Cities concentrate wealth, people and productivity while consuming much of the world's energy and producing much of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. This concentration makes cities and their populations more at risk to natural disasters and to long-term changes in climate, yet cities also offer vast opportunities to respond to these challenges. Changes in migration, land use, and spatial development will increase vulnerability, especially in developing countries, and rising sea levels will affect millions of people living in coastal cities. Adaptation, mitigation, and increased resilience to climate change are therefore imperative for cities. The links between cities and climate change were the subject of the 5th Urban Research Symposium held in Marseille, France, in June 2009. The eight papers selected and updated for Cities and Climate Change: Responding to an Urgent Agenda reflect the core of the analytical discussion and policy implications discussed at the symposium, combining comprehensive analysis and theoretical insights with examples of best practices from around the world. These include a framework to include aspects of poverty in the discussion of cities and climate change; new perspectives on the knowledge and measurement of climate change, urban infrastructure, institutions and governance, and economic and social issues; and specific case studies comparing experiences of cities in both industrialized and developing countries. This book also includes a summary discussion of the main research themes and abstracts of additional selected papers from the symposium. --Book Jacket.
Setting / LocationFrance
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreCities and climate change Lead Character
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Intelligent Agents for Telecommunication Applications, IATA'98, held in Paris, France, in July 1998, in conjunction with the 1998 Agents World Conference. The book presents 17 revised full papers carefully selected for inclusion in the volume. The book is divided into topical sections on network architecture, network configuration and planning, network optimization, network management, agent-based architectures for service applications.
This book is a review of the most up-to-date observational and theoretical information concerning the chemical evolution of the Milky Way. A comparison between the abundances derived from field stars and clusters is presented together with information on the abundances and dynamics of gas. The role of supernovae and novae on the chemical enrichment history of our Galaxy is discussed in the framework of the most advanced and detailed chemical evolution models. The difficulties in obtaining reliable abundance measurements as well as precise predictions about stellar nucleosynthesis and chemical abundances in the interstellar medium are critically discussed by specialists in the field. Possible mechanisms for the formation and evolution of the Milky Way are suggested on the basis of comparison between theory and observations.
Logics have, for many years, laid claim to providing a formal basis for the study and development of applications and systems in arti?cial intelligence. With the depth and maturity of formalisms, methodologies and logic-based systems - day, this claim is stronger than ever. The European Conference on Logics in Arti?cial Intelligence (or Journ´ ees Europ´ eennes sur la Logique en Intelligence Arti?cielle, JELIA) began back in 1988, as a workshop, in response to the need for a European forum for the discussion of emerging work in this ?eld. Since then, JELIA has been organized biennially, with English as its o?cial language, previous meetings taking place in Rosco?, France (1988), Amsterdam, Nether- ´ lands (1990), Berlin, Germany (1992), York, UK (1994), Evora, Portugal (1996), Dagstuhl,Germany(1998),M´ alaga,Spain(2000)andCosenza,Italy(2002). The increasinginterestinthisforum,itsinternationallevelwithgrowingparticipation from researchers outside Europe, and the overall technical quality have turned JELIA into a major biennial forum for the discussion of logic-based approaches to arti?cial intelligence. The 9th European Conference on Logics in AI, JELIA 2004, took place in Lisbon, Portugal, between the 27th and the 30th of September 2004, and was hosted by the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Its technical program comprised 3 invited talks, by Francesca Rossi, Franz Baader, and Bernhard Nebel, and the presentationof52refereedtechnicalarticlesselectedbytheProgramCommittee among the 144 that were submitted, a number which in our opinion clearly indicates that the research area of logics in AI is one with a great and increasing interest.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Aspartic Proteinases, held in Gifu, Japan, September 1993. The purpose of the conference was to present and discuss new information on the structure, function, and biology, and related topics, including biomedical implications, of aspartic proteinases. The papers (plenary and poster) are grouped into four categories, i.e., gastric, non- gastric, retroviral, and microbial aspartic proteinases. A few of the topics: comparison of the active site specificity of the aspartic proteinases based on a systematic series of peptide substrates; discovery of inhibitors of human renin with high oral bioavailability; and inhibitor-resistant mutants of the HIV-1 aspartic protease.
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