The greenhouse effect can be defined as the consequence of increased heating of the Earth's surface, as well as the lower atmosphere by carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other trace amounts gases. It is well-known that human industrial activities have released large amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, about 900 billion tons of carbon dioxide, and it is estimated that up to 450 billion...

This paper presents an ongoing effort to develop a domain specific language that would simplify exploiting hardware acceleration in grid-based scientific models. The project is being implemented in Common Lisp, which has the best built-in metaprogramming capabilities among industrial-level compiled programming languages. The DSL is applied to a hydrodynamic model of the atmosphere. Keywords-GPU...

The various fluxes of radiation to and from the Earth’s surface are among the most important variables in the heat economy of the Earth as a whole and at any individual place at the Earth’s surface or in the atmosphere. Radiation measurements are used for the following purposes: (a) To study the transformation of energy within the Earth-atmosphere system and its variation in time and space; (b)...

most theories of the developmental state assume that industrial transformation requires capable and coherent development bureaucracies that are “autonomous,” in the sense of being insulated from particularistic private interests. these theories however benefit from networks connecting them to relevant private industrial actors. by all scholarly accounts, political factionalism and islamic insti...

the present paper studies the objectives and functions of constructing the new towns before and after the revolution in iran. before the revolution, new towns were established based on political – bureaucratic objectives, for the operation of huge oil resources and affiliated industries, to accommodate the workforce in industrial complexes, to implement the policy of regional decentralization...

legal protection of industrial property rights is constituted as an important indicator for the development of societies. to enter into the sphere of law, there should be a legal sanction to protect the right against infringement which is also the case in the law of industrial property. regarding the main legal sanctions as a whole and the industrial property rights in particular, one can menti...