Vital democracy:a theory of democracy in action - by Frank Hendricks

Book review: Frank Hendriks, Oxford University Press, 2010, 256 pp., £47 ($85.00) (hb), ISBN-13: 9780199572786

Transition of planar Couette flow at infinite Reynolds numbers

An outline of the state space of planar Couette flow at high Reynolds numbers (Re<105) is investigated via a variety of efficient numerical techniques. It is verified from nonlinear analysis that the lower branch of the hairpin vortex state (HVS) asymptotically approaches the primary (laminar) state with increasing Re. It is also predicted that the lower branch of the HVS at high Re belongs to the stability boundary that initiates a transition to turbulence, and that one of the unstable manifolds of the lower branch of HVS lies on the boundary. These facts suggest HVS may provide a criterion to estimate a minimum perturbation arising transition to turbulent states at the infinite Re limit. © 2013 American Physical Society.

Frank Boons, Creating ecological value

Book review: Boons, F. (2009) Creating ecological value. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar

Discourse Analysis of Frank McCourt’s Teacher Man Through a Feminist Educational Lens

This qualitative study used critical discourse analysis to highlight how educational stakeholders can examine discourses and react to power in texts using a feminist lens to problematize identity.

Data compilation on the biological response to ocean acidification: environmental and experimental context of data sets and related literature

The exponential growth of studies on the biological response to ocean acidification over the last few decades has generated a large amount of data. To facilitate data comparison, a data compilation hosted at the data publisher PANGAEA was initiated in 2008 and is updated on a regular basis (doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.149999). By January 2015, a total of 581 data sets (over 4 000 000 data points) from 539 papers had been archived. Here we present the developments of this data compilation five years since its first description by Nisumaa et al. (2010). Most of study sites from which data archived are still in the Northern Hemisphere and the number of archived data from studies from the Southern Hemisphere and polar oceans are still relatively low. Data from 60 studies that investigated the response of a mix of organisms or natural communities were all added after 2010, indicating a welcomed shift from the study of individual organisms to communities and ecosystems. The initial imbalance of considerably more data archived on calcification and primary production than on other processes has improved. There is also a clear tendency towards more data archived from multifactorial studies after 2010. For easier and more effective access to ocean acidification data, the ocean acidification community is strongly encouraged to contribute to the data archiving effort, and help develop standard vocabularies describing the variables and define best practices for archiving ocean acidification data.

Una verosimilitud que mata : Los relatos semiautobiográficos de Ana Frank, Judith Kerr y Elie Wiesel sobre los tiempos de Hitler en español

Fil: Zamuner, Amanda. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Una verosimilitud que mata : Los relatos semiautobiográficos de Ana Frank, Judith Kerr y Elie Wiesel sobre los tiempos de Hitler en español

Fil: Zamuner, Amanda. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Una verosimilitud que mata : Los relatos semiautobiográficos de Ana Frank, Judith Kerr y Elie Wiesel sobre los tiempos de Hitler en español

Fil: Zamuner, Amanda. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

US Asset-Backed Securities – Regulatory Reform, Dodd-Frank and Final Rules

This chapter examines the new rules proposed under regulatory reform since the credit crisis of 2008-09, including the major proposals of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 and some of the Final Rules thereto.