23 research outputs found
Responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS: develop future-proof responsive websites using the latest HTML5 and CSS techniques Expert insight./ Ben Frain.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Harness the latest capabilities of HTML5 and CSS to create a single UI that works flawlessly on mobile phones, tablets, and desktops -- plus everything in-between Key Features Understand what responsive web design is and its significance for modern web development Explore the latest developments in responsive web design including variable fonts, CSS Scroll Snap, and more Get to grips with the uses and benefits of the new CSS Grid layout Book Description Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS, Third Edition is a renewed and extended version of one of the most comprehensive and bestselling books on the latest HTML5 and CSS tools and techniques for responsive web design. Written in the author's signature friendly and informal style, this edition covers all the newest developments and improvements in responsive web design including better user accessibility, variable fonts and font loading, CSS Scroll Snap, and much, much more. With a new chapter dedicated to CSS Grid, you will understand how it differs from the Flexbox layout mechanism and when you should use one over the other. Furthermore, you will acquire practical knowledge of SVG, writing accessible HTML markup, creating stunning aesthetics and effects with CSS, applying transitions, transformations, and animations, integrating media queries, and more. The book concludes by exploring some exclusive tips and approaches for front-end development from the author. By the end of this book, you will not only have a comprehensive understanding of responsive web design and what is possible with the latest HTML5 and CSS, but also the knowledge of how to best implement each technique. What you will learn Integrate CSS media queries into your designs; apply different styles to different devices Load different sets of images depending upon screen size or resolution Leverage the speed, semantics, and clean markup of accessible HTML patterns Implement SVGs into your designs to provide resolution-independent images Apply the latest features of CSS like custom properties, variable fonts, and CSS Grid Add validation and interface elements like date and color pickers to HTML forms Understand the multitude of ways to enhance interface elements with filters, shadows, animations, and more Who this book is for Are you a full-stack developer who needs to gem up on their front-end skills? Perhaps you work on the front-end and you need a definitive overview of all modern HTML and CSS has to offer? Maybe you have done a little website building but you need a deep understanding of responsive web designs and how to achieve them? This is a book for you! All you need to take advantage of this book is a working understanding of HTML and CSS. No JavaScript knowledge is needed.Chapter 1. The Essentials of Responsive Web Design -- Chapter 2. Writing HTML Markup -- Chapter 3. Media Queries -- Supporting Differing Viewports -- Chapter 4. Fluid Layout, Flexbox, and Responsive Images -- Chapter 5. Layout with CSS Grid -- Chapter 6. CSS Selectors, Typography, Color Modes, and More -- Chapter 7. Stunning Aesthetics with CSS -- Chapter 8. Using SVGs for Resolution Independence -- Chapter 9. Transitions, Transformations, and Animations -- Chapter 10. Conquer Forms with HTML5 and CSS -- Chapter 11. Bonus Techniques and Parting Advice.1 online resource (xv, 384 pages)
La « dimension argumentative » plurisémiotique du livre enrichi
No full textThe case study of this paper are two enhanced books: Beauvoir, l’enquête, by Irène Frain, and Alienare, by Chloé Delaume. The rhetoric of the digital text is essential to the study of the relationship between Frain’s and Delaume’s “author’s image” and the “editorial ethos” of the two books. I show that their “argumentative dimension” manifests itself first of all at a paratextual/peritextual level, and that the publishers exploit it to influence the reception of these works. Using the theoretical approaches of Literary Discourse Analysis and of Argumentation in Discourse, I also take into consideration the “ethos of the author” projected by Frain and Delaume in their books. The objectivity/subjectivity of their discourse, as well as the rhetoric strategies they use, are analysed in order to revisit the complex and gradual character of the notion of “argumentative dimension”, in relation to the plurisemiotic potential of the digital text
TESTING STABILITY WITHOUT PENDULUMS: A FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS
No full textCurrent International Maritime Organization (IMO) and U.S. Coast Guard regulations require inclining tests of vessels to use three heel-measuring devices, one of which must be a pendulum. This is a problem since pendulums are required to be at least 10 feet in height and newer vessel designs are constrained by overhead clearance and deck space. To investigate this problem, this thesis examines five different stability test results that were submitted to the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Center (MSC). The author identified and inputted random error into the independent variables used to calculate each vessel’s metacentric height (GM). The independent variables were then used in a Design of Experiment (DOE) to examine which factors had the strongest effect on GM. Of the factors analyzed, the device used to measure heel angle proved to be the most significant. The author then constructed three different miniature models to conduct inclining experiments in a controlled environment. The heel-measuring devices used during these experiments were a smartphone and pendulum. In all three miniature model experiments, the smartphone demonstrated better precision over the pendulum. This thesis recommends keeping current standards and regulations intact until further data and research are gathered.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.Lieutenant, United States Coast Guardhttp://archive.org/details/testingstability109455966
Cost-reduction of waste processing through manufacturing knowledge
No full textThe rapid transformation of the Waste Management sector has significantly altered the
nature of the traditional waste processing business and the nature of competencies
required to manage it. With the increase in volume of waste being processed, one
element of the transformation of the waste sector, is the move from a craft-industry
often with agricultural methods to a post-industrial sector processing high volumes of
materials efficiently and effectively. Over the last two centuries the manufacturing
sector has also moved from a craft industry to one that learnt how to use technology for
material processing, and then learnt how to organise for efficient high-volume
production. The application of the coherent techniques developed by various
manufacturers (notably Toyota) has resulted in systematic removal of waste (overproduction,
waiting, transport etc) and cost in manufacturing. These methods are termed
‘lean manufacturing’.
This report describes a project which seeks to test the relevance and value of
manufacturing knowledge to waste site operators, by bringing together the expertise and
the manufacturing knowledge to waste operators. The industrial aim is to significantly
reduce operating costs. It is important to define manufacturing knowledge as that
knowledge that specifically relates to lean manufacturing and its implementation.
Firstly, the researcher presents an exhaustive and critical literature review of lean
manufacturing. Then waste operators’ current practices in operations management are
characterised and their existing access to manufacturing knowledge is described, based
on interviews with several waste companies.
The utility of manufacturing knowledge, and any adjustments needed to suit waste
operations will be described, focussing on prioritised areas for improvement and
specific proposals for changing operations. The potential scale of these changes can be
very important and advantageous when we consider that the Japanese car manufacturer,
Toyota, used lean manufacturing to show the then world leading Ford how to reduce
production costs by 30%
The impact of COVID-19 vaccination on patients with congenital heart disease in England: a case-control study
No full textBackground: Studies predating widespread COVID-19 vaccination identified patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) as a group at increased risk of severe outcomes from COVID-19. Here we evaluate the impact of vaccination on COVID-19 outcomes among patients with CHD.Methods: We conducted a case-control study using linked English electronic health records (n=3 18 135). Patients with CHD were matched with controls by age, sex, ethnicity and GP practice. The 'prevaccination' cohort comprised unvaccinated patients with CHD and matched controls with first-recorded SARS-CoV-2 infection between 1 March and 8 December 2020 (7805 cases, 27 620 controls). The 'post-vaccination' cohort comprised vaccinated patients with CHD and matched controls with first-recorded SARS-CoV-2 infection between 1 March 2021 and 1 April 2022, at least 14 days after vaccination (57 550 cases, 225 160 controls). Odds of severe COVID-19 outcomes were compared using conditional logistic regression. We also compared the rate at which vaccine efficacy diminished, and the incidence of vaccine-associated complications.Results: Compared with the prevaccination cohort, postvaccination patients with CHD exhibited markedly reduced rates of COVID-19-related hospitalisation (0.5% vs 15.8%) and mortality rates (0.5% vs 4.6%). Compared with vaccinated controls, vaccinated patients with CHD remained at increased risk of hospitalisation (0.5% vs 0.2%, adjusted OR 2.24 (1.88-2.65); p<0.001) and death (0.5% vs 0.3%, adjusted OR 1.81 (1.54-2.13); p<0.001). There was no evidence that vaccine efficacy declined faster in patients with CHD, or that patients with CHD experienced a larger increase in incidence of myocarditis, pericarditis or thrombotic events.Conclusion: We observed a lower absolute risk of hospitalisation and death from COVID-19 in CHD patients after vaccination. However, in vaccinated CHD patients, an elevated risk of severe outcomes persists compared with vaccinated people without CHD. These results emphasise the importance of vaccination in the CHD population, and of vigilance among care providers dealing with COVID-19 infection in CHD patients, even if fully vaccinated
Clinical risk associated with COVID-19 among 86000 patients with congenital heart disease
No full textObjective To determine the magnitude of any excess risk of mortality and hospitalisation due to COVID-19 infection in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) in the UK healthcare system. Methods Matched case-control study within the Clinical Practice Research Datalink study of anonymised general practice records in the National Health Service in England. Patients with CHD were stratified for disease severity according to the European Society of Cardiology guidelines. Presence of a positive COVID-19 test, hospitalisation with a diagnosis of COVID-19 and COVID-19-related mortality were compared in case and control groups. Results 86 441 patients with CHD and 335 839 controls were studied. Of patients with a positive COVID-19 test, patients with CHD were more likely than controls to be hospitalised (22.4% vs 14.5%; OR=1.77 (95% CI 1.60 to 1.96); p=2.11e-28) and suffer COVID-19-related death (6.1% vs 3.8%; OR=1.60 (95% CI 1.35 to 1.89); p=7.00e-08). The excess risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation and death rose with increasing physiological severity of CHD (presence of pulmonary vascular disease and/or cyanosis), rather than anatomical complexity. Conclusions In this study of the COVID-19 pandemic experience, using population health records in over 86000 patients with CHD in England, patients with CHD with COVID-19 were at around 50-75% higher risk of hospitalisation and mortality compared with matched controls with COVID-19. We provide the first primary care-derived estimates for COVID-19 hospitalisation and case-fatality rates in patients with CHD. Some factors predictive of worse COVID-19 outcome in general populations (such as non-white ethnic group), and other CHD-specific comorbidities (such as pulmonary hypertension), influenced outcomes among patients with CHD.</p
Beyond Belief : A tribute to Elvis Costello ("Veronica")
No full textDavid Myhr's own inimitable take on Elvis Costello’s 1989 classic “Veronica” is track #6 on the American compilation “Beyond Belief: A tribute to Elvis Costello“. Other contributors included Matthew Sweet, The Rubinoos and Mike Viola. The highly recommended compilation is out on Spyder Records and the proceedings goes to charity. The compilation is co-produced by producer, musician, author and reviewer John Borack and Olivia Frain who invited a series of groups and artists from all over the world (of the power pop genre) from whom they selected the 50 that finally made it on to the album. They later found a partner in record label Spyder Pop Records who took care of the release. 100% of the proceeds from the Spyderpop release will go to the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation (founded by the late composer Michael Kamen) and help put musical instruments into the hands of children in underserved areas. This fundraising album is going towards a great cause and deserves to be in your personal music collection.“Veronica” was co-written with Paul McCartney and Myhr declares it his favourite Costello song in no small part influenced by his life-long obsession with The Beatles.Though “Veronica” was Costello’s most successful song in the US it has so far been covered by very few artists (this may be the first time that a cover version finds its way out onto Spotify).“Veronica”(Elvis Costello / Paul McCartney)David Myhr – lead and background vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harpsichord, glockenspielAndreas Dahlbäck – drums, tambourineRikard Lidhamn – bassMarcus Olsson – piano, organAnders Pettersson – electric guitarElin Andersson – trumpetProduced by David MyhrEngineered by Raoul Hamilton, Petter Näse, and David Myhr. Mixed by Marcus Black at Jelly Road.Recorded at Durango Recording, Stockholm, and Strong Melody Studio, Stockholm.Godkänd; 2015; 20151125 (davmyh)</p
Beyond Belief [Elektronisk resurs] : A tribute to Elvis Costello ("Veronica")
No full textDavid Myhr's own inimitable take on Elvis Costello’s 1989 classic “Veronica” is track #6 on the American compilation “Beyond Belief: A tribute to Elvis Costello“. Other contributors included Matthew Sweet, The Rubinoos and Mike Viola. The highly recommended compilation is out on Spyder Records and the proceedings goes to charity. The compilation is co-produced by producer, musician, author and reviewer John Borack and Olivia Frain who invited a series of groups and artists from all over the world (of the power pop genre) from whom they selected the 50 that finally made it on to the album. They later found a partner in record label Spyder Pop Records who took care of the release. 100% of the proceeds from the Spyderpop release will go to the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation (founded by the late composer Michael Kamen) and help put musical instruments into the hands of children in underserved areas. This fundraising album is going towards a great cause and deserves to be in your personal music collection.“Veronica” was co-written with Paul McCartney and Myhr declares it his favourite Costello song in no small part influenced by his life-long obsession with The Beatles.Though “Veronica” was Costello’s most successful song in the US it has so far been covered by very few artists (this may be the first time that a cover version finds its way out onto Spotify).“Veronica”(Elvis Costello / Paul McCartney)David Myhr – lead and background vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harpsichord, glockenspielAndreas Dahlbäck – drums, tambourineRikard Lidhamn – bassMarcus Olsson – piano, organAnders Pettersson – electric guitarElin Andersson – trumpetProduced by David MyhrEngineered by Raoul Hamilton, Petter Näse, and David Myhr. Mixed by Marcus Black at Jelly Road.Recorded at Durango Recording, Stockholm, and Strong Melody Studio, Stockholm.</p
