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Author: Marie-Catherine Petersmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-10-31
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 131651580X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book illuminates the nature, extent, and political implications of normative conflicts between environmental protection laws and human rights.
Author: Gino van den Bergen
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2003-10-27
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 148229799X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe heart of any system that simulates the physical interaction between objects is collision detection-the ability to detect when two objects have come into contact. This system is also one of the most difficult aspects of a physical simulation to implement correctly, and invariably it is the main consumer of CPU cycles. Practitioners, new to the f
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2001-12-02
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 0309072409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTRB Special Report 259 - Environmental Performance of Tanker Designs in Collision and Grounding: Method for Comparison describes a modeling process for evaluating alternative designs. The process encompasses consideration of the structural deformations from collisions and grounding and the environmental consequences of spills of different sizes, and uses a riskbased approach for comparing designs. Since passage of the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990 and subsequent decisions of the International Maritime Organization, the world tanker fleet has been evolving to double-hulled designs to reduce the risk of accidental spills. A previous study by the Marine Board, now part of TRB, concluded that the double-hull design had been effective in reducing oil spills (Double-Hull Tanker Legislation: An Assessment of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, NRC 1998). OPA 1990 was passed because of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound. Although the world’s tanker owners have been shifting to double-hull designs, a variety of other hull designs have been proposed that might be as effective and less costly. The U.S. Coast Guard has not been willing to consider such alternatives, in part because of the wording of OPA 1990 and in part because of the difficulty of comparing complex designs.
Author: Walter Jacob
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2003-11
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781571814319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnvironmental concerns are at the top of the agenda around the world. Judaism, like the other world religions, only rarely raised issues concerning the environment in the past. This means that modern Judaism, the halakhic tradition no less than others, must build on a slim foundation in its efforts to give guidance. The essays in this volume mark the beginning of a new effort to face questions and formulate answers of vital importance.
Author: Danny Weyns
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-03-23
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 3540326146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Environments for Multiagent Systems, E4MAS 2005, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in July 2005, as an associated event of AAMAS 2005. The 16 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from the lectures given at the workshop completed by a number of invited papers of prominent researchers active in the domain. The papers are organized in topical sections on models, architecture, and design, mediated coordination, as well as applications.
Author: Rainer A. Dressler
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 631
ISBN-13: 9810241771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs computing power increases, a growing number of macroscopic phenomena are modeled at the molecular level. Consequently, new requirements are generated for the understanding of molecular dynamics in exotic conditions. This book illustrates the importance of detailed chemical dynamics and the role it plays in the phenomenology of a number of extreme environments. Each chapter addresses one or more extreme environments, outlines the associated chemical mechanisms of relevance, and then covers the leading edge science that elucidates the chemical coupling. The chapters exhibit a balance between theory and experiment, gas phase, solid state, and surface dynamics, and geophysical and technical environments.
Author: Nicholas R. Lewkow
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-11-24
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 3319250795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis thesis considers the non-equilibrium and energy transfer processes involved in the evolution of astrophysical gases and plasmas. Momentum-energy transfer in collisions of atoms, molecules and ions governs the evolution of interacting astrophysical gas and plasmas. These collisions require an accurate quantum mechanical description and the work presented here develops a unified kinetic and quantum-mechanical model for this consideration. The multi-scale computational approach implemented here takes into account non-thermal distributions of atomic particles and clarifies their role in the evolution of interstellar gas and planetary atmospheres. As shown, the physical parameters of non-thermal distributions strongly depend on the differential cross sections of atomic, molecular and ion collisions. Readers will find a detailed description of the energy relaxation of energetic atoms, produced in the interstellar gas by the solar and stellar wind plasmas. Computation of the non-thermal diffuse background of energetic helium atoms in the heliosphere is also included for evaluation of the contributions from local and cosmic sources and analysis of related satellite observations. Work involving modeling of energetic particle precipitation into planetary atmospheres and formation of the planetary and exoplanetary escape fluxes has been performed with very accurate cross sections, describing momentum-energy transfer processes with high precision. Results of the Monte Carlo simulations, carried out for the Mars atmosphere at different solar conditions, can be used for analysis of observational data for Mars atmospheric escape and investigation into the history of Martian water.
Author: Hamzah Asyrani Sulaiman
Publisher: UTeM Press
Published: 2020-01-09
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9672454252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpen world games have tremendously become a demanding criterion for computer games development as user be able to freely roam through land and sea virtually. One of the elements involving computer games development is to bring applicable real-time collision detection for each object. Collision detection required sophisticated process of using hierarchical approach of Bounding-Volume Hierarchies (BVH) for detecting procedure. BVH is one of the most challenging issues in collision detection area that critically undergoing multiple splitting process. Splitting process requires an object with their set of triangles to be split into two parts using binary type tree. It is very crucial to make sure that the BVH tree construction is always in balanced as the speed of BVH tree traversal algorithm is dropped for unbalanced tree. In this thesis, we introduced Spatial Object Median Splitting (SOMS) to enhance the capability of BVH construction. Hence, SOMS creates an optimum level of BVH where most leaf nodes that was bounded with AABB contained one triangle compared to Spatial Median technique. From the BVH construction experiments, SOMS managed to perform faster as compared to other common technique. Furthermore, experiment to create one BV one triangle also showed that SOMS produced more nodes. As a conclusion, BVH can easily be constructed using SOMS approach together to create higher level of balanced tree for collision detection.
Author: Magued Iskander
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2010-01-30
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 9048136563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTechnological Developments in Education and Automation includes set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts dealing with the increasing role of technology in daily lives including education and industrial automation Technological Developments in Education and Automation contains papers presented at the International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation and the International Conference on Engineering Education, Instructional Technology, Assessment, and E-learning which were part of the International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information and Systems Sciences and Engineering
Author: Frank Thornton
Publisher: Syngress
Published: 2011-04-18
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0080556892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRFID is a method of remotely storing and receiving data using devices called RFID tags. RFID tags can be small adhesive stickers containing antennas that receive and respond to transmissions from RFID transmitters. RFID tags are used to identify and track everything from Exxon EZ pass to dogs to beer kegs to library books. Major companies and countries around the world are adopting or considering whether to adopt RFID technologies. Visa and Wells Fargo are currently running tests with RFID, airports around the world are using RFID to track cargo and run customs departments, universities such as Slippery Rock are providing RFID-enabled cell phones for students to use for campus charges. According to the July 9 CNET article, RFID Tags: Big Brother in Small Packages?, "You should become familiar with RFID technology because you'll be hearing much more about it soon. Retailers adore the concept, and CNET News.com's own Alorie Gilbert wrote last week about how Wal-Mart and the U.K.-based grocery chain Tesco are starting to install "smart shelves" with networked RFID readers. In what will become the largest test of the technology, consumer goods giant Gillette recently said it would purchase 500 million RFID tags from Alien Technology of Morgan Hill, CA." For security professionals needing to get up and running fast with the topic of RFID, this How to Cheat approach to the topic is the perfect "just what you need to know" book!* For most business organizations, adopting RFID is a matter of when* The RFID services market is expected to reach $4 billion by 2008* Covers vulnerabilities and personal privacy--topics identified by major companies as key RFID issues
