beyond efficiency and optimization in architecture
EFFICIENCY AND DISTRIBUTION IN CONTRACT FARMING: THE CASE OF INDIAN POULTRY GROWERS pdf
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17/03/2014, 10:20
... chicks, medicine, feed and veterinary services Growers supply land, buildings, labor, and other variable inputs such as electricity and disinfectants Using the information on input sharing, Table ... contracting involves the use of improved and standardised technology and production practices This involves supply of inputs, close contact and training of the contract grower Protecting this investment ... industry engaged in breeding of chicks and manufacturing of feed, vaccines and medicines In order to minimize the risks to the producers and sustain the profitability of the industry, some large...
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efficiency and sustainability in the energy and chemical industries scientific principles and case studies
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01/04/2014, 11:38
... the intermolecular interactions, the interactions Efficiency and Sustainability in the Energy and Chemical Industries 10 between molecules Process simulation models usually contain information and ... engineering and mixing at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Fairfax, Virginia Hedzer J van der Kooi received his MSc and PhD degrees from Delft University of Technology and specialized in ... SECOND EDITION EFFICIENCY and SUSTAINABILITY in the ENERGY and CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES Scientific Principles and Case Studies GREEN CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Series Editor: Sunggyu...
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mechanics and meaning in architecture
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29/04/2014, 15:43
... Mechanics and Meaning in Architecture This page intentionally left blank Mechanics and Meaning in Architecture Lance La Vine M IN NE SO TA University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis • London ... mechanics and meaning Architecture' s Loss of a Distinct Technological Voice 17 The rise of engineering in the building professions; architectural incorporation of engineering constructs; a case in point; ... they, in and of themselves, provide an inclusive and satisfying definition of the role of technology in architectural design Architectural drawings increase the scope of this definition by linking...
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Efficiency and complexity in grammars
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10/07/2014, 13:46
... varied, including word order, case making, filler-gap dependencies, island constraints, and anaphoric binding Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars is a landmark work, setting a new standard in the ... here: Minimize Domains, Minimize Forms, and Maximize On-line Processing • Greater descriptive and explanatory adequacy can be achieved when efficiency and complexity principles are incorporated into ... to many linguists and psycholinguists Another reason for resisting the PGCH is that theories of processing and use are still in their relative infancy, and many basic issues, including the nature...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Increasing N and P resorption efficiency and proficiency in northern deciduous hardwoods with decreasing foliar N and P concentrations" doc
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08/08/2014, 14:20
... nutrients in litter fall and crown leaching in a stand of Corsican pine, J Appl Ecol 13 (1976) 233–248 [19] Nambiar E.K.S., Fife D.N., Growth and nutrient retranslocation in needles of radiata pine in ... having a Y-intercept significantly different from zero was determined with linear regressions Since any straight line going through zero is a line with constant percentage nutrient resorption efficiency, ... with the peak of leaf drop for individual species and consisted in collecting falling and recently fallen leaves In order to reduce the error associated with the sampling of leaf litter that was...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Nutrient efficiency and resorption in Quercus pyrenaica oak coppices under different rainfall regimes of the Sierra de Gata mountains (central western Spain)" pps
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08/08/2014, 14:21
... obliged to retain these elements and reuse them as much as possible, thus favouring more efficient internal recycling [34] and affording the plants a certain independence from the supply coming from ... for N and P (we also use it for K, for comparative purposes) and is shown in table III as NEI (nutrient efficiency index) The second index determined, GEI (general efficiency index), contains all ... since these nutrients are of external origin and are not absorbed directly by the roots stem retained in small branches and bark are difficult to deter- mine) 2.2.2 Calculation of efficiency indices...
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CFD for hydrodynamic efficiency and design optimization of key elements of SHP
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05/09/2013, 14:58
... resulting in the Laplace equation, verifying that streamlines and equipotential lines are mutually perpendicular originating a flow net of streamlines and equipotential lines When the stream lines ... referee and 110 in International Conferences; Supervisor of several post-doc, PhDs and MSc students and author of innovative real solutions in the domain of Civil Engineering - hydropower and hydraulic ... non-uniformities creating a good inflow approximation, removing sharp singularities, modifying intake and outlet geometries to lengthen uniform streamlines and to guarantee the minimum submergence or the...
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Numerical simulation and optimization of CO2 sequestration in saline aquifers for enhanced storage capacity and secured sequestration
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05/09/2013, 16:10
... conducting several benchmark studies [3, 4] In this paper, we consider the optimization of two engineering techniques to increase the sequestration efficiency and safety of GCS in saline aquifers In ... Engineering & Materials Science at Washington University in St Louis, USA He holds a B.S degree in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University, and a M.S degree from Washington University in ... will increase in a semi-exponential fashion Therefore, during intermediate and late stage of CO2 injection, it is expected that CO2 injectivity should greatly improve, resulting in low injection...
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Energy efficiency and cost analysis of canola production in different farm sizes
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05/09/2013, 16:30
... 2011, pp.845-852 849 loading in the environment and receiving waters, poor water quality, carbon emissions and contamination of the food chain [27] Integrating a legume into a crop rotation is ... only for providing higher energy use efficiency and decreasing production costs, but also for reducing negative effects to the environment, human health and for maintaining sustainability References ... research interests are energy, modeling and simulation, and mechanization E-mail address: shahinrafiee@ut.ac.ir A Jafari was born in 1970, received his B.Sc degree in Agricultural Machinery Engineering...
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Tài liệu Changes in Windows Server 2008 and Group Policy Architecture ppt
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10/12/2013, 14:15
... of the seminars "Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft Windows Vista," "Migrating to Windows Vista," and "Deploying Group Policy." He also consults through his Colorado-based company Independent ... in operation; and easier to manage, maintain, and troubleshoot Is Group Policy now perfect? I'll withhold even thinking of using language like that until we see "undo" and "search" commands in ... GPOE and look for the settings contained in that ADMX file They will have disappeared Finally, reinstate the ADMX file into its rightful location, and run the GPOE again You will see the settings...
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Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture A visual introduction pot
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14/03/2014, 17:20
... design thinking and awareness This book is intended as both an introduction to the discipline for students of landscape architecture, architecture and planning, and a source of continuing interest ... landscape architecture and my own experiences of landscape: moving through it, stopping, looking, feeling, touching, talking, eating, sheltering, remembering They are also strongly informed by ... Cataloging in Publication Data Dee, Catherine, 1958– Form and fabric in landscape architecture: a visual introduction/ Catherine Dee p cm Includes bibliographical references (p ) Landscape architecture...
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Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering docx
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14/03/2014, 19:20
... Women in Academic Science and Engineering (U.S.) Beyond bias and barriers : fulfilling the potential of women in academic science and engineering / Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in ... review and assess the research on gender issues in science and engineering, including innate differences in cognition, implicit bias, and faculty diversity • To examine institutional culture and ... questions and developing strategies can have on the next generation of women in science and engineering It is our hope that in the future women in science and engineering will not face attitudes and institutional...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Improvement of ecdysone receptor gene switch for applications in plants: Locusta migratoria retinoid X receptor (LmRXR) mutagenesis and optimization of translation start site pptx
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15/03/2014, 23:20
... GAL4 DNA-binding domain with CfEcR ligand-binding domain cloned under the control of the 35S promoter in the pKYLX80 vector A fusion of VP16 activation domain and LmRXR ligand-binding domain cloned ... Interestingly, an increase in the ligandinduced activity of this switch containing the improved Kozak sequence was not accompanied by an increase in background activity in the absence of ligand Therefore, ... activity in the absence of ligand and lower induced luciferase activity in the presence of ligand The transgenic plants containing the CfEcR:LmRXR switch showed a similar meth- Time course studies in...
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The green brewery concept - Energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources in breweries ppt
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24/03/2014, 04:20
... of the Green Brewery Concept includes detailed energy balancing, calculation of minimal thermal energy demand, process optimization, heat integration and finally the integration of renewable energy ... reviews on methods and tools have recently been published by Banos et al [5] and Collony et al [6] Total Site targeting methodology and its extension including varying supply and demand has been shown ... been applied for one case study taking into account all important thermal RI PT processes The presentation of the minimal heating and cooling demand in the pinch analysis of the case study is...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Learning Noun Phrase Anaphoricity to Improve Coreference Resolution: Issues in Representation and Optimization" ppt
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31/03/2014, 03:20
... an important role in determining its anaphoricity Conclusions We have examined two largely unexplored issues in computing and using anaphoricity information for improving learning-based coreference ... than CBGO in improving the baseline, underperforming its constraint-based counterpart in 11 of the 12 cases In fact, FBGO is able to significantly improve the corresponding baseline in only four ... features are important in order to gain linguistic insights into the problem Specifically, we measure the informativeness of a feature by computing its information gain (see p.22 of Quinlan (1993) for...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Efficiency, Robustness and Accuracy in Picky Chart Parsing*" docx
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31/03/2014, 06:20
... TINA In Proceedings of the August 1989 International Workshop in Parsing Technologies Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Younger, D H 1967 Recognition and Parsing of Context-Free Languages in Time n Information ... noun, find one, and introduce a new edge consisting of a completed NP The edge predicted by the noun will look to the left for a determiner, find one, and also introduce a new edge consisting of ... Picky combines the standard chart parsing data structures with existing bottom-up and top-down parsing operations, and includes a probabilistic version of top-down filtering and over-the-top prediction...
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stochastic global optimization techniques and applications in chemical engineering techniques and applications_in chemical engineering with cd rom
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01/04/2014, 11:36
... achieving sustainable processes and manufacturing In view of its importance and usefulness, optimization has attracted the interest of chemical engineers and researchers in both industry and academia, ... Advances in Process Systems Engineering – Vol STOCHASTIC GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION Techniques and Applications in Chemical Engineering 7669 tp.indd 4/22/10 10:35:38 AM Advances in Process Systems Engineering ... Multi-Objective Optimization: Techniques and Applications in Chemical Engineering, World Scientific, Singapore Ravindran, A., Ragsdell, K.M and Reklaitis, G.V (2006) Engineering Optimization: Methods and...
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measuring efficiency and explaining failures in banking application to the russian banking sector
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03/06/2014, 02:06
... aluminum processing and aircraft engine plants together with food processing companies and investment companies 13 Standard and Poor’s (2005) 24 Even though the main players in the banking industry ... Commonwealth of Independent States TE Transition Economies Measuring Efficiency and Explaining Failures in Banking: Application to the Russian Banking Sector Introduction Banking system plays ... Moscow investment bank UFG in 2003 and the remaining 60% in 2006 Citibank, Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein are the three top advisers on mergers and acquisition, each totaling over...
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Financing energy efficiency and climate change migration a guide for investors in belarus, bulgaria, kazakhstan, the russian federation, and ukraine new york geneva, 2005
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04/06/2014, 16:24
... energy efficiency projects appeared early as one of the main bottlenecks to increasing trade and cooperation As a result, the project has focused on increasing skills in financial engineering and ... banking system aimed at increasing stability, expanding and improving banking senrices, as well as protecting the interests of depositors and creditors Over the course of three years the state intended ... as follows in 2002: 50.1 percent in industry, 19.5 percent in finance, 16.1 percent in trade, 4.2 percent in tourism, and 4.8 percent in infrastructure and ~onstruction.~' The Foreign Investment...
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