Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cloud physics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Proceedings of the 9th International Cloud Physics Conference, Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR 21-28 August, 1984
Author: Atmospheric Sulfur and Nitrogen Oxides
Author: George M. HidyPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483288668
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Atmospheric Sulfur and Nitrogen Oxides provides a thorough synthesis of the research on atmospheric sulfur and nitrogen oxide chemistry on geographically large scales, with special emphasis on the methods and difficulties of establishing source-receptor relationships. The book addresses the importance of long-range air transport, the role of ozone and oxidant chemistry, and it examines analytical methods and pollutant transport models. This text specifically covers:
Report of the Meteorological Committee of the Royal Society
Author: Great Britain. Meteorological OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Meteorology in Estonia in Johannes Letzmann's Times and Today
Author: Heino EelsaluPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Great Britain. Meteorological OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorological services
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Government Reports Announcements & Index
Author: Bibliographic Guide to Conference Publications
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Vols. for 1975- include publications cataloged by the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library with additional entries from the Library of Congress MARC tapes.
Constructing Soviet Cultural Policy
Author: Eglė RindzevičiūtėPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cybernetics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Social Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster
Author: David R. MarplesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 134919428X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
A personal interpretation of the impact of the Chernobyl disaster both in the Soviet Union and the West, examining the environmental consequences, Soviet media coverage, reconstruction of life in the disaster zone (including the city built for Chernobyl workers) and safety changes in the industry.
How Not to Network a Nation
Author: Benjamin PetersPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262034182
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists. Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? In How Not to Network a Nation, Benjamin Peters reverses the usual cold war dualities and argues that the American ARPANET took shape thanks to well-managed state subsidies and collaborative research environments and the Soviet network projects stumbled because of unregulated competition among self-interested institutions, bureaucrats, and others. The capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists. After examining the midcentury rise of cybernetics, the science of self-governing systems, and the emergence in the Soviet Union of economic cybernetics, Peters complicates this uneasy role reversal while chronicling the various Soviet attempts to build a “unified information network.” Drawing on previously unknown archival and historical materials, he focuses on the final, and most ambitious of these projects, the All-State Automated System of Management (OGAS), and its principal promoter, Viktor M. Glushkov. Peters describes the rise and fall of OGAS—its theoretical and practical reach, its vision of a national economy managed by network, the bureaucratic obstacles it encountered, and the institutional stalemate that killed it. Finally, he considers the implications of the Soviet experience for today's networked world.