83 research outputs found
Measuring the effect of highway design features on cyclist behavior using an instrumented bicycle
No full textCycling is a travel mode that offers great advantages in terms of space consumption, health and environmental sustainability, and this makes it particularly popular in cities. However, it is also plagued by a poor road safety record, which has yet to be properly addressed due to a prevailing lack of understanding of the behavioral traits of cyclists that would enable the design of suitable interventions. The aim of this study is to offer some insight into cyclist behavior by investigating its relation with the road environment, as expressed by real-world cyclist trajectories in urban areas. Using an instrumented bicycle, quantitative measurements in terms of speed, steering angle and roll angle in response to different highway features were taken from cyclists riding along a pre-determined route in the city of Southampton, UK. The data were analyzed using neural networks and multiple linear regression and the findings highlighted a number of significant positive and negative effects for policy-makers and stakeholders to consider in the design of cyclist facilities and road infrastructure in general, as well as in road user education.</p
Paths and Rivers; Sa’dan Toraja Society in Transformation
No full textFieldwork extending over a thirty-year period provided materials for this book. Paths and Rivers offers an unusually deep and broad picture of the Sa’dan Toraja as a society in dynamic transition over the course of the past century. The Toraja inhabit the mountainous highlands of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are well known for their dramatic architecture, their unusual cliff burials, and their flamboyant ceremonial life, which places extraordinary economic demands on individuals and families. The analysis is informed, firstly, by a comparative perspective which sets Toraja social structure in the context of the Austronesian world. Secondly, the author delves deeply into Toraja social memory to show how people think about the past. She examines the usefulness of history and myth in the present as a source of identity, a template for action, or a resource by means of which to claim precedence. The book gives a clear picture of the structure and ethos of the indigenous Toraja religion, the Aluk To Dolo or ‘Way of the Ancestors’, with its complex cycle of rituals. The book concludes with an analysis of the ceremonial economy, which draws upon both domestic subsistence production and the global market economy.
Paths and Rivers draws together a fascinating picture of one society’s journey into modernity.
Roxana Waterson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore. She is also the author of The living house: an anthropology of architecture in Southeast Asia (3rd ed., Thames and Hudson, 1997) and Southeast Asian lives: Personal narratives and historical experience (Singapore University Press/Ohio University Press, 2007)
Paths and Rivers; Sa’dan Toraja Society in Transformation
No full textFieldwork extending over a thirty-year period provided materials for this book. Paths and Rivers offers an unusually deep and broad picture of the Sa’dan Toraja as a society in dynamic transition over the course of the past century. The Toraja inhabit the mountainous highlands of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are well known for their dramatic architecture, their unusual cliff burials, and their flamboyant ceremonial life, which places extraordinary economic demands on individuals and families. The analysis is informed, firstly, by a comparative perspective which sets Toraja social structure in the context of the Austronesian world. Secondly, the author delves deeply into Toraja social memory to show how people think about the past. She examines the usefulness of history and myth in the present as a source of identity, a template for action, or a resource by means of which to claim precedence. The book gives a clear picture of the structure and ethos of the indigenous Toraja religion, the Aluk To Dolo or ‘Way of the Ancestors’, with its complex cycle of rituals. The book concludes with an analysis of the ceremonial economy, which draws upon both domestic subsistence production and the global market economy.
Paths and Rivers draws together a fascinating picture of one society’s journey into modernity.
Roxana Waterson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore. She is also the author of The living house: an anthropology of architecture in Southeast Asia (3rd ed., Thames and Hudson, 1997) and Southeast Asian lives: Personal narratives and historical experience (Singapore University Press/Ohio University Press, 2007)
A Future Vision For The Engineering Design Environment: A Future Sociotechnical Scenario
No full textThis paper presents a future vision for the working practices of designers within a manufacturing organisation. By its very nature the engineering design environment is highly distributed in nature and is characterised by a large number of information sources, which together with the designers forms a complex sociotechnical system. In discussions with designers it is apparent that changes are required to this environment to reflect the changes in the design process and organisations. We have developed a scenario that incorporates many of the features requested by designers and managers to improve the design environment. The scenario sets out a route map for the development of technical and social tools that aid the designer
Simulation of turbulent flow, heat and mass transfer using a residual-distribution approach
No full textApplied Science
SPEAK! OR FOREVER HOLD THY PEACE! : SPEAKER'S CORNER AND FREE SPEECH IN SINGAPORE
No full textBachelor'sBACHELOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (HONOURS
The sermons of Master Samuel Hieron [electronic resource] : formerly collected together by himselfe, and published in one volume in his life time. Hereunto are annexed of the same authors. 1. The preachers plea. 2. An answer to a popish rime. 3. Meditations touching death. 4. The doctrine of the beginning of Christ, in forme of a catechisme. 5. An helpe vnto deuotion. With fiue sermons not heretofore published.
No full textComprises vol. 1 of his collected works.With numerous subsidiary title pages each dated 1619. Printers named are Legat, John Beale, and Thomas Snodham; publishers named are Joyce Macham, Thomas Man, Cantrell Legge, and Simon Waterson; Waterson is also named as bookseller. "In spite of imprints .. Legat pr[inted]. [par.], A-2F; Beale the rest"--STC. Pagination and register are continuous.Includes index.The last leaf is blank.For the engraved title page sometimes bound with copies of this edition see STC 13377.5 et seq.Identified as STC 13380a on UMI microfilm reel 1352, and as STC 13380 on reel 1575.Reproductions of the originals in the Union Theological Seminary Library (New York, N.Y.) and Cambridge University Library.Appears at reel 1310 (Union Theological Seminary Library (New York) copy), at reel 1352 (another Union Theological Seminary Library copy), and at reel 1575 (Cambridge University Library copy).Reel 1310: Title page torn; lacking 3F5; p. 664 cropped at fore-edge; sig.3O bound out of order. Beginning-p. 15 and 670-75 from Cambridge University Library copy spliced at end. Reel 1352: engraved title page STC 13377.9 added; lacking title page to "The dignitie of the Scripture"; lacking 2B2; 2B3-2C4 supplied from STC 13383.5. Reel 1575: letterpress title page replaced by engraved title page STC 13377.5; lacking 3O5.STC (2nd ed.)Electronic reproduction
Simulation of low-Mach-number flow using a fully-coupled implicit residual-distribution method
No full textAn effective approach is presented for the numerical solution of the equations governing steady laminar and turbulent flow, heat and mass transfer at low Mach number. The approach adopted combines a compact and accurate discretization using the residual-distribution (RD) approach with a fully-coupled implicit solution procedure. The system RD approach adopted employs genuinely-multidimensional upwinding to achieve accurate and stable discrete equations on a highly compact computational stencil. This combines very naturally with the fully-implicit coupled solution procedure for which the number of non-linear iterations required is essentially independent of the grid size. This contrasts with other widely used segregated approaches in which the pressure-velocity system is discretized and solved as a set of scalar equations. A further key distinction from many other implicit methods is that the compact nature of the discretization allows the full convection and diffusion terms in all equations to be treated implicitly without any form of deferred correction. The code developed solves the 2D, axisymmetric and 3D Navier-Stokes equations in incompressible or weakly-compressible form on unstructured grids of triangles or tetrahedra. The RD form of the system Lax-Wendroff scheme is applied to the convection and pressure terms while the viscous terms are treated using the Galerkin finite-element method. The system scheme for convection provides natural stabilization, allowing a collocated variable arrangement to be used. Convection terms in scalar equations are treated using scalar multidimensional RD schemes such as the N and PSI schemes, both of which are positive. The discrete equation system is solved using a fully-coupled implicit approach based on Picard/Newton linearization with the linear system solved using standard Krylov subspace methods (e.g. GMRES or BiCGStab) with ILU(0) preconditioning. A number of practical issues relating to the solution procedure have been investigated including parallelization and equation segregation. A domain decomposition method has been developed for the treatment of large problems using a multiplicative-Schwarz approach with arbitrary inter-block overlap. The approach has been extensively validated on a number of 2D, axisymmetric and 3D test cases, with and without heat and mass transfer. This has included direct comparisons with commercial unstructured flow solvers with very promising results - showing equivalent levels of accuracy but reduced computational times and less sensitivity to grid quality. Examples of the validation and application of the method are presented
The vvorks of Samuel Daniel newly augmented [electronic resource]
No full textIn verse."White pr[inted]. quires 1st B-S; Simmes 1st A and 2nd A-N; he or a third printer 1st T and 3rd A-C"--STC.Signatures: Ap2s B-Op6s P-Tp4s; A-Np6s; A-Bp6s Cp4s.p2s A5v has a slip-cancel.Contents: [The civil wars, books 1-6] -- Musophilus -- A letter from Octavia to Marcus Antonius -- The tragedie of Cleopatra -- The complaint of Rosamond -- To Delia.A variant of the 1601 edition.Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.STC (2nd ed.)Greg, III, p. 1051.Electronic reproduction
In the house of "nobody cares," little "Miss No-one" lived with her pray’rs
No full textFor voice and piano.Caption title.Advertising includes musical incipits.Cover art includes a photograph of Mary Pickford in a frame / F.S.M.This song was "inspired by Mary Pickford in Jean Webster’s celebrated play ’Daddy Long Legs’, directed by Marshall Neilan..."-cover. Jean Webster was born in Fredonia, N.Y., and was the granddaughter of Samuel L. Clemens.Two copies in folder (Special Collections); one copy in folder (Sheet Music Collection).Archived web conten
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