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Scope of the Chapter This chapter discusses the meaning, calculation, and basic indicators of economic growth and development; the classification of rich and poor countries; the price index problem; the distortion in comparing income per head between rich and poor countries; adjustments to income figures for purchasing power; alternative measures …

Introduction Over the past thirty years, the study of international political economy underwent a remarkable resurgence. Virtually nonexistent before 1970 as a field of study, the international political economy is now a popular area of specialization for both undergraduates and graduate students, as well as the source of much innovative …

No one can predict exactly when a volcanic eruption will take place. There are clues, but no one knows exactly when. Sometimes a volcano will erupt when scientists are studying it. Volcanologists have a high fatality rate among scientists because forecasting eruptions is so difficult. Predicting Volcanic Eruptions Volcanic eruptions …

Social media shatters the boundaries between the real world and the virtual world. We can now integrate social theories with computational methods to study how individuals (also known as social atoms) interact and how communities (i.e., social molecules) form. The uniqueness of social media MOLECULE data calls for novel data …

In February 2013, during the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII, a power outage stopped the game for 34 minutes. Oreo, a sandwich cookie company, tweeted during the outage: “Power out? No Problem, You can still dunk it in the dark.” The tweet caught on almost immediately, reaching nearly 15,000 …

Humans have changed the natural balance of the carbon cycle because we use coal, oil, and natural gas to supply our energy demands. Fossil fuels are a sink for CO2 when they form, but they are a source of CO2 when they are burned. The equation shows that when propane …

What is electronic waste? We obtain resources from developing nations. We also dump waste on these nations. Many of our electronic wastes, which we think are being recycled, end up in developing countries. These are known as electronic waste or e-waste. People pick through the wastes looking for valuable materials …

Mining and the Environment Although mining provides people with many needed resources, the environmental costs can be high. Surface mining clears the landscape of trees and soil, and nearby streams and lakes are inundated with sediment. Pollutants from the mined rock, such as heavy metals, enter the sediment and water …

The principal goal of physical chemistry is to understand the properties and behavior of material systems and to apply this understanding in useful ways. The state of a system is specified by giving the values of a certain number of independent variables (state variables). In an equilibrium one-phase fluid system …