diversity in natural aspects for relaxation, entertainment as well as recreational opportunities associated with walking, sightseeing, camping near wells, qanats, and springs to spend leisure time and to enjoy landscapes, represents the recreational values which can be perceived due to surface water limitations. recreational value of water includes the benefits derived from those who leave wate...

Reservoir models with many grid blocks suffer from long run time; it is hence important to deliberate a method to remedy this drawback. Usual upscaling methods are proved to fail to reproduce fine grid model behaviors in coarse grid models in well proximity. This is attributed to rapid pressure changes in the near-well region. Standard permeability upscaling methods are limited to systems with ...

Between November 2009 and September 2011, temporary seismographs deployed under the EarthScope USArray program were situated on a 70-km grid covering the Barnett Shale in Texas, recording data that allowed sensing and locating regional earthquakes with magnitudes 1.5 and larger. I analyzed these data and located 67 earthquakes, more than eight times as many as reported by the National Earthquak...

Current GPU tools and performance models provide some common architectural insights that guide the programmers to write optimal code. We challenge these performance models, by modeling and analyzing a lesser known, but very severe performance pitfall, called ‘Partition Camping’, in NVIDIA GPUs. Partition Camping is caused by memory accesses that are skewed towards a subset of the available memo...

Semiconductor quantum well electroabsorption modulators are widely used to modulate near-infrared (NIR) radiation at frequencies below 0.1 terahertz (THz). Here, the NIR absorption of undoped quantum wells was modulated by strong electric fields with frequencies between 1.5 and 3.9 THz. The THz field coupled two excited states (excitons) of the quantum wells, as manifested by a new THz frequenc...

CENTRIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Kokkola-Pietarsaari Unit Date May 2013 Author Surya Poudel Degree programme Degree programme in Tourism Name of thesis THE INFLUENCE OF THE ACCOMMODATION SECTOR ON TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND ITS SUSTAINABILITY Case Study: Strand Camping, Larsmo Supervisor Sara Åhman Pages 49+1 Working life instructor Anders Högberg This thesis was commissioned by Strand Campi...