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Making Choices about Hyd...
Transport Issues for Developing Countries
by Lynn K. Mytelka and Grant Boyle
Since the mid-1990s, the emergence of a hydrogen economy and the speed with which it will arrive have been vigorously debated. The debate has mainly been carried on among policymakers as well as oil and gas, automobile, fuel-cell and renewable energy firms in the countries of ...
(2008)
Heads Up!
Early Warning Systems for Climate, Water and Weather-Related Hazards
The forces of nature can have deadly and damaging consequences for societies and ecosystems that stand in their path. Early warning systems offer one of the best defenses against the adverse effects of climate, water, weather and geologic hazards, although far too often this r...
(2009)
Floods in Bangladesh
History, Dynamics and Rethinking the Role of the Himalayas
by William A. S..., Ramesh Thakur, and Edel Hughes
Is it really true that deforestation and land use practices of the Himalayan farmers are to blame for the recurring and devastating monsoon floods in the plains of the Ganga and Brahmaputra? The validity of this paradigm has been increasingly questioned. This book presents new...
(2006)
Cyclostrophic wind in th...
The dynamics of Venus mesosphere was investigated by using observations from the Venus Express (VEx) mission. In the frame of this work, zonal thermal winds were derived from the VIRTIS (Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer) and VeRa (Radio Science Experiment) tem...
(2010)
Generation and dissipati...
by Yana Maneva
Nonthermal ion velocity distribution functions are ubiquitous in the fast solar wind, which is permeated by large-amplitude Alfvén waves and plasma wave turbulence, including ion-cyclotron waves. Remote sensing of the solar corona by means of ultraviolet spectroscopy an...
(2010)
The composition of comet...
The present work describes how it is possible to characterize the chemical and physical properties of comets, using high-dispersion spectroscopy in the mid-infrared (between about 2 to 5 µm); in particular, inorganic and organic parent molecules were detected and analyzed in t...
(2010)
Development of RAC devic...
by Xianyi Li
Based on surface acoustic waves (SAW), the reflective array compressor (RAC) is a high performance device widely used in modern radars. This thesis deals with another important application of RACs – the Chirp Transform Spectrometer (CTS). The performances of the CTS, suc...
(2010)
Forty Years of Uranium R...
The Red Book Retrospective
The biannual Uranium Resources, Production and Demand, also known as the "Red Book," was first published in 1965 and has since grown to be a recognised world reference on uranium. Over the 40 years of its existence, the Red Book has collected an impressive quantity of official...
(2006)
Indemnification of Damag...
Workshop Proceedings: Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 18-20 May 2005
These workshop proceedings assess the third party liability and compensation mechanisms that would be implemented by participating countries in the event of a nuclear accident taking place within or near their borders. To do so, two fictitious accident scenarios were developed...
(2006)
Perspectives on Nuclear ...
Workshop Proceedings -- Bruyères-le-Châtel, France, 26-28 September 2005
With a declining number of nuclear data evaluators in the world and an increasing demand for high-quality data, there is a risk that evaluators will concentrate on producing new nuclear data to the detriment of developing new models and methods for evaluating existing data. In...
(2006)
Risks and Benefits of Nu...
In the context of sustainable development policies, decision making in the energy sector should be based on carefully designed trade-offs which take into account, insofar as feasible, all of the alternative options’ advantages and drawbacks from the economic, environmental and...
(2007)
Uranium 2005
Resources, Production and Demand
Published every other year, Uranium Resources, Production, and Demand, or the “Red Book” as it is commonly known, is jointly prepared by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency.It isthe recognised world reference on uranium and is based on off...
(2006)
Understanding the Brain:...
This book provides new insights about learning bysynthesising existing and emerging findings from cognitive and brain science and exploring how this new information might impact teaching, parenting, and educational policy making.It shows what the latest brain imaging technique...
(2007)
Genetic Testing: A Surve...
This report presents the results of a survey of over 800 genetic testing laboratory directors in 18 OECD countries. It provides the first detailed overview of the availability and extent of molecular genetic testing across OECD member countries. The survey allowed the OECD to ...
(2007)
Fats that Heal - Fats th...
by Udo Erasmus
"Fats that Heal Fats that Kill" presents the most current research on common and lesser known oils with therapeutic potential: flax, hemp, olive, fish, evening primrose, borage, black currant, and even the much maligned snake oil. Here the author exposes the manufacturing proc...
(1993)
Developing a scientific ...
Case studies from Myanmar
Myanmar is a country situated in continental Southeast Asia and most parts of the country are highlands forming as watersheds of country's drainage systems. These highland watersheds are usually clad with tropical forests of different types providing productive and protective ...
(2005)
Echinoderm Research 2010...
7th European Conference on Echinoderms, Göttingen, October 2 - 9, 2010
by Mike Reich, Joachim Reitner, Vanessa Roden, and Thuy Ben
Echinoderms are a vast group of spiny-skinned animals including starfish, brittle-stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, feather stars, sea lilies and sea cucumbers. These relatives of chordates and hemichordates have inhabited the world’s oceans for more than 500 million years. Mo...
(2010)
Grundsätze über die Anla...
mit Beziehung auf die Sternwarte der Universität Göttingen.
In Zeiten der Globalisierung und der Krise der »multikulturellen Gesellschaft« wird die Frage nach den maßgeblichen Traditionen der europäischen Kultur wieder relevant. Die vorliegende Studie versucht darzustellen, warum das Christentum - symbolisiert in dem Hügel Golgatha - u...
(2005)
GV Annual Meeting 2009
Earth control on planetary life and environment : Abstracts
by Hilmar von E..., Joachim Reitner, and Gerhard Wörner
The 99th Annual Meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung (GV) and International Conference on Earth Control on Planetary Life and Environment, held in October 2009 at the Geosciences Centre of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, brings together researchers from all fields of...
(2009)
International Lateinamer...
Abstracts and Program
by Gerhard Wörner and Stefan Mölle...
The International Lateinamerika-Kolloquium, held in April 2009 at the Geosciences Centre of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, brings together researchers from all fields of earth sciences. The abstracts contained in this volume cover a wide range of topics on the geologi...
(2009)
