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Newman and Elana Levine 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (228 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-88026-2 311 $a0-415-88025-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLegitimating television -- Another golden age? -- The showrunner as auteur -- Upgrading the situation comedy -- Not a soap opera -- The television image and the image of the television -- Technologies of agency -- Television scholarship and/as legitimation. 330 $aLegitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a ""plug-in drug"" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative renaissance, with critics hailing the rise of Quality series such as Mad Men and 30 Rock. 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Baas , G. Battipaglia , V. De Micco , F. Lens and E.A. Wheeler -- $tAn overview of the hydraulic systems in early land plants /$rC. Strullu-Derrien , P. Kenrick , E. Badel , H. Cochard and P. Tafforeau -- $tAxial conduit widening in woody species: a still neglected anatomical pattern /$rT. Anfodillo , G. Petit and A. Crivellaro -- $tHydraulic and biomechanical optimization in Norway spruce trunk wood? A review /$rS. Rosner -- $tReview of cellular and subcellular changes in cambium /$rP. Prislan , K. ?ufar , G. Koch , U. Schmitt and J. Gri?ar -- $tVisualizing wood anatomy in three dimensions with high-resolution X-ray micro-tomography (?CT) ? A review /$rC.R. Brodersen -- $tROXAS - an efficient and accurate tool to detect vessels in diffuse-porous species /$rL. Wegner , G. von Arx , U. Sass-Klaassen and B. Eilmann -- $tQuantifying plasticity in vessel grouping ? added value from the image analysis tool ROXAS /$rG. von Arx , C. Kueffer and P. Fonti -- $tFire influence on Pinus hale pensis: wood responses close and far from scar /$rV. De Micco , E. Zalloni , A. Balzano and G. Battipaglia -- $tAge, climate and intra-annual density fluctuations in Pinus halepensis in Spain /$rK. Novak , M.A. Saz Sánchez , K. ?ufar , J. Raventós and M. de Luis -- $tPlastic growth response of European beech provenances to dry site conditions /$rS. Stojnic , U. Sass-Klaassen , S. Orlovic , B. Matovic and B. Eilmann -- $tEvaluating the wood anatomical and dendroecological potential of arctic dwarf shrub communities /$rF.H. Schweingruber , L. Hellmann , W. Tegel , S. Braun , D. Nievergelt and U. Büntgen -- $tDoes growth rhythm of a widespread species change in distinct growth sites? /$rM.S. Costa , T.J. de Vasconcellos , C.F. Barros and C.H. Callado. 330 $aAt present the study of functional and ecological wood anatomy enjoys a vigorous renaissance and plays a pivotal role in plant and ecosystem biology, plant evolution, and global change research. This book contains a selection of papers presented at the successful meetings of the International Association of Wood Anatomists and the Cost-Action STReESS (Studying Tree Responses to extreme Events: a Synthesis) held in Naples in April 2013. Four review papers address (1) the hydraulic architecture of the earliest land plants, (2) the general phenomenon of axial conduit tapering in trees, (3) the hydraulic and biomechanical optimization in one of the most important plantation grown tree species, Norway Spruce, and (4) cellular and subcellular changes in the cambium in response to environmental factors. Three papers review or introduce new tools to observe the 3-D structure and functioning of wood, and novel tools for quantitative image analysis in tree ring series. Finally, five papers report original research on environmental effects on wood structure, including studies on plastic responses in European beech, effects of fire or late summer rains on Mediterranean Aleppo Pine, and the potential for using arctic shrubs or tropical deciduous trees in dendrochronological and climatological studies. 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Tucker 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (567 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-22087-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 437-524) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. America's Sweet Tooth: The Sugar Trust And The Caribbean Lowlands --$t2. Lords Of The Pacific: Sugar Barons In The Hawaiian And Philippine Islands --$t3. Banana Republics: Yankee Fruit Companies And The Tropical American Lowlands --$t4. The Last Drop: The American Coffee Market And The Hill Regions Of Latin America --$t5. The Tropical Cost Of The Automotive Age: Corporate Rubber Empires And The Rainforest --$t6. The Crop On Hooves: Yankee Interests In Tropical Cattle Ranching --$t7. Unsustainable Yield: American Foresters And Tropical Timber Resources --$tConclusion --$tAppendix --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn the late 1800's American entrepreneurs became participants in the 400-year history of European economic and ecological hegemony in the tropics. Beginning as buyers in the tropical ports of the Atlantic and Pacific, they evolved into land speculators, controlling and managing the areas where tropical crops were grown for carefully fostered consumer markets at home. As corporate agro-industry emerged, the speculators took direct control of the ecological destinies of many tropical lands. Supported by the U.S. government's diplomatic and military protection, they migrated and built private empires in the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Pacific, Southeast Asia, and West Africa. Yankee investors and plantation managers mobilized engineers, agronomists, and loggers to undertake what they called the "Conquest of the Tropics," claiming to bring civilization to benighted peoples and cultivation to unproductive nature. In competitive cooperation with local landed and political elites, they not only cleared natural forests but also displaced multicrop tribal and peasant lands with monocrop export plantations rooted in private property regimes. This book is a rich history of the transformation of the tropics in modern times, pointing ultimately to the declining biodiversity that has resulted from the domestication of widely varied natural systems. Richard P. Tucker graphically illustrates his study with six major crops, each a virtual empire in itself-sugar, bananas, coffee, rubber, beef, and timber. 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Hydro-power is one of the inexpensive, but a reliable source of alternative energy which is foreseen as the possible answer to the present crisis in the energy sector. However, the major problem related to hydro-energy is its dependency on location. An ideal location can produce maximum energy with minimum loss. Besides, such power-plant also requires substantial amount of land which is a precious resource nowadays due to the rapid and uncontrolled urbanization observed in most of the urban centres in the World. The feasibility of such plants also depends on social acceptance as well as the level of environmental casualty and economic benefit, all of which is also spatially dependent. Decision making algorithms are applied to identify better solution if a problem has more than one alternative explication. Nature based algorithms are found to be efficient enough to catalyze such kind of decision making analysis. That is why the present study tries to utilize nature based algorithms to solve the problems of location selection for hydropower plants. The study employed six different types of nature based algorithms to select one of the locations among many available for installation of hydropower plant in the North Eastern part of the Indian subcontinent. The locations are selected based on their in stream resources and included in the decision making as alternatives. 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