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Safety Management Systems: Applications for the Aviation Industry provides an in-depth review of specific applications of an aviation-related Safety Management System (SMS) by following it from design through application. Readers will gain an understanding of SMS and how it relates to their daily activities. Also, specific information is provided on the rotocraft industry, due to variations in the challenges it faces.

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This book helps develop a better understanding of how researchers from different scientific backgrounds view models and uncertainty. It provides key steps in fostering and encouraging interdisciplinary research, which is vital in addressing several big issues that society faces today, such as climate change, longevity, financial and actuarial risk management. To make progress in these areas, researchers must develop an understanding of differing perspectives and methods of those working in other disciplines. This title presents the views and understandings of eminent people in their respective fields through interviews on the topic of modelling and uncertainty. Each expert was asked the same set of questions to help readers understand the similarities and differences existing between various disciplines. It also helps to bridge some of the gaps encountered by those carrying out inter- and multi-disciplinary research and suggests new approaches to modelling and uncertainty quantification. Contents: A Conversation with Albert MaA Conversation with Aldo ZolloA Conversation with Ann LangleyA Conversation with Anthony C AtkinsonA Conversation with Arthur JaffeA Conversation with Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné A Conversation with Sir Brian HoskinsA Conversation with Charles ManskiA Conversation with Chris ImpeyA Conversation with Gerd FolkersA Conversation with Leonard SmithA Conversation with Michael StumpfA Conversation with Nigel KleinA Conversation with James KeirsteadA Conversation with Nilay ShahA Conversation with Paul EmbrechtsA Conversation with Ron BatesA Conversation with Simon DietzA Conversation with Stephan Hartmann Readership: Mathematicians interested in modelling, uncertainty, and conversations with researchers working in this field. Multidisciplinary;Mathematics;Modelling;Uncertainty;Variability;Imprecision00

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This volume contains survey articles on various aspects of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) and their applications in stochastic control theory and in physics. The topics presented in this volume are: dynamics of stochastic reaction-diffusion equations; stochastic Itô-Volterra backward equations in Banach spaces; stochastic equations of Schrödinger type; optimal control of stochastic Navier-Stokes equations; quantum Hamilton equations from stochastic optimal control theory. This book is intended not only for graduate students in mathematics or physics, but also for mathematicians, mathematical physicists, theoretical physicists, and science researchers interested in the physical applications of the theory of stochastic processes.Contents: Preface Dynamics of Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Equations (C Kuehn and A Neamtu) Stochastic Itô-Volterra Backward Equations in Banach Spaces (M Azimi and W Grecksch) Stochastic Schrödinger Equations (W Grecksch and H Lisei) Optimal Control of the Stochastic Navier-Stokes Equations (P Benner and C Trautwein) QHE from Stochastic Optimal Control Theory (J Köppe, M Patzold, M Beyer, W Grecksch and W Paul)Readership: Graduate students in mathematics or physics, mathematicians, mathematical physicists, theoretical physicists, and science researchers interested in the physical applications of the theory of stochastic processes.

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The link between commodities prices and the business cycle, including variables such as real GDP, industrial production, unemployment, inflation, and market uncertainty, has often been debated in the macroeconomic literature. To quantify the impact of commodities on the economy, one can distinguish different modeling approaches. First, commodities can be represented as the pinnacle of cross-sectional financial asset prices. Second, price fluctuations due to seasonal variations, dramatic market changes, political and regulatory decisions, or technological shocks may adversely impact producers who use commodities as input. This latter effect creates the so-called 'commodities risk'. Additionally, commodities price fluctuations may spread to other sectors in the economy, via contagion effects. Besides, stronger investor interest in commodities may create closer integration with conventional asset markets; as a result, the financialization process also enhances the correlation between commodity markets and financial markets. Our objective in this book, Risk Factors and Contagion in Commodity Markets and Stocks Markets, lies in answering the following research questions: What are the interactions between commodities and stock market sentiment? Do some of these markets move together overtime? Did the financialization in energy commodities occur after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis? These questions are essential to understand whether commodities are driven only by their fundamentals, or whether there is also a systemic component influenced by the volatility present within the stock markets. Contents: PrefaceAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsBubbles on Bitcoin Price: The Bitcoin Rush (Dominique Guegan and Marius-Cristian Frunza) Investigating the Association between Oil VIX and Equity VIX: Evidence from China (Anupam Dutta, Timo Rothovius and Jussi Nikkinen) The Predictive Power of Oil and Commodity Prices for Equity Markets (Leila Dagher, Ibrahim Jamali and Nasser Badra) Time-Varying Linkage between Equities and Oil (Beyza Mina Ordu-Akkaya, Adil Oran and Uğur Soytaş) Has the Causal Nexus of Oil Prices and Consumer Prices Been Asymmetric in the US during the Last Fifteen Decades? (Abdulnasser Hatemi-J and Youssef El-Khatib) Risky Financial Assets in Financial Integration and the Impacts of Derivatives on Banking Returns (Hasan Dinçer, Serhat Yüksel, Fatih Pınarbaşı and Mehmet Ali Alhan) The Risk-Sharing Paradigm in Islamic Financial System: Myth or Reality? (Jamel Boukhatem and Mouldi Djelassi) Commodity Markets' Asset Allocation with Robust Liquidity Risk Management Optimization Parameters (Mazin A M AlJanabi) Comovements and Integration in African Stock Markets (El Mehdi Ferrouhi) Interdependence or Contagion in Equity Markets? Evidence from Past Crises (Olfa Kaabia) Impact of Contagion on Proxy-Hedging in Jet-Fuel Markets (Dominique Guegan, Marius-Cristian Frunza and Rostislav Haliplii) Index Readership: Students and professionals interested in the field of quantitative finance, commodity markets and contagion.Risk;Commodity;Commodity Markets;Stock;Risk Contagion;Contagion;Volatility0 Key Features: Addresses the state-of-the-art, current issues and new trends in quantitative energy finance (pricing, modeling, risk management, etc.)Gives a resume of the main results obtained in the modeling of the behaviors and dynamics of energy and stock marketsBrings insights about the mathematical modeling contagionStudies the financial mathematical particularities of the contagion, financial effects, commodities risk, and contagion spillovers in a unified and comprehensive frameworkGives a definition of contagion effects, the common sources of risk, the dimension of the correlation fluctuation depending on the factor loadingsOffers an innovative theoretical approach to problems of interest in energy risk management and modelingBlends mathematical techniques with new developments and theoretical results in energy finance

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Green Chemistry has evolved in response to several environmental issues in the second half of the last century, mostly due to the almost freely expanding chemical, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical industries. During the past two decades Green Chemistry grew rapidly and we can now consider this area as a mature and powerful field. Tremendous development has taken place in many important areas including renewable energy and resources, reaction environments, catalysis, synthesis, chemical biology, green polymers, and facile recycling. The combination of Green Chemistry with engineering, biology, toxicology, and physics will lead to novel interdisciplinary systems, which can now lift Green Chemistry to the next, advanced level. The editors have assembled authors among the best specialists of this growing area of research. This collection of reviews and perspectives provides an exciting vision of the more recent developments in Green Chemistry. The contents of this book illustrate the breath of the field and its role to address environmental issues. This volume will serve as a book of reference showing a panoramic view of the field and a preview of its future direction, as well as a book of inspiration for those aiming to further advance its frontiers. This volume emphasizes on the most recent developments in green catalysis, bio-sourced polymers and the study of continental organic matter for a better understanding of the carbon geochemical cycle. Contents: Green and Sustainable Chemistry (István T Horváth) Pd-Catalyzed Sequential Reactions Involving C–H Bond Activation: A Green and Sustainable Tool for Natural and Industrial Product Synthesis (Elena Motti, Nicola Della Ca', Giovanni Maestri and Max Malacria) Photoredox Catalysis, an Opportunity for Sustainable Radical Chemistry (Christophe Lévêque, Etienne Levernier, Vincent Corcé, Louis Fensterbank, Max Malacria and Cyril Ollivier) Brønsted Acid as Efficient Catalyst for Synthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products (Guillaume Levitre and Géraldine Masson) Bio-Sourced Polymers: Recent Advances (Henri Cramail, Boris Bizet, Océane Lamarzelle, Pierre-Luc Durand, Geoffrey Hibert and Etienne Grau) Insight into Continental Organic Matter: A Chemist View (Katell Quénéa, Sylvie Derenne and Marc F Benedetti) Readership: Undergraduate students, graduate students and researchers in catalyst chemistry, polymer chemistry, environmental/atmospheric chemistry, organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry.Green Chemistry;Sustainable Energy;Renewable;Energy;Energy Resources;Reaction Environments;Catalysis;Multicomponent Synthesis (Cascade, Domino, Tandem);Photo Red Ox;Contimental Organic Matters;Bio-Sourced Polymers0 Key Features: The editors have assembled as authors among the best specialists of this growing area of researchThis collection of reviews and perspectives provides an exciting vision of the more recent developments in Green ChemistryIt illustrates the breath of the field and its role to address environmental issuesThis volume will serve as a book of reference showing a panoramic view of the field and a preview of its future direction as well as a book of inspiration for those aiming to further advance its frontiersIn this volume, Part 2, emphasis will be done to the most recent developments in green catalysis, bio-sourced polymers and the study of continental organic matter for a better understanding of the carbone geochemical cycle

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The Nobel Prizes is the official yearbook of the Nobel Foundation. This edition provides extensive information about the 2017 laureates: their Nobel Prize lectures and their autobiographies, as well as presentation speeches and background about the Nobel festivities. Published on behalf of the Nobel Foundation. Contents: Nobel Laureates (2017): Physics — Rainer Weiss, Barry C Barish and Kip S ThorneChemistry — Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard HendersonPhysiology or Medicine — Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W YoungLiterature — Kazuo IshiguroPeace — International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)Economic Sciences — Richard C Thaler Readership: General.2017 Nobel Prizes;Nobel Laureates;Nobel Foundation00

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This is the first attempt to delineate the synthetic field of the theoretical study of information, treating information as the basic phenomenon on the fundamental level of the world, encompassing nature, technology, individuals and society. The exploration of information is done within Info-computational approaches, to natural and social phenomena such as Bioinformatics, Information Physics, Informational Chemistry, Computational Physics, Cognitive and Social sciences, with special emphasis on interdisciplinary, crossdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge. The book presents results of collaboration across research fields within info-computational and info-structural frameworks, in attempt to better theoretically and conceptually capture the phenomenon of information and its dynamics (such as computation and communication), as they appear on different levels of organization, on different scales and in different contexts. Contents: Introduction (Mark Burgin and Gordana Dodig-Crnković) Foundations of Information: A Multiscale Taxonomy of Information in the World (Mark Burgin and Gordana Dodig-Crnković) Regeneration of Information as Forced Expansion (Meir Buzaglo) Why is Entropy not Enough? – Good Emerges from the Relaxation between Order and Disorder (Wu Kun and Wang Jian) Qualitative Stance, Effective Procedures and Common Sense Computation (Gianmarco Tuccini, Roberta Lanfredini, and Luca Baronti) A Theory of Semantic Information in the Context of its Ecology (Yixin Zhong and Gordana Dodig-Crnković) Information as a Natural Phenomenon: The 'No Information at a Distance' Principle and Local Mathematics: Some Effects on Physics and Geometry (Paul Benioff) The Structure of the World, Unity of Nature and the Problem of Time (Rafael Capurro and Mark Burgin) The Debt of Natural Science: An Interview with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (Rafael Capurro) The Molecular Linguistics of DNA: Letters, Words, Sentences, Texts, and their Meanings (Sungchul Ji) The Biology of Information (Robert K Logan) Towards a New Information Thinking — Biologically Inspired (Jorge Navarro and Pedro C Marijuán) Studies on Molecular Signaling Network Devices (Walter Riofrío) Evolution of Genetic Information without Error Replication (Guenther Witzany) Cognition and Intelligence in Natural and Artificial Systems: Information Processing by Structural Machines (Mark Burgin) Consciousness and Information — Before or After the Event (Ron Cottam and Roger Vounckx) Convergence of Natural Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence (Rao Mikkilineni) Social, Cultural, Ethical and Legal Aspects of Information: A Comparative Analysis of Traditional Western and Chinese Music from the Perspective of Complex Information System Theory (Gengxian Cao and Donghe Li) A Reasonable Model of Complexity for the Legal Domain (Cornelis N J de Vey Mestdagh) Reform and Innovation: The Social Sciences Research in Big Data Times (Ouyang Kang) The Differentia Specifica of Interhuman Communications: Luhmann and the Sociological Reflection of Information Theory (Loet Leydesdorff) Li Erqu's Theory on Epistemology and Gong Fu Ontology (Jun Liu) Law as Information and the Impact of Information Technologies (Ugo Pagallo) Information and Openness (Tomáš Sigmund) Readership: Graduate students and researchers in Information Theory.Information Science;Information Theory;Physics;Biology;Semantics;Computation;Ontology;Evolution;Networks;Artificial Intelligence;Complexity;Ecology0 Key Features: It covers the broadest range of phenomena related to information, with their structures and processes, as well as meta-level investigation of the nature of the study of information including its logic, metatheory and methodologiesIt provides the context and the substrate for research fields such as General Information Science, Practical Information Studies, Information Natural Sciences, and Information Social Sciences, developing information perspective on natural sciences, cognitive, social and ecological studiesIt builds the foundation for further studies into informational phenomena and their dynamics, that will increase in the future, in society on a whole. In particular, it is relevant for the understanding of technological developments and scientific progress, which becomes increasingly digitalized, that is, information-based

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Dielectrics is becoming increasingly important due to the rapid developments in electronics, optoelectronics, photonics and nanotechnology. In the past two decades, research on advanced dielectric materials and related applications has undergone an accelerated growth, due in larger part to the discovery of the superior piezoelectric properties in relaxor single crystals, the development of the lead-free piezoelectric/ferroelectric materials and the renaissance of the multiferroics. This book contains 9 feature articles which, together, provide a comprehensive account on the current state of advanced dielectrics and related phenomena. The first two articles present fundamental knowledge related to the characterization of ferroelectric hysteresis, which is the most widely used method to learn the ferroelectricity experimentally. The latest research progress in relaxor ferroelectric is given in the next two articles. The last five articles are dedicated to the multi-functionality of advanced dielectrics, with emphasis on multiferroic magnetoelectric composites, lead-free piezoceramics, pyroelectric/electrocaloric materials, polymer-based dielectrics, and flexible nanodielectrics. Contents: The Contribution of Electrical Conductivity, Dielectric Permittivity and Domain Switching in Ferroelectric Hysteresis Loops (Haixue Yan, Fawad Inam, Giuseppe Viola, Huanpo Ning, Hongtao Zhang, Qinghui Jiang, Tao Zeng, Zhipeng Gao and Mike J Reece) Decoding the Fingerprint of Ferroelectric Loops: Comprehension of the Material Properties and Structures (Li Jin, Fei Li and Shujun Zhang) Recent Progress in Relaxor Ferroelectrics with Perovskite Structure (A A Bokov and Z-G Ye) Relaxor Ferroelectrics: Cluster Glass Ground State via Random Fields and Random Bonds (Wolfgang Kleemann) Multiferroic Magnetoelectric Composites: Historical Perspective, Status, and Future Directions (Ce-Wen Nan, M I Bichurin, Shuxiang Dong, D Viehland and G Srinivasan) Lead-free Piezoelectric Ceramics: Alternatives for PZT? (Thomas R Shrout and Shujun J Zhang) Pyroelectric and Electrocaloric Materials (Xinyu Li, Sheng-Guo Lu, Xiang-Zhong Chen, Haiming Gu, Xiao-shi Qian and Q M Zhang) Development of Polymer-based 0–3 Composites with High Dielectric Constant (Lin Zhang and Z-Y Cheng) Flexible Nanodielectric Materials with High Permittivity for Power Energy Storage (Zhi-Min Dang, Jin-Kai Yuan, Sheng-Hong Yao and Rui-Jin Liao) Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students or professionals interested in condensed matter physics and materials science.Dielectrics;Ferroelectrics;Piezoelectrics;Multiferroics0 Key Features: Written by prestigious experts in advanced dielectricsComprehensive review articles with high citationLatest review articles focusing on the hottest research spots in advanced dielectrics

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This book discusses lessons and challenges of metropolitan circles development and urbanization in Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America and Africa. The book examines the effects of local governance systems, central-local relations, and administrative borders on metropolitan area development. It surveys economic, social and environmental issues, with an emphasis on how interconnectivity, circular economy, and climate issues should be integrated into megaregion development planning. The chapters are selected papers from the international conference on metropolitan circles development and urbanization jointly held by the Institute of Public Policy (IPP) at the South China University of Technology and UNESCO in 2018. Contributors from the US, the UK, Japan, France, Singapore, Indonesia, Mexico, Tanzania present their questions, observations, and analyses in a narrative and descriptive style which appeal to a wide range of audience. Contents: About the EditorsIntroduction (Hans d'Orville) Governance Structure: Thriving Tokyo and Declining Osaka: The Role of the Local Governance System (Yoshihisa Godo) How Wide is the Hudson River? The Effect of the State Border on the New York–New Jersey Metropolitan Region (Brendan O'Flaherty) Metropolitan Circles: Experience from the UK (Cliff Hague) Planning Mega-Regions in China and India (Xuefei Ren) Urban Economy and Sustainability: Land Redevelopment and the Built Environment in Third-Wave Cities: Review and Synthesis (Allen J Scott) Circular Economy and Metropolitan Circles in Europe — Case Study: Amsterdam (Mehri Madarshahi) Current Conditions and Future Drivers of Mega-City Regions in the US, Focusing on the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Hilda Blanco) Linking the European SUMP Method to Strasbourg and Paris Metropolitan Circle Scenarios (Cristiana Mazzoni and Andreea Grigorovschi) Emerging Metropolitan Circles and Urbanization: Two Faces of Mega-Urban Region Formation in South Korea (Yu-Min Joo) The Growing Megapolis Jakarta: Urbanization, Cities-Integration, and Future Issues (Gumilar Rusliwa Somantri) Mexico: Metropolitan Circles Development, Interactive Cities, and Future of Urbanization (Clemente Ruiz Durán) Urbanization in Africa: Commonalities and Departures (Humphrey P B Moshi) Index Readership: Academics, policymakers, graduate and undergraduate students interested in urbanization and metropolitan circles.Metropolitan Circles;Megaregion;Urbanization;Circular Economy;Megacity;Borderline Effect;Sustainability;Land Redevelopment;Built Environment;Agglomeration;Connectivity00

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