THE CHANGING EARTH, a leader in the Introductory Geology course, is the only text specifically written for the combined physical and historical geology course. The Fourth Edition's content is based on the best-selling texts PHYSICAL GEOLOGY: EXPLORING THE EARTH and HISTORICAL GEOLOGY: EVOLUTION OF EARTH AND LIFE THROUGH TIME, both written by James Monroe and Reed Wicander. Briefer than the previous edition and maintaining a consistent and clear writing style throughout, the text provides a balanced coverage of physical and historical geology with engaging, real-life examples that draw students into the material.
Examples in the Fourth Edition include new two-page art spreads, new paleogeographic maps, and "Geology in Unexpected Places"-a favorite feature from PHYSICAL GEOLOGY: EXPLORING THE EARTH, Fifth Edition. Known for its competitive and robust ancillary package, the Fourth Edition now features GeologyNow, the first assessment-centered student tutorial technology developed for the Geology market. The seamless integration of GeologyNow with chapter concepts emphasizes the connections between the content and students' own lives, through visual 3-D animations and chapter quizzes, helping students develop a greater appreciation for geology.
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Based on the research that has been conducted at Wharton Risk Management Center over the past five years on catastrophic risk.
Covers a hot topic in the light of recent terroristic activities and nature catastrophes.
Develops risk management strategies for reducing and spreading the losses from future disasters.
Provides glossary of definitions and terms used throughout the book.
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Dear all CivilEA members,
I am currently working on FRP composites and I need following two articles/thesis.
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The tremendous developments that continue to evolve in the field of information communication technology (ICT) are affecting nearly all aspects of human lives. Mobile phones currently support many applications and deliver services that go well beyond basic voice communication. Wireless sensor networks with ubiquitous embedded processors can sense various parameters and generate the appropriate responses. These are some examples of systems that are being driven by advancements in ICT. Another important ICT driven field is the smart home. This field has been the subject of concerted research effort for some time and is beginning to develop practical products for a market that is expected to grow substantially in the relatively near future.
Smart homes are intelligent environments that interact dynamically and respond readily in an adaptive manner to the needs of the occupants and changes in the ambient conditions. The realization of systems that support the smart homes concept requires the integration of technologies from different fields. Among the challenges that the designers face is to make all the components of the system interact in a seamless, reliable and secure manner. Another major challenge is to design the smart home in a way that takes into account the way humans live and interact. This later aspect requires input from the humanities and social sciences fields. The need for input from diverse fields of knowledge reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the research and development effort required to realize smart homes that are acceptable to the general public.
The applications that can be supported by a smart home are very wide and their degree of sophistication depends on the underlying technology used. Some of the application areas include monitoring and control of appliances, security, telemedicine, entertainment, location based services, care for children and the elderly… etc.
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Author: Pei-Gee Peter Ho | Size: 91 MB | Format:PDF | Year: 2009 | pages: 598 | ISBN: 9789533070032
This book covers latest and futuristic developments in remote sensing novel theory and applications by numerous scholars, researchers and experts. It is organized into 26 excellent chapters which include optical and infrared modeling, microwave scattering propagation, forests and vegetation, soils, ocean temperature, geographic information , object classification, data mining, image processing, passive optical sensor, multispectral and hyperspectral sensing, lidar, radiometer instruments, calibration, active microwave and SAR processing. With rapid technological advances in both sensors and computing, signal processing and image processing are playing increasingly important roles in remote sensing. In chapter 15, 16 and 21, the state of the art Kernel Learning Machine method, Support Vector Machine and Maximum A Posteriori statistical classification schemes are presented. The use of electromagnetic waves for remote sensing can be separated into active and passive remote sensing. Active remote sensing utilizes an external source to irradiate the object or phenomena. The interaction of the object and radiation is used to extract information about the object. Most active remote sensors such as radars operate at the microwave and millimeter wave frequencies. On the other hand, the optical systems such as lidars are getting more commonly use. In passive remote sensing, the natural radiation properties of the object are utilized to extract information. Sensors that handle illumination from sunlight are generally categorized as passive sensors. They cover the entire electromagnetic spectrum from microwave frequencies to the visible region and beyond. Due to the fact that the strength of natural sources is weak, passive sensors require very sensitive detectors as compared with active sensors. Chapter 4, 12, 13, 18, 20, 25 and 26 contain detailed contents of these particular active/passive sensors’ new technologies. In chapter 14, the important and newer remote sensing techniques for land cover change detection are introduced. Nevertheless, in chapter 3, the development of the high resolution wireless sensor network for monitoring volcanic activity is very well introduced.
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Author: C. Balaguer, M. Abderrahim | Size: 53 MB | Format:PDF | Year: 2008 | pages: 404 | ISBN: 9789537619138
This book addresses several issues related to the introduction of automaton and robotics in the construction industry in a collection of 23 chapters. The chapters are grouped in 3 main sections according to the theme or the type of technology they treat. Section I is dedicated to describe and analyse the main research challenges of Robotics and Automation in Construction (RAC). The second section consists of 12 chapters and is dedicated to the technologies and new developments employed to automate processes in the construction industry. Among these we have examples of ICT technologies used for purposes such as construction visualisation systems, added value management systems, construction materials and elements tracking using multiple IDs devices. This section also deals with Sensorial Systems and software used in the construction to improve the performances of machines such as cranes, and in improving Human-Machine Interfaces (MMI). Authors adopted Mixed and Augmented Reality in the MMI to ease the construction operations. Section III is dedicated to describe case studies of RAC and comprises 8 chapters. Among the eight chapters the section presents a robotic excavator and a semi-automated fa�ade cleaning system. The section also presents work dedicated to enhancing the force of the workers in construction through the use of Robotic-powered exoskeletons and body joint-adapted assistive units, which allow the handling of greater loads.
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Author: George L. Hosmer | Size: 12.3 MB | Format:PDF | Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc. | Year: 1925 | pages: 314 | ISBN: 140674607X
This is a text in Practical Astronomy especially adapted to the needs of civil-engineering students who can devote but little time to the subject, and who are not likely to take up advanced study of Astronomy. The text deals chiefly with the class of observations which can be made with surveying instruments, the methods applicable to astronomical and geodetic instruments being treated briefly.
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This book is based on an introductory turbomachinery course at Durham University. This course was taught by Dr David Gregory-Smith and Professor Li He over a number of years and I am extremely grateful to them for providing a clear and lucid set of principles on which to base this work.
My current colleagues at Durham Dr Rob Dominy and Dr David Sims-Williams have also provided invaluable help (even if they didn’t realise it!) in preparing this work.
The book is designed to help students over some important “Threshold Concepts” in educational jargon. A threshold concept is an idea that is hard to grasp but once the idea is understood transforms the student understanding and is very hard to go back across. Within turbomachinery my view is that understanding the cascade view, velocity triangles and reaction form three threshold concepts, perhaps minor ones compared to the much bigger ideas such as "reactive power" or "opportunity cost" that are also proposed but this view has significantly influenced the production of this book.
I’d therefore like to acknowledge Professor Eric Meyer for introducing me to the idea of threshold concepts.
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Hi
I need paper in science direct : "Vibration control of seismic structures using semi-active friction multiple tuned mass dampers"
"Modelling of base-isolated buildingsnext term with passive previous termdampersnext term under winds "
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Contents
1983 Introduction to ‘‘Tsunami Science Four Years After the 2004 Indian Ocean
Tsunami, Part I: Modelling and Hazard Assessment’’
P. R. Cummins, L. S. L. Kong, K. Satake
1991 A Comparison Study of Two Numerical Tsunami Forecasting Systems
D. J. M. Greenslade, V. V. Titov
2003 The Effect of the Great Barrier Reef on the Propagation of the 2007 Solomon
Islands Tsunami Recorded in Northeastern Australia
T. Baba, R. Mleczko, D. Burbidge, P. R. Cummins, H. K. Thio
2019 Numerical Modeling and Observations of Tsunami Waves in Alberni Inlet
and Barkley Sound, British Columbia
I. V. Fine, J. Y. Cherniawsky, A. B. Rabinovich, F. Stephenson
2045 Evaluating Tsunami Hazard in the Northwestern Indian Ocean
M. Heidarzadeh, M. D. Pirooz, N. H. Zaker, C. E. Synolakis
2059 A Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment for Western Australia
D. Burbidge, P. R. Cummins, R. Mleczko, H. K. Thio
2089 Tsunami Probability in the Caribbean Region
T. Parsons, E. L. Geist
2117 Scenarios of Earthquake-Generated Tsunamis for the Italian Coast
of the Adriatic Sea
M. M. Tiberti, S. Lorito, R. Basili, V. Kastelic, A. Piatanesi, G. Valensise
2143 Stromboli Island (Italy): Scenarios of Tsunamis Generated by Submarine
Landslides
S. Tinti, F. Zaniboni, G. Pagnoni, A. Manucci
2169 Numerical Modelling of the Destructive Meteotsunami of 15 June, 2006
on the Coast of the Balearic Islands
I. Vilibic´, S. Monserrat, A. Rabinovich, H. Mihanovic´
2197 Validation and Verification of Tsunami Numerical Models
C. E. Synolakis, E. N. Bernard, V. V. Titov, U. Kaˆnog˘lu, F. I. Gonza´lez
2229 An Efficient and Robust Tsunami Model on Unstructured Grids. Part I:
Inundation Benchmarks
Y. J. Zhang, A. M. Baptista
2249 Runup Characteristics of Symmetrical Solitary Tsunami Waves
of ‘‘Unknown’’ Shapes
I. Didenkulova, E. Pelinovsky, T. Soomere
2265 A Tsunami Detection and Warning-focused Sea Level Station Metadata Web
Service
J. J. Marra, U. S. Kari, S. A. Weinstein
2275 Long-Term Tsunami Data Archive Supports Tsunami Forecast, Warning,
Research, and Mitigation
P. K. Dunbar, K. J. Stroker, V. R. Brocko, J. D. Varner, S. J. McLean,
L. A. Taylor, B. W. Eakins, K. S. Carignan, R. R. Warnken
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1 Introduction to ‘‘Tsunami Science Four Years After the 2004 Indian Ocean
Tsunami, Part II: Observation and Data Analysis’’
P. R. Cummins, L. S. L. Kong, K. Satake
9 Field Survey and Geological Effects of the 15 November 2006 Kuril Tsunami
in the Middle Kuril Islands
B. T. MacInnes, T. K. Pinegina, J. Bourgeois, N. G. Razhigaeva,
V. M. Kaistrenko, E. A. Kravchunovskaya
37 The November 15, 2006 Kuril Islands-Generated Tsunami in Crescent City,
California
L. Dengler, B. Uslu, A. Barberopoulou, S. C. Yim, A. Kelly
55 Validation and Joint Inversion of Teleseismic Waveforms for Earthquake
Source Models Using Deep Ocean Bottom Pressure Records: A Case Study
of the 2006 Kuril Megathrust Earthquake
T. Baba, P. R. Cummins, H. K. Thio, H. Tsushima
77 Variable Tsunami Sources and Seismic Gaps in the Southernmost Kuril
Trench: A Review
K. Hirata, K. Satake, Y. Tanioka, Y. Hasegawa
97 In situ Measurements of Tide Gauge Response and Corrections of Tsunami
Waveforms from the Niigataken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake in 2007
Y. Namegaya, Y. Tanioka, K. Abe, K. Satake, K. Hirata, M. Okada,
A. R. Gusman
117 Excitation of ResonantModes along the Japanese Coast by the 1993 and 1983
Tsunamis in the Japan Sea
K. Abe
131 Numerical Study of Tsunami Generated by Multiple Submarine Slope
Failures in Resurrection Bay, Alaska, during the MW 9.2 1964 Earhquake
E. Suleimani, R. Hansen, P. J. Haeussler
153 Lituya Bay Landslide Impact Generated Mega-Tsunami 50th Anniversary
H. M. Fritz, F. Mohammed, J. Yoo
177 Tsunamis on the Pacific Coast of Canada Recorded in 1994–2007
F. E. Stephenson, A. B. Rabinovich
211 The 15 August 2007 Peru Earthquake and Tsunami: Influence of the Source
Characteristics on the Tsunami Heights
H. He´bert, D. Reymond, Y. Krien, J. Vergoz, F. Schindele´, J. Roger,
A. Loevenbruck
233 Tide Gauge Observations of 2004–2007 Indian Ocean Tsunamis from
Sri Lanka and Western Australia
C. B. Pattiaratchi, E. M. S. Wijeratne
259 Reconstruction of Tsunami Inland Propagation on December 26, 2004
in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, through Field Investigations
F. Lavigne, R. Paris, D. Grancher, P. Wassmer, D. Brunstein, F. Vautier,
F. Leone, F. Flohic, B. De Coster, T. Gunawan, C. Gomez, A. Setiawan,
R. Cahyadi, Fachrizal
283 The 1856 Tsunami of Djidjelli (Eastern Algeria): Seismotectonics, Modelling
and Hazard Implications for the Algerian Coast
A. Yelles-Chaouche, J. Roger, J. De´verche`re, R. Brace`ne, A. Domzig,
H. He´bert, A. Kherroubi
301 Analysis of Observed and Predicted Tsunami Travel Times for the Pacific
and Indian Oceans
P. Wessel
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