The main purpose of the book is to present the theory and research method about the collapse of the unsaturated soil bunding for the scientific researchers, the engineers and technicians, and to provide the theory support for the actual project. This book suits in the hydraulic engineering, the ground project and the related domain scientific researchers, the engineers and technicians. There are six chapters. Chapter 1 covers the research situation in the world, special in China, and the research thought and the frame. Chapter 2 concerns the water movement of unsaturated soils. Chapter 3 presents the shear strength of unsaturated soils under the seepage. Chapter 4 describes the decay model of the riverbank stability. Chapter 5 discusses...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-5360-3
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Problem of water afflux computation is one of the main concerns for optimal development of river crossing design and construction of hydraulic structures. HEC-RAS model without bridge and with bridge was constructed and water surface profiles were computed using using HEC-RAS model and Lacey’s Regime Theory. The computed water surface profiles were compared with the simulated computer model results and thereafter estimation of the river water afflux and results are presented in this book.This book certainly enhance learning among researcher, scientists, students and helps planning research studies. The authors appreciate the efforts of Barthlemy Chaton and his team in facilitating during book finalization and highly acknowledge...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-3722-1
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Le rivetage est un assemblage de pieces a l'aide de rivets. C'est un assemblage definitif, c’est-a-dire non demontable sans destruction de l'attache. Quoiqu'il existe depuis peu un type de rivet imprimant une empreinte helicoidale, lors du montage, dans son logement, permettant ainsi un demontage et un remontage ulterieur sans destruction du rivet. Ce mode d'assemblage a connu une tres large utilisation dans l'assemblage metallique au XIXe siecle avant l'apparition de la soudure oxy-acetylenique : employe en rivetage a chaud, il permettait un assemblage tres resistant et de faible encombrement. On le trouvait...
ISBN: 978-6-1328-9024-5
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Crash Prediction Models (CPMs) have been used in the developed countries as a useful tool by road Engineers and Planners. There is however a limited literature on the prediction of road traffic crashes in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) including Ghana. This book studies crash data and develops a prediction model for injury road traffic crashes occurring on rural highways in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Data was collected from rural highway sections of varying lengths. Data collected for each segment comprised injury crash data, traffic flow and speed data, and roadway characteristics and road geometry data. The Generalised Linear Model (GLM) with Negative Binomial (NB) error structure was used to estimate the model parameters....
ISBN: 978-3-8433-7826-0
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Real chemical processes have inherent nonlinearities as part of their characteristics. Consequently, designing model-based controllers for these processes will become a challenge especially in the nonlinear operating region during setpoint changes or disturbance rejections. This book provides a design framework for control systems which not only address process nonlinearities, but also guarantee robustness of the models being used in designing the controllers. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-3-8383-4671-7
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This work aims to contribute to the area of visual tracking, which is the process of identifying an object of interest through a sequence of successive images. The thesis explores kernel-based statistical methods. Two algorithms are developed for visual tracking that are robust to noise and occlusions. In the first algorithm, a kernel PCA-based eigenspace representation is used. The de-noising and clustering capabilities of the kernel PCA procedure lead to a robust algorithm. In the second method, a robust density comparison framework is developed that is applied to visual tracking, where an object is tracked by minimizing the distance between a model distribution and given candidate distributions. The superior performance of...
ISBN: 978-3-8433-5038-9
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Romstrade is a construction company based in Bucharest, Romania which specialises in building construction and civil engineering, infrastructure construction, and facility management. In 2009 Romstrade was the largest construction company in Romania with a revenue of €268 million. Almost all of Romstrade's business is conducted in Romania. An international branch of the company was started in 2009 with the opening of an office in one of the largest cities in Iraq, Arbil the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. The company is a member of the Romstrade Group which also includes the charter airline Direct Aero Services...
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Bei magnetgelagerten Rotoren konnen Uberlast oder Ausfall der Magnetlager zu Fanglagerkontakten fuhren. Kommt es zur Ausbildung eines Ruckwartswirbels, konnen die entstehenden Verformungen und Kontaktkrafte Rotor und Fanglager zerstoren. Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit der Dynamik des Systems mit Fanglagerung mittels Walzlagern mit und ohne Abnutzung und fokussiert auf das Rotor-Fanglager-Zusammenspiel in kritischen Situationen. Mittels Hochgeschwindigkeitsvideographie wird das Hoch- und Auslaufverhalten des Fanglagers im Zusammenspiel mit dem Rotor sichtbar gemacht. Modellbasiert wird auf die Reibkrafte zwischen Rotor und Fanglager geschlossen. Es werden Versuchsreihen mit Fanglagern verschiedener Abnutzungsgrade mit und ohne...
ISBN: 978-3-8381-1235-0
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Rapid and efficient wide-scale distribution of medical supplies plays a critical role in assuring the effectiveness in managing the risks of large-scale emergencies such as a bio-terrorism attack. Important issues in the design of such an efficient distribution network involve deciding how to route distribution vehicles and how to manage these inventories. The high uncertainty, limited supply and overwhelming demand associated with a large-scale emergency may result in significant unmet demand, which is a direct representation of the most undesirable consequence – loss of life. Solving appropriate vehicle routing and inventory management problems in a coordinated manner can ensure the design of a logistic network capable of efficiently...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-7180-5
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Der High Pressure Light Water Reactor ist ein neuartiges Konzept der 4. Generation von Leichtwasserreaktoren. Er wird mit Wasser bei uberkritischem Druck moderiert und gekuhlt und ermoglicht im Vergleich zu heutigen Druck- oder Siedewasserreaktoren hohere Wirkungsgrade bei niedrigeren Anlagenkosten, jedoch ohne Kompromisse hinsichtlich seiner Sicherheit. Als Beispiel eines passiven Sicherheitssystems gegen Verlust von Kuhlwasser bei Bruch der Speisewasserleitung wird ein Ruckstrombegrenzer vorgeschlagen, der ohne bewegliche Teile geringe Druckverluste beim Einstromen, aber hohe Druckverluste bei Ruckstromung erzeugt. Er wird in den Speisewasserstutzen des Reaktordruckbehalters integriert. Eine Spannungs- und Deformationsanalyse zeigt,...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-8584-3
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This research study has contributed significantly to manufacturing and automation industries by offering a complete implementation framework for rapid human machine interface (HMI) development based on concurrent development using a virtual environment. The ability to exploit 'unique' features of a virtual-real environment resulted in 'innovative' distributed runtime environment (DRE) capabilities. DRE represents the ‘next’ natural evolution of runtime support or HMI development environment in the manufacturing machinery domain. At the core of DRE, a component-based runtime support framework has been created, which covers the major manufacturing machinery runtime support requirements including configuration, monitoring, alarm...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-2385-2
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Safety engineering is an applied science strongly related to systems engineering and the subset System Safety Engineering. Safety engineering assures that a life-critical system behaves as needed even when pieces fail. deally, safety-engineers take an early design of a system, analyze it to find what faults can occur, and then propose safety requirements in design specifications up front and changes to existing systems to make the system safer. In an early design stage, often a fail-safe system can be made acceptably safe with a few sensors and some software to read them. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
ISBN: 978-6-1304-7720-2
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Le Saint Esprit est un navire de guerre francais en service de 1765 a 1795. C'est un vaisseau de ligne de deuxieme rang portant 80 canons sur deux ponts. La fin de la Guerre de Sept Ans est catastrophique pour la Marine royale francaise : elle perd une partie de ses vaisseaux (batailles des Cardinaux et de Lagos en 1759) et n'a pas les moyens financiers pour compenser ses pertes. Le duc de Choiseul, Secretaire d’Etat a la Marine, lance alors un appel aux dons pour construire des vaisseaux neufs. L'ordre du Saint-Esprit fournit une telle somme qu'un vaisseau deja en construction est baptise du nom de l'Ordre le 20 janvier 1762. Данное издание не является...
ISBN: 978-6-1341-3499-6
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Samuel Eyde (29 October 1866 – 21 June 1940) was a Norwegian engineer and industrialist, the founder of Norsk Hydro and Elkem. Sam Eyde was the son of a shipowner, and studied engineering in Berlin where he graduated in 1891. He started his career in Hamburg, working with the railways where he planned new lines, bridges and stations. Eyde and Kristian Birkeland met at a dinner party in 1903; Birkeland was working on developing an electric arc, while Eyde had recently bought the rights to several waterfalls in Telemark. They agreed to cooperate to develop an electric flame. He was CEO of Norsk Hydro until 1917, when he had to resign after the general meeting had asked him to leave. He was...
ISBN: 978-6-1340-8017-0
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Samudera LRT station (PW4) is an LRT station on the Punggol LRT Line West Loop in Singapore. It is currently not open for service due to little development around the area. It is operated by SBS Transit.Samudera means sea in Tamil. It is a Tamil word that is also used in the Malay language to mean "sea". The station is located close to the sea.The Punggol LRT Line is the third line of the LRT system in Singapore. Its first phase comprises a 10.3km line with 15 stations. Similar to the Sengkang LRT Line, its rolling stock and line operator are the Crystal Movers and SBS Transit respectively. The Punggol LRT Line serves the residents in the town and urban planning area of Punggol. While as of...
ISBN: 978-6-1305-8553-2
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The work is a unique piece of a scientific research that develops two new media for arsenic removal using adsorption as a treatment technique. The work actually enhances principles of sustainability; it uses waste materials generated as by-products from glass recycling program (crushed glass) and seafood industry (scallop shells). A simple chemical-thermal method is used to coat these materials and creating adsorbents which have successfully been tested and proven for arsenic removal from groundwater sources. These adsorbents could be applicable to small scale water treatment systems where municipal water distribution grids are not available. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-4062-3
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Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass eisenhaltiges Schaumglas in Kupfer- und Zinklosungen deren Konzentrationen in ahnlichem Rahmen senkt wie bereits auf dem Markt etablierte und wesentlich teurere Produkte. Es scheint also grundsatzlich als konkurrenzfahiges Produkt in Frage zu kommen, denn es steckt noch ein grosses Verbesserungspotenzial in diesem Verfahren. Die Entwicklung eines Adsorbens aus modifiziertem Schaumglas steht erst am Anfang. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-3-6390-9626-2
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Liegt in der schulischen Gesundheitsforderung eine Moglichkeit, den Trend von Ubergewicht und Adipositas unter Kindern und Jugendlichen zu verandern? Kann uber gesundheitsfordernde Programme die Gesundheit von Schulerinnen und Schulern verbessert werden? Die WHO sowie nationale Gesundheitsbehorden sehen in der schulischen Gesundheitsforderung Potential - um Projekte zu optimieren, mussen die angebotenen Initiativen aber evaluiert werden. Lukas Hindinger hat in seiner Arbeit, nach ausfuhrlichen Begriffsdefinitionen, Ernahrungs- und Bewegungsprojekte an osterreischischen Schulen evaluiert und den gewonnenen Datensatz mit jenem einer bundesweiten Ubergewichtsstudie erweitert. Der Autor beantwortet Fragen nach Unterschieden zwischen...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-9304-6
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Schweinfurt Army Heliport is a military facility near Schweinfurt, Germany, being part of the United States Army Garrison. It is controlled by the 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry. 173d Airborne Brigade Combat Team since 6 June 2006.The unit operates AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from the airfield. The facility's origins begin in 1936 as a Luftwaffe airfield, its primary mission being the home of light bomber (Dornier Do 17) and dive bomber (Junkers Ju 87) units until 1942. About 1940, the Luftwaffe began assigning anti-aircraft (FlaK) units to the area, in order to provide an air defense for the Schweinfurter Kugellagerwerke and other ball bearing factories in Schweinfurt, as the city produced...
ISBN: 978-6-1309-1946-7
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scott Air Force Base is a base of the United States Air Force in St. Clair County, Illinois, near Belleville (part of the St. Louis metropolitan area). The base is named after Corporal Frank S. Scott, the first enlisted person to be killed in an aviation crash. The base is operated by the 375th Air Mobility Wing (375 AMW) and is also home to the Air Force Reserve Command's 932d Airlift Wing (932 AW) and the Illinois Air National Guard's 126th Air Refueling Wing (126 ARW), the latter two units being operationally gained by AMC. The residential part of the base is a census-designated place; the population was 2,707 at the 2000 census. Its airfield is also used by civilian aircraft, with civilian...
ISBN: 978-6-1309-1974-0
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sea Venture was a 17th-century English sailing ship, the wrecking of which in Bermuda is widely thought to have been the inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest. She was the flagship of the Virginia Company, and was a highly unusual vessel for her day. The Sea Venture sat atop the reefs off Gate's Bay long enough to be stripped of all useful parts and materials, not only by her crew and passengers, but by subsequent settlers; what was left of her eventually disappeared beneath the waves. Two of her guns were salvaged in 1612 and used in the initial fortification of Bermuda (one was placed on Governor's Island, opposite Paget's Fort, the other on Castle Island). The Sea Venture was also...
ISBN: 978-6-1327-4529-3
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Alternative fuels are a topic of huge concern at present as well as ways to produce energy more efficiently with minimized losses. the fuel cell is such a technology. The Functionality of the fuel cell technology has already been demonstrated in a lot of applications as in electric utilities, portable power applications and transportation. However the amount of fuel cell products on the market is still limited. This survey presents the procedure about which a direct methanol fuel cell unit is studied from the mechanical and chemical points of view in order to find the appropriate materials and a sealing concepts capable of reducing the losses of reactants in the chemical energy converter that is the DMFC. Данное издание...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-5426-9
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In order to perform a visual search for an object two capabilities must be available: the ability to recognise the object when it comes into view; and a way of selecting these views. Although visual search is often complicated by object occlusion and low spatial resolution, colour may be used as a cue since it is salient and stable under reduced resolution. This book explores the use of colour in visual search for objects in digital images at low and high spatial resolutions. The book describes the visual search process and its confounding factors, as well as reviews several colour constancy, image segmentation and object recognition algorithms from the literature. It then presents three visual search algorithms that can represent 2 or...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-5324-5
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The Web bears the potential to become the world's most comprehensive knowledge base. Organizing information from the Web into entity-relationship graph structures could be a first step towards unleashing this potential. In a second step, the inherent semantics of such structures would have to be exploited by expressive search techniques that go beyond today's keyword search paradigm. This work proposes a wide variety of novel search and ranking strategies over data that is organized in entity-relationship graphs. All presented techniques have been implemented as components of the NAGA search engine and published in renowned international conferences. NAGA itself is a fully implemented prototype system and is part of the YAGO-NAGA...
ISBN: 978-3-8381-1761-4
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Searsville Dam is a masonry dam that was completed in 1892, one year after the founding of Stanford University, and impounds San Francisquito Creek to form a reservoir known as Searsville Lake. Searsville Dam is located in the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve and is owned and operated by Stanford University. Neighboring cities include Woodside and Portola Valley, California. A vocal group argues that the dam should be removed. Searsville Dam inundated former wetlands formed by the confluence of Corte Madera Creek, Sausal Creek, Dennis Martin Creek and Alambique Creek. These wetlands likely served a valuable historical function by removing sediment and pollutants from the San Francisquito Creek...
ISBN: 978-6-1327-7524-5
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