Pesticide remediation in soils and water / edited by Philip C. Kearney and Terry Roberts

• Record Nr.: UNISA990000082250203316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester [etc.] : John Wiley & Sons, copyr. 1998
• ISBN: 0-471-96805-6
• Descrizione fisica: XV, 381 p : ill ; 24 cm
• Collana: Wiley series in agrochemicals and plant protection
• Disciplina: 628.529
• Collocazione: 628.529 PES
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Bretislav Friedrich, Dieter Hoffmann, Jürgen Renn, Florian Schmaltz, Martin Wolf

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910254765503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017
• ISBN: 3-319-51664-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2017.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 408 p. 43 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
• Disciplina: 355
• Soggetti: Military history; Politics and war; Chemistry—History; Research—Moral and ethical aspects; International humanitarian law; System safety; History of Military; Military and Defence Studies; History of Chemistry; Research Ethics; International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict; Security Science and Technology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Research on and Deployment of Chemical Weapons in World War I -- 2 The Scientist as Expert: Fritz Haber and German Chemical Warfare During the First World War and Beyond -- Abstract -- References -- 3 From Berlin-Dahlem to the Fronts of World War I: The Role of Fritz Haber and His Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in German Chemical Warfare -- Abstract -- 1 The Run-up to Ypres -- 2 Ypres, 22 April, 1915, 1700 GMT -- 3 The Indispensable Fritz Haber -- 4 Haber's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute Under Military Command -- 5 Haber's Views on Chemical Warfare -- 6 The Legacy of Ypres -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Additional Open Access Information -- 4 Clara Immerwahr: A Life in the Shadow of Fritz Haber -- Abstract -- 1 Prolog -- 2 Clara Immerwahr's Background -- 3 The Scientific Work of Clara Immerwahr -- 4 Clara's Husband: Fritz Haber -- 5 Clara Haber's Suicide -- 6 The "Myth of Clara Immerwahr" -- 7 Epilog -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Addition to Open Access Information -- 5 France's Political and Military Reaction in the Aftermath of the First German Chemical Offensive in April 1915: The Road to Retaliation in Kind -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Retaliation in Kind: A Purely Military Decision -- 3 Between Eagerness and Constraints: Organizing the Chemical Response -- 4 Chemical War: Scientific War, Industrial War -- 5 Retaliation in Kind: Towards Total War -- References -- 6 Preparing for Poison Warfare: The Ethics and Politics of Britain's Chemical Weapons Program, 1915-1945 -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ypres 1915 -- 3 Porton Down -- 4 Servants of the Realm -- 5 Crisis of Legitimacy -- 6 Collaboration -- 7 The Geneva Protocol -- 8 Foreboding -- 9 Ethical Relativism -- References.; 7 Challenging the Laws of War by Technology, Blazing Nationalism and Militarism: Debating Chemical Warfare Before and After Ypres, 1899-1925 -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction: Chemical Weapons as the Subject of Juridification, Politicization, and Circumvention of Law -- 2 Codifying War Technologies in International Law Around 1900 -- 2.1 Restrictions on the Means and Methods of Warfare: The Regulations in International Law of 1868, 1899, and 1907 -- 2.1.1 The Principle of Humanity: The Saint Petersburg Declaration of 1868 -- 2.1.2 The Impotent Model: The Brussels Declaration on Land Warfare of 1874 -- 2.1.3 The First Poison Prohibition in International Treaty Law: The Declaration on the Use of Projectiles with Asphyxiating or Deleterious Gases and the Hague Convention on Land Warfare of 1899 -- 2.2 No Notion of What Lay Ahead: The Intense Legal Discourse on the Hague Convention and Uncontroversial Interpretations of the Prohibition of Poison Prior to 1915 -- 3 Militarization and Circumvention of Law: Debates on International Law During the Continental War with Gas, 1915-1918 -- 3.1 International Law: Alive, but not Kicking -- 3.1.1 Scholarly Publications on International Law During World War I -- 3.1.2 Unclear Motives for and Few Scruples About the Use of Poison: Ex Post Justifications -- 3.1.3 Was the German Employment of Poison Gas a ; Symptom of General Disdain for International Law? -- 3.2 The Law Comes Later: The Weak Normative Discourse on Gas Warfare After the German Attack -- 3.2.1 The Lack of Protest: Political Voices and Official Reports -- 3.2.2 The Daily Press: Restraint, Disinformation, and Loud Silence -- 3.3 Possible Interpretations: Raison de Guerre as Its Own Form of Normativity? -- 3.3.1 Older Traditions of Disregard for International Law -- 3.3.2 Normative Plurality and Renouncing International Law: The Nature of the Laws of War.; 3.3.3 Cruel, Unmanly, and Unchivalrous: The Military's Aversion to the Use of Poison -- 4 The Continuing Politicization of International Law: The Legal Assessment of War Crimes, 1918-1925 -- 4.1 Crime and Argument: The Intense Discourse After the End of World War I -- 4.2 Self-justifications: The Nationalist Polarization of International Law -- 4.3 Politicized Scholarship: No Mediation Possible -- 4.4 Reforms as Affirmation of the Prohibition of Poison in International Law -- 4.4.1 Asymmetric New Paths: The Prohibitions of the Production and Possession of Weapons in the Paris Peace Treaties of 1919 -- 4.4.2 Pacifist Efforts: Initiatives by the League of Nations -- 4.4.3 An Expression of the General Opinion of the Civilized World: The Washington Treaty of 1922 -- 4.4.4 Reassuring One's Principles: The Geneva Protocol on Poison Gas of 1925 -- 5 Summary: Expectations Regarding International Law -- References -- 8 Military-Industrial Interactions in the Development of Chemical Warfare, 1914-1918: Comparing National Cases Within the Technological System of the Great War -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Western Front as a Technological Meta-System -- 3 Chemical Weapons as an Illustrative Case -- 4 Industrial Mobilization for Chemical Warfare: The Experimental Phase, 1914-15 -- 5 Scaling up, Innovation and Integration, 1915-17 -- 6 Culmination of the Chemical War, 1917-1918 -- 7 Concluding Reflections -- References -- Contexts and Consequences of Chemical Weapons -- 9 The Gas War, 1915-1918: If not a War Winner, Hardly a Failure -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Debate -- 3 Gas: Not a War Winner -- 4 The Challenge of Chemical Warfare -- 5 Effectiveness of the Gas War -- References -- 10 "Gas, Gas, Gaas!" The Poison Gas War in the Literature and Visual Arts of Interwar Europe -- Abstract -- Part I -- Part II -- References.; 11 The Genie and the Bottle: Reflections on the Fate of the Geneva Protocol in the United States, 1918-1928 -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Science and the Great War -- 3 The Coming of Geneva -- 4 A Protocol Post-mortem -- 5 Summing up the Senate -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 12 The Soldier's Body in Gas Warfare: Trauma, Illness, Rentennot, 1915-1933 -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Perceptions in the Field -- 3 Gas and Psyche -- 4 Weimar to the Nazi Period-the Need of the Traumatized -- 5 Summary -- References -- 13 Chemical Weapons Research on Soldiers and Concentration Camp Inmates in Nazi Germany -- Abstract -- 1 Organizational Structures of Chemical Warfare Research in Germany -- 2 Chemical Weapons Research on Humans in Military and Academic Institutions -- 3 Experiments in Concentration Camps -- 3.1 Sachsenhausen -- 3.2 Natzweiler -- 3.2.1 The Sulphur Mustard Experiments of August Hirt -- 3.2.2 The Phosgene Experiments of Otto Bickenbach -- 3.2.3 New Series of Phosgene Experiments in June and August 1944 -- 3.3 Neuengamme -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- 14 No Retaliation in Kind: Japanese Chemical Warfare Policy in World War II -- Abstract -- References -- 15 The 1925 Geneva Protocol: China's CBW Charges Against Japan at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 World War II and the Post-war IMTFE -- 3 Retrieving CBW Evidence from China, 1946 -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Dual Use, Storage and ; Disposal of Chemical Weapons Today -- 16 The Reconstruction of Production and Storage Sites for Chemical Warfare Agents and Weapons from Both World Wars in the Context of Assessing Former Munitions Sites -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Ammendorf Factory of Orgacid GmbH -- 3 The History of Falkenhagen Factory of Monturon GmbH, Development, the Structure of the Buildings, and Production.; 4 Production at the Falkenhagen Factory -- 4.1 Brief Description of the Facilities at the Factory -- 5 The Development of N-Stoff Production -- 5.1 The Buildings of the N-Stoff Plant at the "Seewerk" Falkenhagen -- 6 The Development of the Nerve Gases Tabun and Sarin -- 7 The Manufacturing Processes for Sarin -- 8 Vereinigte Flussspatgruben GmbH in Stulln -- 9 The Dyhernfurth Factory of Anorgana GmbH -- 10 The Filling and Storage of Chemical Weapons in the Munitions Facilities of the Army and Air Force -- 11 The Chemical Weapons Complex in Munster -- 12 Other Munitions Sites with Filling Plants for Chemical Weapons -- 13 Dismantling Work After the First World War -- 14 Summary and Prospects -- References and Source Materials -- 17 From Charles and Francis Darwin to Richard Nixon: The Origin and Termination of Anti-plant Chemical Warfare in Vietnam -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 18 The Indelible Smell of Apples: Poison Gas Survivors in Halabja, Kurdistan-Iraq, and Their Struggle for Recognition -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction: The Indelible Smell of Apples -- 2 Background -- 3 The Anfal Campaign and the Poison Gas Attack Against Halabja in 1988 -- 4 The Situation of Survivors of the Poison Gas Attacks -- 4.1 Haunting Memories, Enduring Grief -- 4.2 Survivors' Life Conditions Between 1988 and 2003 -- 4.3 Changes After 2003 -- 5 New Threats, New Fear, and Joint Initiatives of Poison Gas Survivors -- References -- Films -- 19 The Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria: Implications and Consequences -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Early Reports of Chemical Weapons Use in the Syrian Civil War -- 3 The Secretary-General's Investigation -- 4 The Elimination of the Syrian Chemical Weapons Program -- 5 Chemical Weapons Destruction at Sea -- 6 New Incidents of Chemical Weapons Uses -- 7 Attribution and Accountability -- 8 Conclusions -- References.; Commemoration Ceremony.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon of mass destruction, marks a turning point in world history. The preparation as well as the execution of the gas attack was orchestrated by Fritz Haber, the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem. During World War I, Haber transformed his research institute into a center for the development of chemical weapons (and of the means of protection against them). Bretislav Friedrich and Martin Wolf (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, the successor institution of Haber’s institute) together with Dieter Hoffmann, Jürgen Renn, and Florian Schmaltz (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) organized an international symposium to commemorate the centenary of the infamous chemical attack. The symposium examined crucial facets of chemical warfare from the first research on and deployment of chemical weapons in WWI to the development and use of chemical warfare during the century hence. The focus was on scientific, ethical, legal, and political issues of chemical weapons research and deployment — including the issue of ; dual use — as well as the ongoing effort to control the possession of chemical weapons and to ultimately achieve their elimination. The volume consists of papers presented at the symposium and supplemented by additional articles that together cover key aspects of chemical warfare from 22 April 1915 until the summer of 2015.

Light zone city : light planning in the urban context / / Christa van Santen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454648303321
• Autore: Santen Christa van
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel : , : Birkhäuser, , 2006
• ISBN: 1-281-96002-0; 9786611960025; 3-7643-7829-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (128 p.)
• Classificazione: ZH 9355
• Disciplina: 711.6
• Soggetti: Light in architecture; Lighting, Architectural and decorative; Architectural design; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- The City as an Outside Interior -- Beautification of the City -- Public Lighting -- Designing with Light -- The Illumination of Buildings -- Case Studies -- Light Pollution -- Maintenance
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book, the author embodies her many years of experience as a practitioner and teacher of lighting design. She articulates basic planning rules for the outdoor lighting of buildings, traffic routes, and squares, and presents and elucidates new artificial lighting systems and outdoor lamps with the help of examples.; The face of the nocturnal metropolis is marked decisively by light, and the number and variety of the light sources is increasing to the point of "light terror." A well-lit urban space can be very inviting, giving ; residents and visitors a sense of well-being and security. A successful lighting design can also give the city at night an identity of its own and accentuate architectural qualities. In this book, the author embodies her many years of experience as a practitioner and teacher of lighting design. In preparation, she visited ten European cities - including Paris, Brussels, Berlin, London, Budapest, Vienna, and Amsterdam - with different urban situations. This has enabled her to present different planning and design tasks systematically and to illustrate specific solutions. In addition to articulating basic planning rules for the outdoor lighting of buildings, traffic routes, and squares, she presents and elucidates new artificial lighting systems and outdoor lamps with the help of examples.

Advances in Computing and Data Sciences [[electronic resource] ] : 7th International Conference, ICACDS 2023, Kolkata, India, April 27–28, 2023, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Mayank Singh, Vipin Tyagi, P.K. Gupta, Jan Flusser, Tuncer Ören

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910735785503321
• Autore: Singh Mayank
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023
• ISBN: 3-031-37940-3
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2023.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (611 pages)
• Collana: Communications in Computer and Information Science, , 1865-0937 ; ; 1848
• Altri autori (Persone): TyagiVipin; GuptaP. K; FlusserJan; ÖrenTuncer
• Disciplina: 004
• Soggetti: Data structures (Computer science); Information theory; Application software; Machine learning; Computers; Data Structures and Information Theory; Computer and Information Systems Applications; Machine Learning; Computing Milieux
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Text based Traffic Signboard Detection using YOLO v7 Architecture -- Energy Preserving ABE-based Data Security Scheme for Fog Computing -- An Approach for Effective Object Detection -- An Algorithm for solving two variable linear diophantine equations -- Deep Watcher: A Surveillance System using Deep Learning for the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Multiple linear regression based analysis of weather data for precipitation and visibility prediction -- Optimal and Event Driven Adaptive Fault Diagnosis for Arbitrary Network -- Analysis of Routing in IoT -- Autism children Behavioural Identification from Facial Regions through Thermal Image interpretations -- Synthesis of Elementary Cellular Automata for Targeted Cache Applications -- Optimal Perfect Phylogeny using ILP and Continuous Approximations -- A Novel Method for Near-Duplicate Image Detection Using Global Features -- VSMAS2HN: Verifiably Secure Mutual Authentication Scheme for Smart Healthcare Network -- Optimal KAZE and AKAZE Features for Facial Similarity Matching -- Modified InceptionV3 using Soft Attention for the Grading of Diabetic Retinopathy -- Comprehensive Study of Cyber Security in AI Based Smart Grid -- Sentiment classification of Diabetes-related tweets using transformer-based deep learning approach -- Assessment and prediction of a cyclonic event: A Deep learning model -- Technology enabled Self-directed learning: A review and framework -- Detecting Toxic comments using FastText, CNN, and LSTM models -- UEye: Insights on User Interface Design using Eye Movement Visualizations -- Code Mixed Information Retrieval for Gujarati Script News Articles -- Plant Disease classification using VGG-19 based Faster-RCNN -- Classification of Real and Deepfakes visual samples with pre-trained deep learning models -- Deep Learning based Speech Synthesis with Emotion Overlay -- An Ensemble Deep Learning Algorithm to Predict PM2.5 Concentration Levels in Bengaluru's Atmosphere -- Deep learning model based on a Transformers network for sentiment analysis using NLP in sports worldwide -- An Effective Framework for Sentiment Analysis using RNN and LSTM-based Deep Learning Approaches -- Spatial Domain Method for Image Analysis: A Grey-Level Computation Approach -- Crop yield prediction for smart agriculture with climatic parameters using Random Forest -- Implementation of XGBoost Regression for Calories Burnt Prediction using R -- Text Data Augmentation Using Generative Adversarial Networks, Back Translation and EDA -- Machine Learning-Based Temperature Monitoring and Prediction -- Pathrank Algorithm: Ranking Proteins in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Human PPI Weighted Bipartite Graph Network -- Circ RNA based Classification of SARS CoV-2, SARS CoV-1 and MERS-CoV using Machine Learning -- Ensemble Approach to Classify Spam SMS from -- A Scientific Study for Breast Cancer Detection Using Various Machine Learning Algorithms -- YOLO based segmentation and CNN based classification Framework for epithelial and pus cell detection -- Employing a Novel Metaheuristic Algorithm to Optimize an LSTM Model: A Case Study of Stock Market Prediction -- Driver Dozy Discernment using Neural Networks with SVM Variants -- An Efficient (MFFPA-2) Multiple Fuzzy Frequent Patterns Mining with Adjacency matrix and Type-2 Member function -- Student Personality, Motivation and Sustainability of Technology Enhanced Learning: A SEM-based Approach -- Spear Phishing Using Machine Learning -- An Interpretable Deep Learning model for Skin Lesion ; Classification -- Unsupervised Ambient Vibration-Based Feature Extraction for Structural Damage Detection -- A New Grey Correlational Compromise Ranking Approach for Portfolio Selection for Investment in ESG Stocks -- Decision Tree based Test Case Generation using Story Board and Natural Language Processing.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Computing and Data Sciences, ICACDS 2023, held in Kolkata, India, during April 27–28, 2023. The 47 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers focus on advances of next generation computing technologies in the areas of advanced computing and data sciences.

A history of the Irish language : from the norman invasion to Independence / / Aidan Doyle

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811776903321
• Autore: Doyle Aidan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-19-103774-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 491.6209
• Soggetti: Irish language - History; Ireland History
• 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 indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; A History of the Irish Language: From the Norman Invasion to Independence; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of figures; List of abbreviations; A. Publications; B. Terms and names; C. Labels not found in Leipzig glossing rules; Conventions for spelling and transcription; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Writing the history of a language; 1.2 Dates and periods; 1.3 Some sociolinguistic terminology; 1.3.1 Standard languages and dialects; 1.3.2 Language contact; 1.4 Sources; 1.5 Scope and lay-out; Further reading; 2: The Anglo-; Normans and their heritage (1200-1500); 2.1 The Anglo-Norman invasion2.1.1 Before the Anglo-Normans; 2.1.2 The Anglo-Norman conquest of Ireland; 2.1.3 The linguistic and cultural impact of the conquest; 2.1.4 Hibernicis ipsis Hiberniores; 2.2 The shape of the language (1200-1500); 2.2.1 Early Modern Irish and Modern Irish; 2.2.2 Spelling and pronunciation; 2.2.3 Classical Irish; 2.2.4 The non-classical language; 2.2.5 Borrowing; 2.3 Conclusion; Further reading; 3: The Tudors (1500-1600); 3.1 A new era; 3.1.1 The Tudors; 3.1.2 Language and identity under the Tudors; 3.1.3 The Tudor response to language conflict; 3.1.4 The Gaelic reaction3.2 The shape of the language (1500-1600); 3.2.1 Conservatism, innovation, and genre; 3.2.2 Diglossia and bilingualism; 3.3 Conclusion; Further reading; 4: The Stuarts (1600-1700); 4.1 A new dynasty; 4.1.1 The linguistic effect of the conquest; 4.1.2 Language attitudes in the Stuart era; 4.1.3 Interaction between English and Irish at the written level; 4.1.4 The Irish abroad; 4.2 The shape of the language (1600-1700); 4.2.1 Late Modern Irish (LMI); 4.2.2 Borrowing and code-switching; 4.3 Conclusion; Further reading; 5: Two Irelands, two languages (1700-1800); 5.1 The Anglo-Irish Ascendancy5.1.1 The Penal Laws; 5.1.2 The hidden Ireland; 5.1.3 Language contact and macaronic poems; 5.1.4 The Anglo-Irish and the Irish language; 5.1.5 The churches and the Irish language; 5.1.6 A private document; 5.1.7 Bilingualism, diglossia, and language statistics; 5.2 The shape of the language (1700-1800); 5.2.1 Representing dialects in writing; 5.2.2 Vocabulary; 5.2.3 The language of Charles O'Conor's journal; 5.3 Conclusion; Further reading; 6: A new language for a new nation (1800-70); 6.1 Change comes to Ireland; 6.1.1 Daniel O'Connell; 6.1.2 Language and national identity in Europe and Ireland6.1.3 Education and literacy; 6.1.4 Bíoblóirí, Jumpers, and An Cat Breac; 6.1.5 The Famine and emigration; 6.1.6 The extent and pace of the language shift; 6.1.7 Later attitudes towards the language shift; 6.1.8 Attempts to preserve and strengthen Irish; 6.2 The shape of the language (1800-70); 6.2.1 The innovative strand; 6.2.2 The conservative strand; 6.2.3 Borrowing; 6.2.4 Grammars and primers; 6.3 Conclusion; Further reading; 7: Revival (1870-1922); 7.1 Political and social developments (1870-1922); 7.2 Cultural developments (1870-1922)
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century to independence in 1922, combining political, cultural, and linguistic history. The book is divided into seven main chapters that focus on a specific period in the history of the language; they each begin with a discussion of the external history and position of the Irish language in the period, before moving on to investigate theimportant internal changes that took place at that time. A History of the Irish Language makes available for the first time material