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Animal Acts : Performing Species Today /

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Arcticness : Power and Voice from the North /

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The Evolution of Political Rhetoric : The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 6 /

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The biology of island floras

Table of Contents: “…New directions and challenges for the conservation of the flora of Madagascar Stuart Cable; 18. Climate change and island floras David Bramwell; 19. Conservation status of endemic plants on Isla de Coco, Costa Rica: applying IUCN red list criteria on a small island Jennifer L. …”
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The biology of island floras

Table of Contents: “…New directions and challenges for the conservation of the flora of Madagascar Stuart Cable; 18. Climate change and island floras David Bramwell; 19. Conservation status of endemic plants on Isla de Coco, Costa Rica: applying IUCN red list criteria on a small island Jennifer L. …”
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Breakthrough communities sustainability and justice in the next American metropolis /

Table of Contents: “…Benjamin Starrett -- Reaching out to new strategic partners -- Business, grassroots, and the regional agenda / Bart Harvey -- Measuring success: using metrics in support of regional equity / David Rusk -- Networking for social justice: the African American forum on race and regionalism / Deeohn Ferris -- Sharing the new story: regional equity and strategic media / Andrea Torrice and Ellen Schneider -- Uncovering global linkages for sustainable metropolitan communities -- Climate change and the quest for regional equity / Van Jones -- A global perspective: community-driven solutions to urban poverty / Celine Cruz and David Satterthwaite -- Beyond segregation, toward a shared vision of our regions / Myron Orfield -- Resources -- Bibliography -- Contributor bios -- Authors' organizations -- Index.…”
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Africa's power infrastructure investment, integration, efficiency /

Table of Contents: “…-- Technology choices and the clean development mechanism -- How might climate change affect power investment patterns? -- Meeting the challenges of regional integration of infrastructure -- Building a political consensus -- Strengthening regional institutions -- Setting priorities for regional infrastructure -- Facilitating project preparation and cross-border finance -- Developing regional regulatory frameworks -- Investment requirements -- Modeling investment needs -- Estimating supply needs -- Overall cost requirements -- The sapp -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- The EAPP/Nile Basin -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- WAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target rate : electricity access of 54 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- CAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 44 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- Strengthening sector reform and planning -- Power sector reform in sub-Saharan Africa -- Private management contracts : winning the battle, losing the war -- Sector reform, sector performance -- The search for effective hybrid markets -- Regulatory institutions may need to be redesigned -- The challenges of independent regulation -- Regulation by contract -- Outsourcing regulatory functions -- Toward better regulatory systems -- A model to fit the context -- Widening connectivity and reducing inequality -- Low electricity connection rates -- Mixed progress, despite many agencies and funds -- Inequitable access to electricity -- Affordability of electricity : subsidizing the well off -- Policy challenges for accelerating service expansion -- Don't forget the demand side of the equation -- Take a hard-headed look at affordability -- Target subsidies to promote service expansion -- Systematic planning needed for periurban and rural electrification -- Recommitting to the reform of state-owned enterprises -- Hidden costs in underperforming state-owned enterprises -- Driving down operational inefficiencies and hidden costs -- Effect of better governance on performance of state-owned utilities -- Making state-owned enterprises more effective -- Defined roles and responsibilities -- Altering the political economy around the utility -- Practical tools for improving the performance of state-owned utilities -- Closing Africa's power funding gap -- Existing spending in the power sector -- How much more can be done within the existing resource envelope? …”
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Breakthrough communities sustainability and justice in the next American metropolis /

Table of Contents: “…Benjamin Starrett -- Reaching out to new strategic partners -- Business, grassroots, and the regional agenda / Bart Harvey -- Measuring success: using metrics in support of regional equity / David Rusk -- Networking for social justice: the African American forum on race and regionalism / Deeohn Ferris -- Sharing the new story: regional equity and strategic media / Andrea Torrice and Ellen Schneider -- Uncovering global linkages for sustainable metropolitan communities -- Climate change and the quest for regional equity / Van Jones -- A global perspective: community-driven solutions to urban poverty / Celine Cruz and David Satterthwaite -- Beyond segregation, toward a shared vision of our regions / Myron Orfield -- Resources -- Bibliography -- Contributor bios -- Authors' organizations -- Index.…”
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Africa's power infrastructure investment, integration, efficiency /

Table of Contents: “…-- Technology choices and the clean development mechanism -- How might climate change affect power investment patterns? -- Meeting the challenges of regional integration of infrastructure -- Building a political consensus -- Strengthening regional institutions -- Setting priorities for regional infrastructure -- Facilitating project preparation and cross-border finance -- Developing regional regulatory frameworks -- Investment requirements -- Modeling investment needs -- Estimating supply needs -- Overall cost requirements -- The sapp -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- The EAPP/Nile Basin -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- WAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target rate : electricity access of 54 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- CAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 44 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- Strengthening sector reform and planning -- Power sector reform in sub-Saharan Africa -- Private management contracts : winning the battle, losing the war -- Sector reform, sector performance -- The search for effective hybrid markets -- Regulatory institutions may need to be redesigned -- The challenges of independent regulation -- Regulation by contract -- Outsourcing regulatory functions -- Toward better regulatory systems -- A model to fit the context -- Widening connectivity and reducing inequality -- Low electricity connection rates -- Mixed progress, despite many agencies and funds -- Inequitable access to electricity -- Affordability of electricity : subsidizing the well off -- Policy challenges for accelerating service expansion -- Don't forget the demand side of the equation -- Take a hard-headed look at affordability -- Target subsidies to promote service expansion -- Systematic planning needed for periurban and rural electrification -- Recommitting to the reform of state-owned enterprises -- Hidden costs in underperforming state-owned enterprises -- Driving down operational inefficiencies and hidden costs -- Effect of better governance on performance of state-owned utilities -- Making state-owned enterprises more effective -- Defined roles and responsibilities -- Altering the political economy around the utility -- Practical tools for improving the performance of state-owned utilities -- Closing Africa's power funding gap -- Existing spending in the power sector -- How much more can be done within the existing resource envelope? …”
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Sources, sinks and sustainability

Table of Contents: “…Siepielski; 5. Effects of climate change on dynamics and stability of multiregional populations Mark C. …”
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Fundamentals of materials for energy and environmental sustainability

Table of Contents: “…Energy and the Environment: The Landscape: 1. A primer on climate change; 2. Global energy landscape and energy security; 3. …”
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Sources, sinks and sustainability

Table of Contents: “…Siepielski; 5. Effects of climate change on dynamics and stability of multiregional populations Mark C. …”
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Fundamentals of materials for energy and environmental sustainability

Table of Contents: “…Energy and the Environment: The Landscape: 1. A primer on climate change; 2. Global energy landscape and energy security; 3. …”
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Advances in Wheat Genetics: From Genome to Field Proceedings of the 12th International Wheat Genetics Symposium /

Table of Contents: “….: morphology, hybrid sterility and gametocidal genes -- Part III Cytogenetics and Allopolyploid Evolution -- 7 Wheat chromosome analysis -- 8 New aneuploids of common wheat -- 9 Chromosomal changes over the course of polyploid wheat evolution and domestication -- Part IV Toward Whole Genome Sequencing -- 10 Comprehensive functional analyses of expressed sequence tags in common wheat -- 11 Development of the BAC physical maps of wheat chromosome 6B for its genomic sequencing -- Part V Structural and Functional Genomics -- 12 Sequencing of wheat chromosome 6B: toward functional genomics -- 13 Genetic mechanisms of vernalization requirement duration in winter wheat cultivars -- 14 Building ultra-dense genetic maps in the presence of genotyping errors and missing data -- Part VI Functional Gene Analysis and Molecular Tools -- 15 Exploiting comparative biology and genomics to understand a trait in wheat, Ph1 -- 16 The specific features of anthocyanin biosynthesis regulation in wheat -- 17 Association of wheat miRNAs with hybrid incompatibility in interspecific crosses of Triticum and Aegilops -- 18 High efficiency wheat transformation mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- 19 extra early-flowering (exe) mutants in einkorn wheat generated by heavy-ion beam irradiation -- Part VII Biotic Stress Response -- 20 Stem rust resistance - two approaches -- 21 Germplasm enhancement for resistance to Pyrenophora tritici-repentis in wheat -- 22 Next Generation Sequencing enabled genetics in hexaploid wheat -- Part VIII Abiotic Stress Response -- 23 Genomics approaches to dissect the genetic basis of drought resistance in durum wheat -- 24 Hybrid breeding in wheat -- 25 Broadening the genetic diversity of common and durum wheat for abiotic stress tolerance breeding -- 26 Early maturity in wheat for adaptation to high temperature stress -- 27 Gene expression profiles involved in development of freezing tolerance in common wheat -- Part IX Improvement of Grain Quality -- 28 Coping with wheat quality in a changing environment - Proteomics evidence for stress caused by environmental changes -- 29 Starch modification: a model for wheat MAS breeding -- 30 Quality characteristics of soft kernel durum - a new cereal crop -- 31 Proposal of international gluten research group -- 32 Enlargement of the genetic diversity for grain quality in bread wheat through alien introgression -- 33 Complex G x E interactions and QTL clusters govern end-use quality traits in hexaploid wheat -- 34 A consistent QTL for flour yield on chromosome 3B in the soft winter wheat variety, Kitahonami -- Part X Marker-Assisted Breeding -- 35 Recent improvements in Japanese wheat varieties -- 36 Determining the order of resistance genes Qsng-3BS, Fhb1 and Sr2 and combining them in coupling on wheat chromosome 3BS -- 37 Meta-analysis of resistance to Fusarium head blight in tetraploid wheat – implications for durum wheat breeding -- 38 Interest of a multiparental and outcrossing wheat population for fine mapping -- 39 The effect of Earliness per se (Eps) genes on flowering time in bread wheat -- Part XI Toward Sustainable Wheat Production -- 40 Recapitulating the OECD-CRP session (sponsored by the OECD’s Co-operative Research Program on Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems -- 41 Exploring genetic resources to increase adaptation of wheat to climate change -- 42 Genomic approaches towards durable fungal disease resistance in wheat -- 43 Review and new progress in wheat wide hybridization for improving the resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses -- 44 Global crop improvement networks to bridge technology gaps -- 45 Genomic selection in plants: empirical results and implications for wheat breeding -- 46 Dietary fibre: wheat genes for enhanced human health -- BM Appendix I: Program -- Appendix II: Poster Presentation List -- Appendix III: Committees.…”
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Advances in Wheat Genetics: From Genome to Field Proceedings of the 12th International Wheat Genetics Symposium /

Table of Contents: “….: morphology, hybrid sterility and gametocidal genes -- Part III Cytogenetics and Allopolyploid Evolution -- 7 Wheat chromosome analysis -- 8 New aneuploids of common wheat -- 9 Chromosomal changes over the course of polyploid wheat evolution and domestication -- Part IV Toward Whole Genome Sequencing -- 10 Comprehensive functional analyses of expressed sequence tags in common wheat -- 11 Development of the BAC physical maps of wheat chromosome 6B for its genomic sequencing -- Part V Structural and Functional Genomics -- 12 Sequencing of wheat chromosome 6B: toward functional genomics -- 13 Genetic mechanisms of vernalization requirement duration in winter wheat cultivars -- 14 Building ultra-dense genetic maps in the presence of genotyping errors and missing data -- Part VI Functional Gene Analysis and Molecular Tools -- 15 Exploiting comparative biology and genomics to understand a trait in wheat, Ph1 -- 16 The specific features of anthocyanin biosynthesis regulation in wheat -- 17 Association of wheat miRNAs with hybrid incompatibility in interspecific crosses of Triticum and Aegilops -- 18 High efficiency wheat transformation mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- 19 extra early-flowering (exe) mutants in einkorn wheat generated by heavy-ion beam irradiation -- Part VII Biotic Stress Response -- 20 Stem rust resistance - two approaches -- 21 Germplasm enhancement for resistance to Pyrenophora tritici-repentis in wheat -- 22 Next Generation Sequencing enabled genetics in hexaploid wheat -- Part VIII Abiotic Stress Response -- 23 Genomics approaches to dissect the genetic basis of drought resistance in durum wheat -- 24 Hybrid breeding in wheat -- 25 Broadening the genetic diversity of common and durum wheat for abiotic stress tolerance breeding -- 26 Early maturity in wheat for adaptation to high temperature stress -- 27 Gene expression profiles involved in development of freezing tolerance in common wheat -- Part IX Improvement of Grain Quality -- 28 Coping with wheat quality in a changing environment - Proteomics evidence for stress caused by environmental changes -- 29 Starch modification: a model for wheat MAS breeding -- 30 Quality characteristics of soft kernel durum - a new cereal crop -- 31 Proposal of international gluten research group -- 32 Enlargement of the genetic diversity for grain quality in bread wheat through alien introgression -- 33 Complex G x E interactions and QTL clusters govern end-use quality traits in hexaploid wheat -- 34 A consistent QTL for flour yield on chromosome 3B in the soft winter wheat variety, Kitahonami -- Part X Marker-Assisted Breeding -- 35 Recent improvements in Japanese wheat varieties -- 36 Determining the order of resistance genes Qsng-3BS, Fhb1 and Sr2 and combining them in coupling on wheat chromosome 3BS -- 37 Meta-analysis of resistance to Fusarium head blight in tetraploid wheat – implications for durum wheat breeding -- 38 Interest of a multiparental and outcrossing wheat population for fine mapping -- 39 The effect of Earliness per se (Eps) genes on flowering time in bread wheat -- Part XI Toward Sustainable Wheat Production -- 40 Recapitulating the OECD-CRP session (sponsored by the OECD’s Co-operative Research Program on Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems -- 41 Exploring genetic resources to increase adaptation of wheat to climate change -- 42 Genomic approaches towards durable fungal disease resistance in wheat -- 43 Review and new progress in wheat wide hybridization for improving the resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses -- 44 Global crop improvement networks to bridge technology gaps -- 45 Genomic selection in plants: empirical results and implications for wheat breeding -- 46 Dietary fibre: wheat genes for enhanced human health -- BM Appendix I: Program -- Appendix II: Poster Presentation List -- Appendix III: Committees.…”
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The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / by Brook, Timothy, 1951-

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The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / by Brook, Timothy, 1951-

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