2009 | Action Number: 926

Genomic Effects of Phytochemicals and their Implication in the Maintenance of Health

• Author(s): Augustin Scalbert and Siegfried Knasmüller
• Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
• http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJN&volumeId=99&issueId=E-S1#
• ISBN/ISSN: 0007-1145

2009 | Action Number: C27

Sustainable Development Targets and Local Participation in Minor Deprived Communities

• Pages: 213
• Author(s): M. Tiboni and P. Ventura
• Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-88-386-6689-6

This book covers a year of work of the C27 group: three conferences and a workshop for young researchers, mainly dedicated to setting up the database. The Prague conference mainly concerned itself with the measures of urban containment or sustainable development versus rural areas while Sundsvall examined policies of local participation in sustainable development; crucial matters not only for the Action but also for Scientific knowledge in general and for adopting a practical approach to urban policies and regional planning.

2009 | Action Number: C23

European Carbon Atlas

• Pages: 219
• Author(s): P. Jones, P. Pinho, J. Patterson and C. Tweed
• Download from external website
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-899895-43-4

This publication summarises the activities of the COST C23 Action entitled 'Strategies for a Low Carbon Urban Built Environments' which took place over the period 2004 to 2009. The main objective of the Action was to investigate, through a network of nineteen countries across Europe, 'how carbon reductions can be achieved thorugh appropiate design and management of the urban built environment'. This involved investigating the built environment at building and urban scale, focusing on minimising energy use and associated carbon dioxide emissions.

The Action investigated how nineteen Eu member states were active in reducing carbon dioxide levels in the built environment, not only in line with buildingsmeeting the requirements of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), but also taking standards beyond that and looking at how national and regional planning initiatives are being developed to reduce the energy use of urban areas. A collection of case studies are included that illustrate the development and implementation of low carbon strategies at urban and building scales.

2009 | Action Number: 849

Parasitic Weeds

• Pages: 87
• Author(s): D. Rubiales, D. M. Joel, M. Vurro
• Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
• http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122670040/issue

2009 | Action Number: A34

The Transmission of Well Being

• Pages: 525
• Author(s): M. Durães, A. Fauve-Chamoux, L. Ferrer and J. Kok
• Publisher(s): Peter Lang
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-0343-0056-8

What does well-being mean when we talk about men and women in the past? Their sheer chances of survival, their protection from want, their social status, their individual agency and their self-esteem were all strongly mediated by the familiy, the predominant social institution. Family laws and customs of family formation created differences between insiders and outsiders in terms of well-being. Within families, there were strong differences in autonomy, status and freedom between the genders and generations. The books offers a fascinating exploration of gender differences in well-being in many regions of historic Europe, with some comparative perspectives. It explores how historic family systems differed with respect to choosing a marriage partner, transmitting property, living and care conditions of widows and widowers and the position of children born out of wedlock.

2009 | Action Number: IC0602

Algorithmic Decision Theory

• Pages: 460
• Author(s): F. Rossi and A. Tsoukias
• Publisher(s): Springer
• http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-04427-4/
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-642-04427-4

Algorithmic decision theory is a new interdisciplinary research area that aims to bring together researchers from different fields such as decision theory, discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence, in order to improve decision support in the presence of massive databases, combinatorial structures, partial and/or uncertain information and distributed, possibly interoperating, decision makers. Such problems arise in several real-world decision-making scenarios such as humanitarian logistics, epidemiology, risk assessment and management, e-government, electronic commerce, and recommender systems. This volume contains the papers presented at ADT 2009, the first International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory. The conference was held in San Servolo on October 20-23, 2009. The program of the conference included oral presentations, posters, invited talks, and tutorials. The topic of the papers range from computational social choice to preference modeling, from uncertainty to preference learning, from multi-criteria decision making to game theory.

2009 | Action Number: 503

European Concerted Action 503, Powder Metallurgy - Powder-Based Material

• Author(s): W. Paton, R. Schäfer, O. Kraemer
• ISBN/ISSN: 92-827-9813-5

Volume II: Iron-Based Alloys, Aluminium-Based Alloys, Metal Matrix Composites.

2009 | Action Number: 298

Electronic Emotion: the Mediation of Emotion via Information and Communication Technologies

• Pages: 233
• Author(s): J. Vincent & L. Fortunati
• Publisher(s): Peter Lang
• http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vID=11866&vLang=D
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-03911-866-3

Electronic emotion is the emotion lived, re-lived or discovered through machines. It is the meotion that users of information and communication technologies (ICTs) feel when using or not using different devices. Through ICTs emotion is amplified, shaped, stereotyped and re-invented but at the same time sacrificed. This book addresses a number of questions such as: what does elecontronic emotion actually mean? How does emotion change when mediated by information and communication technologies? Ow are the production and the consumption of electronic and mediated emotion articulated? What emotional investment do people express in ICTs? The editors have brought together a distinctive group of scholars from multiple disciplines including social sciences, linguistics and information sciences to discuss and provide some answers to these questions.

2009 | Action Number: E3

COST Action E3: Forestry in the Context of Rural Development - Papers presented at the 6th Meeting of the Management Committee

2009 | Action Number: D33

Nanoscale Electrochemical and Bioprocesses (Corrosion) at Solid-Aqueous Interfaces of Industrial Materials - Final Workshop

• Pages: 100
• Author(s): L. Benea, G. Cârâc
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-973-1937-09-0

Final workshop on Action D33 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13-15 May, 2009.

2009 | Action Number: 863

Proceedings of the Workshop on Berry Production in Changing Climate Conditions and Cultivation Systems

• Pages: 228
• Author(s): E. Kruger
• Publisher(s): ISHS
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-90-6605-582-7

The contributions during the workshop from representatives of the berry research and berry industry were highly valuable. The most important research topics on berry crops related to climate change and modern cultivation systems were definited for the future: a better knowledge on requirements for flower initation and chilling completion of the most important cultivars and the development of better models for predicting thse processes, more information on an efficient use of water in protected environments, as well as research on pre-harvest effects on fruit quality and the development of efficient biological control systems. Breeding for higher plant plasticity by out-breeding strategies might be a possiblity to get cultivars with higher tolerance to climate injuries. Furthermore, basic knowledge on gene-controlling mechanisms related to increased adaptability to these changes may help breeders find more tolerant cultivars against climate, pest and disease stress.

2009 | Action Number: A28

The Effectiveness of International Criminal Justice

• Pages: 278
• Author(s): C. Ryngaert
• Publisher(s): Intersentia
• http://www.intersentia.be/searchDetail.aspx?back=reeks&reeksCode=&bookid=100893
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-90-5095-812-7

This edited voume ascertains the added value of international criminal tribunals in fighting impunity for crimes against international law and fostering political reconciliation in affected States. It aims to identify best practices which may inform the choice between the establishment of international criminal tribunals and recourse to other mechanisms, and which may render existing or future tribunals more effective institutions. The first part analyzes how such tribunals, if the international community decides to establish them, could be effective institutions. The second part of the volume contrasts international criminal justice with other judicial or policial mechanisms aimed at dispensing justice or reconciling communities.

2009 | Action Number: 298

Broadband Songlines and the Politics of Participation

• Author(s): B. Sapio and L. Hjorth
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-961-6277-18-1

The main objective of COST Action 298 is to create new knowledge about users' creativity and to facilitate their empowerment in a broadband information society. This knowledge is crucial in order to strengthen the European Research Area. Moreover, this requires an examination of the factors that can both constrain and enhance users abilities to shape and use ICT's - nowadays also referred to as information society technologies and services (ISTs).

2009 | Action Number: 294

Maturation of Usability Evaluation Methods: Retrospect and Prospect

• Pages: 163
• Author(s): E. Lai-Chong Law, D. Scapin, G. Cockton, M. Springett, C. Stary, M. Winckler
• Publisher(s): IRIT Press
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-2-917490-06-8

The closing conference proceedings consist of four parts, with each of them reporting the respective outcomes of the Working Groups.