…systems where it is not appropriate, it has proved useful in modeling a wide range of phenomena. Kingsland [1] provides a thorough history of the applications of the simple logistic…
…normalizes the process to 1. “F” refers to the fraction of the process completed. Here the time it takes the process to go from 10 percent to 90 percent of…
…products – lumber, plywood and veneer, pulp products, and fuel (Exhibit 9). Between 1900 and 1993, the national use of timber products grew 70 percent. Large features of these 93…
…Areas. Pilot Field Projects The present component of the program, addressing what now lives in the oceans, involves new field programs. The Steering Committee believes that about half a dozen …
…(oceanographic research institutions and others), and its overall planning (probably by an international scientific advisory committee). Programs including the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program and the Deep Sea Drilling Program offer precedents….
…USDA Forest Products Laboratory. KAFUS INDUSTRIES. 1999. Kafus options 147,000 acres in Arizona as proposed site for increased kenaf fibre production. News release. Available online at www. Kafus.com/pr/news.html. MOULTON, R.J.,…
…in minutes for formalities, hardly different from arriving in Germany and probably easier than Heathrow Airport in England or Kennedy in New York. The disappearance of authority is accompanied by…
…50 teams of oxen. Tractors proportionately increased the productivity of labor, without however substantially intensifying production. The machines did permit extension of cultivable land, and some gain in specific productivity…
…that weather forecasts, a pre-eminent form of adaptation, are the product of satellites, computers, radio, and video (and earlier, telegraphs and telephones). Assessing prospects for climate change requires broad consideration…
…States, Germany, Britain, Spain, Poland, and numerous other nations. Billions of public dollars per year prop up coal through fuel use requirements, pricing provisions, programs in fossil energy research and…