ISADS 2003

ISADS 2003
Author:
Publisher: Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE)
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2003
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780769518763

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Over the last 10 years, the field of autonomous decentralized systems has greatly advanced to provide solutions for system design, together with the rapid development of enabling technologies, such as object oriented paradigms, mobile agent technology, multimedia and information systems, dependable systems, intelligent devices, mobile and ubiquitous systems, complex networked systems. ISADS 2003 reflects the maturity of this field as well as the future growth of ADS and their integration with other enabling technologies.

Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands

Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands
Author: Stewart Firth
Publisher: ANU E Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2006-12-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 192094298X

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"The Pacific Islands are feeling the effects of globalisation. Free trade in sugar and garments is threatening two of Fiji's key industries. At the same time other opportunities are emerging. Labour migration is growing in importance, and Pacific governments are calling for more access to Australia's labour market. Fiji has joined Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu and Kiribati as a remittance economy, with thousands of its citizens working overseas. Meantime, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands grapple with an older kind of globalisation in which overseas companies exploit mineral and forest resources. The Pacific Islands confront unique problems of governance in this era of globalisation. The modern, democratic state often fits awkwardly with traditional ways of doing politics in that part of the world. Just as often, politicians in the Pacific exploit tradition or invent it to serve modern political purposes. The contributors to this volume examine Pacific globalisation and governance from a wide range of perspectives. They come from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Hawai'i, the Federated States of Micronesia, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand and Jamaica as well as Australia."--Publisher's description.

21st Century Maritime Silk Road: Construction of Remote Islands and Reefs

21st Century Maritime Silk Road: Construction of Remote Islands and Reefs
Author: Chongwei Zheng
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2018-07-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 981108114X

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This book focuses on the construction of remote islands and reefs in the Maritime Silk Road. Firstly, it analyzes the functions, necessity and difficulties of the construction of remote islands and reefs; then provides corresponding countermeasures. According to the urgent demand of electricity and freshwater, it focus on wave and offshore wind energy evaluation of the important remote islands and reefs of the Maritime Silk Road, providing reference for the choice of location of power plants, daily operation and long term plan of wave/wind power generation. Several important key points are selected in the case study to realize their electricity and freshwater self-sufficiency and thus to improve their viability. This book also presents the marine characteristics (especially hazardous elements) under the demands of island runway construction and marine new energy development, to promote safe and efficient implementation of the remote islands and reefs construction. This book is one of the series of publications on the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (shortened as “Maritime Silk Road”). It covers the characteristics of the marine environment and marine new energy, remote islands and reefs construction, climate change, early warning of wave disasters, legal escort, marine environment and energy big data construction, etc. contributing to the safe and efficient construction of the Maritime Silk Road. It aims to improve our knowledge of the ocean, thus to improve the capacity for marine construction, enhance the viability of remote islands and reefs, ease the energy crisis and protect the ecological environment, improve the quality of life of residents along the Maritime Silk Road, and protect the rights, interests of the countries and regions participating in the construction of the Maritime Silk Road. It will be a valuable reference for decision-makers, researchers, and marine engineers working in the related fields.

Fire Mountains of the Islands

Fire Mountains of the Islands
Author: R. Wally Johnson
Publisher: ANU E Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2013-12-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1922144231

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Volcanic eruptions have killed thousands of people and damaged homes, villages, infrastructure, subsistence gardens, and hunting and fishing grounds in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The central business district of a town was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the case of Rabaul in 1994. Volcanic disasters litter not only the recent written history of both countries—particularly Papua New Guinea—but are recorded in traditional stories as well. Furthermore, evidence for disastrous volcanic eruptions many times greater than any witnessed in historical times is to be found in the geological record. Volcanic risk is greater today than at any time previously because of larger, mainly sedentary populations on or near volcanoes in both countries. An attempt is made in this book to review what is known about past volcanic eruptions and disasters with a view to determining how best volcanic risk can be reduced today in this tectonically complex and volcanically threatening region.

Census of the Philippine Islands

Census of the Philippine Islands
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
Total Pages: 876
Release: 1905
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

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Asia in the Pacific Islands

Asia in the Pacific Islands
Author: R. G. Crocombe
Publisher: [email protected]
Total Pages: 652
Release: 2007
Genre: Asia
ISBN: 9789820203884

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"A spectacular transition is under way in the Pacific Islands, as a result of which all our lives will be radically different. In the last fifty years or so, Asia has begun to play a bigger and bigger role in all aspects of Islands life - migration, trade and investment, aid and development, information and media, religion, culture and sport. It is replacing the West. The process is irreversible. With his trademark breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding of the region, based on over half a century of experience, study and deliberation, Ron Crocombe documents the early connections between Asia and the Pacific, details recent and continuing changes, and poses challenging theories about the future."--Publisher.

The Puffin

The Puffin
Author: Mike P. Harris
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-11-21
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1408160552

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A comprehensive monograph on the Atlantic Puffin. With its colourful beak and fast, whirring flight, this is the most recognisable and popular of all North Atlantic seabirds. Puffins spend most of the year at sea, but for a few months of the year the come to shore, nesting in burrows on steep cliffs or on inaccessible islands. Awe-inspiring numbers of these birds can sometimes be seen bobbing on the sea or flying in vast wheels over the colony, bringing fish in their beaks back to the chicks. However, the species has declined sharply over the last decade; this is due to a collapse in fish stocks caused by overfishing and global warming, combined with an exponential increase in Pipefish (which can kill the chicks). The Puffin is a revised and expanded second edition of Poyser's 1984 title on these endearing birds, widely considered to be a Poyser classic. It includes sections on their affinities, nesting and incubation, movements, foraging ecology, survivorship, predation, and research methodology; particular attention is paid to conservation, with the species considered an important 'indicator' of the health of our coasts.

The Discovery of Islands

The Discovery of Islands
Author: J. G. A. Pocock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2005-09-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781139446617

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The Discovery of Islands consists of a series of linked essays in British history, written by one of the world's leading historians of political thought and published over the past three decades. Its purpose is to present British history as that of several nations interacting with - and sometimes seceding from - an imperial state. The commentary presents this history as that of an archipelago, expanding across oceans to the Antipodes. Both New Zealand history and the author's New Zealand heritage inform this vision, presenting British history as oceanic and global, complementing (and occasionally criticising) the presentation of that history as European. Professor Pocock's interpretation of British history has been hugely influential in recent years, making The Discovery of Islands a resource of immense value for historians of Britain and the world.

Rescuing Virgins: A Guide To Virgin Islands Sports Collectibles

Rescuing Virgins: A Guide To Virgin Islands Sports Collectibles
Author: Enrique Corneiro
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2018-02-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 138756515X

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Rescuing Virgins: A Guide to Virgin Islands Sports Collectibles tells the stories of 100 Virgin Islands athletes that have gone on to play professional sports at the highest levels. Sports categories include baseball, basketball, football, boxing, horse racing, volleyball, mixed martial arts, sailing, skiing, motor sports and Olympics.