This paper presents an approach for rapid assessment of sustainability for Mainland China based on a multilayer index system. Efficient assessment is conducted with the basic mapping units at county and city levels. After evaluating a comprehensive sustainable development index, SDI, for each unit, five rankings of sustainability are determined, and a zonation map produced. Regional characteris...

Hyperstructured Organic Materials Research Center, Department of Chemical Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul 121-742, Korea Samsung SDI Company, Limited, Energy Development Team, Corporate Research and Development Center, Yongin-City, Kyonggi-Do 449-742, Korea Battery and Fuel Cell Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 130-650, Korea Center for Electrochemical Eng...

The leafminer Liriomyza huidobrensis Blanchard is considered a key pest for potatoes in Argentina. Population dynamics and leaf damage caused by the leafminer on seven selected potato processing varieties were assessed at Balcarce during the 2002 and 2003 growing seasons. Adult population dynamic was monitored using yellow sticky traps, while leaf damage (punctures and mines) was assessed using...

There is a strong hierarchical relationship among different political/administrative levels of SDI concepts. Based on this hierarchical relationship a pyramid of building blocks can be formed by taking a perspective that starts at a local level and proceeds through state, national and regional levels and is completed by developing a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI). Therefore, it is ar...

I examine key SDI concepts: ‘information’, ‘decision processes’, ‘people’, ‘management systems’, ‘social structure’ and ‘information technology’. I attempt to make explicit commonly held assumptions about the nature of these concepts, the ways they contribute to a ‘construction’ view of SDI implementation and their apparent disconnectedness with the realities in the developing world. I suggest ...

Many countries, states and regions throughout the world have spent considerable resources over the past few years debating optimal Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). One of the main elements of these infrastructures is the clearinghouse for spatial data (Crompvoets, et. al., 2004). This clearinghouse is the access network of a SDI, which facilitates access to the spatial data. Additionally, it...

X-ray free-electron lasers have opened up the possibility of structure determination of protein crystals at room temperature, free of radiation damage. The femtosecond-duration pulses of these sources enable diffraction signals to be collected from samples at doses of 1000 MGy or higher. The sample is vaporized by the intense pulse, but not before the scattering that gives rise to the diffracti...

This work provides long-term (2004–2006) size segregated measurements of aerosol mass at a remote coastal station in the southern Europe, with the use of size-selective samplings (SDI impactor). Seven distinct modes were identified in the range 0–10μm and the dominant were the “Accumulation 1” (0.25–0.55μm) and the “Coarse 2” (3–7μm) modes. The seasonal characteristics of each mode were thoroug...

A survey has been performed to determine the measurement requirements of space power related parameters for anticipated SDI systems. These requirements have been compared to present state-of-the-art metrology capabilities as represented by the calibration capabilities of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Metrology areas where present state-of-the-art capabilities are inadequat...

In two experiments, we demonstrate a misperception of the velocity of a random-dot stimulus moving in the presence of a static line oriented obliquely to the direction of dot motion. As shown in previous studies, the perceived direction of the dots is shifted away from the orientation of the static line, with the size of the shift varying as a function of line orientation relative to dot direct...