Hybrid architectures utilizing GPUs provide a unique opportunity in a high performance computing environment. However, there are many legacy codes, particularly written in Fortran, that can not take immediate advantage of GPUs. Furthermore, many of these codes are under active development and so completely rewriting the code may not be an option. The advanced circulation and storm surge finite ...

The Australian Government’s National Carbon Accounting System (NCAS) was developed to report land sector greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol. NCAS uses a national wall-to-wall time-series of Landsat (optical) satellite data from 1972 to 2010. Independent verification has shown that the analysis can generate a stab...

Product liability litigation has made important contributions to tobacco control, especially by uncovering incriminating industry documents and publicizing product dangers and industry misconduct. WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Article 19 encourages Parties to strengthen legal procedures to facilitate these lawsuits and to establish mechanisms for mutual assistance. Creative...

In this paper, we report the outcome of our activity in the frame of the JRA1 work package of the SCIEnce project supported by the European Commission Framework 6 Programme. The work in this project is centered around SCSCP protocol which is a remote procedure call framework, in which both protocol messages and data are encoded in the OpenMath. By SCSCP different kinds of computer algebra syste...

The financial crisis and deep recession illustrate the unforeseen macroeconomic conditions through which climate policy must endure if it is to stabilize concentrations of greenhouse gases over the long run. It has made voters uneasy about climate policy that could raise energy costs and unemployment, even though the next agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...

The build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere has caused concern about possible global climate change. As a result, international negotiations have produced the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), completed during the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The treaty, which the United States has ratified, calls for the “stabilization of green...

according to the iranian law, the international conventions should be passed by iranian parliament (majlis) and then confirmed by the guardian council for ensuring that they are constitutional and in conformity with islamic rules. the montreal convention for the unification of certain rules for international carriage by air is a significant advance over the warsaw system. in this article, we ...

In December 2015, parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement, committing all nations to undertake ambitious efforts as part of the global response to climate change. This ‘historic’ moment in the long-running international climate change negotiations provides an opportunity to consider and re-evaluate the role of one of the most imp...

Following the development discussion in the last volume on the 'politics of health', Jennifer Prah Ruger argues that the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) represents a shift in global health policy that recognizes the importance of addressing health needs on multiple fronts and integrating public policies into a comprehensive set of health improvement strategies. She argues that th...