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Arcticness : Power and Voice from the North /

Table of Contents: “…Energy infrastructure development in the ArcticJustice and Arcticness in energy infrastructure development; Expanding justice in Arcticness -- a new role for the non-human; Implications: energy justice and 'frames' of Arcticness; 9 Understanding Arcticness: Comparing resource frontier narratives in the Arctic and East Africa; Introduction; Background; Materiality; Global interest; Governance; Community; Conclusion; 10 Scopes and limits of 'Arcticness': Arctic livelihoods, marine mammals and the law; Introduction; Arctic peoples in international legal regimes -- the case of marine mammal hunting.…”
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Virtual worlds, real libraries librarians and educators in Second Life and other multi-user virtual environments /

Table of Contents: “…Hill, and Todd Spires -- New frontiers for distance learning library services : a virtual world library at Appalachian State University / Geraldine Purpur and Louise Ochoa -- Exploring Second Life at Stanford / Susan Payne, Rachel Gollub, and Deni Wicklund -- Avatar in the classroom : teaching the nation's first MLIS class in Second Life / Jeremy W. …”
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Virtual worlds, real libraries librarians and educators in Second Life and other multi-user virtual environments /

Table of Contents: “…Hill, and Todd Spires -- New frontiers for distance learning library services : a virtual world library at Appalachian State University / Geraldine Purpur and Louise Ochoa -- Exploring Second Life at Stanford / Susan Payne, Rachel Gollub, and Deni Wicklund -- Avatar in the classroom : teaching the nation's first MLIS class in Second Life / Jeremy W. …”
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Free trade risks and rewards /

Table of Contents: “…JACQUES MÉNARD -- A Sea Change / 142 -- CHARLES SIROIS -- A New Frontier of Trade Policy / 144 -- LYNTON R. WILSON -- The Case of the Softwood Lumbet Industry / 147 -- BOB RAE -- A Reality Check / 151 -- JIM STANFORD -- PART FIVE FREE TRADE AND SOCIAL POLICY -- Globalization and the Social Dimension / 159 -- GERALD LAROSE -- Economic Arguments versus Ideological Ones /-166 -- GUY STANLEY -- PART SIX FREE TRADE AND DISPUTE -- SETTLEMENT -- FTA and NAFTA Dispute Settlement in Canadian Trade -- Policy / 171 -- JONATHAN T. …”
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Free trade risks and rewards /

Table of Contents: “…JACQUES MÉNARD -- A Sea Change / 142 -- CHARLES SIROIS -- A New Frontier of Trade Policy / 144 -- LYNTON R. WILSON -- The Case of the Softwood Lumbet Industry / 147 -- BOB RAE -- A Reality Check / 151 -- JIM STANFORD -- PART FIVE FREE TRADE AND SOCIAL POLICY -- Globalization and the Social Dimension / 159 -- GERALD LAROSE -- Economic Arguments versus Ideological Ones /-166 -- GUY STANLEY -- PART SIX FREE TRADE AND DISPUTE -- SETTLEMENT -- FTA and NAFTA Dispute Settlement in Canadian Trade -- Policy / 171 -- JONATHAN T. …”
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The regulation of continental shelf development : rethinking international standards /

Table of Contents: “…Malsch -- Disasters and the continental shelf : exploring new frontiers of risk / Bruce C. Glavovic -- Global legal regime on the decommissioning of offshore installations and structures / Robert Beckman -- Regional regulation of offshore oil and gas industry decommissioning by the ospar commission / David Johnson -- The regime for liability and compensation for oil pollution damage from ships / Alfred Popp -- Benefit and risk of the northern sea route to the north pacific / Sung-Woo Lee -- Developing arctic hydrocarbon resources: delineating and delimiting boundaries for field development in the arctic / Timothy J. …”
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The regulation of continental shelf development : rethinking international standards /

Table of Contents: “…Malsch -- Disasters and the continental shelf : exploring new frontiers of risk / Bruce C. Glavovic -- Global legal regime on the decommissioning of offshore installations and structures / Robert Beckman -- Regional regulation of offshore oil and gas industry decommissioning by the ospar commission / David Johnson -- The regime for liability and compensation for oil pollution damage from ships / Alfred Popp -- Benefit and risk of the northern sea route to the north pacific / Sung-Woo Lee -- Developing arctic hydrocarbon resources: delineating and delimiting boundaries for field development in the arctic / Timothy J. …”
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Chinese Circulations : Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia by Wen-chin Chang

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the arc of historical commercial relations between China and Southeast Asia / Wen-Chin Chang and Eric Tagliacozzo -- Chinese on the mining frontier in Southeast Asia / Anthony Reid -- Cotton, copper, and caravans : trade and the transformation of Southwest China / C. …”
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Chinese Circulations : Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia by Wen-chin Chang

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the arc of historical commercial relations between China and Southeast Asia / Wen-Chin Chang and Eric Tagliacozzo -- Chinese on the mining frontier in Southeast Asia / Anthony Reid -- Cotton, copper, and caravans : trade and the transformation of Southwest China / C. …”
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Herbal radiomodulators applications in medicine, homeland defence and space /

Table of Contents: “…Radiomodulatory compounds of herbal origin for new frontiers in medicine, homeland security, management of radiological incidents, and space applications / Rajesh Arora ... …”
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Contemporary issues in California archaeology

Table of Contents: “…Voss -- A land of cultural pluralism: case studies from California's colonial frontiers / Tsim D Schneider, Sara L Gonzalez, Kent G. …”
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Contemporary issues in California archaeology

Table of Contents: “…Voss -- A land of cultural pluralism: case studies from California's colonial frontiers / Tsim D Schneider, Sara L Gonzalez, Kent G. …”
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The management of insects in recreation and tourism

Table of Contents: “…Michael Hall; Part IV. Conservation Frontiers: 15. May you live in interesting times: technology and entomology / Forrest Mitchell; 16. …”
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Herbal radiomodulators applications in medicine, homeland defence and space /

Table of Contents: “…Radiomodulatory compounds of herbal origin for new frontiers in medicine, homeland security, management of radiological incidents, and space applications / Rajesh Arora ... …”
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The management of insects in recreation and tourism

Table of Contents: “…Michael Hall; Part IV. Conservation Frontiers: 15. May you live in interesting times: technology and entomology / Forrest Mitchell; 16. …”
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The future of criminology

Table of Contents: “…Snyder -- Twenty-five years of developmental criminology : what we know, what we need to know / Marc Le Blanc -- Pushing back the frontiers of knowledge on desistance from crime / Lila Kazemian -- Does psychopathology appear fully only in adulthood? …”
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The future of criminology

Table of Contents: “…Snyder -- Twenty-five years of developmental criminology : what we know, what we need to know / Marc Le Blanc -- Pushing back the frontiers of knowledge on desistance from crime / Lila Kazemian -- Does psychopathology appear fully only in adulthood? …”
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Multicriteria decision aid and artificial intelligence links, theory and applications / by Doumpos, Michael

Table of Contents: “…s Method 7.5 Discussion 7.6 Conclusion References Part Four Multiobjective Optimization 8 Interactive Approaches Applied to Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms 8.1 Introduction 8.1.1 Methods Analyzed in this Chapter 8.2 Basic Concepts and Notation 8.2.1 Multiobjective Optimization Problems 8.2.2 Classical Interactive Methods 8.3 MOEAs Based on Reference Point Methods 8.3.1 A Weighted Distance Metric 8.3.2 Light Beam Search Combined with NSGA-II 8.3.3 Controlling the Accuracy of the Pareto Front Approximation 8.3.4 Light Beam Search Combined with PSO 8.3.5 A Preference Relation Based on a Weighted Distance Metric 8.3.6 The Chebyshev Preference Relation 8.4 MOEAs Based on Value Function Methods 8.4.1 Progressive Approximation of a Value Function 8.4.2 Value Function by Ordinal Regression 8.5 Miscellaneous Methods 8.5.1 Desirability Functions 8.6 Conclusions and Future Work References 9 Generalized DEA and Computational Intelligence in Multiple Criteria Decision Making 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Generalized Data Envelopment Analysis 9.2.1 Basic DEA Models: CCR, BCC and FDH Models 9.2.2 GDEA Model 9.3 Generation of Pareto Optimal Solutions using Generalized DEA and Computational Intelligence 9.3.1 GDEA in Fitness Evaluation 9.3.2 GDEA in Deciding the Parameters of Multi-objective PSO 9.3.3 Expected Improvement for Multi-objective Optimization Using GDEA 9.4 Summary References 10 Fuzzy Multiobjective Optimization 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Solution Concepts for Multiobjective Programming 10.3 Interactive Multiobjective Linear Programming 10.4 Fuzzy Multiobjective Linear Programming 10.5 Interactive Fuzzy Multiobjective Linear Programming 10.6 Interactive Fuzzy Multiobjective Linear Programming with Fuzzy Parameters 10.7 Interactive Fuzzy Stochastic Multiobjective Linear Programming 10.8 Related Works and Applications References Part Five Applications in Management and Engineering 11 MCDA & Agents: Supporting Effective Resource Federation in Virtual Organizations 11.1 Introduction 11.2 The Intuition of Multiple Criteria Decision Aid in Multi-agent Systems 11.3 Resource Federation Applied 11.3.1 Describing the Problem in a Cloud Computing Context 11.3.2 Problem Modeling 11.3.3 Assessing Agents' Value Function for Resource Federation 11.4 An Illustrative Example 11.5 Conclusions References 12 Fuzzy AHP Using Type II Fuzzy Sets: An Application to Warehouse Location Selection 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Multicriteria Selection 12.2.1 The ELECTRE (Élimination Et Choix Traduisant la Realite) Method 12.2.2 PROMETHEE (Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations) 12.2.3 TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Situation) 12.2.4 The WSM (Weighted Sum Model) Method 12.2.5 MAUT (Multi-attribute Utility Theory) 12.2.6 AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) 12.3 Literature Review on Fuzzy AHP 12.4 Buckley's Type-1 Fuzzy AHP 12.5 Type-2 Fuzzy Sets 12.6 Type-2 Fuzzy AHP 12.7 An Application: Warehouse Location Selection 12.8 Conclusion References 13 Applying Genetic Algorithms to Optimize Energy Efficiency in Buildings 13.1 Introduction 13.2 State-of-the-Art Review 13.3 An Example Case Study 13.3.1 Basic Principles and Problem Definition 13.3.2 Decision Variables 13.3.3 Decision Criteria 13.3.4 Decision Model 13.4 Development and Application of a Genetic Algorithm for the Example Case Study 13.4.1 Development of the Genetic Algorithm 13.4.2 Application of the Genetic Algorithm, Analysis of Results and Discussion 13.5 Conclusions References 14 Nature-Inspired Intelligence for Pareto Optimality Analysis in Portfolio Optimization 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Literature Review 14.3 Methodological Issues 14.4 Pareto Optimal Sets in Portfolio Optimization 14.4.1 Pareto Efficiency 14.4.2 Mathematical Formulation of the Portfolio Optimization Problem 14.5 Computational Results 14.5.1 Experimental Setup 14.5.2 Efficient Frontier 14.6 Conclusion References Index.…”
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Multicriteria decision aid and artificial intelligence links, theory and applications / by Doumpos, Michael

Table of Contents: “…s Method 7.5 Discussion 7.6 Conclusion References Part Four Multiobjective Optimization 8 Interactive Approaches Applied to Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms 8.1 Introduction 8.1.1 Methods Analyzed in this Chapter 8.2 Basic Concepts and Notation 8.2.1 Multiobjective Optimization Problems 8.2.2 Classical Interactive Methods 8.3 MOEAs Based on Reference Point Methods 8.3.1 A Weighted Distance Metric 8.3.2 Light Beam Search Combined with NSGA-II 8.3.3 Controlling the Accuracy of the Pareto Front Approximation 8.3.4 Light Beam Search Combined with PSO 8.3.5 A Preference Relation Based on a Weighted Distance Metric 8.3.6 The Chebyshev Preference Relation 8.4 MOEAs Based on Value Function Methods 8.4.1 Progressive Approximation of a Value Function 8.4.2 Value Function by Ordinal Regression 8.5 Miscellaneous Methods 8.5.1 Desirability Functions 8.6 Conclusions and Future Work References 9 Generalized DEA and Computational Intelligence in Multiple Criteria Decision Making 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Generalized Data Envelopment Analysis 9.2.1 Basic DEA Models: CCR, BCC and FDH Models 9.2.2 GDEA Model 9.3 Generation of Pareto Optimal Solutions using Generalized DEA and Computational Intelligence 9.3.1 GDEA in Fitness Evaluation 9.3.2 GDEA in Deciding the Parameters of Multi-objective PSO 9.3.3 Expected Improvement for Multi-objective Optimization Using GDEA 9.4 Summary References 10 Fuzzy Multiobjective Optimization 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Solution Concepts for Multiobjective Programming 10.3 Interactive Multiobjective Linear Programming 10.4 Fuzzy Multiobjective Linear Programming 10.5 Interactive Fuzzy Multiobjective Linear Programming 10.6 Interactive Fuzzy Multiobjective Linear Programming with Fuzzy Parameters 10.7 Interactive Fuzzy Stochastic Multiobjective Linear Programming 10.8 Related Works and Applications References Part Five Applications in Management and Engineering 11 MCDA & Agents: Supporting Effective Resource Federation in Virtual Organizations 11.1 Introduction 11.2 The Intuition of Multiple Criteria Decision Aid in Multi-agent Systems 11.3 Resource Federation Applied 11.3.1 Describing the Problem in a Cloud Computing Context 11.3.2 Problem Modeling 11.3.3 Assessing Agents' Value Function for Resource Federation 11.4 An Illustrative Example 11.5 Conclusions References 12 Fuzzy AHP Using Type II Fuzzy Sets: An Application to Warehouse Location Selection 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Multicriteria Selection 12.2.1 The ELECTRE (Élimination Et Choix Traduisant la Realite) Method 12.2.2 PROMETHEE (Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations) 12.2.3 TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Situation) 12.2.4 The WSM (Weighted Sum Model) Method 12.2.5 MAUT (Multi-attribute Utility Theory) 12.2.6 AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) 12.3 Literature Review on Fuzzy AHP 12.4 Buckley's Type-1 Fuzzy AHP 12.5 Type-2 Fuzzy Sets 12.6 Type-2 Fuzzy AHP 12.7 An Application: Warehouse Location Selection 12.8 Conclusion References 13 Applying Genetic Algorithms to Optimize Energy Efficiency in Buildings 13.1 Introduction 13.2 State-of-the-Art Review 13.3 An Example Case Study 13.3.1 Basic Principles and Problem Definition 13.3.2 Decision Variables 13.3.3 Decision Criteria 13.3.4 Decision Model 13.4 Development and Application of a Genetic Algorithm for the Example Case Study 13.4.1 Development of the Genetic Algorithm 13.4.2 Application of the Genetic Algorithm, Analysis of Results and Discussion 13.5 Conclusions References 14 Nature-Inspired Intelligence for Pareto Optimality Analysis in Portfolio Optimization 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Literature Review 14.3 Methodological Issues 14.4 Pareto Optimal Sets in Portfolio Optimization 14.4.1 Pareto Efficiency 14.4.2 Mathematical Formulation of the Portfolio Optimization Problem 14.5 Computational Results 14.5.1 Experimental Setup 14.5.2 Efficient Frontier 14.6 Conclusion References Index.…”
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Urban centers and rural contexts in late antiquity

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