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Implementing the AIFMD: Success or failure? ECMI Commentary No. 34, 28 March 2013
No full textThis commentary considers the implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) by the European Commission. The AIFMD creates an internal market for asset management and as an endeavour to develop market-based finance is an important piece of legislation for the European economy. The author, Mirzha de Manuel Aramendía, considers the implementation of some of the provisions that raised concern among industry participants. He finds that, on balance, a practical and flexible approach to implementation has been followed that should help secure the success of the framework, which at present is still uncertain. The commentary also considers the remuneration guidelines adopted recently by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). It encourages EU and national authorities to commit to the success of the AIFMD framework, as part of a broader effort to develop capital markets and reduce the historical reliance of the European economy on bank finance
Dryness index map and flux tower sites
No full textThis dataset contains a dryness index map of the boreal biome derived from CRU TS version 4.03 and information on flux tower sites used in Helbig et al., Nature Climate Change, 2020
Projected changes in growing season vapour pressure deficit
No full textThis dataset contains projections of changes in vapour pressure deficit for the growing season (May to September). Mean ensemble projections are from CMIP5 simulations of eight Earth system models. For further details, see Helbig et al., Nature Climate Change, 2020
Map of current and projected ratio of peatland vs forest evapotranspiration
No full textThis dataset contains estimated ratios of afternoon evapotranspiration in peatlands and forests for the peak growing season (July). For the current climate, data from CRU TS version 4.03 was used and for climate change projections CMIP5 model simulations were used for the RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios. The Penman-Monteith equation was parameterised using eddy covariance flux data. For further details, please see Helbig et al., Nature Climate Change, 2020
Manuel Puig: un destino melodramático
No full textEl trabajo es un extracto de una larga investigación en los archivos del escritor argentino Manuel Puig, la génesis de su producción y su relación con el campo intelectual internacional. En este extracto se presenta un estudio del uso del melodrama en la producción 'espectacular' del autor y la publcación de un inédito que incluí como primicia en 1996 en la revista Orbis Tertius No. 2, Centro de Teoría y Crítica Literaria, UNLP.The work is an extract of one long recherch in the archives of the Argentine writer Manuel Puig, the genesis of its production and its relation with international the intellectual field. In this extract is analyzed the use of the melodrama in “the spectacular” production of the author. The publication of an unpublished is included , published for the first time by me in 1996 in the Orbis Tertius Nº 2, Centro de Teoría y Crítica Literaria, UNLP.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació
Letter from Manuel E. Ykari [Ikari] to Wayne M. Collins, May 29, 1953
No full textIn this letter to Mr. Wayne M. Collins, Mr. Manuel E. Ykari [Ikari] explains that he will need to pay Mr. Collins in segments. Mr. Collins is a lawyer in San Francisco.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
Dubai International Airport Expansion. A self adjusting pre-stressed tension rod façade system
No full textp. 1287-1298The growth of Dubai can probably be best seen through the increase in passenger traffic. Over the last years passenger throughput increased from 4.3 million in 1988 to
approximately 60 million in 2010. To meet the travel needs of the influx of travellers and
airlines, the government of Dubai has committed to a major expansion plan of US $ 4.1
billion for Dubai International Airport and its affiliated divisions. For the recently opened Terminal 3 consisting of Concourse 2 and Concourse 3 (all dedicated to Emirates Airlines) a self-adjusting pre-stressed tension rod façade system has been developed by Knippers Helbig KHing gmbh. It is used for the 84 `teardrop-windows¿, which differ slightly in geometry, within the 950-metre-long building of Concourse 2 as well as for the 58 'teardrop-windows' within Concourse 3. Furthermore the four gable end walls have been designed by KHing gmbh.
The structure of the 'teardrop-windows' consists of two orthogonally arranged tension rod strings, which are curved in opposite directions. They are connected to an edge beam and horizontal compression members, therefore an in itself closed static system is formed. Thus no reaction forces caused by pre-tensioning have to be carried by the primary construction.
A combination of pinned and restraint free supports causes low constraint forces within the façade system. Consequently the structure is widely decoupled from influences and
especially deflections caused by the primary structure. The pre-tensioning level of the
facade system is controlled by detailed geometrical specifications either for fabrication
stage as well as within the erection phase. Hence the measurement of pre-tension forces can be reduced to random spot checks.
This paper presents the particular features of the structural system developed for the 'teardrop windows'. Furthermore it deals with special constructional details for fabrication stage and erection phase.Oppe, M.; Gabler, M.; Helbig, T. (2010). Dubai International Airport Expansion. A self adjusting pre-stressed tension rod façade system. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/707
Oral History Interview with Manuel Medrano, June 18, 2015
No full textInterview with Manuel Medrano, an historian and author from Brownsville, Texas. In his interview, Medrano discusses his family background and childhood, education, experiences with discrimination, political activism, and the Chicano movement
Manuel Muñoz, 38th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textManuel Muñoz is the author of a novel, What You See in the Dark, as well as two short-story collections, Zigzagger and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, which was shortlisted for the Frank O\u27Connor International Short Story Award. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Glimmer Train and Boston Review and has aired on NPR’s “Selected Shorts. The recipient of an O. Henry Prize and a Whiting Writers\u27 Award, Muñoz lives in Tucson, Ariz., where he is an associate professor at the University of Arizona
Manuel Trillo de Leyva. Obra completa 1964-2005
No full textDenis Diderot is credited with saying that men of the past have a great advantage over us in that they did not know the weight of Antiquity. Something of that authority from a bygone era permeates much of the figure of Manuel Trillo de Leyva, a key figure in Seville\u27s architecture in the second half of the 20th century, who has been the subject of this recent monograph promoted by the COAS. For students in the late 2000s, shortly after his untimely death, Manuel Trillo was the name of the auditorium at the School of Architecture, a name that professors imbued with a halo of admiration and that gradually revealed itself to be a life of its own, that of the author of several of the city\u27s landmark buildings. The first of these was precisely that same stage, designed as a result of a competition won together with José Garrido when they were still students.A Denis Diderot se le atribuye haber dicho que los hombres del pasado tienen sobre nosotros la gran ventaja de no haber conocido el peso de la Antigüedad. Algo de esa autoridad de un tiempo anterior impregna mucho de la figura de Manuel Trillo de Leyva, clave para la arquitectura sevillana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, que ha sido objeto de esta reciente monografía impulsada por el COAS. Para el alumnado de finales de la década de los 2000, poco después de su temprano fallecimiento, Manuel Trillo era el nombre del salón de actos de la Escuela de Arquitectura, nombre que los profesores imbuían de un halo de admiración y que poco a poco se desvelaba como una vida propia, la del autor de varios de los edificios señeros de la ciudad. El primero de ellos había sido precisamente ese mismo escenario, diseñado a resultas de un concurso ganado junto con José Garrido cuando aún ocupaban la platea como estudiantes
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