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Proceedings of the 18th International Meshing Roundtable
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ISBN: 3642425704 3642043186 9786612459504 1282459503 3642043194 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag,

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This volume contains the articles presented at the 18th International Meshing Roundtable (IMR) organized, in part, by Sandia National Laboratories and held October 25-28, 2009 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The first IMR was held in 1992, and the conference has been held annually since. Each year the IMR brings together researchers, developers, and application experts, from a variety of disciplines, to present and discuss ideas on mesh generation and related topics. The topics covered by the IMR have applications in numerical analysis, computational geometry, computer graphics, as well as other areas, and the presentations describe novel work ranging from theory to application.

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Numerical grid generation (Numerical analysis) --Congresses. --- Numerical grid generation (Numerical analysis) --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mathematics --- Calculus --- Computer Science --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Differential equations, Partial --- Numerical solutions --- Coordinate generation, Numerical (Numerical analysis) --- Generation of numerical grids (Numerical analysis) --- Grid generation, Numerical (Numerical analysis) --- Mesh generation, Numerical (Numerical analysis) --- Numerical coordinate generation (Numerical analysis) --- Numerical mesh generation (Numerical analysis) --- Engineering. --- Computer simulation. --- Computer graphics. --- Applied mathematics. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Computational intelligence. --- Mechanics. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Computational Intelligence. --- Applications of Mathematics. --- Simulation and Modeling. --- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. --- Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics. --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering mathematics --- Classical mechanics --- Newtonian mechanics --- Physics --- Dynamics --- Quantum theory --- Intelligence, Computational --- Artificial intelligence --- Soft computing --- Engineering --- Engineering analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- Automatic drafting --- Graphic data processing --- Graphics, Computer --- Computer art --- Graphic arts --- Electronic data processing --- Engineering graphics --- Image processing --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Electromechanical analogies --- Mathematical models --- Simulation methods --- Model-integrated computing --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Digital techniques --- Boundary value problems --- Nets (Mathematics) --- Numerical analysis --- Mathematics. --- Mechanics, applied. --- Computer vision. --- Machine vision --- Vision, Computer --- Pattern recognition systems --- Math --- Science --- Optical data processing. --- Optical computing --- Visual data processing --- Bionics --- Integrated optics --- Photonics --- Computers --- Optical equipment


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The Tragedy of the Commodity
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ISBN: 0813565790 9780813565798 9780813565781 0813565782 9780813565774 0813565774 Year: 2015 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ

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Winner of the 2017 Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award from the American Sociological Association Although humans have long depended on oceans and aquatic ecosystems for sustenance and trade, only recently has human influence on these resources dramatically increased, transforming and undermining oceanic environments throughout the world. Marine ecosystems are in a crisis that is global in scope, rapid in pace, and colossal in scale. In The Tragedy of the Commodity, sociologists Stefano B. Longo, Rebecca Clausen, and Brett Clark explore the role human influence plays in this crisis, highlighting the social and economic forces that are at the heart of this looming ecological problem. In a critique of the classic theory "the tragedy of the commons" by ecologist Garrett Hardin, the authors move beyond simplistic explanations-such as unrestrained self-interest or population growth-to argue that it is the commodification of aquatic resources that leads to the depletion of fisheries and the development of environmentally suspect means of aquaculture. To illustrate this argument, the book features two fascinating case studies-the thousand-year history of the bluefin tuna fishery in the Mediterranean and the massive Pacific salmon fishery. Longo, Clausen, and Clark describe how new fishing technologies, transformations in ships and storage capacities, and the expansion of seafood markets combined to alter radically and permanently these crucial ecosystems. In doing so, the authors underscore how the particular organization of social production contributes to ecological degradation and an increase in the pressures placed upon the ocean. The authors highlight the historical, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape how we interact with the larger biophysical world. A path-breaking analysis of overfishing, The Tragedy of the Commodity yields insight into issues such as deforestation, biodiversity loss, pollution, and climate change.


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The ecological rift : capitalism's war on the earth
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ISBN: 1583673881 158367389X 9781583673898 9781583672181 1583672184 9781583672198 1583672192 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York : Monthly Review Press,

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Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts have been driven through the delicate fabric of the biosphere. The economy and the earth are headed for a fateful collision-if we don't alter course. In The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth environmental sociologists John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York offer a radical as

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