The thesis poses two fundamental questions based on current Colombian conditions, namely (1) can the biofuel industry produce bioethanol and biodiesel under sustainable guidelines; (2) to what extent is it possible expand energy crops for biofuels production purposes without jeopardizing sustainability goals? A approach recognized techniques such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) allows a comprehe...

there are limitations to simply increasing the switch buffer size, in that large full buffers cause unwanted latency, especially problematic in WAN environments. We plan to explore the RED gateway strategy of Floyd and Jacobson [9], which can be used as part of a feedback rate control mechanism to send information back to the sender and to limit the size of switch buffer queues. Whether the per...

17 where we take the finite sum as an infinite one. This does not affect significatively the bound but simplifies the eventual handling of the formulae. Thus, the value of the mth component of the error is bounded by and the explicit value of m leads to the proposition. A generalized vision of some parallel bidiagonal systems solvers. [Ston73] H. S. Stone. An efficient parallel algorithm for th...