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Journal articles on the topic "King's Cross Central (Project)"
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Gilmour, Sarah. "Regeneration King’s Cross: the Central Saint Martin’s College of Art relocation project." Art Libraries Journal 36, no. 1 (2011): 22–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200016758.
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Central Saint Martin’s move to a prestigious new site at King’s Cross is part of the most significant redevelopment project in London in the last 150 years. The Library will inhabit a 19th-century grain store, the Granary building, designed by Lewis Cubitt. To date the process of planning the library has included work with base build architects Stanton Williams, the fit out architects Pringle Brandon, library consultants The Design Concept and Embervision, and suppliers Demco.
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Pinet, Simone. "Walk on the Wild Side." Medieval Encounters 14, no. 2-3 (2008): 368–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006708x366308.
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AbstractThe figure of the wild man is one that crosses artistic disciplines and genres in the cultures of medieval Iberia. In this article I show how the wild man operates within a variety of meanings in diverse literary contexts that, working simultaneously at different narrative levels, cross over from literature into daily life and spectacles, from legal to political discourses. The figure's continued presence from the medieval period into the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries suggests its use as a commonplace, as a motif with a number of fixed meanings that are put to work through context, providing the possibility of different, perhaps even contradictory readings. As commonplace, then, the wild man is presented as a case study for the reconsideration of other elements in the paintings of the Hall of Justice of the Alhambra, often interpreted to have a specific or fixed meaning, and thus programmed within a particular narrative. Seen in its entirety as a repository of commonplaces, I interpret the complex of the lateral paintings of the Hall of Justice in relation to the central one, in which a set of ten kings in Nasrid dress are depicted as conversing, as pretexts for narration that can be of a literary or juridical nature. I then go on to provide a possible itinerary of reading for the wild man scene not only in its immediate context, but as part of he overall visual project in a political key that illustrates the productive makeup of the paintings as pedagogical and ideological enterprise.
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Bird, Lawrence, and Nik Luka. "Arts of (dis)placement: City Space and Urban Design in the London of Breaking and Entering." Cinémas 21, no. 1 (August 15, 2011): 79–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1005631ar.
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Anthony Minghella’s 2006 filmBreaking and Enteringframes two views of London focusing on King’s Cross station, one of the city’s key transportation hubs and, like many such centres, a complex site of marginality. To its main protagonist, the architect/urban designer Will Francis (Jude Law), it is a site to be transformed into a model (in several senses) of what London—and the practice of urban design—have to offer the “new” Europe. The viewpoint of the young Kosovan refugee Miro Simiç (Rafi Gavron) is quite different. He sees King’s Cross from the rooftops, which he clambers as a petty burglar by night to break into local offices. His acts ofparkour(defined by its practitioners as “the art of displacement”) are central to the film. Miro, the teenaged character, exists in a space of displacement: displaced from his native Sarajevo, and from the streets of London by his status as refugee and thief. The film contrasts these two viewpoints—one which forms space, and one displaced—by citing real and imagined city-building projects in London, and placing them in relationship to the bodies of Will and Miro.
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Architects, Stanton Willimas. "Central Saint Martins, London." EN BLANCO. Revista de Arquitectura 10, no. 24 (April 30, 2018): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/eb.2018.9934.
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<p>Central Saint Martins es una institución líder en la educación de arte y diseño, con raíces en el movimiento Arts and Crafts de finales del siglo XIX. El nuevo edificio reúne, por primera vez, en una entidad cohesiva, distintas disciplinas que anteriormente estaban ubicadas en diferentes partes del centro de Londres.</p><p>El proyecto para el nuevo campus de Central Saint Martins fue la clave para la regeneración de King's Cross. El proyecto inició la transformación del que fue uno de los principales centros de transporte del Londres Victoriano, un área que estaba en estado casi delictivo. La reurbanización de esta parte de la ciudad es uno de los proyectos de regeneración urbana más grandes y ambiciosos de Europa.</p>
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Shin, Ye-Kyeong. "A Study on the Project Planning Method of Areas near St.Pancars Station & King's Cross Station in London." Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology 6, no. 10 (October 31, 2016): 603–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/ajmahs.2016.10.04.
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Munye Dagnew, Elias. "Evaluating the Programs and Procedures of Project Planning and Management: the Case of Ethiopia Red Cross Society." International Journal of World Policy and Development Studies, no. 67 (October 19, 2020): 97–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/ijwpds.67.97.104.
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The central purpose of the study is to evaluate the programs, project planning and management in Ethiopian Red Cross society and its comparison with procedures of project planning and management system. The study found that Ethiopian Red Cross society has been working on a lot of community development projects in Ethiopia for several decades. Most projects were principally emphasized on disaster and risk reduction. Different organizations use diverse project procedures to achieve the anticipated objectives. This also true for the Ethiopian Red Cross society projects. The Ethiopian Red Cross society had integrated some unique style of project planning and management system in its project. Thus, there was no total departure in the whole system of project development phases. Every cycle of the project life spans are used beginning from the point of concept initiation to final implementation and closure phases.
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Kairamo, Maija, and Tapani Mustonen. "The Restoration of Central City Alvar Aalto Library in Vyborg." For an Architect’s Training, no. 49 (2013): 73–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.52200/49.a.bytce7dn.
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The restoration of the Central City Alvar Aalto Library in Vyborg is completed and was officially inaugurated on 23rd November 2013. The restoration has been a long process which started in 1991. The work was carried out as a Russian–Finnish joint cross–border project within the context of two different socio–cultural societies, customs difficulties, economic fluctuations and currency rates, which could change the situation overnight. The project has been a learning process for all who have participated during the past years.
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Lenhardt, Wolfgang A., Damiano Pesaresi, Mladen Živčić, Giovanni Costa, Tomislav Fiket, István Bondár, Llambro Duni, et al. "Improving Cross-Border Seismic Research: The Central and Eastern Europe Earthquake Research Network (CE3RN)." Seismological Research Letters 92, no. 3 (January 27, 2021): 1522–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0220200374.
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Abstract The complex tectonic setup of eastern Europe—resulting in strong spatial variations of the local seismic hazard—caused relevant institutions of neighboring countries to form a research cooperation to ease seismological research cooperations across borders. Here, we briefly introduce the original and new Central and Eastern Europe Earthquake Research Network (CE3RN) parties, with a synthesis of the common results achieved so far and an indication of possible future developments. Since the formal establishment of CE3RN, several common projects have been initiated, such as the SeismoSAT Project for the seismic data center connection over satellite and the Historical and Recent Earthquakes in Italy and Austria Project, both funded by the European Union INTERREG Italy–Austria Program. The most recent 22 March 2020 earthquake near Zagreb, resulting in considerable damage in the capital of Croatia, demonstrated the importance of fast data exchange, thus facilitating reliable analysis of the earthquake. In addition, a recent breakdown of data lines in Austria demonstrated the usefulness of alternative data transmission via satellite.
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Schoch, Richard. "WHAT ARE YOU READING?" Theatre Survey 48, no. 1 (April 25, 2007): 169–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557407000415.
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A few months ago I was accosted in a pub near King's Cross, in central London, by a drunk spoiling for a fight. Instead of trying to reason with someone unreasonable, I alerted one of the bartenders that trouble was ahead. My warning came too late. As soon as the drunk saw me talking to the bartender, he lunged at me, shouting “You! You!,” as if somehow I had betrayed the trust of this perfect stranger. He threw me against the wall, my pint glass shattering on the floor as I fell backward. And then he started to choke me. (For a drunk, his grip was surprisingly strong.) I couldn't tell you how much time elapsed—it felt like a long time, but was probably only a minute or so—before some of the other customers finally overpowered him.
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Kaye, Jason Philip, Susan L. Brantley, and Jennifer Zan Williams. "Ideas and perspectives: Proposed best practices for collaboration at cross-disciplinary observatories." Biogeosciences 16, no. 23 (December 9, 2019): 4661–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-4661-2019.
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Abstract. Interdisciplinary science affords new opportunities but also presents new challenges for biogeosciences collaboration. Since 2007, we have conducted site-based interdisciplinary research in central PA, USA, at the Susquehanna Shale Hills critical zone observatory. Early in our collaboration, we realized the need for some best practices that could guide our project team. While we found some guidelines for determining authorship on papers, we found fewer guidelines describing how to collaboratively establish field sites, share instrumentation, share model code, and share data. Thus, we worked as a team to develop a best practices document that is presented here. While this work is based on one large team project, we think many of the themes are universal, and we present our example to provide a building block for improving the function of interdisciplinary biogeoscience science teams.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "King's Cross Central (Project)"
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Beer, Alida Maria de. "Exploring the optimal utilization of locational banking statistics data by a national central bank : the South African perspective." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/25016.
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Project Work presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Statistics and Information Management, specialization in Information Analysis and ManagementThe financial crisis that emerged in 2008 highlighted the importance of tracking global vulnerabilities through joint analysis of data covering many financial institutions. Locational banking statistics (LBS) were designed to provide comprehensive and consistent data on the banking systems’ funding and lending patterns (BIS, 2014) . The main purpose of the data is to provide information on the role of banks and financial centers in the intermediation of international capital flows. Apart from operational activities, procedures and systems to compile sound cross-border banking system data, there is a need to improve the understanding of the analysis techniques and research outcomes pertaining to this data and specifically how these elements feed into the broader macroeconomic framework, the financial stability regime, and ultimately into policy advice. This study is conducted within a positivist paradigm and investigates the key analytical uses of the LBS data from a national central bank perspective whilst utilising a quantitative approach to develop a suite of analysis mainly through the use of exploratory data analysis (EDA) techniques.
Books on the topic "King's Cross Central (Project)"
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(Firm), Argent St George. Principles for a human city: A document prepared by Argent St George, the selected developer for King's Cross Central, and the landowners, London and Continental Railways and Exel. 3rd ed. [Great Britain]: Argent St George, 2001.
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Corporation, Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's Council Aboriginal. They might have to drag me like a bullock: The Tjilpi Pampa Tjut̲aku Project : the rights, needs, and care options of the senior men and women of the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara, and Yankunytjatjara communities in the cross-border region of Central Australia : final report. Alice Springs, NT: The Corporation, 1995.
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Roger, Madelin, Porphyrios Demetri, Rappaport Nina, and Yale University. School of Architecture., eds. The human city: King's Cross Central 03 : Roger Madelin/Demetri Porphyrios. New Haven, Conn: Yale School of Architecture, 2008.
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Cross-cutting issues in public policy and public service: Report of a research project for DETR. London: Dept. of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1999.
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The policies and practices adopted by employers in the EC member states in relation to the cross-boundary recruitment of recent graduates: A research project undertaken for the European Commission by the Central Services Unit and the Irish Productivity Centre under the auspices of the Liaison Committee of EC Rectors' Conferences 1992 : second report. Manchester: CSU, 1993.
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Maharaj, Ayon. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190868239.003.0001.
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The introduction articulates the two main aims of the book. The book’s exegetical aim is to provide accurate and charitable reconstructions of Sri Ramakrishna’s philosophical views on the basis of his recorded oral teachings. Throughout the book, the task of philosophical exegesis goes hand in hand with a broader cross-cultural project: bringing Sri Ramakrishna into creative dialogue with recent Western philosophers, thereby shedding new light on central problems in cross-cultural philosophy of religion. As a contribution to this nascent field, the book participates in the recent movement away from comparative philosophy and toward more creative and flexible paradigms for engaging in philosophical inquiry across cultures.
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Moseley, Mason W. Contentious Engagement. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190694005.003.0003.
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This chapter examines the cross-national determinants of protest participation in Latin American democracies, testing several central expectations from the protest state theory. Drawing on data from the AmericasBarometer, a biennial survey conducted by the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) from 2004 to 2014, and World Bank governance indicators, I use multilevel modeling techniques to evaluate how country-level institutional characteristics interact with individual-level indicators of political engagement to explain protest behavior. Rather than offering support for dominant grievance-based explanations of protest or theoretical perspectives couched solely within the resource mobilization or political opportunities traditions, I find that an interactive relationship between institutional context and civic engagement best explains why Latin Americans choose to protest.
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Graves-Brown, Paul, Rodney Harrison, and Angela Piccini, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199602001.001.0001.
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This book surveys an archaeology “in and of the present.” It investigates the challenges and pitfalls of an archaeology of the contemporary world as well as the methodologies for doing it. It consists of a collection of chapters in which authors from within and outside of archaeology reflect on cross-disciplinary concerns. Contributors discuss topics ranging from scale and time to ruins, memory, authenticity, sectarianism, heritage, modernism, and disaster. To extend and complicate the interdisciplinary overviews and archaeological thematics, the book presents in-depth case studies on mobilities, space and place; media and mutabilities; and things and connectivities. Three contributors?representing disciplinary interests in archaeology, geography and photography?produce photo essays in which they reflect on some of the central themes in an archaeology of the contemporary world. The book pursues questions of materiality that appear to owe much to Walter Benjamin's unfinished Arcades Project (2002), a distinctively spatial exploration of the ruins and debris of the arcades of Paris. It also looks at spectacular events as sites of material intensity, including protests and riots, sporting mega-events, and festivals.
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Poferl, Angelika, and Natan Sznaider, eds. Ulrich Becks kosmopolitisches Projekt. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845291727.
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The theory of a reflexive or second modernity developed by Ulrich Beck has decisively influenced sociological debate in Germany and, increasingly, internationally. It is based on the thesis of epochal change among modern societies, i.e. a fundamental transformation of their forms and scopes. The current consequence is the perspective of a cosmopolitan sociology, which sheds the shackles of nation-state thinking and conducts a cross-border analysis of social reality supported by humanistic claims. The urgent plea to think and design modernity ‘differently’ touches upon the central problems and questions of the present. This second edition of the volume, originally published on the occasion of Ulrich Beck’s 60th birthday in 2004, invites a discussion on the open project of cosmopolitan, reflexive modernity and its theoretical, practical and political challenges. It compiles, inter alia, contributions by Jürgen Habermas, Bruno Latour, Aihwa Ong and Richard Sennett on risk issues, individualisation, globalisation, and politics and democracy, as well as on interdisciplinary aspects of Beck’s work. The book will thus appeal to both those readers who are well versed in this subject area and all others who are interested in it.
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Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music (Contemporary Musicians). Thomson Gale, 2004.
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Reimers, Fernando M. "Learning from Teaching Graduate Students How to Design Climate Change Education Programs." In Education and Climate Change, 181–201. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57927-2_7.
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AbstractThis chapter discusses lessons learned engaging my graduate students in education policy analysis at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in designing climate change education curricula in partnership with educational institutions around the world. Studying those programs developed by my students, I draw out seven cross-cutting themes about what such an approach yields for students, for the educational institutions they partnered with and for my own institution, while drawing parallels between those curricula and the graduate course in comparative education policy analysis in which these curricula were developed. In addressing those themes the chapter revisits some of the central arguments presented in the introductory chapter about the urgency and the challenges of enhancing the effectiveness of climate change education, and some of the key conclusions of critical reviews of the literature on education and climate change about the limitation of existing approaches to the subject.Those themes are: Educating students to address climate change is about engaging them in active problem solving, not contemplation. While learning from doing is valuable, to advance the field of climate change education, it is necessary to conceptualize and theorize practice. The need to think broadly about learning outcomes in climate change education The power of contextually situated learning A Signature project-based pedagogy to Change Climate through Education Augmenting the capacity for climate change education among teachers and schools The limitations of infusing climate change education in existing courses The chapter concludes examining some blind spots in the climate change curricula presented in the book and drawing parallels between the education response to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020 and the education response to Climate Change.
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Boult, Johanna, Jennifer E. Whited, and Tamara M. Easley. "An Ethics-of-Care Approach to Developing Students' Antiracist Practice in SLP Curricula." In Critical Perspectives on Social Justice in Speech-Language Pathology, 198–223. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7134-7.ch010.
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There is a necessity for students to learn about multicultural multilingual (MM) content in speech-language-pathology curricula. One reason for doing so is personal motivation: an awareness of and commitment to developing competence in working with diverse clients. Awareness can grow given specific instructional experiences in the form of special projects that aim to build cross-cultural relationships with the goal of fostering empathy and compassion. This chapter provides a tutorial explaining one such instructional experience: the cross-cultural communication (CCC) project. Central to the project are face-to-face meetings and reflective journaling on topics including counteracting stereotypes and planning for culturally responsive service provision. Activities have antiracist intentions guided by the moral obligation to care for fellow human beings (as per ethics of care [EoC] theory). This chapter provides (1) theoretical underpinnings of the project, (2) procedures for its completion, and (3) description of a modification of the project for a language disorders course.
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Algado, Salvador Simó, Xavier Ginesta Portet, and Jordi de San Eugenio Vela. "Problem-Based Learning Methodology." In Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services, 218–28. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6371-8.ch014.
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The objective of this chapter is to present the EcosSPORTech project, a cross-faculty project based in Vic (Spain) where the University of Vic has a central role in developing an enterprise with young people in order to develop sports and leisure activities in the natural environment, integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). This project, which has the participation of students from different faculties (Business and Communication, Health and Wellness, and Education) using a Problem-Based Leaning (PBL) method, reinforces the idea of an entrepreneurial university that can create innovative solutions in order to promote social benefits; this is a university with a clear commitment to educating both professionals and citizens. The chapter also presents the project's communication policy, based on the UVic's corporate media: blog, magazine, and radio station. This project has the financial support of La Caixa Foundation (Obra Social La Caixa) and Vic's City Council.
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Maira, Sunaina Marr. "Introduction." In The 9/11 Generation. NYU Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479817696.003.0001.
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The Introduction outlines the major questions regarding Muslim American youth and the turn to rights-based activism and cross-ethnic coalitions that are the focus of the book. It discusses why the concept of “youth,” and particularly Muslim and Middle Eastern youth, is so central to to the War on Terror and also often exceptionalized in the post-9/11 moment. It offers an overview of the context of the ethnographic research in Silicon Valley and Fremont/Hayward, situating the three communities (South Asian, Arab, and Afghan American) in the study against the backdrop of the longer history of contestations over race, class, and immigration in this region. It also provides a discussion of the research methods on which the project is based.
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Meletiou-Mavrotheris, Maria, and Efstathios Mavrotheris. "SMASH." In Cases on Interactive Technology Environments and Transnational Collaboration, 171–92. IGI Global, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-909-5.ch010.
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At a time when mathematics and science provide essential knowledge tools and the foundations for lifelong learning skills, cross-national studies of student achievement in Europe indicate lack of mathematical and scientific competence for a considerable proportion of the student population. Acknowledging the central role of parents in children’s learning, the EU-funded project SMASH aims to raise the educational standards of European youth in mathematics and science by cultivating underlying home cultures as springboards for learning. The project consortium has developed an innovative intercultural parent-trainer training course and related resources for professionals involved in parent education initiatives. The course, which is delivered through combined use of e-learning and physical meetings, provides these professionals with current knowledge, techniques, and implementation tools for the provision of high-quality, culturally differentiated training in mathematics and science education to parents of elementary and middle school children (ages 6-15) in their communities. Online multilingual resources support and promote the program’s activities and objectives by offering open access to the parent-trainer training course content and tools.
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Ferrús, Ramon, Oriol Sallent, Cor Verkoelen, Frank Fransen, Keld Andersen, Christian Bjerrum-Niese, Jaakko Saijonmaa, et al. "Security in Transnational Interoperable PPDR Communications." In National Security, 859–79. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7912-0.ch043.
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The relevance of cross border security operations has been identified as a priority at European level for a long time. A European network where Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) forces share communications processes and a legal framework would greatly enforce response to disaster recovery and security against crime. Nevertheless, uncertainty on costs, timescale and functionalities have slowed down the interconnection of national PPDR networks and limited the transnational cooperation of their PPDR forces so far. Currently, the European research project ISITEP is aimed at developing the legal, operational and technical framework to achieve a cost effective solution for PPDR interoperability across European countries. Inter alia, ISITEP project is specifying a new Inter-System-Interface (ISI) for the interconnection of current TETRA and TETRAPOL networks through Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity. This approach turns communications security as a central aspect. In this context, this paper describes the framework and methodology defined to carry out the development of the security requirements for the interconnection of PPDR networks via the new IP ISI and provides a discussion on the undertaken security risk and vulnerability analysis. Furthermore, an overview of the designed security architecture solution for network interconnection is provided.
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Jarrar, Mustafa. "Towards Effectiveness and Transparency in E-Business Transactions." In Semantic Web for Business, 127–49. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-066-0.ch007.
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This chapter presents an ontology for customer complaint management, which has been developed in the CCFORM project. CCFORM is an EU funded project (IST-2001-38248) with the aim of studying the foundation of a central European customer complaint portal. The idea is that any consumer can register a complaint against any party about any problem, at one portal. This portal should: support 11 languages, be sensitive to cross-border business regulations, dynamic, and can be extended by companies. To manage this dynamicity and to control companies’ extensions, a customer complaint ontology (CContology) has to be built to underpin the CC portal. In other words, the complaint forms are generated based on the ontology. The CContology comprises classifications of complaint problems, complaint resolutions, complaining parties, complaint-recipients, ‘’best-practices’’, rules of complaint, etc. The main uses of this ontology are (1) to enable consistent implementation (and interoperation) of all software complaint management mechanisms based on a shared background vocabulary, which can be used by many stakeholders. (2) to play the role of a domain ontology that encompasses the core complaining elements and that can be extended by either individual or groups of firms; and (3) to generate CC-forms based on the ontological commitments and to enforce the validity (and/or integrity) of their population. At the end of this chapter, we outline our experience in applying the methodological principles (Double-Articulation and Modularization) and the tool (DogmaModeler) that we used in developing the CContology.
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Horning, Ned, Julie A. Robinson, Eleanor J. Sterling, Woody Turner, and Sacha Spector. "Protected area design and monitoring." In Remote Sensing for Ecology and Conservation. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199219940.003.0020.
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Researchers interested in remote locations have developed monitoring schemes, sometimes called “Watchful Eye” monitoring, that use a time series of remotely sensed images to assess changes over time to a protected area or habitat. For instance, the European Space Agency (ESA) and UNESCO have set up repeat analyses of satellite imagery for World Heritage sites. The first area for which they developed this technique was the habitat of the critically endangered mountain gorilla (Gorilla berengei berengei) in the Virunga Mountains in Central Africa, including the Bwindi and Mgahinga National Parks in Uganda, the Virunga and Kahuzi-Biega National Parks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the trans-boundary Volcanoes Conservation Area. The project developed detailed maps of these inaccessible zones so that protected area managers can monitor the gorilla habitat. Previously, available maps were old and inaccurate (at times handmade), did not completely cover the range of the gorillas, and did not cross national boundaries. Because there was no systematic information from the ground regarding changes over time, researchers also used remotely sensed data to complete change detection analyses over the past two decades. Using both optical (Landsat series) and radar (ENVISAT ASAR) satellite data, researchers were able to quantify rates of deforestation between 1990 and 2003 and relate these rates to human migration rates into the area resulting from regional political instability. Researchers constructed the first digital base maps of the areas, digital elevation models (DEMs), and updated vegetation and land use maps. They faced significant problems in both field and laboratory activities, including lack of existing ground data, dense vegetation cover, and fairly continuous cloud cover. They therefore used a combination of ESA ENVISAT ASAR as well as Landsat and ESA Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) optical data. The radar images allowed them to quantify elevation and distances between trees and homes. Landsat and MERIS data helped identify forest cover types, with Landsat providing finer-scale images at less frequent intervals and MERIS serving lower-resolution images more frequently.
Conference papers on the topic "King's Cross Central (Project)"
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Wilson, Ian, Martin Hooton, Joan Valls Mestre, Ben Addy, and Ezra Groskin. "Somers Town Bridge." In Footbridge 2022 (Madrid): Creating Experience. Madrid, Spain: Asociación Española de Ingeniería Estructural, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24904/footbridge2022.211.
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<p>The Somers Town Bridge crosses the Regents Canal in central London and was opened in 2017. It is a bridge of extreme simplicity - almost impossibly slender – but meeting the structural demands with the very minimum of materials.</p><p>Designed for cyclists and pedestrians to cross from Camley Street into the King’s Cross development; a landmark redevelopment project by the developer client, Argent (on behalf of King’s Cross Central Partnership Ltd); the bridge spans 38m and is only 1100mm deep at mid-span and 400mm deep at the ends. In keeping with the Victorian heritage of the area, the bridge is unadorned and streamlined, focusing attention on extremely detailed and precise craftsmanship and high-quality materials.</p><p>With such a slender deck form this bridge would normally be sensitive to pedestrian induced vibrations, but for the inclusion of 3 sets of tuned mass dampers at mid-span that are hidden by a cover plate that provides the bridge identification number – 34B.</p><p>This paper presents the story of the bridge development and its response to several challanges.</p>
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Vaidya, Gauri, and Naresh Pal. "Statutory Approval Process for Cross-Country Hydrocarbon Pipeline Projects." In ASME 2017 India Oil and Gas Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/iogpc2017-2410.
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Laying of petroleum and natural gas pipelines requires Clearances pertaining to Environment, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ), Forests and Wildlife from various statutory bodies of the Central and State Government depending on the proposed pipeline route. Because of the time-consuming appraisal process undertaken at various levels, planning the statutory approval process forms a very important part of the project implementation schedule. The project proponents have to forecast and plan well in advance for obtaining statutory approvals as scheduled. This paper details the clearances required for pipeline projects mainly from environmental angle, the procedures involved and difficulties faced by project proponents. It also suggests project proponents to plan the activities in advance and be updated on the new guidelines and notifications issued by the authorities. It also puts forth some recommendations to Statutory Authorities to simplify the procedures for speedy disposal of proposals related to pipeline projects.
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Vagts, Steffen, and Josef Schlattmann. "General Systems Theory in a Horizontal and Vertical Action Process for Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge Transfer." In ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2013-64235.
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Biomimetic product development builds a bridge between the scientific disciplines engineering and biology and represents a cross-disciplinary knowledge circulation, which can produce highly innovative advancements in technology. The methodological support for such projects was initiated by the VDI guideline 6220 by 2012 [1] and still requires further research. The method presented in this abstract tries to provide a significant contribution to the successful transfer of knowledge across disciplines, to convey innovative solutions from biology to technology. The central idea of the method called Heli-Act (an acronym of Helix and Action) described here is based on the system-theoretical analysis of the action and the action carrier, the action circle and the action line under the relevant aspects of the socio-technical integration of methods and tools that will support the action carrier in the biomimetic development process. As a cross-common “language” general systems theory is used, which also includes the mathematical modeling system for both action as well as for object systems, which allows a computer-assisted method implementation. For the association of specialized terminology of the disciplines involved in the cross-disciplinary communication a semantic network is used to derive a translation tool in the Ontology World Language (OWL). Practical application experiences from a current project are presented, which describes the tribological optimization of a technical joint by awareness from the analysis of insects joints.
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Simmons, Steven, and Roger Watson. "A System-Wide Pipeline Automation Project: Application Colonial Pipeline System." In 2002 4th International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2002-27026.
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This paper will discuss the objectives, challenges, and methods of implementing a system-wide pipeline automation project at Colonial Pipeline, focusing on the pilot project and early years. Currently the company is in the midst of a five-year project to automate and remotely operate delivery facilities, tank farms, and origination stations along over 5000 miles of existing pipeline. The end result will bring control of over 200 facilities into to the Central Control Center. Technically, the project goal is to install state of the art infrastructure to enhance safety and reliability, standardize to a common platform across the system, and integrate into an existing SCADA Control System. From the business perspective, the project goal is to meet or exceed typical industry guidelines for project management metrics, reach a unitized cost basis and provide a foundation for consistent and repeatable operations across the entire pipeline system. The Common Project Process (a cross-functional integrated project team strategy) and an engineering alliance are being used to define and execute the project phases. Colonial’s Engineering team recast itself in 1999 on the basis of establishing core competencies, leveraging internal talent and knowledge, and establishing an effective outsourcing strategy. This automation project is one of the first large-scale efforts to put this new model to task. In 2000, Colonial Pipeline and Mangan, Inc. formed an engineering alliance to capitalize on the strengths of both teams. Colonial’s pipeline engineering and operations knowledge have been equitably matched with Mangan’s project management, engineering and integration skills. The result is an energetic and committed technical project team, as well as a win-win opportunity for both sides. This alliance provides a valuable model for engineering team outsourcing and contracting. Except for original construction projects, it is rare for a pipeline company to take on a system-wide infrastructure upgrade opportunity of this scope. Success of the pilot project depended on integrating the field automation with SCADA system capabilities and developing both control center and human resources plans. The field hardware, the technical focus of this paper, is a small piece of the entire project objective; however it represents the foundation of the entire business model. Selecting and committing to a common controls platform was an engineering objective. The hardware had to provide a certain level of assurance that the standard model would be available both at the start and the end of the project, in addition to supporting legacy systems for future challenges. In summary, this automation project represents more than engineering and integration. It’s a combination of the talent, hardware, and vision which will accomplish the goal of the core business product — safe and efficient delivery of consumer fuels.
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Freeman, Olivia, Rosie Hand, and Aileen Kennedy. "Breaking down Silos through Authentic Assessment: a Live Case Analysis." In Sixth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head20.2020.11150.
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One of the aims of Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) is to create graduates who problem solve as socially responsible global citizens. We wanted to provide an opportunity for our students to address relevant, marketing and consumption challenges in new and innovative ways, and to develop analytical competences and professional skills and comportment in a real-life context. This paper describes the design, implementation and outcome of an inter-disciplinary and cross-programme ‘authentic assessment’ method which we have termed a ‘live case analysis’. The assessment comprised fieldwork, wider industry engagement, formative assessment components and a summative presentation. The method is discussed against the backdrop of a Curriculum Framework project which is underpinned by four design principles which centre around innovation, application, collaboration and flexibility. The performance of real-world tasks such as live case analysis strongly reflects the central pedagogical values of what, where and how people will learn at TU Dublin in the future.
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Toche, Boris, Greg Huet, Grant McSorley, and Cle´ment Fortin. "A Product Lifecycle Management Framework to Support the Exchange of Prototyping and Testing Information." In ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2010-29005.
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The modern perspective on product life cycle and the rapid evolution of Information and Communication Technologies in general have opened a new era in product representation and product information sharing between participants, both inside and outside the enterprise and throughout the product life. In particular, the Product Development Process relies on cross-functional activities involving different domains of expertise that each have their own dedicated tools. This has generated new challenges in terms of collaboration and dissemination of information at large between companies or even within the same organization. Within this context, the work reported in this paper focuses on a specific stakeholder within product development activities — the testing department. Its business is typically related to the planning and building of prototypes in order to perform specific tests on the future product or one of its sub-assemblies. This research project aims at investigating how results from testing activities can efficiently interface with other departments, in particular to offer relevant information feedback to designers. As a first step, a study based on an open source initiative is described to show how two natively disparate PLM tools can dialogue to merge information in a central environment. The principles applied in the study are then transposed to introduce a framework where information from prototyping and testing activities could be mapped and merged with design activities to match needs in a cross-functional setting.
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Granath, James, and William Dickson. "Regionally Connected Structural Systems: The Power of the Big (Continental-Scale) Picture." In SPE/AAPG Africa Energy and Technology Conference. SPE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/afrc-2571578-ms.
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ABSTRACT Beyond offshore West Africa where modern densely-sampled data from ships and satellites have played a key role in current understanding of passive margin evolution, Africa is in general rather unevenly known, especially in the subsurface in more remote areas. The GIS-based Exploration Fabric of Africa (EFA, the ‘Purdy project’) was designed to address that problem. It includes structural features such as faults and basin outlines but at a very high and often generalized level, divorced from their underlying genetic linkages. We have undertaken to compile a more detailed tectonic synthesis aimed to integrate understanding of the oceanic margins with the continental realm. This is an overlay to EFA with a variety of public domain, published, non-exclusive, and derivatives of proprietary work at a closer and more detailed level, importantly guided by known patterns of structural styles. Potential field (gravity and magnetic) data provide guidance in locating, extending, and connecting key mapped features; we then rely on the kinematic patterns to predict missing details in a testable interpretation. The result is a detailed structural features map that can function as a framework within which to target and prioritize both conventional and unconventional activity by operators and licensing/regulatory organizations. We illustrate the process in theory and in practice along the Central African Rift System (CARS), where data is sparse. This fault linkage systems approach has flagged underexplored areas where unmapped structure is likely that could, for example, be targeted with hi-resolution geophysical data. A similar system to CARS appears to cross southern Africa from Namibia to Tanzania – a “Southern Trans-African Rift system" or STARS. Exploration in the eastern Owambo Basin resulted in the mapping of a pull-apart basin from depth-to-basement inversion of high-resolution magnetic data and subsequently studied with structural modeling. Thinking in terms of such fault and structural systems, this ‘Kavango Basin’ can be related along strike to the Karoo Basins in Eastern Africa via features such as the Omaruru lineament, implying the possibility of a fairway of extensional basins and shears across the continent that are not obvious in existing low-resolution data. STARS represents a blue-sky frontier concept for both conventional and nonconventional exploration potentially offering new exploration leads, the ultimate objective of big picture work.
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van Heek, Aliki, Bert Metz, Bas Janssen, and Ron Groothuis. "Management of Historical Waste From Research Reactors: The Dutch Experience." In ASME 2013 15th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2013-96347.
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Most radioactive waste emerges as well-defined waste streams from operating power reactors. The management of this is an on-going practice, based on comprehensive (IAEA) guidelines. A special waste category however consists of the historical waste from research reactors, mostly originating from various experiments in the early years of the nuclear era. Removal of the waste from the research site, often required by law, raises challenges: the waste packages must fulfill the acceptance criteria from the receiving storage site as well as the criteria for nuclear transports. Often the aged waste containers do not fulfill today’s requirements anymore, and their contents are not well documented. Therefore removal of historical waste requires advanced characterization, sorting, sustainable repackaging and sometimes conditioning of the waste. This paper describes the Dutch experience of a historical waste removal campaign from the Petten High Flux research reactor. The reactor is still in operation, but Dutch legislation asks for central storage of all radioactive waste at the COVRA site in Vlissingen since the availability of the high- and intermediate-level waste storage facility HABOG in 2004. In order to comply with COVRA’s acceptance criteria, the complex and mixed inventory of intermediate and low level waste must be characterized and conditioned, identifying the relevant nuclides and their activities. Sorting and segregation of the waste in a Hot Cell offers the possibility to reduce the environmental footprint of the historical waste, by repackaging it into different classes of intermediate and low level waste. In this way, most of the waste volume can be separated into lower level categories not needing to be stored in the HABOG, but in the less demanding LOG facility for low-level waste instead. The characterization and sorting is done on the basis of a combination of gamma scanning with high energy resolution of the closed waste canister and low-resolution localized gamma scanning inside a hot cell. A complicating factor is that the conditioning of the waste, consisting of compacting and cementing, would require such an extensive infrastructure at the Petten site, that it appeared to be more practical to have it executed by a foreign service provider. Therefore the waste packages have to comply with cross-border transport and waste acceptance criteria, and the national legislation of this service provider too. This paper describes this historical waste project, focusing on the fast and precise characterization approach, the expert system behind it, and the sorting and repackaging effort at the Petten site.
Reports on the topic "King's Cross Central (Project)"
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CAREC Road Safety Engineering Manual 4: Pedestrian Safety. Asian Development Bank, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/tim210073-2.
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This manual is a practical point of reference for the provision of safer pedestrian facilities in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries. It focuses on the physical road infrastructure that can help pedestrians safely cross, and walk along, roads. It also outlines proven facilities that have been shown to assist pedestrians including those in the high-risk groups. Aimed at engineers, project managers, planners, traffic police, and other decision-makers, the manual shows how wise investment in pedestrian facilities can save lives, prevent injuries, and return major economic benefits to CAREC countries.