GC: n CT: Landfills are classified according to whether they can accept hazardous, non-hazardous or inert waste. This classification is integral to each landfill’s PPC permit/waste management licence. Therefore, in order to prevent the co-disposal of waste (banned since July 2004) and to comply with the waste licence as issued
GC: n CT: How the inference engine works. In simple rule-based systems, there are two kinds of inference, forward chaining and backward chaining. Forward chaining: data gets put into working memory. This triggers rules whose conditions match the new data. These rules then perform their actions. The actions may add
GC: n CT: IS (information system) is the collection of technical and human resources that provide the storage, computing, distribution, and communication for the information required by all or some part of an enterprise. A special form of IS is a management information system (MIS), which provides information for managing
GC: n CT: According to the National Association of Home Builders, fireplaces rank among the top three features desired by new homebuyers. Unfortunately, fireplaces are also major air gaps—they can send up to 8 percent of valuable furnace-heated air flying out the chimney, making them really fun to look at
GC: n CT: An intelligent agent is a software that assists people and act on their behalf. Intelligent agents work by allowing people to delegate work that they could have done, to the agent software. Agents can perform repetitive tasks, remember things you fo rgot, intelligently summarize complex data, learn
GC: n CT: An intelligent database is a full-text database with artificial intelligence (AI) components that interact with users to ensure that users are supplied all relevant information. The AI portion is most often seen during searches providing intellectual operations and knowledge representations that are usually based on the connectionist
GC: n CT: Intelligent energy management system – techniques and methods. Our environment is an asset to be managed carefully and is not an expendable resource to be taken for granted. The main original contribution of this thesis is in formulating intelligent techniques and simulating case studies to demonstrate the
GC: n CT: Intelligent Energy Saving System is a control system used to control a particular environment in other to optimize the energy. It can be used to control the lighting or air conditioning of an area. An example is the library which can be well illuminated with many lamps.
GC: n CT: To understand the notion of intelligent interfaces, we can start by a discussion of what cannot be seen as a definition of intelligent interfaces. Firstly, we can note two things: An “intelligent system” does not necessarily have an intelligent interface, and neither is a well-designed interface necessarily
GC: n CT: Requirements for an intelligent system include security, connectivity, the ability to adapt according to current data and the capacity for remote monitoring and management. Essentially, an intelligent system is anything that contains a functional, although not usually general-purpose, computer with Internet connectivity. An embedded system may be
GC: n CT: The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Plans for the Future of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) The USDOT has released a new plan for ITS research and priorities for the second half of the decade. The new ITS Strategic Plan 2015-2019 outlines the direction and goals of the
GC: CT: Intelligent Transportation System Architecture and Standards. This regulation provides policies and procedures for implementing section 5206(e) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), Public Law 105-178, 112 Stat. 457, pertaining to conformance with the National Intelligent Transportation Systems Architecture and Standards. S: http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/its_arch_imp/policy_1.htm (last access:
GC: n CT: In computers, interactivity is the dialog that occurs between a human being (or possibly another live creature) and a computer program. (Programs that run without immediate user involvement are not interactive; they’re usually called batch or background programs.) Games are usually thought of as fostering a great
GC: n CT: In computing the term interface can have various meanings, but all relate to the interaction between one object and another. Interface may refer to a hardware interface, a software interface, or sometimes it can refer to the interaction between the user and the computer via an input
GC: n CT: As we approach a new millennium, the Internet is revolutionizing our society, our economy and our technological systems. No one knows for certain how far, or in what direction, the Internet will evolve. But no one should underestimate its importance.Over the past century and a half, important
GC: n CT: For those outside Silicon Valley, the “Internet of Things” is a buzzword often associated with seemingly superfluous toys for early-adopting consumers: the expensive Apple watch, the oft-ridiculed Google Glass, or a “smart” refrigerator that senses when the milk jug is empty. So when Sarnoff professor of business
GC: n CT: Before we can measure or forecast Internet Usage, we must first answer a basic question: Who is an Internet user? Research firms, analysts, consultancies and other sources all disagree on how to answer this seemingly simple question. The ITU subscribes to the definition of an Internet user
GC: n CT: The ultimate complexity of design and analysis of stresses is attained in arch and dome dams. These dams are thin, curved structures commonly containing reinforcement, either steel rods or prestressed steel cables the volume of concrete required is much less than for gravity and gravity arch dams,
GC: n CT: The thermal excitation of a carrier from the valence band to the conduction band creates free carriers in both bands. The concentration of these carriers is called the intrinsic carrier concentration, denoted by ni. Semiconductor material which has not had impurities added to it in order to
GC: n CT: One of Tesla’s legacies (and that of his business partner George Westinghouse, boss of the Westinghouse Electrical Company) is that most of the appliances we have in our homes are specifically designed to run from AC power. Appliances that need DC but have to take power from
GC: n CT: Ions: When atoms have an equal number of protons and electrons, they are neutral and have no electrical charge. However, both man-made and natural forces can act on atoms and result in a gain or loss of electrons. When a neutral atom has lost an electron (which
CG: n CT: It is also necessary to introduce elements of neutral atmospheric and magnetospheric physics since the ionosphere is very much affected by processes that originate in these two regions. The ionosphere coexists with the upper portion of the neutral atmosphere and receives considerable energy and momentum from the lower
GC: n CT: Hydropower is created by running water through a hydraulic turbine that spins and drives a generator shaft to create electricity. Most small hydro projects, also called micro-hydro, divert a portion of a river or creek’s flow, or are constructed on established channels, such as irrigation ditches. S: