The California Environmental Quality Act - Volume I - Summary Report with Conclusions and Recommentations

An evaluation emphasizing its impact upon California cities and counties with recommendations for improving its effectiveness. A report prepared for the Assembly Committee on Local Government

The California Environmental Quality Act - Volume II - EIR Survey Issues Raised and Some Other Characteristics of EIRs Prepared by Local Jurisdictions Under CEQA

An evaluation emphasizing its impact upon California cities and counties with recommendations for improving its effectiveness. A report prepared for the Assembly Committee on Local Government

The Maine Airport System Plan : Summary Report

The Maine Airport System Plan : Summary Report Prepared for Bureau of Planning , Maine Department of Transportation by Systems Analysis & Research Corporation and Howard Needles Tammen & Bergendoff, November 1977. Contents: Foreword / Overview / Background / Aviation in Maine / Preparation of the Plan / The Plan / Implementation of the Plan / Appendix A - Airport Needs by County / Appendix B - Airport Classifications / Appendix C - Maine\u27s Airports by Map Code Identifier / Appendix D - Technical Supplement Table of Contents / Appendix E - Regional Planning Commissions / Appendix F - Advisory Committee Membership / Appendix G - Glossary / Map of Maine\u27s Airportshttps://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/me_collection/1042/thumbnail.jp

The California Environmental Quality Act - Volume III - Discussion of Costs and Delays Related to Environmental Review

An evaluation emphasizing its impact upon California cities and counties with recommendations for improving its effectiveness. A report prepared for the Assembly Committee on Local Government

The California Environmental Quality Act - Volume III - Discussion of Costs and Delays Related to Environmental Review

An evaluation emphasizing its impact upon California cities and counties with recommendations for improving its effectiveness. A report prepared for the Assembly Committee on Local Government

Numerical Methods of Multifractal Analysis in Information Communication Systems and Networks

In this chapter, the main principles of the theory of fractals and multifractals are stated. A singularity spectrum is introduced for the random telecommunication traffic, concepts of fractal dimensions and scaling functions, and methods used in their determination by means of Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima (WTMM) are proposed. Algorithm development methods for estimating multifractal spectrum are presented. A method based on multifractal data analysis at network layer level by means of WTMM is proposed for the detection of traffic anomalies in computer and telecommunication networks. The chapter also introduces WTMM as the informative indicator to exploit the distinction of fractal dimen- sions on various parts of a given dataset. A novel approach based on the use of multifractal spectrum parameters is proposed for estimating queuing performance for the generalized multifractal traffic on the input of a buffering device. It is shown that the multifractal character of traffic has significant impact on queuing performance characteristics

Climate Change and the U. S. Energy Sector: Regional Vulnerabilities and Resilience Solutions

Executive Summary Changes in climate create diverse challenges across the U.S. energy system. Some energy infrastructure assets have already suffered damage or disruption in services from a variety of climate-related impacts, such as higher temperatures, rising sea levels, and more severe weather events. In the absence of concerted action to improve resilience, energy system vulnerabilities pose a threat to America’s national security, energy security, economic wellbeing, and quality of life. Building climate change resilience into our energy infrastructure planning is a challenging and complex undertaking. Planning horizons can span several decades (the typical service life of most energy assets), associated investments can extend into the billions of dollars, and relevant technologies can change rapidly. Some climate change impacts may trigger cascading effects on natural resources, energy demand, and supply chains. Challenges are compounded when addressing climate risks at the regional or local level, where climate change projections are subject to less certainty than at the national scale. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has proactively launched numerous initiatives to support and facilitate energy sector climate preparedness and resilience at national, regional, and local levels. In addition to enhancing resilience to climate change, these actions may also have co-benefits that accommodate non-climate resilience needs (e.g., aging infrastructure, cybersecurity, physical attacks, geomagnetic storms). To assist infrastructure owners and utility planners, DOE has compiled this report on region-specific energy vulnerabilities to climate change (see Figure ES-1) and current resilience solutions. Key Climate Impacts and Regional Vulnerabilities Vulnerabilities to climate change vary across regions depending upon the nature of the climate impacts (see text box), the types and age of energy systems present, and the projected combined impacts on operations, energy demand, and energy supply chains. Major energy systems affected by regional climate impacts include the following: Oil and gas upstream operations are most vulnerable in the Southeast, Southern Great Plains, and Alaska. Fuel transport in every region is vulnerable to a variety of climate impacts, including increasing heavy precipitation, heat waves, drought, hurricanes, and sea level rise-enhanced storm surge. Thermoelectric power generation is vulnerable to increasing temperatures and reduced water availability in most regions, particularly in the Midwest, Great Plains, and southern regions. Hydropower is vulnerable to reduced snowpack, earlier melting, and changes to precipitation patterns, mainly in western regions. Bioenergy crops in the Midwest and Northern Great Plains may be harmed by higher temperatures and more frequent droughts and floods. Electric grid operations and infrastructure in every region is vulnerable to a variety of climate impacts, including increasing temperatures, heavy rainfall events, wildfire, hurricanes, and storm surge. Electricity demand is affected by increasing temperatures and is a key vulnerability in nearly every region

Mozambique : administrative districts of Niassa, Cabo Delgado, Nampula and Zambezia Province (SER A)

This is a map of the administrative districts of Niassa, Cabo Delgado, Nampula and Zambezia Province

Export Information Systems Analysis on PT. Amico Knit Internusa

At PT. AMICO KNIT INTERNUSA experiencing problems in their operations. By implementing a system that is running now export processes can run well, this can be seen in the brief procedure performed by the company so that the reception of goods to be exported can be sent according to schedule determined by the importer / buyer. With this system indirectly provides a huge impact for exporters seen an increase in production quantities, the faster delivery of goods, the more value goods exported. So that the importer is more give full confidence increase purchases from this company because the company was able to achieve the targeted production of goods (sweaters) before the time specified

A GPU-based survey for millisecond radio transients using ARTEMIS

Astrophysical radio transients are excellent probes of extreme physical processes originating from compact sources within our Galaxy and beyond. Radio frequency signals emitted from these objects provide a means to study the intervening medium through which they travel. Next generation radio telescopes are designed to explore the vast unexplored parameter space of high time resolution astronomy, but require High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions to process the enormous volumes of data that are produced by these telescopes. We have developed a combined software /hardware solution (code named ARTEMIS) for real-time searches for millisecond radio transients, which uses GPU technology to remove interstellar dispersion and detect millisecond radio bursts from astronomical sources in real-time. Here we present an introduction to ARTEMIS. We give a brief overview of the software pipeline, then focus specifically on the intricacies of performing incoherent de-dispersion. We present results from two brute-force algorithms. The first is a GPU based algorithm, designed to exploit the L1 cache of the NVIDIA Fermi GPU. Our second algorithm is CPU based and exploits the new AVX units in Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs.Comment: 4 pages, 7 figures. To appear in the proceedings of ADASS XXI, ed. P.Ballester and D.Egret, ASP Conf. Se