Tuesday, November 27, 2007

JavaBeans in Java

JavaBeans is a portable, platform-independent component model written in the Java programming language for the users. The JavaBeans architecture was built through a joint industry effort and it enables developers to write reusable components in the Java programming language.

With the JavaBeans API in java programming language you can build reusable, platform-independent components. Using JavaBeans-compliant application builder tools in java, you can join or combine these components into applets, applications, or composite components. JavaBeans components are identified as beans. Beans are dynamic in that they can be changed or customized in java programming languages.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

What do you mean by Water Cycle

The water cycle—technically called as the hydrologic cycle—is the flow of water within the earth's hydrosphere, that involving changes in the physical state of water between the liquid, solid, and gas phases. The hydrologic cycle refers to the continuous exchange of water that connecting the atmosphere, land, surface and subsurface waters, and organisms. Additionally to storage in different compartments (the ocean is one such "compartment"), the multiple cycles that make up the earth's water cycle have five main physical actions. They are the evaporation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff, and subsurface flow.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

What is Traffic psychology?

The Traffic psychology is a young, intensifying field in psychology. Whereas the traffic psychology is above all related to the study of the behavior of road users and the psychological processes underlying that behavior with the relationship between behavior and accidents, transportation psychology, at times referred to as mobility psychology, focuses on mobility issues, individual and social issues in the movement of people and goods, and the travel demand management (TDM).

There is no single theoretical framework in the traffic psychology; however, in its place, many specific models explaining, for instance, the perceptual, intentional, cognitive, social, motivational and touching determinants of mobility and traffic behavior. One of the most top behavioral models divides the different tasks concerned in traffic involvement into three hierarchical levels, i.e. the strategic, the tactical and the operational level. The model demonstrates the variety of decision and control responsibilities which have to be accomplished when driving a vehicle. On the other hand, until now, most of the psychological models have had somewhat heuristic nature, e.g. risk theories for example the risk compensation hypothesis, the Fuller's task capability model, and thus are not amply precise to allow for concrete behavioral prediction and control. This is partially because of the importance of individual differences, a main topic of psychology which has not yet been amply accounted for in traffic and transportation. Alternatively, social and psychological attitude/behavior models, for example Ajzen's theory of planned behavior, have been useful in identifying determinants of mobility decisions.

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

A short note on Bonneville Dam

The Bonneville Lock and Dam consist of numerous dam structures that together complete a span of the Columbia River between the US states of the Oregon and Washington at River Mile 146.1. The dam is situated 40 miles east of Portland, Oregon, in what is at present the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. The most important functions of Bonneville Lock and the Dam are those of electrical power generation and the river navigation. The dam was built and is managed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. The Electrical power generated at Bonneville is spread by the Bonneville Power Administration. Bonneville Lock and the Dam are named for Army Capt. the Benjamin Bonneville, an early explorer credited with charting much of the Oregon Trail. The name is pronounced as BAH-nee-vill.