Publications

The International COST 720 Temperature, humidity, and Cloud profiling experiment (TUC) was organized in winter 2003-2004 at Payerne, Switzerland, to test the ability of ground-based remote sensing systems to measure under cold and stable weather conditions, including situations where fog was present. This special issue focuses on advantages and limitations of such automatic systems for measuring temperature and humidity profiles within the planetary boundary layer, as well as cloud characteristics. Data from two microwave radiometers, one cloud-radar, one ceilometer and one wind profiler were analyzed and validated using radio sonde data, or compared with GPS and satellite measurements. A first attempt to integrate information from various systems to improve the overall accuracy of temperature and humidity profiles is then presented in this special issue.

Proceedings of COST Chemistry Action D18 Final Meeting on “Lanthanide Chemistry for Diagnosis and Therapy”, which took place in Orléans, France on 31 March – 1 April 2006.

The main target of this book is to explore how the involvement of rural populations and communitites in different kinds of markets (mainly for agricultural commoditites) has influenced the management of rural land in Europe. Most of the papers focus on precisely what were the forces driving agricultural change in rural Europe. Although the importance of these changes were very different from the Middle Ages until the present days, a common approach that emerged was to stress the importance of urban and external markets in order to give incentives to changes in the management of rural land. The transition of agriculture and its producers, respectively, into a highly market-integrated sector and strongly market-oriented peasants formed the driving force and prima causa of European agricultural revolutions during early modern times. Expansion of market allowed for an intense process of specialization, with clear competitive advantages with respect to earlier land uses.