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Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) are a microclimatic phenomenon which manifests as a significant increase in the temperature of cities compared to their surrounding areas. Recently the phenomenon has been enforced by the tendency to climate change and in particular by extreme climate events. This book presents and analyzes the results of a project to develop and apply mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures for counteracting the global urban heat islands phenomenon, supported by the EU’s Central Europe Regional Development Fund. Pilot studies were carried out in eight metropolitan areas: Bologna/Modena, Budapest, Ljubljana, Lodz, Prague, Stuttgart, Venice/Padua, and Vienna. The project involved feasibility studies and strategies for appropriately altering planning rules and governance to tackle the problem of UHIs, and focused on the specific morphology of EU urban areas, which are often characterized by the presence of historical old towns. The first part of the book is devoted to evidence, measures and tools, including tools to facilitate UHI analysis and decision support systems. The second part explores measures for counteracting urban heat islands, including specific analysis of the case studies and offering solutions for European cities. The volume includes supplemental materials such as references, glossaries and keyword lists. The UHI management plans developed here can be integrated into national and regional sustainable development approaches for urban and land planning. They can also contribute to the application of innovative urban planning techniques that foster a new “climate proof” planning approach in European cities. UHI project has been implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF.

Environment. --- Climate change. --- Remote sensing. --- Physics. --- Climate Change. --- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. --- Energy Efficiency. --- Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts. --- Applied and Technical Physics. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Environmental aspects --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Climatic changes. --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Energy efficiency. --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Power resources --- Energy conservation --- Global environmental change --- Climate Change --- Energy Efficiency --- Remote Sensing --- Photogrammetry --- Physics

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Biomaterials are often designed to act as scaffolds, i.e., 3D porous templates that support and stimulate the growth of healthy tissue and then safely dissolve once they have performed their functions. This book provides a picture of the current state of the art in the field of scaffolds for tissue engineering, highlighting the potential associated to the latest scientific and technological advancements. The former part of the book focuses on the repair of ""hard"" tissues (primarily bone) by means of bioceramic/glass scaffolds, and the latter deals with the applications of polymeric scaffolds for regenerating ""soft"" tissues and structures including the peripheral nerve, heart, gastric mucosa and pancreas. Special emphasis is given to the challenges associated to scaffold manufacturing, biomimetic properties and cell-scaffold interactions.

Tissue engineering. --- Biomedical engineering --- Regenerative medicine --- Tissue culture --- Physical Sciences --- Engineering and Technology --- Materials Science --- Biomaterials --- Tissue Engineering

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European Commission Decisions on Competition provides a comprehensive economic classification and analysis of all European Commission decisions adopted pursuant to Articles 101, 102 and 106 of the FEU Treaty from 1962 to 2009. It also includes a sample of landmark European merger cases. The decisions are organised according to the principal economic theory applied in the case. For each economic category, the seminal Commission decision that became a reference point for that type of anticompetitive behaviour is described. For this, a fixed template format is used throughout the book. All subsequent decisions in which the same economic principle was applied are listed chronologically. It complements the most widely used textbooks in industrial organisation, competition economics and competition law, to which detailed references are offered. The book contains source material for teachers and students, scholars of competition law and economics, as well as practising competition lawyers and officials.

Economic policy and planning (general) --- Antitrust law --- Consolidation and merger of corporations --- Cases --- Law and legislation --- EEC / European Union - EU -Europese Unie - Union Européenne - UE --- 334.154.33 --- 338.53 --- 347.733 --- Acquisition of corporations --- Acquisitions and mergers --- Amalgamation of corporations --- Business combinations --- Business mergers --- Buyouts, Corporate --- Corporate acquisitions --- Corporate buyouts --- Corporate mergers --- Corporate takeovers --- Corporations --- Fusion of corporations --- Hostile takeovers of corporations --- M & A (Mergers and acquisitions of corporations) --- Merger of corporations --- Mergers and acquisitions of corporations --- Mergers, Corporate --- Takeovers, Corporate --- Corporate reorganizations --- Golden parachutes (Executive compensation) --- Industrial concentration --- Trusts, Industrial --- Anti-trust law --- Competition --- Competition law --- Commercial law --- Trade regulation --- Mededinging, concurrentie en concentratie in de Europese Gemeenschappen. --- Controle op de afspraken, kartels, monopolies en trusts. Controleinstellingen. --- Trusts en monopolies : wetgeving. --- Cases. --- Consolidation --- Mergers --- Law --- European Commission. --- European Communities. Commission --- Commission of the European Communities --- Europese Gemeenschappen. Commissie --- Europese Unie: economisch beleid --- -Consolidation and merger of corporations --- -343.0721094 --- Electronic information resources --- -Electronic information resources --- Electronic information resources. --- E-books --- Europese Unie: economisch beleid. --- Mededinging, concurrentie en concentratie in de Europese Gemeenschappen --- Controle op de afspraken, kartels, monopolies en trusts. Controleinstellingen --- Trusts en monopolies : wetgeving --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics --- Antitrust law - European Union countries - Cases --- Consolidation and merger of corporations - Law and legislation - European Union countries - Cases --- EC --- Europese Commissie --- Commission européenne

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I monumentali Diarii del patrizio veneziano Marin Sanudo, cronaca fedele degli anni compresi fra il 1496 e il 1533, sono considerati un’opera di riferimento indispensabile per le ricerche sul tardo Rinascimento. Il presente studio si propone di approfondirne la conoscenza dal punto di vista linguistico e filologico, basandosi sia sull’edizione Fulin et al. (1879–1903), sia su estratti dai manoscritti autografi (Marc.It. VII, 228–286). The Diarii, faithful chronicle of the years between 1496 and 1533 written by the Venetian patrician Marino Sanuto, are considered an indispensable reference work for research on the late Renaissance. This present study provides a detailed linguistic and philological analysis of the Diarii, based on the edition Fulin et al. (1879–1903) as well as on excerpts of autographic manuscripts (Marc.It. VII, 228–286).

Sanudo, Marin --- Italian language --- History --- Sanudo, Marino, --- Language --- Venice (Italy) --- Italy --- Sources --- Language. --- Sources. --- Sanudo, Marino, - 1466-1536. - Diaries --- Sanudo, Marino, - 1466-1536 --- History of the Italian Language. --- Linguistic Analysis. --- Marino Sanuto the Younger.

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While the highly technical measurement techniques and methodologies of Value at Risk have attracted huge interest, much less attention has been focused on how Value at Risk and the risk-adjusted performance measures such as RAROC or economic profit/EVA„· can be effectively used to improve a bank¡¦s decision making processes. Academic books are typically concerned primarily with measurement techniques, and devote only a small section to describing the applications, usually without discussing the problems that changing organizational processes in banks may have on business units¡¦ behaviour. Practitioners¡¦ books are often based on a single experience, presenting the approach that has been pursued by a single bank, but often do not adequately evaluate that approach. In actual practice, the choice of how to use Value at Risk and risk-adjusted performance measures has no single optimal solution, but requires effective decision making that can identify the solution that is consistent with the bank¡¦s style of management and coordination mechanisms, and often with characteristics of individual business units as well. In this book, Francesco Saita of Bocconi University argues that even though risk measurement techniques have greatly improved in recent years for market, credit and now also operational risk, capital management and capital allocation decisions are far from becoming purely technical and mechanical. On one hand, decisions about capital management must consider handling different capital constraints (e.g. regulatory vs. economic capital ) and face remarkable difficulties in providing a measure of ¡§aggregated¡¨ Value at Risk (i.e. a measure that considers the overall value at risk of the bank after diversification across risk types). On the other hand, the aim of using capital more efficiently through capital allocation cannot be achieved only through a sort of centralized asset allocation process, but rather by designing a Value at Risk limit system and a risk-adjusted performance measurement system that are designed to provide the right incentives to individual business units. This connection between sophisticated and cutting edge risk measurement techniques and practical bank decision making about capital management and capital allocation make this book unique and provide readers with a depth of academic and theoretical expertise combined with practical and real-world understanding of bank structure, organizational constraints, and dec...

Private finance --- Bank capital. --- Banks and banking --- Risk management. --- Agricultural banks --- Banking --- Banking industry --- Commercial banks --- Depository institutions --- Finance --- Financial institutions --- Money --- Capital