... ECONOMICS OFTHEENVIRONMENT one person’s use of it reduces the ability ofthe other to either use or enjoy it Exclusivity refers to the ability to prevent others from using or enjoying a flow of benefits ... stage, such that the value ofthe state variable in the next period depends only on the value ofthe state variable in the current period and the decision in the current period If the objective ... the final stage or period ofthe program, T The method of solution is to first express the problem in the form ofthe functional recurrence equation for the final stage or time period (T in the...
... (shared or per VPN) • Securityofthe connection of a remote-access server to the MPLS cloud The mapping ofthe user to a VPN is the first step, and it is crucial for thesecurityofthe overall MPLS ... an SP can use to tighten securityofthe core are outlined above, but thesecurityofthe MPLS architecture depends on thesecurityofthe SP If the SP is not trusted, the only way to fully secure ... level ofsecurity In the case ofInternet access through the MPLS network, all the rules of accessing theInternet in general apply Most important, a firewall should be placed between the VPN and the...
... ofthe question ofthe (il)legality ofthe employment of nuclear weapons from the point of view of international environmental protection law The book consists of two parts Part I discusses the ... study on the question ofthe (il)legality ofthe employment of nuclear weapons from the point of view of international environment protection law By assessing the legality ofthe use of nuclear ... way or the other the decision on the use of these devices of mechanized barbarism.’ Schwarzenberger, The Legality of Nuclear Weapons, p 58 30 I Brownlie, Some Legal Aspects ofthe Use of Nuclear...
... the most significant a-helix-forming tendency emerges in the simulation While some fluctuation in the length ofthe helix was observed, the RR motif was consistently found at the beginning ofthe ... sheet motif The percentage helical content ofthe peptides is shown on the right (B) 3D representations (ribbons mode on the left and bonds mode on the right) ofthe initial structures for the WT ... sidechains On the basis of these data we suggest the following model for the structures of Tat signal peptides during the overall translocation process (Fig 5) Immediately after synthesis, the signal...
... collisions Furthermore, the reflections off theenvironment reduce drastically the throughput at the sink when the relay probability of transmission increases It can be observed that the value of τsink ... closed-form expressions for the link probabilities of outage in the context of multi-user communications This framework encompasses the effect ofthe environment, the topology, and the traffic intensity ... where, in the last passage, we have used the fact that the RVs {Λi, Λj, Penv, Xi} are independent The term in the third line ofthe expression at the right-hand side of (13) can be further expressed...
... otherwise than as an activity incidental to the cooking of food for human consumption; (ii) any activity involving the use of green offal or the boiling of blood except the cooking of food (other ... the offences and the role ofthe statutory authorities together with the principal environmental issues Its aim is to provide those who use it with a ready reference to these matters and to the ... chemicals); (f) the storage of vegetable matter not falling within any other Section of this Schedule; (g) the cleaning of shellfish shells; (h) the manufacture of starch; (i) the processing of animal...
... in another paper in these Proceedings [25] Other elements ofthe Agency’s work are also of relevance to an understanding ofthe levels of radionuclides present in the environment, and ofthe practical ... has been adopted of considering the aggregated consequences ofthe same degree of effect on each ofthe 41 three attributes The effects on the evolution ofthe spawning biomass ofthe two populations ... combine the ingredients in the right way The subtitle ofthe Symposium is The Development of a System of Radiation Protection for theEnvironment I ask that each of us focus on that throughout the...
... requirements The livelihood of many families and the economy ofthe country, therefore, is sensitive to the availability of water and to reductions in availability that climate change may cause The growing ... environmental stresses would be to exacerbate the existing problems in the Pakistani economy The degree of their effect is related to the intensity and timing ofthe environmental stress A poor economy ... over the construction ofthe Kalabagh Dam on the Indus River in the Pakistani Province ofthe Punjab highlights intra-Pakistani tensions over water resource sharing The Pakistani provinces of Sindh,...
... development These guidelines supersede the 1996 guidelines and are one of a series of guidelines aimed at assisting planning authorities in the exercise of their functions The Minister ofthe Environment, ... factors may influence the size of a wind energy development, including technical issues relating to the physical nature ofthe site, the wind resource and the capacity ofthe local transmission ... through the air, and mechanical noise created by the operation of mechanical elements in the nacelle - the generator, gearbox and other parts ofthe drive-train Aerodynamic noise is a function of...
... as the Division of Wildlife Services, the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, and the Bureau of Land Management ofthe United States Department ofthe Interior, the Corps of Engineers ofthe ... majority ofthe Supreme Court ofthe United States, just five years after the adoption ofthe Constitution ofthe United States, rejected the idea ofthe United States as sovereign— and necessarily the ... Code of 1954 (as enacted by section 704 ofthe Tax Reform Act of 1969, ); but shall be deemed to exclude the transfer ofthe functions ofthe Bureau of Reclamation under section 3(b)(1) of the...
... Equations 29 The result ofthe integration depends on whether or not the vector S point falls into the area ofthe square of aperture A If it does not, then the integral to the right is zero and the value ... Sensing oftheEnvironmentThe essence of Kirchhoff’s approximation is that the field is equal to zero on the reverse side ofthe screen (reverse according to the incident waves) and is equal to the ... intensity inside ofthe aperture is uniform, then: s⊥ = λz πA (1.139) So, the transverse correlation radius ofthe radiated field is the ratio ofthe area ofthe Fresnel zone squared to the aperture...
... Sensing oftheEnvironment At n′ > 1, which usually occurs, the phase velocity is less than the speed of light In the case of plasma, when n′ < 1, the phase velocity is more the velocity of light The ... system of linear uniform algebraic equations relative to the components of an electric field, the conditions ofthe nontrivial solution require the determinant ofthe system to approach zero The ... one ofthe simplest types of waves 2.2 PLANE WAVES IN ISOTROPIC HOMOGENEOUS MEDIA The explanation ofthe plane wave concept provided above does not include all types of waves, as the form of a...
... that the role ofthe permittivity frequency dispersion is weak in the frame ofthe signal bandwidth and that the absorption in the layer does not depend on the frequency, then the result of calculations ... plane and that their wave vectors lie in the same plane as the vector ofthe incident wave The wave vector ofthe reflected wave is: qr = wi + k − w2 ez, (3.4) and the wave vector ofthe refracted ... and Remote Sensing oftheEnvironment logical compared to their energy flows If the following is the power flow density ofthe incident wave: c Ei 8π Si = then the flow density of its energy is:...
... Propagation and Remote Sensing oftheEnvironment If angle α between the direction ofthe ray and the direction ofthe permittivity is introduced, then: = ∇ ln ε sin α ρ (4.13) Further, it is simple to ... θ0 are the coordinates ofthe initial ray point The sign before the integral is chosen depending on the type of ray branch: the plus sign for the ascendant branch and the minus sign for the descendent ... and Remote Sensing oftheEnvironmentThe initial eikonal value is assumed to be zero Furthermore, let L be the distance z traveled by the wave in the medium In these symbols, the mean eikonal...
... calculations the smallness ofthe imaginary part ofthe permittivity is assumed; therefore, no sign ofthe module is seen in the formulae Nevertheless, the size ofthe sphere is set so large that the ... follows from the laws of wave reflection by the plane interface of two media The field ofthe incident wave substitutes for the field ofthe shady side ofthe surface according to the Babinet principle ... (5.75) is a particular case ofthe second of these equations for small-sized particles Generally, the resonant members of these sums will be the largest, but the sum ofthe other members will not necessarily...
... Remote Sensing oftheEnvironment which represents the section ofthe antenna pattern by the mean plane ofthe scattering surface We neglected the difference from unity ofthe first factor of Equation ... the considerable widening ofthe short impulse at the expense ofthe direct influence of roughness and the indirect influence ofthe incident wave spherical form The direct effect is shown by the ... defined by Equation (6.138) The correlation is determined by the degree of overlap ofthe antenna footprints and depends on the position ofthe radar The fact that the value ofthe correlation coefficient...
... shown, the integral in the last formula is estimated by the value ofthe order µ l z It follows, then, that the scale ofthe mean field change along the wave propagation direction is estimated by the ... reflects the fact that the scale ofthe field change in the wave propagation direction is much larger than the turbulence scale This also emphasizes the need to use the Markovian approximation for the ... Sensing oftheEnvironment ik U go s, z = U exp 2 ( ) z µ s, z dz ∫ ( ) (7.2) Here s is the vector orthogonal to the main wave propagation direction (z-axis) The solution ofthe obtained...
... the antenna pattern width In this case, the bodies have to be in the wave (Fraunhofer) zone ofthe antenna, and the antenna itself is in the Fraunhofer zone ofthe emitting body; therefore, the ... In the case of statistical independence of waves of different polarization, the fluctuation intensity ofthe detected x-polarized field will be equal to the weighted sum of intensities of all the ... orthogonal to the line connecting the receiver and the center of gravity ofthe radiating body We can direct the z-axis along this line The discussion in this case is about the reception of waves, the...
... Remote Sensing oftheEnvironmentThe first summand describes the soil radiation attenuated by absorption in the atmosphere, and the second one describes the sum ofthe proper radiation ofthe atmospheric ... due to the fact that the result of integration depends on the order of integration due to the singularity ofthe integrands Substitution in Equation (9.47) ofthe obvious expressions ofthe eigenfunctions ... give us the opportunity to describe correctly many versions ofthe phenomenon on the basis of a rather simple model It is natural that further refinement ofthe model requires the inclusion of scattering...