... However, the supply of sunlight is limitless, and most of the poor countries of the world are in the tropics, where there is plenty of sunlight. The photovoltaic cell has another very important ... countries industrialize, the world’s demand for energy increases. Our supply of petroleum and gas is limited, but the photovoltaic cell offers a solution to the problem of a future energy shortage. ... clean source of energy. The fossil fuels that we use today are the main source of the pollution in our atmosphere. Although many individuals and government have been reluctant to reduce their...
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... to the soil at the 10th week of the 12-week growth period. Over the 12-week period, the cattails that were exposed to the varying lev- els of lead without the addition of EDTA revealed that the ... envi- ronment. This technique works in the following way: a study of the nature of the 7 Phytoremediation: The Wave of the Future 125 Fig. 7.2 Phytodegradation of organic contaminants. (Used with ... types of activities, recreational sports such as the use of shooting ranges and improper storage techniques add to the list of sources (Alloway, 1995; Ebbs and Kochian, 1997). Often these sites of...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20
Nutrition: Medicine of the Future
... measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution. It is measured on a scale of 0 to 14 - the lower the pH the more acidic the solution, the higher the pH the more alkaline (or base) the solution. ... fish, to be sure of the essential Omega-3. Vaccines - Cry of the Heart On the physical, intellectual and moral strength of the children of today the future rests. Yet that future is in doubt, ... only reduces the efficiency of the immune system and the general health of living organisms. There is a growing groundswell of people around the world who are accusing the medical profession and...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 21:15
Tài liệu WHO WILL DO THE SCIENCE OF THE FUTURE? docx
... academic groupings, first the students, then the faculty, then the tenured faculty, then chaired profes- sors, then the upper administration, and then members of the National Academies of Sciences and ... DO THE SCIENCE OF THE FUTURE? 24 The quality of students’ written questions impressed the teachers. In the debates, most students were able to make sense of the evidence they encountered on the ... Will Do the Science of the Future? A Symposium on Careers of Women in Science.” I am Marye Anne Fox, and I will moderate the discussion today. I do so at the request of the Council of the National...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE docx
... to the boisterous. Expert slavehunters, they mostly clothe themselves by the sale of their victims on the coast, though they do business by the sale of goats and grain as well. Nowhere in the ... miles. On the north it is bounded by the Mukondokua, or upper course of the Wami river and on the south by the Ruaha, or northern great branch of the Lufiji river. It forms a link of the great ... speaking, they live upon the coast, and call themselves Diwans, headsmen, and subjects of the Sultan Majid; but they no sooner hear of the march of a caravan than they transpose their position,...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 09:20
Tài liệu EGYPTIAN IDEAS OF THE FUTURE LIFE ppt
... He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth; the Creator of the heavens, and the earth, and the deep; the Creator of the heavens, and the earth, and the deep, and the waters, and the mountains. ... the fortunes of the god varied with the fortunes of the family; the god of the city in which a man lived was regarded as the ruler of the city, and the people of that city no more thought of ... Tattu. Rā, in the form of a cat, cutting off the head of the serpent of darkness IV. The judgment of the dead in the hall of Maāti V. The deceased being led into the presence of Osiris ...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 09:20
Tài liệu ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY ASSESSMENT OF THE TURIN-LYON HIGH-SPEED RAIL pdf
... from one end of the country to the other, taking real advantage of the high speed (they tend to use the air services instead). A study commissioned by the Mountain Community of the Susa Valley ... The energy cost-benefit analysis. One of the main ecological justifications of the HSR projects would be the energy savings and the expected decrease of pollutant emissions, associated to the ... One of the best known cases of struggle for the commons in Italy, characterized by bitter controversies over the last 20 years, is the popular opposition to the construction of the High...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20
Tài liệu education for the manufacturing world of the future doc
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo " On equations of motion, boundary conditions and conserved energy-momentum of the rigid string " doc
... of our paper is the following. In Section 2 we present the derivation of the Euler -Lagrange equations of motion, of the boundary conditions and of the conserved energy- momentum in the case of ... College of Science, VNU, 334 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, Vietnam Received 28 June 2008 Abstract. The correct forms of the equations of motion, of the boundary conditions and of the reconserved energy ... the corresponding formulae in the case of rigid string, i. e. for the specific Lagrangian given at the beginning of Section 3. There we also derive some simple consequences of the equations of...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 14:20
The Discovery of the Source of the Nile docx
... XIX Chapter XX The of the Source of the Nile, by Speke Project Gutenberg's Etext The of the Source of the Nile, by Speke Copyright laws are changing all over the world, be sure to check the laws ... time prior to the birth of our Saviour, when, associated with their name, Men of the Moon, sprang into existence the Mountains of the Moon. These Men of the Moon are hereditarily the greatest ... half the tusks of which, as well as some portion of the flesh, they gave to Magomba for the privilege of residing there. There were many antelopes there, some of which both Grant and I shot for the Chapter...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
... from Nothing? FUTURE OF ENERGY: Energy from the Stars FUTURE OF SPACE TRAVEL: To the Stars FUTURE OF WEALTH: Winners and Losers FUTURE OF HUMANITY: Planetary Civilization A DAY IN THE LIFE IN ... who actually made the series work. He invented the rocket ship, the invisibility shield, the power source for the city in the sky, etc. Without the scientist, there is no future. The handsome and the beautiful ... School of Medicine profound insights into the future by consulting a handful of forward-thinking individuals of his time. He was part of a small circle of people who were at the forefront of innovation....
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 08:49
ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY ASSESSMENT OF THE TURIN-LYON HIGH-SPEED RAIL potx
... from one end of the country to the other, taking real advantage of the high speed (they tend to use the air services instead). A study commissioned by the Mountain Community of the Susa Valley ... The energy cost-benefit analysis. One of the main ecological justifications of the HSR projects would be the energy savings and the expected decrease of pollutant emissions, associated to the ... Sustainability of Intercity Transportation Infrastructure: Assessing the Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of High-Speed Rail in the U.S._ A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20
Hard Drive of the Future: Your Guide To Solid State Drives
... which consist of little more than the flash chips and the circuit board and controller they’re attached to. The term was coined by Apple when they released the latest version of the MacBook Air ... I’ll put the link at the end of this guide as well so you can get at it easily. With earlier SSDs the only way to reverse the performance degradation was to do a hardware- level wipe of the drive. ... to one piece of silicone in the transistor called the control gate. This starts a process that causes another piece of silicone called the floating gate to fill with electrons. When the floating...
Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 17:28
INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS PROGRAMMING:BUILDING APPLICATIONS FOR THE FACTORIES OF THE FUTURE pot
... on the robot, there's also the problem of sending the obtained images from the on-board computer to the remote computer, using the data rate more adjusted to the capacity of the wireless ... from the serial port interrupt routine, the first byte of the answer identifies the code of the executed command. The user commands should be associated with user actions like pressing software ... actuators, other factory resources, production management software, and so on. The software discussed in this chapter is used in all the examples presented in the book, and is the core of several...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20
HEALTH STATUS AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OF THE FUTURE ELDERLY: IMPLICATIONS FOR MEDICARE PROGRAM EXPENDITURES potx
... one of the most useful features of the FEM to the Office of the Actuary, namely the ability to model the potential effects on future costs of a variety of hypothetical or likely trends in medical ... risk. The Health Status of Future Medicare Users. Using data from the NHIS, we then created a model to predict the health status of future cohorts of Medicare beneficiaries between the years ... disease was the subject of breakthroughs in all three of the medically focused panels. These breakthroughs include the prevention of cardiovascular disease, the prevention of a variety of cancers...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20
ADAS for the Car of the Future - Interface Concepts for Advanced Driver Assistant Systems in a Sustainable Mobility Concept of 2020 pptx
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20