Economists have long argued that market-based instruments such as, environmental taxes, and emission trading systems, are the superior way to offset the negative externalities of any kind of economic activities. Yet, whether the effects of using these instruments are sufficient, whether they are actually used efficiently, and especially which factors influence their effectiveness is subject to …
Menunjukkan bagaimana apresiasi terhadap kompleksitas penuh konteks reproduksi sebenarnya menyederhanakan dan memperjelas pemahaman kita tentang perilaku reproduksi. Secara historis, ilmu reproduksi telah difokuskan pada perilaku reproduksi yang terpisah dari konteks tempat terjadinya. Dengan mengambil pandangan yang lebih terintegrasi, buku ini mengeksplorasi dasar neuroendokrin reproduksi dal…
Hipotesis Gaia menyatakan bahwa proses fisik dan biologis Bumi saling terkait untuk membentuk sistem pengaturan diri yang kompleks, dan bahwa kehidupan telah memengaruhi sistem ini dari waktu ke waktu. Judul ini mengkaji teori ini, serta proses-proses Gaia lainnya. ;;; Scientists Debate Gaia merupakan pemeriksaan ulang multidisipliner atas hipotesis Gaia, yang diperkenalkan oleh James Lovelock …
Medical and social progress depend on research with human subjects. When that research is done in institutions getting federal money, it is regulated (often minutely) by federally required and supervised bureaucracies called “institutional review boards” (IRBs). Do—can—these IRBs do more harm than good? In The Censor's Hand, Schneider addresses this crucial but long-unasked question.
Buku ini mewakili upaya kolektif untuk merangkum temuan penelitian selama dua dekade mengenai aspek psikososial penyakit kardiovaskular perempuan. Basis pengetahuan kedokteran ilmiah, psikososial, dan perilaku saat ini meningkat secara eksponensial. Faktanya, literaturnya begitu banyak sehingga sulit untuk dipahami. Misalnya dalam bidang psikokardiologi, beberapa ribu makalah tentang stres dan …
This title presents a philosophical refashioning of the language of thought approach to the nature of the mind, and the related computational theory of mind.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A history of of the industrial ecosystem that focuses on the biological sewage treatment plant as an early example. Biological sewage treatment, like electricity, power generation, telephones, and mass transit, has been a key technology and a major part of the urban infrastructure since the late nineteenth century. But sewage treatment plants are not only a ubiquitous component of the modern…
"The use of the Web in U.S. political campaigns has developed dramatically over the course of the last several election seasons. In Web Campaigning, Kirsten Foot and Steven Schneider examine the evolution of campaigns' Web practices, based on hundreds of campaign Web sites produced by a range of political actors during the U.S. elections of 2000, 2002, and 2004. Their developmental analyses of …