“…Bioenergy, including biofuels, could become a substantial tool for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, locally and globally, possibly providing a large fraction of global primary energy supply by 2020. …”

“…It first describes the large differences in the size and structure of these taxes among OECD countries, and then reviews the types of assumptions that are typically made when estimating the redistributive impact of these taxes. …”

“…Some large companies have become a total services provider while some are trying to establish their own brands. …”

“…It makes use of panel data from the Pesquisa Mensal de Emgrego, a monthly survey for six large cities in Brazil, for the period 2002M3 to 2010M10. …”

“…China remains the largest recipient of FDI among developing countries and FDI continues to play a disproportionately large role in promoting China’s trade, investment and tax revenue generation, albeit not as large as before. …”

“…As the datasets often available in many disciplines and application areas exponentially grow thanks to the increasing availability of novel sensors and computational resources, there is nowadays still a need to develop novel approaches, methods and computational frameworks to deal with the high volumes and variety of the large data sources generated in many fields. The range of research challenges still opened are extremely large, from the representation, integration, storage, manipulation, data mining and visualization techniques to the development of secure computing architectures, cloud and distributed computing platforms to highly scalable storage systems. …”

“…Organochlorines (OC) are organic molecules with chlorine in their structure. There is a large number of organochlorine compounds known. Large amounts of chlorinated organic compounds are produced for industrial, agricultural, pharmaceutical, household purposes, etc. …”

“…Among these phenomena are unusual field-induced transitions, including magnetic-field-induced superconductivity, very large magnetoresistance effects, conductors that are switchable by magnetic field, changes of magnetic ordering or spin state, etc. …”

“…IS-IS, the Intermediate System to Intermediate System protocol, has been used effectively as a routing protocol for many large-scale networks, including service provider backbone, telephone system management, and power equipment networks. …”

“…The book consists of two parts, with chapters such as: VLSI design for multi-sensor smart systems on a chip, Three-dimensional integrated circuits design for thousand-core processors, Parallel symbolic analysis of large analog circuits on GPU platforms, Algorithms for CAD tools VLSI design, A multilevel memetic algorithm for large SAT-encoded problems, etc…”

“…Dart is a class-based, object-oriented language that simplifies the development of structured modern apps, scales from small scripts to large applications, and can be compiled to JavaScript for use in any modern browser. …”

“…Engineering equipment and technology, as well as cascade development, have become increasingly mature, making possible the construction of many high dams and large reservoirs in the world. However, with the passage of time, hydropower infrastructure such as reservoirs, dams, and power stations built in large numbers in the past are aging. …”

“…Most large companies take a similar approach to corporate innovation, running it out of centralized innovation groups. …”

“…This lesson shares essential tips and tricks for effectively managing large datasets, focusing specifically on printing. …”

Resumen

“…However, a closer look reveals a large diversity of habitats, assemblages and individual taxa, largely connected to topographic diversity within individual alpine regions. …”

“…Particularly in Central Europe and Russia, modern assembly methods and 100 years of experience in planning prefabricated buildings and constructing with large panels are experiencing a renaissance. Whereas predominantly in Moscow ? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Applied Underwater Acoustics -- Applied Underwater Acoustics -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1 - General Characteristics of the Underwater Environment -- 1.1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.2 A BRIEF EXPOSITION OF THE HISTORY OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS -- 1.2.1 UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS BEFORE 1912 -- 1.2.2 THE YEARS 1912 THROUGH 1918 -- 1.2.3 THE YEARS 1919 THROUGH 1939 -- 1.2.4 THE YEARS 1940 THROUGH 1946 -- 1.2.5 THE YEARS AFTER 1946 -- 1.3 INTERNATIONAL STANDARD UNITS -- 1.4 THE DECIBEL SCALES -- 1.5 FEATURES OF OCEANOGRAPHY -- 1.5.1 SOUND SPEED PROFILES -- 1.5.2 THERMOCLINES -- 1.5.3 ARCTIC REGIONS -- 1.5.4 DEEP ISOTHERMAL LAYERS -- 1.5.5 EXPRESSIONS FOR THE SPEED OF SOUND -- 1.5.6 SURFACE WAVES -- 1.5.7 INTERNAL WAVES -- 1.5.8 BUBBLES FROM WAVE BREAKING -- 1.5.9 OCEAN ACIDIFICATION -- 1.5.10 DEEP-OCEAN HYDROTHERMAL FLOWS -- 1.5.11 EDDIES, FRONTS, AND LARGE-SCALE TURBULENCE -- 1.5.12 DIURNAL AND SEASONAL CHANGES -- 1.6 SONAR EQUATIONS -- 1.6.1 DEFINITIONS OF THE SONAR EQUATION TERMS -- 1.6.2 SONAR EQUATIONS -- 1.7 ABBREVIATIONS -- Acknowledgment -- REFERENCES -- 2 - Sound Propagation -- 2.1 THE CONCEPT OF WAVES -- 2.1.1 THE WAVE EQUATION FOR AN INVISCID FLUID -- 2.1.2 THE HELMHOLTZ EQUATION -- 2.1.3 HARMONIC WAVES -- 2.1.4 PLANE WAVES -- 2.1.5 CYLINDRICAL WAVES -- 2.1.6 SPHERICAL WAVES -- 2.1.7 PLANE WAVE DECOMPOSITION OF A SPHERICAL WAVE -- 2.2 SOUND PROPAGATION IN A VISCOUS FLUID -- 2.2.1 DISPERSION FORMULAS -- 2.2.2 KRAMERS-KRONIG DISPERSION RELATIONS -- 2.2.3 CAUSALITY AND STOKES' EQUATION -- 2.2.4 PULSE PROPAGATION IN A VISCOUS FLUID -- 2.3 SOUND WAVES AND SHEAR WAVES IN MARINE SEDIMENTS -- 2.3.1 THE BIOT THEORY -- 2.3.2 THE GRAIN-SHEARING THEORY -- 2.4 SOURCE OR RECEIVER IN MOTION -- 2.4.1 DOPPLER FREQUENCY SHIFTS (SOURCE STATIONARY, OBSERVER IN MOTION)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1.17 CPU caches -- 1.18 Multiprogrammed computer systems -- 1.19 Timesharing systems -- 1.20 Mean response with FCFS and processor-sharing scheduling -- 1.21 Analysis of open and closed queueing network models -- 1.22 Bottleneck analysis and balanced job bounds -- 1.23 Performance analyses of I/O subsystems -- 1.24 Vector supercomputers -- 1.25 Parallel computers -- 1.25.1 The ILLIAC IV computer -- 1.25.2 Thinking Machines Connection Machine -- 1.25.3 Kendall Square Research's KSR-1 -- 1.25.4 Goodyear Massively Parallel Processor - MPP -- 1.25.5 MasPar -- 1.25.6 NCUBE -- 1.25.7 Meiko -- 1.25.8 SUPRENUM -- 1.25.9 Parsytec -- 1.25.10 Intel Personal SuperComputer - iPSC -- 1.25.11 IBM's BlueGene supercomputer -- 1.25.12 Tesla Dojo supercomputer for AI training -- 1.26 The future of supercomputing -- 1.27 Microprocessor CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs -- 1.28 RISCV and other microprocessors -- 1.29 The IBM PC and its compatibles -- 1.29.1 Experience with IBM workstations -- 1.30 Storage studies by Alan Jay Smith at Berkeley -- 1.31 Prefetching -- 1.32 Database buffers -- 1.33 Checkpointing in processing large jobs -- 1.34 Computer related rule of thumb -- 1.34.1 Amdahl rules in developing S/360 computers -- 1.34.2 Amdahl's law in the era of multicore -- 1.34.3 Amazon optimal configurations for x86-based EC2 instances -- 1.34.4 Kung's law -- 1.34.5 Brooks' law -- 1.34.6 Patterson et al.'…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Taux de pénétration de la large bande dans les pays de l'OCDE -- Graphique 3.22. …”