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On Flipboard. ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps. 15 Effective Tools for Visual Knowledge Management. Since I started my quest a few years ago searching for the ultimate knowledge management tool, I’ve discovered a number of interesting applications that help people efficiently organize information.

15 Effective Tools for Visual Knowledge Management

There certainly is no shortage of solutions for this problem domain. Many tools exist that offer the ability to discover, save, organize, search, and retrieve information. However, I’ve noticed a trend in recent years, and some newer applications are focusing more on the visual representation and relationship of knowledge. I believe this is in part due to the wider adoption of mind mapping (and concept mapping), and leveraging concepts and advances in the semantic web community. Most traditional personal knowledge management (PKM) or personal information management (PIM) applications offer the same basic set of features: These are essential features, however don’t offer too much to the more visually-inclined knowledge junkies. 15. Link: Platforms: Win, Mac, Linux Cost: Free (Open Source) The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics.

The development of quantum mechanics in the first decades of the twentieth century came as a shock to many physicists.

The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics

Today, despite the great successes of quantum mechanics, arguments continue about its meaning, and its future. The first shock came as a challenge to the clear categories to which physicists by 1900 had become accustomed. There were particles—atoms, and then electrons and atomic nuclei—and there were fields—conditions of space that pervade regions in which electric, magnetic, and gravitational forces are exerted. Light waves were clearly recognized as self-sustaining oscillations of electric and magnetic fields. But in order to understand the light emitted by heated bodies, Albert Einstein in 1905 found it necessary to describe light waves as streams of massless particles, later called photons. Worse yet, the electron waves are not waves of electronic matter, in the way that ocean waves are waves of water.

All very strange. Quantum mechanics is very impressive. Article_10.1111_gwat.12481.

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Stochastic Reservoir Systems with Different Assumptions for Storage Losses Carter Browning, Hillel Kumin Abstract | References PDF (1033 K) HTML XML ePub, Pub. Date: September 28, 2016 DOI: 10.4236/ajor.2016.65038 188 Downloads 244 Views Citations This article belongs to the Special Issue on Adaptive Parallel Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm Based on Dynamic Exchange of Control Parameters Masaaki Suzuki Abstract | References PDF (1727 K) HTML XML ePub, Pub. DOI: 10.4236/ajor.2016.65037 164 Downloads 190 Views Citations Parallel Quasi Exhaustive Search of Optimal Asset Allocation for Pension Funds Massimo Bernaschi, Mauro Carrozzo, Matteo Lulli, Giacomo Piperno, Davide Vergni Abstract | References PDF (1634 K) HTML XML ePub, Pub.

DOI: 10.4236/ajor.2016.65036 137 Downloads 180 Views Citations Lot Sizing in Production Scheduling at a Personal Protection Equipment Company José Roberto Dale Luche, Rodolfo Egon Perhs Abstract | References. Cred guidance 0309. 2.4.1 Integrated Resources Plan. Map letter. Sustainable water resource management plan. Floridan Aquifer System Groundwater Availability Study. 0913%20tech%201. IntergratedWaterResourcePlan. IWRM%200.1%20chapter%204%20 %20dar.

AWRA Case Studies IWRM. What is IWRM? - THE CHALLENGE. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources in order to maximise economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems.

What is IWRM? - THE CHALLENGE

IWRM helps to protect the world’s environment, foster economic growth and sustainable agricultural development, promote democratic participation in governance, and improve human health. Worldwide, water policy and management are beginning to reflect the fundamentally interconnected nature of hydrological resources, and IWRM is emerging as an accepted alternative to the sector-by-sector, top-down management style that has dominated in the past. The basis of IWRM is that the many different uses of finite water resources are interdependent. Principles of Integrated Water Resources Management. IWRM%200.1%20chapter%202%20 %20dar. IWRM Principles - What is IWRM? - THE CHALLENGE.