529 research outputs found
Software Specification Based on Re-usable Business Components
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Integrated urban flood design in the United States and the Netherlands
No full textSpatial design integrates social, cultural, economic, and political perspectives with natural site conditions and man-made construction to plan for sustainable urban development. The current flood-risk-related challenges induced by climate change place pressure on designing cities in which both natural and man-made conditions can be imbalanced. Creating a purely engineered line of flood defense to restore this balance does not always work. The idea of living more closely with water includes the discipline of spatial design more into flood risk management than the current dominant paradigm. Following the probability approach defined as risk = probability × consequences, the current Dutch paradigm is focused on reducing the probability with dikes; the United States focuses on reduction of consequences by evacuation and recovery. This chapter focuses on urban design and planning strategies for reducing flood risk not just by a flood defense line such as a dike, but also reducing risk by means of urban development behind the dike. Integrated urban flood design must integrate site-built environment characteristics and natural systems, and simultaneously solve challenges posed by hazards. Effective design, therefore, must be conducted on the basis of hydraulic engineering knowledge, leading to spatial designs that introduce resilient urban qualities. Two cases for this approach are presented and compared: Vlissingen, the Netherlands and Galveston, Texas, United States.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Environmental Technology and DesignSpatial Planning and Strateg
Aesop's Fables: A Poetic Primer
No full textHere is an unusual book. A first unusual feature is that its nine traditional fables are in rhymed quatrains. A second is that it explicitly aims to help people be virtuous. Further unusual features include the opportunity to send copies free of charge to as many friends as one likes. The QR code that unlocks this offer also allows one to hear the book read aloud while one views the illustrations. This is an ambitious book, with an attractive dust-jacket and large format (8¾" x 11⅜"). For me, the verse sometimes labors. The illustrations are lively but may be slightly inhibited by their assigned role of framing pages of text. Good sample illustrations are the pairs early in this unpaginated book for both GA and DS. MM uses as its moral "Never, ever/Count your chickens before they hatch." The dust-jacket reveals that the author -- also the publisher -- was bored as an accountant and wanted better literature for his family to read. He aims to "help children grow in virtue, one moral lesson at a time." The milkmaid carrying her pail on the cover and flyleaf is spirited! After the fables, a next section offers for each fable a pair of pages. These pages present reflections on a virtue and a vice and several questions for personal appropriation of the fable. There are finally four pages of glossary.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dustjacket (book cover)B.B. Gallaghe
No. . 338
No full textThis 16-page large-format (8¼ x 10) booklet with two staples is in such good condition that I have wondered if it is a reproduction. The rusty staples suggest that it is not. The front cover features a close-up of the old man and his son together on the donkey. The back cover shows the tortoise passing the hare. Inside there are four more full-page colored pictures and four part-page black-and-white illustrations for MSA. The final colored picture shows the donkey partially under water and comments The Ducks were most amused. LM has two full-page colored pictures and two part-page black-and-white designs. TH has two more of the former and one of the latter. The back cover's hare wears not only an athletic uniform with an H on the shirt but also blue shoes! The best illustrations may be the first two, including walking the donkey to market. I wish I could find more information about this very nice pamphlet
Functional Foods and Beverages: Recent Trends
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Error probabilities for data transmission over fading radio paths
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