Ann P. Kinzig, Stephen Pacala, David Tilman, "The Functional Consequences of Biodiversity: Empirical Progress and Theoretical Extensions."
English | 2001 | pages: 387 | ISBN: 0691088225, 0691088217 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Does biodiversity influence how ecosystems function? Might diversity loss affect the ability of ecosystems to deliver services of benefit to humankind? Ecosystems provide food, fuel, fiber, and drinkable water, regulate local and regional climate, and recycle needed nutrients, among other things. An ecosyste's ability to sustain functioning may depend on the number of species residing in the ecosystem-its biological diversity-but this has been a controversial hypothesis. There are many unanswered questions about how and why changes in biodiversity could alter ecosystem functioning. This volume, written by top researchers, synthesizes empirical studies on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and extends that knowledge using a novel and coordinated set of models and theoretical approaches.

Olga Burlyuk, "Unintended Consequences of EU External Action"
English | ISBN: 0367346494 | 2019 | 136 pages | EPUB | 1223 KB
This book offers a conceptualisation of unintended consequences and addresses a set of common research questions, highlighting the nature (what), the causes (why), and the modes of management (how) of unintended consequences of the European Union's (EU) external action.

Kleinridders A Physiological Consequences of Brain Insulin 2023 | 19.79 MB
English | 258 Pages

Title: Physiological Consequences of Brain Insulin Action
Author: André Kleinridders
Year: 2022

Physiological Consequences of Brain Insulin Action
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367529483 | 271 Pages | PDF (True) | 20 MB
The brain is crucial for the regulation of whole-body metabolism and behavior. The pancreas-derived hormone insulin modulates brain function and affects energy metabolism as well as cognition. This is partially achieved by modulating several types of brain cell populations including those relevant to satiety and reward. Importantly, brains of Alzheimer´s disease patients exhibit a signature of brain insulin resistance with perturbed brain metabolism. This book will cover the basics of insulin signaling in the brain and will describe concepts of insulin resistance, a feature of type 2 diabetes. Moreover insulin´s effect on cognitive function will be pointed out and the association between brain insulin resistance and neurodegenerative diseases discussed. Additionally, potential behavioral and pharmacological concepts which can affect brain insulin signaling will be summarized.

Jo Boyden, "Tracing the Consequences of Child Poverty: Evidence from the Young Lives Study in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam"
English | ISBN: 1447348311 | 2019 | 204 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. What matters most in how poverty shapes children's wellbeing and development? How can data inform social policy and practice approaches to improving the outcomes for poorer children? Using life course analysis from the Young Lives study of 12,000 children growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam over the past 15 years, this book draws on evidence on two cohorts of children, from 1 to 15 and from 8 to 22. It examines how poverty affects children's development in low and middle income countries, and how policy has been used to improve their lives, then goes on to show when key developmental differences occur. It uses new evidence to develop a framework of what matters most and when and outlines effective policy approaches to inform the no-one left behind Sustainable Development Goal agenda.

Chernobyl: The Devastation, Destruction and Consequences of the World's Worst Radiation Accident by Ian Fitzgerald
English | August 1st, 2022 | ISBN: 1398814962 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 3.85 MB
In the early hours of the morning of 26 April 1986, the nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine exploded, unleashing a storm of radioactive material into the atmosphere and contaminating most of Europe with its fallout. It was a disaster on an unprecedented scale.

Laurel Elder, "The Politics of Parenthood: Causes and Consequences of the Politicization and Polarization of the American Family"
English | ISBN: 1438443951 | 2012 | 182 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Traces the rising emphasis on parenthood in contemporary American politics.

Nora Kenworthy, "Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight against AIDS in Lesotho"
English | ISBN: 0826521541 | 2017 | 256 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
As global health institutions and aid donors expanded HIV treatment throughout Africa, they rapidly "scaled up" programs, projects, and organizations meant to address HIV and AIDS. Yet these efforts did not simply have biological effects: in addition to extending lives and preventing further infections, treatment scale-up initiated remarkable political and social shifts.

Keith Olbermann, "Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 140006676X | EPUB | pages: 193 | 0.3 mb
Short, sharp, and oftentimes shocking, Keith Olbermann's "Special Comments" have made his nightly MSNBC program, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, must-see viewing-and the fastest-growing news show on cable TV. In these segments, Olbermann calls out the perpetrators of mismanagement, brutality, cronyism, and the appalling lack of accountability at the highest levels of the Bush administration. In so doing, Olbermann goes where most of the mainstream media fear to tread-and his rapidly expanding audience eagerly follows.

Joslyn Barnhart, "The Consequences of Humiliation: Anger and Status in World Politics"
English | ISBN: 1501748041 | 2020 | 270 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The Consequences of Humiliation explores the nature of national humiliation and its impact on foreign policy. Joslyn Barnhart demonstrates that Germany's catastrophic reaction to humiliation at the end of World War I is part of a broader pattern: states that experience humiliating events are more likely to engage in international aggression aimed at restoring the state's image in its own eyes and in the eyes of others.