... governments of Vietnam and Norway on the implementation of phase II, Norwegian Government has also agreed to further sponsor Vietnam an amount of US$30 million What is theprogressof implementing ... In the pilot province of Lam Dong, the pilot exercises on applying the principles of Free, Prior and Informed Consent in the context of REDD+ were internationally recognized as groundbreaking The ... difficulties have been generating in the process of implementing REDD? In the process of implementation of REDD at site, we have met significant challenges The participation ofthe private sector is not...
... subtracted from the value of startingTime: getTimer() - startingTime Remember that the value of startingTime is set to the current time at the point when the Start button is clicked and the alarmOn() ... 24 times a second (the frame rate ofthe movie) if necessary This allows the user to reset the minute and second settings ofthe timer dynamically—that is, while the timer is on—and update the ... value with the number of seconds that have passed since the timer was started After the passing seconds exceed the value of totalTimeToAlarm, the script knows that it's time to sound the alarm—more...
... To remove the functionality ofthe setInterval() action, use the following syntax: clearInterval(myInterval); Using the syntax shown, you can initiate the setInterval() action at any time, calling ... turned on and off by assigning a variable name, as in the following example: var myInterval:Object = setInterval(rotateClip, 1500); This example assigns the name myInterval to the setInterval() ... action is set up to call the rotateClip() function every 1.5 seconds (1,000 milliseconds equals second) If you want to pass arguments to the called function, simply add them to the setInterval() action:...
... Teleology, and the Arrow ofTime 1:21 199 The many-universes theory neatly solves the problem ofthe origin ofthe arrow oftimeThe wave function as a whole can be completely timesymmetric, ... the irresistible logic of probability theory, then it is hard to discern any overall plan or point reaction to the bleak message ofthe second law of thermodynamics Reaction to the theme ofthe ... most ofthe remaining 75 percent ofthe nuclear matter was in the form of isolated protons – the nuclei of hydrogen Hydrogen is the fuel ofthe stars It drives the processes that generate most of...
... intrinsic -time point of view, the benchmark return is beta times the market return, enhanced by a factor equal to the square root ofthe ratio ofthe trading frequency ofthe stock to that ofthe market ... calendar time is measured in years, then the units of µ are per cent per year and the units of σ are per cent per square root of a year The dimension of µ is [time] −1 and that of σ is [time] −1/2 The ... assume the existence of a traded index M that represents the entire market The evolution of these securities satisfies (3.28) Asymptotically, as L → ∞, the variance ofthe intrinsictime returns of the...
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... Divergence of DM co-occurrences 2.5 these results demonstrate a three way correspondence between the human ratings ofthe similarity of a pair of connectives, their substitutability relationship, and their ... contexts otherwise can be paraphrased by if not, as in (1) It’s the way I like to go to work One person and one line of enquiry at a time Otherwise/if not, there’s a muddle They also suggest some other ... We now consider how the substitutability of connectives affects our expectations ofthe value of V If two connectives are SYNONYMS then each can always be used in place of other Thus we would...
... Fame and Fortune; or, TheProgressof Richard Hunter Feeling that it was time to change their quarters to a more respectable portion ofthe city, they one morning rang the bell of Mrs Browning’s ... BOSTON Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by A K LORING, In the Clerk’s Office ofthe District Court for the District of Massachusetts To MY FATHER, FROM WHOM I HAVE NEVER ... two at the present day At the close ofthe afternoon Fosdick got away from the store an hour earlier, and the boys, preceded by an expressman bearing their trunks, went to their new home They had...
... in What Progress Information Should the DPA Require of Shipbuilders? 21 the baseline would help to serve as a check ofthe EAC and whether the amount of potential new work would make the schedule ... areas or zones ofthe ship These metrics are generally used towards the end of production Other metrics are those we gathered that did not fit into the categories above Examples of such metrics ... to identify the ‘primary’ progress metric they used during the various phases of production—that is, their main method of assessing progress Figure 2.1 shows the amount of shipyards that reported...
... in the accuracy ofthe measurements impact the accuracy of geolocation, resulting in some amount of error inherent in the geolocation The errors involved and the impact on the accuracy ofthe ... fix the position ofthe target The Air Force spent millions of dollars on the development of PLSS, but the project never succeeded because of technical challenges (Pocock 2008) The advent of GPS, ... estimates the accuracy ofthe cooperative T/FDOA technique, including the impact of various sources of errors The tool improves on other tools to estimate the accuracy of T/FDOA in the literature...
... product of its inputs The experiments measure the effect of varying the selectivity ofthe scans on the inputs to the join as follows (1) Varying the selectivity ofthe outer collection (v1) The ... Cardinality ofthe left input Cardinality ofthe right input Length ofthe predicate Type ofthe object Number of objects Extent ofthe database (e.g AtomicParts) Number of pages Size of a bucket ... varied here is the selectivities ofthe scans ofthe collections being joined, not the join selectivity itself, which is ratio ofthe number of tuples returned by a join to the size ofthe Cartesian...
... projection upon the heavens of our modern myth ofprogress and therefore, like the ancient projections ofthe figures of myth, also an illusion, time will tell The stars, like the gods they once represented, ... as a cosmic computer for which the quantum particles are the "hardware," the laws of physics the "software" and the evolution ofthe universe is the execution ofthe program In a Final chapter ... generous in the allotment of space Even astronomers are amazed at the size ofthe universe once they pause to reflect upon the meaning ofthe distances they are calculating In spite of their vast...
... and the others reach this point when they throw down their enslavement to pursue a more promising and fulfilling future Reaching a crossroads in their lives, they chose to pursue humanity, the ... were replicants In other words, even in her defeat, she brilliantly fits Tyrell's “more human than human” slogan Rachel is the end stage, the equilibrium stage, ofthe evolution of ‘human' technology ... lives shows that he well understands the richness of life He relishes every moment of his life, and he makes tactful commentaries relating them to the irony of his present situation “ It's not...
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... in What Progress Information Should the DPA Require of Shipbuilders? 21 the baseline would help to serve as a check ofthe EAC and whether the amount of potential new work would make the schedule ... areas or zones ofthe ship These metrics are generally used towards the end of production Other metrics are those we gathered that did not fit into the categories above Examples of such metrics ... to identify the ‘primary’ progress metric they used during the various phases of production—that is, their main method of assessing progress Figure 2.1 shows the amount of shipyards that reported...
... which cannot exist in the absence ofthe arrow oftimeof thermodynamics They call this the personal experience (in contrast with the scienti c experience) ofthe direction oftime How to unite those ... people experience There are several other arrows oftime Each of these arrows describes a process or class of processes always evolving in the same direction oftimeThe direction oftime in which ... uni ed theories and the wave function ofthe universe, will be part ofthe discussion The central questions will be how to explain the low entropy ofthe universe and the alignment ofthe various...
... used to assess the proposed model A review ofthe literature and discussion ofthe study hypotheses follow in the next section A discussion ofthe methodology employed in the study is then presented ... 10.1080/09537280701243926 The impact of timely information on organisational performance in a supply chain incorporates discussions ofthe contributions ofthe study, limitations ofthe study, suggestions ... subsequent testing for the bias relieved the concern, collection ofthe strategy and performance data from separate sources would also have strengthened the study Ofthe scales used, only the organisational...
... corresponds to the base ofthe trunk in our tree model and to the instant ofthe Big Bang, perhaps, in reality 12 The Labyrinth ofTime Fig 1.1 Branch points in the passage oftime Two Concepts ofTime ... say this, then, ofthe passage of time, assuming it to be a reality? Well, yes It is true, 18 The Labyrinth ofTimeof course, simply by definition, that the advance ofthe present, if there is ... constantly alters the degree of futurity or pastness of members ofthe series of clock times But more substantially, in the opinion of most advocates ofthe tensed view, it has the effect of constantly...
... takes place and then count both the number of sex acts and the number of seroconversions during that period Dividing the number of seroconversions by the number of sex acts yields the per-act transmission ... scale up their sexual activity as they take on additional partners The falling number of sex acts reduces the number of times that HIV can be transmitted and consequently slows the spread ofthe virus ... requires holding constant the number of partnerships in the modelled population as one changes the level of concurrency In other words, modelling an increase in the level of concurrency only reapportions...