Publications

Proceedings of the FRAGILOME Conference on “Chromosomal Instability, Fragile Sites, and Cancer”, which took place Heidelberg, Germany on 17-19 February 2005.

The main objectives were to progress and innovate in the areas of theoretical antenna modelling & design software, novel antenna architectures; to foster University-Industry research cooperation; to consolidate & expand a European network on antennas in cooperation with other projects.

Soil-crop-atmosphere interactions play a central role in the multiple functions of rural landscapes. Agro-ecosystem models are increasingly used to support decision making on different scales towards sustainable land use and management. This is accompanied by a demand of model users for model validation to get an idea about the reliability of models. This book contains articles from a workshop on “Modelling water and nutrient dynamics in crop-soil systems”. Data sets from lysimeters and experimental fields of multiyear crop rotations were provided for modellers. A unique data set is provided of a 100 year long term field experiment regarding crop yield and organic carbon development under different management systems.

Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Wood Machining – Properties of Wood and Wood Composites Related to Machining, which took place in Vienna, Austria on 5-7 July 2004.

Agricultural production has been the basic and single most important factor for the well-being of mankind since the Neolithic revolution. Insufficient agricultural output has led to deficient means of subsistence and sometimes even starvation, while rich harvests brought about plenty and prosperity. Continuous increases in agricultural output have transformed whole societies and continents, bringing about radical changes in people’s lives and economic prospects.

This book is focused on measuring and explaining agricultural growth in Europe. For most countries statistics on agricultural production are either non-existing or shaky for the period up to the end of the nineteenth century. Consequently, researchers dealing with historical farming have been forced to put a lot of effort into reconstructing reliable data on inputs and outputs. The last decades have seen major progress, and new approaches to quantify and explain agricultural development have been adopted. The book is the result of these efforts and it encompasses estimations and explanations of European historical agriculture over time, from the ninth to the twentieth century, and over space, from the Iberian Peninsula to Scandinavia and from the British Isles to Russia.