Chapter 4 The Oceanography and Marine Ecology of Ningaloo, A World Heritage Area

The Ningaloo coast of north-western Australia (eastern Indian Ocean) hosts one of the world’s longest and most extensive fringing coral reef systems, along with globally-significant abundances of large marine fauna such as whale sharks. These characteristics — which have contributed to its inscription on the World Heritage list — exist because of the unique climatic, geomorphologic and oc…

Beyond Provenance (Volume 6.0)

Human intentionality in chemical patterns in Bronze Age metals For the last 180 years, scientists have been attempting to determine the ‘provenance’ (geological source) of the copper used in Bronze Age artefacts. However, despite advances in analytical technologies, the theoretical approach has remained virtually unchanged over this period, with the interpretative methodology only changing …

Advances in Hydraulics and Hydroinformatics Volume 2

Dripline flushing is an effective way to relieve emitter clogging and extend the longevity of drip irrigation systems. This laboratory study was conducted at Kunming University of Science and Technology to evaluate the effect of three targeted flushing velocities (0.3, 0.6, and 0.9 m/s) and four flushing frequencies (no flushing, flushing daily, and flushing every three or five days) on the…

WTO Law and Trade Policy Reform for Low-Carbon Technology Diffusion = Common …

The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In WTO Law and Trade Policy Reform for Low-Carbon Technology Diffusion, Zaker Ahmad puts a spotlight on the crucial importance of dismantling market barriers and offering incentives to improve clean technology access and diffusion across borders. To that end, the author argues…

Critical Perspectives on Interreligious Education

The editors of Experiments in Empathy: Critical Reflections on Interreligious Education have assembled a volume that spans multiple religious traditions and offers innovative methods for teaching and designing interreligious learning. This groundbreaking text includes established interreligious educators and emerging scholars who expand the vision of this field to include critical studies, deco…

Exploring Animal Behavior Through Sound: Volume 1

The idea for this textbook on Animal Bioacoustics was Jeanette’s. She reached out to bioacousticians working on the different animal taxa and received great interest in this book. Experts from around the globe joined her effort, developing chapters on bioacoustic studies on the diverse animal taxa, from invertebrates and insects, to amphibians, reptiles, fishes, birds, and mammals. It so…

Supplement to the volume of collected writings, etc.

There are one or two points in the letter of your esteemed correspondent " Lambda " in last week's issue which call for some observation before the subject of the recent Revision of the Ritual is allowed to rest. Being one of an abnormal class which comes under two categories in your correspondent's letter, namely, " blaming the Conference for its insufficient action," and being at the same tim…

Legume Protein: Properties and Extraction for Food Applications