Guaranteeing reliable access to water and clean energy has been one of the most debated topics promote sustainable development, which made Water–Energy Nexus (WEN) a relevant field study. However, despite much development WEN, there are still many gaps be addressed. One these is understanding temporal features. To address this, this study aimed identify, categorize, analyze main features applie...

The calculations of Guang-Wen Ma’s recent Letter [Phys.Lett. A239, (1998) 209] contain an easily detectable error which makes his conclusions irrelevant. ∗E-mail: [email protected]

The author list in the paper by Shu, Wen, Chen & Lei [Acta Cryst. (2009), E65, o575] is corrected.[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1107/S160053680900556X.].

Article history: Received 27 January 2010 Received in revised form 22 September 2010 Accepted 25 November 2010 Available online 30 November 2010 Communicated by Wen-Lian Hsu

Since 1976 Hilary Putnam has drawn parallels between his ‘internal’, ‘pragmatic’, ‘natural’ or ‘common-sense’ realism and Kant’s transcendental idealism. Putnam reads Kant as rejecting the then current metaphysical picture with its in-built assumptions of a unique, mind-independent world, and truth understood as correspondence between the mind and that ready-made world. Putnam reads Kant as ove...

Nichols, Heather L., Ning Zhang, and Xuejun Wen. Proteomics and genomics of microgravity. Physiol Genomics 26: 163–171, 2006. First published May 16, 2006; doi:10.1152/physiolgenomics.00323.2005.—Many serious adverse physiological changes occur during spaceflight. In the search for underlying mechanisms and possible new countermeasures, many experimental tools and methods have been developed to...

Xiaofeng Yang 1,* ID , Piao Wen 1, Yao Xue 1, Trillion Q. Zheng 1 and Youyun Wang 2 1 School of Electrical Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China; [email protected] (P.W.); [email protected] (Y.X.); [email protected] (T.Q.Z.) 2 Tianshui Electric Drive Research Institute Co. LTD, Tianshui 741020, China; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: ...

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I w ould rst like to thank my advisor, Professor Wen-mei Hwu, for his guidance and support. I have learned a lot from him and I greatly enjoyed taking his classes during my undergraduate and graduate school days. I also like to thank Scott Mahlke who helped me whenever I had a question or problem. Without his help this thesis would never have been nished. Lastly, I like to ...