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On the conceptual feasibility of a CAAD-CAAI integrated decision support system: A computer aided environment for technical decision-making in architecture
No full textArchitectur
Paths for constitutional thinking beyond the state?
No full textIn this chapter I consider the role that the constitutional state has played in restricting our sense of the possibilities of constitutional thinking and I trace the connections between the modernist state and metaphysical thinking. In doing so I hope to suggest that constitutional thinking does not need to be tied to the ‘state’ and instead concerns the commitment to what I term ‘enduring truths’. These truths are enduring, I argue, precisely because they cannot be confined to any particular epoch of constitutional undertaking, whether we call it the ‘pre-state’, ‘state’ or ‘post-state’. To explore these issues I have taken the debate surrounding the mature example of a political community which is said to be ‘beyond constitutionalism’—the European Union. My argument is that it is irrelevant to tie the problem of the EU’s constitutional future to the legacy of the state or to abandon constitutionalism itself in favour of a prospective procedural administrative accountability. What is now required is a commitment to a constitutional possibility for the renewal of the enduring truths of constitutional life rather than a steadfast adherence to the conventional metaphysics of the constitutional stat
A letter to A.H. Esq., concerning the stage [electronic resource]
No full textA defense of the stage, in answer to Jeremy Collier's Short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage."The initials in the title [i.e. A.H.] have been identified as those of Anthony Hammond. Charles Hopkins has been suggested as the probable author." Cf. NUC pre-1956.Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.WingElectronic reproduction
De kosten van een zandsuppletie op het strand van de Kop van Goeree uitgevoerd met behulp van de zogenaamde "Punaise"
No full textIn het 1e deel van het afstudeerverslag van A.H. van Berk (lit. 1) werd de vraag gesteld of een baggersysteem voor het kustonderhoud van de Kop van Goeree met de punaise (fig. 0) in één van de wingebieden A, B of C (fig. 2) kan konkurreren met een systeem met een cutterzuiger in wingebied E. Voor het antwoord op deze vraag zijn de kosten van zowel de uitvoering met de punaise als die met de cutterzuiger bepaald. Deze kosten zijn omgerekend naar de gemiddelde jaarlijkse kosten voor het kustonderhoud en onderling vergeleken. In het tweede deel wordt een handleiding gegeven voor de berekening van de jaarlijkse kosten van het kustonderhoud van de lop van Goeree door zandsuppietie a.b.v. de Punaise.Hydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Limited information likelihood analysis of survey data
No full textAnalysts of survey data are often interested in modelling the population process, or superpopulation, that gave rise to a 'target' set of survey variables. An important tool for this is maximum likelihood estimation. A survey is said to provide limited information for such inference if data used in the design of the survey are unavailable to the analyst. In this circumstance, sample inclusion probabilities, which are typically available, provide information which needs to be incorporated into the analysis. We consider the case where these inclusion probabilities can be modelled in terms of a linear combination of the design and target variables, and only sample values of these are available. Strict maximum likelihood estimation of the underlying superpopulation means of these variables appears to be analytically impossible in this case, but an analysis based on approximations to the inclusion probabilities leads to a simple estimator which is a close approximation to the maximum likelihood estimator. In a simulation study, this estimator outperformed several other estimators that are based on approaches suggested in the sampling literature
Determinanten van kennisintensieve onderzoeks- en ontwikkelingssamenwerking
No full textIt is becoming increasingly important for companies to ensure a continuing supply of new knowledge. The development of innovative production processes and marketing strategies as well as better products and services improves the competitive position of firms on the world market. This is of special interest to Dutch firms who have only a small and open home market. The principal research question addressed in this thesis concerns the determinants that influence companies in their choice of whether or not to enter into a knowledge-intensive research and development collaboration. This thesis also looks in detail at the role of publicly financed research institutions such as universities, in the setting of the company innovation process as well as at cooperation among private firms. About 13% of all innovative firms in the Netherlands are engaged in some sort of knowledge-intensive research and development collaboration. Knowledge spillovers are an important reason to reject collaboration as a means of acquiring knowledge because spillovers worsen the appropriability conditions, thus decreasing the economic benefits gained from innovative efforts. In correspondence with the literature we find that a high level of R&D-intensity of the partners involved is a very important prerequisite for entering into knowledge intensive R&D-collaboration. Furthermore an important finding is that the probability of entering into a knowledge-intensive R&D-collaboration increases proportionally to the size of the firm. Most innovative firms choose to be engaged in both private and public types of knowledge intensive R&D-collaboration. From this it can be concluded that public and private types of collaboration are complementary to one another. Knowledge intensive R&D-collaboration is also of strategic importance making the decision whether to introduce either improved or newly-developed products onto the market. Firms engaged in knowledge intensive R&D-collaboration more often choose to introduce new products instead of improved products onto the market.Technology, Policy and Managemen
A critical examination of the "Tarikh I Bayhaqi".
No full textAbu'l-Fazl Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Bayhaqi, the author of the Tarikh I Mas'udi, was born in the year 385 A.H. (995) or 386 A.H. (996), and died in Safar , 470 A.H. (August, 1077). Among his contemporaries included several great men both in the field of literature and otherwise. His main work, the history of Sultan Mas'ud, the son of Mahmud of Ghaznah, is perhaps the only history of its kind which draws entirely first upon the first-hand, and then upon the eye-witness, information. So far there has been known in Europe and India only one edition of this book, i.e., the Bibliotheca Indica, Calcutta; but there is another, and more complete, edition of it, namely, the Tehran ed. 1307 A.H. (1889-90). The real title of this history is unknown, various authors calling it by different names. The greater part of the existing portion was composed during the years 450 - 451 A.H. (1058 - 1060), though a beginning was made in 448 A.H. (1056-7). The extant part comprises only Vols V and X, in part, and VI and VII to IX in full. It is generally said that this history started from the beginning of the Ghaznawid dynasty, but internal evidence shows that it began with the year 409 A.H. (1018-19) perhaps in continuation of Utbi's Tarikh I Yamini which is brought down to the year 409 or 410 (1018-19 or 1019-20). The period covered by the extant portion extends from Zu'l-Hijjah, 421 A.H. (November, 1030) to 15th, Sha'ban, 432 A.H. (21st April, 1041); while the period dealt with in the whole including the lost parts, may be summed up, though with no scrupulous exactitude, within the years 409 A.H. and 44 A.H. (1018-19 and 1053)
Experiments on nulcides decaying by position emission and electron caputure
No full textApplied Science
Metingen met een proportionele teller bij beta-desintegratie
No full textElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
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