2010 | Action Number: FA0601

Special Issue of Fisheries Research: Method development and Evaluation of Stock Reproductive Potential of Marine Fish

• Author(s): O. Sigurd Kjesbu, H. Murua, F. Saborido-Rey and P. R. Witthames (eds)
• Publisher(s): Elsevier
• http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01657836
• ISBN/ISSN: 0165-7836

2010 | Action Number: D42

Basic Environmental Mechanisms Affecting Cultural Heritage: Understanding deterioration mechanisms for conservation purposes

• Author(s): D. Camuffo, V. Fassina and J. Havermans (eds)
• Publisher(s): Nardini Editore
• http://www.nardinieditore.it/scheda.asp?Id=963
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-88-404-4334-8

For ethical reasons, the conservation of cultural heritage is a duty for all nations. Slowly, decision makers are beginning to understand that caring about cultural heritage and especially about museums, library and archival collections is a valuable long-term investment for their economy and in the interest of their citizens. The accessibility of movable heritage depends not only on its direct conservation but also on preventive conservation because the quality of the indoor environment is crucial for the preservation of a collection. Sensitive materials, displayed in an aggressive environment may suffer from chemical attack of pollutants, leading to irreversible damage after only a few weeks of inappropriate exposure.
The interpretation of results on the impact of pollutants on the degradation of artifacts and consequently, any appropriate measure to prevent damage, requires close collaboration between multidisciplinary key players: chemist concerned with environmental effects and material degradation, physicists concerned with microclimate and physical deterioration mechanism, conservators, conservation scientist, art historians, curators, environmental engineers, show case manufacturers, and even politicians and decision makers concerned with international standards.

2010 | Action Number: A30

Freedom and Pluralism: Media Policy Challenges in the Enlarged Europe

• Author(s): Beata Klimkiewicz (ed)
• Publisher(s): CEU Press
• http://www.ceupress.com/books/html/Media-Freedom-and-Pluralism.htm
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-963-9776-73-9

This book addresses a critical analysis of major media policies in the European Union and the Council of Europe at the period of profound changes affecting both media environments and use, as well as the logic of media policy making and reconfiguration of traditional regulatory models. The analytical problem-related approach explores three problem areas: freedom of expression as a regulatory rationale, AVMS Directive and content-related regulation, and media pluralism and structural regulation. This volume offers a perspective of both "new" and "old" EU Member States on a media policy process seen as an integral part of a European communication space formation and exercise of communication rights.

2010 | Action Number: 637

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference COST 637

• Pages: 179

2010 | Action Number: E51

Policy Integration and Coordination: the Case of Innovation and the Forest Sector in Europe

• Author(s): E. Rameststeiner; G. Weiss; P. Ollonqvist and B. Slee
• Publisher(s): OPOCE
• Download from external website
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-92-898-0049-5
• EUR: 24163

2010 | Action Number: 541

Thixoforming Steel

• Author(s): H. Atkinson and A. Rassili (Eds)
• Publisher(s): Shaker Verlag
• http://www.shaker.eu/catalogue/details.asp?ID=13116025&CC=504&ISBN=3-8322-9133-4
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-8322-9133-4

2010 | Action Number: 728

Meteorological and Air Quality Model for Urban Areas

• Pages: 183
• Author(s): A. Baklanov, S. Grimmond, A. Mahura and M. Athanassiadou (Eds)
• Publisher(s): Springer
• http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/meteorology+%26+climatology/book/978-3-642-00297-7
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-642-00297-7

This book, based on the selected presentations given at the COST728 workshop, is concerned with the following main topics/chapters:

• Urban morphology and databases,
• Parameterisations of urban canopy,
• Strategy for urbanization of different types of models,
• Evaluation and city case studies / field studies.

The chapters were concerned with dynamic (on wind and turbulent) and thermal effects (on temperature and energy in general). The final chapter of this volume summarizes the discussion and conclusions from the four main topics and provides recommendations and future requirements.

The book is oriented towards numerical weather prediction and air quality modelling communities.

2010 | Action Number: 287

Musical Gestures: Sound, Movement And Meaning

• Pages: 307
• Author(s): R. I. Godoy and M. Leman
• Publisher(s): Routledge
• http://www.routledgemusic.com/books/Musical-Gestures-isbn9780415998871
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-415-99886-4

Musical Gestures is a collection of essays addressing the fundamental issues of gesture research in relation to music. This includes different approaches to what musical gestures are about, analyses of the relationships between gestures and sound, the relationships between performance and perception of gestures, and their significance and use in cultural contexts. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to these issues, drawing on ideas, theories, and methods from disciplines such as musicology, music perception, human movement science, cognitive psychology, and computer science.

2010 | Action Number: E33

Management of Recreation and Nature Based Tourism in European Forests

• Pages: 363
• Author(s): U. Pröbstl, V. Wirth, B. Elands and S. Bell (eds)
• Publisher(s): Springer
• http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/book/978-3-642-03144-1
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-642-03144-1

This book provides for the first time a Europe-wide overview on the state of the art of management of recreation and nature tourism in forests. It describes the current situation and conflicts in the different regions of Europe and provides solutions illustrated by good practise examples. It addresses traditions, differences and similarities in European forests as well as new tasks, goals and strategies. The final discussion provides a profound insight into future trends regarding forest recreation and nature based tourism.

2010 | Action Number: 2102

Development of Multimodal Interfaces: Active Listening and Synchrony

• Author(s): A. Esposito, N. Campbell, C. Vogel, A. Hussain and A, Nijholt. (Eds.)
• Publisher(s): Springer
• Download from external website

Second COST 2102 International Training School, Dublin, Ireland, March 23-27, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

The themes of the papers presented in this book emphasize theoretical and practical issues for modelling human-machine interaction, ranging from the attempt in describing “the spacing and orientation in co-present interaction” to the effort for developing multimodal interfaces, collecting and analysing interaction data and emergent behaviour as well as analysing the use of nonverbal and pragmatic elements of exchanges, implementing discourse control and virtual agents and using active listening in computer speech processing.

2010 | Action Number: B25

Proceedings of the final Congress of COST Action B25: Physiologically Based Pharmaco-Toxicokinetics and Dynamics

• Author(s): U. Gundert-Remy, P. Macheras and O. Pelkonen
• Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
• http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123279166/issue
• ISBN/ISSN: 1742-7835

2010 | Action Number: IS0601

Autonomy and Control of States Agencies

• Pages: 311
• Author(s): K. Verhoest, P. G. Roness, B. Verschuere, K. Rubecksen and M. MacCarthaigh
• Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
• http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=9780230577657
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-230-57765-7

2010 | Action Number: 720

Integrated Ground-Based Remote-Sensing Stations for Atmospheric Profiling

• Pages: 398
• Author(s): D. Engelbart, W. Monna, J. Nash and C. Mätzler
• Publisher(s): OPOCE
• Download from external website
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-92-898-0050-1
• EUR: 24172

2010 | Action Number: 298

The Good, the Bad and the Challenging

• http://conference2009.cost298.org

This DVD contains the lectures of the participants in the Copenhagen conference which took place on 13-15 May 2009.