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Fish surveys --- Fisheries --- Trawls and trawling --- Fishery resources --- Fish stock assessment --- Fish populations --- Catch effort

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"In this fifth edition of Principles of Exercise Testing and Interpretation, as in earlier editions, we attempt to develop conceptual advances in the physiology and pathophysiology of exercise, particularly as related to the practice of medicine. The underlying theme of the book continues to be the recognition that the most important requirement for exercise performance is transport of oxygen to support the bioenergetic processes in the muscle cells (including, of course, the heart) and elimination of the carbon dioxide formed as a byproduct of exercise metabolism. Thus, appropriate cardiovascular and ven- tilatory responses are required to match those of muscle respiration in meeting the energy demands of exercise. As depicted by the logo on the book cover, normal exercise performance requires an efficient coupling of external to internal (cellular) respiration. Appropriate treatment of exercise intolerance requires that patients' symptoms be thought of in terms of a gas exchange defect between the cell and the environment. The defect may be in the lungs, heart, peripheral or pulmonary circulations, the muscles themselves, or there may be a combination of defects. Thus, we describe the pathophysiology in gas transport and exchange that affect any site in the cardio- respiratory coupling between the lungs and the muscles. We illustrate how cardiopulmonary exercise testing can provide the means for a critical evaluation by the clinician-scientist of the functional competency of each component in the coupling of cellular to external respiration, including the cardiovascular system. To achieve this, clinical cases are used to illustrate the wide spectrum of pathophysiology capable of causing exercise intolerance"--Provided by publisher.

Exercise Test. --- Physical Exertion --- Exercise tests. --- Heart function tests. --- Pulmonary function tests. --- Epreuves d'effort --- Coeur --- Appareil respiratoire --- physiology. --- Exploration fonctionnelle

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Heterogeneity of public utility services is common in developing countries. In a "high-level" equilibrium, the quality of utility services is high, consumer willingness to pay for services is high, the utility is well funded and staff well paid in order to induce high quality of performance. In a "low-level" equilibrium the opposite is the case. Which alternative occurs depends on both the quality of utility management, and public perceptions about service quality. If a utility administration has the potential to offer high-quality service, and the public is aware of this, high-quality equilibrium also requires the public's service payments to be high enough to fund the needed pay incentives for the utility staff. When the public lack knowledge about the utility administration's quality, the public's initial beliefs about the utility administration's quality also will influence their willingness to make adequate service payments for a high-quality equilibrium. This paper shows that, with low confidence, only a low-level equilibrium may exist; while with higher initial confidence, a high-level equilibrium become possible. "Intermediate" (in between the low- and high-level) outcomes also can occur in early periods, with "high-level" outcomes later on.

Bayesian Nash Equilibrium --- Economic Theory & Research --- Effort Incentive Schemes --- Energy --- Environment --- Low-Level Equilibrium --- Multiple Equilibria --- Political Economy --- Public Sector Economics --- Public Utility Services --- Town Water Supply and Sanitation --- Urban Water Supply and Sanitation

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We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry--not an era that favored the lax and indolent individual. But was the Enlightenment only about the unceasing improvement of self and society? The Pursuit of Laziness examines moral, political, and economic treatises of the period, and reveals that crucial eighteenth-century texts did find value in idleness and nonproductivity. Fleshing out Enlightenment thinking in the works of Denis Diderot, Joseph Joubert, Pierre de Marivaux, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Jean-Siméon Chardin, this book exp

Laziness. --- Enlightenment --- Indolence --- Sloth --- Deadly sins --- Personality --- Bonnet de nuit. --- Bulles de savon. --- Cartesian thought. --- Denis Diderot. --- Diderot. --- Enlightenment thinking. --- Enlightenment. --- Georges-Jacques Danton. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- Jean-Simon Chardin. --- Joseph Joubert. --- Louis-Sbastien Mercier. --- Michel Foucault. --- Pierre Carlet de Marivaux. --- Pierre de Marivaux. --- Rameau's Nephew. --- alternative subjectivation. --- authority. --- bourgeois. --- contemplation. --- domestic interiors. --- dsoeuvrement. --- efficiency. --- effort. --- eighteenth century. --- functionality. --- idleness. --- idler. --- industrialization. --- journalist. --- labor. --- laziness. --- leisure. --- modernity. --- moralist. --- nonproductivity. --- philosopher. --- philosophical writings. --- philosophy. --- pillow. --- political philosopher. --- politics. --- productivity. --- sensory cogito. --- solid reality. --- subjectivity. --- subtlely. --- utopia. --- writing.