... about themselves and their society; h o w they voted andthe nature of their politics; h o w businesses operated and treated their workers; and h o w the American economy was con nected with the ... and President Nixon's resignation; the sexual revolution; the invention ofthe computer chip; R o n a l d Reagan's election in 1980; the end ofthe Cold War; the creation ofthe Inter net; the ... in the endless abundance of resources, convictions so deeply rooted in the * The Bureau ofthe Budget is now the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 16 The Lost History American character and...
... Table of Contents The Past, Present, andFutureof JavaScript Thepast Standardization Historic JavaScript milestones The present Thefuture Evolving the ... in 2005 With the introduction ofthe iPhone in 2007, it became the foundation ofthe mobile web WebKit is now the main engine for Android andthe only engine for iOS, and dominates the mobile market ... trademarks of O’Reilly Media, Inc The Past, Present, andFutureof JavaScript and related trade dress are trademarks of O’Reilly Media, Inc Many ofthe designations used by manufacturers and sellers...
... the U.S.) Such was the weight ofthe NSFNET program’s COMMUNICATIONS OFTHE ACM February 1997/Vol 40, No 105 ecumenism and funding ($200 million, 1986–1995) andthe quality ofthe protocols themselves ... specifications ofthe protocols The beginnings ofthe ARPANET andthe Internet in the university research community promoted the academic tradition of open publication of ideas and results However, the normal ... ofthe Internet program at DARPA, he and Clark recognized that the continuing growth ofthe Internet community demanded a restructuring ofthe coordination mechanisms The ICCB was disbanded and...
... the catalytic activity andthe oxidation state ofthe catalyst, the nature ofthe support, the metal-support interaction, andthe morphology ofthe catalyst particles [389,403–417] However, the ... (2012) 2–27 Fig Scheme ofthe effect ofthe adsorption rate of reactants on the reactivity, depending on the polarity ofthe reactants versus that ofthe zeolite [63,64] ofthe catalyst, as already ... processes Finally, there is a need for theoretical studies in this new field, assisting the design of MOFs and providing insight into the interaction ofthe substrates and MOFs Clarifying the reaction...
... Present, andFutureofthe Concept by A Ostenwalder, Y Pigneur, and C.L Tucci 1990s This surge coincidences with the advent ofthe Internet in the business world andthe steep rise ofthe NASDAQ ... applications andthe right IT/IS structures Mutual Understanding of IT/IS and Business The social dimension of linkage between business and IS is defined as the level of mutual understanding ofand commitment ... business logic of a specific firm It is a description ofthe value a company offers to one or several segments of customers andofthe architecture ofthe firm and its network of partners for...
... beyond the null in the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect at 220 GHz, and achieve the spectral separation ofthe thermal and kinematic effects The measurement ofthe radial peculiar velocity of a ... e a m ofthe OVRO telescope andthe 0.5-arcmin resolution limit ofthe Ryle data Even with the small (13-m diameter) antennas andthe most compact configuration ofthe Ryle telescope, the effect ... bands A suitable choice of differencing between elements ofthe array reproduces many ofthe sky-noise subtraction properties of radiometric observing, andthe multiband capability holds out the...
... impurities (Co and Au for example) scattering strongly the electrons in the same channel and leaving the second channel open The idea of GMR is the replacement ofthe impurities A and B ofthe ternary ... demonstrated the existence of GMR in multilayers made by the simpler and faster technique of sputtering (Fe/Cr, Co/Ru and Co/Cr), and found the oscillatory behaviour ofthe GMR due to the oscillations of ... Variation ofthe GMR ratio of Co/Cu multilayers in the conventional Current In Plane (CIP) geometry as a function ofthe thickness ofthe Cu layers13 The scaling length ofthe variation is the mean...
... Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Manpower and Personnel andthe other DASDs ofthe Office ofthe Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs This research was conducted for the Office ofthe ... Manpower and Personnel andthe other DASDs ofthe Office ofthe Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs The organization ofthe report is as follows The next four chapters correspond to the ... alternatives for the prospective use ofthe reserve forces in the military ofthefuture As such, these papers raise key issues, point to and explore past studies and analyses, and offer recommendations...
... necessary On the news tonight they mention the possibility of a power strike Everybody ( 25 – look ) for candles tomorrow Exercise Fill in each blank a suitable word given And then give the correct ... fair, and he ( – wear ) _ a black and white school cap You’ve left the light on OK, so have I! I ( 10 – go ) and turn it off I’ve just been appointed assistant at the local library The you ... look after the plants while we’re on holiday! When we get home they will all have died / will all die Damn! We’re going to be late for the party By the time we get there, all the others will...
... read the magazine _ Is the old woman reading the magazine? _ She will be reading the magazine _ Is she going to read the magazine? _ The old woman did not read the magazine _ The ... because ofthe poor customer service Tom is tomorrow _ (not run) with her brother because she (play) on his computer with his friends Future Continuous Tense Fill in the blanks with thefuture ... tense ofthe verbs in brackets Jake will be going (go) to the post office later this afternoon I he hotel again? Mike I (see) them in a few weeks from now (stay) at the same...
... emptily down on the flowers and science pilgrims alike One of them was crucial in founding the science of stratigraphic geology and extinction In one ofthe halls near the edge ofthe park there is ... loudest dissent and opposition came To the others in the fossil fields, however, the evidence that there had been these die-offs in thepast seemed overwhelming But what were the causes of these events? ... (volume) of them seemed to closely correspond in age to the times of each ofthe great mass extinctions ofthe last 500 million years The largest flood basalt of all, named the Siberian Traps (and they...
... HIV and disability mirrors the political history of HIV itself, both in terms ofthe (in)attention paid to the plight of people in poor versus wealthy countries until the recent past, andthe ... International andthe Secretariat ofthe African Decade of Persons with Disabilities (1999-2009) The goal ofthe African Decade of Persons with Disabilities is the full participation, equality and empowerment ... dimensions of both of these frameworks and may offer a common language across the fields Focus on service delivery The field of rehabilitation in the context of HIV was spurred by the arrival of treatment...
... throughout the United States They extend from the northeastern hardwood forests bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the western hardwood rangelands of California, Oregon, and Washington and from the northern ... conifer forests ofthe Great Lakes and Canada southward to the bottomland hardwood and southern yellow pine woodlands that adjoin the Gulf of Mexico Although oaks are widespread, they predominate ... central and eastern United States forest and form the upland and bottomland oak ecosystems Together, these 114 million and provide a habitat for > 75 tree species, 230 species of birds and mammals,...
... react to the new world economy quickly and offer what the clients are looking for!! Thefutureof wireless banking is massive and aggressive in terms of requirements, demands, and support The good ... to the WSP gateways, and then to the handheld units TheFutureof Wireless Banking Ron Ghani 12 The vendor must have widely available resources and experienced programmers, systems architects and ... exchange the messages between the backend system andthe application server XSL and XSLT style sheets are mainly used to manage the presentation ofthe data, whereas the XML is handling the data...
... acceptable frame rate they could use for showing these new “talking” movies with relatively smooth motion Some ofthe biggest movies on the horizon – a pair of Lord ofthe Rings prequels and Avatar’s ... pictures When a film is shot and shown in 3D, the flaws of 24 FPS are even more obvious because ofthe technical challenges andthe sheer volume of visual data being processed and pushed through projectors ... experiences in HFR-equipped theaters HFR already in production The directors behind some of Hollywood’s biggest box office successes see HFRs not as the future, but the present Lord ofthe Rings trilogy...
... understanding ofthe components ofthe long war, provided the basis for a set of seven strategy options for the United States in the long war xvi Unfolding theFutureofthe Long War Divide and ... down the components ofthe long war in terms ofthe nature ofthe problem, primary adversary, potential goals, and challenges and drawbacks The items refer to our thesis that the current set of ... Two, one way of thinking about the potential future threats the United States faces in the long war is to Unfolding theFutureofthe Long War consider it as the confluence of three sets of problems:...
... report was prepared for the Office ofthe Secretary of Defense (OSD) This research was conducted under the auspices ofthe Forces and Resources Policy Center ofthe RAND National Defense Research ... funded research and development center sponsored by the OSD, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department ofthe Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, andthe defense Intelligence ... of how the racial and ethnic distribution of officers Officer Classification andtheFutureof Diversity Among Senior Military Leaders Figure 1.1 Racial/Ethnic Distribution in the Enlisted, Officer,...
... TheFutureofthe Internet— And How to Stop It TheFutureofthe Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain With a New Foreword by Lawrence Lessig and a New Preface by the Author ... attractive aesthetic, and it bottles some ofthe best innovations from the PC and Internet in a stable, controlled form The PC and Internet were the engines of those innovations, and if they can be ... interaction and regulation.48 Another example ofthe trade-offs of procrastination and trust can be found in the Internet’s absence of “quality of service,” a guarantee of bandwidth between one point and...