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Provides weather-related facts, including world climates, precipitation, and global warming, while outlining specific countries' weather patterns throughout the year.
The book collects extended original contributions presented at the first ECCOMAS Conference on Meshless Methods held in 2005 in Lisbon. The list of contributors is a mix of highly distinguished authors as well as promising young researchers. This means that the reader gets a varied and contemporary view on different mesh reduction methods and its range of applications. The material presented is appropriate for researchers, engineers, physicists, applied mathematicians and graduate students interested in this active research area.
The molecular genetics of aging or life-span determination is an expanding field. One reason is because many people would consider it desirable if hu man life span could be extended. Indeed, it is difficult not to be fascinated by tales of the life and death of people who have succeeded in living a very long life. Because of this, we have placed at the head of this book the chapter by Perls et al. on Centenerians and the Genetics of Longevity. Perls and his coauthors convincingly argue that, while the average life expectancy might be mostly determined by environmental factors because the average person has an average genotype, extremely long life spans are genetically determined. Of course, ...
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With the successful introduction in 2010 of the Czech Yearbook of International Law, Professor Alexander J. Bělohlávek and Professor Naděžda Rozehnalová, the editors, present the 2011 volume of this ambitious project. The second volume focuses on the admittedly controversial topics relating to a shift from the investors’ viewpoints on investment protection to the contrasting viewpoints of the host states, which are facing growing numbers of alleged claims by investors. Volume II has set as its objective to plot the shift in the paradigm towards a new balance between investors and host states in the investment protection system. Such a shift can be observed in the rising number of coun...
Další z řady publikací České lékařské komory editorů prof. Radka Ptáčka a doc. Petra Bartůňka, které se věnují etickým a psychologickým aspektům současné medicíny a jsou spjaty se stejně zaměřenými konferencemi. Tato desátá monografie rozebírá význam naděje v medicíně v jednotlivých lékařských oborech i etické otázky kolem pandemie covid-19.
This is a study of how children come to understand the economic world. It is set against the background of a western society that lacks formal training in economics, although it uses and interprets the economy with some skill. The book is international and interdisciplinary in scope.
A practical, full-color reference on the major medical and minmally invasive approaches to managing patients with common and rare vascular diseases Vascular Medicine is one of the first truly comprehensive texts to provide a medically-focused, as opposed to surgically focused, approach to the management of vascular diseases. Presented in full color, with extensive illustrations and practical, clinically-oriented text, the book covers all major conditions such as inflammatory disease, portal hypertension, and granulamatosis. Reflecting an interdisciplinary approach, the author team represents all major specialties represented in the book (outpatient medicine, vascular medicine, cardiology, and radiology).