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Some aspects of the scientific development and astronomical research of Warrick Couch
No full textWarrick Couch was appointed the Director of the Australian Astronomical Observatory in April 2013. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2009 for making “pivotal contributions to our understanding of the evolution of galaxies in rich clusters and the effects of galaxy environment on their evolution and for his appointment as the primary investigator in an international team that, despite intense competition, secured one of the first allocations of observing time with the Hubble Space Telescope,” according to the Academy. He was awarded an Australian Citation Laureate for 1991–1998, and is recognised as a “Highly Cited” researcher with over 20,000 citations. He previously held positions of Head of School of Physics at the University of New South Wales and Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. He has also held the positions of the Australian Gemini Scientist and the
Australian Extremely Large Telescope Project Scientist and was the Chair of the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board and a Member of the International Gemini Board. This paper discusses some aspects of his scientific development and astronomical research based on an interview the author conducted with him
in 2006. It covers the period up to May 2006
A Complete 2dF Survey of Fornax
No full textWe are using the 2dF spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope to obtain spectra for a complete sample of all 14000 objects with 16.5 < B < 19.7 in a 12 square degree area centred on the Fornax cluster. The aims of this project include the study of dwarf galaxies in the cluster (both known low surface brightness objects and putative normal surface brightness dwarfs) and a comparison sample of background field galaxies. We will also measure quasars, any previously unrecognised compact galaxies and a large sample of Galactic stars. Here we present initial results from the first 680 objects observed, including the discovery of a number of dwarf galaxies in the cluster more compact than any previously known
The Runner\u27s Yoga Book: A Balanced Approach to Fitness
No full texthe Runner’s Yoga Book is an ideal companion for the weekend or professional athlete, for the reader who wants to stretch and relax, and for the developing yoga student who wants to establish a home practice. Drawing on over thirty years of teaching and personal practice, author Jean Couch offers precise instruction in all types of poses, guidelines for home practice, yoga routines for other sports (including bicycling, skiing, swimming, tennis, and walking), a resource guide for further study, and a yoga-poses-by-alphabetical-listing index.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/prairiestriders_pubs/1446/thumbnail.jp
I. A Roman Couch in Cambridge
No full textIn the autumn of 1972 there appeared on the London market a remarkable collection of many hundreds of pieces of richly carved bone, all reputedly found together many years ago and thought to have adorned ornate toilet boxes and similar containers from a single tomb. Closer examination, however, soon revealed that, except for the parts of four small pyxides, the whole of this material came from the decoration of a single ancient couch of hitherto unprecedented elaboration. In 1973 the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge succeeded in buying the whole collection with resources made available by the Cunliffe Fund and the Victoria and Albert Museum Grant-in-Aid Fund. Detailed study and identification of the components followed and less than a year and a half later a complete restoration of one end of the couch had been carried out by the Museum's technical staff and placed on show in the Roman Room there.3 This has had the happy result of putting the best preserved elements on public display and making their function and the design of the whole couch immediately meaningful, while still leaving much of the material relatively unassembled and so available for any future investigation into the ancient techniques involved. Further study of this remarkable piece of furniture has followed and has since been reported on by the author in papers read to the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum and at the Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge.</jats:p
Authoring From The Couch: Research Directions And Possibilities
No full textDespite most of the authoring systems for digital TV assume the author to be seated in front of a computer on the broadcaster side, current research is interested in the new role of the viewer in producing and distributing content. The goal of this paper is to identify a number of research directions around the authoring from the couch paradigm, an entertainment-oriented approach in which the authoring task is performed incidentally
Adapting Cities to Pluvial Flooding: The Case of Izmir (Türkiye)
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Adapting Cities to Pluvial Flooding: The Case of Izmir (Türkiye)
by Stefano Salata 1,*ORCID,Koray Velibeyoğlu 2,Alper Baba 3ORCID,Nicel Saygın 2,Virginia Thompson Couch 4 andTaygun Uzelli 5ORCID
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Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Lab PPTE, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Department of City and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Izmir Institute of Technology, Gülbahçe Campus Urla, Izmir 35430, Türkiye
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Department of International Water Resources, Civil Engineering Faculty, Izmir Institute of Technology, Gülbahçe Campus Urla, Izmir 35430, Türkiye
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Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Izmir Institute of Technology, Gülbahçe Campus Urla, Izmir 35430, Türkiye
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Geothermal Energy Research and Application Center, Izmir Institute of Technology, Urla, Izmir 35430, Türkiye
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2022, 14(24), 16418; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142416418
Received: 20 November 2022 / Revised: 28 November 2022 / Accepted: 6 December 2022 / Published: 8 December 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Designing Resilient Cities by Ecosystem Service Mapping)
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Abstract
In the coming decades, climate change will be one of the most significant challenges for urban areas. The quantity, duration and intensity of events, such as flash rains and heat waves, will increase the vulnerability of urban regions while exposing citizens to potentially dangerous conditions. According to the current literature, mainstreaming resilience in urban planning means designing rules that strengthen urban systems’ adaptive and self-regulating functions by reducing their vulnerability. In this work, we aimed to build knowledge for the application of the sponge district concept to Izmir (Türkiye), one of Europe’s most vulnerable areas to pluvial flooding. To do this, we first analyzed the runoff in each urban sub-watershed, then employed a composite index to determine potential areas of intervention for nature-based solutions. Results show that 10% of Izmir’s urban areas are extremely vulnerable to cloudbursts, which means that 40% of the urban population is exposed to this phenomenon. Moreover, the runoff calculation in the sub-watershed demonstrated that the potential flood volume is underestimated, especially in the upslope areas. The results can be used as a template to suggest a stepwise approach to mainstream the resilience of densely-inhabited coastal urban catchments
Keck Workshop, 2012
No full textFrom 26-28 March 2012 Swinburne University of Technology hosted the first-ever workshop to be held outside the US for users of the world's largest ground-based optical telescopes, located at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Photo of Professor Duncan Forbes, Professor Warrick Couch, Vice-Chancellor Professor Linda Kristjanson, Professor Frank Larkins, and Professor Leon Sterling. Photograph appeared in the Media Centre Release: 'Astronomers converge at Keck workshop', on 26 March 2012
The colour evolution of galaxies in clusters
No full textA photometric study of fourteen rich clusters in the
redshift range 0.18 ≤ z ≤ 0.39 has been completed. The data are
based on JP photographic photometry of each field
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