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Ecosystem Management in the United States: An Assessment Of Current Experience
Steven Lewis Yaffee ,
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Scientists, researchers, land managers, environmental and citizen groups, and policy makers from across the political spectrum have in recent years embraced the concept of "ecosystem management." And while the dialogue often becomes mired in questions of definition-just what is ecosystem management, and what are its goals-people throughout the country have actively begun to take an ecosystem approach to resource management. It is becoming increasingly apparent that only by learning through experience will the theoretical and conceptual issues of the debate be resolved.
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Poor paper, only a bunch of flowers.......2006-08-28
When my wife opened the box, she was completely disappointed: the book was thin, the paper was poor (black and white) and the pages had its borders yellow - sign of a book that was forgotten for many years...
It could be improved if:
- could have more projects;
- the paper could be better;
- and the drwaings could be in full color
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A must for any Cape Codder or Islander.......2000-06-14
Dorothy Sterling describes the Outer Lands (The Cape, Long Island, Nantucket, etc.) very eloquently, using understandable, interesting language. She adds charming local folklore and local sights, as well as maps and drawings that contribute so much to the book. This book is great for leasure reading as well as a textbook for a marine biology class.
A must for any Cape Codder or Islander.......2000-06-14
Dorothy Sterling describes the Outer Lands (The Cape, Long Island, Nantucket, etc.) very eloquently, using understandable, interesting language. She adds charming local folklore and local sights, as well as maps and drawings that contribute so much to the book. This book is great for leasure reading as well as a textbook for a marine biology class.
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Numerical Analysis 2000 : Ordinary Differential Equations and Integral Equations (Numerical Analysis 2000, V. 6)
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This volume contains contributions in the area of differential equations and integral equations. Many numerical methods have arisen in response to the need to solve "real-life" problems in applied mathematics, in particular problems that do not have a closed-form solution. Contributions on both initial-value problems and boundary-value problems in
ordinary differential equations appear in this volume. Numerical methods for
initial-value problems in ordinary differential equations fall naturally into two classes: those which use
one starting value at each step (one-step methods) and those which are based on
several values of the solution (multistep methods).
John Butcher has supplied an expert's perspective of the development of numerical methods for ordinary differential equations in the 20th century.
Rob Corless and Lawrence Shampine talk about established technology, namely software for initial-value problems using Runge-Kutta and Rosenbrock methods, with interpolants to fill in the solution between mesh-points, but the 'slant' is new - based on the question, "How should such software integrate into the current generation of
Problem Solving Environments?"
Natalia Borovykh and Marc Spijker study the problem of establishing upper bounds for the norm of the
nth power of square matrices.
The dynamical system viewpoint has been of great benefit to ODE theory and numerical methods. Related is the study of
chaotic behaviour.
Willy Govaerts discusses the numerical methods for the computation and continuation of equilibria and bifurcation points of equilibria of dynamical systems.
Arieh Iserles and Antonella Zanna survey the construction of Runge-Kutta methods which preserve algebraic invariant functions.
Valeria Antohe and Ian Gladwell present numerical experiments on solving a Hamiltonian system of Hénon and Heiles with a symplectic and a nonsymplectic method with a variety of precisions and initial conditions.
Stiff differential equations first became recognized as special during the 1950s. In 1963 two seminal publications laid to the foundations for later development: Dahlquist's paper on
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Ernst Hairer and Gerhard Wanner deliver a survey which retraces the discovery of the order stars as well as the principal achievements obtained by that theory.
Guido Vanden Berghe, Hans De Meyer, Marnix Van Daele and Tanja Van Hecke construct exponentially fitted Runge-Kutta methods with
s stages.
Differential-algebraic equations arise in control, in modelling of mechanical systems and in many other fields.
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Again in the area of differential-algebraic systems, Neil Biehn, John Betts, Stephen Campbell and William Huffman present current work on mesh adaptation for DAE two-point boundary-value problems.
Contrasting approaches to the question of how good an approximation is as a solution of a given equation involve (i) attempting to estimate the actual
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defect - the amount by which the approximation fails to satisfy the given equation and any side-conditions.
The paper by Wayne Enright on defect control relates to carefully analyzed techniques that have been proposed both for ordinary differential equations and for delay differential equations in which an attempt is made to control an estimate of the size of the defect.
Many phenomena incorporate noise, and the numerical solution of
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Keven Burrage, Pamela Burrage and Taketomo Mitsui review the way numerical methods for solving stochastic differential equations (SDE's) are constructed.
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differential equations with after-effect (retarded, delay, or neutral delay differential equations) and in this volume we include a number of papers on evolutionary problems in this area.
The paper of Genna Bocharov and Fathalla Rihan conveys the importance in mathematical biology of models using retarded differential equations.
The contribution by Christopher Baker is intended to convey much of the background necessary for the application of numerical methods and includes some original results on stability and on the solution of approximating equations.
Alfredo Bellen, Nicola Guglielmi and Marino Zennaro contribute to the analysis of stability of numerical solutions of nonlinear neutral differential equations.
Koen Engelborghs, Tatyana Luzyanina, Dirk Roose, Neville Ford and Volker Wulf consider the numerics of bifurcation in delay differential equations.
Evelyn Buckwar contributes a paper indicating the construction and analysis of a numerical strategy for stochastic delay differential equations (SDDEs).
This volume contains contributions on both
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Christopher Baker responded to a late challenge to craft a review of the theory of the basic numerics of Volterra integral and integro-differential equations.
Simon Shaw and John Whiteman discuss Galerkin methods for a type of Volterra integral equation that arises in modelling viscoelasticity.
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Liviu Ixaru describes the advances made over the last three decades in the field of piecewise perturbation methods for the numerical solution of Sturm-Liouville problems in general and systems of Schrödinger equations in particular.
Alan Andrew surveys the asymptotic correction method for regular Sturm-Liouville problems.
Leon Greenberg and Marco Marletta survey methods for higher-order Sturm-Liouville problems.
R. Moore in the 1960s first showed the feasibility of
validated solutions of differential equations, that is, of computing guaranteed enclosures of solutions.
Boundary integral equations. Numerical solution of integral equations associated with boundary-value problems has experienced continuing interest.
Peter Junghanns and Bernd Silbermann present a selection of modern results concerning the numerical analysis of one-dimensional Cauchy singular integral equations, in particular the stability of operator sequences associated with different projection methods.
Johannes Elschner and Ivan Graham summarize the most important results achieved in the last years about the numerical solution of one-dimensional integral equations of Mellin type of means of projection methods and, in particular, by collocation methods.
A survey of results on quadrature methods for solving boundary integral equations is presented by Andreas Rathsfeld.
Wolfgang Hackbusch and Boris Khoromski present a novel approach for a very efficient treatment of integral operators.
Ernst Stephan examines multilevel methods for the
h-, p- and
hp- versions of the boundary element method, including pre-conditioning techniques.
George Hsiao, Olaf Steinbach and Wolfgang Wendland analyze various boundary element methods employed in local discretization schemes.
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It is 1370, right in the middle of the Anglo-French conflict, the Hundred Years War. In danger of losing the Aquitaine territory, England sends Geoffrey Chaucer, protégé of the king's son, to France. As a poet on a diplomatic mission, Chaucer must persuade one of the most important noblemen of the region to remain loyal to England's king. The problem is that the noble, Henri, Comte de Guyac, whose wife Chaucer had previously fallen in love with when he was held prisoner by Henri, is not exactly neutral in his feelings for Chaucer. Wondering how he will feel when he meets with Rosamund, the Comte's wife, Chaucer reaches de Guyac's castle and is greeted by turmoil. There are factions ready to undermine his mission, which is further complicated when Henri is killed during a boar hunt. Chaucer soon realizes the Comte's death is no hunting accident and that he must solve the murder before returning home. Enemies and suspects abound. Wanting only to return to England and get back to his work, Chaucer finds himself in the midst of a brightly colorful puzzle that turns him into a fugitive in a foreign country, unsure who his friends and enemies really are.
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A first rate first novel!.......2005-07-12
Philippa Morgan's debut novel "Chaucer and the House of Fame" is a welcome addition to the medieval mystery genre! Taking a page (or two) from history, as it were, Morgan gives us Geoffrey Chaucer (later to be known as the "father of English literature"), a young man on a state mission from John of Gaunt, King Edward's youngest son and a big part of the royal ruling family at that time.
It is the time of the 100 Years War and the squabbles-deadly as they were-over French/English ownership of some of the minor kingdoms in France. Chaucer is on a secret diplomatic mission to Aquitaine to try to secure the support of Henri, Comte de Guyac, long an English supporter but now beginning to waver, as it appears the French may be winning. Accompanying Chaucer are his two aides, Alan and Ned.
Ironically, in Morgan's story, Chaucer had been held prisoner by the Comte some ten years earlier and, as history notes, was eventually ransomed and returned safely to England. While in the Comte's care, Chaucer, young poet he was, falls in love with Rosamund, the beautiful wife of the Comte. Now, Chaucer (married and with his own family) is quite curious to see how he will be received!
Leaving London in early May, the trio becomes involved in a number of deadly events along the way and they begin to doubt if they'll ever arrive in Aquitaine! Along the way, they team up with a group of actors (Loup's Troop), all the time being shadowed by as evil an antagonist you'll find by the assumed name of Hubert. The pace of the novel really picks up when, on the second day during a wild boar hunt, Henri, Comte de Guyac, is killed in what appears to be an accident. Chaucer senses that this is a murder.
And as "murder will out," now it is a race of time to solve not only this murder but to tie up all the other loose ends in the story, and there are many!
Morgan, however, is quite up to handling the myriad directions the books takes us! For one, her characters do a credit even to Chaucer, as she's able to capture the essence that he would have wanted evoked: the bawdiness is there, the humor, the satire, the social significance, and, of course, Morgan adds the "murder mystery" aspect. She gives Chaucer much free reign (he's involved in telling his own tale to his aides at the same time he's trying to solve the murder) and,using the Chaucerian technique of the frame story, maintians full control of all aspects of a well-written novel.
Fortunately for us, it appears that she's clearly set the basis for a series and a welcomed series it would be. Her Chaucer makes an excellent sleuth!
A wonderful historical .......2005-06-14
I wasn't certain about Chaucer in a mystery, but this worked mainly because the character was used in a believable way. Chaucer was, in fact, a diplomat as well as poet. The story is more political suspense, than a traditional mystery. There is a very effective sense of threat and danger that runs as a top note through the story, as well as an excellent twist at the end. There are stories within the story and a wonderful feel of time and place. I think it does help to know the actual history. For history lovers who don't need high action, I highly recommend it.
a wonderfully absorbing read.......2004-10-14
In this wonderfully readable and engaging debut mystery novel, Philippa Morgan has penned a book where actual historical events share the stage with a suspenseful intrigue subplot and a murder-mystery subplot, making "Chaucer and the House of Fame" a thoroughly exciting and absorbing read.
When it begins to look as if the fragile peace between the French and the English are about the breakdown over the lands in Aquitaine, the Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt, sends one of his most trusted diplomats, Geoffrey Chaucer, in order to persuade the Comte de Guyac, a very influential French landholder from the region to continue his support of the English. But almost from the very beginning of the dangerous journey to Aquitaine, Chaucer senses that he is being shadowed. And he is right, for a very dangerous and determined spy-assassin is on his tail. Will the spy-assassin get to Chaucer before he can carry out his mission of persuasion? Soon, however Chaucer finds that he has exchanged one set of dangerous circumstances for another. For the household of Guyac is quite divided about whether or not they should support the English; and soon after Chuacer's arrival his gracious host is murdered during a boar-hunt. Was the Comte de Guyac murdered so that he would not throw his support behind the English? And was he murdered by the spy-assassin who has been dogging Chaucer's footsteps, or by someone from within the Guyac household? As Chaucer struggles to come up with answers, he uneasily begins to realise that his life is in even more danger than ever...
Set in 1370 and during the 100 year war, Philippa Morgan does a wonderful job of making the historical and political realities of the period a vital part of the novel, and not in a dense and uninteresting manner, but in a very vital, vivid and exciting way. You can really feel the suspense mount as you read of the spy-assassin closing in on Chaucer and his party, and feel the dread deep in your stomach as you realise that some other innocent or the other would be killed off by our villain in his murderous quest to get closer to Chaucer. The mystery subplot of who killed the Comte and why was rather well handled too -- there were plenty of suspects to keep one happily absorbed in speculating as to the identity of the murderer! But for me what really kept the novel humming and exciting was the suspenseful intrigue subplot as Chaucer and his cohorts to their level best to evade those who seem to have murderous plans for them. All in all, with factors like a good story fantastically told, colourful and vivid historical detail, and wonderfully realised characters, "Chaucer And The House Of Fame" is a read not to be missed by any avid mystery fan.
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Chaucer's House of Fame: The Poetics of Skeptical Fideism
Sheila Delany
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A pioneering study of Chaucer .......2004-10-18
Sheila Delany provides an important insight into Chaucer's view of the world in her definition of his complex perception of religious reality . His ' skeptical fideism' his belief which incorporates doubt and question is a central sign of the sophistication of the Chaucerian world- view. Delany writes clearly and interestingly in a scholarly study which the general reader can also greatly enjoy.
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The House of Fame (Durham Mediaeval Texts)
Geoffrey Chaucer
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