM Model Specification -- Determination of the Order of the VECM -- Determination of the Number of Long Run Relationships -- Model Selection -- Discussion of the Model Estimates -- CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION -- General Perspective of the Study -- SUMMARY OF FINDINGS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX 1 -- APPENDIX 2 -- Chapter 10 TRADE, DEVELOPMENT AND UGANDA'S INDUSTRIAL SECTOR -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINITIONS OF GLOBALISATION, TRADE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- COMMITMENT TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND WORLD TRADE OGANISATION (WTO) -- The New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) -- The African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States and the European Union (EU) -- Everything, but Arms -- WHY UGANDA IS COMMITTED TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE LIBERALISATION -- AN OVEVIEW OF TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN UGANDAS LOCATION DISTRIBUTION.; Location Distribution of Firms in the Textiles Industry in Uganda -- THE IMPACT OF GLOBALISATION ON THE TEXTILES INDUSTRIAL SECTOR/ECONOMY OF UGANDA -- THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION ON ENVIRONMENT -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD SECURITY IN KENYA: THE SHAMBA SYSTEM -- INTRODUCTION -- FOOD SECURITY -- FOOD INSECURITY -- FOOD INSECURITY IN KENYA -- AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY IN KENYA -- ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND FOOD SECURITY IN KENYA -- FOOD SECUTITY AND THE SHAMBA SYSTEM -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12 PARTICIPATION IN STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR GENDER EMPOWERMENT: MAURITIAN WOMEN -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- Political -- Socio Economic -- Socio Cultural -- GENDER AND DEMOCRACY IN MAURITIUS -- METHODOLOGY -- ANALYSIS -- Woman's Interest in Politics -- Barriers of Entry to Mauritian Woman in Politics -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13 MINIMISING THE IMPACT OF GREEN HOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- INTRODUCTION -- Effects of Global Emission and Adaptation Measures -- GREEN BUILDINGS OF DEVELOPED COUNTRIES -- METHANE EMISSIONS AND ITS REDUCTION MEASURES -- OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPING WORLD UNDER KYOTO PROTOCOL -- MARKET EFFICIENCY AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT -- CAPITAL INFLOW -- CLEAN PRODUCTION -- International Trade and Institution Building -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 14 PRECARIOUS CONSOCIATIONALISM: LEBANON'S PREDICAMENT IN PROMOTING DEVELOPMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- GEO-ECONOMICS -- GEOPOLITICS -- FAILD POWER-SHARING -- EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF LEBANON'S POWER SHARING FAILURE -- Assessing Lebanon's Power Sharing Failure Empirically: Variables -- ASSESSING LEBANON'S POWER SHARING FAILURE EMPIRICALLY: METHODOLOGY -- ASSESSING LEBANON'S POWER SHARING FAILURE EMPIRICALLY: RESULTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.; Chapter 15 ADOPTION OF PERFORMANCE LINKED REWARD SYSTEM IN INDIAN PUBLIC SECTOR: EFFICIENCY, SCOPE AND PROBLEMS -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGY -- Size of Sample -- Suggested Performance Linked Reward System -- PROPOSED PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL FOR INDIAN RAILWAYS -- BENEFITS AND REWARDS BASED PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT -- TRAINING BASED ON PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT -- SUCCESS OF PERFORMANCE LINKED REWARD SYSTEM IN INDIAN RAILWAYS -- Communication of Adverse Comments to the Employees -- Communication of Favourable Comments to the Employees -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 16 ADDRESSING GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT ISSUES: EXPERIENCES GAINED AND ; LESSONS LEARNT -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPERIENCES GAINED -- COUNTRY EXPERIENCES -- CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- Blank Page.
• Sommario/riassunto: As the title suggests, this book is about development experiences of developing countries under globalization. While the issues discussed in this book are diverse, a strong emphasis has been placed on trade; the knowledge economy and human capital; and poverty alleviation and environment.