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Tsunamis remain an ever-present threat to lives and property along the coasts of most of the world's oceans. Because of the geographical extent of U.S. coastlines, an earthquake in Alaska can generate a local tsunami for Alaskans and, hours later, a distant tsunami for communities in Hawaii and along the Pacific Coast . This volume chronicles the development and accomplishments of a joint State/Federal partnership that was forged to reduce tsunami hazards along U.S. coastlines - the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program. By integrating hazard assessment, warning guidance, and mitigation activities, the program has created a roadmap and a set of tools to develop communities more resilient to local and distant tsunamis. Among the set of tools are tsunami forecasting, educational experiments, early alerting systems, and design guidance for tsunami-resilient communities. Part of this book has already been published in a recent journal issue.

Social sciences (general) --- Didactics of sciences --- Hydrosphere --- Geology. Earth sciences --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Environmental planning --- sociale ecologie --- popularisering wetenschap --- ruimtelijke ordening --- tsunami --- wetenschapsleer --- sociale wetenschappen --- geologie --- oceanografie

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Les patients porteurs d'une Infirmité Motrice Cérébrale (IMC) sont confrontés à de nombreux problèmes neuromoteurs liés aux dommages cérébraux dont les conséquences fonctionnelles, dans les premières années de vie, ont un retentissement sur l'acquisition de la marche. Une meilleure connaissance de la marche et de ses niveaux de contrôle ainsi qu'une analyse clinique affinée et quantifiée au laboratoire permettent de définir des options thérapeutiques en collaboration avec le patient, sa famille et l'équipe soignante. La lutte contre les troubles du tonus et les troubles neuro-orthopédiques constitue le quotidien des patients à tous les âges de la vie. Les patients IMC bénéficient de plus en plus fréquemment de thérapeutiques médicamenteuses nouvelles, d'une adaptation régulière des aides de marche et des orthèses ainsi que d'une rééducation spécifique associée ou non à des gestes chirurgicaux qu'ils soient orthopédiques ou neurologiques. Cet ouvrage fait le point sur l'évolution des connaissances et des pratiques.

Social policy and particular groups --- Physiotherapy. Alternative treatments --- Paediatrics --- Neuropathology --- Orthopaedics. Traumatology. Plastic surgery --- farmacologie --- hersenen --- pediatrie --- revalidatie --- orthopedie --- rehabilitatie --- sociale integratie

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There has recently been a renewal of interest in Fokker-Planck operators, motivated by problems in statistical physics, in kinetic equations and differential geometry. Compared to more standard problems in the spectral theory of partial differential operators, those operators are not self-adjoint and only hypoelliptic. The aim of the analysis is to give, as generally as possible, an accurate qualitative and quantitative description of the exponential return to the thermodynamical equilibrium. While exploring and improving recent results in this direction this volume proposes a review of known techniques on: the hypoellipticity of polynomial of vector fields and its global counterpart; the global Weyl-Hörmander pseudo-differential calculus, the spectral theory of non-self-adjoint operators, the semi-classical analysis of Schrödinger-type operators, the Witten complexes and the Morse inequalities.

Differential geometry. Global analysis --- Partial differential equations --- Quantum mechanics. Quantumfield theory --- Statistical physics --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- differentiaalvergelijkingen --- quantumfysica --- statistische kwaliteitscontrole --- industriële statistieken --- differentiaal geometrie

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How can Africa, the world's most lagging region, benefit from globalisation and achieve sustained economic growth? Africa needs greater investment by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) to improve competitiveness and generate more growth through positive spill-over effects. Despite the fact that Africa's returns on investment averaged 29% since 1990, Africa has gained merely 1% of global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows. The challenge for African countries is how to be a more desirable destination for FDI. The study integrates three currents of economic research, namely from the literature on (endogenous) economic growth, convergence and regional integration, the explanations for Africa's poor growth and the growing understanding of the role of MNEs in a global economy. The empirical side of the book is based on an econometric study of the determinants of FDI in Africa as well as a detailed firm-level survey conducted in 2000.

Economic growth --- International finance --- International economic relations --- wereldeconomie --- economische groei --- internationale economie --- Africa

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The goal of these proceedings and of the meeting of Gaeta was to celebrate and honor the mathematical achievements of Haim Brezis. The prodigious in?uence of histalentandhispersonalityinthedomainofnonlinearanalysisisunanimously- claimed!This impactis visible inthe huge number ofhis formerstudents (dozens), students of former students (hundreds) and collaborators (hundreds). Thus the Gaeta meeting was, to some extent, the family reunion of part of this large c- munity sharing a joint interest in the ?eld of elliptic and parabolic equations and pushing it to a very high standard. Italyhasa longtraditionandtasteforanalysisandwecouldnot?ndabetter placeneitheramorecompletesupportfortherealisationofourproject.Wehaveto thank here the university of Cassino, Napoli, Roma la Sapienza , the GNAMPA- Istituto di Alta Matematica, CNR-IAC, MEMOMAT, RTN Fronts-Singularities, the commune of Gaeta. Additional founding came from the universities of M- house and Zur ¨ ich. Finally, we are grateful to Birkh¨ auser and Dr. Hemp?ing who allowed us to record the talks of this conference in a prestigious volume. The organizers Progress in Nonlinear Di?erential Equations and Their Applications, Vol. 63, 1-12 c 2005 Birkh¨ auser Verlag Basel/Switzerland One-Layer Free Boundary Problems with Two Free Boundaries Andrew Acker Abstract. We studythe uniquenessand successive approximation of solutions of a class of two-dimensional steady-state ?uid problems involving in?nite periodic ?ows between two periodic free boundaries, each characterized by a ?ow-speed condition related to Bernoulli's law.

Partial differential equations --- differentiaalvergelijkingen