chapter 10  herding xml in scala

... marginal cost declines as output expands from one to four widgets and then rises, as predicted by the law of diminishing returns This increasing marginal cost reflects the diminishing marginal ... reasonable precision In the short run, firms know that beyond some point, increases in the use of a resource (for example, fertilizer) will bring diminishing marginal returns and rising marginal costs ... again equals marginal cost The cutback in output has occurred because the marginal cost of producing q2 – q1 widgets now exceeds the price In other words, an increase in variable cost results in...

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... above reactions involved higher olefins or aromatics In principle, cyclodextrins can interact with both the substrate, the product and the catalyst of a catlytic reaction mixture Indeed, this is ... in acidic aqueous solutions (pH adjusted to 1.8) in the presence of various chemically modified cyclodextrins (Scheme 10.11) [18] As in most cases, the best results were obtained with In an interesting ... cyclodextrins play a major role in this field Thinking of the relatively low price of these chemicals (a few $ per kg in 1998 [2]) their use on a larger scale can also be envisaged in fine chemicals...

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... Group, LLC Drugs in Drinking Water 221 10.3.3 CHLORINE-BASED DISINFECTION Chlorine disinfectants, such as free chlorine and chloramines, are widely used in drinking water disinfection in the United ... often employed in drinking water treatment facilities Ozone and UV can be used as oxidants and disinfectants, but chlorine and chloramines are most often employed for final disinfection in the United ... technology is currently gaining importance, since its use can reduce the chlorine dose applied for final disinfection, therefore, decreasing the levels of DBPs formed.38 AOPs using UV in place of O3 can...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... microcolonies present in aerobic granules (Jiang, Tay and Tay 2002; McSwain et al 2005) It is most likely that EPS plays an important role in maintaining the structural and functional integrity of aerobic ... obtained in aerobic granulation, showing that the specific gravity and mechanical strength of aerobic granules increased significantly with increase in the ratio of polysaccharides to proteins ... not available or are limiting Without doubt, the spatial distribution of EPS in biogranules and biofilms plays an essential role in stabilizing the structure and maintaining the strength of microbial...

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... between about nm and nm At temperatures above the melting point (sintered silver was maintained in a porcelain boat), the particle sizes increased rapidly up to over 0.1 µm (Figure 10.12) This ... Aerosol Chemical Processes in the Environment FIGURE 10.5 A longitudinal furnace for preparing inorganic condensation aerosols = boat containing porous ceramic and an inorganic substance; = metal ... vertical furnace for preparing inorganic condensation aerosols = platinum or gold dish containing an inorganic substance; = quartz tube; = shields; = metal cover; = heating bodies; = metal network;...

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... by-products of processing of zinc–lead ores At ZGH Boleslaw mine these concentrates contained 46% zinc Production of zinc concentrates decreased after 1989 to about 150,000 tons zinc/year (Table 10.2) ... tons in 1993 (Table 10.6) On the other hand, exports increased from 17,600 to 69,500 tons In addition, imports contain lead For example, in 1993, 4,769,333 m3 of leaded gasoline was used in Table ... Metals in Soil, 1980–1985 (in g/ha/year) Cd Pb Zn 38 15 20 200 280 10 75 30 50 5400 709 40 40 80 200 100 180 280 429 Input Mineral fertilizers Liming Manure Wastewater sludge Plant remains Rainfall...

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... processing to enable them to be used in a nuclear weapon Examples of indirect use materials include uranium containing 235U in quantities less than 20% and plutonium containing 238Pu in quantities ... of individual grains, stacking faults, twin boundaries, and dislocations Electron diffraction enables crystal structures to be determined from individual areas of a sample Information obtained ... emitters in mining and other underground gauging applications These include mixed radionuclide neutron sources like 241AmBe and 238PuBe, in which the 241Am and 238Pu produce α particles that interact...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... advantage investment clubs offer novice investors Investment clubs also offer opportunities for sounding out new ideas, studying and learning, and networking into the financial community I l@ve RuBoard ... remain open until the investor instructs the broker to cancel it Plain English A time notation is an instruction to a broker specifying how long an order to purchase or sell stock should remain in ... expense pitfalls, many investors buy in round lots Purchasing in round lots is similar to the process of buying beer or soda You're certainly welcome to buy bottles or cans individually, but most...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 21:20

... presentation include persuasion, instruction, inspiration, and entertainment Persuasion is a method for bringing an audience around to your point of view Instruction is used to share basic information ... time to begin assembling materials for your presentation This process involves several steps including collection, organization, writing an outline and rough draft, editing and then reviewing the ... cards and practice giving your presentation using these cards Work toward linking these prompts together in your mind and using fewer and fewer of the cards Continue practicing this process Presentation...

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Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 06:20

... a once -in- a-lifetime experience, executing an exit strategy This involves converting equity in the business into an income stream during retirement One option is to leave the business in the ... sell the business, but retain ownership in the building that houses the business This allows the owner to reduce the tax consequence of selling the business and to produce rental income In addition, ... sell the property and invest the remaining equity in passive income-producing securities There are several advantages to owning rental real estate First, well-managed and maintained rental real estate...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 11:20

... searching look into the eyes of Philippe, “you will not be a King such as your father was,- delicate in health, slow in judgment, whom all things wearied; you will be a King governing by your brain ... the painful struggle which was taking place in Philippe’s mind This suspense lasted throughout the ten minutes which the young man had requested During that eternity Philippe continued gazing with ... finding itself inferior or vanquished, to be foiled in so vast a project from not having foreseen the influence which a few tree-leaves and a few cubic feet of air might have on the human mind?...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 09:20

... the firm’s income tax rate Borrowing from a bank or selling bonds to raise funds is known as “debt financing.” Issuing stock to raise funds is known as “equity financing.” Equity financing is an ... funds needed for a project by selling stock The remaining 30% of financing comes from borrowing The cost of equity financing is 20%, the pretax cost of debt financing is 10%, and the tax rate is ... factoring in points and origination fees and assuming the mortgage will not be prepaid R ECENT INNOVATIONS IN CAPITAL BUDGETING Recent years have seen the introduction of two new capital budgeting...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 13:20

... above 210/120 declined from 1.8% in the 1950s to 0.1% in the 1990s with the introduction of effective antihypertensive agents While debate continues about appropriate screening strategies and ... increase by 104%, and the increase will be fivefold higher in developing than in developed countries "Western" lifestyle changes will be responsible for the increased incidence of cancers of the ... continue to have a much larger impact in developing countries Environmental and dietary factors, such as indoor air pollution and highsalt diets, also help account for increased rates of certain...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... during the 1970s (the last time these patients were routinely treated with medicine alone) would be extremely misleading since the quality of "medical therapy" has made huge improvements in the ... overcome in the analysis phase of the research Advantages to observational data include the ability to capture a broader population than is typically represented in clinical trials In addition, ... treatment selection bias in the latter The underlying concept in the use of observational data to compare diagnostic or therapeutic strategies is that there is enough uncertainty in practice that similar...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... recorded during social interactions In this we explore interactions during grooming and dominance In the fourth section we explore methods used for gathering data on social interaction and then, in the ... consistent outcome in favor of the same individual within a dyad, within which the opponent invariably yields rather than escalating the interaction This excludes many uses of dominance and, in particular, ... arranged in a straightforward dominance hierarchy Our own work with badgers revealed some of the complexities of elucidating and interpreting the dominance concept We were interested in feeding interactions...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 13:20

... Grouping streams using SRF semantics The P-CSCF adds a=mid and a=group:SRF lines to the session descriptions before relaying them to the terminals (as described in 3GPP TS 24.229 [37]) The terminals ... tiv ati on GGSN Figure 10.3: P-CSCF adds SRF info to an incoming INVITE request (1) INVITE SDP (2) INVITE SDP (4) 183 Session Progress SDP with SRF info (3) 183 Session Progress SDP P-CSCF (5 ... SDP that the IMS terminal receives does not contain any instructions to perform resource reservation In that case the IMS terminal is free to decide how to group media streams into reservation flows...

Ngày tải lên: 01/08/2014, 17:21

... soils specifically results in stress fields favorable for fracturing In this instance, the least principal stress in the vertical direction The induced fractures would again be created perpendicular ... installed during the remedial investigation phase of the project to characterize minor changes in lithology Cores collected during continuous and depth-specific sampling should also be examined for ... test configuration Note that both existing monitoring wells, as available, and specially installed monitoring points are included within the test area Testing procedures are briefly summarized below...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 06:23

... for developing silvicultural prescriptions, evaluating management scenarios, updating inventory information, and providing input to forest planning models (USDA 1999 and references therein) Additional ... capabilities include forecasting vegetative structure, assessing wildlife habitat, analyzing fire hazard, determining forest health risk, and monitoring ecological processes Using a parallel processing ... primary extrinsic factor Intrinsic factors include species recruitment, foraging efficiency, and reproductive rates It is a bioenergetic model in which the two species of Dipodomys feed on a single...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 09:21

... increased and ANC values decreased during winter, with maximum NO3- concentrations and minimum ANC values occurring during spring snowmelt Seasonal increases in NO3were also associated with increases ... which increases their susceptibility to freezing An increased frequency of winter injury in the Adirondack and Green Mountains since 1955 coincides with increased exposure of red spruce canopies ... record of stream chemistry in forest watersheds of the Catskill Mountains (New York) has shown increasing NO3- concentrations since 1920, apparently in response to increases in atmospheric N deposition...

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