Tabla de Contenidos: “…Fuel cells to gravel and sand supply-demand relationships…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A new era of catastrophes -- Catastrophe risk and the regulation of property insurance: a comparative analysis across states -- A market analysis of property insurance against hurricane risk -- Come rain or shine: flood risk financing through public insurance -- Homeowners" decision making for purchasing insurance coverage -- Private insurers' decision making for supplying coverage -- Private reinsurers' decision making for supplying coverage -- Innovative insurance-linked securities for financing extreme events -- A framework for linking supply and demand of disaster insurance -- A multistate empirical analysis of homeowners' insurance -- Impact of insurance status on economic welfare of homeowners in hazard-prone areas: the affordability challenge -- Enhancing the implementation of risk reduction measures -- Policy analysis of alternative programs: comparing the status quo with a true competitive insurance market -- Proposed innovations for dealing with catastrophic risks -- Winning the war against the weather and other extreme events.…”
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At war with the weather

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Climate change effects on biogeochemical cycles, nutrients, and water supply / Pascal A. Niklaus -- Nutrient and water demands of plants under global climate change / Oula Ghannoum, Matthew J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Kaczorowski -- Heart failure: is the pathology due to calcium overload or to mismatch in energy supply and demand? / J.S. Ingwall, L. Nascimben and J.K. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Response of Structures. 2.1 General. 2.2 Conceptual Framework. 2.2.1 Definitions. 2.2.2 Strength-versus Ductility-Based Response. 2.2.3 Member-versus System-Level Consideration. 2.2.4 Nature of Seismic Effects. 2.2.5 Fundamental Response Quantities. 2.2.6 Social-Economic Limit States. 2.3 Structural Response Characteristics. 2.3.1 Stiffness. 2.3.2 Strength. 2.3.3 Ductility. 2.3.4 Overstrength. 2.3.5 Damping. 2.3.6 Relationship between Strength, Overstrength and Ductility: Force Reduction Factor 'Supply'. References. 3. Earthquake Input Motion. 3.1 General. 3.2 Earthquake Occurrence and Return Period. 3.3 Ground-Motion Models (Attenuation Relationships).3.3.1 Features of Strong-Motion Data for Attenuation Relationships. 3.3.2 Attenuation Relationship for Europe. 3.3.3 Attenuation Relationship for Japan. 3.3.4 Attenuation Relationships for North America. 3.3.5 Worldwide Attenuation Relationships. 3.4 Earthquake Spectra. 3.4.1 Factors Influencing Response Spectra. 3.4.2 Elastic and Inelastic Spectra. 3.4.3 Simplified Spectra. 3.4.4 Force Reduction Factors (Demand).3.4.5 Design Spectra. 3.4.6 Vertical Component of Ground Motion. 3.4.7 Vertical Motion Spectra. 3.5 Earthquake Records. 3.5.1 Natural Records. 3.5.2 Artificial Records. 3.5.3 Records Based on Mathematical Formulations. 3.5.4 Scaling of Earthquake Records. 3.6 Duration and Number of Cycles of Earthquake Ground Motions. 3.7 Use of Earthquake Databases. 3.8 Software for Deriving Spectra and Generation of Ground-Motion Records. 3.8.1 Derivation of Earthquake Spectra. 3.8.2 Generation of Ground-Motion Records. …”
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