history and early applications

... Solomon Islands and Thailand See Jenifer Lynn Peters, “Land and Resource Management:€The Illegal Trafficking of Timber in Cambodia”, Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy ... regulation and resilience of the global financial system He has consulted to government departments in Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the United States and to banks and finance houses in Australia and ... living and working in South Africa, Malawi and the Philippines, and has studied at the University of New South Wales and the University of South Africa in a range of disciplines, including law, history, ...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 18:36

... fatigue, creep, and wear than the lightweight aluminum and magnesium alloys Many of the alloys have excellent ductility, corrosion resistance, and electrical and thermal conductivity, and they are ... silicon brasses, and some nickel-silvers They are more fluid than the low-shrinkage red brasses, more easily poured, and give high-grade castings 10 Copper Alloys – Early Applications and Current ... advantages and disadvantages If only a few castings are made and flexibility in casting size and shape is required, the most economical casting method is sand casting For tin, silicon, aluminum and...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:20

... precipitation, shortwave and long wave radiation, surface and soil processes, surface fluxes of heat, momentum and moisture, and the turbulent exchange between the surface and the atmosphere above ... which have an impact and most times cause serious damages on economic development, human lives and properties, and the ecological environment With the rapid economic development and human engineering ... hazard, causing loss of life and excessive damage to property The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Research Council (NRC) stated that nearly $3.6 billion worth...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:50

... the uses and meanings of gender vary across the period, especially when they become part of a discursive ensemble for representing Ireland and England in terms of race and class difference and likeness ... the true scandal of late eighteenth-century Ireland It is within the context of revolution and counterrevolution that we can best understand Burke’s political writings on Ireland and Jacobinism ... Burke, Edgeworth, and Ireland in the s  father–husband simultaneously finds an appropriate channel for desire and supports the necessarily hierarchical and fixed system of benefits and privileges...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39

... infection Hence, further research and understanding in this sector may bring exciting new information and better understanding of the natural history of HBV and supplement our existing armamentarium ... Transmission and Vaccination Perinatal or horizontal infection early in childhood are the main routes of HBV transmission in high endemic region, such as Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands and the Arctic and ... Europe, India, and Africa Genotype B and C are common in Asia; genotype D, in southern Europe, the Middle East, and India; genotype E, in West Africa and South Africa; genotype F, in South and Central...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:17

... following published and/ or accepted journal and conference papers: Anh T N and Hosoda T.: Depth-Averaged model of open channel flows over an arbitrary 3D surface and its applications to analysis ... gratitude and sincere thanks to Professor Dr Takashi Hosoda who suggested me this research topic, and provided guidance, constant and kind advices, encouragement throughout the research, and above ... and Vreugdenhill, C B 1973 Calculations of two-dimensional horizontal flow Rep S163, Part 1, Delft Hydraulics Laboratory, Delft, The Netherlands Steffler M P and Jin Y C 1993 Depth averaged and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 10:35

... -s, and re- near the grammatical end of the continuum are called grammatical morphemes Note that grammatical morphemes include forms that we can consider to be words like the, a, and, and of and ... internet, and some valuable books of foreign and domestic scholars We think these are valuable sources to effectively support for our study + Comparison: we gave out the similarities and differences ... first of all, we should understand deeply about its morpheme system Living in a community, human beings need a tool to communicate with each other, and to carry on human and social affairs They, therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2013, 09:31

... *prob=1.0-pow(1.0-expy,effm); 584 Chapter 13 Fourier and Spectral Applications } CITED REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING: Lomb, N.R 1976, Astrophysics and Space Science, vol 39, pp 447–462 [1] Barning, ... sampled, the number of data points N , and their detailed spacing It turns out that M is very nearly equal to N when the data points are approximately equally spaced, and when the sampled frequencies ... Nyquist frequency, and fills array py[1 np] with the values of the Lomb normalized periodogram at those frequencies The arrays x and y are not altered np, the dimension of px and py, must be large...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 22:15

... Fourier and Spectral Applications first sum, s = (t − a)/∆ in the second sum The result is M I ≈ ∆eiωa W (θ) hj eijθ + j=0 hj αj (θ) (13.9.8) j=endpoints Here θ ≡ ω∆, and the functions W (θ) and αj ... the DFT and the endpoint correction to be added Input is the angular frequency w, stepsize delta, lower and upper limits of the integral a and b, while the array endpts contains the first and last ... and we need explicit forms only for the functions W, α0 , α1 , α2 , α3 , calculated with equations (13.9.9) and (13.9.10) We have worked these out for you, in the trapezoidal (second-order) and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 17:15

... ifft(x,N) ; The characteristics and usage of ifft are the same as those for fft 322 7.3 FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM AND ITS APPLICATIONS Applications FFT has a wide variety of applications in DSP Spectral ... TRANSFORM AND ITS APPLICATIONS Periodicity Because of the periodicity property shown in Figure 7.1, the DFT and IDFT produce periodic results with period N Therefore the frequency and time samples ... advantages, and disadvantages Each FFT has different strengths and makes different tradeoffs between code complexity, memory usage, and computation requirements The FFT algorithm introduced by Cooley and...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 05:15

... diseases, and solving global and environmental problems Scientists also seek to use, predict, and control nature—to use sunlight and water for electrical power generation, to forecast the weather and ... of questions appear on the GED—conceptual understanding and problem solving Conceptual understanding questions require you to read and understand the information provided or to recall basic knowledge ... knowledge and how beliefs and controversies play a part Facts Scientific knowledge is dependent and inseparable from facts The principles of the scientific method guide scientists to observe facts and...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 17:20

... n context EVERYDAY LIVING WORDS HISTORY MEDIA AND AND MUSIC, ART, SCIENCE GEOGRAPHY WORDS MARKETPLACE WORDS AND AND WORKPLACE LITERATURE WORDS TECHNOLOGY WORDS AND CAREER WORDS Three Watson Irvine, ... high-frequency and challenging words There are six thematic books in the series—Everyday Living Words, Workplace and Career Words, Science and Technology Words, Media and Marketplace Words, History and ... synonyms and antonyms; grammatical word forms; word roots, prefixes, and suffixes; connotations; and the efficient use of a dictionary and thesaurus Thinking skills, such as drawing conclusions and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2013, 17:13

... such as AND, OR, and NOT The first set of operators that has been proposed [10] is given in figure These three operators are used in the majority of today's fuzzy logic applications AND: µ A∨B ... Explicit, verification and optimization easy and efficient (+++) None, you have to define everything explicitly (-) Figure 13: Both neural nets and fuzzy logic have its strengths and weaknesses In ... "if-then" format: IF Distance = far AND Angle = zero THEN Power = pos_medium 2a IF Distance = far AND Angle = neg_small THEN Power = pos_big 2b IF Distance = far AND Angle = neg_big THEN Power =...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 01:15

... later The package manifests for content and new applications which may include new content, skin, and locale information have an identical syntax and a very similar structure, as you will ... browser commands with mouse movements You can package new Mozilla development tools and libraries like JSLib (see Chapter 5) You can also create installations for entirely new Mozilla applications ... the manifests and other necessary files Then the Installation section shows how you can put your package in a XPI file and create installation script(s) so it can be distributed and installed...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 12:15

... privileges and which is always installed in a particular location, you can leave out the XPI and its internal installation script altogether and use a trigger script like Example 6-13 and a regular ... defines even more general and low-level features like pop ups and functions for quitting the application or setting tooltip text Once files are divided into subdirectories and the manifests for ... persist configurable aspects of the browser and its other applications 6.2.4.1 Where is the chrome registry? The chrome registry is not a single file and it's not stored in a single place Rather,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 12:15

... method and its improvement 6.4 Finishing Things Up We dealt with the xFly example earlier in this chapter and then discussed general information about file formats, installation scripts, and xpinstall ... and mozicon50.xpm Many utilities, such as the GIMP, PaintShopPro, and Xview, can transform images from other common formats 6.5.1.3 Macintosh The Macintosh BNDL resource (OS icons for files and ... Macintosh The Macintosh BNDL resource (OS icons for files and applications) and related resource types (4bit, 8bit, large, small icons, masks, and FREF) are contained in nsMacBundle.rsrc, located at...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 12:15

... smoking, and a strong family history (coronary artery disease in early or mid-adulthood in a first-degree relative) PMH: History of diabetes, claudication, stroke Exercise tolerance; history of ... infarction, cancer In children include birth history, prenatal history, immunizations, and type of feedings Medications: Allergies: Penicillin, codeine? Family History: Medical problems in family, including ... test results and circle abnormal values Current medications: List all medications and dos­ ages Assessment and Plan: This section should be organized by problem A separate assessment and plan should...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2013, 13:15

... such as AND, OR, and NOT The first set of operators that has been proposed [10] is given in figure These three operators are used in the majority of today's fuzzy logic applications AND: µ A∨B ... Explicit, verification and optimization easy and efficient (+++) None, you have to define everything explicitly (-) Figure 13: Both neural nets and fuzzy logic have its strengths and weaknesses In ... "if-then" format: IF Distance = far AND Angle = zero THEN Power = pos_medium 2a IF Distance = far AND Angle = neg_small THEN Power = pos_big 2b IF Distance = far AND Angle = neg_big THEN Power =...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2013, 10:15

... Cl (1.6) (1.7) In Equations (1.6) and (1.7) Ll and Cl represent the inductance and capacitance per unit length of the line, and ε and µ are the permittivity and permeability of the transmission ... capacitance and resistance, and mechanical mass and friction, the constitutive relations for this device can be derived for the current (i) and force (F ), in terms of displacement (x) and flux linkage ... developed using standard thin-film deposition techniques such as sputtering, and physical or chemical vapor deposition Their use in sensors and actuators is inherently limited by the quality and repeatability...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2013, 20:18

... MEMS AND RF MEMS and much progress has been made (Cohen et al., 1999; Ikuta and Hirowatari, 1993; Jiang, Sun and Zhang, 1999; Takagi and Nakajima, 1993; Taylor et al., 1994; Zhang, Jiang and Sun, ... years, and we are increasingly leaning towards their applications in microwave and millimeter wave systems, and even in optical systems Apart from having the advantages of bulk production, and being ... 1943– RF MEMS and their applications / Vijay K Varadan, K.J Vinoy, and K.A Jose Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-470-84308-X (alk paper) Radio circuits–Equipment and supplies...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2013, 20:18