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Cities and extreme events
No full textAssoc Profs Priyan Mendis and Nick Haritos reveal how cities stand up to extreme events like explosive blasts and tsunamis.
Assoc Prof Priyan Mendis - from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is a specialist in protective technologies for structures
Assoc Prof Nick Haritos - from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is a specialist in structural dynamics of both land-based and offshore structure.
With Dr Shane Huntington
Lessons to Learn and Challenges to Address in Resilient Historic Towns
No full textThe concept of resilient cities, including the environmental, social and economic dimensions of the urban sustainability against both slow and fast moving changes over long time horizons, is very distinctive when applied to historic towns. For built heritage, beyond the conventional goals, namely wellbeing and safety of citizens, functionality and reliability of services and infrastructures, effectiveness of management and development strategies, as well as availability of economic resources under disruptions or threads, a further aspect should be considered. It concerns the preservation and promotion of the original value and identity of the places by the capability to prevent, adjust and overcome the obsolescence at different levels – physical, technological, normative and functional. In this regard, two approaches are required: On the one hand, the critical understanding of the inherent qualities that made the historic towns resilient to past transformations – lessons to learn; on the other hand, the identification of strategies that could enhance such a resilient behaviour in the future against an exceptionally precipitous evolution of the outer alteration factors – challenges to address. In the light of the above-mentioned issues, the paper is going to develop some insights on the aspects that most influence the resilience of the historic towns, with specific attention toward the Mediterranean climate of South Italy. Firstly, some performance-based categories are identified, connected to the inherent resilience of the built heritage – e.g. relationships with the surroundings, employment of resources, natural regulation of microclimate, aggregation schemes and uses – as well as to the requirements of contemporary resilience – e.g. safety, accessibility, fruition, and efficiency. Thus, some qualitative and quantitative indicators are introduced and discussed, based on the validation by representative case studies, as a support toward the development of a resilience metrics for historic towns
Preparing for post-catastrophe video processing
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Prefabricated Building Systems—Design and Construction
No full textModern Methods of Construction with Offsite Manufacturing is an advancement from prefabricated technologies that existed for decades in the construction industry, and is a platform to integrate various disciplines into providing a more holistic solution. Due to the rapid speed of construction, reduced requirement of labour and minimised work on site, offsite manufacturing and prefabricated building systems are becoming more popular, and perhaps a necessity for the future of the global construction industry. The approach to the design and construction of prefab building systems demands a thorough understanding of their unique characteristics
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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