Note: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part I: Modelling Ecological Complexity -- Chapter 1: Problems of Boundedness in Modeling Ecological Systems -- A. The Construction of Complexity -- B. The Hidden Complexity of Simple Models -- Chapter 2: Open Sites in Model Building -- Part II: Interpreting Ecological Modelers in Their Complex Social Context -- Chapter 3: Metaphors and Allegory in the Origins of Systems Ecology -- A. Social-Personal-Scientific Correlations in the Work of H. T. Odum: A First Reading -- B. Another Look: Diagrams and Physical Analogies -- Chapter 4: Reconstructing Heterogeneous Webs in Socio-Environmental Research -- A. The Simulated Future of a Salt-Affected Agricultural Region -- B. An Intersection of Domains of Action that Include MIT, USAID, System Dynamics Modelers, and Nomadic Pastoralists -- Part III: Engaging Reflexively within Ecological, Scientific, and Social Complexity -- Chapter 5: Reflecting on Researchers' Diverse Resources -- A. Further Intersections that Affect Researchers and Interpreters Extending Their Webs -- B. Workshops in which Ecologists Map Their Webs of Knowledge-Making -- C. Two Terms that Help Researchers Conceptualize More Complexity -- Chapter 6: Reasoned Understandings and Social Change in Research on Common Resources: Introducing a Framework to Keep Tensions Active, Productive, and Ever-Present -- A. Researchers Conduct a Dialogue, Involving Concepts and Evidence, with the Situations Studied -- B. Socially Situated Researchers Interact with Other Social Agents to Establish What Counts as Knowledge -- C. Researchers Pursue Social Change by Addressing Self-Consciously the Complexities of the Situations They Study and Their Own Social Situatedness -- Epilogue: Three Stories -- A. Participation -- B. Flexible Engagement -- C. Open Questions -- Summary of Themes and Questions Opened Up. , Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Note: Intro -- Note on References -- Acknowledgements -- Overview -- Preface -- Part One: THE SCIENCE -- Introduction -- 1 The Uncertain Signal -- 2 Natural Causes -- 3 Satellite Data -- 4 Cloud Cover -- 5 Ocean Cycles -- 6 Poles Apart -- 7 Solar Source -- 8 Cosmic Rays -- 9 New Theory -- 10 Prediction -- Part Two: THE POLITICS -- Introduction -- 11 Virtual Realities -- 12 Dissent and Consensus -- 13 Collusion -- 14 Urgency and Error -- 15 Vulnerability and Adaptation -- 16 Reflections from Anthropology -- Glossary -- References.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Scientific committee -- Organizing committees -- Acknowledgements -- Science -- Green synthesis and characterization of Zinc Oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles using Uncaria gambir leaf extract -- The effect of dopant Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) nanoparticle concentration on the characteristics and conductive properties of cholesteryl acrylate polymer-ITO composite -- A comparison of digital signal modulation techniques through multipath Rayleigh fading channel using a MIMO-OSTBC system -- Determining the elastic factor for an ecotechnic assessment of Medium Voltage (MV) transmission lines with a consideration of the conductor's skin effect -- Impact of power harmonics on precise and discriminative tripping of the relay system for earthing protection in underground 6 kV grids of Quảng Ninh underground mines -- Microwave-assisted synthesis and in vivo anti-diabetic activity of 5-(2-bromophenyl)-3-(naphthalen-1-yl)-4,5-dihydro-1H-pyrazole -- Design, molecular docking study, synthesis and in vivo evaluation of some bromonaphthyl pyrazolines as new anti-inflammatory agents -- Synthesis and analysis of Carbon Dots (CDs) from natural sources -- Optimum temperature of the amplification of the fljB gene of Salmonella typhimurium -- Gibbs paradox of some thermodynamic properties in one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation -- Co-electrodeposition of Ni/Si3N4 composite coatings -- In vitro germination of wild banana Musa acuminata Colla var. microcarpa (Becc) after storage periods at different temperatures -- Reversible antifertility effects, and morphometry of testis and epididymides in male DDY mice after being given aqueous neem seed extract (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) -- Harvesting chlorella sp by electrocoagulation. , Population dynamic of zoobenthos at the mangrove ecosystem on Bira Island -- Science education -- Structure of matter-diagnosis of misconceptions and challenges -- REMAD COCOPER learning strategy implementation to improve the global competitiveness of biology education students at Universitas Negeri Malang -- Ethical dilemma story pedagogy-a constructivist approach to values learning and ethical understanding -- Transformative STEAM education for sustainable development -- A makerspace -- a space to play and a space to learn -- Learning environment measurement for teaching and learning improvement -- New directions in STEM education -- Novel written task as a formative assessment strategy in physics -- Profile of the spatial thinking of junior high school students using the concept of earth science -- Chemistry laboratory skills video: Design and development -- Students' cognitive structure with regard to chemistry concepts through the Learning Cycle 8E approach -- Discovery learning model to improve high school students' critical thinking skills -- Gamification and its effect to student motivation in physics -- The socio-scientific issue in a cross-context biology lesson: How far it goes from the lens of a teacher's and her students' experiences? -- Teacher support material in physics for the explicit-reflective instruction of the nature of science -- Development of a teaching-learning sequence on contact forces using bridging analogies -- Measuring Indonesian chemistry students' Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in solving chemical kinetics questions -- ScEd-ALS Project: The use of pedagogical intervention in developing hypermedia science based on learning style -- Study of Project-based Learning (PjBL) on self-efficacy and academic achievement of pH range natural indicator learning in chemistry classrooms. , Analysis of students' cognitive structure of acid-base topics through flow map methods with the Learning Cycle 8E model -- The influence of learning models and critical thinking skills on students' chemical literacy -- The influence of Problem Based Learning (PBL) with Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and motivation for critical thinking skills -- Identification of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) competency on self-efficacy of pre-service chemical teachers -- The effect of mobile learning and motivation for students' High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in electrolyte and nonelectrolyte solutions learning -- Analyze students' scientific literacy based on environmental cognitive using nature of science learning method -- Development and evaluation of a project-based STEM learning module on the scientific creativity of gred five Students in Malaysia -- Development of students' creative thinking skills in chemistry using Mobile Game-Based Learning (M-GBL) with integrated creative problem-solving -- Molecular engineering activity for chemistry teacher education: An interactive simulation on cellulose dissolution in ionic liquids -- Development of an electronic module with a discovery learning model to improve Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) learning outcomes in a senior high school study of harmonic oscillation -- A chemistry learning module based on a scientific approach for developing problem-solving ability -- Effect of instructional materials on academic performance in the heat transfer concept among secondary school physics students in the Fagge Educational Zone, Kano State, Nigeria -- Integration of the green chemistry approach in essential oil extraction practice to develop students' critical thinking skills. , Development of mobile learning media based on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in a chemical equilibrium topic -- Enhancing senior high school student scientific literacy in physics through a water rocket enrichment book and augmented reality application -- The development of new learning media through a Mach-Zehnder interferometer simulation -- Modeling skills in chemistry education to win students on global competitiveness -- Motor ability based on traditional games in junior high school -- Analysis of chemical identity thinking through problem-based learning based on redox and electrochemistry concepts -- Mathematics and its application -- Value at Risk for the portfolio problem with copulas -- Median polish kriging model for circular-spatial data -- Determinants of health complaints of Bodetabek commuter workers using Bayesian multilevel logistic regression -- The determination of the area where disease spreads with a generalized space-time autoregressive kriging (GSTAR-Kriging) model -- Optimal retention for stop-loss reinsurance with distribution-free approximation -- Modeling structural breakpoints in volatility of Philippine Peso-US Dollar currency exchange rate -- A Laplace transform dual reciprocity method for two-dimensional diffusion equation -- Learning to innovate -- the role of imitation on the innovation adoption process within innovation networks: Evidence from a developing country -- Analysis of the causes of unemployment in DKI Jakarta using panel data regression -- Developing Predict-Observe-Explain worksheets on elementary school mathematics subject -- Categorizing environmental knowledge using a classification table based on median score -- Mathematics pre-service teachers' anticipation of students' responses: A case study of lesson study for pre-service teachers. , Complex evolution of innovation partnerships: Policy influence, research generation and innovation adoption in a developing country -- The 'Neutralization on a Number Line' (NNL) model for integer addition and subtraction -- Students' difficulties in solving algebraic operations: Case study in a Community Learning Activities Center (PKBM) -- Images of the mathematics curriculum held by school mathematics teachers: Mapping the road for transformative pedagogies -- Learning composition and decomposition of a function with a realistic mathematics education approach for senior high school students -- A comparison between the discovery and expository methods of teaching mathematics among secondary school students in the Nassarawa Local Government Area of Kano State, Nigeria -- Organ-specific expression revealed using support vector machine on maize nested association mapping datasets -- Enhancing fault tolerance in MapReduce tasks -- Classification of crimes based on socioeconomics using multinomial regression -- Identity construction of female mathematics teachers during their school education -- Implementation of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) using softphone applications based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) -- Practicality of constructivism-based workbook as argument and deduction materials to improve learning outcomes -- Decontextualized nature of the mathematics curriculum -- Evaluation of implementation of the hypothetical learning trajectory at the thesis of mathematical education -- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) detection using cough sound analysis based on machine learning -- A proposed model for predicting stock market behavior based on detecting fake news -- Comparative study of stream, block, and hybrid cipher techniques in the Hadoop distributed file system -- Author index.

Note: Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION -- FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Geographical scope -- Classification and taxonomy -- Conservation Status -- MUSEUM COLLECTIONS AND PIONEERING RESEARCHERS -- Researcher gallery -- The value of specimens -- Chiroptera collections -- Databases and authors' contributions -- BAT BIOLOGY -- Overview -- Migration -- Torpor and hibernation -- Reproduction -- Predation -- Foraging ecology and associated ecological services -- Roosting habits -- Foliage-roosting bats -- Hollow-roosting bats -- Crevice-roosting bats -- Specialised roost sites -- BIOGEOGRAPHY -- Geology -- Ancient basement rocks -- Sedimentary rocks -- Rift valleys -- Geomorphology -- Escarpments -- Drainage systems -- Climates past and present -- Vegetation -- Grassland -- Savanna -- Forest -- ECHOLOCATION -- Echolocation systems -- Types of bat echolocation pulses -- Ecology of bat echolocation and flight -- Recording echolocation calls -- Spectrum analysis -- Bat detectors -- Spectrograms and echolocation -- SPECIES ACCOUNTS -- Suborder Pteropodiformes -- Suborder Vespertilioniformes -- GLOSSARY -- LIST OF SPECIMENS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Note: Intro -- Beyond Conservation A wildland strategy -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The wild side of natural -- Nature as mother -- Chapter 2 Coed Eryri -- Lety'r Fwyalchen - abode of the blackbird -- The ancient forest, cattle and the Celtic heritage -- A mythic heart -- Integrative regeneration -- Re-evaluation and vision -- Cultural shifts: from grass pasture to wood pasture -- Cae Mabon and rites of passage -- New green shoots of change -- Chapter 3 Caledon -- The Trees for Life vision -- The Millennium Forest for Scotland -- Land and ownership: iniquity and opportunity -- Scottish Natural Heritage: a policy on wildland -- Scottish Wild Rivers -- Restoration ecology and appropriate economic development -- Pioneering re-introduction of predators -- The wild heart of the Highlands -- Practical regeneration: the Glen Affric project -- The problem of red deer -- Deer control -- Re-introduction of other herbivores -- The question of carnivores -- Other species issues -- Other initiatives in the core area -- Economic exploitation: hydro-electric dams, roads and reservoirs -- Inspiration -- Chapter 4 Dartmoor -- Moor Trees: a local re-wilding initiative -- Military training grounds -- A potential core area -- Non-intervention -- Managed re-wilding -- Chapter 5 The Potential for networks and corridors -- The Land Use Policy Group and new wildwoods -- Ennerdale in the Lake District National Park -- Land ownership and management -- The Carrifan wildwood project -- Glen Finglas: a Woodland Trust site in the Trossachs -- Cashel -- The National Trust fenland project in Cambridgeshire -- The North Pennines and Sussex wildwoods -- Wild rivers -- Coastal retreat: Abbott's Hall Farm, Essex -- Concluding on networks. , Chapter 6 Restoring ecological processes: regeneration of the core vegetation -- Woodland, grazing and pre-history -- The indigenous British temperate forest -- Beneath the trees -- Montane willow and juniper scrub -- Pine woodland -- Oak-Birch woodlands -- Ash woodland -- Restoration and creating anew -- Dynamics of regeneration -- Chapter 7 Restoring ecological processes: the herbivore guild -- Rebuilding the herbivore guild -- The herbivore species -- Forest elephant and rhino -- The European wisent or wood bison -- Forest cattle: the aurochsen -- Wild forest horses or tarpan -- The elk -- Reindeer -- Wild boar -- Feral goats and sheep -- The beaver -- Red, roe, fallow and other deer -- The small herbivores: squirrels, rats, rabbits and hares -- Chapter 8 Restoring ecological processes: bringing back the carnivores -- The guild of carnivores -- Lynx -- Big cats in Britain -- The European leopard -- Wolf -- Bear -- Other predators: the wildcat, polecat and marten -- Concluding on predators -- Chapter 9 The healing forest -- A healing peace -- Healing the wounds of industrialization -- Towards a science that looks within -- Shadows in the psyche -- Steps towards a sacred ecology -- Complementary maps of reality -- The unifying dream -- Chapter 10 The land in-between: wilding agriculture -- Landscape-scale intervention -- Infrastructural inheritance -- The problem of intensive agriculture -- Animal and human diseases: consumer response to BSE and FMD -- The Curry Report: A Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food -- Tir Gofal: an integrated agricultural support system -- The limitations of agricultural support systems -- Organic farming and sustainability -- A dual strategy: ecological farming practices and targeted habitat creation -- The separation of farming and wildlife -- Chapter 11 Targeted habitatc creation. , Whole-farm and whole-catchment approaches in the uplands -- Climate change, carbon dioxide emissions and renewable energy -- Carbon sequestration and wildlife -- Wildland and the integration of future land-use issues -- River restoration and Forest Habitat Networks -- Ecological Networks in the Netherlands -- Chapter 12 Stepping stones to a wilder policy -- The UK Biodiversity Action Plan -- BAP and the candidate core areas -- Essential elements of a wilding strategy -- Obstacles to progress on wildland -- Areas of special interest to conservationists -- Areas of natural sanctuary -- Wilding agriculture and the urban fringe -- Government agency -- Education -- Chapter 13 Straight to the heart: a wildland strategy -- The Three Nations Proposal -- Land purchase -- Buffer zones -- Forest networks and riparian corridors -- Species re-introductions -- The heart of nature: wild to the core -- Endnotes -- References -- Scientific Names of Species -- Index.

Note: Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to Second Edition -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Origin and Transmission of Form: The Gene as the Vehicle of Constancy -- 3 The Problem of Change -- 4 Variability and Ontogenetic Differentiation -- 5 Variations on a Theme: Cognitive Metaphors and the Homunculoid Gene -- 6 The Ghosts in the Ghost-in-the-Machine Machine -- 7 The Ontogeny of Information -- 8 Reprise -- 9 Prospects -- Afterword to Second Edition -- Notes -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

Note: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Rationale and Scope of the Book -- Evolution of Fossil Rodents in Africa -- Importance of Rodents -- Conservation of African rodents -- General Methods and Layout of Book -- Species accounts -- Order: Rodentia -- Family: Gliridae -- Family: Sciuridae -- Family: Myocastoridae -- Family: Ctenodactylidae -- Family: Hystricidae -- Family: Thryonomyidae -- Family: Petromuridae -- Family: Bathyergidae -- Family: Anomaluridae -- Family: Pedetidae -- Family: Dipodidae -- Family: Spalacidae -- Subfamily: Tachyoryctinae -- Family: Nesomyidae -- Family: Muridae -- Subfamily: Deomyinae -- Subfamily: Gerbillinae -- Subfamily: Leimacomyinae -- Subfamily: Lophiomyinae -- Subfamily: Murinae. TEIL 1 -- Subfamily: Murinae. TEIL 2 -- References -- Appendix.

Note: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Changing Life in the New World Dis/Order -- The Terminator Meets Commander Data: Cyborg Identity in the New World Order -- Bodies of Knowledge: Biology and the Intercultural University -- Genetic Engineering, Discourses of Deficiency, and the New Politics of Population -- Contradictions along the Commodity Road to Environmental Stabilization: Foresting Gambian Gardens -- Discipline or Solidarity? Ecology as Politics -- Overpopulating the World: Notes toward a Discursive Reading -- How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? Undifferentiated Science-Politics and Its Potential Reconstruction -- Do Androids Pulverize Tiger Bones to Use as Aphrodisiacs? -- Bubbles in the Cosmic Saucepan -- Afterword: Shifting Positions for Knowing and Intervening in the Cultural Politics of the Life Sciences -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.

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