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Science communication is a rapidly growing vibrant field of expertise within the domain of science and technology. Science communicators can bridge the gap
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Abstract: Science communication is a rapidly growing vibrant field of expertise within the domain of science and technology. Science communicators can bridge the gap between science and society, and hence, take the fruits of science and technology down to the masses, and result in scientifically informed
Srivastava, Kumar Vaibhav
Cotton Growing
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Cotton Growing Cotton Growing Name: anna Location: N/A Country: N/A Date: N/A Question: Hi, My name is Anna, and I live in southern Maryland. Everybody i ask says I'm crazy or they don't have a clue about growing cotton. I believe any thing is possible. I would love to grow some not as a crop because i dont have that much room. But ihave even gone to places like SouthernStates and they can't hlep me even find seeds or whatever it is you plant. If yu could please tell me how to get some, along with maybe some instruction to grow it. I would be mighty obliged, Well Thank You Kindly For any help. P.S. please don't tell me you can't grow cotton in Maryland. L, Anna Replies: Dear Anna, The following may be useful: http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/crops/g04268.htm
Shared Intellect * Shared Laboratories...
Liu who has been investigating the topic. In the early 21 st century, growing worldwide demand for oil makes understanding the effects of hammer peening on alloys especially...
Shared lives, shared energy
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A social experiment in Denmark is described in which 25 families combine private ownership (each family owns its own home) and collectivism (each family owns 1/25 of the grounds, large common house and other facilities). The superinsulated individual homes are small (solar, wind and/or oil-fired boiler. Adequate hot water storage is provided using solar collectors and a 55 kW Vesta wind generator (surplus power is sold). All south facing roof surfaces are fitted with solar collectors (4455 ft/sup 2/ total). A total of 70% of the energy used is produced on site (solar and wind). The manner of living and sharing (child care, automobiles, cooking, etc.) is described as well as typical floor plans for the units. Other collective housing in Denmark is described and it is postulated that overdrevet may serve as a model. (MJJ)
Madsen, P.; Goss, K.
EDX - Share and Share Alike | Department of Energy
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EDX - Share and Share Alike EDX - Share and Share Alike EDX - Share and Share Alike November 26, 2013 - 10:17am Addthis EDX - Share and Share Alike Why create the data exchange? NETL recognized a need to improve coordination and reliable access to information and research products for our own research teams and amongst our collaborators, as well as improve dissemination (tech transfer) of research-driven products. By improving the efficiency of data access and data sharing, EDX facilitates a more rapid and comprehensive utilization of key data needs that crosscut multiple projects/program areas (CO2 storage, unconventional and conventional hydrocarbon systems, natural gas hydrates, etc.). In addition, EDX provides a cross-cutting system to ensure lasting access to research data and products for future use by NETL and our
Shared Intellect * Shared Laboratories * Shared Resources
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Community and collaboration : new shared workplaces for evolving work practices
The 'collaborative community workplace' is a growing type of shared, flexible workplace that has emerged in recent years in response to a growing need for productive workspaces for mobile, distributed, and independent ...
Bates, Timothy W. (Timothy Waterbury)
Electricity's share of U.S. delivered energy has risen ...
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
The share of energy that is delivered in the form of electricity has been growing steadily over the past 60 years. Leaving aside the transportation ...
Renewable generation provides a growing share of California ...
Energy Information Administration - EIA - Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government ... CAISO classifies small hydroelectric units as renewable, ...
Sharing Data at NERSC
Sharing Data Sharing Data Data sharing naturally divides into three different categories: a single user accessing data from multiple platforms, multiple users accessing data from a...
Berkeley Lab SHARES
SHares SHARES 2012 Pledge Online Download Pledge Form United Way of Bay Area Bay Area Black United Fund Community Health Charities Community Health Charities Donor Form Earth Share...
Sharing values, sharing a vision
SciTech Connect
Teamwork, partnership and shared values emerged as recurring themes at the Third Technology Transfer/Communications Conference. The program drew about 100 participants who sat through a packed two days to find ways for their laboratories and facilities to better help American business and the economy. Co-hosts were the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, where most meetings took place. The conference followed traditions established at the First Technology Transfer/Communications Conference, conceived of and hosted by the Pacific Northwest Laboratory in May 1992 in Richmond, Washington, and the second conference, hosted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in January 1993 in Golden, Colorado. As at the other conferences, participants at the third session represented the fields of technology transfer, public affairs and communications. They came from Department of Energy headquarters and DOE offices, laboratories and production facilities. Continued in this report are keynote address; panel discussion; workshops; and presentations in technology transfer.
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How do plants grow?
How do plants grow? How do plants grow? Name: Sally McCombs Location: N/A Country: N/A Date: N/A Question: A 4th grade class at our school is doing plant research and would like to know if plants grow from the top up or from the bottom up? Thanks for your help! Replies: Plants grow from the top up (or from the bottom down, in the case of root growth). Right at the tip, more cells form by division, and just behind that is an area where cells get bigger). More amazing than all of this is where your question comes from. I went to 4th grade there!!! Amazing, Just after the school was built, I think, maybe around 1959 to about early 1960's. Then I moved on to St. Pete High School, then my parents got jobs in Alabama, where I did the last year of High School. Then onto college in New England, graduate school in California, a research job in England, and now finally as a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. Brings back memories...
Mitigation, Adaptation, Uncertainty -- Growing Water
UrbanLab is Sarah Dunn + Martin Felsen, with Lee Greenberg,Growing Water Martin Felsen and Sarah Dunn The Growing Water
Felsen, Martin; Dunn, Sarah
Vehicle Technologies Office: Fact #567: April 20, 2009 Cars are Growing
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Stability of growing vesicles
We investigate the stability of growing vesicles using the formalism of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. The vesicles are growing due to the accretion of lipids to the bilayer which forms the vesicle membrane. The thermodynamic description is based on the hydrodynamics of a water{/}lipid mixture together with a model of the vesicle as a discontinuous system in the sense of linear nonequilibrium thermodynamics. This formulation allows the forces and fluxes relevant to the dynamic stability of the vesicle to be identified. The method is used to analyze the stability of a spherical vesicle against arbitrary axisymmetric perturbations. It is found that there are generically two critical radii at which changes of stability occur. In the case where the perturbation takes the form of a single zonal harmonic, only one of these radii is physical and is given by the ratio $2 L_p / L_\\gamma$, where $L_p$ is the hydraulic conductivity and $L_\\gamma$ is the Onsager coefficient related to changes in membrane area due to lipid accretion. The stability of such perturbations is related to the value of $l$ corresponding to the particular zonal harmonic: those with lower $l$ are more unstable than those with higher $l$. Possible extensions of the current work and the need for experimental input are discussed.
Richard G. Morris; Alan J. McKane
NGO collaborations: sharing and pooling projects
Humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are increasingly facing challenges due to the growing number of actors in the humanitarian relief sector as well as the high incidence of natural disasters. A prominent means of mitigating these challenges ... Keywords: NGO, collaboration bodies, infrastructure, resource pooling, resource sharing
Kartikeya Bajpai; Edgar Maldonado; Louis-Marie Ngamassi; Andrea H. Tapia; Carleen Maitland
Increasing Global Renewable Energy Market Share
to experience even greater energy supply uncertainties and price increases from fossil fuels. Recent trendsIncreasing Global Renewable Energy Market Share: Recent Trends and Perspectives Final Report a time of growing volatility and uncertainty in world energy markets. Oil price increases, which hit oil
Damm, Werner
Awardee Share Procedures
Awardee Share Procedures Awardee Share Procedures Procedures for Correctly Reporting Awardee Share on the FAADS/FAADS Plus reporting screen in STRIPES To ensure proper reporting by DOE to USASpending.gov, you must enter the awardee share (also known as the cost share, recipient share, and non-federal share) manually on the FAADS/FAADS Plus reporting screen in STRIPES. The FAADS/FAADS Plus file is the financial assistance equivalent of the FPDS-NG data entry for acquisition awards. The awardee share amount is not system generated on the FAADS/FAADS Plus reporting screen like the obligation amount is. The fields on the FAADS/FAADS Plus form which must be entered when reporting a Cost-share Financial Assistance Award are: Field #17 Non-Federal Funding Sign Choose 'Obligation', which refers to a positive amount (sign), or 'Deobligation', which refers to a
ShaRE Staff
Our Staff The ShaRE User Facility is directly associated with The Microscopy Group in the Materials Science & Technology (MST) Division at ORNL. ShaRE staff are also members of The...
DATA SHARING WORKBOOK Introduction
DATA SHARING WORKBOOK · Introduction · Protecting the Rights and Privacy of Human Subjects · Protecting Proprietary Data · Examples of Data Sharing o Data Archives o Federated Data Systems o Data ______________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION Scientists working in many different areas are already sharing their data through a variety
Bandettini, Peter A.
Notice: The ShaRE web site will no longer accept user proposals after 6:00pm on Monday, June 3, 2013. The ShaRE User Program will be combined with ORNLs Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) ShaRE proposal submittal will be included in the biannual CNMS proposal calls. The next opportunity to submit a CNMS-ShaRE proposal will be in Fall 2013. The same ShaRE capabilities will be available but must now be requested through submittal of a CNMS user proposal. If you click on the orange button below Submit your ShaRE Proposal on-line you will automatically be redirected to the CNMS home page. The ShaRE web site can still be navigated for informational purposes only. Notice: The ShaRE web site will no longer accept user proposals after 6:00pm on Monday, June 3, 2013. The ShaRE User Program will be combined with ORNLs Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) ShaRE proposal submittal will be included in the biannual CNMS proposal calls. The next opportunity to submit a CNMS-ShaRE proposal will be in Fall 2013. The same ShaRE capabilities will be available but must now be requested through submittal of a CNMS user proposal. If you click on the orange button below Submit your ShaRE Proposal on-line you will automatically be redirected to the CNMS home page. The ShaRE web site can still be navigated for informational purposes only. The Shared Research Equipment (ShaRE) User Facility at the Oak Ridge
A metadata calculus for secure information sharing
In both commercial and defense sectors a compelling need is emerging for rapid, yet secure, dissemination of information to the concerned actors. Traditional approaches to information sharing that rely on security labels (e.g., Multi-Level Security (MLS)) ... Keywords: access control, information flow, risk management
Mudhakar Srivatsa; Dakshi Agrawal; Steffen Reidt
HSS Safety Shares
Safety Shares Safety Shares HSS Safety Shares Home Health, Safety and Security Home HSS Safety Shares 2013 Safety Shares National Weather Service - Lightning Safety General Lightning Safety 7 Important Parts of a Cleaning Label Kitchen Knife Safety Lawn and Garden Tool Hazards Rabies Hearing Loss Winter Driving Tips 2012 Safety Shares Holiday Decoration Safety Tips Countdown to Thanksgiving Holiday Fall Season Safety Tips Slips, Trips and Fall Safety Back To School Safety Tips for Motorists Grills Safety and Cleaning Tips Glass Cookware Safety Water Heater Safety FAQs Root Out Lawn and Garden Tool Hazards First Aid for the Workplace Preventing Colon Cancer Yard Work Safety Yard Work Safety - Part 1 Yard Work Safety - Part 2 High Sodium Risks Heart Risk Stair Safety New Ways To Spot Dangerous Tires
Share your Stories
Share your Stories Share your Stories Participate with us Participate Become a Volunteer Share your Stories Your Feedback Museum Fan Downloads Q&A Blog Contact us invisible utility element Share your Stories Living With Wildfire: Share your Stories banner LIVING WITH WILDFIRE Recording a community's experience Our new exhibit, Living withWildfire: A Shared Community Experience, is capturing personal stories of wildfire so that you can understand the tremendous effect a wildfire has on a community, its people, and the environment. WebRep currentVote noRating noWeight Our Living With Wildfire website explains how to tell your story and be part of the exhibit. Sign up now to tell your story at the Museum's recording booth. Times are available during Museum operating hours. You can also go to our FAQs page or download the flyer (pdf) for more
Windows File Sharing / Accessing Samba Shares General Notes
Windows File Sharing / Accessing Samba Shares General Notes · When mapping a drive on a Windows XP from any Windows machine, before you can share a folder or access a shared folder, you need to have the File and Print Sharing enabled in the Windows Firewall exceptions list. Creating Shares: To Create
Firtel, Richard A.
Sharing Smart Grid Experiences
Sharing Smart Grid Experiences through Performance Feedback March 31, 2011 DOENETL- DE-FE0004001 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability...
ShaRE Account
Submitting a ShaRE Proposal Submitting a ShaRE Proposal External (non-ORNL staff) Applicants To submit a ShaRE Research Proposal, you must first get an ORNL XCAMS account, and then request access to the SharePoint site. Navigate to the ORNL Open Research Collaboration ShaRE registration site. Type in your email address in the Email Address field and click Continue. This step will do one of two things: 1) If you don't already have an ORNL XCAMS account, you will be taken through the process of setting one up, and then granted access to the SharePoint site. 2) If you already have an account, providing your email address will give you access to the SharePoint site. Once you have completed step 2 above, you are ready to log into the site: https://share.ornl.gov/sites/share. Login Tip: When prompted for your username and password, use the following syntax:
Car Sharing within Households �
The objective of this paper was to analyse two activities: who rents a car and why? Which households share the driving of their cars? In order to do that, the Parc-Auto (Car-Fleet) database, built from annual postal surveys conducted with a panel of 10,000 French households, has been processed. Among approximately one hundred questions in the survey, two key questions have been crossed against many social, economic, demographic, geographic or time variables. KQ1: �During the last 12 months, did you � or another person from your home � rent a car in France for personal purposes? � KQ2: �Is this car occasionally used by other persons?� Here are the main findings. Renting households are mainly working, high income households, living in the core of big cities, and in particular in Paris. Most of them have two wage-sheets and two cars, one of which is generally a recent, high power, high quality car. Car rental is mainly an occasional practice. Yet for a minority of renters, it is a sustained habit. Households with more licence holders than cars share the most: about three quarters of them share their cars. On the contrary, single driver-single car households have less opportunity to share: only 15 % share. Household car sharing shed light on the gender role within households: while 58 % of the main users of the shared cars are male, 55 % of secondary users are female. Household car sharing is mainly a regular practice. Finally, without diminishing the merits of innovative transport solutions proposed here and there, it is not a waste of time to give some insight on self established behaviour within households. This reveals that complex patterns have been built over time by the people themselves, to cope with diverse situations that cannot be easily handled by straightforward classifications. The car cannot be reduced to a personal object. Household car sharing also carries strong links with the issue of car dependency. Sifting car availability and choice
Francis Papon; Laurent Hivert
Set-sharing is redundant for pair-sharing
Although the usual goal of sharing analysis is to detect which pairs of variables share, the standard choice for sharing analysis is a domain that characterizes set-sharing. In this paper, we question, apparently for the first time, whether this domain ... Keywords: abstract interpretation, data-flow analysis, logic programming, sharing analysis
Roberto Bagnara; Patricia M. Hill; Enea Zaffanella
How plants grow toward light
How plants grow toward light How plants grow toward light Name: schwobtj Location: N/A Country: N/A Date: N/A Question: When a seed is planted below the surface of the ground, how does it "know" to grow toward the light? Replies: Plants don't know where the light is, they do respond to gravity. Since light is usually up, a plant seed grows up and finds light enough to keep things going. Psych One way that plants below ground can tell which way is up is with the use of STATOLITHS. Statoliths are dense pieces of material that settle to the bottom of a STATOCYST. In plants, pieces of starch or another material denser than water will settle to the bottom of the cell. Somehow the plant cell determines on what side the statolith has fallen, and then somehow relays a message (probably a chemical) that tells the bottom cells to grow faster than the top cells, therefore causing upward growth. There is still quite a lot of mystery in there to be discovered. I got this explanation from BIOLOGY by Neil Campbell. This is similar to the way in which plants use chemical signals to help them grow towards light.
Reactor Sharing Program
Progress achieved at the University of Florida Training Reactor (UFTR) facility through the US Department of Energy's University Reactor Sharing Program is reported for the period of 1991--1992.
Vernetson, W.G.
Collaboration and Data Sharing
Collaboration and Data Sharing What have I been doing that's so bad, and how could it be better? August 1 st , 2010 Best Practices Best Practices for Preparing Ecological Data...
Biomass Rapid Analysis Network (BRAN)
DOE Green Energy (OSTI)
Helping the emerging biotechnology industry develop new tools and methods for real-time analysis of biomass feedstocks, process intermediates and The Biomass Rapid Analysis Network is designed to fast track the development of modern tools and methods for biomass analysis to accelerate the development of the emerging industry. The network will be led by industry and organized and coordinated through the National Renewable Energy Lab. The network will provide training and other activities of interest to BRAN members. BRAN members will share the cost and work of rapid analysis method development, validate the new methods, and work together to develop the training for the future biomass conversion workforce.
Fast-growing willow shrub named `Canastota`
DOE Patents (OSTI)
A distinct male cultivar of Salix sachalinensis.times.S. miyabeana named `Canastota`, characterized by rapid stem growth producing greater than 2.7-fold more woody biomass than its female parent (Salix sachalinensis `SX61`), 28% greater woody biomass yield than its male parent (Salix miyabeana `SX64`), and 20% greater woody biomass yield than a standard production cultivar, Salix dasyclados `SV1` when grown in the same field for the same length of time (two growing seasons after coppice) in Tully, N.Y. `Canastota` can be planted from dormant stem cuttings, produces multiple stems after coppice, and the stem biomass can be harvested when the plant is dormant. In the spring following harvest, the plant will re-sprout very vigorously, producing new stems that can be harvested after two to four years of growth. This harvest cycle can be repeated several times. `Canastota` displays a low incidence of rust disease or damage by willow sawfly.
Abrahamson, Lawrence P. (Marcellus, NY); Kopp, Richard F. (Marietta, NY); Smart, Lawrence B. (Geneva, NY); Volk, Timothy A. (Syracuse, NY)
Gain Sharing.PDF
SE SE DOE/IG-480 I N S P E C T I O N R E P O R T U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL OFFICE OF INSPECTIONS INSPECTION OF GAIN SHARING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SEPTEMBER 2000 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Washington, DC 20585 September 1, 2000 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY FROM: Gregory H. Friedman /s/ for Herbert Richardson Inspector General SUBJECT: INFORMATION: Report on "Inspection of Gain Sharing Opportunities for the Department of Energy" BACKGROUND In 1995, the General Services Administration provided guidance on a program known as "GAIN SHARING" where agencies could give cash awards to employees who participate in programs to save travel dollars. This guidance discussed the authority to offer cash awards to employees for obtaining a free coach class ticket with Frequent Flyer benefits earned on official travel and for
MobShare: controlled and immediate sharing of mobile images
In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a mobile one picture sharing system MobShare that enables immediate, controlled, and organized sharing of mobile pictures, and the browsing, combining, and discussion of the shared ... Keywords: camera ones, digital image management, multimedia tools, wireless multimedia applications
Risto Sarvas; Mikko Viikari; Juha Pesonen; Hanno Nevanlinna
Growing tissue in the lab
tissue in the lab tissue in the lab Name: mike s Location: N/A Country: N/A Date: N/A Question: How do Scientists grow new tissue cells in the lab? Replies: I'm not quite sure what you mean by "new" cells. Several kinds of cell growing are done. One way is to break an organ or tissue apart into its individual cells and grow them in a medium of nutrients, controlled temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide/oxygen. This is called "primary culture" because the cells come right out of an organism. Another method is to create an "immortal cell line". This is a type of cell isolated from a cancerous tumor, or a non-tumor cell which is infected with a cancer gene after it's isolated. Being cancerous, these cells grow forever in a dish, with the appropriate nutrients etc as long as you remove cells from time to time to prevent overcrowding. These cells can be frozen at about -100F forever and rethawed when needed. There is a library of frozen cells, thousands of types, and a catalog. Scientists can order what they need any time! Finally, you can make specific mutant cell lines by starting as above with an immortal cell, and inserting a specific gene (or deleting one) permanently from the DNA of the cell to change almost any property you want. So there it is.
Microphysical Measurements from an Aircraft Ascending with a Growing Isolated Maritime Cumulus Tower
The development of precipitation in the top of an isolated maritime cumulus tower is traced by four rapid penetrations with an instrumented aircraft between 400 and 1000 m below the visible top of the growing tower. The hydrometeor distribution ...
Paul T. Willis; John Hallett
Grow NJ (New Jersey) | Department of Energy
Grow NJ (New Jersey) Grow NJ (New Jersey) Eligibility Commercial Savings For Alternative Fuel Vehicles Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Buying & Making Electricity Water Home Weatherization...
VPP Safety Share
VPP Safety Share VPP Safety Share BlackBerry Safety Brice Cook, HS-1.3 July 22, 2010 2 BlackBerry Safety * Use only approved batteries with your BlackBerry device. * Use of batteries that have not been approved by Research In Motion might present a risk of fire or explosion, which could cause serious harm, death, or property loss. * Use only RIM approved chargers. * Use of chargers that have not been approved by RIM might present a risk of fire or explosion, which could cause serious harm, death, or property loss. 3 BlackBerry Safety * When you wear the BlackBerry device close to your body: * Use a RIM approved holster with an integrated belt clip or maintain a distance of 0.98 in. (25 mm) between your BlackBerry device and your body while the BlackBerry device is transmitting.
Renewable energy has political support, room to grow
Renewable energy sources enjoy growing political support and have plenty of room to grow in the worldwide energy mix. And grow they will, according to most projections. The US Energy Information Administration`s (EIA`s) International Energy Outlook 1997 says consumption of hydroelectricity and other renewables will increase by 56% during 1995--2015. The renewable share of the total energy mix will remain at about current levels, however. The EIA projection includes only renewable fuels used in the generation of electricity. It therefore excludes most biomass energy. Despite the importance of biomass energy, data on consumption of it are sparse. IEA estimates that in the industrialized world, the biomass share of primary energy consumption amounts to 3.5%. Also excluded from EIA`s projection because of insufficiency of data are dispersed renewables, a category that includes energy consumed at the site of production, such as solar panels used for water heating. This paper discusses regional trends, North American activity, Western Europe, Asian developments, and the rest of the world.
Quotienting Share for Dependency Analysis
Def, the domain of definite Boolean functions, expresses (sure) dependencies between the program variables of, say, a constraint program. Share, on the other hand, captures the (possible) variable sharing between the variables of a logic program. The ...
Andy King; Jan-Georg Smaus; Patricia M. Hill
Qatar accounts for a growing share of LNG exports - Today in ...
... November 2010 and has an annual production capacity of 380 Bcf per year � currently the largest-capacity production train in existence. ...
The program established a collaborative process with domestic industries for the purpose of sharing Navy-developed technology. Private sector businesses were educated so as to increase their awareness of the vast amount of technologies that are available, with an initial focus on technology applications that are related to the Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Infrastructure Technologies (Hydrogen) Program of the U.S. Department of Energy. Specifically, the project worked to increase industry awareness of the vast technology resources available to them that have been developed with taxpayer funding. NAVSEA-Carderock and the Houston Advanced Research Center teamed with Nicholls State University to catalog NAVSEA-Carderock unclassified technologies, rated the level of readiness of the technologies and established a web based catalog of the technologies. In particular, the catalog contains technology descriptions, including testing summaries and overviews of related presentations.
Silicon crystal growing by oscillating crucible technique
A process for growing silicon crystals from a molten melt comprising oscillating the container during crystal growth is disclosed.
Schwuttke, G.H.; Kim, K.M.; Smetana, P.
Growing Nanowires Horizontally Yields New Benefit: 'Nano ...
Growing Nanowires Horizontally Yields New Benefit: 'Nano-LEDs'. ... Optical microscope image of �nano LEDs� emitting light. ...
Shared and Dynamic Libraries on Edison
Shared and Dynamic Libraries Shared and Dynamic Libraries The Edison system can support applications that use dynamic shared libraries (DSL) on the compute nodes. Some...
Forecast Technical Document Growing Stock Volume
Forecast Technical Document Growing Stock Volume Forecasts A document describing how growing stock (`standing') volume is handled in the 2011 Production Forecast. Tom Jenkins Robert Matthews Ewan Mackie Lesley Halsall #12;PF2011 Growing stock volume forecasts Background A forecast of standing volume (or
Prototyping Manufacturing Technologies The Rapid Prototyping Laboratory (RPL) supports internal design, manufacturing, and process develop- ment with three rapid prototyping (RP)...
Secret Sharing Scheme: Vector Space Secret Sharing and F Function
Let ${\\cal P}=\\{P_{1}, P_{2}, ..., P_{n}\\}$ be set of participants and $\\Gamma=\\{B_{i}| B_{i}\\subset {\\cal P}, 1\\leq i \\leq k \\}$ be access structure. Vector space secret sharing realizing access structure $\\Gamma$ requires existence of function $\\phi ... Keywords: Cryptography,Bismuth,Vectors,Computer science,Ignition,Nuclear weapons,Indium tin oxide,vector space sharing,Cryptography,secret sharing scheme,access structure
Mustafa Atici
Workload Decomposition for Particle Simulation Applications on Hierarchical Distributed-Shared Memory
for High Performance Computing. Bus-based shared memory multiprocessor systems (SMPs) are rapidly spreading-bandwidth interconnection network, are increasingly established and used to provide high performance computing at a low cost
Vlad, Gregorio
Shared Health Care Networks
This article will provide one approach to the challenges faced by access managers, as they attempt to share, gather, and manage information from diverse sources. Like most industries, health care continues to experience resource scarcity. Academic research provides exchange, hierarchical, and market paradigms to explain how organizations cope with and overcome resource scarcity. Levine and White (1961) examined interorganizational relationships among 22 New England community health care agencies including social welfare organizations, community hospitals, and clinics. They suggested that exchange fell into three categories (i.e., in the context of health care organizations): (1) referrals of cases, clients, or patients, (2) the giving or receiving of labor services, including volunteer, clerical, professional personnel services, and (3) the sending of funds, equipment, and information on cases and technical matters. The work of these authors focused on organizational relationships with little emphasis on information technology. Since Levine and White (1961), academic studies (Malone, et al., 1987; Bakos, 1991) have examined the role of interorganizational information systems in the context of electronic markets and hierarchies. Electronic markets allow buyers to engage in comparative shopping and the selection of goods or 2
Fay Cobb Payton
Analysis of fuel shares in the industrial sector
These studies describe how fuel shares have changed over time; determine what factors are important in promoting fuel share changes; and project fuel shares to the year 1995 in the industrial sector. A general characterization of changes in fuel shares of four fuel types - coal, natural gas, oil and electricity - for the industrial sector is as follows. Coal as a major fuel source declined rapidly from 1958 to the early 1970s, with oil and natural gas substituting for coal. Coal's share of total fuels stabilized after the oil price shock of 1972-1973, and increased after the 1979 price shock. In the period since 1973, most industries and the industrial sector as a whole appear to freely substitute natural gas for oil, and vice versa. Throughout the period 1958-1981, the share of electricity as a fuel increased. These observations are derived from analyzing the fuel share patterns of more than 20 industries over the 24-year period 1958 to 1981.
Roop, J.M.; Belzer, D.B.
Profit sharing and firm performance in the manufacturer-retailer dual-channel supply chain
With the rapid development of e-commerce and the adoption of dual channels, increasingly manufacturers and retailers are implementing profit sharing strategies in order to improve channel coordination and supply chain performance. In this study, we focus ... Keywords: Channel coordination, Game theory, Online marketing, Profit bargaining, Profit sharing, Supply chain management
Ruiliang Yan
COST SHARING ON SPONSORED PROJECTS 1 California Institute of Technology Issuing Authority: Office is that portion of the total cost of an externally funded project that is not funded by the sponsor. Depending as a demonstration of its commitment to the project. When voluntary cost sharing is included in the proposal budget
Tai, Yu-Chong
Enabling information sharing within organizations
Organizations which have invested heavily in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, intranets and Enterprise Information Portals (EIP) with standardized workflows, data definitions and a common data repository, have provided the technlogical capability ... Keywords: Benefit sharing, Cross-functional workgroups, Information complementarity, Information equity, Information sharing, Organizational outlook
Anitesh Barua; Suryanarayanan Ravindran; Andrew B. Whinston
Transparently consistent asynchronous shared memory
The advent of many-core processors is imposing many changes on the operating system. The resources that are under contention have changed; previously, CPU cycles were the resource in demand and required fair and precise sharing. Now compute cycles are ... Keywords: copy on write, memory management, memory sharing, virtual memory
Hakan Akkan, Latchesar Ionkov, Michael Lang
Studying team shared mental models
As technology is used to support team-based activities, one important factor affecting the performance of teams is the kind of mental model shared between team members. This paper describes a novel conceptual graph based methodology to study these mental ... Keywords: conceptual graphs, mental models, shared mental models, taskwork, team communication, team effectiveness, team performance, teamwork
Sandra Carpenter; Julie L. Fortune; Harry S. Delugach; Letha H. Etzkorn; Dawn R. Utley; Phillip A. Farrington; Shamsnaz Virani
NETL: Carbon Storage - Knowledge Sharing
Knowledge Sharing Knowledge Sharing Carbon Storage Knowledge Sharing Outreach Efforts at SECARB's Anthropogenic Test Site in Alabama Outreach Efforts at SECARB's Anthropogenic Test Site in Alabama In order to achieve the commercialization of CO2 storage technologies, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) acknowledges that knowledge sharing between various entities is essential. Distribution of the results and lessons learned from both field projects and Core R&D efforts will provide the foundation for future, large-scale CCS field tests across North America and in addressing future challenges associated with public acceptance, infrastructure (pipelines, compressor stations, etc.), and regulatory framework. DOE promotes information and knowledge sharing through various avenues including the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships (RCSP)
Scientists Classify Forest Disturbances to Grow Understanding...
Scientists Classify Forest Disturbances to Grow Understanding of Climate Change Daniel Hayes, shown here outside of Nome, Alaska, traveled to the Arctic in June to study climate...
Sharing local energy infrastructure : organizational models for implementing microgrids and district energy systems in urban commercial districts
There is a growing trend in cities toward establishing localized, shared energy infrastructure. As existing energy infrastructure ages and demand increases, cities face rising energy costs and security risks combined with ...
Sherman, Genevieve Rose
Database Maintenance, Data Sharing Policy, Collaboration
Scientific questions of today are now more global than ever before. The answers to these questions are buried within multiple disciplines and across a diverse range of scientists and institutions. The expanse and complexity of data required by researchers often exceed the means of a single scientist. Data sharing in the form of its distributed collection and analysis is increasingly common. Collective research now takes place in what may be called 'collaboratories' or in 'centers without walls' (Clery 2006). Creating effective artifacts, which enable scientists to collaborate on data analyses, continues to be a significant challenge for today's science activities. It is rare that providing a file system abstraction on distributed data enables acceleration of scientific discoveries. By explicitly identifying and addressing the different requirements for data contributors, data curators, and data consumers, we can create a data management architecture which enables the creation of datasets that evolve over time with growing and changing data, data annotations, participants, and use rules. This involves also a crucial contribution by the teams and people collecting the data, that in addition to carefully acquire and process the measurements and to be ready to share their measurements within the scientific community, need to follow general rules that help to make their data well documented and safely stored and to maximize visibility to their works and sites. In this chapter, we provide examples of the types of functions and capabilities typically provided within the data management systems, focusing in particular on databases structures and characteristics, data practices, and data user services. Finally, the importance and advantages of collective efforts like data sharing for synthesis activities and the relative data policy options are discussed and analyzed.
Papale, D. [University of Tuscia; Agarwal, D.A [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL); Baldocchi, D. D. [University of California, Berkeley; Cook, Robert B [ORNL; Fisher, J.B. [Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA; Ingen, C. van [Microsoft Research
Sharing local energy infrastructure : organizational models for implementing microgrids and district energy systems in urban commercial districts; Organizational models for implementing microgrids and district energy systems in urban commercial districts.
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1 Supporting car share clubs Car Share Clubs
Car share clubs 1 have been successfully operating on a relatively large scale only since 1987, when the first scheme began in Switzerland, although prior to that there were several smaller scale projects
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Rapid Multiplex PCR
Development of Rapid Multiplex PCR Techniques. Summary: Forensic DNA typing is currently conducted in approximately eight to ten hours. ...
Canada's Interconvertible Shares: A Puzzle
c t o r s . shareholders. Exxon Table Most of presents on town of O i l i s owned by Exxon i t s holdings A shares backboth Year Shareholder(s) Exxon Exxon Exxon Exxon Exxon other
Bailey, Warren
Sharing the data center network
While today's data centers are multiplexed across many non-cooperating applications, they lack effective means to share their network. Relying on TCP's congestion control, as we show from experiments in production data centers, opens up the network to ...
Alan Shieh; Srikanth Kandula; Albert Greenberg; Changhoon Kim; Bikas Saha
MSA: multiphase specifically shared arrays
Shared address space (SAS) parallel programming models have faced difficulty scaling to large number of processors. Further, although in some cases SAS programs are easier to develop, in other cases they face difficulties due to a large number of race ...
Jayant DeSouza; Laxmikant V. Kal�
Shared-Use Vehicle Systems
Small, Battery-Powered Electric Cars as a Component ofelectric, hybrid-electric, natural gas) cars make up theelectric vehicles and shared-use systems, particularly commuter station cars (
Shaheen, Susan
Visual secret sharing for multiple secrets
Conventional visual secret sharing schemes are designed for a single secret image so it is inefficient to generate numerous share images for multiple secret images simultaneously. Therefore, a novel visual secret sharing scheme for multiple secret images ... Keywords: Multiple secret sharing, Visual cryptography, Visual pattern, Visual secret sharing
Jen-Bang Feng; Hsien-Chu Wu; Chwei-Shyong Tsai; Ya-Fen Chang; Yen-Ping Chu
Scientists Classify Forest Disturbances to Grow Understanding of Climate
3 3 SHARE Scientists Classify Forest Disturbances to Grow Understanding of Climate Change Daniel Hayes, shown here outside of Nome, Alaska, traveled to the Arctic in June to study climate change. Image credit: Santonu Goswami Daniel Hayes, shown here outside of Nome, Alaska, traveled to the Arctic in June to study climate change. Image credit: Santonu Goswami (hi-res image) This feature describes Oak Ridge National Laboratory research presented at the 98th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. The theme of the meeting, held Aug. 4-9 in Minnesota, is "Sustainable Pathways: Learning From the Past and Shaping the Future." Fire, logging, insects and extreme weather can wreak havoc on forests. With support from the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation,
Privacy Perceptions of Photo Sharing in Facebook
Online photo sharing applications are increasingly popular, offering users new and innovative ways to share photos with a variety of people. Many social networking sites are also incorporating photo sharing features, allowing users to very easily
Andrew Besmer; Heather Richter Lipford
Far East LPG sales will grow faster than in West
LPG sales through 2010 in regions east of the Suez Canal (East of Suez) will grow at more than twice those in regions west of the canal. East-of-Suez sales will grow at more than 4.0%/year, compared to slightly less than 2.0%/year growth in sales West of Suez. East-of-Suez sales will reach 92 million tons/year (tpy) by 2010, accounting for 39% of the worldwide total. This share was 31% in1995 and only 27% in 1990. LPG sales worldwide will reach 192 million tons in 2000 and 243 million tpy by 2010. In 1995, they were 163 million tons. These are some of the major conclusions of a recent study by Frank R. Spadine, Christine Kozar, and Rudy Clark of New York City-based consultant Poten and Partners Inc. Details of the study are in the fall report ``World Trade in LPG 1990--2010``. This paper discusses demand segments, seaborne balance, Western sources, largest trading region, North American supplies, and other supplies.
Only tough choices in Meeting growing demand
U.S. electricity demand is not growing very fast by international or historical standards. Yet meeting this relatively modest growth is proving difficult because investment in new capacity is expected to grow at an even slower pace. What is more worrisome is that a confluence of factors has added considerable uncertainties, making the investment community less willing to make the long-term commitments that will be needed during the coming decade.
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Urban dwelling environments in rapidly growing cities : case study, Unayzah, Saudi Arabia
The study is concerned with two critical issues: a) the housing situation of middle income groups; b) the use of land in new developments. A tentative planning model for urban land development and a survey of existing ...
Alohali, Yousef Nasser
Wind power is a rapidly growing con-tributor to worldwide energy supplies and
the U.S., represent- ing nearly one-third of the total installed wind energy capacity in the country for wind turbine siting and wind source prediction. Ironically, PPM has hired 3TIER to provide wind energy and operates wind farms in Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales and the United States. With the recent extension
Fast-growing willow shrub named `Tully Champion`
A distinct female cultivar of Salix viminalis.times.S. miyabeana named `Tully Champion`, characterized by rapid stem growth producing greater than 25% more woody biomass than two current production clones (Salix dasyclados `SV1` and Salix miyabeana `SX64`), more than 2.5-fold greater biomass than one of its parents (Salix miyabeana `SX67`), and nearly 3-fold more biomass than another production clone (Salix sacchalinensis, `SX61`) when grown in the same field for the same length of time (two growing seasons after coppice) in Tully, N.Y. `Tully Champion` can be planted from dormant stem cuttings, produces multiple stems after coppice, and the stem biomass can be harvested when the plant is dormant. In the spring following harvest, the plant will re-sprout very vigorously, producing new stems that can be harvested repeatedly after two to four years of growth. `Tully Champion` displays a low incidence of rust disease and is not damaged by potato leafhoppers.
Green Button Initiative Growing | Department of Energy
Green Button Initiative Growing Green Button Initiative Growing Green Button Initiative Growing May 17, 2013 - 1:17pm Addthis The Green Button initiative, which is the common-sense idea that electricity customers should be able to securely download their own energy usage information from their utility websites, is continuing to gain traction across the country. In the May 1 issue of PowerGrid International, OE's smart grid standards and interoperability coordinator Chris Irwin discusses the growth of Green Button. This initiative to enable energy innovation is part of a comprehensive grid modernization strategy to move the nation to a cleaner, more secure energy future. Addthis Related Articles At the White House Energy Datapalooza in October 2012, developers showcased new apps that help consumers harness and interpret their energy use data. The expanding Green Button movement will make apps like these more ubiquitous. | Photo by Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department.
N.C. Agency Growing, Helping Citizens Save Money | Department of Energy
N.C. Agency Growing, Helping Citizens Save Money N.C. Agency Growing, Helping Citizens Save Money N.C. Agency Growing, Helping Citizens Save Money March 12, 2010 - 5:20pm Addthis Reginald Speight, CEO of Martin County Community Action | Photo courtesy of Martin County Community Action Reginald Speight, CEO of Martin County Community Action | Photo courtesy of Martin County Community Action Joshua DeLung North Carolina will receive $132 million, or 10 times more money than in years past, for its weatherization program through the Recovery Act. Martin County Community Action is tasked with weatherizing about 1,029 units with its $7.7 million share. The agency has also surpassed its 123 units from its usual fiscal year funding. "It's been interesting ramping up like this, but we've put our agency in a position the last couple of years to be able to do more creative
Toward Enhancing OpenMP's Work-Sharing Directives
OpenMP provides a portable programming interface for shared memory parallel computers (SMPs). Although this interface has proven successful for small SMPs, it requires greater flexibility in light of the steadily growing size of individual SMPs and the recent advent of multithreaded chips. In this paper, we describe two application development experiences that exposed these expressivity problems in the current OpenMP specification. We then propose mechanisms to overcome these limitations, including thread subteams and thread topologies. Thus, we identify language features that improve OpenMP application performance on emerging and large-scale platforms while preserving ease of programming.
Chapman, B M; Huang, L; Jin, H; Jost, G; de Supinski, B R
Prealloyed catalyst for growing silicon carbide whiskers
A prealloyed metal catalyst is used to grow silicon carbide whiskers, especially in the .beta. form. Pretreating the metal particles to increase the weight percentages of carbon or silicon or both carbon and silicon allows whisker growth to begin immediately upon reaching growth temperature.
Shalek, Peter D. (Los Alamos, NM); Katz, Joel D. (Niagara Falls, NY); Hurley, George F. (Los Alamos, NM)
Stability, Power Sharing, & Distributed Secondary Control in Droop-Controlled Microgrids
Stability, Power Sharing, & Distributed Secondary Control in Droop-Controlled Microgrids John W, Denmark Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Abstract--Motivated by the recent and growing interest in microgrids, we study the operation of droop-controlled DC/AC inverters in an islanded microgrid. We present a necessary
Bullo, Francesco
Rapid Sampling Tools - Nuclear Engineering Multimedia
Nonproliferation and National Security Nonproliferation and National Security > Multimedia > Rapid Sampling Tools Director's Welcome Organization Achievements Highlights Fact Sheets, Brochures & Other Documents Multimedia Library About Nuclear Energy Nuclear Reactors Designed by Argonne Argonne's Nuclear Science and Technology Legacy Opportunities within NE Division Visit Argonne Work with Argonne Contact us For Employees Site Map Help Join us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter NE on Flickr Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Chicago Pile 1 (CP-1) Argonne OutLoud on Nuclear Energy Argonne Energy Showcase 2012 Nonproliferation and National Security - Multimedia Bookmark and Share NPNS Multimedia, a collection of videos and audios featuring activities related to Nonproliferation and National Security
Microphysics of the Rapid Development of Heavy Convective Precipitation
Two rapidly growing, hail-producing storms observed in Alabama during the Microburst and Severe Thunderstorm project in 1986 were examined: the well-studied single-cell storm case on 20 July 1986 and a single cell within a multicellular storm on ...
Zhaoxia Zeng; Sandra E. Yuter; Robert A. Houze Jr.; David E. Kingsmill
Many small consumers, one growing problem: Achieving energy savings...
Many small consumers, one growing problem: Achieving energy savings for electronic equipment operating in low power modes Title Many small consumers, one growing problem: Achieving...
Global Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Database | Open Energy Information
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Global Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Database Global Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Database Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary LAUNCH TOOL Name: Global Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Database Agency/Company /Organization: EMBARQ Complexity/Ease of Use: Not Available Website: www.brtdata.org/ Equivalent URI: cleanenergysolutions.org/content/global-bus-rapid-transit-brt-database Language: English Related Tools European Green Cars Initiative Guidelines and Toolkits for Urban Transport Development in Medium Sized Cities in India Making Car Sharing and Car Clubs Work: Final Report ... further results Find Another Tool FIND TRANSPORTATION TOOLS This tool provides public access to current data about bus rapid transit systems around the world, including data for the design, performance, and cost of these systems. The database can be filtered by location or
Modeling wealth distribution in growing markets
We introduce an auto-regressive model which captures the growing nature of realistic markets. In our model agents do not trade with other agents, they interact indirectly only through a market. Change of their wealth depends, linearly on how much they invest, and stochastically on how much they gain from the noisy market. The average wealth of the market could be fixed or growing. We show that in a market where investment capacity of agents differ, average wealth of agents generically follow the Pareto-law. In few cases, the individual distribution of wealth of every agent could also be obtained exactly. We also show that the underlying dynamics of other well studied kinetic models of markets can be mapped to the dynamics of our auto-regressive model.
Urna Basu; P. K. Mohanty
Transfer in Reinforcement Learning via Shared Features
We present a framework for transfer in reinforcement learning based on the idea that related tasks share some common features, and that transfer can be achieved via those shared features. The framework attempts to capture ...
Konidaris, George
CIKR Cyber Information Sharing and Collaboration Program ...
Page 1. CIKR Cyber Information Sharing and Collaboration Program (CISCP) In order to meet the Department of Homeland ...
Quantum grow�A quantum dynamics sampling approach for growing potential energy surfaces and nonadiabatic couplings
A quantum sampling algorithm for the interpolation of diabatic potential energy matrices by the Grow method is introduced. The new procedure benefits from penetration of the wave packet into classically forbidden regions
Oded Godsi; Michael A. Collins; Uri Peskin
Policy 1306 Cost Sharing on Sponsored Projects
Policy 1306 Cost Sharing on Sponsored Projects Responsible Office Office of Research Administration committed cost sharing, and in-kind/matching requirements associated with sponsored projects. Definitions Cost Sharing A portion of total sponsored project costs not funded by the sponsor. Mandatory Cost
Quantum secret sharing with qudit graph states
We present a unified formalism for threshold quantum secret sharing using graph states of systems with prime dimension. We construct protocols for three varieties of secret sharing: with classical and quantum secrets shared between parties over both classical and quantum channels.
Keet, Adrian; Fortescue, Ben; Sanders, Barry C. [Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4 (Canada); Markham, Damian [LTCI-CNRS, Telecom ParisTech, 37/39 rue Dareau, F-75014 Paris (France)
Adrian Keet; Ben Fortescue; Damian Markham; Barry C. Sanders
The Tempest approach to distributed shared memory
This paper summarizes how distributed shared memory (DSM) can be both efficiently and portably supported by the Tempest interface. Tempest is a collection of mechanisms for communication and synchronization in parallel programs. These mechanisms provide ... Keywords: Tempest, Tempest interface, distributed shared memory, message passing, parallel programs, shared memory
David A. Wood; Mark D. Hill; James R. Larus
Sharing and groundness dependencies in logic programs
We investigate Jacobs and Langen's Sharing domain, introduced for the analysis of variable sharing in logic programs, and show that it is isomorphic to Marriott and S�ndergaard's Pos domain, introduced for the analysis of groundness dependencies. ... Keywords: Boolean functions, abstract interpretation, dataflow analysis, global analysis, groundness analysis, program analysis, sharing analysis
Michael Codish; Harald S�ndergaard; Peter J. Stuckey
Overview of Rapid DNA Testing
... Recent Work with Rapid PCR At NIST we are working on new PCR methods ... Applications for Rapid PCR � Integrated devices ('Lab on a Chip') ...
Growing demand for gas spawns pipeline projects
This paper reports that burgeoning demand for gas is fueling pipeline construction in Eastern and Western hemispheres. In the East, the North Sea is the focal point for activity. And in the West, the U.S. gas market is the power behind construction. As predictions of U.S. gas demand increase, Canadian pipeliners adjust expansion plans to be ready to capture greater shares of markets. Canada's TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. is racing to step up its share of the U.S. market. TransCanada's Western Gas Marketing Ltd. sold 242.3 bcf of gas in the 3 months ended last June 30, a 9.8% increase from last year. TransCanada reported lower volumes sold into Canadian markets, while exports into the U.S. continued to rise. Gas Research Institute (GRI) projects Canadian gas exports to the U.S. by 2000 will reach 2 tcf/year and LNG exports 800 bcf/year. U.S. gas supplies could increase to 23.9 tcf/year by 2010, mostly from Lower 48 production. GRI says supplies from Canada will make up the balance. In the past 2 years, TransCanada has spent about $1 billion expanding its interprovincial main line system.
Free Share R D | Open Energy Information
Share R D Share R D Jump to: navigation, search Name Free Share R&D Place Israel Sector Solar, Wind energy Product Developer of wind and solar generating systems in addition to being a a developer of anti-missile and space launching rocket solutions. References Free Share R&D[1] LinkedIn Connections CrunchBase Profile No CrunchBase profile. Create one now! This article is a stub. You can help OpenEI by expanding it. Free Share R&D is a company located in Israel . References ↑ "Free Share R&D" Retrieved from "http://en.openei.org/w/index.php?title=Free_Share_R_D&oldid=345495" Categories: Clean Energy Organizations Companies Organizations Stubs What links here Related changes Special pages Printable version Permanent link Browse properties
Interactive video authoring and sharing based on two-layer templates
The rapid adoption of digital cameras and camcorders leads to a huge demand for new tools and systems that enables average users to more efficiently and more effectively process, manage, author and share digital media contents, in particular, a powerful ... Keywords: interactive multimedia, multimedia authoring, multimedia management, template, video editing
Xian-Sheng Hua; Shipeng Li
Rapid road repair vehicle
Disclosed is a rapid road repair vehicle capable of moving over a surface to be repaired at near normal posted traffic speeds to scan for and find at the high rate of speed, imperfections in the pavement surface, prepare the surface imperfection for repair by air pressure and vacuum cleaning, applying a correct amount of the correct patching material to effect the repair, smooth the resulting repaired surface, and catalog the location and quality of the repairs for maintenance records of the road surface. The rapid road repair vehicle can repair surface imperfections at lower cost, improved quality, at a higher rate of speed than was not heretofor possible, with significantly reduced exposure to safety and health hazards associated with this kind of road repair activities in the past. 2 figs.
Mara, L.M.
An Intelligent Knowledge Sharing System for Web Communities C. Bauckhage, T. Alpcan, S. Agarwal, F. Metze
of age of Internet services conveniently labeled Web 2.0 technologies [1], there is a rapidly growing browser as a client in our system. The main advantages of this approach include utilization of an already available, well-known infrastructure and interface, instantaneous and dynamic installation, and significant
Alpcan, Tansu
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory - Researchers Freely Share...
Researchers Freely Share LCLS Experiment Data on Public Database By Helen Shen November 22, 2011 In 2009, when biophysicist Ilme Schlichting and her colleagues applied to use the...
Share Your Clean Energy Economy Story
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How did you get involved in the Clean Energy Economy? Help other people learn the opportunities available in the clean energy sector by sharing your own story below.
Fast-growing willow shrub named `Otisco`
A distinct female cultivar of Salix viminalis.times.S. miyabeana named `Otisco`, characterized by rapid stem growth producing greater than 42% more woody biomass than one of its parents (`SX64`) and 33% more biomass than a current production cultivar (`SV1`). `Otisco` produced greater than 2.5-fold more stem biomass than two other current production cultivars, `SX67` and `SX61`. `Otisco` can be planted from dormant stem cuttings, produces multiple stems after coppice, and the stem biomass can be harvested when the plant is dormant. In the spring following harvest, the plant will re-sprout very vigorously, producing new stems that can be harvested after two to four years of growth. This harvest cycle can be repeated several times. The stem biomass can be chipped and burned as a source of renewable energy, generating heat and/or electricity. `Otisco` displays a low incidence of rust disease and is not damaged by potato leafhoppers.
Fast-growing willow shrub named `Oneida`
A distinct male cultivar of Salix purpurea.times.S. miyabeana named `Oneida`, characterized by rapid stem growth producing 2.7-times greater woody biomass than one of its parents (`SX67`) and greater than 36% more biomass than current production cultivars (`SV1` and `SX64`). `Oneida` can be planted from dormant stem cuttings, produces multiple stems after coppice, and the stem biomass can be harvested when the plant is dormant. In the spring following harvest, the plant will re-sprout very vigorously, producing new stems that can be harvested after two to four years of growth. This harvest cycle can be repeated several times. The stem biomass can be chipped and burned as a source of renewable energy, generating heat and/or electricity. `Oneida` displays a low incidence of rust disease or damage by beetles or sawflies.
Fast-growing shrub willow named `Owasco`
A distinct female cultivar of Salix viminalis.times.Salix miyabeana named `Owasco`, characterized by rapid stem growth producing greater than 49% more woody biomass than one of its parents (`SX64`) and 39% more biomass than a current production cultivar (`SV1`). `Otisco` produced greater than 2.7-fold more stem biomass than two other current production cultivars, `SX67` and `SX61`. `Owasco` can be planted from dormant stem cuttings, produces multiple stems after coppice, and the stem biomass can be harvested when the plant is dormant. In the spring following harvest, the plant will re-sprout very vigorously, producing new stems that can be harvested after two to four years of growth. This harvest cycle can be repeated several times. The stem biomass can be chipped and burned as a source of renewable energy, generating heat and/or electricity. `Owasco` displays a low incidence of rust disease and is not damaged by potato leafhoppers.
Fast-growing willow shrub named `Millbrook`
A distinct female cultivar of Salix purpurea.times.Salix miyabeana named `Millbrook`, characterized by rapid stem growth producing 9% more woody biomass than one of its parents (`SX64`) and 2% more biomass than a current production cultivar (`SV1`). `Millbrook` produced greater than 2-fold more stem biomass than two other current production cultivars, `SX67` and `SX61`. `Millbrook` can be planted from dormant stem cuttings, produces multiple stems after coppice, and the stem biomass can be harvested when the plant is dormant. In the spring following harvest, the plant will re-sprout very vigorously, producing new stems that can be harvested after two to four years of growth. This harvest cycle can be repeated several times. The stem biomass can be chipped and burned as a source of renewable energy, generating heat and/or electricity. `Millbrook` displays a low incidence of rust disease.
Abrahamson, Lawrence P [Marcellus, NY; Kopp, Richard F [Marietta, NY; Smart, Lawrence B [Geneva, NY; Volk, Timothy A [Syracuse, NY
Turkey opens electricity markets as demand grows
Turkey's growing power market has attracted investors and project developers for over a decade, yet their plans have been dashed by unexpected political or financial crises or, worse, obstructed by a lengthy bureaucratic approval process. Now, with a more transparent retail electricity market, government regulators and investors are bullish on Turkey. Is Turkey ready to turn the power on? This report closely examine Turkey's plans to create a power infrastructure capable of providing the reliable electricity supplies necessary for sustained economic growth. It was compiled with on-the-ground research and extensive interview with key industrial and political figures. Today, hard coal and lignite account for 21% of Turkey's electricity generation and gas-fired plants account for 50%. The Alfin Elbistan-B lignite-fired plant has attracted criticism for its lack of desulfurization units and ash dam facilities that have tarnished the industry's image. A 1,100 MW hard-coal fired plant using supercritical technology is under construction. 9 figs., 1 tab.
McKeigue, J.; Da Cunha, A.; Severino, D. [Global Business Reports (United States)
Information sharing and security in dynamic coalitions
Today, information sharing is critical to almost every institution. There is no more critical need for information sharing than during an international crisis, when international coalitions dynamically form. In the event of a crisis, whether it is humanitarian ... Keywords: access control, distributed systems, dynamic coalitions, information security
Charles E. Phillips, Jr.; T.C. Ting; Steven A. Demurjian
We present a framework for transfer in reinforcement learning based on the idea that related tasks share some common features, and that transfer can be achieved via those shared features. The framework attempts to capture the notion of tasks that are ...
George Konidaris; Ilya Scheidwasser; Andrew Barto
Probabilistic secret sharing through noisy quantum channel
In a realistic situation, the secret sharing of classical or quantum information will involve the transmission of this information through noisy channels. We consider a three qubit pure state. This state becomes a mixed-state when the qubits are distributed ... Keywords: GHZ states, POVM, phase damping channel, secret sharing
Satyabrata Adhikari; Indranil Chakrabarty; Pankaj Agrawal
Pipet: a design concept supporting photo sharing
To support reminiscing in the home, people collect an increasing amount of digital media on numerous devices. When sharing their media with other people, distribution of the media over different devices can be problematic. In this paper, we address this ... Keywords: collaboration, cross-device interaction, interaction design, photo sharing, tangible user interface
Bernt Meerbeek; Peter Bingley; Wil Rijnen; Elise van den Hoven
Adaptive load sharing for network processors
A novel scheme for processing packets in a router is presented that provides load sharing among multiple network processors distributed within the router. It is complemented by a feedback control mechanism designed to prevent processor overload. Incoming ... Keywords: computer networks, feedback control, load balancing, load sharing, packet processing, router architecture
Lukas Kencl; Jean-Yves Le Boudec
Reducing memory sharing overheads in distributed JVMs
Distributed JVM systems by supporting Java�s shared-memory model enable concurrent Java applications to run transparently on clusters of computers. Aiming to reduce the overheads associated to memory coherence enforcement mechanisms required in ... Keywords: JVM, Java, cluster computing, concurrent Java applications, distributed shared memory, high-performance computing
Marcelo Lobosco; Orlando Loques; Claudio L. de Amorim
ARM - Data Sharing and Distribution Policy
DocumentationData Sharing and Distribution Policy DocumentationData Sharing and Distribution Policy Policies, Plans, Descriptions Data Documentation Home Data Sharing and Distribution Policy Data Management and Documentation Plan Data Product Registration and Submission Reading netCDF and HDF Data Files Time in ARM netCDF Data Files Data Archive Documentation ARM Archive's Catalog of Data Streams (Updated monthly) Access to Historical ARM Data More on Understanding and Finding ARM Data Data Quality Problem Reporting Data Sharing and Distribution Policy Purpose This document sets expectations and establishes procedures for sharing data acquired in through the operations of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility. These data may be acquired from routine ARM-supported efforts or from collaborating or cooperating programs. When
Definition: Reserve Sharing Group | Open Energy Information
Sharing Group Sharing Group Jump to: navigation, search Dictionary.png Reserve Sharing Group A group whose members consist of two or more Balancing Authorities that collectively maintain, allocate, and supply operating reserves required for each Balancing Authority's use in recovering from contingencies within the group. Scheduling energy from an Adjacent Balancing Authority to aid recovery need not constitute reserve sharing provided the transaction is ramped in over a period the supplying party could reasonably be expected to load generation in (e.g., ten minutes). If the transaction is ramped in quicker (e.g., between zero and ten minutes) then, for the purposes of Disturbance Control Performance, the Areas become a Reserve Sharing Group.[1] Related Terms adjacent balancing authority, balancing authority, smart grid
Rapidly Rotating Suns and Active Nests of Convection
In the solar convection zone, rotation couples with intensely turbulent convection to drive a strong differential rotation and achieve complex magnetic dynamo action. Our sun must have rotated more rapidly in its past, as is suggested by observations of many rapidly rotating young solar-type stars. Here we explore the effects of more rapid rotation on the global-scale patterns of convection in such stars and the flows of differential rotation and meridional circulation which are self-consistently established. The convection in these systems is richly time dependent and in our most rapidly rotating suns a striking pattern of localized convection emerges. Convection near the equator in these systems is dominated by one or two nests in longitude of locally enhanced convection, with quiescent streaming flow in between at the highest rotation rates. These active nests of convection maintain a strong differential rotation despite their small size. The structure of differential rotation is similar in all of our more rapidly rotating suns, with fast equators and slower poles. We find that the total shear in differential rotation Delta Omega grows with more rapid rotation while the relative shear Delta Omega/Omega_0 decreases. In contrast, at more rapid rotation the meridional circulations decrease in energy and peak velocities and break into multiple cells of circulation in both radius and latitude.
Benjamin P. Brown; Matthew K. Browning; Allan Sacha Brun; Mark S. Miesch; Juri Toomre
On carbon footprints and growing energy use
Could fractional reductions in the carbon footprint of a growing organization lead to a corresponding real reduction in atmospheric CO{sub 2} emissions in the next ten years? Curtis M. Oldenburg, head of the Geologic Carbon Sequestration Program of LBNL�s Earth Sciences Division, considers his own organization's carbon footprint and answers this critical question? In addressing the problem of energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change, it is essential that we understand which activities are producing GHGs and the scale of emission for each activity, so that reduction efforts can be efficiently targeted. The GHG emissions to the atmosphere of an individual or group are referred to as the �carbon footprint�. This terminology is entirely appropriate, because 85% of the global marketed energy supply comes from carbon-rich fossil fuel sources whose combustion produces CO{sub 2}, the main GHG causing global climate change. Furthermore, the direct relation between CO2 emissions and fossil fuels as they are used today makes energy consumption a useful proxy for carbon footprint. It would seem to be a simple matter to reduce energy consumption across the board, both individually and collectively, to help reduce our carbon footprints and therefore solve the energyclimate crisis. But just how much can we reduce carbon footprints when broader forces, such as growth in energy use, cause the total footprint to simultaneously expand? In this feature, I present a calculation of the carbon footprint of the Earth Sciences Division (ESD), the division in which I work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and discuss the potential for reducing this carbon footprint. It will be apparent that in terms of potential future carbon footprint reductions under projections of expected growth, ESD may be thought of as a microcosm of the situation of the world as a whole, in which alternatives to the business-as-usual use of fossil fuels are needed if absolute GHG emission reductions are to be achieved.
Oldenburg, C.M.
Cultivation of fast-growing hardwoods
The intensive culture of hybrid poplar has received in-depth study as part of the Fast-Growing Hardwood Program. Research has concentrated on short-rotation intensive culture systems. Specific studies and operations included establishing and maintaining a nursery/cutting orchard, installing clone-site trials in central and southern New York State and initiating studies of no-till site preparation, nutrient utilization efficiency, wood quality and soil solution chemistry. The nursery/cutting orchard was used to provide material for various research plantings and as a genotype repository. Clone- site trials results showed that hybrid poplar growth potential was affected by clone type and was related to inherent soil-site conditions. No-till techniques were shown to be successful in establishing hybrid poplar in terms of survival and growth when compared to conventional clean tillage and/or no competition control, and can be considered for use on sites that are particularly prone to erosion. Nutrient use efficiency was significantly affected by clone type, and should be a consideration when selecting clones for operational planting if fertilization is to be effectively and efficiently used. Wood quality differed among clones with site condition and tree age inferred as important factors. Soil solution chemistry was minimally affected by intensive cultural practices with no measured adverse effect on soil water quality. Generally, results of these studies showed that appropriate hybrid poplar clones grown in short-rotation intensively cultured systems can be used successfully in New York State if proper site conditions exist and appropriate establishment and maintenance techniques are used. 37 refs., 4 figs., 22 tabs.
White, E.H.; Abrahamson, L.P. (State Univ. of New York, Syracuse, NY (United States). Coll. of Environmental Science and Forestry)
Carbon dioxide emissions grow in the residential sector ...
Accounting for this increased CO 2 share is the 19-fold growth in residential ... illustrates the importance of the relationship of power plant ...
WilderShares LLC | Open Energy Information
WilderShares LLC WilderShares LLC Jump to: navigation, search Name WilderShares LLC Place Encinitas, California Zip 92024 Product WilderShares LLC, is a provider of indexes for the clean energy, green living, and environmental sectors. Coordinates 33.045436°, -117.292518° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":33.045436,"lon":-117.292518,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
Distributed Shared State with History Maintenance
Shared mutable state is challenging to maintain in a distributed environment. We develop a technique, based on the Operational Transform, that guides independent agents into producing consistent states through inconsistent ...
Panchekha, Pavel
Knowledge sharing between design and manufacture
The aim of this research is to develop a representation method that allows knowledge to be readily shared between collaborating systems (agents) in a design/manufacturing environment. Improved mechanisms for interpreting the terms used to describe knowledge ...
Sean D. Cochrane; Keith Case; Robert I. Young; Jenny A. Harding; Samir Dani
Scalable spatially aware media sharing display system
The scalable spatially aware media sharing display system provides an efficient and convenient means of harnessing media messaging in global communications. A three- tiered system of input, control, and output creates a ...
Menard, Patrick, 1981-
Revisiting parallel rendering for shared memory machines
Increasing the core count of CPUs to increase computational performance has been a significant trend for the better part of a decade. This has led to an unprecedented availability of large shared memory machines. Programming paradigms and systems are ...
B. Nouanesengsy; J. Ahrens; J. Woodring; H. Shen
Home-based Shared Virtual Memory
In this dissertation, I investigate how to improve the performance of shared virtual memory (SVM) by examining consistency models, protocols, hardware support and applications. The main conclusion of this research is that the performance of shared virtual memory can be significantly improved when performance-enhancing techniques from all these areas are combined. This dissertation proposes home-based lazy release consistency as a simple, effective, and scalable way to build shared virtual memory systems. In home-based protocols each shared page has a home to which all writes are propagated and from which all copies are derived. Two home-based protocols are described, implemented and evaluated on two hardware and software platforms: Automatic Update Release Consistency (AURC), which requires hardware support for fine-grained remote writes (automatic updates), and Homebased Lazy Release Consistency (HLRC), which is implemented exclusively in software. The dissertation investigates the ...
Liviu Iftode
Share energy goals and progress | ENERGY STAR
Engage occupants Provide a seat at the table Share energy goals and progress Identify energy-saving actions Spread the word about how to help Give incentives and recognition...
CLASAdministratorJobAid CostSharing
per square foot from FPM. Pro-rate by percentage of time that the office is used for the project x;CLASAdministratorJobAid CostSharing Preparedby:M.Kuznia8/1/11 Page2 Use of an office: determine square footageCLASAdministratorJobAid CostSharing Preparedby:M.Kuznia8/1/11 Page1 I. Definitions A. Cost
Baskaran, Mark
Realistic Financial Planning and Rapid
Rapid Modification to Project Execution are Essential PMLL Identifier: PMLL-2010-LLNL-NIF-0001 (Source: User Submitted) Validator: Victoria Pratt Date: 4272010 Contact:...
FOA aimed at growing expansive database of Renewable Energy and...
FOA aimed at growing expansive database of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Incentives and Policies Home > Groups > Utility Rate Graham7781's picture Submitted by...
NREL: Wind Research - Providing Incentives to Help Grow Small...
Providing Incentives to Help Grow Small Wind: Wind Powering America Lessons Learned February 25, 2013 Wind Powering America asked Mark Mayhew, small wind program manager for the...
Share of Conversion Capacity - Energy Information Administration
In the early to mid 1980�s, Atlantic Basin refiners rapidly expanded their conversion capacity as a consequence of the belief that world crude production would get ...
Collusion Through Insurance: Sharing the Costs of Oil Spill Cleanups
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Dekel, Eddie; Scothmer, Suzanne
Final Report: Multi-State Sharing Initiative
In 2003 a joint effort between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of Justice created state and metropolitan intelligence fusion centers. These fusion centers were an effort to share law enforcement, disaster, and terrorism related information and intelligence between state and local jurisdictions and to share terrorism related intelligence between state and local law enforcement agencies and various federal entities. In 2006, DHS commissioned the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to establish and manage a groundbreaking program to assist local, state, and tribal leaders in developing the tools and methods required to anticipate and forestall terrorist events and to enhance disaster response. This program, called the Southeast Region Research Initiative (SERRI), combines science and technology with validated operational approaches to address regionally unique requirements and suggest regional solutions with the potential for national application. In 2009, SERRI sponsored the Multistate Sharing Initiative (MSSI) to assist state and metropolitan intelligence fusion centers with sharing information related to a wider variety of state interests than just terrorism. While these fusion centers have been effective at sharing data across organizations within their respective jurisdictions, their organizational structure makes bilateral communication with federal entities convenient and also allows information to be further disbursed to other local entities when appropriate. The MSSI-developed Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) sharing system allows state-to-state sharing of non-terrorism-related law enforcement and disaster information. Currently, the MSSI SAR system is deployed in Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. About 1 year after implementation, cognizant fusion center personnel from each state were contacted to ascertain the status of their MSSI SAR systems. The overwhelming response from these individuals was that the MSSI SAR system was an outstanding success and contributed greatly to the security and resiliency of their states. At least one state commented that SERRI's implementation of the MSSI SAR actually 'jump started' and accelerated deployment and acceptance of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative (NSI). While all states were enthusiastic about their systems, South Carolina and Tennessee appeared to be the heaviest users of their respective systems. With NSI taking the load of sharing SARs with other states, Tennessee has redeployed the MSSI SAR system within Tennessee to allow SAR sharing between state and local organizations including Tennessee's three Homeland Security Regions, eleven Homeland Security Districts, and more than 500 police and sheriff offices, as well as with other states. In one success story from South Carolina, the Economy SAR System was used to compile similar SARs from throughout the state which were then forwarded to field liaison officers, emergency management personnel, and law enforcement officers for action.
Begoli, Edmon [ORNL; Boehmann, Brant [ORNL; DeNap, Frank A [ORNL
Alliant Energy (Wisconsin Power and Light) - Shared Savings Program...
Page Edit with form History Share this page on Facebook icon Twitter icon Alliant Energy (Wisconsin Power and Light) - Shared Savings Program (Wisconsin) This is the...
Cornell and Wieman Share 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics
Cornell and Wieman Share 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics. ... William Phillips, a NIST fellow, shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics. ...
Audit Report on "Cost Sharing at Basic Energy Sciences' User...
Report on "Cost Sharing at Basic Energy Sciences' User Facilities", DOEIG-0441 Audit Report on "Cost Sharing at Basic Energy Sciences' User Facilities", DOEIG-0441 The Department...
China's growing CO{sub 2} emissions - a race between increasing consumption and efficiency gains
China's rapidly growing economy and energy consumption are creating serious environmental problems on both local and global scales. Understanding the key drivers behind China's growing energy consumption and the associated CO{sub 2} emissions is critical for the development of global climate policies and provides insight into how other emerging economies may develop a low emissions future. Using recently released Chinese economic input-output data and structural decomposition analysis we analyze how changes in China's technology, economic structure, urbanization, and lifestyles affect CO{sub 2} emissions. We find that infrastructure construction and urban household consumption, both in turn driven by urbanization and lifestyle changes, have outpaced efficiency improvements in the growth of CO{sub 2} emissions. Net trade had a small effect on total emissions due to equal, but significant, growth in emissions from the production of exports and emissions avoided by imports. Technology and efficiency improvements have only partially offset consumption growth, but there remains considerable untapped potential to reduce emissions by improving both production and consumption systems. As China continues to rapidly develop there is an opportunity to further implement and extend policies, such as the Circular Economy, that will help China avoid the high emissions path taken by today's developed countries. 65 refs., 3 figs., 1 tab.
Glen P. Peters; Christopher L. Weber; Dabo Guan; Klaus Hubacek [Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway)
CKBGroup/Shared Tools | Open Energy Information
source source History View New Pages Recent Changes All Special Pages Semantic Search/Querying Get Involved Help Apps Datasets Community Login | Sign Up Search Page Edit History Facebook icon Twitter icon » CKBGroup/Shared Tools < CKBGroup Jump to: navigation, search Home | 2013 Workshop | Previous Events | CKB Snapshots | Collaborative Projects | Shared Tools The CKB Group has been developed two innovative shared tools to make climate information much easier to find. They are both designed to be incorporated into other websites, and are already in use by a number of leading climate knowledge brokers. The Knowledge Navigator The Knowledge Navigator is an online application that helps you to find and access the most relevant websites for you, based on a searchable database
Abstract--Wind power generation is growing rapidly. However, maintaining the wind turbine connection to grid is a real
induction generator (DFIG). However, no attention has been given to the impact of internal faults) that interface the DFIG with the grid. This paper investigates the impact of the rotor side converter (RSC) IGBT flashover fault on the common coupling (PCC) reactive power and the FRT capability of the DFIG. A proper
Pota, Himanshu Roy
A Text Analysis Approach to Motivate Knowledge Sharing via Microsoft SharePoint
Creating incentives for knowledge workers to share their knowledge within an organization continues to be a challenging task. Strong, innate behaviors of the knowledge worker, such as self-preservation and self- advancement, are difficult to overcome, regardless of the level of knowledge. Many incentive policies simply focus on providing external pressure to promote knowledge sharing. This work describes a technical approach to motivate sharing. Utilizing text analysis and machine learning techniques to create an enhanced knowledge sharing experience, a prototype system was developed and tested at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that reduces the overhead cost of sharing while providing a quick, positive payoff for the knowledge worker. This work describes the implementation and experiences of using the prototype in a corporate production environment.
Patton, Robert M [ORNL; McNair, Wade [ORNL; Symons, Christopher T [ORNL; Treadwell, Jim N [ORNL; Potok, Thomas E [ORNL
Rapid prototyping of green composites
Rapid prototyping employs digital fabrication techniques to quickly manufacture parts. However, the available materials are not yet suitable for making strong, large or durable objects. Composites are materials which are ...
Peek, Nadya (Nadya Meile)
Realistic Financial Planning and Rapid Realistic Financial Planning and Rapid Modification to Project Execution are Essential PMLL Identifier: PMLL-2010-LLNL-NIF-0001 (Source: User Submitted) Validator: Victoria Pratt Date: 4/27/2010 Contact: 202-586-7358 Statement: Schedule and cost impacts can be reduced by accounting for potential annual funding delays as well as by adjusting project execution rapidly Discussion: The NIF Project was funding constrained, and planned (per Acquisition Executive direction) with the assumption that the full annual funding in the budget profile would be available early in October. Any delays or changes in the annual funding availability required extraordinary measures both for obtaining the funding required to avoid significant project impacts in a timely manner, and in rapidly adjusting project execution.
Sharing renewable energy in smart microgrids
Renewable energy harvested from the environment is an attractive option for providing green energy to homes. Unfortunately, the intermittent nature of renewable energy results in a mismatch between when these sources generate energy and when homes demand ... Keywords: battery, energy sharing, microgrids, renewable energy
Ting Zhu, Zhichuan Huang, Ankur Sharma, Jikui Su, David Irwin, Aditya Mishra, Daniel Menasche, Prashant Shenoy
Optimal Bandwidth Sharing in Grid Environments
shared among computing and stor- age elements. Referred to as short-lived, grid data re- quests, and performance of individual applications. The data volume of data grids is in the order of Ter- abytes and will likely reach Petabytes in the near future. Transporting such enormous quantities of data among grid
Marchal, Loris
Duopoly information sharing with differentiated products
Consider a model where firms own the same technology in linear Cournot duopolies with differentiated products and the slope of the demand curve facing the firm is unknown, containing an own-price effect and a cross-effect. We discuss as follows: whether ... Keywords: Cournot, Cross-effect, Differentiated products, Information sharing, Own-price effect
Jin Xu
It is a central trait of quantum information theory that there exist limitations to the free sharing of quantum correlations among multiple parties. Such monogamy constraints have been introduced in a landmark paper by Coffman, Kundu and Wootters, who derived a quantitative inequality expressing a trade-off between the couplewise and the genuine tripartite entanglement for states of three qubits. Since then, a lot of efforts have been devoted to the investigation of distributed entanglement in multipartite quantum systems. In these proceedings we report, in a unifying framework, a bird�s eye view of the most relevant results that have been established so far on entanglement sharing in quantum systems. We will take off from the domain of N qubits, graze qudits, and finally land in the almost unexplored territory of multimode Gaussian states of continuous variable systems. Keywords: Entanglement Sharing; Monogamy Constraints; Qubits and Gaussian States. 1. Coffman-Kundu-Wootters inequality and entanglement sharing in discrete-variable systems The simplest conceivable quantum system in which multipartite entanglement
Gerardo Adesso; Fabrizio Illuminati
Sharing the viewing experience through second screens
Despite the ever expanding forms of digital entertainment and the emergence of consumer recording facilities, allowing viewers to time shift their TV viewing habits, there are still certain TV shows and events that create an audience desire to be part ... Keywords: interactive, mobile, narrative, performance, second screen, shared experience, television, twitter
Mark Lochrie; Paul Coulton
The UNIX time-sharing system
UNIX is a general-purpose, multi-user, interactive operating system for the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11/40 and 11/45 computers. It offers a number of features seldom found even in a larger operating systems, including: (1) a hierarchical file ... Keywords: PDP-11, command language, file system, operating system, time-sharing
Dennis M. Ritchie; Ken Thompson
UNIX is a general-purpose, multi-user, interactive operating system for the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11/40 and 11/45 computers. It offers a number of features seldom found even in larger operating systems, including: (1) a hierarchical file ... Keywords: PDP-11, command language, file system, operating system, time-sharing
Two secret sharing schemes based on Boolean operations
Traditional secret sharing schemes involve complex computation. A visual secret sharing (VSS) scheme decodes the secret without computation, but each shadow is m times as big as the original. Probabilistic VSS solved the computation complexity and space ... Keywords: Computation complexity, Pixel expansion, Secret sharing scheme, Visual cryptography, Visual secret sharing
Daoshun Wang; Lei Zhang; Ning Ma; Xiaobo Li
Account-Sharing Detection Through Keystroke Dynamics Analysis
Account sharing refers to a situation where multiple individuals share a Web site account to avoid paying a fee or providing personal information. As a result of account sharing, service providers lose revenue, underestimate membership, and have impaired ... Keywords: Account Sharing, Biometrics, Clustering, Keystroke Dynamics, Typing Pattern, Web Site Account Management
Seong-Seob Hwang; Hyoung-Joo Lee; Sungzoon Cho
Sharing of Nuclear Safety Information through Distributed Database Systems
This presentation discusses the sharing of nuclear safety information through distributed database systems.
Ley, H.
Hanford Grows Young Minds Through Site Tours | Department of Energy
Hanford Grows Young Minds Through Site Tours Hanford Grows Young Minds Through Site Tours Hanford Grows Young Minds Through Site Tours June 3, 2013 - 12:00pm Addthis John Britton, with Office of River Protection contractor Washington River Protection Solutions, explains the Hanford tank waste program to Western Washington University students in a recent tour of the Hanford site. John Britton, with Office of River Protection contractor Washington River Protection Solutions, explains the Hanford tank waste program to Western Washington University students in a recent tour of the Hanford site. RICHLAND, Wash. - It is harvest season for cherries, raspberries and rhubarb in Washington state. But employees at the Hanford site are helping grow the young minds of the nation's future science, technology,
Tropospheric Static Stability and Central North American Growing Season Rainfall
This study investigates the relation between tropospheric static stability and central North American growing season (May�August) rainfall for the highly contrasting years of 1975. 1976, and 1979. It uses two extensive sets of meteorological data ...
Randy A. Peppler; Peter J. Lamb
System development & validation process for emerging growing organizations
This thesis has the main purpose of presenting the Development and Validation phase of the product development system from the point of view of an emerging and growing product development organization, denoting the obstacles ...
Almaz�n L�pez, Jos� Antonio
Solar Among the Fastest Growing Job Markets in America | Department...
to expand at a double-digit annual growth rate shows that efforts to grow the solar market and make solar energy more accessible to all Americans are working. The solar...
Idaho Cleanup Project grows its workforce to complete ARRA work
Idaho Cleanup Project grows its workforce to complete ARRA work CWI President and CEO John Fulton greets newly hired ICP employees at a June orientation session in Idaho Falls....
Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit (Indiana) |
Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit (Indiana) Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit (Indiana) Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit (Indiana) < Back Eligibility Commercial Agricultural Industrial Construction Retail Supplier Fuel Distributor Savings Category Alternative Fuel Vehicles Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Buying & Making Electricity Water Home Weatherization Solar Wind Program Info State Indiana Program Type Corporate Tax Incentive Provider Indiana Economic Development Corporation The Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit is awarded to businesses with projects that result in net new jobs. The tax credit must be a major factor in the company's decision to move forward with the project in Indiana. The refundable tax credit is calculated as a percentage of the expected increased tax withholdings generated from the new jobs. The
Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit Program (Illinois) |
Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit Program Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit Program (Illinois) Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit Program (Illinois) < Back Eligibility Agricultural Commercial Construction Industrial Utility Savings Category Alternative Fuel Vehicles Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Buying & Making Electricity Water Home Weatherization Solar Wind Program Info State Illinois Program Type Corporate Tax Incentive Provider Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity The Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit Program encourages companies to remain, expand, or locate in Illinois. The program provides tax credits to qualifying companies equal to the amount of state income taxes withheld from salaries for newly created jobs. A company must
Maine Company Growing with Weatherization Work | Department of Energy
Maine Company Growing with Weatherization Work Maine Company Growing with Weatherization Work Maine Company Growing with Weatherization Work January 5, 2010 - 2:15pm Addthis BIOSAFE Environmental Services Inc. touts itself as a leader in lead and asbestos removal and has worked for more than a decade making homes hazard-free. So it came as a surprise to Mark Coleman, president and founder of BIOSAFE, when in 2003 he received an interesting proposal from Maine's regional community action programs. "They realized we had talent in . . . lead abatement and home repair and approached us about expanding into weatherization," he said. Mark welcomed the chance to collaborate with the community action groups to grow the business and offer employment to out-of-work individuals, he says. "We saw an opportunity to create job growth through federal funding and
Introducing shared tasks to NLG: the TUNA shared task evaluation challenges
Shared Task Evaluation Challenges (stecs) have only recently begun in the field of nlg. The tuna stecs, which focused on Referring Expression Generation (reg), have been part of this development since its inception. This chapter looks back on the experience ...
Albert Gatt; Anja Belz
Rapid DNA Testing Approaches for Reference Samples
... Page 12. Rapid PCR Protocols Rapid PCR with alternate polymerases ... 28 cycles = 19 min Rapid PCR Protocols: Thermal Cyclers 95oC 1 min 95oC ...
A new generation of load sharing algorithms: the semi-adaptive load sharing algorithm
Distributed systems have become a popular computing environment. Due to their high potentials in improving performance and resource sharing, the evolution and maturing of technologies such as networks and computer hardware, have led to more realizations of distributed computing capabilities. One of the key factors that impacts the system's performance is how load sharing is handled. Most of the work done in load sharing algorithms focused on either one of two approaches: the static approach, or the dynamic approach. Static load sharing is characterized with its simplicity and minimal overhead induced on the system when performing load distribution. This is attributed to the fact that their load sharing decisions do not require any information exchange between nodes. However, static algorithms are not capable of adapting to traffic changes. Hence, this will affect the distributed system adaptability and stability features against load alteration. The second approach in load sharing algorithums is the dynamic approach. In this approach, nodes base their sharing decisions on the knowledge of the status on other nodes. This knowledge enables nodes to make improved decisions when selecting a remote execution site. Therefore, these algorithms provide the distributed system with adaptability and stability. Nevertheless, information exchange between nodes has proven to be expensive. The problem lies in the communication and processing overheads which these algorithms impose on the system. This research work presents a Semi-Adaptive load sharing approach that attempts to lay a common ground between the dynamic and the static approaches. This approach provides the system with adaptability features at are supplied with tools to control the level of adaptability and information exchange in the system. It is argued that this approach is adaptable, scalable, stable, fault tolerant, and will generate low and controlled system overheads. Two implementations of the Semi-Adaptive approach are presented: The Controller Load Sharing Protocol (CLSP) and The Pool Load Sharing Protocol (PLSP). The study of CLSP and PLSP include simulating their performance under various conditions. The simulation include comparing the performance of these two protocols against two load sharing algorithms representing the static and dynamic families. Furthermore, the properties of CLSP and PLSP are investigated. Finally, based on the study and analysis of both protocols, the research work proposes possible areas of improvement in the final conclusion.
Morsy, Hazem Kamal
How rapid is rapid prototyping? analysis of ESPADON programme results
New methodologies, engineering processes, and support environments are beginning to emerge for embedded signal processing systems. The main objectives are to enable defence industry to field state-of-the-art products in less time and with lower costs, ... Keywords: COTS, EDA tools, FPGA, beamformer, heterogeneous platform, model year, rapid prototyping
Bob K. Madahar; Ian D. Alston; Denis Aulagnier; Hans Schurer; Mark Thomas; Brigitte Saget
Entanglement sharing: from qubits to Gaussian states
It is a central trait of quantum information theory that there exist limitations to the free sharing of quantum correlations among multiple parties. Such {\\em monogamy constraints} have been introduced in a landmark paper by Coffman, Kundu and Wootters, who derived a quantitative inequality expressing a trade-off between the couplewise and the genuine tripartite entanglement for states of three qubits. Since then, a lot of efforts have been devoted to the investigation of distributed entanglement in multipartite quantum systems. In these proceedings we report, in a unifying framework, a bird's eye view of the most relevant results that have been established so far on entanglement sharing in quantum systems. We will take off from the domain of $N$ qubits, graze qudits, and finally land in the almost unexplored territory of multimode Gaussian states of continuous variable systems.
Adesso, G; Adesso, Gerardo; Illuminati, Fabrizio
It is a central trait of quantum information theory that there exist limitations to the free sharing of quantum correlations among multiple parties. Such 'monogamy constraints' have been introduced in a landmark paper by Coffman, Kundu and Wootters, who derived a quantitative inequality expressing a trade-off between the couplewise and the genuine tripartite entanglement for states of three qubits. Since then, a lot of efforts have been devoted to the investigation of distributed entanglement in multipartite quantum systems. In these proceedings we report, in a unifying framework, a bird's eye view of the most relevant results that have been established so far on entanglement sharing in quantum systems. We will take off from the domain of N qubits, graze qudits, and finally land in the almost unexplored territory of multimode Gaussian states of continuous variable systems.
Transportation within Canada plays a fundamental role in society; with mobility, people are able to interact (pursue leisure, conduct business, and transport goods), and access services. Personal vehicles are the main mode of transportation today and have many costs on society such as greenhouse gas emissions. Canada has recently ratified the Kyoto Protocol and now faces unique challenges of reducing emissions through encouraging sustainable transportation. Car sharing networks have great potential to sponsor emission reductions through reduced personal vehicle usage, without sacrificing personal mobility. Car Sharing is a sustainable alternative to the traditional personal vehicle. Car sharing is defined by a joint access sharing of automobiles that allow members to rent vehicles on an as needed pay per use basis located in urban dense neighbourhoods. Evaluating the role of car sharing and analysis in regards to sustainable transportation objectives are explored. This research defines sustainable development and its parameters to be inclusive of both a broad and narrow consideration. Car Sharing offers social, economic and environmental benefits. One social and economic benefit emphasized is an increase in equity within low income users. This equity may be achieved through increased affordability by shifting fixed pricing structures and providing an alternative to costly fixed capital (vehicle ownership) expenditures. Another advantage includes a reduced vehicle
Spencer Brown
Shared inverter residential photovoltaic system concept
A residential photovoltaic system concept involving a number of separate roof-mounted arrays all connected to a single utility-interactive inverter is proposed and analyzed in comparison to systems employing one inverter for each array. The conclusion of significance is that such shared inverter systems offer a costs savings of approximately 10 percent. It is observed that other substantial benefits might derive from a reduction in the number of tie-in points between distributed generators and the electric utility grid.
Kern, E.C.; Solman, F.J.
On demand responsiveness in additive cost sharing
Abstract. We propose two new axioms of demand responsiveness for additive cost sharing with variable demands. Group Monotonicity requires that if a group of agents increase their demands, not all of them pay less. Solidarity says that if agent i demands more, j should not pay more if k pays less. Both axioms are compatible in the partial responsibility theory postulating Strong Ranking, i.e., the ranking of cost shares should never contradict that of demands. The combination of Strong Ranking, Solidarity and Monotonicity characterizes the quasi-proportional methods, under which cost shares are proportional to �rescaled � demands. The alternative full responsibility theory is based on Separability, ruling out cross-subsidization when costs are additively separable. Neither the Aumann-Shapley nor the Shapley-Shubik method is group monotonic. On the other hand, convex combinations of �nearby � �xed-path methods are group-monotonic: the subsidy-free serial method is the main example. No separable method meets Solidarity, yet restricting the axiom to submodular (or supermodular) cost functions leads to a characterization of the �xed-�ow methods, containing the Shapley-Shubik and serial methods. JEL Classi�cation numbers: C 71, D 63.
Herv� Moulin; Yves Sprumont
Earth Share Oregon | Open Energy Information
Earth Share Oregon Earth Share Oregon Jump to: navigation, search Name Earth Share Oregon Address 319 SW Washington Street Place Portland, Oregon Zip 97204 Region Pacific Northwest Area Notes Federation of 70 leading local and national non-profit conservation groups that provides a convenient way to support conservation and healthy communities Website http://www.earthshare-oregon.o Coordinates 45.519712°, -122.6751981° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":45.519712,"lon":-122.6751981,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
The Growing Web of Open Data | Department of Energy
The Growing Web of Open Data The Growing Web of Open Data The Growing Web of Open Data September 26, 2012 - 10:57am Addthis NREL's Visual API Browser presents energy data APIs as a web of key words. NREL's Visual API Browser presents energy data APIs as a web of key words. Matthew Loveless Matthew Loveless Data Integration Specialist, Office of Public Affairs Across the federal government, Open Data Initiatives aim to "liberate" government data to empower entrepreneurs, improve the lives of Americans, and create jobs. An example of this process is the way that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration makes weather data freely available for download by anyone. This open data has been used to improve weather newscasts, mobile applications, websites, and even insurance plans.
Northern Virginia Grows Local Energy Business | Department of Energy
Northern Virginia Grows Local Energy Business Northern Virginia Grows Local Energy Business Northern Virginia Grows Local Energy Business January 7, 2010 - 1:08pm Addthis Kristan Castro weatherizes a northern Virginia home. | Photo courtesy EDGE Energy Kristan Castro weatherizes a northern Virginia home. | Photo courtesy EDGE Energy Joshua DeLung What does this mean for me? American taxpayers can benefit from the Residential Energy Property Credit (Section 1121) that increases the energy tax credit for homeowners' energy-efficiency improvements to their existing homes. It didn't take long for Kristan Castro to be convinced of the benefits of performing energy audits on homes and weatherizing them to improve their energy efficiency. He's been in the remodeling business for about 13 years, but it wasn't until this year that he decided to join a team that
Better Buildings Challenge Continues to Grow | Department of Energy
Better Buildings Challenge Continues to Grow Better Buildings Challenge Continues to Grow Better Buildings Challenge Continues to Grow June 18, 2012 - 9:49am Addthis Heather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, at the 23rd Annual Energy Efficiency Forum in Washington, D.C. | Photo courtesy of the Energy Efficiency Forum. Heather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, at the 23rd Annual Energy Efficiency Forum in Washington, D.C. | Photo courtesy of the Energy Efficiency Forum. Maria Tikoff Vargas Director, Department of Energy Better Buildings Challenge What are the key facts? The Better Buildings Challenge helps America's commercial and industrial buildings become 20 percent more efficient over the next decade. Last week, at the 23rd Annual Energy Efficiency Forum, six new
Growing bubbles in a slightly supersaturated liquid solution
We have designed and constructed an experimental system to study gas bubble growth in slightly supersatu- rated liquids. This is achieved by working with carbon dioxide dissolved in water, pressurized at a maximum of 1 MPa and applying a small pressure drop from saturation conditions. Bubbles grow from hydrophobic cavities etched on silicon wafers, which allows us to control their number and position. Hence, the experiment can be used to investigate the interaction among bubbles growing in close proximity when the main mass transfer mechanism is diffusion and there is a limited availability of the dissolved species.
Enr�quez, Oscar R; Bruggert, Gert-Wim; Lohse, Detlef; Prosperetti, Andrea; van der Meer, Devaraj; Sun, Chao
Incorporating Physical and Digital Artifacts into Growing Personal Collections
personal sub-collections which are often shared. Examples include students' annotated texts or a knowledge its use with bibliographic information produced by a physical library. Our prototype system relies in libraries. The students relied upon hand-written notes, primarily bibliographic references, to assist them
Francisco-Revilla, Luis
On-Street Parking Spaces for Shared Cars
available to privately owned cars might even encourage morespace dedicated to a shared car can benefit many people,Fox, and Jon Burkhart. 2005. �Car-Sharing: Where and How It
Osgood, Andrea
AirShares EU Carbon Allowances Fund | Open Energy Information
AirShares EU Carbon Allowances Fund AirShares EU Carbon Allowances Fund Jump to: navigation, search Name AirShares EU Carbon Allowances Fund Place New York, New York Zip 10170 Product AirShares is a commodity pool for exchange-traded futures contracts for EUAs. References AirShares EU Carbon Allowances Fund[1] LinkedIn Connections CrunchBase Profile No CrunchBase profile. Create one now! This article is a stub. You can help OpenEI by expanding it. AirShares EU Carbon Allowances Fund is a company located in New York, New York . References ↑ "AirShares EU Carbon Allowances Fund" Retrieved from "http://en.openei.org/w/index.php?title=AirShares_EU_Carbon_Allowances_Fund&oldid=341942" Categories: Clean Energy Organizations Companies Organizations Stubs What links here Related changes
Improving the Performance of Software Distributed Shared Memory with Speculation
in a release consistent software distributed shared memory system. We propose a new protocol, Speculative Home-based
Alvisi, Lorenzo
POFGEC: growing neural network of classifying potential function generators
In this paper, we propose an architecture and learning algorithm for a growing neural network. Drawing inspiration from the idea of electrical potentials, we develop a classifier based on a set of synthesised potential fields over the domain of input ... Keywords: classification rules, electrical potentials, kernels, neural networks, potential function generators, potential functions
Natacha Gueorguieva; Iren Valova; Georgi Georgiev
Temperature Dependence of Static Charging in Ice Growing by Riming
Charge transfer between colliding ice particles is measured using a wind tunnel inside a cold room. A cylinder growing by riming in a wind tunnel was used as a target for collisions between 5 and 6 m s?1 with ice spheres of 100-�m diameter. The ...
Eldo E. Avila; Guillermo G. Aguirre Varela; Giorgio M. Caranti
HEAT THAT GROWS ON TREES Short description of timber energy
HEAT THAT GROWS ON TREES 6 Short description of timber energy · Along with hydro-electric power, wood is Switzerland's most important energy source. · Wood is CO2-neutral: in sustainably managed, a balance is maintained between growth and combustion). · Wood energy represents a welcome potential use
Greater fuel diversity needed to meet growing US electricity demand
Electricity demand is growing in the USA. One way to manage the uncertainty is to diversity fuel sources. Fuel sources include coal, natural gas, nuclear and renewable energy sources. Tables show actual and planned generation projects by fuel types. 1 fig., 2 tabs.
Burt, B.; Mullins, S. [Industrial Info Resources (United States)
Relaxing B Sharing Restrictions within CSP B Arnaud Lanoix1
Relaxing B Sharing Restrictions within CSP B Arnaud Lanoix1 , Olga Kouchnarenko2 , Samuel firstname.lastname@example.com Abstract. This paper addresses the issue of state sharing in CSP B specifications: B machines controlled by various CSP parts are supposed not to refer to, share or modify the same state space. However, some kinds
Paris-Sud XI, Université de
Statistical modelling of information sharing: community, membership, and content
File-sharing systems, like many online and traditional information sharing communities (e.g. newsgroups, BBS, forums, interest clubs), are dynamical systems in nature. As peers get in and out of the system, the information content made available by the ... Keywords: club formation, dynamic equilibrium, information sharing, peer-to-peer systems, statistical mechanics
W. -Y. Ng; W. K. Lin; D. M. Chiu
Comments on matrix-based secret sharing scheme for images
Several attempts have been made to propose efficient secret sharing schemes for 2D images. Rey M.D (Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, 2008) proposed a relatively fast image secret sharing scheme based on simple binary matrix operations. ... Keywords: cryptanalysis, image processing, secret sharing
Esam Elsheh; A. Ben Hamza
SmokeScreen: flexible privacy controls for presence-sharing
Presence-sharing is an emerging platform for mobile applications, but presence-privacy remains a challenge. Privacy controls must be flexible enough to allow sharing between both trusted social relations and untrusted strangers. In this paper, we present ... Keywords: location privacy, mobile computing, pervasive computing, presence-sharing, social networks
Landon P. Cox; Angela Dalton; Varun Marupadi
Performance of Primary Users in Spectrum Sharing Cognitive Radio Environment
This paper investigates the performance of the primary user in a multiuser cognitive radio environment. Using spectrum sharing method, multiple cognitive users compete to share a channel dedicated to the primary user in order to transmit their data to ... Keywords: Bit error rate, Channel capacity, Cognitive communications, Outage probability, Spectrum sharing, User scheduling
Abdallah K. Farraj; Eman M. Hammad
Alliant Energy (Wisconsin Power and Light) - Shared Savings Program |
(Wisconsin Power and Light) - Shared Savings Program (Wisconsin Power and Light) - Shared Savings Program Alliant Energy (Wisconsin Power and Light) - Shared Savings Program < Back Eligibility Agricultural Savings Category Other Heating & Cooling Commercial Heating & Cooling Heating Appliances & Electronics Commercial Lighting Lighting Maximum Rebate 50% of project Program Info State Wisconsin Program Type Utility Loan Program Rebate Amount Not Specified Provider Alliant Energy Alliant Energy (Wisconsin Power and Light) offers the Shared Savings financing program for the installation of energy efficient farm improvements. Farms or ag-related businesses are eligible if Alliant Energy supplies the electricity or natural gas on a retail rate basis for the applicable technology. With the Shared Savings Program, agricultural
Experience with the TerraShare Product in a Production Environment
Demand for digital satellite and aerial imagery has grown at an extraordinary rate over the past few years. The volume of image data on-line in at any time in a photogrammetric production facility may exceed several terrabytes (TB) with as much as 10TB or more of data not being unusual for a large organization. The rapid migration to Soft Copy photogrammetric production techniques has also increased the quantity of digital raster imagery. Moreover, ecommerce initiatives centering on the sale and/or hosting of digital imagery have further inflated the volume. The number of image and related metadata files may approach several tens of thousands, which when combined with the data volume poses a very significant challenge from a data management point-of-view. In the late 1990's, realizing the severity of the problem, Z/I Imaging commenced development of its TerraShare technology which is aimed directly at dealing with the management of large quantities of digital imagery and associated metadata. In the Fall of 2000, under a Performance Testing Agreement, TerraShare was deployed at the Colorado Springs office of Sanborn Colorado, LLC (formerly Analytical Surveys, Inc. -- Colorado). The primary goal of the testing was to evaluate the performance of TerraShare in a high-volume Soft Copy production facility. This paper describes the operational environment into which TerraShare was deployed, continues with an assessment of the effectiveness of the software, and concludes with an overview of anticipated directions and goals for further exploitation of TerraShare at Sanborn Colorado, LLC.
Trevor Greening; Colorado Springs
Shared Communications: Volume 2. In-Depth Systems Research
This report is the second of two documents that examine the literature for actual examples of organizations and agencies that share communications resources. While the primary emphasis is on rural, intelligent transportation system (ITS) communications involving transit, examples will not be limited to rural activities, nor to ITS implementation, nor even to transit. In addition, the term ''communication'' will be broadly applied to include all information resources. The first document of this series, ''Shared Communications: Volume I. A Summary and Literature Review'', defines the meaning of the term ''shared communication resources'' and provides many examples of agencies that share resources. This document, ''Shared Communications: Volume II. In-Depth Systems Research'', reviews attributes that contributed to successful applications of the sharing communication resources concept. A few examples of each type of communication sharing are provided. Based on the issues and best practice realworld examples, recommendations for potential usage and recommended approaches for field operational tests are provided.
Truett, LF
The Pilgrim: A New Consistency Protocol for Distributed Shared Memory
We propose a new consistency protocol for distributed shared memory (DSM) where different shared objects are replicated at each site. This protocol was developed for the cooperative platform called CAliF: Cooperative Application Framework. This system uses the DSM to allow programmers to share objects or variables without having to manage the exchange. We present an algorithm which uses the token technique. The token is data structure which contains the updates of shared data. These data are carried through the ring on the token, named Pilgrim. Pilgrim protocol provides both reliable consistency and guaranteed performance according to the type of application described. The protocol is discussed and proved, and we demonstrate its qualities. Key words: consistency protocol, cooperative work, distributed shared memory, virtual ring. 1 Introduction In this paper, we propose a new consistency protocol for distributed shared memory (DSM) where different shared objects are replicated at eac...
H. Guyennet; J-c. Lapayre; M. Tr�hel
Riding to Sustainability: Bike Sharing Takes Off | Department of Energy
Riding to Sustainability: Bike Sharing Takes Off Riding to Sustainability: Bike Sharing Takes Off Riding to Sustainability: Bike Sharing Takes Off December 3, 2010 - 1:21pm Addthis Riding to Sustainability: Bike Sharing Takes Off Paul Lester Communications Specialist for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy What are the key facts? Denver and Washington launch large-scale bike sharing systems. San Antonio gears up for Texas' first bike sharing system. Projects receive support through DOE's EECBG program. Thousands of Americans are switching to pedal power for their transportation needs as large-scale bicycle sharing programs sprout up throughout the country, making cities greener and residents healthier. With support from the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program, Washington and Denver launched
Exploring Shared Memory Protocols in FLASH
ABSTRACT The goal of this project was to improve the performance of large scientific and engineering applications through collaborative hardware and software mechanisms to manage the memory hierarchy of non-uniform memory access time (NUMA) shared-memory machines, as well as their component individual processors. In spite of the programming advantages of shared-memory platforms, obtaining good performance for large scientific and engineering applications on such machines can be challenging. Because communication between processors is managed implicitly by the hardware, rather than expressed by the programmer, application performance may suffer from unintended communication � communication that the programmer did not consider when developing his/her application. In this project, we developed and evaluated a collection of hardware, compiler, languages and performance monitoring tools to obtain high performance on scientific and engineering applications on NUMA platforms by managing communication through alternative coherence mechanisms. Alternative coherence mechanisms have often been discussed as a means for reducing unintended communication, although architecture implementations of such mechanisms are quite rare. This report describes an actual implementation of a set of coherence protocols that support coherent, non-coherent and write-update accesses for a CC-NUMA shared-memory architecture, the Stanford FLASH machine. Such an approach has the advantages of using alternative coherence only where it is beneficial, and also provides an evolutionary migration path for improving application performance. We present data on two computations, RandomAccess from the HPC Challenge benchmarks and a forward solver derived from LS-DYNA, showing the performance advantages of the alternative coherence mechanisms. For RandomAccess, the non-coherent and write-update versions can outperform the coherent version by factors of 5 and 2.5, respectively. In LS-DYNA, we obtain improvements of 18% on average using the non-coherent version. We also present data on the SpecOMP benchmarks, showing that the protocols have a modest overhead of less than 3% in applications where the alternative mechanisms are not needed. In addition to the selective coherence studies on the FLASH machine, in the last six months of this project ISI performed research on compiler technology for the transactional memory (TM) programming model being developed at Stanford. As part of this research ISI developed a compiler that recognizes transactional memory �pragmas� and automatically generates parallel code for the TM programming model
Horowitz, Mark; Kunz, Robert; Hall, Mary; Lucas, Robert; Chame, Jacqueline
Optimal Management of Renewable Resources with Growing Demand and Stock Externalities
MAi\\IAGEMEJ. 'n' OF RENEWABLE RESOURCES WIlli GROWING DEMANDapproximation, the problem of a renewable resource is: -f" (MA. ? \\IAGEMENl' OF RENEWABLE RESOURCES WIlli GROWING
Berck, Peter
SAR Imagery Segmentation by Statistical Region Growing and Hierarchical Merging
This paper presents an approach to accomplish synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image segmentation, which are corrupted by speckle noise. Some ordinary segmentation techniques may require speckle filtering previously. Our approach performs radar image segmentation using the original noisy pixels as input data, eliminating preprocessing steps, an advantage over most of the current methods. The algorithm comprises a statistical region growing procedure combined with hierarchical region merging to extract regions of interest from SAR images. The region growing step over-segments the input image to enable region aggregation by employing a combination of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test with a hierarchical stepwise optimization (HSWO) algorithm for the process coordination. We have tested and assessed the proposed technique on artificially speckled image and real SAR data containing different types of targets.
Ushizima, Daniela Mayumi; Carvalho, E.A.; Medeiros, F.N.S.; Martins, C.I.O.; Marques, R.C.P.; Oliveira, I.N.S.
Rapid thermal processing by stamping
A rapid thermal processing device and methods are provided for thermal processing of samples such as semiconductor wafers. The device has components including a stamp (35) having a stamping surface and a heater or cooler (40) to bring it to a selected processing temperature, a sample holder (20) for holding a sample (10) in position for intimate contact with the stamping surface; and positioning components (25) for moving the stamping surface and the stamp (35) in and away from intimate, substantially non-pressured contact. Methods for using and making such devices are also provided. These devices and methods allow inexpensive, efficient, easily controllable thermal processing.
Stradins, Pauls; Wang, Qi
Information sharing in Quantum Complex Networks
We introduce the use of entanglement entropy as a tool for studying the amount of information shared between the nodes of quantum complex networks. By considering the ground state of a network of coupled quantum harmonic oscillators, we compute the information that each node has on the rest of the system. We show that the nodes storing the largest amount of information are not the ones with the highest connectivity, but those with intermediate connectivity thus breaking down the usual hierarchical picture of classical networks. We show both numerically and analytically that the mutual information characterizes the network topology. As a byproduct, our results point out that the amount of information available for an external node connecting to a quantum network allows to determine the network topology.
Cardillo, Alessio; Zueco, David; G�mez-Garde�es, Jes�s
Safety Share Elevators, Escalators and Moving Walkways
3, 2010 3, 2010 Safety Share Elevators, Escalators and Moving Walkways Dick Donovan, of HS-70, informed the HSS VPP Committee about a recent safety incident he experienced while at an airport in Las Vegas. Dick tripped as he was getting off of the escalator. The incident made him consider the day-to-day hazards we take for granted. With this in mind, Dick made an effort to look around to find safety information about using elevators, escalators and moving walkways. Dick came across some useful safety information provided by the Otis Elevator Company. The web site below provides links to two good one-page reminders for safety on elevators, escalators, and moving walkways. http://www.otis.com/site/us/Pages/SafetyforAll.aspx Dick also found more interactive presentations on the same material, see website below. These
Process for growing silicon carbide whiskers by undercooling
A method of growing silicon carbide whiskers, especially in the .beta. form, using a heating schedule wherein the temperature of the atmosphere in the growth zone of a furnace is first heated to or beyond the growth temperature and then is cooled to or below the growth temperature to induce nucleation of whiskers at catalyst sites at a desired point in time which results in the selection.
Shalek, Peter D. (Los Alamos, NM)
Rational Secret Sharing with and without Synchronous Broadcast, Conspicuous Secrets, Malicious Players and Unbounded Opponents.
??In secret sharing we are asked to split a secret into several shares in such a way that a minimum number of shares is necessary� (more)
Gidney, Craig
Human computation: a survey and taxonomy of a growing field
The rapid growth of human computation within research and industry has produced many novel ideas aimed at organizing web users to do great things. However, the growth is not adequately supported by a framework with which to understand each new system ... Keywords: crowdsourcing, data mining, human computation, literature review, social computing, survey, taxonomy
Alexander J. Quinn; Benjamin B. Bederson
Rapid starting methanol reactor system
The invention relates to a methanol-to-hydrogen cracking reactor for use with a fuel cell vehicular power plant. The system is particularly designed for rapid start-up of the catalytic methanol cracking reactor after an extended shut-down period, i.e., after the vehicular fuel cell power plant has been inoperative overnight. Rapid system start-up is accomplished by a combination of direct and indirect heating of the cracking catalyst. Initially, liquid methanol is burned with a stoichiometric or slightly lean air mixture in the combustion chamber of the reactor assembly. The hot combustion gas travels down a flue gas chamber in heat exchange relationship with the catalytic cracking chamber transferring heat across the catalyst chamber wall to heat the catalyst indirectly. The combustion gas is then diverted back through the catalyst bed to heat the catalyst pellets directly. When the cracking reactor temperature reaches operating temperature, methanol combustion is stopped and a hot gas valve is switched to route the flue gas overboard, with methanol being fed directly to the catalytic cracking reactor. Thereafter, the burner operates on excess hydrogen from the fuel cells.
Chludzinski, Paul J. (38 Berkshire St., Swampscott, MA 01907); Dantowitz, Philip (39 Nancy Ave., Peabody, MA 01960); McElroy, James F. (12 Old Cart Rd., Hamilton, MA 01936)
Rapid 500-mb Cyclogenesis and Anticyclogenesis
Rapid intensification of cyclones and anticyclones in National Meteorological Center 500-mb height analyses is investigated during the 1983�84 through 1986�87 cool seasons (September through May). Rapid intensification is defined by analyzed ...
Timothy L. Alberta; Stephen J. Colucci; J. Clay Davenport
Shared Communications: Volume 1. A Summary and Literature Review
This paper provides a review of examples from the literature of shared communication resources and of agencies and/or organizations that share communication resources. The primary emphasis is on rural, intelligent transportation system communications involving transit. Citations will not be limited, however, to rural activities, or to ITS implementation, or even to transit. In addition, the term ''communication'' will be broadly applied to include all information resources. Literature references to issues that contribute to both successful and failed efforts at sharing communication resources are reviewed. The findings of this literature review indicate that: (1) The most frequently shared communication resources are information/data resources, (2) Telecommunications infrastructure and technologies are the next most frequently shared resources, (3) When resources are successfully shared, all parties benefit, (4) A few unsuccessful attempts of sharing resources have been recorded, along with lessons learned, (5) Impediments to sharing include security issues, concerns over system availability and reliability, service quality and performance, and institutional barriers, (6) Advantages of sharing include financial benefits to agencies from using shared resources and benefits to the public in terms of congestion mitigation, information transfer (e.g., traveler information systems), mobility (e.g., welfare-to-work paratransit), and safety (e.g., speed of incident response, incident avoidance), (7) Technology-based solutions exist to address technology-based concerns, and (8) Institutional issues can be addressed through leadership, enhanced knowledge and skills, open communication, responsiveness, and attractive pricing structures.
Franzese, O
Rapid Solar Mirror Characterization with Fringe Reflection ...
Energy Analysis Rapid ... Technology Marketing Summary This technology is an automated system in which the ... Solar Energy; More Information Patent ...
Rapid automatic keyword extraction for information retrieval ...
Methods and systems for rapid automatic keyword extraction for information retrieval and analysis. Embodiments can include parsing words in an ...
Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles for Rapid, Ultra- sensitive ...
A rapid, highly sensitive, inexpensive method to detect and identify specific hazardous environmental pollutants has been invented by ORNL ...
Plants' Rapid Response System Revealed | Advanced Photon Source
Rewriting the Organofluorine Playbook Rewriting the Organofluorine Playbook Computer-Designed Proteins to Disarm a Variety of Flu Viruses Driving Membrane Curvature Unlocking the Nanoscale Secrets of Bird-Feather Colors An Unlikely Route to Ferroelectricity Science Highlights Archives: 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 2001 | 2000 | 1998 | Subscribe to APS Science Highlights rss feed Plants' Rapid Response System Revealed JULY 6, 2012 Bookmark and Share Images of several related proteins made at synchrotrons in the U.S. and France have allowed scientists at Washington University in St. Louis and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Grenoble, France, to solve the structure of a key piece of the biochemical machinery that allows plants to control the concentrations of circulating hormones. WUSTL graduate student
Flow through shares for Natural Gas exploration (Quebec, Canada) |
Flow through shares for Natural Gas exploration (Quebec, Canada) Flow through shares for Natural Gas exploration (Quebec, Canada) Flow through shares for Natural Gas exploration (Quebec, Canada) < Back Eligibility Utility Industrial Program Info Funding Source Government of Quebec State Quebec Program Type Corporate Tax Incentive Provider Revenu Quebec, Resources Naturalles Quebec A flow-through share is a security issued by an exploration company that waives its exploration deduction in favor of the investor. The Québec Taxation Act enables a private individual to benefit from a significant tax deduction when calculating his or her taxable income. In fact, the Québec system provides for a basic deduction equal to 100 percent of the cost of the flow-through shares. For shares acquired after March 30, 2004 the individual may deduct an additional 25% when exploration costs are incurred
Rethinking Forest Partnerships and Benefit Sharing | Open Energy
Rethinking Forest Partnerships and Benefit Sharing Rethinking Forest Partnerships and Benefit Sharing Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary LAUNCH TOOL Name: Rethinking Forest Partnerships and Benefit Sharing Agency/Company /Organization: World Bank Partner: Program on Forests Sector: Land Focus Area: Forestry Topics: Implementation, Resource assessment Resource Type: Lessons learned/best practices Website: www.profor.info/profor/sites/profor.info/files/Benefit_Sharing_WEB.pdf Rethinking Forest Partnerships and Benefit Sharing Screenshot References: Rethinking Forest Partnerships and Benefit Sharing[1] "This study uses an evidence-based approach to provide insights into developing and maintaining collaborative arrangements in the forest sector. It aims to inform discussions and approaches to forest partnership and
Rapid Oscillations in Cataclysmic Variables
I give an overview of the rich phenomenology of dwarf nova oscillations (DNOs) and Quasi-periodic Oscillations (QPOs) observed in cataclysmic variable stars (CVs). The favoured interpretation of these rapid brightness modulations (3 - >1000 s time scales) is that they are magnetic in nature - magnetically channelled accretion from the inner accretion disc for DNOs and possible magnetically excited travelling waves in the disc for QPOs. There is increasing evidence for the magnetic aspects, which extend to lower field the well known properties of strong field (polars) and intermediate strength field (intermediate polars) CVs. The result is that almost all CVs show the presence of magnetic fields on their white dwarf primaries - though for many the intrinsic field may be locally enhanced by the accretion process itself. There are many parallel behaviours with the QPOs seen in X-Ray binaries, with high and low frequency X-Ray QPOs resembling respectively the DNOs and QPOs in CVs.
Brian Warner
Agricultural Genotyping RAPiD Genomics is a DNA genotyping and genetic data analysis company providing tools for
in parallel, at a cost of several hundred dollars per sample. RAPiD Genomics has short- ened this process equipment. Market Potential The overall market for genotyping is estimated to grow 20 percent annually patented system that decreases costs and processing time, has the potential to lead the market
Jawitz, James W.
An application of shared virtual reality to situational training
This paper presents current research being undertaken at Sandia National Laboratories to develop a distributed, shared virtual reality simulation system. The architecture of the system is presented within the framework of an initial application: situational ... Keywords: Sandia National Laboratories, computer based training, distributed shared virtual reality simulation, escort training, groupware, inspector training, nuclear nonproliferation treaties, research, shared virtual reality, situational training, user interfaces, virtual reality
S. Stansfield; D. Shawver; N. Miner; D. Rogers
Collaborative Gain in Resource Sharing Communication Networks
We consider a Multi-Hopping communication network of users transmitting information on a shared medium with limited resources, e.g., limited time and limited bandwidth. Users are able to transmit, receive, retrieve and reply information in a collaborative way. We assume that two users collaborate (one acts as a relay for another) only if, as a result of the collaboration, they gain more capacity, save on resources or save power. We perform optimal resource allocation for three problems: 1) maximizing the capacity given limited resource and energy, 2) minimizing the resource usage given capacity and energy and 3) minimizing energy usage given capacity and resources. By comparing the collaboration gain as a function of the channels and available energies, one may decide either to collaborate or not and select a collaborator among candidates. We find the conditions in which acting as relay results in capacity gain, resource or power saving. We show that a significant gain is attained only if the channel energy g...
Akhavan-Astaneh, Saeed
government share of university r&d drops - TMS
11/3 - GOVERNMENT SHARE OF UNIVERSITY R&D DROPS. In FY2008, universities reported science and engineering research and development�...
Information-Sharing Protocol for the Transportation of Radioactive...
Preliminary Draft for Review Only Information-Sharing for Transportation of Radioactive Waste to Yucca Mountain Office of Logistics Management Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste...
Kansas City Plant submits productivity savings under share-in...
Kansas City Plant submits productivity savings under share-in-savings program | National Nuclear Security Administration Our Mission Managing the Stockpile Preventing Proliferation...
Figure 8. Renewable energy share of U.S. electricity ...
Title: Figure 8. Renewable energy share of U.S. electricity generation in four cases, 2000-2040 (percent) Subject: Annual Energy Outlook 2013 Author
A Guide to Community Shared Solar: Utility, Private, and Nonprofit...
start. First of all, utilities are likely to have the legal, financial, and program management infrastructure to handle organizing and implementing a community shared solar...
Former Assistant Secretary Shares Experiences Leading EM: 'Extremely...
Shares Experiences Leading EM: 'Best Job I Ever Had' Former EM Assistant Secretary Jessie Roberson now serves on the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Former...
Strategies for sharing a floating point unit between SPEs
Floating Point Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .compliant floating point unit�. In DATE �06: Proceedings offor sharing a Floating Point Unit between SPEs A Thesis
Lugo Martinez, Jose E.
Research Library teams shares 2010 Digital Preservation Award
2010 Digital Preservation Award Research Library teams shares 2010 Digital Preservation Award Winning for their development of Memento-a unique computer architecture that uses a...
Shares of electricity generation from renewable energy sources ...
In 2011, the states with the largest shares of generation coming from renewables, including hydro, were: Idaho (93%), Washington (82%), and Oregon ...
Los Alamos shares Nano 50 award for directed assembly
Nano 50 award for directed assembly Los Alamos shares Nano 50 award for directed assembly Nano 50 Awards recognize "the top 50 technologies, products, and innovators that have...
What Explains Manhattan's Declining Share of Residential Construction?
permits issued in Manhattan, with project level detail:public housing projects permitted in Manhattan and on year.multitous projects the analogous Manhattan share plotted in
taking charge : optimizing urban charging infrastructure for shared electric vehicles
This thesis analyses the opportunities and constraints of deploying charging infrastructure for shared electric vehicles in urban environments. Existing electric vehicle charging infrastructure for privately owned vehicles ...
Subramani, Praveen
Prospect of Rapidity Asymmetry and Nuclear Modifications
In asymmetric heavy ion collisions like dA or pA, particle production yields are different in the forward (d- or p-side) and backward (A-side) rapidity directions. The rapidity distribution reflects the geometry and phase-space distribution of nuclear matter. These properties may depend on the time evolution of the collision. Due to the smallness of the backward-forward differences, the rapidity asymmetry factor can be useful to quantify nuclear modification effects, like e.g. shadowing and the EMC effect. Our work is a survey of the nuclear modification factor and the rapidity asymmetries at RHIC energies. We analyze the rapidity dependence and the strength of the nuclear effects. We focus on the high transverse momentum region, and make predictions for the role of nuclear modifications and rapidity asymmetries for future experimental measurements at increasing absolute values of rapidity.
G. G. Barnaf�ldi; A. Adeluyi; G. Fai; P. L�vai; G. Papp
RAPID toolkit/FAQ | Open Energy Information
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Although still a small share of the automobile marketplace, hybrid vehicle models and sales have been growing steadily. It is now
a battery that can be recharged by an internal combustion engine or at a charging station. Economic planning approaches that seek to reduce operating costs, maintain customers' service levels, and GHG costs into fleet vehicle replacement-type models, analyzing the competitiveness of current engine
Bertini, Robert L.
Growing Pains for New Energy-Saving Technologies
As we contemplate a revolution in the lighting industry, it is yet unclear in what form tomorrow's solid-state lighting will emerge. Similarly, photovoltaic (PV) power supplied on a utility scale may take a different form from today's flat-plate silicon modules. The success of the PV industry-now a multibillion dollar a year industry and growing at more than 25% per year-has largely come from integrating solar cells into other products. In many cases, this integration required the formation of new business entities. The solid-state lighting industry faces hurdles that are similar to those faced by the PV industry. Therefore, based on the experiences of the PV industry and others, we predict that the growing pains of the solid-state lighting industry will include: (1) identifying entry markets, (2) integrating light-emitting diodes into attractive products, (3) attaining high reliability for these products, and (4) increasing production of these products, thus lowering costs and opening up new markets. These activities must be implemented, keeping in mind that most consumers do not care about buying ''solid-state lighting'' and ''solar cells.'' Rather, they want to buy attractive lighting and inexpensive electricity.
Kurtz, S.
Technique for rapid establishment of American lotus in remediation efforts
A technique for increasing the establishment rate of American lotus (Nelumbo lutea) and simplifying planting was developed as part of a pond remediation project. Lotus propagation techniques typically require scarification of the seed, germination in heated water, and planting in nursery containers. Then mature (~ 1 yr) nursery-grown stock is transferred to planting site or scarified seed are broadcast applied. Mature plants should grow more quickly, but can be sensitive to handling, require more time to plant, and cost more. Scarified seeds are easier to plant and inexpensive, but have a lag time in growth, can fail to germinate, and can be difficult to site precisely. We developed an intermediate technique using small burlap bags that makes planting easier, provides greater germination success, and avoids lag time in growth. Data on survival and growth from experiments using mature stock, scarified seeds, and bag lotus demonstrate that bag lotus grow rapidly in a variety of conditions, have a high survival rate, can be processed and planted easily and quickly, and are very suitable for a variety of remediation projects
Ryon, Michael G [ORNL; Fortner, Allison M [ORNL; Goins, Kenneth N [ORNL; Jett, Robert T [ORNL; McCracken, Kitty [ORNL; Morris, Gail Wright [ORNL; Riazzi, Adam [Lincoln County HS, Hamlin WV; Roy, W Kelly [ORNL
taking charge : optimizing urban charging infrastructure for shared electric vehicles; Optimizing urban charging infrastructure for shared electric vehicles.
??This thesis analyses the opportunities and constraints of deploying charging infrastructure for shared electric vehicles in urban environments. Existing electric vehicle charging infrastructure for privately� (more)
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Analysis of Soft Magnetic Materials for Energy Applications: Samuel Kernion1; ... The world-wide market for magnetic materials is anticipated to grow to US$33�...
COST SHARING ON SPONSORED PROJECTS California Institute of Technology
COST SHARING ON SPONSORED PROJECTS California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California 1 of 4 7 is that portion of the total cost of a research or other externally funded project that is not funded as a demonstration of its commitment to the project. When voluntary cost sharing is included in the proposal budget
Goddard III, William A.
Why Mobile Wireless Carriers Share Networks and Services Provisioning
This paper provides a theory that empirically examines why mobile wireless carriers share the costs of building networks and provisioning wireless services. Of the cost drivers of network operators, the most influential on the industry's dynamics are ... Keywords: Active and Passive Infrastructure, Backhaul, Coverage, Network Sharing, Next-Generation Networks, Spectrum, Wireless Services Provisioning
Hemant K. Sabat
Shared Memory Programming in Metacomputing Environments: The Global Array Approach
The performance of the Global Array shared-memory nonuniform memory-access programming model is explored in a wide-area-network (WAN) distributed supercomputer environment. The Global Array model is extended by introducing a concept of mirrored arrays ... Keywords: Metacomputing, NUMA memory architecture, distributed arrays, global arrays, shared-memory programming
Jarek Nieplocha; Robert Harrison
Relaxing B Sharing Restrictions within CSP B Arnaud Lanoix1 , Olga Kouchnarenko2 , Samuel Colin3 of state sharing in CSP B specifications: B machines controlled by various CSP parts are supposed without creating inconsistencies in CSP B specifications. To achieve this, we present an approach where
Energy Sharing for Swarms Modeled on the Common Vampire Bat
This article reports on observations arising from the use of a simulator in the conteXt of energy sharing (trophallaXis) that might be applied to swarms or communities of energy critical robots. Using food-sharing behavior reported for the common vampire ... Keywords: common vampire bat, reciprocal feeding, swarm behavior, trophallaXis
Mark Witkowski
Technology-Mediated Collaboration, Shared Mental Model and Task Performance
This study takes a direct observation research approach to examine how the impact of collaboration mode on team productivity and process satisfaction is mediated by shared mental model. Team cognition and social impact theories are integrated to provide ... Keywords: Behavior Rating, Observer Rating, Shared Mental Model, Team Cognition, Teamwork, Technology-Mediated Collaboration, Virtual Team
Hayward P. Andres
A decision support system for secure information sharing
In both the commercial and defense sectors a compelling need is emerging for highly dynamic, yet risk optimized, sharing of information across traditional organizational boundaries. Risk optimal decisions to disseminate mission critical tactical intelligence ... Keywords: description logic, flexible information sharing, justification for non-shareability, semantic reasoner
Achille Fokoue; Mudhakar Srivatsa; Pankaj Rohatgi; Peter Wrobel; John Yesberg
SPLASH: Stanford parallel applications for shared-memory
We present the Stanford Parallel Applications for Shared-Memory (SPLASH), a set of parallel applications for use in the design and evaluation of shared-memory multiprocessing systems. Our goal is to provide a suite of realistic applications that will ...
Jaswinder Pal Singh; Wolf-Dietrich Weber; Anoop Gupta
File Sharing as a Form of Music Consumption
Led by the development and widespread application of digital technology, consumers are able to duplicate as well as distribute digitized music products at almost no cost. Music file sharing has been deemed illegal in many countries and is quite detrimental ... Keywords: Consumer Behavior, Digital Content, Expertise, File Sharing, Moral Judgment, Social Networking
Chun-Yao Huang
Technical Specialized Knowledge and Secondary Shares in Initial Public Offerings
This paper utilizes an understudied but often utilized aspect of initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary shares, to examine whether the knowledge conditions of firms give rise to agency problems that limit the ability of founders and venture capitalists ... Keywords: IPOs, entrepreneurship, founder exit, secondary shares, specialized knowledge, venture capital
Marc T. Junkunc; Jonathan T. Eckhardt
An analysis of some time-sharing techniques
The effectiveness of certain time-sharing techniques such as program relocation, disk rotational delay minimization, and swap volume minimization is investigated. Summary data is presented, and the findings are discussed. The vehicle for this investigation ... Keywords: B6500, bulk core usage, operating system model, relocation, rotational delay minimization, simulation, swap volume minimization, system simulation, time-sharing
Norman R. Nielsen
A high-level abstraction of shared accesses
We describe the design and use of the tape mechanism, a new high-level abstraction of accesses to shared data for software DSMs. Tapes consolidate and generalize a number of recent protocol optimizations, including update-based locks ... Keywords: DSM, programming libraries, shared memory, update protocols
Peter J. Keleher
Cache coherence tradeoffs in shared-memory MPSoCs
Shared memory is a common interprocessor communication paradigm for single-chip multiprocessor platforms. Snoop-based cache coherence is a very successful technique that provides a clean shared-memory programming abstraction in general-purpose chip multiprocessors, ... Keywords: Cache coherence, low power, multiprocessor, system-on-chip
Mirko Loghi; Massimo Poncino; Luca Benini
Introducing shared task evaluation to nlg: The TUNA shared task evaluation challenges
Abstract. Shared Task Evaluation Challenges (stecs) have only recently begun in the field of nlg. The tuna stecs, which focused on Referring Expression Generation (reg), have been part of this development since its inception. This chapter looks back on the experience of organising the three tuna Challenges, which came to an end in 2009. While we discuss the role of the stecs in yielding a substantial body of research on the reg problem, which has opened new avenues for future research, our main focus is on the role of different evaluation methods in assessing the output quality of reg algorithms, and on the relationship between such methods. 1
Reducing the quantum communication cost of quantum secret sharing
We demonstrate a construction for perfect quantum secret sharing (QSS) schemes based on imperfect "ramp" secret sharing combined with classical encryption, in which the individual parties' shares are split into quantum and classical components, allowing the former to be of lower dimension than the secret itself. We show that such schemes can be performed with smaller quantum components and lower overall quantum communication than required for existing methods. Finally, we demonstrate that one may further combine both imperfect quantum and imperfect classical secret sharing to produce an overall perfect QSS scheme; we construct examples of such schemes and prove that they have the smallest quantum and classical share components possible for their access structures.
Fortescue, Ben
We demonstrate a new construction for perfect quantum secret sharing (QSS) schemes based on imperfect "ramp" secret sharing combined with classical encryption, in which the individual parties' shares are split into quantum and classical components, allowing the former to be of lower dimension than the secret itself. We show that such schemes can be performed with smaller quantum components and lower overall quantum communication than required for existing methods. We further demonstrate that one may combine both imperfect quantum and imperfect classical secret sharing to produce an overall perfect QSS scheme, and that examples of such scheme (which we construct) can have the smallest quantum and classical share components possible for their access structures, something provably not achievable using perfect underlying schemes. Our construction has significant potential for being adapted to other QSS schemes based on stabiliser codes.
Ben Fortescue; Gilad Gour
Property:GeothermalArraAwardeeCostShare | Open Energy Information
GeothermalArraAwardeeCostShare GeothermalArraAwardeeCostShare Jump to: navigation, search Property Name GeothermalArraAwardeeCostShare Property Type Number Description Geothermal ARRA Awardee Cost Share Pages using the property "GeothermalArraAwardeeCostShare" Showing 25 pages using this property. (previous 25) (next 25) A Alaska + 21,048,017 + Arizona + 0 + Arkansas + 3,256,311 + C California + 26,144,197 + Colorado + 10,600,246 + Connecticut + 1,103,646.17 + D District of Columbia + 0 + F Florida + 62,500 + H Hawaii + 5,595,464 + I Idaho + 13,640,447 + Illinois + 2,915,250 + Indiana + 16,339,591 + L Louisiana + 10,202,879 + M Massachusetts + 1,343,082 + Michigan + 7,046,681 + Minnesota + 1,725,505 + Mississippi + 1,571,027 + Missouri + 2,698,500 + Montana + 1,238,023 + N Nebraska + 15,132,822 +
COLLOQUIUM: Are Mushrooms the Next Polymers?: Growing Plastic Replacements
March 20, 2013, 4:15pm to 6:30pm March 20, 2013, 4:15pm to 6:30pm Colloquia MBG Auditorium COLLOQUIUM: Are Mushrooms the Next Polymers?: Growing Plastic Replacements with Fungi Mr. Gavin McIntyre Ecovative Design LLC Colloquium Committee: The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 2013-2014 Colloquium Committee is comprised of the following people. Please feel free to contact them by e-mail regarding any possible speakers or topics for future colloquia. Carol Ann Austin firstname.lastname@example.com John Greenwald, Chair email@example.com Charles H. Skinner firstname.lastname@example.com Daren Stotler firstname.lastname@example.com Carol Ann Austin 609-243-2484 Contact Information Coordinator(s): Ms. Carol Ann Austin email@example.com Host(s): Ms. Kelsey Tresemer email@example.com PPPL Entrance Procedures Visitor Information, Directions, Security at PPPL
and Ocean Optics) Patent Baohua Gu. Functionalized Gold Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrate for Rapid and Ultra-Sensitive Detection of Anionic Species
Current Projects: Rapid Sampling Tools - Vulnerability Assessment...
Applications include counter-terrorism, emergency response teams, drug and environmental raids, and waste management. For more information visit Rapid Sampling from Sealed...
eShare: a capacitor-driven energy storage and sharing network for long-term operation
The ability to move energy around makes it feasible to build distributed energy storage systems that can robustly extend the lifetime of networked sensor systems. eShare supports the concept of energy sharing among multiple embedded sensor ... Keywords: capacitor, embedded system, energy, green, networks
Ting Zhu; Yu Gu; Tian He; Zhi-Li Zhang
Electric Bike Sharing--System Requirements and Operational Concepts
Bike sharing is an exciting new model of public-private transportation provision that has quickly emerged in the past five years. Technological advances have overcome hurdles of early systems and cities throughout the globe are adopting this model of transportation service. Electric bikes have simultaneously gained popularity in many regions of the world and some have suggested that shared electric bikes could provide an even higher level of service compared to existing systems. There are several challenges that are unique to shared electric bikes: electric-assisted range, recharging protocol, and bike and battery checkout procedures. This paper outlines system requirements to successfully develop and deploy an electric bike sharing system, focusing on system architecture, operational concepts, and battery management. Although there is little empirical evidence, electric bike sharing could be feasible, depending on demand and battery management, and can potentially improve the utility of existing bike sharing systems. Under most documented bike sharing use scenarios, electric bike battery capacity is insufficient for a full day of operation, depending on recharging protocol. Off-board battery management is a promising solution to address this problem. Off-board battery management can also support solar recharging. Future pilot tests will be important and allow empirical evaluation of electric bikesharing system performance. (auth)
Cherry, Christopher; Worley, Stacy; Jordan, David
Impacts of Climate Change on the Growing Season in the United States
Understanding the effects of climate change on the vegetative growing season is key to quantifying future hydrologic water budget conditions. The U.S. Geological Survey modeled changes in future growing season length at 14 basins across 11 states. ...
Daniel E. Christiansen; Steven L. Markstrom; Lauren E. Hay
Human Contribution to the Lengthening of the Growing Season during 1950�99
Increasing surface temperatures are expected to result in longer growing seasons. An optimal detection analysis is carried out to assess the significance of increases in the growing season length during 1950�99, and to measure the anthropogenic ...
Nikolaos Christidis; Peter A. Stott; Simon Brown; David J. Karoly; John Caesar
Neustar White Paper: When Smart Grids Grow Smart Enough to Solve...
to Solve Crimes Neustar White Paper: When Smart Grids Grow Smart Enough to Solve Crimes Smart Grid data access Neustar White Paper: When Smart Grids Grow Smart Enough to Solve...
Entanglement Sharing Protocol via Quantum Error Correcting Codes
We introduce a new multiparty cryptographic protocol, which we call `entanglement sharing schemes', wherein a dealer retains half of a maximally-entangled bipartite state and encodes the other half into a multipartite state that is distributed among multiple players. In a close analogue to quantum secret sharing, some subsets of players can recover maximal entanglement with the dealer whereas other subsets can recover no entanglement (though they may retain classical correlations with the dealer). We find a lower bound on the share size for such schemes and construct two non-trivial examples based on Shor's $[[9,1,3
Ran Hee Choi; Ben Fortescue; Gilad Gour; Barry C. Sanders
Commercial & Resource Sharing Teleprocessing Services | Department of
Commercial & Resource Sharing Teleprocessing Services Commercial & Resource Sharing Teleprocessing Services Commercial & Resource Sharing Teleprocessing Services The Following Commercial Timeshare Agreement Vendors are available to the Department of Energy: Contact mailto: firstname.lastname@example.com or mailto: email@example.com in the Business Management Division (IM-12) for more information and access. CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY, INC (CQI) These are annual subscriptions residing on CQI: Legislative Tracking, Reporting, and Notifications (to include: Custom Alerts and Custom Lists; Detailed Legislative Histories; Bill Status Reports; Congressional Record and Committee Reports (with searchable charts for budget and appropriation bills); Floor Amendments; Bill Text and Bill Compate; Congressional
Cedarburg Light & Water Utility - Commercial Shared Savings Loan Program
Cedarburg Light & Water Utility - Commercial Shared Savings Loan Cedarburg Light & Water Utility - Commercial Shared Savings Loan Program (Wisconsin) Cedarburg Light & Water Utility - Commercial Shared Savings Loan Program (Wisconsin) < Back Eligibility Agricultural Commercial Industrial Savings Category Other Heating & Cooling Commercial Heating & Cooling Heating Cooling Appliances & Electronics Manufacturing Home Weatherization Sealing Your Home Design & Remodeling Windows, Doors, & Skylights Commercial Weatherization Ventilation Construction Heat Pumps Commercial Lighting Lighting Water Heating Maximum Rebate $50,000 Program Info State Wisconsin Program Type Utility Loan Program Rebate Amount $2,500 - $50,000 Provider Cedarburg Light and Water Utility Cedarburg Light and Water Utility (CLWU) provides loans for commercial,
Fast-growing willow shrub named `Fish Creek`
A distinct male cultivar of Salix purpurea named `Fish Creek`, characterized by rapid stem growth producing greater than 30% more woody biomass than either of its parents (`94001` and `94006`) and 20% more biomass than a current production cultivar (`SV1`). `Fish Creek` can be planted from dormant stem cuttings, produces multiple stems after coppice, and the stem biomass can be harvested when the plant is dormant. In the spring following harvest, the plant will re-sprout very vigorously, producing new stems that can be harvested after two to four years of growth. This harvest cycle can be repeated several times. The stem biomass can be chipped and burned as a source of renewable energy, generating heat and/or electricity. `Fish Creek` displays a low incidence of rust disease or damage by beetles or sawflies.
Combined cycle meets Thailand's growing power demands
This article describes how an ample supply of natural gas led the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) to choose gas-fired combustion turbines. Thailand's rapid industrialization, which began in the late 1980's, placed a great strain on the country's electricity supply system. The demand for electricity grew at an astonishing 14% annually. To deal with diminishing reserve capacity margins, the EGAT announced, in 1988, a power development program emphasizing gas-fired combined cycle power plants. Plans included six 320-MW combined cycle blocks at three sites, and an additional 600-MW gas- and oil-fired thermal plant at Bang Pakong. As electricity demand continued to increase, EGAT expanded its plans to include two additional 320-MW combined cycle blocks, a 600-MW combined cycle block, and a 650-MW gas- and oil-fired thermal plant. All are currently in various stages of design and construction.
Sheets, B.A. (Black and Veatch, Kansas City, MO (United States)); Takabut, K. (Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, Nonthaburi (Thailand))
Surveillance and human-computer interaction applications of self-growing models
The aim of the work is to build self-growing based architectures to support visual surveillance and human-computer interaction systems. The objectives include: identifying and tracking persons or objects in the scene or the interpretation of user gestures ... Keywords: Growing Neural Gas, Human-computer interaction, Self-growing models, Surveillance systems, Topology preservation
Jos� Garc�a-Rodr�guez; Juan Manuel Garc�a-Chamizo
Soviet Union oil sector outlook grows bleaker still
This paper reports on the outlook for the U.S.S.R's oil sector which grows increasingly bleak and with it prospects for the Soviet economy. Plunging Soviet oil production and exports have analysts revising near term oil price outlooks, referring to the Soviet oil sector's self-destructing and Soviet oil production in a freefall. County NatWest, Washington, citing likely drops in Soviet oil production and exports (OGJ, Aug. 5, p. 16), has jumped its projected second half spot price for West Texas intermediate crude by about $2 to $22-23/bbl. Smith Barney, New York, forecasts WTI postings at $24-25/bbl this winter, largely because of seasonally strong world oil demand and the continued collapse in Soviet oil production. It estimates the call on oil from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries at more than 25 million b/d in first quarter 1992. That would be the highest level of demand for OPEC oil since 1980, Smith Barney noted.
OPEC influence grows with world output in next decade
World crude oil and condensate output will rise to 75 million bopd in 2004, concludes a recently released Petroconsultant study, entitled Worldwide Crude Oil 10-Year Forecast. It also projects that OPEC`s role in supplying demand will simultaneously grow to nearly 50% of total output. In reaching these conclusions, this report analyzed and predicted each of 94 significant producing nations for the 1995--2004 period. Output has been projected separately for the onshore and offshore sectors. Each nation, including the new republics of the former Soviet Union and individual emirates of the United Arab Emirates, is discussed within its regional and global framework; and key aspects of each of the seven major regions have been delineated. The study integrated full-cycle resource analysis, economics, infrastructure, politics, history, consumption levels and patterns, energy balances, and other pertinent data to cover both supply and demand pictures. The entire discovery and production history was used to frame exploration and development maturity. Future discovery potential has been estimated from largely geologic parameters.
Foreman, N.E. [Petroconsultants, Inc., Houston, TX (United States)
Interest grows in African oil and gas opportunities
As African countries continue a slow drift towards democratic government and market economics, the continent is increasingly attractive to international oil and gas companies. Though Africa remains politically diverse, and its volatile politics remains a major barrier to petroleum companies, a number of recent developments reflect its growing significance for the industry. Among recent projects and events reflecting changes in Africa: oil and gas exporter Algeria has invited foreign oil companies to help develop major gas discoveries, with a view to boosting exports to Europe; oil and gas producer Egypt invited foreign companies to explore in the Nile Delta region, and the result appears to be a flowering world scale gas play; west African offshore exploration has entered deep water and new areas, and a number of major projects are expected in years to come; Nigeria`s reputation as a difficult place to operate has been justified by recent political and civil events, but a long-planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant is being built there; South Africa, which has returned to the international scene after years of trade isolation because of apartheid, is emerging as a potential driver for energy industry schemes throughout the continent. Activities are discussed.
Knott, D.
Biotechnology and genetic optimization of fast-growing hardwoods
A biotechnology research program was initiated to develop new clones of fast-growing Populus clones resistant to the herbicide glyphosate and resistant to the leaf-spot and canker disease caused by the fungus Septoria musiva. Glyphosate-resistant callus was selected from stem segments cultured in vitro on media supplemented with the herbicide. Plants were regenerated from the glyphosate-resistant callus tissue. A portion of plants reverted to a glyphosate susceptible phenotype during organogenesis. A biologically active filtrate was prepared from S. musiva and influenced fresh weight of Populus callus tissue. Disease-resistant plants were produced through somaclonal variation when shoots developed on stem internodes cultured in vitro. Plantlets were screened for disease symptoms after spraying with a suspension of fungal spores. A frequency of 0.83 percent variant production was observed. Genetically engineered plants were produced after treatment of plant tissue with Agrobacterium tumefasciens strains carrying plasmid genes for antibiotic resistance. Transformers were selected on media enriched with the antibiotic, kanamycin. Presence of foreign DNA was confirmed by Southern blot analysis. Protoplasts of popular were produced but did not regenerate into plant organs. 145 refs., 12 figs., 36 tabs.
Garton, S.; Syrkin-Wurtele, E.; Griffiths, H.; Schell, J.; Van Camp, L.; Bulka, K. (NPI, Salt Lake City, UT (United States))
Property:Geothermal/AwardeeCostShare | Open Energy Information
Property Property Edit with form History Facebook icon Twitter icon » Property:Geothermal/AwardeeCostShare Jump to: navigation, search Property Name Geothermal/AwardeeCostShare Property Type Number Description Awardee Cost Share Pages using the property "Geothermal/AwardeeCostShare" Showing 25 pages using this property. (previous 25) (next 25) A A 3D-3C Reflection Seismic Survey and Data Integration to Identify the Seismic Response of Fractures and Permeable Zones Over a Known Geothermal Resource at Soda Lake, Churchill Co., NV Geothermal Project + 9,571,873 + A Demonstration System for Capturing Geothermal Energy from Mine Waters beneath Butte, MT Geothermal Project + 1,082,753 + A Geothermal District-Heating System and Alternative Energy Research Park on the NM Tech Campus Geothermal Project + 4,135,391 +
Scalable directoryless shared memory coherence using execution migration
We introduce the concept of deadlock-free migration-based coherent shared memory to the NUCA family of architectures. Migration-based architectures move threads among cores to guarantee sequential semantics in large ...
Lis, Mieszko
Risk sharing in contracts : the use of fuel surcharge programs
Various industries employ risk sharing contracts to manage the risks and volatility associated with commodity prices, inaccurate customer demand forecasts, or unpredictable events. For example commodity futures that enable ...
Kanteti, Madhavi
Energy Sharing in the 2-Electron Attosecond Streak Camera
Using the recently developed concept of the 2-electron streak camera (see NJP 12, 103024 (2010)), we have studied the energy-sharing between the two ionizing electrons in single-photon double ionization of He(1s2s). We find that the most symmetric and asymmetric energy sharings correspond to different ionization dynamics with the ion's Coulomb potential significantly influencing the latter. This different dynamics for the two extreme energy sharings gives rise to different patterns in asymptotic observables and different time-delays between the emission of the two electrons. We show that the 2-electron streak camera resolves the time-delays between the emission of the two electrons for different energy sharings.
Price, H; Emmanouilidou, A
Dynamic service placement in shared service hosting infrastructures
Large-scale shared service hosting environments, such as content delivery networks and cloud computing, have gained much popularity in recent years. A key challenge faced by service owners in these environments is to determine the locations where service ...
Qi Zhang; Jin Xiao; Eren G�rses; Martin Karsten; Raouf Boutaba
Linked Stack Buffer Management for Shared-Stacks
Severe memory constraint of wireless sensor networks (WSN) causes lots of problems such as irrecoverable stack overflow and out-of-memory failure. These problems motivated to develop efficient memory management schemes for WSNs. A shared-stack is the ...
Boncheol Gu; Junyoung Heo; Yookun Cho; Younghwan Kim
Judicious Thread Migration When Accessing Distributed Shared Caches
Chip-multiprocessors (CMPs) have become the mainstream chip design in recent years; for scalability reasons, designs with high core counts tend towards tiled CMPs with physically distributed shared caches. This naturally ...
Shim, Keun Sup
Cost-sharing mechanisms for scheduling under general demand ...
In a general demand cost-sharing game, there is a set of customers who is ... Based on these bids and the cost of providing service, the service provider.
Regional Shares of World Carbon Emissions, 1997 and 2020
Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update (EIA)
Shares of World Carbon Emissions, 1997 and 2020 Shares of World Carbon Emissions, 1997 and 2020 Source: EIA, International Energy Outlook 2000 Previous slide Back to first slide View graphic version Notes: By country, the world's dominant coal consumers-the United States and China-were also the top two contributors to world carbon emissions in 1997, at 24 percent and 13 percent of the world total, respectively. By 2020, however, the U.S. share of world carbon emissions is projected to decline to 20 percent, with China's share increasing to 21 percent. The substantial increase in carbon emissions in China over the period is attributable to expectations of strong economic growth and the country's continuing heavy reliance on fossil fuels, especially coal which remains the country's primary source of energy.
Public invited to share living with wildfire stories with BSM
June » June » Public invited to share living with wildfire stories with BSM Public invited to share living with wildfire stories with BSM The exhibit provides an opportunity for people to share their stories about the Las Conchas fire and other wildfires. June 11, 2012 Personal experiences and stories around wildfire are part of a new interactive exhibit at the Bradbury. Personal experiences and stories around wildfire are part of a new interactive exhibit at the Bradbury. Contact Steve Sandoval Communications Office (505) 665-9206 Email Interactive exhibit opens June 13 LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO, June 11, 2012-Beginning June 13, the public is invited to Los Alamos National Laboratory's Bradbury Science Museum to take part in "Living With Wildfire: Share Your Stories." An opening
Minnesota Wind Share Wind Farm | Open Energy Information
Share Wind Farm Share Wind Farm Jump to: navigation, search Name Minnesota Wind Share Wind Farm Facility Minnesota Wind Share Sector Wind energy Facility Type Commercial Scale Wind Facility Status In Service Owner Various Developer Project Resources Corp. Energy Purchaser Xcel Energy Location Lake Wilson MN Coordinates 43.996°, -95.9532° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":43.996,"lon":-95.9532,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
A Shared Path Toward a Sustainable Energy Future
Shared Path Toward a Sustainable Energy Future Shared Path Toward a Sustainable Energy Future The DOE Office of Indian Energy's approach is, first and foremost, a collaborative one. Led by Director Tracey A. LeBeau (Cheyenne River Sioux), the office works with tribal nations, federal agencies, state governments, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector to develop the considerable energy resources that exist on Indian lands. To guide the strategic planning and implementation of the department's tribal
Choice of governance mechanisms to promote information sharing via boundary objects in the disaster recovery process
Given the difficulties and criticality of information sharing in a multi-agency setting, this paper looks at the IT governance mechanisms used to promote information sharing via shared boundary objects in the disaster response and recovery process. A ... Keywords: Disaster response and recovery, IT governance, Information sharing, Multi-agency governance, Shared boundary objects
Barry A. Cumbie; Chetan S. Sankar
Participation by Columbia Researchers in Shared Central High Performance Computing (HPC) Resources
) to create a shared central high performance computing (HPC) cluster, ColumbiaParticipation by Columbia Researchers in Shared Central High Performance Computing (HPC) Resources Shared Research Computing Policy Advisory Committee (SRCPAC) Chair, Professor
Champagne, Frances A.
Market Share Elasticities for Fuel and Technology Choice in Home Heating and Cooling
Oil share Elec Price Gas Price Electric Share Gas Share OilBaughman and Joskow [3] Oil Price Gas Price Lin, Hirst,and Cohn [10] Gas Price Oil Price Hartman and Hollyer [8] (
Wood, D.J.
Sharing tacit design knowledge in a distributed design environment
Throughout the life-cycle of a design project, architects rely heavily on their tacit design knowledge to support design decisions. Tacit knowledge is highly personal and implicit. As such, it encompasses expertise, intuitive understanding, and professional insight formed as a result of experience. Due to its implicit nature, tacit design knowledge is typically shared only among colleagues who work in the same office through face-toface interactions. With emerging Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) technologies, designers face new opportunities for capturing and reusing tacit design knowledge. However, there is no accepted CMC strategy for sharing tacit design knowledge in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. This research investigates the impact of tacit design knowledge on design performance in a distributed design environment supported by CMC software. The software was developed and tested in three design studios in which design students sought advice from experts in remote locations. It provides tools for showing images, such as drawings and renderings, and for engaging in a written dialogue (chat session). The written and graphic artifacts of the conversation are stored in a Web-accessible database. The chat sessions included the identification, clarification, and explanation of real problems. Dialogue records provide evidence of a significant influence upon the students��? approach to conceptual design. Content analysis of the comments from the experts provides qualitative evidence for the software��?s effectiveness. The participants shared past experience, professional recommendations, and intuitive expectations. In follow-up surveys, most participants reported that their experience with the software was very enjoyable and the software is well-designed to support sharing of design knowledge. This research also suggests that tacit design knowledge may be confidently captured and shared through careful strategic implementation of CMC technology in a distributed design environment. Demographic and attitudinal surveys of the participants suggest that enabling factors for sharing tacit design knowledge include knowledge sharing attitude, just-in-time expertise matching, and timing of the communication.
Woo, Jeong-Han
Scalable clustering of Internet paths by shared congestion
Abstract � Internet paths sharing the same bottleneck can be identified using several shared congestion detection techniques. However, all of these techniques have been designed to detect shared congestion between a pair of paths. To cluster N paths by shared congestion, a straightforward approach of using pairwise tests would require O(N 2) time complexity. In this paper, we present a scalable approach to cluster Internet paths based on DCW (Delay Correlation with Wavelet denoising) which does not require a common end point between paths. We present a function to map each path�s measurement data into a point in a multidimensional space such that points are close to each other if and only if the corresponding paths share congestion. Because points in the space are indexed using a tree-like structure, the computational complexity of clustering N paths can be reduced to O(N log N). The indexing overhead can be further improved by reducing dimensionality of the space through wavelet transform. Computation cost is kept low by reusing for dimensionality reduction the same wavelet coefficients obtained in DCW. Our approach is evaluated by simulations and found to be effective for a large N. The tradeoff between dimensionality and clustering accuracy is shown empirically. I.
Min Sik Kim; Taekhyun Kim; Yong-june Shin; Simon S. Lam; Edward J. Powers
Photo of the Week: How to Grow Superconducting Crystals | Department of
How to Grow Superconducting Crystals How to Grow Superconducting Crystals Photo of the Week: How to Grow Superconducting Crystals September 13, 2013 - 11:29am Addthis Many of the materials that scientists work with at Brookhaven National Laboratory are too small and too precise for traditional tools. In cases like these, the labs grow materials instead of building them. Brookhaven physicist Genda Gu pioneered techniques that grow some of the largest single-crystal high-temperature superconductors in the world. The glowing chamber in this photo grows superconducting crystals. To do so, the furnace focuses infrared light onto a rod, melting it around 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Under just the right conditions, the liquefied material recrystallizes as a single uniform structure, which is highly sensitive and takes about one month to form. | Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
NETL Shares Computing Speed, Efficiency to Tackle Energy Technology
Shares Computing Speed, Efficiency to Tackle Energy Technology Shares Computing Speed, Efficiency to Tackle Energy Technology Barriers NETL Shares Computing Speed, Efficiency to Tackle Energy Technology Barriers March 29, 2012 - 1:00pm Addthis Washington, DC - One of the world's fastest supercomputers will be installed at the Office of Fossil Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) this summer to help develop solutions to carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technology barriers. NETL's new supercomputer, to be installed at the Simulation-BasedEngineering User Center, is a powerful and energy-efficient modeling tool.Housed at NETL's Simulation-Based Engineering User Center, a facility primarily devoted to advancing CCUS science and technology -- the new supercomputer will be used to develop and deploy the advanced
WIPP Shares Expertise with Salt Club Members | Department of Energy
Shares Expertise with Salt Club Members Shares Expertise with Salt Club Members WIPP Shares Expertise with Salt Club Members November 26, 2013 - 12:00pm Addthis Carlsbad Field Officeâs Abe Van Luik, third from right, examines rock salt taken from the Morsleben mine in Germany. Carlsbad Field Office's Abe Van Luik, third from right, examines rock salt taken from the Morsleben mine in Germany. CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM's Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) participated in the second meeting of the Nuclear Energy Agency's (NEA) Salt Club and the 4th U.S.-German Workshop on Salt Repository Research, Design & Operation in Berlin. CBFO, which has responsibility for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and the National Transuranic (TRU) Program, was represented by International Programs and Policy Advisor Dr. Abe Van Luik.
Modeling Through Shared Resources, No High-Fashion Experience Required |
Modeling Through Shared Resources, No High-Fashion Experience Modeling Through Shared Resources, No High-Fashion Experience Required Modeling Through Shared Resources, No High-Fashion Experience Required May 30, 2013 - 10:07am Addthis NETL high-performance computer clusters at Oregon State University. NETL high-performance computer clusters at Oregon State University. Modeling - the computer kind, not the runway kind - can help researchers predict particle movement, enabling improvements in the design of components used in energy production. To give graduate students experience modeling these systems, the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has placed several high-performance computer clusters at Oregon State University. Oregon State professor Sourabh Apte and his graduate students use the computer clusters to work with NETL scientists on Department of
Carlsbad Field Office Technical Assistance Contractor Shares In Top Honor |
Technical Assistance Contractor Shares In Top Technical Assistance Contractor Shares In Top Honor Carlsbad Field Office Technical Assistance Contractor Shares In Top Honor July 1, 2012 - 12:00pm Addthis Members of the Carlsbad Technical Assistance Contractor discuss audit criteria for quality assurance implementation. Members of the Carlsbad Technical Assistance Contractor discuss audit criteria for quality assurance implementation. CARLSBAD, N.M. - The Carlsbad Field Office Technical Assistance Contractor's (CTAC) parent company, Portage, Inc., and its 400 employees nationwide recently achieved a significant milestone by exceeding one million hours worked over 560 days without a lost-time injury or illness. CTAC is a small group responsible for technical and quality assurance resources for the DOE Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO), which provides
Cost-Shared Development of Innovative Small Modular Reactor Designs |
Cost-Shared Development of Innovative Small Modular Reactor Designs Cost-Shared Development of Innovative Small Modular Reactor Designs Cost-Shared Development of Innovative Small Modular Reactor Designs The Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Licensing Technical Support (LTS) program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks to facilitate the development of innovative SMR designs that have the potential to address the nation's economic, environmental and energy security goals. Specifically, the Department is soliciting applications for SMR designs that offer unique and innovative solutions for achieving the objectives of enhanced safety, operations, and performance relative to currently certified designs. This FOA focuses on design development and
Delegations Develop Others Through Shared Work | Department of Energy
Delegations Develop Others Through Shared Work Delegations Develop Others Through Shared Work Delegations Develop Others Through Shared Work March 4, 2014 8:30AM to 4:00PM EST Registration link: CHRIS 002438/0001 $200.00 Course Type: Classroom Course Location: Forrestal RM-GH 043 Course Description: Effective delegation is one of the most powerful tools for leading and directing the work of others. This workshop shows participants how to design delegation plans for their teams. It covers some of the common myths and misconceptions about delegating work to others and shows how good delegation is customized to needs and abilities of individual employees. Audience: Course meets the 8 hours of the mandatory second year 40-hour training for new supervisors. Experienced supervisors may want to take the course as a refresher. Appropriate for those directly or indirectly
EM Renews Information-Sharing Agreement with United Kingdom's Nuclear
Renews Information-Sharing Agreement with United Kingdom's Renews Information-Sharing Agreement with United Kingdom's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority EM Renews Information-Sharing Agreement with United Kingdom's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority March 1, 2012 - 12:00pm Addthis DOE Senior Advisor for Environmental Management David Huizenga (left) and Mark Lesinski, U.K.'s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) Executive Director for Delivery, renewed the Statement of Intent between DOE and NDA in a signing ceremony this week. DOE Senior Advisor for Environmental Management David Huizenga (left) and Mark Lesinski, U.K.'s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) Executive Director for Delivery, renewed the Statement of Intent between DOE and NDA in a signing ceremony this week. Florida International University's DOE Fellows gather for a photo with DOE Senior Advisor for Environmental Management David Huizenga (eighth from left) and DOE Fellows director, Dr. Leo Lagos (tenth from left), at the 2012 Waste Management Symposia in Phoenix this week.
Sharing De-identified Data | Department of Energy
Information Center » Worker » Former Worker Program » Program Information Center » Worker » Former Worker Program » Program Implementation » Sharing De-identified Data Sharing De-identified Data Sharing De-identified Data: Use the collected information to implement new strategies for worker safety and health at DOE sites and to inform industry-specific researchers while still protecting sensitive participant information and confidentiality. The confidentiality and privacy rights of former workers are not only a legal requirement, they are crucial to establishing and maintaining credibility with the former worker community. All medical information that is collected as part of this program is treated as confidential and is used only as allowed by the Privacy Act of 1974. All FWP activities are conducted with the approval of the Institutional Review Boards, or Human
DOE Shares Funding Opportunities and Honors Small Business Award Recipients
Shares Funding Opportunities and Honors Small Business Award Shares Funding Opportunities and Honors Small Business Award Recipients DOE Shares Funding Opportunities and Honors Small Business Award Recipients July 22, 2011 - 4:19pm Addthis May 11, 2011 The U.S. Department of Energy, the largest civilian contracting agency within the Federal government, is holding its 12th Annual Small Business Conference & Expo at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri from May 10-12, 2011. Drawing more than 1,600 participants, the conference and Expo will present information to help small businesses across the country benefit from federal funding including grant opportunities, contracting openings, and subcontracting options. "Small businesses are the building blocks of the clean energy economy, helping to create jobs and drive the innovation that will help the U.S. to
Considering Solar For Your Home? One Milwaukee Homeowner Shares Her
Considering Solar For Your Home? One Milwaukee Homeowner Shares Her Considering Solar For Your Home? One Milwaukee Homeowner Shares Her Experience Considering Solar For Your Home? One Milwaukee Homeowner Shares Her Experience February 7, 2013 - 10:35am Addthis Milwaukee solar installers putting in a rooftop solar energy system on Dr. Paula Papanek's home. | Photo courtesy of Dr. Paula Papanek. Milwaukee solar installers putting in a rooftop solar energy system on Dr. Paula Papanek's home. | Photo courtesy of Dr. Paula Papanek. Residential solar installation in Milwaukee. | Photo courtesy of Dr. Paula Papanek. Residential solar installation in Milwaukee. | Photo courtesy of Dr. Paula Papanek. Milwaukee solar installers putting in a rooftop solar energy system on Dr. Paula Papanek's home. | Photo courtesy of Dr. Paula Papanek.
Former Assistant Secretary Shares Experiences Leading EM: 'Best Job I
Former Assistant Secretary Shares Experiences Leading EM: 'Best Former Assistant Secretary Shares Experiences Leading EM: 'Best Job I Ever Had' Former Assistant Secretary Shares Experiences Leading EM: 'Best Job I Ever Had' July 30, 2013 - 12:00pm Addthis Thomas P. Grumbly considers his role as EM Assistant Secretary the best job he ever had. He served in the position from 1993 to 1996. Thomas P. Grumbly considers his role as EM Assistant Secretary the best job he ever had. He served in the position from 1993 to 1996. WASHINGTON, D.C. - In an occasional EM Update series, we feature interviews with former EM Assistant Secretaries to reflect on their achievements and challenges in the world's largest nuclear cleanup and to discuss endeavors in life after EM. Thomas P. Grumbly has more than 30 years of experience serving as a federal
Rapid Damage Assessment Using High-resolution Remote Sensing Imagery: Tools and Techniques
Accurate damage assessment caused by major natural and anthropogenic disasters is becoming critical due to increases in human and economic loss. This increase in loss of life and severe damages can be attributed to growing population, as well as human migration to disaster prone regions of the world. Rapid damage assessment and dissemination of accurate information is critical for creating an effective emergency response. Remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) based techniques and tools are important in disaster damage assessment and reporting activities. In this review, we will look into the state of the art techniques in damage assessment using remote sensing and GIS.
Vatsavai, Raju [ORNL; Tuttle, Mark A [ORNL; Bhaduri, Budhendra L [ORNL; Bright, Eddie A [ORNL; Cheriyadat, Anil M [ORNL; Chandola, Varun [ORNL; Graesser, Jordan B [ORNL
Shared Signals: Using Existing Facility Meters for Energy Savings Verification
This paper reviews and summarizes techniques for using or sharing signals from existing facility and utility meters for the purpose of verifying energy savings from industrial, institutional and large commercial energy conservation projects. Techniques for sharing or using signals from existing electric, natural gas, fuel oil, steam, steam condensate, boiler feedwater, hot water and chilled water meters will be described. The techniques and experiences reported in this paper are based on the results of the actual in-field installation of energy monitoring equipment in several hundred sites at various locations throughout the United States.
McBride, J. R.; Bohmer, C. J.; Price, S. D.; Carlson, K.; Lopez, J.
Science.gov: Still Strong, Growing in 10th Anniversary Year
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5, 2012 Science.gov: Still Strong, Growing in 10th Anniversary Year Washington, DC - Science.gov, known for its groundbreaking search and retrieval of government science...
Material World: Forecasting Household Appliance Ownership in a Growing Global Economy
of Household Income and Appliance Ownership. ECEEE Summerof decreasing prices of appliances, if price data becomesForecasting Household Appliance Ownership in a Growing
Letschert, Virginie
Effect of energy supply on amino acid utilization by growing steers.
??Effects of energy supply on the efficiency of methionine and leucine utilization in growing steers were evaluated in 3 studies. We hypothesized that increased energy� (more)
Schroeder, Guillermo Fernando
Investigating the feasibility of growing algae for fuel in southern Nevada.
??Microalgae capable of growing in waste are adequate to be mass-cultivated for biodiesel, avoiding fertilizers and clean water, two obstacles to sustainability of the feedstock� (more)
Moazeni, Faegheh
Abstract Bioenergy is a critical part of renewable energy solution to today's energy crisis that threatens world economic growth. Corn ethanol has been growing rapidly
127 Abstract Bioenergy is a critical part of renewable energy solution to today's energy crisis, Institute of Process Engineering, Beijing 100190, China M. Cai College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310035, China T. Gu (*) Department of Chemical
Gu, Tingyue
Rapid Damage eXplorer (RDX): A Probabilistic Framework for Learning Changes From Bitemporal Images
Recent decade has witnessed major changes on the Earth, for example, deforestation, varying cropping and human settlement patterns, and crippling damages due to disasters. Accurate damage assessment caused by major natural and anthropogenic disasters is becoming critical due to increases in human and economic loss. This increase in loss of life and severe damages can be attributed to the growing population, as well as human migration to the disaster prone regions of the world. Rapid assessment of these changes and dissemination of accurate information is critical for creating an effective emergency response. Change detection using high-resolution satellite images is a primary tool in assessing damages, monitoring biomass and critical infrastructures, and identifying new settlements. In this demo, we present a novel supervised probabilistic framework for identifying changes using very high-resolution multispectral, and bitemporal remote sensing images. Our demo shows that the rapid damage explorer (RDX) system is resilient to registration errors and differing sensor characteristics.
Vatsavai, Raju [ORNL
Rock Rapids Municipal Utility | Open Energy Information
Rapids Municipal Utility Rapids Municipal Utility Jump to: navigation, search Name Rock Rapids Municipal Utility Place Iowa Utility Id 16206 Utility Location Yes Ownership M NERC Location MRO NERC MRO Yes Operates Generating Plant Yes Activity Generation Yes Activity Transmission Yes Activity Buying Transmission Yes Activity Distribution Yes References EIA Form EIA-861 Final Data File for 2010 - File1_a[1] LinkedIn Connections CrunchBase Profile No CrunchBase profile. Create one now! This article is a stub. You can help OpenEI by expanding it. Utility Rate Schedules Grid-background.png Commercial Power (Single-Phase) Commercial Commercial Power (Three-Phase) Commercial Residential Power Residential Average Rates Residential: $0.0807/kWh Commercial: $0.0633/kWh Industrial: $0.0899/kWh
RRTT - Rapid Response Team for Transmission
Rapid Response Team- Rapid Response Team- Transmission Exploring the Business Link Opportunity: Transmission & Clean Energy Development in the West TRIBAL LEADER FORUM SERIES February 7, 2012 Laura Smith Morton Department of Energy firstname.lastname@example.com Nine Agency MOU * Improves uniformity, consistency, and transparency - Establishes the roles and responsibilities of the nine signatory agencies regarding electric transmission infrastructure project applicants * Provides single point of contact for coordinating all federal authorizations required to locate electric transmission facilities on federal land * Establishes DOE (under authority pursuant to section 216(h) of the FPA) as lead agency for coordinating all federal authorizations and related environmental
Cost-share Fee Waiver request form Request for a cost share for a GSSP fee waiver on the following project. Documentation from granting
Cost-share Fee Waiver request form Request for a cost share for a GSSP fee waiver on the following project. Documentation from granting agency with information regarding tuition as unallowable must____________________________________________________________ Project Name __________________________________________________________________ Funding Agency
Taylor, Jerry
Rapid Data Assimilation in the Indoor Environment: Theory and...
Rapid Data Assimilation in the Indoor Environment: Theory and Examples from Real-Time Interpretation of Indoor Plumes of Airborne Chemical Title Rapid Data Assimilation in the...
Rapid Data Assimilation in the Indoor Environment: theory and...
Rapid Data Assimilation in the Indoor Environment: theory and examples from real-time interpretation of indoor plumes of airborne chemicals Title Rapid Data Assimilation in the...
Revealing the rapid isothermal growth of graphene on catalytic...
Materials Synthesis from Atoms to Systems Revealing the rapid isothermal growth of graphene on catalytic substrates July 01, 2013 Optical reflectivity tracks the rapid growth of...
Sharing Renewable Energy in Smart Microgrids , Zhichuan Huang
Sharing Renewable Energy in Smart Microgrids Ting Zhu , Zhichuan Huang , Ankur Sharma , Jikui Su § Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst ABSTRACT Renewable energy harvested from nature of renewable energy results in a mismatch between when these sources generate energy and when
Shenoy, Prashant
Reactor sharing experience at the MIT research reactor
This paper provides a number of examples of how educational institutions in the Boston area and elsewhere that do not possess nuclear reactors for training and research purposes have successfully enriched their programs through utilization of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Reactor (MITR) with assistance from the Reactor Sharing Program of the US Department of Energy (DOE).
Clark, L. Jr.; Fecych, W.; Young, H.H.
Safe optimisations for shared-memory concurrent programs
Current proposals for concurrent shared-memory languages, including C++ and C, provide sequential consistency only for programs without data races (the DRF guarantee). While the implications of such a contract for hardware optimisations are relatively ... Keywords: compiler optimizations, relaxed memory models, semantics
Jaroslav �ev?�k
CONFIRMATION OF COST SHARING OR MATCHING COMMITMENT Data Entry Date
MATCHING PROJECT DIRECTOR NAME COST SHARING DEPARTMENT AWARD PERIOD PROJECT TITLE PARTICIPATION OF SUNY = Project Director; C = Co-Project Director; Blank = Other Participant OTHER SUNY COSTS: Please indicate any other commitment of SUNY COSTS such as supplies, etc. OTHER COSTS DERIVED FROM NON-SUNY SOURCES: Project
Krovi, Venkat
Shared virtual environment (SVE): a framework for developing social games
The communication channels are changing. More and more, face to face communication is being replaced by computer mediated communication. Using mediated communication, the non-verbal communication cues that are available in face to face communication ... Keywords: games, pervasive games, shared virtual environment, social gaming
M. Carmen Juan; Mariano Alca�iz; Luciano Gamberini; Irene Zaragoza; F. Martino
BrownMap: enforcing power budget in shared data centers
In this work, we investigate mechanisms to ensure that a shared data center can operate within a power budget, while optimizing a global objective function(e.g., maximize the overall revenue earned by the provider). We present the BrownMap methodology ...
Akshat Verma; Pradipta De; Vijay Mann; Tapan Nayak; Amit Purohit; Gargi Dasgupta; Ravi Kothari
Augmented reality as means for creating shared understanding
The motivation for the work presented in this paper comes primarily from user experience of video-conferencing (v-c) settings in real-life collaboration. The design issues in this context focus on making such settings interactive enough to support natural ... Keywords: common ground, communication, communicative function, deictic reference, interface design, pointing, remote collaboration, shared understanding, videoconferencing
Mirja Lievonen; Duska Rosenberg; Ralf D�rner; Guido K�hn; Swen Walkowski
The Distributive Impact Assessment Model (DIAM): Technology share component
The models described in this report are used to allocate total energy consumption in an energy end-use service area by fuel type (including electricity) within the Distributive Impact Assessment Model (DIAM) framework. The primary objective of the DIAM is to provide energy consumption and expenditure forecasts for different population categories that are consistent with the US Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Information Administration`s (EIA`s) National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) forecast, which is produced annually in the Annual Energy Outlook and periodically in support of DOE policy formulation and analysis. The models are multinominal logit models that have been estimated using EIA`s 1990 Residential Energy Consumption Survey. Three models were estimated: space heating share, water heating share, and cooking share. These models are used to allocate total end-use service consumption over different technologies defined by fuel type characteristics. For each of the end-use service categories, consumption shares are estimated for a subset of six fuel types: natural gas, electricity, liquid petroleum gas, fuel oil/kerosene, wood, and other fuel.
Poyer, D.A.; Earl, E.; Bonner, B.
Collaborative Resource Constraint Scheduling with a Fractional Shared Resource
We consider a collaborative scheduling problem motivated by mining in remote off-grid areas. In our model, jobs are assigned to processors who each have their own machine for executing them. As each job needs a certain amount of a resource shared between ...
Gaurav Singh; Rene Weiskircher
InAir: sharing indoor air quality measurements and visualizations
This paper describes inAir, a tool for sharing measurements and visualizations of indoor air quality within one's social network. Poor indoor air quality is difficult for humans to detect through sight and smell alone and can contribute to the development ... Keywords: air quality, domestic technology, environment, health, iphone, persuasive technology, sensors, sustainability
Sunyoung Kim; Eric Paulos
Robust data sharing with key-value stores
A key-value store (KVS) offers functions for storing and retrieving values associated with unique keys. KVSs have become widely used as shared storage solutions for Internet-scale distributed applications. We present a fault-tolerant wait-free efficient ... Keywords: cloud storage, distributed storage
Cristina Basescu; Christian Cachin; Ittay Eyal; Robert Haas; Marko Vukolic
Cooperative Energy Harvesting Communications with Relaying and Energy Sharing
, and energy transfer to and from the relay provides energy cooperation. Design and analysis of energyCooperative Energy Harvesting Communications with Relaying and Energy Sharing Kaya Tutuncuoglu and Aylin Yener Department of Electrical Engineering The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Yener, Aylin
BlueTorrent: Cooperative content sharing for Bluetooth users
People wish to enjoy their everyday lives in various ways, among which entertainment plays a major role. In order to improve lifestyle with more ready access to entertainment content, we propose BlueTorrent, a P2P file sharing application based on ubiquitous ... Keywords: BlueTorrent, Bluetooth, P2P
Sewook Jung; Uichin Lee; Alexander Chang; Dae-Ki Cho; Mario Gerla
Organizing and sharing distributed personal web-service data
The migration from desktop applications to Web-based services is scattering personal data across a myriad of Web sites, such as Google, Flickr, YouTube, and Amazon S3. This dispersal poses new challenges for users, making it more difficult for them to: ... Keywords: data organization, data sharing, menagerie, web services
Roxana Geambasu; Cherie Cheung; Alexander Moshchuk; Steven D. Gribble; Henry M. Levy
Semantic collaborative tagging for web APIs sharing and reuse
Sharing and reuse of Web APIs for fast development of Web applications require advanced searching facilities to enable Web designers to find the Web APIs they need. In this paper we describe a Web API semantic collaborative tagging system to be implemented ...
Devis Bianchini; Valeria De Antonellis; Michele Melchiori
High-temperature seal development for the share receiver
The development and experimental demonstration of a high-temperature seal for the SHARE ceramic dome cavity receiver is reported. The mechanical contact seal which was tested on one-foot diameter silicon carbide ceramic dome hardware at pressure differentials to four atmospheres and dome temperatures to 2200/sup 0/F (1200/sup 0/C) showed negligible leakage at expected receiver operating conditions.
Jarvinen, P. O.
Optimality in goal-dependent analysis of sharing
We face the problems of correctness, optimality, and precision for the static analysis of logic programs, using the theory of abstract interpretation. We propose a framework with a denotational, goal-dependent semantics equipped with two unification ... Keywords: abstract interpretation, existentially quantified substitutions, logic programming, matching, sharing, unification
Gianluca Amato; Francesca Scozzari
User experience of mobile photo sharing in the cloud
Cloud computing is a new paradigm for how applications and services are designed, implemented and accessed through Internet. In the cloud, the user can access services and his personal data real-time from any device. There are already services available ... Keywords: cloud computing, internet services, photo sharing, user experience
Elina Vartiainen; Kaisa V��n�nen-Vainio-Mattila
Meta methods for model sharing in personal information systems
This article introduces a methodology for automatically organizing document collections into thematic categories for Personal Information Management (PIM) through collaborative sharing of machine learning models in an efficient and privacy-preserving ... Keywords: Classification, clustering, meta methods, peer-to-peer, personal information management, restrictive methods
Stefan Siersdorfer; Sergej Sizov
Design and Implementation of Energy Sharing System for MANETs
The ability of energy harvesting has enhanced sustainability of mobile networks. However, the energy harvesting capability and possibility of nodes are quite different. Namely, energy consumption and harvesting is still not balanced. In this paper, we ... Keywords: Energy harvesting, energy sharing, routing
Xiuzhi Zhao
Stability of a processor sharing queue with varying throughput
In this paper, we present a stability criterion for Processor Sharing queues, in which the throughput may depend on the number of customers in the system (in such cases such as interferences between the users). Such a system is represented by a point measure-valued stochastic recursion keeping track of the remaining processing times of the customers.
Moyal, Pascal
Inadvertent File Sharing Over Peer-to-Peer Networks
Chairman Waxman, Ranking Member Davis, and members of the committee, it is an honor to testify before you today about this important national security issue. Peer-to-peer (P2P) software clients have become part of the standard suite of PC applications for many users. With millions of users world-wide sharing music, video,
Engineering the social: The role of shared artifacts
This paper presents a multidisciplinary approach to engineering socio-technical design. The paper addresses technological design for social interactions that are non-instrumental, and thereby sometimes contradictory or surprising and difficult to model. ... Keywords: Agent-oriented software engineering, Cultural probes, Ethnography, Requirements engineering, Shared artifacts, Social technical environment
Jeni Paay; Leon Sterling; Frank Vetere; Steve Howard; Anne Boettcher
Heart Attack Survival Plan Information To Share With
Heart Attack Survival Plan Information To Share With Emergency Personnel/Hospital Staff Medicines in Time to Heart Attack Signs In partnership with: The National Council on the Aging U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Public Health Service National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung
Modeling shared cache and bus in multi-cores for timing analysis
Timing analysis of concurrent programs running on multi-core platforms is currently an important problem. The key to solving this problem is to accurately model the timing effects of shared resources in multi-cores, namely shared cache and bus. In this ... Keywords: WCET, multi-core, shared bus, shared cache
Sudipta Chattopadhyay; Abhik Roychoudhury; Tulika Mitra
Collocated photo sharing, story-telling, and the performance of self
This article reports empirical findings from four inter-related studies, with an emphasis on collocated sharing. Collocated sharing remains important, using both traditional and emerging image-related technologies. Co-present viewing is a dynamic, improvisational ... Keywords: Cameraphones, Digital photography, Online sharing, Performance, Personal photography, Photo sharing, Social media
Nancy A. Van House
A Secure Energy Routing Mechanism for Sharing Renewable Energy in Smart Microgrid
A Secure Energy Routing Mechanism for Sharing Renewable Energy in Smart Microgrid Ting Zhu Sheng and wind turbines on every house sharing renewable energy among houses. How to efficiently and optimally share energy is a challenging problem. In order to efficiently share renewable energy, routing protocols
Massachusetts at Amherst, University of
NRRI NowSpring/Summer 2008 GrowingStrongIndustries~DevelopingNewIdeas~NurturingNaturalResources
,500 mattresses a month to Duluth Goodwill Industries (and growing!) 360 pounds per cubic yard compaction rateNRRI NowSpring/Summer 2008 GrowingStrongIndustries~DevelopingNewIdeas~NurturingNaturalResources 2 The afterlife of mattresses Birds in the riparian zone Pellet industry heats up Watchdogs for change Biology
Netoff, Theoden
Harvest evaluation model and system of fast-growing and high-yield poplar plantation
The paper is based on the research of forestry experts' systems funded by ''National Tenth-Five-Year 863 Plan''. In the context of the collective forest rights system reforms, in order to enhance the technological support to the farmers in the fast-growing ... Keywords: Decision support system, Fast-growing poplar plantation, Forest management, Growth model, Harvest evaluation and prediction, Harvest model
Baoguo Wu; Yan Qi; Chi Ma; Hongquan Zhang
Rapid low fidelity turbomachinery disk optimization
Turbomachinery disks are heavy, highly stressed components used in gas turbines. Improved design of turbomachinery disks could yield a significant reduction in engine weight. This paper focuses on rapid low fidelity design and optimization of isotropic ... Keywords: Flywheel, Optimization, Plane stress, Turbomachinery disk
David P. Gutzwiller; Mark G. Turner
Rapid file system development using ptrace
Developing kernel-level file systems is a difficult task that requires a significant time investment. For experimental file systems, it is desirable to develop a prototype before investing the time required to develop a kernel-level file system. We have ... Keywords: monitors, rapid prototyping
Richard P. Spillane; Charles P. Wright; Gopalan Sivathanu; Erez Zadok
GOES Observation of a Rapidly Melting Snowband
GOES observation of rapid dissipation of a 5�10 cm (2�4 inches) depth snowband over the central and upper Mississippi River valley on 15 April 1980 is presented. Differences in the local weather between the stations with and without melting snow ...
Carlyle H. Wash; Delain A. Edman; John Zapotocny
Disaggregated memory for expansion and sharing in blade servers
Analysis of technology and application trends reveals a growing imbalance in the peak compute-to-memory-capacity ratio for future servers. At the same time, the fraction contributed by memory systems to total datacenter costs and power consumption during ... Keywords: disaggregated memory, memory blades, memory capacity expansion, power and cost efficiencies
Kevin Lim; Jichuan Chang; Trevor Mudge; Parthasarathy Ranganathan; Steven K. Reinhardt; Thomas F. Wenisch
Students, Faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities Share
Students, Faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities Students, Faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities Share Research with EM Laboratory in Successful Exchange Students, Faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities Share Research with EM Laboratory in Successful Exchange February 5, 2013 - 12:00pm Addthis South Carolina State University students William Dumpson, left, and Alejandra Chirino, center, talk with Savannah River National Laboratory Director Dr. Terry Michalske at a recent research exchange involving the laboratory and seven historically black colleges and universities. South Carolina State University students William Dumpson, left, and Alejandra Chirino, center, talk with Savannah River National Laboratory Director Dr. Terry Michalske at a recent research exchange involving the
Uranium Atoms Don't Share the Vibe
Uranium Atoms Don't Share the Vibe Uranium Atoms Don't Share the Vibe Suppose you throw a rock into a pond, but instead of circular waves spreading across the surface, only a single bit of the surface at the rock's entry point oscillates up and down continuously. In the 31 March Physical Review Letters, researchers using the XOR 3-ID-C beamline at the APS report a surprising effect in a crystalline solid: a few-atom-wide vibration that refuses to spread through the material. The team probed heated uranium with x rays and neutrons to study the crystal's vibrations. Although predicted twenty years ago, the effect has never been conclusively seen in a three-dimensional crystal. The result seems to demonstrate the surprising ability of a uniform material to concentrate energy spontaneously. - JR Minkel
Substation Equipment Maintenance Experience Sharing Database Version 1.0
EPRI has been engaged in research on maintenance, forensics, and decommissioning of substation equipment. There is a need to make this information available to EPRI members in an easily accessible format. The Substation Equipment Maintenance Experience Sharing Database provides an application to house all the information, learnings, and experiences gathered from the research studies in an easily accessible format.Benefits & ValueAccess to EPRI�s worldwide ...
Rapid Scan AERI Observations: Benefits and Analysis
Rapid Scan AERI Observations: Benefits and Analysis Rapid Scan AERI Observations: Benefits and Analysis W. F. Feltz, D. D. Turner, R. O. Knuteson, and R. G. Dedecker Space Science and Engineering Center Cooperative Institute of Mesoscale Meteorological Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin D. D. Turner Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, Washington Introduction The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program has funded the development of the atmospheric emitted radiance interferometer (AERI). This has led to a hardened, autonomous system that measures downwelling infrared (IR) radiance at high-spectral resolution. Seven AERI systems have been deployed around the world as part of the ARM Program. The initial goal of these instruments was to characterize the clear-sky IR emission from the atmosphere,
Why are gasoline prices falling so rapidly?
Why are gasoline prices falling so rapidly? Why are gasoline prices falling so rapidly? As of October 29, 2001, the national average retail price of regular gasoline was $1.235 per gallon, its lowest level since November 8, 1999 (Figure 1). The average price has fallen 29 cents in 6 weeks since September 17, with further declines perhaps to come. The sharpest decline has been in the Midwest (Petroleum Administration for Defense District 2), where the average has dropped 57 cents in 8 weeks since Labor Day (September 3). Additionally, this decline comes on the heels of a 33-cent drop in the national average in 10 weeks from Memorial Day through August 6, interrupted only by a brief 17-cent rise in August. In total, the national average retail gasoline price has fallen nearly 48 cents from its peak on May 14. This is already the widest one-year range in retail prices
Cedar Rapids Wind Project | Open Energy Information
Wind Project Wind Project Jump to: navigation, search Name Cedar Rapids Wind Project Facility Cedar Rapids Sector Wind energy Facility Type Community Wind Location NE Coordinates 41.562199°, -98.148048° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":41.562199,"lon":-98.148048,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
Rapid scanning system for fuel drawers
A nondestructive method for uniqely distinguishing among and quantifying the mass of individual fuel plates in situ in fuel drawers utilized in nuclear reactors is described. The method is both rapid and passive, eliminating the personnel hazard of the commonly used irradiation techniques which require that the analysis be performed in proximity to an intense neutron source such as a reactor. In the present technique, only normally decaying nuclei are observed. This allows the analysis to be performed anywhere. This feature, combined with rapid scanning of a given fuel drawer (in approximately 30 s), and the computer data analysis allows the processing of large numbers of fuel drawers efficiently in the event of a loss alert.
Caldwell, John T. (Los Alamos, NM); Fehlau, Paul E. (Los Alamos, NM); France, Stephen W. (Los Alamos, NM)
Live pathogens: rapid detection technique developed
January » January » Live Pathogens: Rapid Detection Technique Developed Live pathogens: rapid detection technique developed The technique relies on bacteria being critically dependent upon the key nutrient iron. January 24, 2013 Colorized scanning electron micrograph of E. coli. Colorized scanning electron micrograph of E. coli. Photo credit: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention LANL's new method eliminates the need for laboratory culture and greatly speeds the process. Los Alamos researchers have developed a better technique for quick detection of live pathogens in the field. Identification of viable bacteria in a complex environment is scientifically challenging. Current detection and diagnostic techniques are inadequate in major public health emergencies, such as outbreaks of food-borne illness. Detection of live
Vehicle Technologies Office: Fact #802: November 4, 2013 Market Share by
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Green Growth in Motion: Sharing Korea's Experience | Open Energy
Green Growth in Motion: Sharing Korea's Experience Green Growth in Motion: Sharing Korea's Experience Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary Name: Green Growth in Motion: Sharing Korea's Experience Agency/Company /Organization: Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) Sector: Climate Focus Area: Renewable Energy, Economic Development, People and Policy Topics: Finance, Implementation, Low emission development planning, -LEDS, Market analysis, Pathways analysis, Policies/deployment programs, Resource assessment Resource Type: Case studies/examples Website: www.gggi.org/sites/www.gggi.org/files/research/GreenGrowthInMotion.pdf Country: South Korea Cost: Free Eastern Asia Coordinates: 35.907757°, 127.766922° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":35.907757,"lon":127.766922,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
The Interannual Variability of the Onset of the Maize Growing Season over South Africa and Zimbabwe
Subsistence farmers within southern Africa have identified the onset of the maize growing season as an important seasonal characteristic, advance knowledge of which would aid preparations for the planting of rain-fed maize. Onset over South ...
M. A. Tadross; B. C. Hewitson; M. T. Usman
Building community assets through individual development accounts : growing a strategic network in Lawrence, Massachusetts
This thesis aims to inform the decision-making process for growing an asset-building program through strategic partnerships with other community-based organizations (CBOs). The impetus for this paper came from Lawrence ...
Wu, Cindy C. (Cindy Cin-Wei)
Many small consumers, one growing problem: Achieving energy savings for electronic equipment operating in low power modes
An increasing amount of electricity is used by equipment that is neither fully ''on'' nor fully ''off.'' We call these equipment states low power modes, or ''lopomos.'' ''Standby'' and ''sleep'' are the most familiar lopomos, but some new products already have many modes. Lopomos are becoming common in household appliances, safety equipment, and miscellaneous products. Ross and Meier (2000) reports that several international studies have found standby power to be as much as 10 percent of residential energy consumption. Lopomo energy consumption is likely to continue growing rapidly as products with lopomos that use significant amounts of energy penetrate the market. Other sectors such as commercial buildings and industry also have lopomo energy use, perhaps totaling more in aggregate than that of households, but no comprehensive measurements have been made. In this paper, we propose a research agenda for study of lopomo energy consumption. This agenda has been developed with input from over 200 interested parties. Overall, there is consensus that lopomo energy consumption is an important area for research. Many see this as a critical time for addressing lopomo issues. As equipment designs move from the binary ''on/off'' paradigm to one that encompasses multiple power modes, there is a unique opportunity to address the issue of low power mode energy consumption while technology development paths are still flexible.
Payne, Christopher T.; Meier, Alan K.
Growing machines
construction is developed in three dimensions. It is similarly shown that right-angled tetrahedrons, when folded from an edge-connected string, can generate any three dimensional structure where the primitive pixel (or ...
Griffith, Saul Thomas, 1974-
Thermally Processed High-Mobility MOS Thin-Film Transistors on Transferable Single-Crystal Elastically Strain-Sharing Si/SiGe/Si Nanomembranes
Demonstration of high-performance MOS thin-film transistors (TFTs) on elastically strain-sharing single-crystal Si/SiGe/Si nanomembranes (SiNMs) that are transferred to foreign substrates is reported. The transferable SiNMs are realized by first growing pseudomorphic SiGe and Si layers on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates, and then, selectively removing the buried oxide (BOX) layer from the SOI. Before the release, only the SiGe layer is compressively strained. Upon release, part of the compressive strain in the SiGe layer is transferred to the thin Si layers, and the Si layers, thus, become tensile strained. Both the initial compressive strain state in the SiGe layer and the final strain sharing state between the SiGe and the Si layers are verified with X-ray diffraction measurements. The TFTs are fabricated employing the conventional high-temperature MOS process on the strain-shared SiNMs that are transferred to an oxidized Si substrate. The transferred strained-sharing SiNMs show outstanding thermal stability and can withstand the high-temperature TFT process on the new host substrate. The strained-channel TFTs fabricated on the new host substrate show high current drive capability and an average electron effective mobility of 270 cm{sup 2}/V ldr s. The results suggest that transferable and thermally stable single-crystal elastically strain- sharing SiNMs can serve as excellent active material for high-speed device application with a simple and scalable transfer method. The demonstration of MOS TFTs on the transferable nanomembranes may create the opportunity for future high-speed Si CMOS heterogeneous integration on any substrate.
Yuan, H.-C.; Kelly, M. M.; Savage, D. E.; Lagally, M. G.; Celler, G. K.; Zhenqiang, M.
Disaster impact modeling and analysis uses huge volumes of image data that are produced immediately following a natural or an anthropogenic disaster event. Rapid damage assessment is the key to time critical decision support in disaster management to better utilize available response resources and accelerate recovery and relief efforts. But exploiting huge volumes of high resolution image data for identifying damaged areas with robust consistency in near real time is a challenging task. In this paper, we present an automated image analysis technique to identify areas of structural damage from high resolution optical satellite data using features based on image content.
Vijayaraj, Veeraraghavan [ORNL; Bright, Eddie A [ORNL; Bhaduri, Budhendra L [ORNL
Energy-beam-driven rapid fabrication system
An energy beam driven rapid fabrication system, in which an energy beam strikes a growth surface to form a molten puddle thereon. Feed powder is then injected into the molten puddle from a converging flow of feed powder. A portion of the feed powder becomes incorporated into the molten puddle, forcing some of the puddle contents to freeze on the growth surface, thereby adding an additional layer of material. By scanning the energy beam and the converging flow of feed powder across the growth surface, complex three-dimensional shapes can be formed, ready or nearly ready for use. Nearly any class of material can be fabricated using this system.
Keicher, David M. (Albuquerque, NM); Atwood, Clinton L. (Albuquerque, NM); Greene, Donald L. (Corrales, NM); Griffith, Michelle L. (Albuquerque, NM); Harwell, Lane D. (Albuquerque, NM); Jeantette, Francisco P. (Albuquerque, NM); Romero, Joseph A. (Albuquerque, NM); Schanwald, Lee P. (Albuquerque, NM); Schmale, David T. (Albuquerque, NM)
Rapid River Hatchery - Spring Chinook, Final Report
This report presents the findings of the independent audit of the Rapid River Hatchery (Spring Chinook). The hatchery is located in the lower Snake River basin near Riggins Idaho. The hatchery is used for adult collection, egg incubation, and rearing of spring chinook. The audit was conducted in April 1996 as part of a two-year effort that will include 67 hatcheries and satellite facilities located on the Columbia and Snake River system in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The hatchery operating agencies include the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Watson, M.
V-112: Microsoft SharePoint Input Validation Flaws Permit Cross-Site
2: Microsoft SharePoint Input Validation Flaws Permit 2: Microsoft SharePoint Input Validation Flaws Permit Cross-Site Scripting and Denial of Service Attacks V-112: Microsoft SharePoint Input Validation Flaws Permit Cross-Site Scripting and Denial of Service Attacks March 15, 2013 - 6:00am Addthis PROBLEM: Several vulnerabilities were reported in Microsoft SharePoint PLATFORM: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 SP1 ABSTRACT: This security update resolves four reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation. REFERENCE LINKS: Security Tracker Alert ID 1028278 MS Security Bulletin MS13-024 CVE-2013-0080 CVE-2013-0083 CVE-2013-0084 CVE-2013-0085 IMPACT ASSESSMENT: High DISCUSSION: The security update addresses the vulnerabilities correcting the way that Microsoft SharePoint Server validates URLs and user input.
Architectures for a space-based information network with shared on-orbit processing
This dissertation provides a top level assessment of technology design choices for the architecture of a space-based information network with shared on-orbit processing. Networking is an efficient method of sharing ...
Chan, Serena, 1977-
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China WindPower Jilin Power Share JV | Open Energy Information
Jilin Power Share JV Jump to: navigation, search Name China WindPower & Jilin Power Share JV Place Jilin Province, China Sector Wind energy Product China-based developer and...
The interactive shared educational environment: user interface, system architecture and field study
The user interface and system architecture of a novel Interactive Shared Educational Environment (ISEE) are presented. Based on a lightweight infrastructure, ISEE enables relatively low bandwidth network users to share videos as well as text messages. ...
Xiangming Mu; Gary Marchionini; Amy Pattee
San Francisco City CarShare: Travel-Demand Trends and Second-Year Impacts
influenced private-car usage, belonging to City CarSharesurvey about their car-share usage. Members completed theUsage Exhibit B.1. City CarShare In-Vehicle Survey Instrument CITY CARSHARE SURVEY -- Car
Cervero, Robert; Tsai, Yu-Hsin
Bike Sharing in Texas: San Antonio Rolls Out Program Aimed at...
Bike Sharing in Texas: San Antonio Rolls Out Program Aimed at Energy Efficiency and Public Health Bike Sharing in Texas: San Antonio Rolls Out Program Aimed at Energy Efficiency...
Vehicle Technologies Office: Fact #644: October 11, 2010 Share of Diesel
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A privilege management and enforcement system for distributed resource sharing
The Internet has been identified as one of the most dangerous aspects for an organization in today's information based world. Unauthorized access, misuse, and manipulation of data can create havoc. We have chosen a distributed environment with thousands ... Keywords: DCE based authentication, Distributed Informatics Computing and Collaborative Environments project, Internet, World Wide Web based interfaces, X Windows, access control, authorization, controlled access, data manipulation, delegated resource management, distributed environment, distributed resource sharing, end user access, enforcement system, information based world, operating system, privilege management, unauthorized access
K. J. Maly; A. Gupta; B. Kvande; I. B. Levinstein; R. Mukkamala; S. Nanjangud; M. Olson; R. Whitney; R. Chambers
Autonomous, teleoperated, and shared control of robot systems
This paper illustrates how different modes of operation such as bilateral teleoperation, autonomous control, and shared control can be described and implemented using combinations of modules in the SMART robot control architecture. Telerobotics modes are characterized by different ``grids`` of SMART icons, where each icon represents a portion of run-time code that implements a passive control law. By placing strict requirements on the module`s input-output behavior and using scattering theory to develop a passive sampling technique, a flexible, expandable telerobot architecture is achieved. An automatic code generation tool for generating SMART systems is also described.
Anderson, R.J.
Jayasumana �Performance tradeoffs of shared limited range wavelength conversion schemes
Abstract � Performance of all-optical switches that employee different types of limited-range wavelength converters (LRWC) are investigated. Previous work has shown that there is a remarkable improvement in blocking probability while using LRWC over full range conversion, but has not considered the coincident effect of conversion resources sharing. We consider the case where an incoming wavelength can be converted to a range of outgoing wavelengths, where d is the range of conversion. The simulation results demonstrate that the performance improvement obtained by full range wavelength conversion can almost be achieved by using a fractional ranged ranged LRWC. I.
Fahad A. Al-zahrani; Abdulgader A. Habiballa; Ayman G. Fayoumi; Anura P. Jayasumana
Spare capacity reprovisioning for high availability shared backup path protection connections
Shared backup path protection (SBPP) has been widely studied in the Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) networks due to its efficient spare capacity sharing as well as simplicity and flexibility in service provisioning. This paper presents a novel availability ... Keywords: End-to-end availability, Generalized multi-protocol label switching (GMPLS), Shared backup path protection (SBPP), Spare capacity reprovisioning
Qi Guo; Pin-Han Ho; Hsiang-Fu Yu; Janos Tapolcai; Hussein T. Mouftah
A design of cooperation management system to improve reliability in resource sharing computing environment
Resource sharing computing is a project that realizes high performance computing by utilizing the resources of peers that are connected to the Internet. Resource sharing computing provides a dynamic internet environment where peers can freely participate, ... Keywords: cooperation system, reliability, resource sharing computing
Ji Su Park; Kwang Sik Chung; Jin Gon Shon
A fuzzy trust evaluation method for knowledge sharing in virtual enterprises
The success of virtual enterprises (VEs) depends on the effective sharing of related resources between various enterprises or workers who perform related activities. Specifically, VE success hinges on the integration and sharing of information and knowledge. ... Keywords: Fuzzy theory, Knowledge sharing, Trust, Virtual enterprise
Tsung-Yi Chen; Yuh-Min Chen; Chia-Jou Lin; Pin-Yuan Chen
PBES: a policy based encryption system with application to data sharing in the power grid
In distributed systems users need the ability to share sensitive content with multiple other recipients based on their ability to satisfy arbitrary policies. One such system is electricity grids where finegrained sensor data sharing holds the potential ... Keywords: multi-party data sharing, phasor measurement units (PMUs), policy based encryption, power grid
Rakesh Bobba; Himanshu Khurana; Musab AlTurki; Farhana Ashraf
Collaborative Sharing of Windows between MacOS X, the X Window System and Windows
Collaborative Sharing of Windows between MacOS X, the X Window System and Windows Daniel Stødle This paper investigates how one best can share windows between many different computers in a collaborative application. We present an architecture of a system allowing windows on MacOS X to be shared with computers
Bjørndalen, John Markus
Knowledge sharing practices of project teams when encountering changes in project scope: A contingency approach
Prior studies indicate that undesired consequences may occur if knowledge cannot be effectively shared among members of a project team. Nevertheless, there are few studies that explore the knowledge-sharing (KS) mechanisms used and the contingency factors ... Keywords: contingency approach, knowledge sharing, project teams
Wei-Tsong Wang; Nai-Yuan Ko
Adaptive information-sharing for privacy-aware mobile social networks
Personal and contextual information are increasingly shared via mobile social networks. Users' locations, activities and their co-presence can be shared easily with online "friends", as their smartphones already access such information from embedded ... Keywords: decision-making, information-sharing, machine learning, privacy, user study
Igor Bilogrevic, K�vin Huguenin, Berker Agir, Murtuza Jadliwala, Jean-Pierre Hubaux
Increasing Community Access to Solar: Designing and Developing a Shared Solar Photovoltaic System (Fact Sheet)
This document introduces the Energy Department's new Guide to Community Shared Solar: Utility, Private, and Nonprofit Project Development. The guide is designed to help those who want to develop community shared solar projects - from community organizers and advocates to utility managers and government officials - navigate the process of developing shared systems, from early planning to implementation.
Capturing and supporting contexts for scientific data sharing via the biological sciences collaboratory
Scientific collaboration is largely focused on the sharing and joint analysis of scientific data and results. Today, a movement is afoot within the scientific computing community to shift "collaboratory" development from traditional tool-centric approaches ... Keywords: collaboratory, data provenance, data sharing, data sharing contexts, data-centric collaboration, metadata, scientific workflow, tool-centric collaboration
George Chin, Jr.; Carina S. Lansing
White Paper: A Survey of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Technologies Page 1 of 1
White Paper: A Survey of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Technologies Page 1 of 1 Athens University Technologies White Paper WHP-2002-03 #12;White Paper: A Survey of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Technologies Page 2 of 2 A Survey of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Technologies White Paper Written by Stephanos Androutsellis
Lu, Paul
A Data Sharing Facility for Mobile Ad-Hoc Emergency and Rescue Applications
Efficient information sharing is very important for emergency and rescue operations. Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs) are often the only network environment for such operations. We have developed the MIDAS Data Space (MDS) to transparently share information ... Keywords: Emergency and rescue operations, mobile ad-hoc networks, tailor-made middleware, shared data space.
Thomas Plagemann; Ellen Munthe-Kaas; Katrine S. Skjelsvik; Matija Puzar; Vera Goebel; Ulrik Johansen; Joe Gorman; Santiago Perez Marin
A Three-Dimensional Balance Theory for Rapidly Rotating Vortices
A three-dimensional balance formulation for rapidly rotating vortices, such as hurricanes, is presented. The asymmetric balance (AB) theory represents a new mathematical framework for studying the slow evolution of rapidly rotating fluid systems. ...
Lloyd J. Shapiro; Michael T. Montgomery
E3: Success Story - Rapid-Line Inc. | Economy � Energy ...
... Lindquist and other Rapid-Line staff worked with the Green ... is true and not just a short-lived trend in ... Mark Lindquist, President, Rapid-Line Inc. ...
SLIDER - Rapid Optical Deflector for Recording Ultrafast Signals
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Rapid reconnaissance of geothermal prospects using shallow temperature...
reconnaissance of geothermal prospects using shallow temperature surveys. Second technical report Jump to: navigation, search GEOTHERMAL ENERGYGeothermal Home Report: Rapid...
RAPID-CURE COATINGS SYSTEM - Home - Energy Innovation Portal
Technology Marketing Summary The Naval Research Laboratory has developed a durable, rapid cure coatings system that is designed for harsh ...
Optimal decentralized control of coupled subsystems with control sharing
The optimal decentralized control of coupled subsystems with control sharing is investigated. The system consists of $n$-coupled subsystems, each with a local control station. The evolution of a subsystem is controlled by the actions of all control stations. However, each control station observes only the state of its subsystem and the one-step delayed actions of all control stations. At each time, a cost that depends on the state of all subsystems and the actions of all control stations is incurred. The system has non-classical information structure; since each control station observes the delayed control actions of all other control stations, the system is said to have \\emph{control-sharing} information structure. We first identify redundant data at each controller, then use the common-information based approach of Nayyar et al. (2011) to obtain the structure of optimal control strategies and a dynamic programming decomposition, and finally use the specifics of the model to simplify the structure of optimal...
Mahajan, Aditya
Chemical Equilibrium in Heavy Ion Collisions: Rapidity Dependence
Particle yields in heavy ion collisions show an overwhelming evidence for chemical or relative chemical equilibrium at all beam energies. The rapidity dependence of the thermal parameters $T$ and $\\mu_B$ can now be determined over a wide range of rapidities and show a systematic behavior towards an increase in $\\mu_B$ away from mid-rapidity.
F. Becattini; J. Cleymans
A Rapid Loss Index for Tropical Cyclone Disasters in China
Disaster emergency response needs rapid estimation on disaster loss. In China it is of great importance to develop a loss index for rapidly assessing tropical cyclone (TC) disaster loss. In this paper, a new composite loss index for TC landing on China ... Keywords: Tropical Cyclone, Disaster, Loss Index, Rapid Loss Assessment
Ying Li; Weihua Fang
A new method for the determination of radiostrontium in seawater samples has been developed at the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) that allows rapid preconcentration and separation of strontium and yttrium isotopes in seawater samples for measurement. The new SRNL method employs a novel and effective pre-concentration step that utilizes a blend of calcium phosphate with iron hydroxide to collect both strontium and yttrium rapidly from the seawater matrix with enhanced chemical yields. The pre-concentration steps, in combination with rapid Sr Resin and DGA Resin cartridge separation options using vacuum box technology, allow seawater samples up to 10 liters to be analyzed. The total {sup 89}Sr + {sup 90}Sr activity may be determined by gas flow proportional counting and recounted after ingrowth of {sup 90}Y to differentiate {sup 89}Sr from {sup 90}Sr. Gas flow proportional counting provides a lower method detection limit than liquid scintillation or Cerenkov counting and allows simultaneous counting of samples. Simultaneous counting allows for longer count times and lower method detection limits without handling very large aliquots of seawater. Seawater samples up to 6 liters may be analyzed using Sr Resin for {sup 89}Sr and {sup 90}Sr with a Minimum Detectable Activity (MDA) of 1-10 mBq/L, depending on count times. Seawater samples up to 10 liters may be analyzed for {sup 90}Sr using a DGA Resin method via collection and purification of {sup 90}Y only. If {sup 89}Sr and other fission products are present, then {sup 91}Y (beta energy 1.55 MeV, 58.5 day half-life) is also likely to be present. {sup 91}Y interferes with attempts to collect {sup 90}Y directly from the seawater sample without initial purification of Sr isotopes first and {sup 90}Y ingrowth. The DGA Resin option can be used to determine {sup 90}Sr, and if {sup 91}Y is also present, an ingrowth option with using DGA Resin again to collect {sup 90}Y can be performed. An MDA for {sup 90}Sr of <1 mBq/L for an 8 hour count may be obtained using 10 liter seawater sample aliquots.
Maxwell, S.
RTDS: A continuous, rapid, thermal synthesis mode
The Rapid Thermal Decomposition of precursors in Solution (RTDS) Process is a flow-through hydrothermal powder synthesis method capable of producing nanophase oxide and oxyhydroxide catalysts and catalyst precursors. The RTDS technique utilizes a brief exposure of dissolved precursors to high pressure/high temperature aqueous conditions to initiate crystallite nucleation. The resulting nanocrystalline suspension is removed from the hydrothermal environment through a pressure let-down device before significant crystallite growth can occur. The RTDS process is discussed as a method to produce nanocrystalline iron oxide and oxyhydroxide powders that exhibit high activity as carbon-carbon bond cleavage catalyst precursors. Nanocrystalline TiO{sub 2} and ZrO{sub 2} powders having prospective catalytic applications are also produced by the RTDS process.
Matson, D.W.; Linehan, J.C.; Darab, J.D.; Buehler, M.F.; Phelps, M.R.; Neuenschwander, G.G.
World NGL markets continue rapid expansion
The international LPG industry has expanded rapidly during the 1990s and undergone significant changes. LPG consumption has expanded at nearly twice the rate of world petroleum demand. In particular, LPG use in residential and commercial markets has more than doubled in many developing countries. Markets for LPG and other petroleum products have been opened in many countries, accelerating demand growth and creating investment opportunities in all downstream segments. This has led to an overall strengthening of global LPG pricing and the development of many new export gas-processing projects. The paper discusses world LPG demand in residential and commercial markets and in petrochemicals, world LPG supply, regional increases, international trade, the US situation in natural gas, NGL supply, and NGL demand.
Otto, K.; Gist, R.; Whitley, C. [Purvin and Gertz, Houston, TX (United States); Haun, R. [Purvin and Gertz, Dallas, TX (United States)
Rapid Gas Hydrate Formation Process Opportunity
Gas Hydrate Formation Process Gas Hydrate Formation Process Opportunity The Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is seeking collaborative research and licensing partners interested in implementing United States Non-provisional Patent Application entitled "Rapid Gas Hydrate Formation Process." Disclosed in this application is a method and device for producing gas hydrates from a two-phase mixture of water and a hydrate forming gas such as methane (CH 4 ) or carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). The two-phase mixture is created in a mixing zone, which may be contained within the body of the spray nozzle. The two-phase mixture is subsequently sprayed into a reaction vessel, under pressure and temperature conditions suitable for gas hydrate formation. The reaction
Science.gov: Still Strong, Growing in 10th Anniversary Year | OSTI, US Dept
gov: Still Strong, Growing in 10th Anniversary Year gov: Still Strong, Growing in 10th Anniversary Year December 5, 2012 Science.gov: Still Strong, Growing in 10th Anniversary Year Washington, DC - Science.gov, known for its groundbreaking search and retrieval of government science information, is celebrating its 10th Anniversary. Through federated one-stop search of U.S. government science information, the portal offers free access to research and development results from 17 organizations within 13 federal science agencies. Science.gov was the first government science search engine to rank results for relevancy in real time and was a pioneer in precision searching across full-text documents. In addition, over the past 10 years the number of pages available at Science.gov has grown from 47 million to over 200
Join Secretary Chu Tomorrow for a Google+ Hangout on America's Growing
Join Secretary Chu Tomorrow for a Google+ Hangout on America's Join Secretary Chu Tomorrow for a Google+ Hangout on America's Growing Solar Industry Join Secretary Chu Tomorrow for a Google+ Hangout on America's Growing Solar Industry February 21, 2013 - 3:06pm Addthis Join Secretary Chu Tomorrow for a Google+ Hangout on America's Growing Solar Industry Niketa Kumar Niketa Kumar Public Affairs Specialist, Office of Public Affairs How can I participate? Sign up at the Google+ Event page. Email questions to firstname.lastname@example.com, and tweet questions to @ENERGY using #AskEnergy. Tune in at 2pm ET on energy.gov/live. Over the past four years, solar energy generation in the U.S. has more than doubled. At the same time, the cost of solar power continues to fall each year and American companies and workers are helping to lead the way with
Solar Among the Fastest Growing Job Markets in America | Department of
Solar Among the Fastest Growing Job Markets in America Solar Among the Fastest Growing Job Markets in America Solar Among the Fastest Growing Job Markets in America November 8, 2012 - 1:00pm Addthis The Long Island Solar Farm (LISF) -- currently the largest solar photovoltaic power plant in the Eastern United States -- generates enough renewable energy to power approximately 4,500 homes. LISF is located at Brookhaven National Laboratory. | Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory. The Long Island Solar Farm (LISF) -- currently the largest solar photovoltaic power plant in the Eastern United States -- generates enough renewable energy to power approximately 4,500 homes. LISF is located at Brookhaven National Laboratory. | Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Minh Le Minh Le Program Manager, Solar Program
Umatilla Tribes to Grow Native Plants for Hanford | Department of Energy
Umatilla Tribes to Grow Native Plants for Hanford Umatilla Tribes to Grow Native Plants for Hanford Umatilla Tribes to Grow Native Plants for Hanford January 2, 2012 - 12:00pm Addthis The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservationâs field station, located in Mission, Ore., will be home to one-of-a-kind research and development for revegetation efforts. The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation's field station, located in Mission, Ore., will be home to one-of-a-kind research and development for revegetation efforts. Tribal construction workers stand in front of the hexagonal greenhouse dome structure that will house the seeds for revegetation efforts. Tribal construction workers stand in front of the hexagonal greenhouse dome structure that will house the seeds for revegetation efforts.
Mesoscopic model for filament orientation in growing actin networks: the role of obstacle geometry
Propulsion by growing actin networks is a universal mechanism used in many different biological systems. Although the core molecular machinery for actin network growth is well preserved in most cases, the geometry of the propelled obstacle can vary considerably. In recent years, filament orientation distribution has emerged as an important observable characterizing the structure and dynamical state of the growing network. Here we derive several continuum equations for the orientation distribution of filaments growing behind stiff obstacles of various shapes and validate the predicted steady state orientation patterns by stochastic computer simulations based on discrete filaments. We use an ordinary differential equation approach to demonstrate that for flat obstacles of finite size, two fundamentally different orientation patterns peaked at either +35/-35 or +70/0/-70 degrees exhibit mutually exclusive stability, in agreement with earlier results for flat obstacles of very large lateral extension. We calculat...
Weichsel, Julian; 10.1088/1367-2630/15/3/035006
Geek-Up[10.15.2010]: Growing Nanoparticles, Developing Plastic from
Geek-Up[10.15.2010]: Growing Nanoparticles, Developing Plastic from Geek-Up[10.15.2010]: Growing Nanoparticles, Developing Plastic from Bacteria and Wireless Water Heaters Geek-Up[10.15.2010]: Growing Nanoparticles, Developing Plastic from Bacteria and Wireless Water Heaters October 15, 2010 - 5:56pm Addthis Nanoparticles grown under the irradiation of high-energy X-rays | Source: Argonne National Lab and Carnegie Institution of Washington Nanoparticles grown under the irradiation of high-energy X-rays | Source: Argonne National Lab and Carnegie Institution of Washington Niketa Kumar Niketa Kumar Public Affairs Specialist, Office of Public Affairs What are the key facts? Watching nanoparticles in real time can help improve the performance of their application as solar cells, chemical and biological sensors and diagnostic imaging.
15.2010]: Growing Nanoparticles, Developing Plastic from 15.2010]: Growing Nanoparticles, Developing Plastic from Bacteria and Wireless Water Heaters Geek-Up[10.15.2010]: Growing Nanoparticles, Developing Plastic from Bacteria and Wireless Water Heaters October 15, 2010 - 5:56pm Addthis Nanoparticles grown under the irradiation of high-energy X-rays | Source: Argonne National Lab and Carnegie Institution of Washington Nanoparticles grown under the irradiation of high-energy X-rays | Source: Argonne National Lab and Carnegie Institution of Washington Niketa Kumar Niketa Kumar Public Affairs Specialist, Office of Public Affairs What are the key facts? Watching nanoparticles in real time can help improve the performance of their application as solar cells, chemical and biological sensors and diagnostic imaging. Scientists are using bacteria with free wastewater to develop
Secretary Chu Tomorrow for a Google+ Hangout on America's Secretary Chu Tomorrow for a Google+ Hangout on America's Growing Solar Industry Join Secretary Chu Tomorrow for a Google+ Hangout on America's Growing Solar Industry February 21, 2013 - 3:06pm Addthis Join Secretary Chu Tomorrow for a Google+ Hangout on America's Growing Solar Industry Niketa Kumar Niketa Kumar Public Affairs Specialist, Office of Public Affairs How can I participate? Sign up at the Google+ Event page. Email questions to email@example.com, and tweet questions to @ENERGY using #AskEnergy. Tune in at 2pm ET on energy.gov/live. Over the past four years, solar energy generation in the U.S. has more than doubled. At the same time, the cost of solar power continues to fall each year and American companies and workers are helping to lead the way with
coronary stents team, Paul Turner and Paul Jablonski of NETL and Ed Argetsinger of URS, earned a Secretary of Energy Achievement Award for their work in formulating a unique...
and education programs. AVESTAR's IGCC dynamic simulator and the recently launched 3D virtual immersive training system (ITS) were highlighted. CEP's representative also toured...
...p. 2 Advanced Materials Will Increase Gasifier Availability ...p. 3 Novel Composite Materials for Applications...
of the DOE. CAST is a consortium of five universities - West Virginia University (WVU), University of Kentucky, Montana Tech, University of Nevada at Reno, and the University of...
for use in decision-making related to shale gas development. During the autumn of 2011, the Shale Gas strategic growth area focused its efforts on developing a team...
VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 NETL-RUA 2013 SPRING MEETING: Growth Through Collaboration National Energy Technology Laboratory - Regional University Alliance (NETL-RUA) members joined...
FLC Mid-Atlantic Region award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for the 3D Virtual Energy Plant Simulator and Immersive Training System. Award winners from the AVESTAR team...
separation of oxygen from air, which has the potential to displace cryogenic air distillation as the method for producing oxygen for oxy-combustion power generation. This...
Rapid Determination of Lignin Content via Direct Dissolution and 1HNMR Analysis of Plant Cell Walls
02/cssc.201000120 02/cssc.201000120 Rapid Determination of Lignin Content via Direct Dissolution and 1 H NMR Analysis of Plant Cell Walls Nan Jiang, [a, b] Yunqiao Pu, [b] and Arthur J. Ragauskas* [a, b] Increasing societal demand for environmental and economic sustainability is placing a renewed focus on the agro-forest in- dustry. This industry plays an essential role in the development of renewable energy and biofuels, especially in light of grow- ing concerns related to energy security and climate change. [1] The economical transformation of differing sources of biomass into biofuels has become a global research theme, directed at displacing nonrenewable petroluem-based resources to reduce long-term carbon dioxide emissions. [2] Although most current bioethanol and biodiesel plants represent first-generation biorefi- neries, utilizing readily processa- ble bioresources such as
'Best 'Best Job I Ever Had' Former Assistant Secretary Shares Experiences Leading EM: 'Best Job I Ever Had' July 30, 2013 - 12:00pm Addthis Thomas P. Grumbly considers his role as EM Assistant Secretary the best job he ever had. He served in the position from 1993 to 1996. Thomas P. Grumbly considers his role as EM Assistant Secretary the best job he ever had. He served in the position from 1993 to 1996. WASHINGTON, D.C. - In an occasional EM Update series, we feature interviews with former EM Assistant Secretaries to reflect on their achievements and challenges in the world's largest nuclear cleanup and to discuss endeavors in life after EM. Thomas P. Grumbly has more than 30 years of experience serving as a federal employee and government contractor. In 1993, he began serving as EM's
tunA: Synchronised Music-Sharing on Handheld Devices
tunA is a mobile peer-to-peer application that allows users to share their music locally with others who happen to be in their physical proximity. Playback is synchronized on all tunA devices that are "tuned into" the same source. These handheld devices are connected via ad-hoc 802.11 wireless networks formed as they come into and out of range with each other. With tunA, music constitutes the primary focus around which new social connections can be made and existing ones maintained. The localised dimension of the application aims to enable the creation of links between the virtual world of digital communication and file exchange and the physical reality in which users are immersed every day. In this paper, we briefly describe the tunA technology and a user study that we undertook to analyze its potential impact within a specific target group.
Arianna Bassoli; Julian Moore; Stefan Agamanolis; Human Connectedness Group
Former Assistant Secretary Shares Experiences Leading EM: 'Extremely
'Extremely Rewarding' Former Assistant Secretary Shares Experiences Leading EM: 'Extremely Rewarding' September 30, 2013 - 10:25am Addthis Dr. Inés Triay said serving as EM Assistant Secretary was challenging and extremely rewarding. Dr. Inés Triay said serving as EM Assistant Secretary was challenging and extremely rewarding. In an occasional EM Update series, we feature interviews with former EM Assistant Secretaries to reflect on their achievements and challenges in the Cold War cleanup and to discuss endeavors in life after EM. Before serving as EM's Assistant Secretary in 2009 - leading the largest, most diverse and most technically complex environmental cleanup program in the world - Dr. Inés Triay was the cleanup program's Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Chief Operations Officer, Deputy
Fermi facts, fables: Colleagues and friends share memories
Fermi facts, fables: Colleagues and friends Fermi facts, fables: Colleagues and friends share memories About Director's Welcome Organization Achievements Highlights Fact Sheets, Brochures & Other Documents Multimedia Library Visit Argonne Work with Argonne Contact us Nuclear Energy Why Nuclear Energy? Why are some people afraid of Nuclear Energy? How do nuclear reactors work? Cheaper & Safer Nuclear Energy Helping to Solve the Nuclear Waste Problem Nuclear Reactors Nuclear Reactors Early Exploration Training Reactors Basic and Applied Science Research LWR Technology Development BORAX-III lighting Arco, Idaho (Press Release) Heavy Water and Graphite Reactors Fast Reactor Technology Integral Fast Reactor Argonne Reactor Tree CP-1 70th Anniversary CP-1 70th Anniversary Argonne's Nuclear Science and Technology Legacy
Translation techniques for distributed-shared memory programming models
The high performance computing community has experienced an explosive improvement in distributed-shared memory hardware. Driven by increasing real-world problem complexity, this explosion has ushered in vast numbers of new systems. Each new system presents new challenges to programmers and application developers. Part of the challenge is adapting to new architectures with new performance characteristics. Different vendors release systems with widely varying architectures that perform differently in different situations. Furthermore, since vendors need only provide a single performance number (total MFLOPS, typically for a single benchmark), they only have strong incentive initially to optimize the API of their choice. Consequently, only a fraction of the available APIs are well optimized on most systems. This causes issues porting and writing maintainable software, let alone issues for programmers burdened with mastering each new API as it is released. Also, programmers wishing to use a certain machine must choose their API based on the underlying hardware instead of the application. This thesis argues that a flexible, extensible translator for distributed-shared memory APIs can help address some of these issues. For example, a translator might take as input code in one API and output an equivalent program in another. Such a translator could provide instant porting for applications to new systems that do not support the application's library or language natively. While open-source APIs are abundant, they do not perform optimally everywhere. A translator would also allow performance testing using a single base code translated to a number of different APIs. Most significantly, this type of translator frees programmers to select the most appropriate API for a given application based on the application (and developer) itself instead of the underlying hardware.
Fuller, Douglas James
NRRI's Bill Berguson promotes fast-growing trees as part of America's new energy future.
to increase energy independence with new biorefinery industries and sustainable new crops. A study undertaken Commission with representatives from the union, paper industry, legislature, University, energy company andNRRI's Bill Berguson promotes fast-growing trees as part of America's new energy future. Winter
Water is used for many purposes, includ-ing growing crops, producing copper,
WATER USES Water is used for many purposes, includ- ing growing crops, producing copper, generating electricity, watering lawns, keeping clean, drinking and recreation. Bal- ancing the water budget comes down of the water budget. Reducing demand involves re- ducing how much water each person uses, lim- iting the number
Sea Surface Temperature Patterns on the West Florida Shelf Using Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps
Neural network analyses based on the self-organizing map (SOM) and the growing hierarchical self-organizing map (GHSOM) are used to examine patterns of the sea surface temperature (SST) variability on the West Florida Shelf from time series of ...
Yonggang Liu; Robert H. Weisberg; Ruoying He
improving energy efficiency in the built environment is now seen as a growing
improving energy efficiency in the built environment is now seen as a growing policy priority the 1973 oil embargo. Codes by state but they generally establish a minimum energy efficiency stan- dard.S. Department of Energy to establish building code energy efficiency targets by January 1, 2014. it also
Kotchen, Matthew J.
Technology Assistance Program Growing technology-based business with free service
) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) may be just what you're looking for. Created in 1994 and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the TAP program at PNNL helps grow and diversify the nation Assistance Program leverages PNNL's expertise in a variety of scientific disciplines to help members
The effect of palm oil supplementation on growth and carcass composition of growing lambs
The effect of palm oil supplementation on growth and carcass composition of growing lambs M Hilmi Selangor, Malaysia Palm oil is considered as a cheap source of energy supplementation in a commercial feed for sheep. However there is a scarcity of report on the effect of oil supplementation on the growth
Recanati, Catherine
Detection of Oil Spills in SAR Images Using Wavelets and Region Growing
Detection of Oil Spills in SAR Images Using Wavelets and Region Growing R�?GIA T. S. ARA�?JO, FÁTIMA an algorithm to detect oil spills in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images that can be used to support sensing of environmental disasters. Spillage of oil in coastal waters can be a catastrophic event
de Figueiredo, Luiz Henrique
Bus Rapid Transit Planning Guide | Open Energy Information
Bus Rapid Transit Planning Guide Bus Rapid Transit Planning Guide Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary Name: Bus Rapid Transit Planning Guide Agency/Company /Organization: Institute for Transportation & Development Policy Focus Area: Public Transit & Infrastructure Topics: Best Practices Resource Type: Reports, Journal Articles, & Tools Website: www.itdp.org/microsites/bus-rapid-transit-planning-guide/ The Bus Rapid Transit Planning Guide is the most comprehensive resource for planning a bus rapid transit (BRT) system, beginning with project preparation all the way through to implementation. How to Use This Tool This tool is most helpful when using these strategies: Improve - Enhance infrastructure & policies Learn more about the avoid, shift, improve framework for limiting air
T-715: Microsoft SharePoint Multiple Flaws Permit Cross-Site Scripting
5: Microsoft SharePoint Multiple Flaws Permit Cross-Site 5: Microsoft SharePoint Multiple Flaws Permit Cross-Site Scripting Attacks T-715: Microsoft SharePoint Multiple Flaws Permit Cross-Site Scripting Attacks September 13, 2011 - 12:35pm Addthis PROBLEM: Multiple vulnerabilities were reported in Microsoft SharePoint. A remote user can conduct cross-site scripting attacks. PLATFORM: Version(s): SharePoint software ABSTRACT: Microsoft SharePoint Multiple Flaws Permit Cross-Site Scripting Attacks. reference LINKS: MS11-074: Article ID: 2552998 SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1026040 CVE-2011-1893 CVE-2011-1892 CVE-2011-1891 CVE-2011-1890 CVE-2011-0653 IMPACT ASSESSMENT: High Discussion: A remote user can create a specially crafted URL or web site that, when loaded by a target user, will cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed
Bike-Sharing:History, Impacts, Models of Provision, and Future | Open
Bike-Sharing:History, Impacts, Models of Provision, and Future Bike-Sharing:History, Impacts, Models of Provision, and Future Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary Name: Bike-Sharing:History, Impacts, Models of Provision, and Future Agency/Company /Organization: MetroBike Focus Area: Non-Motorized Transport, Transportation Topics: Potentials & Scenarios Resource Type: Publications User Interface: Website Website: www.metrobike.net/index.php?s=file_download&id=26 Cost: Free Bike-Sharing:History, Impacts, Models of Provision, and Future Screenshot References: Bike-Sharing:History, Impacts, Models of Provision, and Future[1] This paper discusses the history of bike-sharing from the early 1st generation program to present day 3rd generation programs. Included are a detailed examination of models of provision, with benefits and detriments
15: Microsoft SharePoint Multiple Flaws Permit Cross-Site 15: Microsoft SharePoint Multiple Flaws Permit Cross-Site Scripting Attacks T-715: Microsoft SharePoint Multiple Flaws Permit Cross-Site Scripting Attacks September 13, 2011 - 12:35pm Addthis PROBLEM: Multiple vulnerabilities were reported in Microsoft SharePoint. A remote user can conduct cross-site scripting attacks. PLATFORM: Version(s): SharePoint software ABSTRACT: Microsoft SharePoint Multiple Flaws Permit Cross-Site Scripting Attacks. reference LINKS: MS11-074: Article ID: 2552998 SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1026040 CVE-2011-1893 CVE-2011-1892 CVE-2011-1891 CVE-2011-1890 CVE-2011-0653 IMPACT ASSESSMENT: High Discussion: A remote user can create a specially crafted URL or web site that, when loaded by a target user, will cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed
Rapid quantitative assay for chloramphenicol acetyltransferase
Measuring the expression of exogenous genetic material in mammalian cells is commonly done by fusing the DNA of interest to a gene encoding an easily-detected enzyme. Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase(CAT) is a convenient marker because it is not normally found in eukaryotes. CAT activity has usually been detected using a thin-layer chromatographic separation followed by autoradiography. An organic solvent extraction-based method for CAT detection has also been described, as well as a procedure utilizing HPLC analysis. Building on the extraction technique, they developed a rapid sensitive kinetic method for measuring CAT activity in cell homogenates. The method exploits the differential organic solubility of the substrate ((/sup 3/H) or (/sup 14/C)acetyl CoA) and the product (labeled acetylchloramphenicol). The assay is a simple one-vial, two-phase procedure and requires no tedious manipulations after the initial setup. Briefly, a 0.25 ml reaction with 100mM Tris-HCL, 1mM chloramphenicol, 0.1mM (/sup 14/C)acetyl CoA and variable amounts of cell homogenate is pipetted into a miniscintillation vial, overlaid with 5 ml of a water-immiscible fluor, and incubated at 37/sup 0/C. At suitable intervals the vial is counted and the CAT level is quantitatively determined as the rate of increase in counts/min of the labeled product as it diffuses into the fluor phase, compared to a standard curve. When used to measure CAT in transfected Balb 3T3 cells the method correlated well with the other techniques.
Neumann, J.R.; Morency, C.A.; Russian, K.O.
Modeling Fragility in Rapidly Evolving Disaster Response Systems
Multi-Organizational Disaster Response Systems." Pittsburgh,in Rapidly Evolving Disaster Response Systems Louise K.capacity in an actual disaster response system to determine
Comfort, Louise K.; Ko, Kilkon; Zagorecki, Adam
reconnaissance of geothermal prospects using shallow temperature surveys. Semi-annual technical report Jump to: navigation, search GEOTHERMAL ENERGYGeothermal Home Report: Rapid...
Development of Protocols for Rapid Amplification of STR ...
... Rapid PCR Applications � Faster sample-to-answer ... Cycling for most STR kits is run in '9600 emulation mode' (1oC/s) PCR Thermal Cycling Profile ...
City of Grand Rapids- Green Building Requirements for Municipal Buildings
In January 2006, the City of Grand Rapids approved a resolution detailing the city's sustainability policy for public buildings. The resolution directed city personnel to implement the principles...
Sustainable Urban Development Priorities - Development of a Rapid...
Development Priorities - Development of a Rapid Assessment Tool for Urban Mobility in Cities with Data Scarcity Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary Name: Sustainable Urban...
Method of Rapidly Screening Buffer Layers in Photovoltaics
ORNL 2010-G0647/jcn UT-B ID 200902275 Method of Rapidly Screening Buffer Layers in Photovoltaics Technology Summary This ORNL invention offers a new method to ...
Rapid Assessment of City Emissions (RACE) for Low Carbon Cities...
Assessment of City Emissions (RACE) for Low Carbon Cities: Transport and Building Electricity Use Jump to: navigation, search Name Rapid Assessment of City Emissions (RACE) for...
City of Grand Rapids - Green Building Requirements for Municipal...
January 2006, the City of Grand Rapids approved a resolution detailing the city's sustainability policy for public buildings. The resolution directed city personnel to implement...
Rapid increases in electricity demand challenge both generating ...
Because supply and demand for electricity must balance in real-time, rapid changes in demand create operational challenges for the electric system and generating unit ...
Rapid Modeling of Power Electronics Thermal Management Technologies: Preprint
Describes a method of rapidly evaluating trade-offs associated with alternative packaging configurations and thermal management technologies for power electronics packaging.
Bennion, K.; Kelly, K.
Integrating Data Management and Collaborative Sharing with Computational Science Processes
Structured Scientific Data Management - the management of storage, access, usage, lifecycle, content and meaning for scientific data - is not as commonly employed in computational science as it is in other fields of scientific endeavor. However, where it has been co-developed and integrated with the computational science research it has had a transformational influence on the scientific work. These infrastructures enabled not only new research previously impossible, but also helped to speed up the research process and improved the quality of the research output. Good data management systems are capable of facilitating effective scientific collaborations on a group, institutional, national or international level, through the easy sharing of resources and results. Today as computational science is becoming more data rich and collaborative, integrated scientific data management is becoming an essential tool for every computational science research and production environment. This chapter will describe the fundamental principles and components of a good data management system, provide real world examples of successful implementations and provides an outlook on future developments. We conclude with a short section on how to get started for those whose interest has been peaked by this chapter
Kleese van Dam, Kerstin; Walker, Andrew M.; James, Mark
Examination of sharing fractions for prices and quantities
When the Household Model of Energy (HOME) and Commercial Sector Energy Model (CSEM) are run as modules in the Intermediate Future Forecasting System (IFFS), the interfacing variables (prices and consumption of fuels) have to be adjusted to their aggregated regional levels. Both HOME and CSEM operate at a level of 4 Census Regions whereas IFFS uses 10 federal Regions. This makes it necessary to aggregate the prices provided by IFFS to the 4 Census Regions and to disaggregate the sectoral consumption values calculated by HOME and CSEM to the 10 federal Regions. An examination of the historical fractions for consumption levels and prices by fuels and sectors (residential and commercial) was performed to substantiate the assumption that changes of these fractions over time are not significant. This assumption is presently employed in both HOME and CSEM. The fractions which are presently used were calculated for each fuel based on the consumption data for the year 1980. These fractions, once evaluated, are used for sharing both prices and consumption throughout the forecasting period.
Meyer, M.
On a Processor Sharing Queue That Models Balking
We consider the processor sharing $M/M/1$-PS queue which also models balking. A customer that arrives and sees $n$ others in the system "balks" (i.e., decides not to enter) with probability $1-b_n$. If $b_n$ is inversely proportional to $n+1$, we obtain explicit expressions for a tagged customer's sojourn time distribution. We consider both the conditional distribution, conditioned on the number of other customers present when the tagged customer arrives, as well as the unconditional distribution. We then evaluate the results in various asymptotic limits. These include large time (tail behavior) and/or large $n$, lightly loaded systems where the arrival rate $\\lambda\\to 0$, and heavily loaded systems where $\\lambda\\to\\infty$. We find that the asymptotic structure for the problem with balking is much different from the standard $M/M/1$-PS queue. We also discuss a perturbation method for deriving the asymptotics, which should apply to more general balking functions.
Zhen, Qiang; Knessl, Charles
Russia`s production sharing law -- a foundation for progress
Landmark legislation on production sharing agreements (PSAs) passed the Federation Council of the Russian Federation on Dec. 19, 1995, and was signed by President Boris Yeltsin on Dec. 30. This long anticipated body of law will provide the framework for completing several of the PSAs that are currently under final negotiations and begin the process of bringing new areas up for tender. While some in the industry have expressed concerns that the new law does not supply all of the necessary protections and procedures needed to attract investment, it is clear that passage of this law provides the basis for energy companies to cautiously proceed with projects that have been awaiting a legal basis. The new law, in combination with the existing Law of The Russian Federation On The Subsoil (``Underground Code``) provides for additional incentives for foreign investors to begin developing Russian oil and gas reserves. This paper reviews the history of PSA, procedural issues, and the actual protections and incentives of the PSAs.
Nelson, D.R. [Wavetech Geophysical Inc., Denver, CO (United States)
Risk sharing in contracts : the use of fuel surcharge programs; Use of fuel surcharge programs.
??Various industries employ risk sharing contracts to manage the risks and volatility associated with commodity prices, inaccurate customer demand forecasts, or unpredictable events. For example� (more)
Levine, Jordan T
The Use of Demand-wise Shared Protection in Creating Topology Optimized High Availability Networks.
??In order to meet the availability requirements of modern communication networks, a number of survivability techniques were developed that adapt the demand-wise shared protection design� (more)
Todd, Brody
,"Share of Total U.S. Natural Gas Electric Power Deliveries ...
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A new model and a computational study for Demand-wise Shared ...
pacity is dedicated to a particular demand, but shared within a demand. It combines .... Two cases have been considered: (i) exploration of the maximum.
U.S. coal�s share of total net generation continues to ...
Amid historically low natural gas prices and the warmest March ever recorded in much of the United States, coal's share of total net generation ...
Restaurant Service Employees Organizational Commitment: Shared Gratuity versus Independent Gratuity Environments.
??This study examined the organizational commitment levels between 207 restaurant service employees from 11 restaurants working in different types of gratuity distribution environments, those sharing� (more)
Roe, Susan J.
Amid historically low natural gas prices and the warmest March ever recorded in much of the United States, coal's share of total net generation dropped to 34%�the ...
Cost Sharing Granting agencies may require the University to bear some of the costs of a sponsored project,
and cost sharing funds should be spent at about the same rate throughout the project: for example, when 10 of project costs will normally be transferred from the grant FOP to the cost sharing FOP. Granting agencies charged to the sponsored FOP or to a cost sharing FOP for that project. Methods of Cost Sharing 1. Cash
Tam, Tin-Yau
Internet-based 'social sharing' as a new form of global production: The case of SETI@home
Benkler (Sharing nicely: on shareable goods and the emergence of sharing as a modality of economic production, Yale Law Journal, 2004, vol. 114, pp. 273-358) has argued that 'social sharing' via Internet-based distributed computing is a new, so far under-appreciated ... Keywords: Digital divide, Distributed computing, Economic production, SETI@home, Shareable goods, Social sharing
Hans-J�rgen Engelbrecht
Contoured inner after-heater shield for reducing stress in growing crystalline bodies
An apparatus for growing hollow crystalline bodies by the EFG process, comprising an EFG die having a top surface shaped for growing a hollow crystalline body having a cross-sectional configuration in the shape of a polygon having n faces, and a radiation shield adjacent to and surrounded by the top end surface of the die, characterized in that the shield has an inner edge defining a similar polygon with n sides, and the inner edge of the shield is notched so that the spacing between the n faces and the n sides is greatest between the central portions of the n faces and the n sides, whereby the greater spacing at the central portions helps to reduce lateral temperature gradients in the crystalline body that is grown by use of the die.
Kalejs, Juris P. (Wellesley, MA)
FOA aimed at growing expansive database of Renewable Energy and Energy
FOA aimed at growing expansive database of Renewable Energy and Energy FOA aimed at growing expansive database of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Incentives and Policies Home > Groups > Utility Rate Graham7781's picture Submitted by Graham7781(2002) Super contributor 12 December, 2012 - 11:30 DOE energy efficiency FOA funding opportunity Renewable Energy A new funding opportunity is available to anyone interested in helping develop a public database of federal, state, and local policies and incentives. These resources will be made available through state-of-the-art web and mobile interfaces, on-demand web services, and a downloadable data feed designed to reach a wide variety of stakeholders including energy professionals and end consumers. The Department of Energy is anticipating providing $1.5 million total to one Awardee over a period of up to three years to accomplish the goals of
Propulsion by growing actin networks is a universal mechanism used in many different biological systems. Although the core molecular machinery for actin network growth is well preserved in most cases, the geometry of the propelled obstacle can vary considerably. In recent years, filament orientation distribution has emerged as an important observable characterizing the structure and dynamical state of the growing network. Here we derive several continuum equations for the orientation distribution of filaments growing behind stiff obstacles of various shapes and validate the predicted steady state orientation patterns by stochastic computer simulations based on discrete filaments. We use an ordinary differential equation approach to demonstrate that for flat obstacles of finite size, two fundamentally different orientation patterns peaked at either +35/-35 or +70/0/-70 degrees exhibit mutually exclusive stability, in agreement with earlier results for flat obstacles of very large lateral extension. We calculate and validate phase diagrams as a function of model parameters and show how this approach can be extended to obstacles with piecewise straight contours. For curved obstacles, we arrive at a partial differential equation in the continuum limit, which again is in good agreement with the computer simulations. In all cases, we can identify the same two fundamentally different orientation patterns, but only within an appropriate reference frame, which is adjusted to the local orientation of the obstacle contour. Our results suggest that two fundamentally different network architectures compete with each other in growing actin networks, irrespective of obstacle geometry, and clarify how simulated and electron tomography data have to be analyzed for non-flat obstacle geometries.
Julian Weichsel; Ulrich S. Schwarz
Sharing our successes II: Changing the face of science and mathematics education through teacher-focused partnerships
Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education (IISME) in the San Francisco Bay Area planned and convened the second national conference for representatives of scientific work experience programs for K-12 teachers (SWEPs) at Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley October 13-14, 1994. The goal of this conference was to further strengthen the growing community of SWEP managers and teacher participants by providing an opportunity for sharing expertise and strategies about the following: (1) How SWEPs can complement and stimulate systemic education reform efforts; (2) Assessment strategies piloted by the ambitious multi-site evaluation project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as well as smaller evaluation projects piloted by other SWEPs; (3) Expanding and strengthening the base of teachers served by SWEPs; (4) Ensuring that SWEPs adequately support teachers in affecting classroom transfer and offer {open_quotes}more than just a summerjob{close_quotes}; (5) Sustaining and expanding new programs. A special teacher strand focused on leadership development supporting teachers to become effective change agents in their classrooms and schools, and developing strong teacher communities.
Logic foundry: rapid prototyping for FPGA-based DSP systems
We introduce the Logic Foundry, a system for the rapid creation and integration of FPGA-based digital signal processing systems. Recognizing that some of the greatest challenges in creating FPGA-based systems occur in the integration of the various components, ... Keywords: CAD tools, DSP, FPGA, design methodology, integration, rapid prototyping
Gary Spivey; Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya; Kazuo Nakajima
Testing share & load growth in competitive residential gas markets
The residential market stands as the next frontier for natural gas unbundling. In California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, states have introduced pilot programs and other unbundling efforts to target residential gas consumers. These efforts are hardly surprising. The residential market, presently dominated by the regulated local distribution companies, appears lucrative. In 1995, the residential sector of the U.S. natural gas industry consumed 4,736 trillion Btu of natural gas or 32 percent of all natural gas delivered by LDCs in that year. U.S. residential consumers accounted for $28.7 billion or 59 percent of the gas utility industry`s total revenues. Nevertheless, despite all the enthusiasm industry representatives have recently expressed in trade publications and public forums, the creation of a competitive residential market may prove a very slow process. Marketers appear cautious in taking the responsibility of serving residential consumers, and for very good reasons. Gaining a sizable portion of this market requires substantial investment in mass marketing, development of name recognition, acquisition of appropriate technology and employment of skillful personnel. Moreover, residential customers do not behave rationally in a {open_quotes}neoclassical{close_quotes} economic sense. They react not only to a price but to several qualitative factors that have yet to be studied by LDCs and marketers. This article offers results from creating a software program and model that answer two basic questions: (1) What share of the residential natural gas market can be realistically captured by non-regulated suppliers? (2) Will residential unbundling increase total throughput for gas utilities? If so, by how much?
Lonshteyn, A. [Boston Gas Company, MA (United States)
Capacity Building in Sharing Forest and Market Information Prague & Krtiny, Czech Republic, 25 October 2005
Capacity Building in Sharing Forest and Market Information Prague & Krtiny, Czech Republic, 25 Information Prague & Krtiny, Czech Republic, 25 October 2005 F A O Contents I. Forest products markets forest products market information #12;Capacity Building in Sharing Forest and Market Information Prague
Business Intelligence in Microsoft SharePoint 2010, 1st edition
Dive into the business intelligence (BI) features in SharePoint 2010and use the right combination of tools to deliver compelling solutions. This practical guide helps you explore several BI application services available in SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft ...
Norm Warren; Mariano Teixeira Neto; John Campbell; Stacia Misner
Impact of Early Forecast Information Sharing on Manufacturers with Capacity Uncertainty
251 Impact of Early Forecast Information Sharing on Manufacturers with Capacity Uncertainty of future demand. Advanced forecast information sharing between buyer and seller about these demand patterns) manufacturers receive an early rough forecast with a deterministic due date, however, forecast revisions
Chinnam, Ratna Babu
Active construction of experience through mobile media: a field study with implications for recording and sharing
To fully appreciate the opportunities provided by interactive and ubiquitous multimedia to record and share experiences, we report on an ethnographic investigation on the settings and nature of human memory and experience at a large-scale event. We studied ... Keywords: Active spectators, Constructive memory, Ethnographic field study, Large-scale events, Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia, Sharing experiences
Giulio Jacucci; Antti Oulasvirta; Antti Salovaara
Data Standards for Omics Data: the Basis of Data Sharing and Reuse.
To facilitate sharing of Omics data, many groups of scientists have been working to establish the relevant data standards. The main components of data sharing standards are experiment description standards, data exchange standards, terminology standards, and experiment execution standards. Here we provide a survey of existing and emerging standards that are intended to assist the free and open exchange of large-format data.
Chervitz, Stephen A.; Deutsch, Eric W.; Field, Dawn; Parkinson, Helen E.; Quackenbush, John; Rocca-Serra, Philippe; Sansone, Susanna A.; Stoeckert, Christian Jr. J.; Taylor, Chris F.; Taylor, Ronald C.; Ball, Catherine A.
Integrating Remote Invocation and Distributed Shared State # Chunqiang Tang, DeQing Chen,
the redundant transmission of deepcopy RPC parameters or through adhoc, applicationspecific caching and coher sharing, and scientific GRID computing. For the sake of availability, scalability, latency, and fault visualization. Shared data segments in InterWeave are named by URLs, but are accessed, once mapped
Dwarkadas, Sandhya
IMShare: instantly sharing your mobile landmark images by search-based reconstruction
Instantly sharing captured landmark images is becoming fashionable, much like when you write a blog or chat with friends by mobile phone. However, real-time transmission of high-resolution images poses a significant challenge to contemporary mobile networks. ... Keywords: image reconstruction, image sharing, partial duplicate image retrieval, sift descriptor
Lican Dai; Huanjing Yue; Xiaoyan Sun; Feng Wu
High-dimensional deterministic multiparty quantum secret sharing without unitary operations
A deterministic multiparty quantum secret sharing scheme is put forward, in which Bell states in high-dimensional Hilbert space are used. Only by preforming High-dimensional Bell measurements, all agents can recover the secret according to the dealer's ... Keywords: Entanglement swapping, High-dimensional Bell measurement, High-dimensional Bell state, Quantum secret sharing, Unitary operation
Zhi-Hao Liu; Han-Wu Chen; Juan Xu; Wen-Jie Liu; Zhi-Qiang Li
Methodological Review: Cloud computing: A new business paradigm for biomedical information sharing
We examine how the biomedical informatics (BMI) community, especially consortia that share data and applications, can take advantage of a new resource called ''cloud computing''. Clouds generally offer resources on demand. In most clouds, charges are ... Keywords: Bioinformatics, Cloud computing, Cost-benefit analysis, Data sharing, Distributed computing, Security
Arnon Rosenthal; Peter Mork; Maya Hao Li; Jean Stanford; David Koester; Patti Reynolds
Give and take: a study of consumer photo-sharing culture and practice
In this paper, we present initial findings from the study of a digital photo-sharing website: Flickr.com. In particular, we argue that Flickr.com appears to support-for some people-a different set of photography practices, socialization styles, and perspectives ... Keywords: consumer photography, digital photography, domestic and leisure computing, media sharing, photowork
Andrew D. Miller; W. Keith Edwards
Evolution of an Operating System for Large.Scale Shared.Memory Multiprocessors
and access lists Data abstraction Protection/performance tradeoff Lazy eValuation) (Sharing ofdata structures shared data structures for each protection domain. To illustrate the use of these routines, consider with a protection domain or activation. Each realm is represented by a data structure containing its access list
Scott, Michael L.
Using network interface support to avoid asynchronous protocol processing in shared virtual memory systems
The performance of page-based software shared virtual memory (SVM) is still far from that achieved on hardware-coherent distributed shared memory (DSM) systems. The interrupt cost for asynchronous protocol processing has been found to be a key source ...
Angelos Bilas; Cheng Liao; Jaswinder Pal Singh
Homeless and Home-based Lazy Release Consistency Protocols on Distributed Shared Memory
Homeless and Home-based Lazy Release Consistency Protocols on Distributed Shared Memory Byung and home-based Lazy Release Consistency (LRC) protocols which are used to implement Distributed Shared on homeless and home-based LRC protocols. We compared the performance between Tread- Marks, which uses
Huang, Zhiyi
Sample Invoice Cost Share UT-B Contracts Div August 2009
SHIPPED VIA CUSTOMER NUMBER TERMS NET DAYS COST ELEMENT DESCRIPTION CURRENT COSTS CUMULATIVE COSTS DIRECT for the Department of Energy COMMENTS OR SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: SUBCONTRACT NUMBER BILLING PERIOD Begin/End Date AMOUNT PREVIOUSLY PAID TOTAL COST INCURRED COMPANY COST SHARE * SELLERS COST SHARE * TOTAL INVOICED *If
Issues in knowledge access, retrieval and sharing - Case studies in a Caribbean health sector
In knowledge sharing forums different actors access each others knowledge to assist in their own decision making process. However, in absence of a formal knowledge management system this knowledge may not be available for use/reuse. In this research, ... Keywords: Healthcare sector, Internal knowledge-transaction costs, Knowledge flows, Knowledge items, Knowledge sharing
Gunjan Mansingh; Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson; Han Reichgelt
U-059: Blackberry PlayBook File Sharing Option Lets Local Users Gain
9: Blackberry PlayBook File Sharing Option Lets Local Users 9: Blackberry PlayBook File Sharing Option Lets Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges U-059: Blackberry PlayBook File Sharing Option Lets Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges December 13, 2011 - 6:00am Addthis PROBLEM: Blackberry PlayBook File Sharing Option Lets Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges. PLATFORM: BlackBerry PlayBook tablet software version 188.8.131.5285 and earlier ABSTRACT: A local user can obtain root privileges on the target tablet system. reference LINKS: SecurityTracker Alert ID:1026386 Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0291 BlackBerry Technical Solution Center IMPACT ASSESSMENT: High Discussion: A vulnerability was reported in Blackberry PlayBook. A local user can obtain elevated privileges on the target system. On a tablet with File Sharing enabled and connected via USB to a system running BlackBerry
Making Car Sharing and Car Clubs Work: Case Study Summaries | Open Energy
Making Car Sharing and Car Clubs Work: Case Study Summaries Making Car Sharing and Car Clubs Work: Case Study Summaries Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary LAUNCH TOOL Name: Making Car Sharing and Car Clubs Work: Case Study Summaries Agency/Company /Organization: United Kingdom Department for Transport Focus Area: Other Topics: Best Practices Website: webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/sustain These case studies result from a study that examined best practices in car sharing and car clubs and appraised the successes and failures to date. The results of this study are incorporated into "Making Car Sharing and Car Clubs Work: Good Practice Guide." How to Use This Tool This tool is most helpful when using these strategies: Avoid - Cut the need for travel Shift - Change to low-carbon modes
Making Car Sharing and Car Clubs Work: Final Report | Open Energy
Making Car Sharing and Car Clubs Work: Final Report Making Car Sharing and Car Clubs Work: Final Report Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary LAUNCH TOOL Name: Making Car Sharing and Car Clubs Work: Final Report Agency/Company /Organization: United Kingdom Department for Transport Focus Area: Other Topics: Best Practices Website: webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/sustain This report seeks to examine best practices in car sharing and car clubs, explore in detail the levels of uptake, and critically appraise the successes and failures to date. The outcome of the study is supported by case study summaries, and a best practice guidance note for existing and future developers of car sharing and car club schemes. How to Use This Tool This tool is most helpful when using these strategies:
DOE Receives $57.2 Million in Revenue Sharing Agreement | Department of
Receives $57.2 Million in Revenue Sharing Agreement Receives $57.2 Million in Revenue Sharing Agreement DOE Receives $57.2 Million in Revenue Sharing Agreement February 3, 2009 - 12:00pm Addthis Washington, D.C. -- The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) has received a payment of $57.2 million from the Dakota Gasification Company (DGC), a subsidiary of Basin Electric Power Generation, pursuant to the revenue sharing provision of an Asset Purchase Agreement among DOE, DGC and Basin. The current payment of $57.2 million brings the total to $380 million of revenue sharing payments DOE has received from the sale of synthetic natural gas produced from the Great Plains Synfuels Plant. The Great Plains Synfuels Plant has been successfully operated for more than 20 years and has brought significant opportunities to study and benefit from the
Find and share global research with new tools at WorldWideScience.org |
Find and share global research with new tools at WorldWideScience.org Find and share global research with new tools at WorldWideScience.org NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: Cathey Daniels, (865) 576-9539 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, June 26, 2009 Find and share global research with new tools at WorldWideScience.org You can now quickly hone your research results list to the documents you need and then share them via social networking sites using the new features at WorldWideScience.org. This free online science gateway to global databases now offers clustering of results by publication and author, as well as by topic and date. This enhancement allows you to quickly narrow a results list from the databases of approximately 60 countries to the research you are seeking. Using a quick share tool, you can add your results to social networking
Secret color images sharing schemes based on XOR operation
s paper presents two new constructi ons for the secret colori mages shari ng schemes .Onei s a (n, n) th eshold scheme, whi ch can be const ucted based on XOR ope ati on. The othe i s a (2, n) th eshold scheme, whi ch can be const ucted by usi ng AND and XOR ope ati ons. The two schemes have no pi xel expansi on, and the ti me complexi ty fo const ucti ng sha ed i mages i s O(k 1 n), excludi ng the ti me needed fo gene ati ng n di sti nct andom mati ces (he e k si ze of the sharedi mage). The reconstructed i mages can be obtai nedi n the two schemes by usi ng the XOR operati on alone. The relati vedi fferences of the two schemes are 1 and 1/2, respecti vely. The ti me complexi ty of the recoveredi magesi s O(k 1 n) and O(2k 1 ), especti vely. The two schemes also povi de pe fect sec ecy. Keywo ds: Sec et shai ng scheme; Vi sual c yptog aphy; Vi sual sec et shai ng scheme; XOR ope ati on; Pe fect sec ecy 1. Int oduction Afte Blakely and Shami i ndependently p oposed the (k, n) th eshold scheme [1-2], hund eds of pape s we e publi shed epo ti ng esea ch about thi s topi c. Howeve , these schemes a e only sui table fo di gi tal data such as text fi les, passwo ds, and enc ypti on / Correspondi ng author. Tel.: +86-10-62782930 E-mai l address: daoshun@mai l.tsi nghua.edu.cn decrypti on keys [3]. Compared wi thdi gi tal data such as passwords and text fi les,di gi tal i mages have a large amount of datum, and the di fference between two nei ghbori ng datum i s very small. Because of the features ofdi gi tali mages,i ti si mpracti cal to apply the tradi ti onal threshold scheme to share a secretdi gi tali magedi rectly, soi ti s veryi mportant and necessary toi nvesti gate (k, n) th eshold schemes of di gi tal i mages. In [3], the Chang and Hwang p ...
Wang Dao-Shun; Zhang Lei; Ma Ning; Huang Lian-Sheng; Bei Ji
We present the results of a search for unusually rapidly rotating giant stars in a large sample of K giants ({approx}1300 stars) that had been spectroscopically monitored as potential targets for the Space Interferometry Mission's Astrometric Grid. The stars in this catalog are much fainter and typically more metal-poor than those of other catalogs of red giant star rotational velocities, but the spectra generally only have signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of {approx}20-60, making the measurement of the widths of individual lines difficult. To compensate for this, we have developed a cross-correlation method to derive rotational velocities in moderate S/N echelle spectra to efficiently probe this sample for rapid rotator candidates. We have discovered 28 new red giant rapid rotators as well as one extreme rapid rotator with a vsin i of 86.4 km s{sup -1}. Rapid rotators comprise 2.2% of our sample, which is consistent with other surveys of brighter, more metal-rich K giant stars. Although we find that the temperature distribution of rapid rotators is similar to that of the slow rotators, this may not be the case with the distributions of surface gravity and metallicity. The rapid rotators show a slight overabundance of low-gravity stars and as a group are significantly more metal-poor than the slow rotators, which may indicate that the rotators are tidally locked binaries.
Carlberg, Joleen K.; Majewski, Steven R.; Patterson, Richard J. [Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 (United States); Bizyaev, Dmitry [Apache Point Observatory, Sunspot, NM (United States); Smith, Verne V.; Cunha, Katia, E-mail: email@example.com, E-mail: email@example.com, E-mail: email@example.com, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com [NOAO, Tucson, AZ (United States)
Sustainable Urban Development Priorities - Development of a Rapid
Sustainable Urban Development Priorities - Development of a Rapid Sustainable Urban Development Priorities - Development of a Rapid Assessment Tool for Urban Mobility in Cities with Data Scarcity Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary LAUNCH TOOL Name: Sustainable Urban Development Priorities - Development of a Rapid Assessment Tool for Urban Mobility in Cities with Data Scarcity Agency/Company /Organization: Clean Air Asia, The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) Partner: UN Habitat Sector: Land Focus Area: Greenhouse Gas, People and Policy, Transportation Topics: Background analysis, Baseline projection, Co-benefits assessment, - Environmental and Biodiversity, GHG inventory, Low emission development planning, -LEDS, Policies/deployment programs Website: cleanairinitiative.org/portal/node/7870
Rapid Assessment of City Emissions (RACE): Case of Batangas City,
Rapid Assessment of City Emissions (RACE): Case of Batangas City, Rapid Assessment of City Emissions (RACE): Case of Batangas City, Philippines Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary Name: Rapid Assessment of City Emissions (RACE): Case of Batangas City, Philippines Agency/Company /Organization: International Resources Group (IRG), Clean Air Asia, Chreod Ltd. Partner: United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Ministry of Planning Sector: Land Focus Area: Buildings, Economic Development, Energy Efficiency, Greenhouse Gas, Land Use, People and Policy, Transportation Topics: Background analysis, Baseline projection, Co-benefits assessment, - Environmental and Biodiversity, GHG inventory, Low emission development planning, -LEDS, Market analysis, Pathways analysis, Policies/deployment programs Resource Type: Case studies/examples
Rapid Characterization of Drill Core and Cutting Mineralogy using Infrared
Rapid Characterization of Drill Core and Cutting Mineralogy using Infrared Rapid Characterization of Drill Core and Cutting Mineralogy using Infrared Spectroscopy Jump to: navigation, search OpenEI Reference LibraryAdd to library Journal Article: Rapid Characterization of Drill Core and Cutting Mineralogy using Infrared Spectroscopy Abstract Infrared spectroscopy is particularly good at identifying awide variety of hydrothermally altered minerals with no samplepreparation, and is especially helpful in discrimination amongclay minerals. We have performed several promising pilot studieson geothermal drill core and cuttings that suggest the efficiencyof the technique to sample continuously and provide alterationlogs similar to geophysical logs. We have successfully identifiedlayered silicates, zeolites, opal, calcite, and iron oxides and
Method of growing films by flame synthesis using a stagnation-flow reactor
A method is described for stabilizing a strained flame in a stagnation flow reactor. By causing a highly strained flame to be divided into a large number of equal size segments it is possible to stablize a highly strained flame that is on the verge of extinction, thereby providing for higher film growth rates. The flame stabilizer is an annular ring mounted coaxially and coplanar with the substrate upon which the film is growing and having a number of vertical pillars mounted on the top surface, thereby increasing the number of azimuthal nodes into which the flame is divided and preserving an axisymmetric structure necessary for stability. 5 figs.
Hahn, D.W.; Edwards, C.F.
A method of stabilizing a strained flame in a stagnation flow reactor. By causing a highly strained flame to be divided into a large number of equal size segments it is possible to stablize a highly strained flame that is on the verge of extinction, thereby providing for higher film growth rates. The flame stabilizer is an annular ring mounted coaxially and coplanar with the substrate upon which the film is growing and having a number of vertical pillars mounted on the top surface, thereby increasing the number of azimuthal nodes into which the flame is divided and preserving an axisymmetric structure necessary for stability.
Hahn, David W. (Dublin, CA); Edwards, Christopher F. (Sunnyvale, CA)
Solar Photovoltaic Economic Development: Building and Growing a Local PV Industry, August 2011 (Book)
The U.S. photovoltaic (PV) industry is forecast to grow, and it represents an opportunity for economic development and job creation in communities throughout the United States. This report helps U.S. cities evaluate economic opportunities in the PV industry. It serves as a guide for local economic development offices in evaluating their community?s competitiveness in the solar PV industry, assessing the viability of solar PV development goals, and developing strategies for recruiting and retaining PV companies to their areas.
Response to Comments on "A Bacterium That Can Grow Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus"
Concerns have been raised about our recent study describing a bacterium that can grow using arsenic (As) instead of phosphorus (P). Our data suggested that As could act as a substitute for P in major biomolecules in this organism. Although the issues raised are of investigative interest, we contend that they do not invalidate our conclusions. We argue that while no single line of evidence we presented was sufficient to support our interpretation of the data, taken as an entire dataset we find no plausible alternative to our conclusions. Here we reply to the critiques and provide additional arguments supporting the assessment of the data we reported.
Wolfe-Simon, F; Blum, J S; Kulp, T R; Gordon, G W; Hoeft, S E; Pett-Ridge, J; Stolz, J F; Webb, S M; Weber, P K; Davies, P W; Anbar, A D; Oremland, R S
Rapid replenishment at a consumer product goods manufacturer
Increasing supply chain velocity has adverse consequences for consumer product goods manufacturers, but creates value and flexibility for retail stores. This thesis outlines a case study of a rapid replenishment pilot ...
Becker, Deborah Eugenia
A Rapid Radiative Transfer Model for Reflection of Solar Radiation
A rapid analytical radiative transfer model for reflection of solar radiation in plane-parallel atmospheres is developed based on the Sobolev approach and the delta function transformation technique. A distinct advantage of this model over ...
X. Xiang; E. A. Smith; C. G. Justus
Production of jets at forward rapidities in hadronic collisions
We discuss high-pT production processes at forward rapidities in hadron-hadron collisions, and describe recent results from using QCD high-energy factorization in forward jet production at the LHC.
F. Hautmann
Stochastic approaches for solving Rapid Transit Network Design ...
the estimation of the future demand will have in the design of new rapid transit ... is based on the current mobility patterns for which a new infrastructure does not.