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Author: Rowena Rae Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 145982394X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 112
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Do you know your watershed address? We all have one, whether we live high up in a mountain, on an inland prairie or near the coast. A watershed is an area of land that channels rain and snowmelt into streams, rivers and oceans. Our lives are deeply intertwined with land and water and all the connections between them. Day-to-day activities—like brushing our teeth, eating a meal, getting a ride in a car or even using an electronic device—have consequences for our own or someone else's watershed. Over the centuries we've changed the land by farming it, cutting down the trees on it, digging into it and building on it. We've also learned how to control water—where it goes and how much flows. Upstream, Downstream explores the consequences of the pressures people place on watersheds and highlights some of the heroes making a difference for watersheds around world.
Author: Rowena Rae Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 145982394X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 112
Book Description
Do you know your watershed address? We all have one, whether we live high up in a mountain, on an inland prairie or near the coast. A watershed is an area of land that channels rain and snowmelt into streams, rivers and oceans. Our lives are deeply intertwined with land and water and all the connections between them. Day-to-day activities—like brushing our teeth, eating a meal, getting a ride in a car or even using an electronic device—have consequences for our own or someone else's watershed. Over the centuries we've changed the land by farming it, cutting down the trees on it, digging into it and building on it. We've also learned how to control water—where it goes and how much flows. Upstream, Downstream explores the consequences of the pressures people place on watersheds and highlights some of the heroes making a difference for watersheds around world.
Author: Dan Heath Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1982134747 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 320
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Wall Street Journal Bestseller New York Times bestselling author Dan Heath explores how to prevent problems before they happen, drawing on insights from hundreds of interviews with unconventional problem solvers. So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we never make our way upstream to fix the systems that caused the problems. Cops chase robbers, doctors treat patients with chronic illnesses, and call-center reps address customer complaints. But many crimes, chronic illnesses, and customer complaints are preventable. So why do our efforts skew so heavily toward reaction rather than prevention? Upstream probes the psychological forces that push us downstream—including “problem blindness,” which can leave us oblivious to serious problems in our midst. And Heath introduces us to the thinkers who have overcome these obstacles and scored massive victories by switching to an upstream mindset. One online travel website prevented twenty million customer service calls every year by making some simple tweaks to its booking system. A major urban school district cut its dropout rate in half after it figured out that it could predict which students would drop out—as early as the ninth grade. A European nation almost eliminated teenage alcohol and drug abuse by deliberately changing the nation’s culture. And one EMS system accelerated the emergency-response time of its ambulances by using data to predict where 911 calls would emerge—and forward-deploying its ambulances to stand by in those areas. Upstream delivers practical solutions for preventing problems rather than reacting to them. How many problems in our lives and in society are we tolerating simply because we’ve forgotten that we can fix them?
Author: Donald Scherer Publisher: Temple University Press ISBN: 9780877227472 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 270
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Contains essays that explore non-reciprocated relationships with regard to the environment. This work includes contributions that discuss moral issues that arise when decisions by individuals, corporations, or governments cause changes in the environment that affect those who do not participate in the decisions.
Author: Alfonso Colombano Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781505819199 Category : Gas companies Languages : en Pages : 0
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[New cover update] As one of the most complex industries in the world, this book provides readers with an in-depth coverage of companies that operate in all sectors of the oil & gas industry, that is Upstream, Midstream and Downstream. This book sets out to evaluate companies through upstream, midstream and downstream financial and operational metrics (covered in the first 4 chapters of the book), and to provide an overview of more than 30 companies in different categories, such as National Oil Companies, International Oil Companies, Independent E&P and Pure Play Refining Companies. Key benefits from reading this book: - Understand the different sectors in the oil & gas industry, their business cycles, unique opportunities and challenges. - Understand how financial and operational metrics for companies inside and outside the oil & gas industry are calculated and understand their importance. - Get to know different oil & gas companies in the industry, from both an international and U.S. perspective. - Gain awareness of what different businesses oil & gas companies are involved in and where they operate. The book is organized into 10 chapters: - Chapter 1 provides an overview of oil & gas as commodities as well as the industry, current supply and demand of energy scenarios and provides a detailed explanation of several financial metrics. - Chapters 2, 3 & 4 introduce the Upstream, Midstream & Downstream sectors of the industry and explain relevant sector metrics. - Chapters 5 & 6 discuss 12 National Oil Companies or NOC's, their current operations and applicable metrics. - Chapter 7 reviews 4 integrated oil & gas companies, their areas of operations and provides an analysis of current financial and operating results using the metrics introduced in this book. - Chapter 8 reviews 6 independent exploration & production companies, their areas of operations and provides an analysis of current financial and operating results using the metrics introduced in this book. - Chapter 9 reviews 3 independent downstream companies, their areas of operations and provides an analysis of current financial and operating results using the metrics introduced in this book. - Chapter 10 reviews 4 midstream companies, their areas of operations and provides an analysis of current financial and operating results using the metrics introduced in this book.
Author: Tom Shanley Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional ISBN: 9780321246561 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 1649
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“In this monumental new book, Tom Shanley pulls together 15 years of history of Intel’s mainline microprocessors, the most popular and important computer architecture in history. Shanley has a keen eye for the salient facts, and an outstanding sense for how to organize and display the material for easy accessibility by the reader. If you want to know what does this bit control, what does that feature do, and how did those instructions evolve through several generations of x86, this is the reference book for you. This is the book Intel should have written, but now they don’t have to.” —Bob Colwell, Intel Fellow The Unabridged Pentium 4 offers unparalleled coverage of Intel’s IA32 family of processors, from the 386 through the Pentium 4 and Pentium M processors. Unlike other texts, which address solely a hardware or software audience, this book serves as a comprehensive technical reference for both audiences. Inside, Tom Shanley covers not only the hardware design and software enhancements of Intel’s latest processors, he also explains the relationship between these hardware and software characteristics. As a result, readers will come away with a complete understanding of the processor’s internal architecture, the Front Side Bus (FSB), the processor’s relationship to the system, and the processor’s software architecture. Essential topics covered include: Goals of single-task and multi-task operating systems The 386 processor—the baseline ancestor of the IA32 processor family The 486 processor, including a cache primer The Pentium processor The P6 roadmap, P6 processor core, and P6 FSB The Pentium Pro processor, including the Microcode Update feature The Pentium II and the Pentium II Xeon and Celeron processors The Pentium III and the Pentium III Xeon and Celeron processors The Pentium 4 processor family The Pentium M processor Processor identification, System Management Mode, and the IO and Local APICs An “at-a-glance” table of contents allows readers to quickly find topics ranging from 386 Demand Mode Paging to Pentium 4 CPU Arbitration. The accompanying CD-ROM contains 16 extra chapters. Whether you design software or hardware or are responsible for system maintenance or customer support, The Unabridged Pentium 4 will prove an invaluable reference to the world’s most widely used microprocessor chips. MindShare’s PC System Architecture series is a crisply written and comprehensive set of guides to the most important PC hardware standards. Books in the series are intended for use by hardware and software designers, programmers, and support personnel. One of the leading technical training companies in the hardware industry, MindShare, Inc., provides innovative courses for dozens of companies, including HP, AMD, IBM, and Compaq. Through these classes and by writing the highly regarded PC System Architecture Series for Addison-Wesley, MindShare trainers emphasize the relationships of hardware subsystems to each other as well as the relationship between software and hardware.
Author: Nadine Salzmann Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319407732 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 292
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Climate change and the related adverse impacts are among the greatest challenges facing humankind during the coming decades. Even with a significant reduction of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, it will be inevitable for societies to adapt to new climatic conditions and associated impacts and risks. This book offers insights to first experiences of developing and implementing adaptation measures, with a particular focus on mountain environments and the adjacent downstream areas. It provides a comprehensive ‘state-of-the-art’ of climate change adaptation in these areas through the collection and evaluation of knowledge from several local and regional case studies and by offering new expertise and insights at the global level. As such, the book is an important source for scientists, practitioners and decision makers alike, who are working in the field of climate change adaptation and towards sustainable development in the sense of the Paris Agreement and the Agenda 2030.
Author: Editoiu Mihail (author) Publisher: Letras ISBN: 6060714617 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 477
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The ebook shall drive you in a "Simulation World" from Upstream, Midstream and Downstream Sectors! Step by step simulation procedure including key technical parameters and neutral layout to be implemented in any available flowsheet simulator, thermo package recommendation and design tips specific for each type of presented Unit/Process - ALL necessary information to build a professional simulation are included! Starting from Upstream processes like FPSO/GOSP, then passing to Midstream with Mercury Removal, Amine Unit, Glycol & Molecular Sieve Dehydration, NGL Recovery and complete Fractionation Train, then arriving Downstream to Refinery where Crude, Vacuum & Condensate Distillation Units are touch, various Strippers like: NHT, Distillate, VGO, Reformate Splitter and Stripper are presented, FCC & Hydrocracking Separation Sections, Saturated Gas Plant, Sour Water Stripping Unit plus Sulfur Recovery & TGT and finally to Petrochemical sector where PP Splitter with heat pump, BT Fractionation and Aromatic Separation are give out. Also four special chapters are part of the ebook, MDMT rigorous calculation including tensile stress of wall expose to fire with practical examples (one vessel and multiple equipment protected by the same depressurization valve), HIPPS implementation for FPSO and Toluene Separation (dynamic simulation layout with integrator settings and various scenarios), CPA validation against experimental data with extensive graphs showing equilibrium for various literatures available experimental data and Divided Wall Column - DWC Opex & Capex quick tips and simulation / optimization tricks. The above four special chapters are a must considering that in Upstream MDMT rigorous calculation is vital, CPA validation against experimental data used to compute necessary flow rate of hydrate inhibitor, MeOH & Mercury distribution between vapor, liquid and water phases are essential, HIPPS to minimize flare loads with Upstream & Downstream applications and the last one but important - the DWC, which gain more and more in all sectors. At the end of each chapter the reader shall find “Take Away” section with useful technical information to be discovered!
Author: R. Puvanakrishnan Publisher: MJP Publisher ISBN: Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 241
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Microorganisms have been exploited for many centuries for the production of fermented foods and beverages and for bread-making. The production of alcoholic beverages using microbes was the first major industrialized process. The technology developed for large-scale brewing was adapted for other anaerobic processes such as acetone and butanol in the early 1900s. With the discovery of penicillins, rapid developments were made in the technology of submerged culture fermentation of aerobic microorganisms under controlled conditions. The advancements in microbiology and process biochemistry improved our ability to harness the potential of microorganisms through improved bioprocessing methods to manufacture new products with economic viability. Microbial derived bioproducts have been gaining importance in the food, pharmaceutical, textile, leather, cosmetic and chemical industries, and most important among them are therapeutic proteins and peptides, enzymes, antigens, vaccines, antibiotics, drugs, etc.Not all microbial production processes involve culture of the organism in liquid medium. Instead, the organism can be grown on the surface of a solid substrate. Solid substrate (or solid state) fermentation (SSF) is an established traditional technology in many countries, producing edible mushrooms, fungal- fermented foods and soy sauce. Before the development of processes in liquid culture, citric acid and some microbial enzymes were produced by SSF. Carbon composting is also a form of SSF.
Author: Patrick Steyaert Publisher: Lean Kanban University Press ISBN: 9780984521470 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 54
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Ideas for fulfilling customer needs can be generated much faster than they can be realized. Upstream Kanban is about marshaling options-having enough choices at the right time, without overburdening the system and the workers who generate those options.
Author: Rowena Rae
Author: Rowena Rae
Author: Dan Heath
Author: Donald Scherer
Author: Alfonso Colombano
Author: Tom Shanley
Author: Nadine Salzmann
Author: Editoiu Mihail (author)
Author: Don Fullerton
Author: R. Puvanakrishnan
Author: Patrick Steyaert