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Bulent Aras, U.S.-Central Asian Relations , MERIA Journal, Vol. 1, No.l (1997). 

In the period from 2000 to 2020, world oil use is likely to exceed the amount used in the entire preceding industrial era. A U.S. Central Intelligence Agency report, Global Trends 2015, has concluded that economic and population growth are expected to increase oil demand... 

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. 2001. Global Trends 2015. Washington, DC U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. 

K. Lantz, P. Disterhoft, J. DeLuisi, D. Bigelow, J. Slusser (1999). Methodology for deriving dear-sky erythemal calibration factors for UV broadband radiometers of the U.S. Central UV Calibration Facility. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 16,1736-1752. 

My own company is a case in point. Fluor was once a self-contained family-owned business, much like the majority of companies were in the last century. At last count, Fluor had no fewer than 47 different major strategic alliances, partnerships and joint ventures to better serve customers in the U.S., Central and South America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific market. 

U.S. central and south Atlantic coast. Final Report, U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, Washington DC, 1989. 

Important ore deposits are found in Zaire, Morocco, and Ganada. The U.S. Geological Survey has announced that the bottom of the north central Pacific Ocean may have cobalt-rich deposits at relatively shallow depths in water close to the the Hawaiian Islands and other U.S. Pacific territories. 

Alternatively, short-rotation hybrid poplar and selected grasses can be multicropped on an energy plantation in the U.S. Northwest and harvested for conversion to Hquid transportation fuels and cogenerated power for on-site use in a centrally located conversion plant. The salable products are Hquid biofuels and surplus steam and electric power. This type of design may be especially useful for larger land-based systems. 

Domestic. Estimates of U.S. uranium resources for reasonably assured resources, estimated additional resources, and speculative resources at costs of 80, 130, and 260/kg of uranium are given in Table 1 (18). These estimates include only conventional uranium resources, which principally include sandstone deposits of the Colorado Plateaus, the Wyoming basins, and the Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas. Marine phosphorite deposits in central Elorida, the western United States, and other areas contain low grade uranium having 30—150 ppm U that can be recovered as a by-product from wet-process phosphoric acid. Because of relatively low uranium prices, on the order of 20.67/kg U (19), in situ leach and by-product plants accounted for 76% of total uranium production in 1992 (20). 

The World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) has been formed, consisting of nuclear plant operators over the entire world who have pledged to assist each other in the achievement of safe operations (25). There are four centers from which this international program is adrninistered one in the United States in Atlanta, Georgia, operated by INPO one in Paris operated by Electricitir de Prance one in Moscow operated by the Ministry of Nuclear Power and one in Tokyo operated by the Central Research Institute for the Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI). Through this mechanism, teams of operators from the U.S., Western Europe, and Asia visit CIS plants to share safety experience and know-how, and similarly, plant personnel from Russian and Eastern European nuclear units visit European, Asian, and U.S. plants. 

The widespread availabiHty of electrical energy completely transformed modem society and enabled a host of breakthroughs in manufacturing, medical science, communications, constmction, education, and transportation. Centralized fossil fuel-powered, steam-turbine-based power plants remain the dominant means of electricity production. However, hydropower faciHties such as the 1900-MW Hoover Dam Power Project located on the Arizona—Nevada border, commissioned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation during the 1930s, have also made significant contributions. 

The pioneering 10-MW Solar One plant in Barstow, California, produced the most successful central receiver tests. The plant was funded primarily by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and operated by Southern California Edison Company in the early to mid-1980s. EPRI provided technical evaluations of the experiment. The general conclusion drawn from Solar One and other experiments was that further substantial engineering development was needed. 

For the 1994 crops, 33 beet sugar factories in the United States processed 28.8 X 10 t of beets from 586,000 ha into 4.23 x 10 t (93 x 10 Cwt) of sugar 56% of the domestic production and 47% of the U.S. market. Cwt or hundred-weight of sugar is 100 lbs and is the common unit of commerce in the United States. This is a record level of production, an increase of 12% from the 1990 and 1991 crops. The average factory has a daily processing capacity of 4885 t compared to <3700 t in 1982. Since 1994, three factories in California have been closed and the constmction of one new factory has been announced for central Washington State. European factories process 10,000—15,000 t/d. 

Malaria affects an estimated 270 million people and causes 2—3 million deaths annually, approximately one million of which occur in children under the age of five. While primarily an affliction of the tropics and subtropics, it has occurred as far north as the Arctic Circle. The disease essentially has been eradicated in most temperate-zone countries, but some 1100 cases of malaria in U.S. citizens returning from abroad were reported to the Centers for Disease Control during 1990. Malaria is seen today in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. It is on the increase in Afghanistan, Brazil, China, India, Mexico, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. Escalation of the disease is because of the discontinued use of the insecticide DDT which effectively kills mosquito larvae, but has been found to be toxic to Hvestock and wildlife. Also, chloroquine (6), a reUable dmg for the prophylaxis and treatment of falcipamm malaria, is ineffective in many parts of the world because of the spread of dmg-resistant strains. 

The process of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is the central process in a modem, gasoline-oriented refinery. In U.S. refineries, the amount of feed processed by fluid catalytic cracking units (FCCU) is equivalent to 35% of the total cmde oil processed in the United States (1). As of January 1991, installed FCCU capacity in the United States was 8.6 x ICf m /d (5.4 x 10 barrels/d). 

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