Following the accident of Fukushima in 2011, nuclear facilities Japan were shut down, and a new evaluation restart process was developed. Despite public safety concerns, current administration expects energy to become pillar for economic recovery coming years. This paper compares historic context restarting Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant before after Fukushima. The evolution is analyzed...

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1. An overview of the problem My aim is to trace the thinking-in-change (Noss & Hoyles, 1996) during the co-ordination of two epistemologically distinct faces of distribution. By co-ordination here, I refer to the connection between a data-centric perspective on distribution, which identifies distribution as an aggregated set of actual outputs, and a modelling perspective on distribution, which...

Milk fever and subclinical hypocalcemia are the most important macro-mineral metabolic disorders that affect transition dairy cows. Many studies have shown that cows with subclinical hypocalcemia are also prone to many diseases and disorders. The drain of Calcium (Ca) during early lactation represents a significant increase in Ca demand over that for late fetal growth and physiological maintena...

Historic urban areas are a significant part of each city not only due to having irreplaceable cultural and social resources, but also due to their attractive patterns of life. They have being threatened by strong development trends. This paper aims to investigate the impacts of redevelopment trends in the historic city of Shiraz, Iran. The paper begins by highlighting historical development in ...

Isfahan is a historic city that has experienced several urban developments throughout its shining and glorious past. They began in Al-buyid and Seljuq periods, and continued through the Safavid urban evolution in the sixteenth century. Zayande-Rood is an important and effective natural element in the city's landscape and plan. This article reflects the conclusion of a historic study on revit...

Depth image based rendering techniques for multiview applications have been recently introduced for efficient view generation at arbitrary camera positions. Encoding rate control has thus to consider both texture and depth data. Due to different structures of depth and texture images and their different roles on the rendered views, distributing the available bit budget between them however requ...

Since the end of 2007, the world has experienced a sharp and deep decline in economic activity, which in this paper for the sake of brevity will be referred to as “the current recession.” The United States has initiated many costly and extensive policies to fight this recession that are likely to have detrimental effects on economic freedom in that country. This chapter considers these detrimen...