This book includes for first time the synthesis and intensified process design in the production of top biofuels. The production of biofuels is not new. In 2019, global biofuel production levels reached 1,841 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day, in stark comparison to the 187 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day that was produced in 2000. Growth has largely been driven by policies that encourage the use and production of biofuels due to the perception that it could provide energy security and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in relevant sectors.

This book discusses plant invasions and environmental impacts on the Himalayas through a novel procedure, and helps to understand the influences of climate, physiography, soil, and disturbance on plant richness in mountain systems. Assessing invasion risks to mountain space under future climate change scenarios is highly significant for appropriate preparedness, and this book details analytical and modeling techniques to assess the conditions of mountain ecosystem and ecology to better inform our preparation for future environmental challenges.

This book presents recent advances in the area of Radioscience, Equatorial Atmospheric Science and Environment from the international symposium for equatorial atmosphere of the celebration of the Equatorial Atmosphere Radar (EAR) 20th Anniversary, conducted by Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) and Kyoto University, in 2021. It provides a scientific platform for all participants to discuss ideas and current issues as well as to design solutions in the areas of atmospheric science, environmental science, space science, and related fields.

As basic institutions of human coexistence in the world, the house and the state continue to prove themselves and to change. House (i. e., the domestic setting as the primary economic and social unit) and state are the subject of a comparative study on an ecotheoretical basis. In the global context, the modes of societal regulation have developed differently in the domestic sphere and in the sphere of the state. In them and with them, order is created in the world and for the individual and collective conduct of life.

Das Buch vermittelt kompakt und verständlich die wichtigsten rechtlichen Aspekte einer nachhaltigen Unternehmensführung bei einer Aktiengesellschaft deutschen Rechts. Beispiele aus der Praxis dienen zur Veranschaulichung. Dabei befasst sich das Buch mit zwei großen Themenkomplexen.

Rory Gallagher's most successful albums are his live ones. He was an artist that came alive when onstage and this album covers a previously undocumented live period. This barnstorming 20-song, previously unreleased set is culled from four shows (London, Brighton, Sheffield and Newcastle) which were part of a 1977 tour across the UK in support of Rory’s then latest album 'Calling Card'. Featuring fantastic live versions of tracks from that album as well as from 1975’s 'Against The Grain' and other live favourites, has been mixed from the original multitrack tapes from the official Rory Gallagher archive and mastered for this release at Abbey Road Studios. Cover art by Irish graffiti artist Vincent Zara.

Funktion, Qualität und Kosten sind die drei Kernelemente eines Produkts. Vor allem in der Zukunft, unter dem allgemeinen Trend der Digitalisierung und AI, ist es für produzierende Unternehmen ein Muss, ein vollständiges Cost-Engineering-System zu etablieren.

Bahnbrechende Erkenntnisse und tiefe Krisen, revolutionäre Entdeckungen und Widerlegung von bis dato unverrückbaren Glaubenssätzen – die Jahre zwischen 1870 und 1950 sind geprägt durch wissenschaftliche Errungenschaften zahlreicher Genies und junger Vordenker. Erkenntnisse, die das Verständnis von der Welt, von Raum, Zeit und Unendlichkeit, von Leben und Menschheit, Logik und Berechenbarkeit nahezu über Nacht aushebelten. Einige der Akteure, wie Georg Cantor oder Ludwig Boltzmann, aber auch Albert Einstein und Kurt Gödel sind darüber fast verrückt geworden. Lars Jaeger illustriert, wie eng in diesen 80 Jahren Genialität, Intuition und Krise beieinanderlagen, und wie ein Inferno an geistigen Revolutionen unser heutiges Leben und Denken prägt.

Dieses kleine Lehrbuch erklärt Ihnen die wichtigste Forschungsmethode der Psychologie – das Experiment – schnell, einfach und alltagsnah. Damit ist es der perfekte Begleiter, um das Experimentalpsychologische Praktikum, welches Ihnen in nahezu jedem Psychologiestudiengang begegnet, erfolgreich zu gestalten. So verstehen, planen und erstellen Sie ein Experiment, und diese Dinge sollten Sie bei der Durchführung berücksichtigen. Ein großer Teil des Buchs erklärt Ihnen außerdem ausführlich, wie Sie schlaue experimentelle Designs mit Open-Source-Software programmieren, ohne dass Sie ein Hacker-Genie sein oder werden müssen. So sind Sie für Ihr Experimentalpsychologisches Praktikum bestens ausgestattet und können jedes Experiment, das Sie im Laufe Ihrer akademischen Laufbahn erstellen müssen, problemlos meistern!

Food is contaminated in the production chain and is the point of concern among the consumers and industries. There is also a considerable increase in foodborne outbreaks, which possess the challenge to industry associated with the production of processed food. Various strategies are used to prevent the contamination during postharvest stage, storage and distribution. Different methods are exploited for degrading or eliminating the microbial contamination from food commodities.

This book provides a framework of protest handling which redirects our attention away from the strength of protesters and towards the constraints of state power, drawing on detailed case studies randomly collected in 7 provinces in China over the last decade. It finds that the challenges of retaining legitimacy, the propensity for responsiveness, the contradictions of the petition system, and the dynamics of elite alignments are key elements shaping the fate of nail-like petitions. A nail-like person refers to the individual who looks like a stubborn nail on a plank of wood that cannot be easily hammered down. His persistent protest thus is theoretically puzzling, since such individual-based protest is assumed to be too weak to effectively challenge a powerful authoritarian regime. Although this phenomenon is widely observed in China, it is ignored by current studies on collective action.

This volume explores the latest techniques used to study neurodevelopmental diseases (NDD) that range from molecular aspects to integrated research approaches and brain imaging in living rodents. Chapters in this book cover topics such as protocols to deliver shRNA in vitro and in vivo using lentiviral particles to knock-down specific protein expression; experimental procedures to use recombinant fluorescent probes to visualize endogenous proteins at the mammalian synapse; CRISPR/Cas9 toolkit to assess either gain- or loss-of-gene function in brain organoids; detailed protocols to use in vivo manipulations to correct the behavioral phenotypes in cognitive disorder mouse lines; and experimental approaches to genetically engineer macaque models of NDDs and investigate how genetic predisposition may cause neural and functional alterations. In the Neuromethods series style, chapters include the kind of detail and key advice from the specialists needed to get successful results in your laboratory.

This volume provides comprehensive overviews of each terrestrial cetartiodactyl species’ biology including palaeontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction and development, ecology, habitat and diet. Their economic significance and management, as well as future challenges for research and conservation are also addressed. Each chapter includes a distribution map, a photograph of the animal and key literature. This authoritative volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of Europe is a timely and detailed compilation of all European terrestrial cetartiodactyls and will appeal to academics and students in mammal research, as well as to professionals dealing with mammal management, including control, use and conservation.