From the climate policy and system transformation perspective, this situation is highly problematic [18,20,51].
Our efforts are supported by a WIDER grant from the National Science Foundation titled "Promoting Education Reform through Strategic Investments in System Transformation" (PERSIST), #DUE-1347830.
On Tuesday, September 18 , 2012 the Foundation brought together thought leaders from across California for an annual summit, fittingly titled "On the Path to System Transformation".
If a positive electric field of 4 V/nm is applied to the system, a transformation from the n-type Schottky contact to the p-type one was observed, whereas the system keeps an n-type Schottky contact when a negative electric field is applied.
Yanagisawa and Yamasaki also showed that by controlling the mineralizer solutions, temperatures, and partial pressures of hydrogen in a hydrothermal system, phase transformation from α-Fe2O3 to Fe3O4 particles can be achieved [32].
Author John Bloom and panelists Dan Colussy, Ray Leopold and Dorothy Robyn discuss Iridium — the world's most complex satellite system — and its transformation from commercial blunder to life-saving network bringing phone service to war zones, disaster areas and other remote settings around the globe.
These agroforestry systems constitute a transformation from the traditional slash-and-burn method of farming to an integrated production system that allow farmers to control soil erosion and water retention through growing of staple crops interspersed with native trees.
Unfortunately, by the time we began to understand the impact of artificial pesticides and fertilizers, we had become accustomed to cheap, plentiful food, and our agricultural system had begun its transformation from small farms to industrial agribusiness.
Influenced by economic reforms since the 1980s, China's health care system experienced a huge transformation from a planned economic pattern to a market-oriented model.
