If you think participating in a programming contest is stressful, imagine being an air traffic controller. With human lives at stake, an air traffic controller has to focus on tasks while working under constantly changing conditions as well as dealing with unforeseen events. Consider the task of scheduling the airplanes that are landing at an airport. Incoming airplanes report their positions, directions, and speeds, and then the controller has to devise a landing schedule that brings all

Thermophysical properties of meat In chilling, freezing, thawing and tempering processes heat has either to be introduced or to be extracted from the meat to change its temperature The rate at which heat can be removed or introduced into the surface of meat is essentially a function of the process being used, for example air blast, plate, immersion, and so on. However, the rate at which heat can flow from within the meat to its surface is a function of the thermophysical prop- erties of the meat. If we continue to

This term’s teaching content covers 10 units. Basically, every two units will be finished within 3 weeks. Except the one￾week holidays of the National Day and the oral English test, there are 15 weeks left for teaching, so at least 9 unit should be finished at the end of this term. Roughly the teaching of one unit covers 6 periods

Real GDP versus Money GDP (实际GDP和名义GDP) Money GDP/Nominal GDP(名义GDP) values the production of goods and services at current prices(以现价). Real GDP(实际GDP) values the production of goods and services at constant prices(以不变价格)

Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific

Chancellor Kohl, Governing Mayor Diepgen, ladies and gentlemen: Twenty four years ago, President John F. Kennedy visited Berlin, and speaking to the people of this city and the world at the city hall. Well since then two other presidents have come, each in his turn to Berlin. And today, I, myself, make my second visit to your city

Lyndon Baines Johnson: \We Shall Overcome\ Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the Congress: I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy. I urge every member of both parties, Americans of all religions and of all colors, f rom every section of this country, to join me in that cause. At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning

Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Four Freedoms Mr. Speaker, members of the 77th Congress: I address you, the members of this new Congress, at a moment unprecedented in the history of the union. I use the word “unprecedented” because at no previous time has American security been as seriously threatened f rom without as it is today

A bottom-up parser uses an explicit stack to perform a parse – The parsing stack contains tokens, nonterminals as well as some extra state information – The stack is empty at the beginning of a bottom-up parse, and will contain the start symbol at the end of a successful parse

This chapter was written so I would have something to talk about on the first day of class. I wanted to give students an idea of what economics was all about, and what my lectures would be like, and yet not have anything that was really critical for the course. (At Michigan, students are still shopping around on the first day, and a good number of them won’t necessarily be at the lecture.)