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  Carrying capacity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In ecology, carrying capacity is the measure of an environment, or habitat, to indefinitely sustain the population of a particular species in a steady-state population density.
Humans have demonstrated an ability to increase the short term carrying capacity of their environment through use of Earth's available resources, most notably the wide scale use of ancient deposits of hydrocarbons, also known as fossil fuels.
When a population exceeds the long term carrying capacity of its environment, also known as overshoot, then famine and disease tend to reduce the size of that population.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carrying_capacity   (284 words)

  
 U.S. Capacity Holding Steady After Three Years of Decline
Newsprint capacity fell roughly 300,000 tons in 2004 for two main reasons: First, a large paper machine was permanently shut down at the end of 2003, accounting for about half of the decline.
In 2005 the remaining capacity for Abitibi-Consolidated's Sheldon, Texas, mill with the 2003 machine closure was removed from the survey, accounting for 70% of the 500,000 tons decline in capacity.
In particular, unbleached kraft folding boxboard capacity is slated to rise 0.5% in 2005, 1.3% in 2006, and 0.5% in 2007.
www.pulpandpaper.net /NetLetter/Features/report52.asp   (1417 words)

  
 AF&PA | 43rd Capacity Survey Press Release
Capacity for uncoated groundwood rose 10.3% in 2002 to 2.0 million tons, and is projected to grow another 5.4% in 2003 and 3.4% in 2004 and remain unchanged in 2005.
Capacity to produce corrugating medium fell l.3% in 2002, and is expected to be about the same level in 2005.
capacity (excluding containerboard) declined 1.1% in 2001 and 1.3% in 2002.
www.afandpa.org /Content/NavigationMenu/Pulp_and_Paper/Statistics_Publications1/43rd_Capacity_Survey_Press_Release1.htm   (3117 words)

  
 capacity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The diminished capacity plea is based in the belief that certain people, because of mental impairment or disease, are simply incapable of possessing the mental state required to commit a certain crime.
In the example of murder and manslaughter, diminished capacity states that a certain defendant is incapable of intending to cause a death, and therefore must have at most caused such a death recklessly.
The USSG states that a federal court may depart downward from the minimum sentence on the basis of diminished capacity if the offense was nonviolent.
straylight.law.cornell.edu /background/insane/capacity.html   (659 words)

  
 FRBSF: Economic Letter - Capacity Utilization and Structural Change (11/15/96)
Capacity utilization for an individual manufacturing plant is the ratio of the plant's actual output level to its potential or capacity output level.
Capacity output is a measure of the extent to which the manufacturing plant can produce goods, given its current technology and fixed factors of production (such as the capital stock).
Although the 82 percent figure for the non-accelerating inflation rate of capacity utilization is estimated imprecisely, with a 95 percent confidence interval that ranges from about 78-1/2 to 83-1/2 percent of capacity, similarly wide confidence intervals must be attached to estimates of the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment.
www.frbsf.org /econrsrch/wklyltr/el96-34.html   (1707 words)

  
 UNDP
Capacity is the ability of individuals, organizations and societies to perform functions, solve problems, and set and achieve goals.
Capacity Development (CD) entails the sustainable creation, utilization and retention of that capacity, in order to reduce poverty, enhance self-reliance, and improve people's lives.
Harmonization and Capacity: the Capacity Development Group works with the OECD/DAC, UNDG and UNDP to integrate the commitments on harmonization expressed in the Rome Declaration and the Secretary Generals reform agenda...
www.capacity.undp.org   (234 words)

  
 CAPACITY - Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Capacity is now properly limited to these [the mere passive operations of the mind]; its primary signification, which is literally room for, as well as its employment, favars this; although it can not be dented that there are examples of its usage in an active sense.
Substances differ in the amount of heat requisite to raise them a given number of thermometric degrees, and this difference is the measure of, or depends upon, what is called their capacity for heat.
The total capacity of a channel may be shared between several independent data streams using some kind of multiplexing, in which case, each stream's data rate may be limited to a fixed fraction of the total capacity.
www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/capacity   (441 words)

  
 Measuring Network Availability: Best Practices White Paper
Capacity planning is the process of determining the network resources required to prevent a performance or availability impact on business-critical applications.
Capacity and performance management should also include exception management where problems are identified and resolved before users call in, and QoS management where network administrators plan, manage, and identify individual service performance issues.
The data plane is simply capacity and performance issues involved with the data traversing the network while the control plane means resources required to maintain proper functionality of the data plane.
www.cisco.com /warp/public/126/performwp.htm   (3833 words)

  
 Learning Lab - Topical Resource List Capacity Building for Nonprofit Organizations: A Resource List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The authors define capacity building, discuss why there is a need for it, outline its role in the development of nonprofits, and give guidelines to grantmakers on how and why to fund this effort.
Capacity building, that is, strengthening organizations, is but one aspect of solidifying civil society in the world.
Defining capacity building as "the creation, expansion, or upgrading of a stock of desired qualities and features called capabilities that could be continually drawn on over time," the author points out that capacity building is not just a new name for training and development, though those educational efforts are a component of it.
fdncenter.org /learn/topical/capacity.html   (1827 words)

  
 APPENDIX II - CAPACITY OUTPUT AND CAPACITY UTILIZATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Capacity utilization is defined as the ratio of actual output to some measure of potential output given a firm’s short-run stock of capital and perhaps other fixed inputs in the short run (Nelson, 1989).
The four measures differ by the manner in which potential or capacity output is defined and whether or not the potential or capacity output is technologically determined, without an explicit economic foundation, or whether this capacity output represents the outcome of an explicit economic optimization process, such as cost minimization or profit maximization.
The first economic approach, proposed by Klein (1960) and Friedman (1963), defines capacity output as that output corresponding to the tangency of the long and short-run average or unit total cost curves (the average total cost curve includes the cost of the capital stock which is a fixed or quasi-fixed factor).
www.fao.org /DOCREP/003/X2250E/x2250e0d.htm   (1653 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - heat capacity (Physics) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
heat capacity or thermal capacity, ratio of the change in heat energy of a unit mass of a substance to the change in temperature of the substance; like its melting point or boiling point, the heat capacity is a characteristic of a substance.
In the metric system, heat capacity is often expressed in units of calories per gram per degree Celsius (cal/g-°C); in the English system, British thermal units per pound per degree Fahrenheit (Btu/lb-°F) are often used.
kilowatt-hours/g-°C. The heat capacity of a system such as a calorimeter refers to the ratio of the change in heat energy of the system as a whole to the change in its temperature and is expressed in such units as calories per degree Celsius.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/heatcapa.html   (279 words)

  
 Heat capacity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thermal capacitance, another name for heat capacity, is related to specific heat capacity at constant pressure by the formula
For matter in a crystalline solid phase, the Dulong-Petit law states that the dimensionless specific heat capacity assumes the value 3.
For more modern and precise analysis it is useful to use the idea of phonons.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heat_capacity   (908 words)

  
 Managing fishing capacity
Of 80 countries that responded to an FAO survey on capacity management, 60 have conducted or plan to conduct an initial assessment of national fishing capacity -- but mostly for large scale commercial fisheries.
Half report having national programmes in place for monitoring fishing capacity, but fewer countries (26) have established target capacity levels for their commercial fishery fleets, the survey shows.
In addition, many are implementing measures aimed at limiting the use of existing capacity by imposing quotas on catch or fishing effort.
www.fao.org /newsroom/en/focus/2004/47127/article_47134en.html   (580 words)

  
 Diminished Capacity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thus, in a murder case, the defendant may offer a "diminished capacity" defense to prove that he was incapable of deliberating, premeditating, or acting with malice, as is required for a first degree murder conviction.
When the diminished capacity defense is successful, the defendant may be found guilty of a lesser included offense (that is, a lesser homicide) which requires only general intent.
Basically, diminished capacity is used by defendants whose mental problems are not profound enough to serve as the basis for an insanity defense but may be sufficient to raise questions about their ability to form the requisite specific intent necessary to commit particular crimes.
myweb.wvnet.edu /~jelkins/crimlaw/psy/diminished.html   (1476 words)

  
 Capacity Building: Melding Development and Empowerment Models Links_SP02   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Therefore, designing and implementing capacity-building interventions and assessing capacity building's impact are going to be more of a challenge for social workers in both research and practice," she says.
An example of capacity building applied in the health sector is the capability and health policy theory based on ethics and economics.
Now that GWB has selected the theme of capacity building and is integrating the model into its curriculum, Sherraden believes the School has taken the lead in the field of social work and is improving on the traditions of capacity building: "We are not blazing a trail.
gwbweb.wustl.edu /Links/SP02/models.html   (1376 words)

  
 Curious Cat Investing Dictionary Glossary Encyclopedia - Definitions of Investment Terms: Capacity Utilization
The capacity index, which is an estimate of sustainable potential output, is also expressed as a percentage of actual output in 1997.
The rate of capacity utilization equals the seasonally adjusted output index expressed as a percentage of the related capacity index.
From 1972 to 2003 the capacity utilization rate averaged 81.1% (with a low of 70.9 and a high of 85.2).
www.curiouscat.com /invest/capacityutilization.cfm   (260 words)

  
 School Capacity Update:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
School capacity is subject to change in response to five factors: (1) compliance with current building codes, (2) change of educational program, (3) change of class size, (4) expansion of educational services, and (5) scheduling (Chan, 1998).
Accordingly, the capacity of the school needs to be evaluated and a new floor plan of the school needs to be prepared to indicate the updated capacity.
This concept of maximum capacity was opposed by Chambers (1993) who described maximum capacity as a somewhat meaningless number which represented the theoretical number of students impossible to be loaded in the given spaces.
www.hehd.clemson.edu /SRCEA/YrBkv1n1/Chan.htm   (1882 words)

  
 EPA Small Systems and Capacity Development
Capacity development is a State effort to help drinking water systems improve their finances, management, infrastructure, and operations so they can provide safe drinking water consistently, reliably, and cost-effectively.
Technical capacity refers to the physical infrastructure of the water system, including but not limited to the adequacy of the source water, infrastructure (source, treatment, storage, and distribution), and the ability of system personnel to implement the requisite technical knowledge.
Managerial capacity refers to the management structure of the water system, including but not limited to ownership accountability, staffing and organization, and effective linkages to customers and regulatory agencies.
www.epa.gov /safewater/smallsys.html   (682 words)

  
 Section 13.04.110 Uncommitted sewage capacity allocation.
Uncommitted capacity may be purchased by new or expanded users in accordance with the provisions of this section.
Capacity cannot be separated from a parcel unless first resold or conveyed to the CSA at the option of the CSA.
For purposes of estimating capacity requirements for nonresidential uses, the CSA shall base its estimate of flow on the number of plumbing fixture units contained in the application.
www.co.alameda.ca.us /admin/admincode/Alameda_County_General_Ordinance_Code/Title_13/04/110.html   (524 words)

  
 Specific heat capacity at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In thermodynamics, the specific heat capacity of a substance is the slope (derivative) of the internal energy due to random motion of atoms in a sample as a function of temperature, normalized by dividing by the mass of the sample.
Because the internal energy curve is normally almost linear, it can be approximated by measuring the heat required to raise the temperature of 1 g of a substance by 1 °C (or one kelvin).
If a fluid has stronger intermolecular forces (such as hydrogen bonding in water) then the heat capacity is likely to be higher.
wiki.tatet.com /Specific_heat_capacity.html   (202 words)

  
 West Virginia Infrastructure Capacity and Development Site
Since the overwhelming majority of all public water systems are small, capacity development activities will have their greatest effect on small systems, particularly on those small water systems currently, or in the future likely to be, out of compliance.
Capacity development and operator certification are also tied to the DWTRF through withholding requirements.
Capacity development alone weaves together all existing drinking water program activities into a focused effort to help troubled, small systems.
www.wvdhhr.org /oehs/eed/i&cd/capdevinfo.asp   (831 words)

  
 Acting Capacity
Acting capacity assignments may not exceed one year, except that the Director, in response to unusual or unanticipated circumstances, may grant individual extensions.
In order to avoid potential misunderstandings, it is important that agency human resource representatives and/or supervisors fully explain the terms and conditions of an acting capacity assignment to a prospective acting capacity employee prior to the beginning of the assignment.
An exception is a seasonal state employee who does an acting capacity assignment during his or her off-season.
www.state.me.us /bhr/Policies/6_2.C.htm   (599 words)

  
 UMHS Press Release: Exercise capacity linked to heart disease
The overall difference in running capacity between the two groups of rats in the Science study was 347 percent.
The most clinically useful finding reported in the paper was the close association in the experimental rats between low aerobic exercise capacity and high scores for risk factors linked to metabolic syndrome – physical changes often seen in people who later develop cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
So increasing the capacity for exercise is important to anyone who wants to lower their risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke.
www.med.umich.edu /opm/newspage/2005/borntorun.htm   (1215 words)

  
 Assessing mental capacity in older adults
In addition, APA and ABA have co-written a handbook for lawyers, "Assessment of Older Adults with Diminished Capacity: A Handbook for Attorneys"--expected to be published by the end of the year.
As such, the guidelines and tools for determining diminished capacity are intended to improve reliability and validity of capacity determinations and, therefore, decrease subjectivity, said geropsychologist Jennifer Moye, PhD, assistant psychology professor at Harvard Medical School.
In doing this, she encouraged psychologists to further develop specific capacity models and instruments--such as for determining financial transactions and treatment adherence capacity--as well as to educate attorneys, judges and psychologists about quality assessment for guardianship.
www.apa.org /monitor/oct04/capacity.html   (635 words)

  
 Home - Capacity.org
Although there are many different interpretations of capacity and how it develops, recent trends point to an emerging consensus on the challenges that professionals need to address.
This introductory article traces the evolution of the debate on capacity development, and outlines our ambitions for Capacity.org as a forum for discussion and a gateway to relevant information.
At the same time, the Commission for Africa, the Millennium Review and the G8 Gleneagles meeting reached a clear conclusion: capacity development is one of the most critical issues for both donors and partner countries.
www.capacity.org   (404 words)

  
 Precision Weighing Balances - High Capacity Balances
This is a high capacity (5,000g), fine readability (0.01g) scale that will meet the needs of the most demanding user.
Industrial high capacity balance was a demo unit used for trade shows and demonstrations and the MSRP was $4350 but you pay only $1599.
The LA34001P high capacity industrial balance meets the manufacturer specifications and is calibrated by factory trained Sartorius technician prior to shipping to you.
high-capacity.balances.com /scales/0/3/6   (728 words)

  
 Instant Capacity (formerly known as Instant Capacity, iCOD) - North America/U.S. QuickSpecs
With HP's Instant Capacity solutions, HP 9000 and HP Integrity servers can be populated with Instant Capacity CPUs, cell boards, and memory at a significantly lower cost until they are needed.
When activating an Instant Capacity cell board, you are required to activate the cell board, ALL the memory, and at least one CPU.
The Temporary Instant Capacity RTU is assigned to a system, therefore, one RTU can be applied to all the Instant Capacity CPUs that reside on that system.
h18000.www1.hp.com /products/quickspecs/11723_na/11723_na.HTML   (1162 words)

  
 Performance and Capacity - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sustaining Nonprofit Performance: The Case for Capacity Building and the Evidence to Support It
Capacity Planning for Web Performance can show you the techniques for estimating and planning effectively for your Web site's workload, both for today and tomorrow.
Capacity Planning and Performance Modeling: From Mainframes to Client-Server Systems
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /performance_and_capacity.htm   (134 words)

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