Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, : Imperial College Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (357 p.)
Disciplina	333.714
Altri autori (Persone)	SmithJoel B KleinRichard J. T HuqSaleemul
Soggetto topico	Climatic changes - Environmental aspects Climatic changes - Developing countries
ISBN	1-281-86654-7 9786611866549 1-86094-581-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. From Adaptation to Adaptive Capacity and Vulnerability Reduction; 3. Social Aspects of Adaptive Capacity; 4. Adaptive Capacity; 5. Lessons from Famine Early Warning and Food Security for Understanding Adaptation to Climate Change; 6. Assessing Vulnerability in the Context of Changing Socioeconomic Conditions; 7. Do We Have the Adaptive Capacity to Develop and Use the Adaptive Capacity to Adapt?; 8. The Legal Framework of Adaptation and Adaptive Capacity; 9. Adaptation Funding-Legal and Institutional Issues; 10. Adaptative Capacity 11. Adaptation to Climatic Variability and Change in Tlaxcala, Mexico12. Engaging Africa in Adaptation to Climate Change; 13. Adaptation, Sustainable Development and Equity; 14. Enhancing the Capacity of Developing Countries to Adapt to Climate Change; Appendix-Workshop Agenda and List of Participants; List of Participants
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Autore	Dyker David A
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, : Imperial College Press
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (221 p.)
Disciplina	338.94
Soggetto topico	Investments, Foreign - Europe, Eastern
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-86731-4 9786611867317 1-86094-801-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	CONTENTS; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction: Productivity and Social Capability - A Historical and Analytical Framework David A. Dyker and Leonardo Iacovone; Social Capability and Technological Congruence; Why Trade Enhances Productivity; Traditional trade models offer no conclusive answer; So, are we back with X-efficiency?3; Increasing returns and economies of scale; Technological catch-up; Uncertainty and externalities; Foreign Direct Investment, MNCs and Productivity-Some Initial Generalizations Social Capability, Technological Congruence and Foreign Direct Investment References; Chapter 2 Identifying the Channels and Mechanics of FDI-Induced Technology Transfer David A. Dyker, Leonardo Iacovone and Cordula Stolberg; Own-Plant Effects and Spillovers; Horizontal spillovers; Vertical spillovers; Negative spillovers from FDI; Foreign Direct Investment and the Mechanics of Technology Transfer; The OLI/spillover approach; The strategic technology transfer/network-building approach; References Chapter 3 Analyzing FDI in Central-East Europe on the Basis of Sample Surveys Boris Majcen, Slavo Radoševic and Matija Rojec Introduction; Our Conceptual Approach; Methodology and Sample; Descriptive Analysis; Autonomy of subsidiaries; Market orientation and structure of suppliers; Effects of industrial integration on local subsidiaries; Competence profile of subsidiaries; Internal and external sources of competitiveness; Financial integration; Upgrading activities; Conclusions; References Chapter 4 Analyzing FDI in Central-East Europe through Case Studies David A. Dyker, Katie Higginbottom, Niels Kofoed and Cordula Stolberg Methodology; The Questionnaire; Results of the Interviews; Business strategy; Is there a productivity gap or not?; FDI and human capital formation; FDI and local educational and R&D facilities; Does FDI ever help local suppliers to raise their game?; Is the picture any different in the electronics sector?; Is the picture any different in the services sector?; The issue of country specificity; Country specificity and convergence; References Chapter 5 Checking the Results of the Case Study Interviews An Essay in Triangulation Leonardo Iacovone and Niels Kofoed Introduction; The Global Literature; Macro-econometric studies; Micro-econometric studies; Cross-sectional studies; Panel data studies; Case Studies from a Global Perspective; Summary of principal lessons from case studies; Firm-level absorptive capacity-learning, innovation and path dependence; Multinational strategy and subsidiary development; Market orientation-local and export markets; Sectoral structure and technological trajectories Partnership and alliances-'packaged' technologies, the OEM model, alliances and joint-ventures
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Autore	Buldyreva Jeanna
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, : Imperial College Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (300 p.)
Disciplina	522.67
Altri autori (Persone)	LavrentievaNina StarikovVitaly
Soggetto topico	Collision broadening Gases
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-14345-3 9786613143457 1-84816-597-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Basic definitions; Chapter 2 Semi-classical calculation of pressure-broadened line widths and pressure-induced line shifts; Chapter 3 Collisional broadening of water vapour lines; Chapter 4 Pressure broadening and shifting of vibrotational lines of atmospheric gases; Appendix A Matrix elements of operators of physical quantities; Appendix B Parameters of intermolecular interaction potentials; Appendix C Relations used in calculation of resonance functions; Appendix D Second-order contributions from atom-atom potential in the parabolic trajectory model Appendix E Resonance functions in the parabolic trajectory modelAppendix F Resonance functions in the exact trajectory model; Index
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Autore	Baerns M (Manfred), <1934->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, : Imperial College Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (191 p.)
Disciplina	006.3
Altri autori (Persone)	HoleňaMartin
Collana	Catalytic science series
Soggetto topico	Catalysis - Computer simulation Catalysis - Mathematical models
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-75985-X 9786612759857 1-84816-344-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Dedication; Preface; Chapter 1. Background of Combinatorial Catalyst Development (M. Baerns); Bibliography; Chapter 2. Approaches in the Development of Heterogeneous Catalysts (M. Baerns); 2.1. Fundamental Aspects; 2.2. High-throughput Technologies for Preparation and Testing in Combinatorial Development of Catalytic Materials; 2.2.1. Selection of Potential Elements for Defining the Multi-parameter Compositional Space of Catalytic Materials; 2.2.2. Experimental Tools for Preparing and Testing Large Numbers of Catalytic-material Specimens; 2.2.2.1. Preparation of catalytic materials 2.2.2.2. Testing and screening of catalytic materialsBibliography; Chapter 3. Mathematical Methods of Searching for Optimal Catalytic Materials (M. Holena); 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Statistical Design of Experiments; 3.3. Optimisation Methods for Empirical Objective Functions; 3.4. Evolutionary Optimisation: The Main Approach to Seek Optimal Catalysts; 3.4.1. Dealing with Constraints in Genetic Optimisation; 3.5. Other Stochastic Optimisation Methods; 3.6. Deterministic Optimisation; 3.6.1. Utilizability of Methods with Derivatives in Catalysis; Bibliography Chapter 4. Generating Problem-Tailored Genetic Algorithms for Catalyst Search (M. Holena)4.1. Using a Program Generator - Why and How; 4.2. Description Language for Optimisation Tasks in Catalysis; 4.3. Tackling Constrained Mixed Optimisation; 4.4. A Prototype Implementation; Bibliography; Chapter 5. Analysis and Mining of Data Collected in Catalytic Experiments (M. Holena); 5.1. Similarity and Difference Between Data Analysis and Mining; 5.2. Survey of Existing Methods; 5.2.1. Statistical Methods; 5.2.2. Extraction of Logical Rules from Data; 5.3. Case Study with the Synthesis of HCN BibliographyChapter 6. Artificial Neural Networks in the Development of Catalytic Materials (M. Holena); 6.1. What are Artificial Neural Networks?; 6.1.1. Network Architecture; 6.1.2. Important Kinds of Neural Networks; 6.1.3. Activity of Neurons; 6.1.4. What do Neural Networks Compute?; 6.2. Approximation Capability of Neural Networks; 6.3. Training Neural Networks; 6.4. Knowledge Obtainable from a Trained Network; Bibliography; Chapter 7. Tuning Evolutionary Algorithms with Artificial Neural Networks (M. Holena); 7.1. Heuristic Parameters of Genetic Algorithms 7.2. Parameter Tuning Based on Virtual Experiments7.3. Case Study with the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane; Bibliography; Chapter 8. Improving Neural Network Approximations (M. Holena); 8.1. Importance of Choosing the Right Network Architecture; 8.2. Influence of the Distribution of Training Data; 8.3. Boosting Neural Networks; 8.4. Case Study with HCN Synthesis Continued; Bibliography; Chapter 9. Applications of Combinatorial Catalyst Development and An Outlook on Future Work (M. Baerns); 9.1. Introduction; 9.2. Experimental Applications of Combinatorial Catalyst Development 9.3. Methodology
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