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Our capacity to reshape the future has never been more powerful. Yet our ability to foresee the consequences of what we do has not kept pace. Is the idea that we have responsibilities to future generations therefore meaningful? This book argues that it is, with the aid of a unique reading of the care ethics tradition.

Navigation systems engineering is a red-hot area. More and more technical professionals are entering the field and looking for practical, up-to-date engineering know-how. This single-source reference answers the call, providing both an introduction to overall systems operation and an in-depth treatment of architecture, design, and component integration. This book explains how satellite, on-board, and other navigation technologies operate, and it gives practitioners insight into performance issues such as processing chains and error sources. Providing solutions to systems designers and engineers, the book describes and compares different integration architectures, and explains how to diagnose errors. Moreover, this hands-on book includes appendices filled with terminology and equations for quick referencing.

A computer-based decision-support tool, called the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) Planning Tool, provided technical analysis that supported the development of Louisiana’s Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast through CPRA and community-based deliberations. This document seeks to provide an accessible technical description of the Planning Tool and associated analyses used to develop the Master Plan.

\"Is the United States 'the land of equal opportunity' or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic status from parent to child are unfair, could public policy address the problem? The book provides new answers to these questions by leading economists, sociologists, biologists, behavioral geneticists, and philosophers. New estimates show that intergenerational inequality in the United States is far greater than was previously thought. Moreover, while the inheritance of wealth and the better schooling typically enjoyed by the children of the well-to-do contribute to this process, these two standard explanations fail to explain the extent of intergenerational status transmission. The genetic inheritance of IQ is even less important. Instead, parent-offspring similarities in personality and behavior may play an important role. Race contributes to the process, and the intergenerational mobility patterns of African Americans and European Americans differ substantially.\" (author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) Content: Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, Melissa Osborne Groves: Introduction (1-22); Greg Duncan, Ariel Kahl, Susan E. Mayer, Robin Tepper, Monique R. Payne: The apple does not fall far from the tree (23-79); Bhashkar Mazumder: The apple falls even closer to the tree than we thought - new and revised estimates of the intergenerational inheritance of earnings (80-99); David J. Harding, Christopher Jencks, Leonard M. Lopoo, Susan E. Mayer: The changing effect of family background on the incomes of American adults (100-144); Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, Gary Solon: Influences of nature and nurture on earnings variation - a report on a study of various sibling types in Sweden (145-164); Tom Hertz: Rags, riches, and race - the intergenerational economic mobility of black and white families in the United States (165-191); John C. Loehlin: Resemblance in personality and attitudes between parents and their children - genetic and environmental contributions (192-207); Melissa Osborne Groves: Personality and the intergenerational transmission of economic status (208-231); Marcus W. Feldman, Shuzhuo Li, Nan Li, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Xiaoyi Jin: Son preference, marriage, and intergenerational transfer in rural China (232-255); Adam Swift: Justice, luck, and the family - the intergenerational transmission of economic advantage from a normative perspective Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: deskriptive Studie. (256-276).