... general relativity 32 • A mechanical analogy for the maximum force 33 Planck limits for all physical observables Physics, mathematics and simplicity 35 • Limits to space, time and size 35 • Mass and ... theory and general relativity, we discover that at the Planck limits, the universe, space and particles are not described by points We find that as long as we use points to describe particles and space, ... that nature limits the possibilities of motion Such limits lie at the origin of special relativity, of general relativity and of quantum theory In fact, we will see that nature limits every aspect...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 01:20
... synthesizing its DNA, and then booting it up to produce the actual organism And because the information is now digital we can send it anywhere at the speed of light and re-create the DNA and life ... machine would extend the arm, and then scan it back and forth, creating a copy of itself by a series of logical manipulations The copy could then make a copy, and so on and so forth The nature of ... epidemics and occurs in two different forms: an R form, which looks rough under the microscope and is not infectious, and an S, or smooth, form, which is able to cause disease and death Both R and...
Ngày tải lên: 20/07/2014, 20:30
Báo cáo toán học: "Clique-width and the speed of hereditary properties" doc
... with k vertices and by Kn,m a complete bipartite graph with parts of size n and m The notion of clique-width of a graph was introduced by Courcelle, Engelfriet and Rozenberg in [8] and is defined ... graph H on the same vertex set by connecting two vertices u ∈ Vi and v ∈ Vj if and only if uv ∈ E(H ′ ) and ij ∈ E(K) or uv ∈ E(H ′ ) and ij ∈ E(K) / The intent is that H contains infinitely many ... line, such that xy is an edge of G if and only if the intervals Ix and Iy intersect Golumbic and Rotics [12] showed that this class has unbounded clique-width (and Lozin [14] showed that it is an...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 21:21
aggregate supply, the price level, and the speed of adjustment
... assumptions must now be relaxed 26.1 The price level and aggregate demand The CLASSICAL model of macroeconomics analyses the economy when wages and prices are fully flexible The real money supply ... linking the aggregate demand for goods and the price level The price level is the average price of all the goods produced in the economy 26.2 The macroeconomic demand schedule LM0 r Real money ... price at P0, LM is located at LM0, and given IS, real income is in equilibrium at Y0 At a lower price P1, LM is at LM1, and real income at Y1 The macroeconomic demand schedule (MDS) connects these...
Ngày tải lên: 03/02/2015, 15:21
barkana, loeb. the first sources of light and the reionization of the universe
... 1969; White, 1984; Barnes and Efstathiou, 1987; Heavens and Peacock, 1988; Steinmetz and Bartelmann, 1995; Eisenstein and Loeb, 1995a; Cole and Lacey, 1996; Catelan and Theuns, 1996) This distribution ... between the sources and the IGM density Valageas and Silk (1999) and Chiu and Ostriker (2000) calculated the clumping factor semi-analytically by averaging over the IGM on the one hand and virialized ... as b and dm are much smaller than unity), and thus can only describe the initial phase of the collapse As b and dm grow and become larger than unity, the density proÿles start to evolve and dark...
Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 17:06
the principles of light and color by edwin d babbitt (1878)
... size and color of their branches and sub-branches, and leaves, bark, flowers, fruit, etc., as well as in the light and shade of their different parts In short, the earth and man—the land, and ... taught Thus does every sun, and planet, and star, and leaf, and flower, and tree, and rainbow, and crystal, and all other unimpeded formations and growths of the whole universe, everlastingly ... has contrasts of size and direction in the upper and lower head, in the front and back head, in the hair and face, in the nose and cheeks, or forehead and cheeks, or chin and checks: it presents...
Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 12:35
The Lights in the Tunnel Automation Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future_1 potx
... businesses succeed and thrive, and which ones ultimately decline and fail This is a natural and cyclical process When an inefficient business fails, its capital, resources and employees will ... and robots are going to become dramatically more capable and flexible in the coming years and decades What is the likely economic impact of machines or computers that begin to catch up with and ... people who drive trucks, fix cars, and work in department stores, supermarkets and all types of offices and factories They probably are not neurosurgeons, and they most likely not have a PhD...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20
The Lights in the Tunnel Automation Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future_2 ppt
... towns and cities to which they had become accustomed Instead, they travel a rough, deserted road with few homes, businesses or taverns Dilapidated shacks dot the landscape, and the land itself ... significant differences and debate about issues relating to the differing economic systems of the North and the South The Northern economy was built on free labor and entrepreneurship and tended to spread ... impact on the demand for their products was negligible—or in fact, demand may have actually increased for a time, as they were able to lower their prices As a result, their profits, and therefore...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20
The Lights in the Tunnel Automation Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future_3 pot
... preparation and serving workers, including fast food 2,461,890 1.9% Registered nurses 2,417,150 1.8% Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand 2,372,130 1.8% Waiters and waitresses ... internship and residency, and often even more specialized training after that Radiology is one the most popular specialties for newly minted doctors because it offers relatively high pay and regular ... 1.6% Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners 2,124,860 1.6% Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks 1,856,890 1.4% Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20
The Lights in the Tunnel Automation Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future_4 pptx
... enzymes that digest our food—all of these and countless thousands of other structures and chemicals that comprise our bodies and make us function are proteins And they are all constructed through ... technology and attempting to reverse-engineer it In time, they might begin to tinker with the spacecraft and make it operate in new and different ways Eventually, they would understand the technology ... table shows another million retail salespersons and 2.3 million laborers and freight, stock and material movers, as well as 1.7 million stock clerks and order fillers What new jobs could we possibly...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20
The Lights in the Tunnel Automation Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future_5 potx
... demand for its exports in the United States and other developed nations As we have seen, as jobs are lost in the Western countries and fear of structural unemployment there grows, consumer demand ... specific job types and technologies and shown howautomation is likely to have a much broader impact than many of us might imagine— and also how the jobs of many highly paid and highly eduever, ... an independent market These people are essentially standing on the shoulders of American and European consumers And as we have noted again and again in this book, those Western consumers all depend...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20
The Lights in the Tunnel Automation Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future_6 pdf
... often mired in bureaucracy In the midst of this, India has an isolated island of enormous growth and prosperity: its software and offshoring industries India will face exactly the same two retarding ... education and toward trade jobs that are perceived as being safer from automation and offshoring This impact may fall especially heavily on technical fields such as information technology and computer ... workers and instead require investment in technology: in advanced machinery and equipment and in computerized systems High tech industries such as semiconductor manufacturing, biotechnology and Internetbased...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20
The Lights in the Tunnel Automation Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future_8 docx
... progresses Energy, Land, Natural Resources and Environmental Impact Clearly, production is constrained by the availability of energy and of the raw materials, suitable land, water, and other resources ... oppose this idea and dismiss it as expensive and unworkable As I’ve pointed out however, businesses will ultimately have to choose between government intervention and taxation and the existence ... list nowlooks like this: Energy, Land, Natural Resources and Environmental Impact Technology Consumer Demand Next, let’s imagine that advanced nanotechnology and new clean energy technologies...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20
The Lights in the Tunnel Automation Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future_9 potx
... covered with panels Even as we sense this, however, the tunnel itself begins to expand As newpanels rapidly fill the spaces on the expanding tunnel walls, we notice that some of the brightest white ... health care benefits and even defined benefit pension plans The result is likely to be outrage, rejection of new taxes, and an ongoing conflict between private sector taxpayers and often unionized ... discussed at some length in Chapters and (see pages 95 and 131) At present, I suspect that most economists would probably be likely to agree with this statement and, therefore, disagree with what...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20
The Lights in the Tunnel Automation Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future_10 pdf
... individual human beings.* Ugly and irrational political battles If trends similar to the ones I’ve listed above develop, and if there is no coherent understanding and reasonable consensus regarding ... resulting in massive unemployment and wages that would be driven down below subsistence level This in turn would result in diminished consumer demand, falling profits and ultimately economic crisis ... and may well exceed the capability of a human worker Narrow AI applications are already in widespread use; expert systems such as the software that can autonomously pilot and land airliners and...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20
The Society of Light and LightingThe SLL Lighting Handbook.The SLL Lighting Handbook222 Balham pptx
... Standard and Modified Photopic Observers and the CIE Standard Scotopic Observer are shown in Figure 1.2, the Standard and Modified Photopic Observers having maximum sensitivities at 555 nm and ... alternative unit to the SI units of lumens/m2 for illuminance and candela/m2 for luminance Table 1.2 Some photometric units of measurement for illuminance and luminance and the multiplying factors ... distribution, in radiometric units, of the light source and weighting it by the CIE Standard Scotopic and Photopic Observers and expressing the resulting scotopic lumens and photopic lumens as a ratio...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "The effect of light acclimation of single leaves on whole tree growth and competition – an application of the tree growth model ALMIS" doc
... (Schleswig-Holstein, 54° 06'N and 10° 15'E, 29 m NN [26]) The alder forest is about 18 m high and 601 ALMIS: Tree growth model of light acclimation Table I Empirical basis for the elementary units and the functions ... Photosynthesis and light interception in the black alder stand are quantitatively well-known and well represented in the model, but the parameterization of other processes, such as carbon allocation and ... Schaap W., The theory and practice of branch autonomy, Ann Rev Ecol Syst 22 (1991) 309-334 [42] Stenberg P., Penumbra in within-shoot and betweenshoot shading in conifers and its significance for...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22
the speed of visual processing of complex objects in the human brain. sensitivity to image properties, the influence of aging, optical factors and individual differences.
... methodology, outline its pros and cons, and discuss areas of concern and point out potential improvements in collecting and analysing EEG data Subsequently, I will present the theoretical and empirical ... SYSTEM IN PRIMATE AND HUMAN BRAIN Understanding the visual system‘s structure and function is vital to understanding how, when and where in the brain objects are processed and recognised Anatomical ... parts, and part-based representation of objects, at least in the posterior IT Due to its high social and evolutional importance faces are thought to be special among other stimulus categories, and...
Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 20:09
Effect of size and volume fraction of reinforcement on the properties of light metals
... support and assistance Mr Chua Beng Wah, Miss Sharon Nai and Mr Syed Fida Hassan for their friendship, encouragement and valuable discussions All other research scholars for their advice and help ... degradation of the fiber interface region and reduce its load carrying ability Thermal expansion mismatch between fiber and matrix can often cause tensile stresses and matrix cracking when cooling from ... materials For Phases I and II, aluminium was deposited, followed by extrusion at different temperatures and extrusion ratios respectively For Phases III and IV, Al-Mg/Al2O3 composites and monolithic...
Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 19:04
Cambridge.University.Press.Gender.Race.and.the.Writing.of.Empire.Public.Discourse.and.the.Boer.War.Sep.1999.pdf
... Night and the following day, they were ‘‘everyone’’ and ‘‘London’’ and even ‘‘England.’’ They were created as a group by the newspapers, and this chapter examines the mechanism of their creation and ... ‘‘Press as an Agency’’), have looked at its structures and ownership (Williams ‘‘Press and Popular Culture’’) and its relationship to political parties (Koss Rise and Fall) However, the rather straightforward ... being created that included women and the lower-middle and working classes, the quality and the popular press, daily and weekly, became the ‘‘public sphere,’’ and public discourse of many kinds...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54