474 research outputs found
The Story of the Meo People
No full textDone by Thongsar, a Meo, it is an accurate interpretation of the Meo legend and histor
Lao Project: The Meo of Xieng Khouang Province
No full textSelection from a thesis describing the Meo, a cultural group living in Vietnam, Thailand, China and Laos.1. Chapters II and III of the author's Master's Thesis,
Christianity: Innovation in Meo Culture. A Case Study
in Missionization. University of Minnesota, 1957. 2. Laos Project; Paper #13;
The Meo of Xieng Khouang Province;
The period of field work was 1949-1953
MEO SAR: System Concepts and Analysis
No full textExisting microwave remote sensing instruments used for Earth observation face a clear tradeoff between spatial resolution and revisit times at global scales. The typical imaging capabilities of current systems range from daily observations at kilometer-scale resolutions provided by scatterometers to meter-scale resolutions at lower temporal rates (more than ten days) typical of synthetic aperture radars (SARs). A natural way to fill the gap between these two extremes is to use medium-Earth-orbit SAR (MEO-SAR) systems. MEO satellites are deployed at altitudes above the region of low Earth orbits (LEOs), ending at around 2000 km and below the geosynchronous orbits (GEOs) near 35 786 km. MEO SAR shows a clear potential to provide advantages in terms of spatial coverage, downlink visibility, and global temporal revisit times, e.g., providing moderate resolution images (some tens of meters) at daily rates. This article discusses the design tradeoffs of MEO SAR, including sensitivity and orbit selection. The use of these higher orbits opens the door to global coverage in one- to two-day revisit or continental/oceanic coverage with multidaily observations, making MEO SAR very attractive for future scientific missions with specific interferometric and polarimetric capabilities.Mathematical Geodesy and Positionin
Reuse of Tires Textile Fibers in Plastic Compounds: Is this Scenario Environmentally Sustainable?
No full textOptimization of Energy Efficiency of a Production Site: A Method to Support Data Acquisition for Effective Action Plans
No full textThe Pathet Lao and Change in Traditional Economies of the Meo and Kha
No full textArticle describing the economy of the Meo in Laos and the effect the Pathet Lao had on the economy.Hafner, James. "The Pathet Lao and Change in Traditional Economies of the Meo and Kha, 1958-1961, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, 1965 (Vol. L; Pages 431-436
The Author/Translator Interactional Process. A Case Study
No full textSee Naples and Kill (1988) is a lively and colourful novel by the con-temporary English writer, Gregory Dowling, translated into Italian in 2015.
Following the tradition of translation studies (Venuti 2000, Bass-nett 2002, Cronin 2006), this paper analyses the rewriting process of literary translation, considering in particular the fruitful but sometimes tense and even conflictual relationship between writer and translator.
The translation of the novel See Naples and Kill was an ongoing rewriting process entailing a constant dialogue between the writer and the translator. Therefore, the study aims at answering two main ques-tions: what happens if the rewriting process of translation is constant-ly questioned by the author? What happens if the author has a good mastery of the target language and s/he is her/himself a translator?
By exploring the relationship between translation and re-creation, the research focuses on the differences and similarities between the primary creation (source text) and the secondary creation (target text), and aims to verify in which way the dialogic encounter of two different personalities and cultures does not make them merge but, by retaining their own uniqueness, leads eventually to their mutually en-riching each other. A comparative analysis of the source text and the different drafts of the translated version accompanied by the author’s comments will shed light on the tense author-translator relationship in the specific case under investigation and how both actors handle this tension in order to create a new work resulting from the (dis)agreement of the two parties
L’industria tessile a Herakleia di Lucania e nel territorio tra III e I secolo a.C.
No full textThe paper focuses on the role of Herakleia and Metaponto in textile production during the Hellenistic period. The analysis of thousands of loom weights from several houses in the so-called Quartiere occidencate in Herakleia provides new insight into textile production during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. The fact that some households possessed two looms and were able to produce textiles of outstanding quality has led to the hypothesis that urban households produced textiles for exportation, as also indicated by epigrams attributed to Leonidas of Taras. On the other hand, the author argues that textile production in the rural hinterland was focused on self-supply, and that the surplus was sent to the urban center where it was processed by professional labourers
Towards a probabilistic approach in LCA of building retrofit measures
No full textThis paper proposes an approach of sensitivity analysis for LCA of building retrofit measures aiming to establish the impact of input data uncertainties on the output variance. The approach includes the quantification of data input uncertainties in terms of their Probability Distribution Functions (PDFs), their sampling and the uncertainty propagation through Monte Carlo (MC) methods. A sensitivity analysis through Variance based decomposition (Sobol' method) techniques are used to point out the key parameters uncertainties that mostly affect the LCA results distributions. The paper presents a building case-study where the MC-based uncertainty and sensitivity analysis method is applied considering different design options (XPS and Cork internal insulation measures) and different scenarios for the assessment of the building energy need (use phase). Results obtained highlight that the differences on the Climate change environmental impact between the two design options is quite limited (about 12%) and this is mainly due to the use phase which is the more relevant input parameter on the overall result. Concerning the Sensitivity Analysis, when the building energy need is considered as a "deterministic" input in the LCA assessment, the unitary impacts of the design options materials uncertainties are the most influential parameters. On the other hands, when the building energy need is represented by a PDF, the quantity of energy carrier consumed and its unitary environmental impact are the most influential parameters on the output variance.
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