3,571 research outputs found
A breakthrough with multifunctional unbreachable dykes: A case study analysis to enable implementation of multifunctional unbreachable dykes to increase cost-effectiveness of Dutch flood protection
No full textThe Netherlands is not well protected against flooding and limited budget it available for improvements. Therefore, this research investigates in what way the cost-effectiveness of Dutch flood protection can be improved with the use of multifunctional unbreachable dykes. The multifunctional unbreachable dyke, a dyke combined with additional user functions such as buildings, nature and recreation, is found to be an appropriate measure to improve cost-effectiveness of Dutch flood protection. Three challenges (assessment tools, funding and institutional organization) are determined from earlier research that make implementation of multifunctional unbreachable dykes difficult. With the use of case study analysis of ten cases it turned out that these challenges not only can cause failure of implementation, they can also contribute to cost-ineffective applicatio
Consequences of responsibility ambiguity and role conflict on teamwork effectiveness
No full textPurpose of the present thesis is to figure out and to understand the consequences of ambiguous factor in responsibility and role conflict on a result of teamwork performance. As a team, individual roles and responsibilities play a part of contribution of effectiveness and has considerably an impact on their performance. Furthermore, responsibility and role are a milestone composed for a team and hence any negative forces in the beginning of responsibility and role delegation significantly yields different results indirectly or directly. The study is inspired from social cognitive theory of self-regulation theory and author’s observation from working life and collection of discussion from interviews.
The thesis aims to deliver a fact of responsibility ambiguity and role conflict which is existed in teamwork and to give an evidence of a tight relationship between role, responsibility and teamwork effectiveness. And an effectiveness is focused on communication, decision making, teamwork process and working satisfaction factor within a teamwork
This thesis is a precious opportunity for either the author or readers to understand an aspect of effective cooperation and eliminate any potential risks in the result of responsibility ambiguity and role conflict
Teaching Signal Processing to the Medical Profession
No full textKnowledge of signal processing is very important for medical students. A medical signal may be used for monitoring, constructing an image, or for extracting the numerical quantity of a parameter. This information forms a basis for medical decisions. However, the processing of the signal may lead to distortion and an incorrect interpretation. The present article describes an educational practical for first year medical students. It uses the electrocardiogram, which can be obtained easily, as a convenient example of a medical signal. The practical was developed at the VU University Amsterdam and summarizes the elementary concepts of signal processing
Deja vu and depersonalization in normal subjects
No full textThe author presents a survey of the literature, together with a study of the phenomena of déjà vu and depersonalization in a largely healthy population. He concludes that the déjà vu experience as elicited by a clinical type interview is common particularly in intelligent subjects of higher socioeconomic status. Well defined depersonalization experiences will also be elicited by clinical enquiry from subjects free from major psychiatric disability
Le retour des idéogrammes - Unicode CJC vu du Japon
No full text@article{rn-Lucas-2002, author = {Lucas, Nadine}, title = {Le retour des idéogrammes - Unicode CJC vu du Japon}, journal = {Document numérique}, year = {2002}, volume = {6}, number = {3-4}, pages = {183-210} }National audienc
The Anticipation of the Present: Phenomenology of déjà vu
No full text© 2017 The British Society for Phenomenology. This paper analyses the déjà-vu experience in order to deepen the understanding of the complex nature of time-consciousness from a phenomenological point of view. The paper is divided into two sections: the first section focuses on Bergson’s research on déjà vu in order to assess the validity of his position; the second section describes a specific form of déjà-vu experience from a phenomenological perspective. This investigation will question the widespread assumption according to which déjà vu should be conceived as a disturbance of the memory of the past. On the contrary, the author shows that the disturbance primarily pertains to the dimension of the future. In order to understand this phenomenon, it is necessary to focus on the coherent deformation of the immediate expectation of the imminent future.status: Publishe
Reading of selected works
No full textMaile Chapman, a widely published short story writer and author of the novel Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto, and Vu Tran, winner of a 2009 Whiting Writers\u27 Award and a contributor to the serial novel Restless City, read from their work. Both are Schaeffer Fellows in fiction at UNLV
Reductions in air conditioning energy caused by a nearby park
No full textabstract: Field observations were carried out to determine the influence of a park on the urban summer climate in the nearby areas. The possibilities of reduction in air conditioning energy were investigated. Air temperature, relative humidity and other meteorological factors were measured at many locations inside a park and in the surrounding areas in the Tama New Town, a city in the west of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Japan. The observations indicated that vegetation could significantly alter the climate in the town. At noon, the highest temperature of the ground surface of the grass field in the park was 40.3 °C, which was 19 °C lower than that of the asphalt surface or 15 °C lower than that of the concrete surface in the parking or commercial areas. At the same time, air temperature measured at 1.2 m above the ground at the grass field inside the park was more than 2 °C lower than that measured at the same height in the surrounding commercial and parking areas. Soon after sunset, the temperature of the ground surface at the grass field in the park became lower than that of the air, and the park became a cool island whereas paved asphalt or concrete surfaces in the town remained hotter than the overlying air even late at night. With a size of about 0.6 km2, at noon, the park can reduce by up to 1.5 °C the air temperature in a busy commercial area 1 km downwind. This can lead to a significant decrease of in air conditioning energy in the commercial area.Corresponding Author:
Vu Thanh Ca
Saitama University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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A Sensory Memory Desynchronization Theory of Déjà Vu
No full textThis project contains a preprint and supporting materials for a novel theory explaining déjà vu as arising from asynchronous sensory memory integration. The goal is to share the work publicly, timestamp it, and allow other researchers to build upon it while crediting Kristian Fel Catinggan as the original author
A graphical environment for Déjà Vu app development
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (page 63).Déjà Vu is a platform that allows people to build web applications from clichés, reusable implementations of software concepts. A cliché provides user interface elements and a database-backed web service in a single package, and the actions provided by clichés can be connected together to create complex functionality. On its own, the Déjà Vu platform requires one to learn HTML and a few additional language constructs to create an app. In order to make Déjà Vu accessible to non-programmers, I created a WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") editor for Déjà Vu apps. This editor uses the drag-and-drop approach taken by many static website editors and extends it to Déjà Vu action composition. The actions, their inputs and outputs, and the connections between them are presented visually, and an app can be used in the editor as it is being built. This new editor allows unique, multi-user applications to be created without writing any code.by Barry A. McNamara, III.M. Eng.M.Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienc
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