Language is the principal theme of "Embassytown," a particularly deep-thinking entry in a tradition of using the speculative resources of science fiction to address how language shapes culture and society.
4. (C) Al-Husseini disagrees with this analysis, as he believes that Aramco's reserves are overstated by as much as 300 billion bbls of "speculative resources". He instead focuses on original proven reserves, oil that has already been produced or which is available for exploitation based on current technology.
Simon Clydesdale, energy campaigner at Greenpeace UK, said investment was essential to transform the UK energy system, but not "giant speculative bets" on unproven and risky resources.
Catholic investors can turn to a number of principles and guidelines such as the Caritas in Veritate of 2009, which includes statements on avoiding speculative use of financial resources and advancing economic initiatives in developing countries.
On London's Alternative Investment Market, a magnet for speculative ventures in natural resources, oil firms managed to raise just £23.6m ($37m) in the final quarter of last year, compared with £229m in the previous quarter.A handful of independents, such as Premier Oil, a British company that recently completed a successful rights issue, have sound enough finances to increase their spending.
Certainly, the estimated impact on Tohoku's economic growth and health care resources remains speculative.
In a global economy, with uncertain markets and changing conditions, the most advanced and speculative sectors need concentrations of resources -- talent, management, technological infrastructure and buildings.
A collection of human diseases together with confirmed and speculative causes is available from resources such as the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) (Amberger et al., 2011) or Orphanet (Aymé, 2003) database.
Our synthesis methods exploit multicycle operations and chaining as well as conditional resource sharing and speculative execution at the same time.
Based on it conditional behaviors can be efficiently scheduled combining conditional resource sharing (CSR), speculative execution (SE) and other formal graph transformations.
Although things are going well now, it may well be difficult to achieve lasting full employment of the economy's resources without stoking another speculative bubble.
