weak sustainability in the extreme

... the Environment.” In conclusion, the main objective of this book is to study the efficiency and sustainability of industrial systems In doing so, we will be looking at these systems through the ... to maintain this state The late French scientist Bernard Spinner pointed out that these concepts allow us to integrate the environment into the analysis of any system we are interested in, a ... processes, in particular those in the energy and chemical industry Having a long experience in joint efforts with industry and with teaching, the authors use the fundamental laws of thermodynamics...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 11:38

... suffer the effects of contamination Indeed, some 4,000 of the village’s original 4,500 inhabitants—mostly Tatar—remain in Muslumovo, one of the few existing villages along the banks of the contaminated ... assessment of the project documentation,’’ as specified in the Land-Planning Code, and no other type This seemingly innocuous change in effect eliminates the requirement for the OVOS or any other kind of ... in the liberal manner Instead, they emerged, piecemeal and ever fluid, out of the regime’s evolving efforts to integrate diverse peoples into the expanding empire and the need to farm out administrative...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:37

... elements These suggestions can evoke, and guide them to the concerns about the environment and its sustainability Since then, the application of the principles developed into living and working guidelines ... presents the key issues in other words, is the main engine of the present study DEFINITION OF TERMS This section provides definitions of the terms used in the study, in order to help the readers ... diversity, safeguarding the regenerative capacities of the Earth, caring for community life, and appreciating the beauty and bounty of the Earth; Sustainability in the selections related to the environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2014, 01:09

... organizing meaning; creating theory from emerging themes; writing an understanding; and drawing conclusions The essential features in the treatment of materials were considered by the researcher in ... Republic of the Philippines damaging the ecosystem on earth, the common house of all living things including plants, animals, and humans This inconvenient truth has put the planet Earth in its unbalanced ... the Philippines result of ongoing climate change, the climate of India has become increasingly inconsistent over the past several decades; this tendency is supposed to keep going on Sharing the...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2014, 01:09

... binuclear DNA-binding zinc cluster at the N-terminus, whereas the acidic activation domain is usually present at the C-terminus The middle homology region (MHR) bridging the DNA-binding and the activation ... conformation rather than altered structure of the kinase targets themselves Further, the residue changes in War1-42p not involve serine, threonine, tyrosine or histidine (Fig 3A) In any case, the nonphosphorylated ... unaffected, we determined whether War1-42p still binds to the WARE in the PDR12 promoter To clarify this, we performed in vivo footprinting experiments in cells expressing War1-42p The strains YPH499 (wild-type),...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 00:20

... through the skin and flesh deeper into the muscle A small pool of begins to lightly spill out of it and begins spraying in a fine mist from the spinning of the drill bit The bit moves in and out in ... Spasojevic) in the selection for the festival in October 2010 The issue that led to the accusations was whether minors where involved in the production of the film, and whether minors had the potential ... advertising, the effectiveness of these films becomes apparent Furthermore, in considering the location of the New Extreme Gore film in the economic apparatus of the film industry and finally the financial...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... provided the integrating framework within which to discuss the ideas, tools and infrastructure of the papers presented by those participating in the NATO ARW in Krakow, Poland Ideas gained in planning ... their indispensable help in finalizing this work Thank you also to Ricki McMillan, Rafal Serafin and Barbara Kazior for maintaining the financial accounting and administration that accompanied the ... change in the workings of the world" [50] Working Landscapes - Integrating Biodiversity and Rural Sustainability The motivation to reform the CAP is "to ensure that agriculture can be maintained...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 18:20

... subdomain 1, where the spin probe is attached, is not directly involved in the intermonomer cross-link, because one of the cross-linking sites is occupied by the spin probe, therefore, the rigidity ... complexes the motion of the probe is less restricted relative to the strong binding state and there is no difference between the two weak binding complexes In the case of cross-linked F-actin, the ... [8] In a recent publication 1902 the authors argue that in the weak binding state of myosin to actin the heads interact only with one actin protomer [23] In our experiments HMM was used instead...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 13:20

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 00:20

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Nmatha GTZ Rubber Development in Lao PDR Booming rubber investment but Why is rubber booming in Laos? Rubber planting was introduced in the early...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 09:21

... nonexpansive in the intermediate sense, then T has a fixed point It is worth mentioning that the class of mappings which are asymptotically nonexpansive in the intermediate sense contains properly the ... Kirk as a generalization of the class of nonexpansive mappings T is said to be asymptotically nonexpansive in the intermediate sense if it is continuous and the following inequality holds: T nx − ... iterative processes for the class of asymptotically κ-strict pseudocontractive mappings in the intermediate sense In order to prove our main results, we also need the following lemmas Lemma 1.1...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... BMO , 1.15 then u is smooth in 0, T Remark 1.3 If the interpolation inequality u L2p Rn ≤C u Lp u ˙0 B∞,∞ 1.16 is true, then as in the argument below, 1.15 may be improved to the following condition: ... Our main result reads as follows Theorem 1.2 Let u0 ∈ L2 ∩ L4 R3 with div u0 in R3 Suppose that u is a Leray weak solution of 1.1 – 1.3 in 0, T If the gradient of the pressure satisfies the condition ... if u satisfies the following properties u ∈ L∞ 0, T ; L2 ∩ L2 0, T ; H Equation 1.1 and 1.2 hold in the distributional sense, and u t −→ u0 weakly in L2 as t −→ 1.13 The energy inequality is...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... disaster in the past year Weather over the past several years Over the past several years, Americans say the weather in the U.S has been getting worse – rather than better – by a margin of over ... 436 Extreme Weather, Climate & Preparedness in the American Mind 14 The following chart depicts the percentage of ALL respondents who said people they knew had been harmed by these extreme weather ... natural disaster in the past year These include extreme high winds (60%), extreme rainstorms (49%), extreme heat waves (42%), drought (34%), extreme cold temperatures (29%), extreme snowstorms...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... means Tn → T in the weak topology + Conversely, let Tn → T in the weak topology For given f ∈ C0 (Rd ) and > 0, let U(T ; f ; ) be a neighborhood of T in the weak topology Then there exists n0 ... and the proposition is proved ˜ The proof of the theorem is finished Thus, since C equipped with the weak topology is a metric space, we can define the notion of weak convergence of a ˜ sequence in ... dTx Therefore V (xn ) → V (x), and so V is continuous in the weak topology ˜ Conversely, assume that Txn → T ∈ C in the weak topology We claim that d xn → x and T = Tx for some x ∈ R In fact,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 05:20

... over North China were a major determining factor in the tree-ring variations 4.3 The 1920s drought in North China revealed by tree rings High-frequency of missing rings in two Chinese pine stands ... Plateau; Chinese pine site (HHT) is in the Da Qingshan, near the margin of Loess plateau The two Chinese pine sites (JGB and HHT) are located in the agro-pastoral ecotone in central Inner Mongolia ... eastern Inner Mongolia Thus, another question arose as to whether the gap of tree-ring data in the steppe can be bridged by linking the XLPI chronology in typical steppe with the three other chronologies...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... altitude) The altitudinal edge for these stands is interactively controlled by a rainfall increase (favourable) on the one hand and by a cooling process (unfavourable) on the other On these lines, ... complexity of the sumoundings (indicating the degree of simplicity of the orography of the surrounding area; Blanco et al, 1989), (15) wind protection coefficient (according to the fluid mechanics; ... explains more than floristic 70% of the variance, while CV and climatic < set climatic CV2 account together for 75% of the variance, the information being much greater in the latter case (the inertia,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:22

... typical rain-fed rice growing village on the Vientiane Plain Ninety-three percent of the 255 households were engaged in rain-fed rice production The village area is 2,528 ha, including 820 of ... and eat them after broiling (Figure 5) Wherever the alate first land, they immediately lose their wings Villagers use water basins to catch the termites and prevent them from escaping They also ... used in various ways in a rice growing village in the central plain in Laos The mounds are used not only for fertilizer as previously reported in other countries, but also as beds for growing...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... important in sustaining, maintaining, and routinising change (e.g., interorganisational relationships) However, there may also be further, divergent factors involved in ongoing sustainability ... pilot money ceased Having tracked them during the process of establishing their innovative ways of working and sustaining these in the short term through local funding in a previous evaluation, ... the researcher but involving input from the whole team and combined with the findings from the secondary analysis of the data from the earlier evaluation Given the limited time available in the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... viewpoints in sustainable agricultural development in the Northern mountainous midland provinces until 2020 From the reality of development in agriculture towards sustainability in the Northern ... China, etc These advantages and disadvantages will have negative impact during the course of agricultural development towards sustainability in The Northern mountainous midland provinces in the ... the region in particular and to the whole country in general in many ways Accordingly, the researcher selected the topic of "Agricultural Development in the Northern mountainous midland provinces...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2014, 10:03