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Peter, Stasinopoulos, ed. Whole system design: An integrated approach to sustainable engineering. London: Earthscan, 2009.
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Falk, Ben. The resilient farm and homestead: An innovative permaculture and whole systems design approach. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Pub., 2013.
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Apostolidi, Eftychia, Stephanos Dritsos, Christos Giarlelis, José Jara, Fatih Sutcu, Toru Takeuchi, and Joe White. Seismic Isolation and Response Control. Edited by Andreas Lampropoulos. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/sed019.
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<p>The seismic resilience of new and existing structures is a key priority for the protection of human lives and the reduction of economic losses in earthquake prone areas. The modern seismic codes have focused on the upgrade of the structural performance of the new and existing structures. However, in many cases it is preferrable to mitigate the effects of the earthquakes by reducing the induced loads in the structures using seismic isolation and response control devices. The limited expertise in the selection and design of the appropriate system for new and existing structures is the main challenge for an extensive use of seismic isolation and response control systems in practice.</p> <p>This document aims to provide a practical guide by presenting a collection of the most commonly used seismic isolation and response control systems and a critical evaluation of the main characteristics of these systems. Comparisons of the key parameters of the design processes for new buildings with seismic isolation are presented, while the application of seismic isolation systems and response control systems for the retrofitting of existing structures is also examined, followed by various case studies from Greece, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, and Turkey.</p>
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Odincov, Boris. Models and intelligent systems. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1060845.
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The monograph consists of three chapters, the first of which outlines the theoretical foundations of intelligent information systems. Special attention is paid to the disclosure of the term "model" as the intended meaning depends on the understanding of the material. Introduces and examines the new concepts such as the associative and intuitive knowledge while in the creation of intellectual information systems are not used.
The second Chapter contains the analysis of problems of development of artificial intelligence (AI), developed in two directions: classical and statistical. Discusses difficulties in the development of the classical approach, associated with identifying the meaning of words, phrases, text, and formulating thoughts. The analysis of problems arising in the play of imagination and insight, machine understanding of natural language texts, play, verbalization and reflection.
The third Chapter contains examples of the development of intelligent information systems and technologies in practice of management of economic objects. Theoretical bases of construction of information robots designed to support the task hierarchy of the knowledge base and generating control regulations. The technology of their creation and application in the management of the business efficiency of enterprise business processes and its investment activities.
Focused on researchers and developers, AI and intelligent information systems, as well as graduate students and faculty in related academic disciplines.
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Hardikova, Lyubov', Svetlana Belousova, Lyubov' Afanas'eva, Valentina Rykunova, Larisa Sevryukova, Tat'yana Tkacheva, and Viktoriya Ciklauri. Taxation of individuals. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1048562.
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The tutorial discusses the theoretical and practical aspects of the current system of taxation of physical persons in the Russian Federation, legal bases of its formation, the principles and approaches of effective taxation.
Designed to consolidate the theoretical knowledge and the independent work of students enrolled in the specialty 38.05.01 "Economic security" of all forms of learning while studying the discipline "Taxation of individuals", and also students of training areas 38.03.01 "Economics", 38.03.02 "Management", 38.03.04 "State and municipal management". It may be useful to employees of state bodies of all levels, as well as graduate students, undergraduates and everyone interested in the taxation of individuals in the system of economic development and security.
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Censi, Martina. Rituali di segni e metamorfosi Ṭuqūs al-išārāt wa-l-taḥawwulāt. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-475-2.
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Ṭuqūs al-išārāt wa-l-taḥawwulāt (Rituals of Signs and Transformations), published in 1994, is a play which can be attributed to the last phase of Saʿd Allāh Wannūs’s literary production. At this stage, the Syrian author’s political commitment is no longer expressed through the interest for the collective dimension, but it focuses on the individual, considered as a pivotal element for social change. In Ṭuqūs, Saʿd Allāh Wannūs revisits history from an individual point of view, fragmenting it into a multiplicity of micro-narratives. During the 1880s in Damascus, the muftī, the chief religious legal authority, and the leader of the ašrāf, the descendants of the Prophet, are involved in a feud that splits the city into factions and brings it on the verge of anarchy. When the chief of police arrests the leader of the ašrāf while he is engaged in lovemaking with his mistress in his semi-private garden, the muftī concocts a scheme to save his enemy’s reputation, but his real aim is to subdue him and get rid of him. This event triggers a series of transformations involving the identities of the characters. Thus, the leader of the ašrāf, a regular of prostitutes and assiduous drinker, suddenly becomes a mystic with ascetic ambitions, while the upright muftī loses his head for a high-ranking woman who leaves her respectable life to become a prostitute. The whole society is destabilized by the desires of the characters. Desire not only affects their individual identity, but it also exerts influence on their social position, undermining a system of norms based on hypocrisy and on the division between the ‘latent’ and the ‘manifest’.
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Stansinoupolos, Peter. Whole System Design. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781849773775.
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Smith, Michael H., Cheryl Desha, Peter Stansinoupolos, and Karlson Hargroves. Whole System Design: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Engineering. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
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Peter, Stasinopoulos, ed. Whole system design: An integrated approach to sustainable engineering. London: Earthscan, 2009.
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Peter, Stasinopoulos, ed. Whole system design: An integrated approach to sustainable engineering. London: Earthscan, 2009.
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Smith, Michael H., Cheryl Desha, Peter Stansinoupolos, and Karlson Hargroves. Whole System Design: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Engineering. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
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Smith, Michael H., Cheryl Desha, Peter Stansinoupolos, and Karlson Hargroves. Whole System Design: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Engineering. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
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Smith, Michael H., Cheryl Desha, Peter Stansinoupolos, and Karlson Hargroves. Whole System Design: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Engineering. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
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Smith, Michael H., Cheryl Desha, Peter Stansinoupolos, and Karlson Hargroves. Whole System Design: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Engineering. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
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Curran, June Norris. Drafting House Plans: A Whole House Drafting System For Planning and Design (A Simplified Design System). Home Design Co, 1989.
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Miller, John H. A crude look at the whole: The science of complex systems in business, life, and society. 2015.
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U, Smith J., and Home-Grown Cereals Authority, eds. Decision support system to design whole farm rotations that optimise the use of available nitrogen in mixed arable and horticultural systems: On-farm testing. London: Home-Grown Cereals Authority, 2001.
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Westall, James. Design of a simplified colour analysis system as part of a vertical polychromatic polariscope apparatus for testing whole cardiac semilunar valves. 1995.
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Schmidt, Robert Kyle. The Design of Aircraft Landing Gear. SAE International, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/9780768099430.
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The aircraft landing gear and its associated systems represent a compelling design challenge: simultaneously a system, a structure, and a machine, it supports the aircraft on the ground, absorbs landing and braking energy, permits maneuvering, and retracts to minimize aircraft drag. Yet, as it is not required during flight, it also represents dead weight and significant effort must be made to minimize its total mass. The Design of Aircraft Landing Gear, written by R. Kyle Schmidt, PE (B.A.Sc. - Mechanical Engineering, M.Sc. - Safety and Aircraft Accident Investigation, Chairman of the SAE A-5 Committee on Aircraft Landing Gear), is designed to guide the reader through the key principles of landing system design and to provide additional references when available. Many problems which must be confronted have already been addressed by others in the past, but the information is not known or shared, leading to the observation that there are few new problems, but many new people. The Design of Aircraft Landing Gear is intended to share much of the existing information and provide avenues for further exploration. The design of an aircraft and its associated systems, including the landing system, involves iterative loops as the impact of each modification to a system or component is evaluated against the whole. It is rare to find that the lightest possible landing gear represents the best solution for the aircraft: the lightest landing gear may require attachment structures which don't exist and which would require significant weight and compromise on the part of the airframe structure design. With those requirements and compromises in mind,The Design of Aircraft Landing Gear starts with the study of airfield compatibility, aircraft stability on the ground, the correct choice of tires, followed by discussion of brakes, wheels, and brake control systems. Various landing gear architectures are investigated together with the details of shock absorber designs. Retraction, kinematics, and mechanisms are studied as well as possible actuation approaches. Detailed information on the various hydraulic and electric services commonly found on aircraft, and system elements such as dressings, lighting, and steering are also reviewed. Detail design points, the process of analysis, and a review of the relevant requirements and regulations round out the book content. The Design of Aircraft Landing Gear is a landmark work in the industry, and a must-read for any engineer interested in updating specific skills and students preparing for an exciting career.
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Cnossen, Sijbren, and Bas Jacobs, eds. Tax by Design for the Netherlands. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855244.001.0001.
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The Dutch tax system distorts economic decisions, treats equal economic positions unequally, and is extraordinarily complex. Following in the footsteps of the Mirrlees Review, prominent economists from academia and the policy arena, at home and abroad, provide evidence-based independent analyses of the system’s shortcomings, as well as detailed policy reform proposals. The book spans the whole spectrum of taxes on labour and capital income, profits, consumption, wealth, inheritances, and charges to correct for market and individual failures, including the environment. The major proposals for reform include the following. Taxation of all actual rather than presumptive capital income at a uniform flat rate under a Scandinavian type of dual income tax. Reform of the corporation tax to reduce debt bias and profit shifting. Lowering the tax burden on the working poor by increasing the earned income tax credit. Curtailing fossil fuel emissions by imposing a uniform price on all emissions in all sectors of 40–80 euros per tonne of CO2. Solving congestion externalities by pricing road use. Eliminating VAT exemptions, which are highly distortionary, at EU level. And internalizing the external effects of smoking, drinking, gambling, sugar consumption, and the use of plastics in price.
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Douglas, Diana Claire. Whole Systems Design: Inquiries in the Knowing Field. FriesenPress, 2022.
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Douglas, Diana Claire. Whole Systems Design: Inquiries in the Knowing Field. FriesenPress, 2022.
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Zürn, Michael. The Rise of the Global Governance System: A Historical-Institutionalist Account. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198819974.003.0006.
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The global governance system developed in the 1990s as a result of a path-dependent sequence that started with the choice of embedded liberalism in the 1940s. The post-Second World War constellation provided a critical juncture that led to institutionalized embedded liberalism and collective security under American leadership. Afterwards, self-reinforcing mechanisms strengthened this institutional design. This whole dynamic was accelerated by an external push when the Soviet empire faltered and functional differentiation could develop its full potential. Together, these developments created a new critical juncture. As a result of the decisions taken in this situation, a global governance system emerged. It consists of loosely coupled spheres of both political and epistemic authority. Overall, the authority of IOs has increased remarkably. As a consequence, this global governance system co-produces reactive sequences. It contains serious deficits undermining its acceptance and sustainability leading to resistance and demands for change.
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Falk, Ben. Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2013.
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Walker, Matthew. Inventing Architecture. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198746355.003.0005.
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Here, I turn to the final application of architectural knowledge: to the design itself. But in keeping with the general direction of this book I will not, on the whole, look at examples of the application of acquired knowledge in specific architectural designs. Instead, I will explore how English intellectuals theorized the process of designing classical architecture in general. This was a process that was fundamentally based on the classical orders, understood not just as a set of column types but as an overall system of proportion and, even, a method of design. The final text I turn to will be Wren’s writings on architectural design. Here, I argue that he used ancient variety as justification to be equally varied in one’s use of the orders in architectural design, although the ability to do this was ultimately dependent on the learning and the ingenuity of the architect.
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Epstein, Charles M. TMS stimulation coils. Edited by Charles M. Epstein, Eric M. Wassermann, and Ulf Ziemann. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198568926.013.0004.
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The simplest transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) coil is a circular one. The induced current is maximum near the outer edge of the coil while the magnetic field is the maximum under the center of the coil. TMS coils have good penetration to the cerebral cortex. They are commonly placed at the cranial vertex, where they can stimulate both hemispheres simultaneously. The main drawback of circular coils is their lack of focality. Several complex designs for multiloop coils have been proposed to increase the focality or improve the penetration to deep brain structures. This article describes factors of TMS coil design such as mechanical forces and coil lead wires, cooling systems, materials of construction of coil windings, etc. To reduce the risk of lethal electrical shock the entire high-voltage power system, including the lead wires and stimulation coil, must be isolated from earth ground.
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Nikoletta, Kleftouri. 1 Rationales for Creating a Deposit Protection System. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198743057.003.0001.
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A deposit protection system’s rationale is a key starting point in understanding its design and role within a financial safety-net system. A weighting towards the’ protection of depositors’ objective implies a system with a low coverage level, while a weighting towards promoting financial stability will lead to high coverage levels. The objective of depositors’ protection often means the existence of a ‘pay box’ mandate, while financial stability requires broader powers for the deposit insurer in addition to its payout mandate. This chapter uses the UK regulatory regime as its main reference point and tries to explore the full potential of an effective deposit insurance system.
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Zhu, Yang, and Miroslav Krstic. Delay-Adaptive Linear Control. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691202549.001.0001.
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Actuator and sensor delays are among the most common dynamic phenomena in engineering practice, and when disregarded, they render controlled systems unstable. Over the past sixty years, predictor feedback has been a key tool for compensating such delays, but conventional predictor feedback algorithms assume that the delays and other parameters of a given system are known. When incorrect parameter values are used in the predictor, the resulting controller may be as destabilizing as without the delay compensation. This book develops adaptive predictor feedback algorithms equipped with online estimators of unknown delays and other parameters. Such estimators are designed as nonlinear differential equations, which dynamically adjust the parameters of the predictor. The design and analysis of the adaptive predictors involves a Lyapunov stability study of systems whose dimension is infinite, because of the delays, and nonlinear, because of the parameter estimators. This book solves adaptive delay compensation problems for systems with single and multiple inputs/outputs, unknown and distinct delays in different input channels, unknown delay kernels, unknown plant parameters, unmeasurable finite-dimensional plant states, and unmeasurable infinite-dimensional actuator states. Presenting breakthroughs in adaptive control and control of delay systems, the book offers powerful new tools for the control engineer and the mathematician.
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Guiney, Thomas C. An Idea Whose Time Had Come. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803683.003.0003.
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The chapter traces the emergence of parole onto the policy agenda in England and Wales between 1960 and 1968. It examines the long-term historical trends in early release administration and how this gave rise to a reform agenda that was shaped by the prevailing optimism and confidence of the 1960s. It goes on to examine growing criminological support for indeterminate sentencing and the influence of the landmark Longford Committee Report Crime: A Challenge to Us All. Here it will argue that the initial policy scoping for a parole system in England and Wales was heavily influenced by the ‘rehabilitative ideal’ and a desire to give administrative expression to prevailing support for indeterminate and the personalization of punishment. The chapter concludes with an overview of the intense policy discussion that gave rise to the parole framework articulated in the ‘Adult Offender’ White Paper.
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Sahay, Sundeep, T. Sundararaman, and Jørn Braa. Health Information Systems Governance and Standards. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198758778.003.0009.
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Governance, as distinct from management, is a crucial but neglected issue in the context of public health informatics. Governance has two overlapping but distinct domains—health sector and IT governance. Governance is a cross-cutting issue affecting all domains discussed in the book, including the use of information, integration, cloud and big data-related issues, institutional design, and the management of complexity. A key governance challenge is the design, development, and use of standards and data policies, given the political nature of technical choices in these areas. Standards, focusing only on the technical aspects implemented in a top-down manner while ignoring the institutional and work practice-related issues, are more likely to fail than those emerging through use, bottom-up, and which add value to work processes. Governance becomes a key issue, as this function is responsible for making strategic choices and putting in place an implementation framework to make them work.
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Catanzaro, Michael P., and Rachel J. Kwon. Hinchey Classification of Acute Diverticulitis. Edited by Rachel J. Kwon. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199384075.003.0048.
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This chapter provides a summary of a landmark historical study in surgery: the Hinchey classification of acute diverticulitis. It describes the history of the disease, gives a summary of the study including study design and results, and relates the study to a modern-day principle of evidence-based medicine: validation of scoring systems. Hinchey’s classification of diverticulitis has become the most widespread system and while the Hinchey score may currently have less clinical relevance as it did in his time, its publication and eventual adoption marked a practice-changing paradigm shift in the way diverticulitis is viewed and managed today.
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Koslicki, Kathrin. Unity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823803.003.0008.
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A serviceable account of unity is needed which can capture the idea that matter–form compounds are more unified than other types of composite entities (e.g., heaps, collections, or mereological sums). This chapter develops a conception of unity according to which a structured whole derives its unity from the way its parts interact with other parts to allow the whole and its parts to manifest their “team-work”-requiring capacities. With this conception of unity in place, interesting differences emerge between paradigmatic matter–form compounds belonging to natural (e.g., physical, chemical, or biological) kinds and composite entities belonging to social kinds, in particular artifacts. In the latter case, the interactional dependencies that connect the components of a system can be traced to mind-dependent factors that are extrinsic or external to the system in question, viz., the mental states of intentional agents who invent, design, produce, or use an artifact.
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Vaicis, Ivo. Shape Optimization of Mechanical System Elements Considering Uncertainty. RTU Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7250/9789934227356.
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In the Thesis a new method is developed for optimising the shape of mechanical elements by considering the interaction of these elements with a multiphase uncertainty environment whose approximation model achieves a significant number of degrees of freedom (DOF). The Thesis analyses the process of dust formation during the handling of granular material. Different experimental designs are used to derive metamodels and to analyse the segregation of granular material in the silo discharge depending on the oscillation frequency, amplitude, and geometrical characteristics of the silo.
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Becht, IV, Charles. Process Piping: The Complete Guide to ASME B31.3, Fourth Edition. ASME, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.883792.
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Fully updated for the 2020 Edition of the ASME B31.3 Code, this fourth edition provides background information, historical perspective, and expert commentary on the ASME B31.3 Code requirements for process piping design and construction. It provides the most complete coverage of the Code that is available today and is packed with additional information useful to those responsible for the design and mechanical integrity of process piping. The author and the primary contributor to the fourth edition, Don Frikken are a long-serving members, and Prior Chairmen, of the ASME B31.3, Process Piping Code committee. Dr. Becht explains the principal intentions of the Code, covering the content of each of the Code's chapters. Book inserts cover special topics such as calculation of refractory lined pipe wall temperature, spring design, design for vibration, welding processes, bonding processes and expansion joint pressure thrust. Appendices in the book include useful information for pressure design and flexibility analysis as well as guidelines for computer flexibility analysis and design of piping systems with expansion joints. From the new designer wanting to known how to size a pipe wall thickness or design a spring to the expert piping engineer wanting to understand some nuance or intent of the code, everyone whose career involves process piping will find this to be a valuable reference.
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Somanathan, T. V., and Gulzar Natarajan. State Capability in India. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192856616.001.0001.
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This book seeks to assess state capability in India, identify weaknesses and their causes, and then propose measures to remedy them while recognizing political economy constraints. It examines the capability of public systems to design effective policies and implement them, with particular emphasis on India. Its focus is predominantly on the administrative contributors to state capability deficiencies. It straddles the fine line between analytical research scholarship and an ethnographic account of actors, processes, and institutions within different levels of government. Being participants and observers in the bureaucratic system, the authors describe reality without always seeking to locate it in the framework of existing academic literature.
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Garoche, Pierre-Loïc. Formal Verification of Control System Software. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691181301.001.0001.
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The verification of control system software is critical to a host of technologies and industries, from aeronautics and medical technology to the cars we drive. The failure of controller software can cost people their lives. This book provides control engineers and computer scientists with an introduction to the formal techniques for analyzing and verifying this important class of software. Too often, control engineers are unaware of the issues surrounding the verification of software, while computer scientists tend to be unfamiliar with the specificities of controller software. The book provides a unified approach that is geared to graduate students in both fields, covering formal verification methods as well as the design and verification of controllers. It presents a wealth of new verification techniques for performing exhaustive analysis of controller software. These include new means to compute nonlinear invariants, the use of convex optimization tools, and methods for dealing with numerical imprecisions such as floating point computations occurring in the analyzed software. As the autonomy of critical systems continues to increase—as evidenced by autonomous cars, drones, and satellites and landers—the numerical functions in these systems are growing ever more advanced. The techniques presented here are essential to support the formal analysis of the controller software being used in these new and emerging technologies.
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Galliott, Jai. The Unabomber on Robots. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190652951.003.0024.
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This chapter offers a limited defense of a controversial argument put forward by Ted Kaczynski, the “Unabomber,” namely that technological society threatens humanity’s survival. It draws on direct correspondence and prison interviews with Kaczynski and applies his broader views to the robotization of humanity; and it argues that the technological system is so complex that users are forced into choosing between jailed technology controlled by those within existing oppressive power structures, dedicating their lives to building knowledge and understanding of the software and robotics that facilitate participation in the technological system, or otherwise revolting against said system. That is, contra Peter Ludlow, it is not simply a matter of putting technology back in the hands of the people through “hacktivisim” or open-source design and programming. We must either accept revolt as permissible or recover a philosophy of technology truly geared toward human ends—parts set against the dehumanizing whole.
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Chen, Shu-Heng, Mak Kaboudan, and Ye-Rong Du, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Computational Economics and Finance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199844371.001.0001.
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Being published as a celebration of the 60th anniversary of John von Neumann’s “Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata,” this handbook attempts to provide a unique reflection on the nature of computational economics and finance (CEF) in light of natural computationalism. We restructure CEF by including both nature-inspired computing and natural computing. This new framework allows us to have a view of CEF much broader than just the conventional algorithmic consideration. The book begins with a historical review of computational economics (CE), tracing its history far back to the era of analog computing. In these early days, advancements were mainly made using the idea of natural computing, and the subjects pursued by CE were the computing system as a whole, not just numerical computing. The handbook then is organized by distinguishing computing from computing systems. Six chapters (Chapters 2 to 7) are devoted to the former. They together present a review on the recent progresses in CE, as illustrated by the computation of rational expectations, general equilibrium, risk, and volatility. The subsequent 16 chapters are devoted to the computing-systemic view of CE, including natural-inspired computing (Chapters 8 to 12) and network, agent-based computing and neural computing (Chapters 13 to 23). In addition to providing alternative approaches to forecasting, investment strategies and risk management, etc., they enable us to have a 'natural' or more realistic description of the economy, starting from its decision makers; hence, market-design or policy-design issues involving different levels of the economy, be microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic, can be simultaneously addressed and coherently integrated. The handbook concludes with a chapter on what we may hope from CE by providing an in-depth review on the epistemological aspects of computation.
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Hillman, Ken, and Jack Chen. Rapid response teams for the critically ill. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199600830.003.0003.
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There is a high incidence of potentially preventable deaths and serious adverse events in acute hospitals. Most of these events occur on the general wards of the hospital. The concept of rapid response systems was developed as a way of identifying seriously-ill and at-risk patients in acute hospitals at an early stage in order to improve outcomes. The system has two major components—criteria to define the deteriorating patient linked to a rapid response. The criteria are based on a combination of abnormal vital signs and observations, and the response is based on matching the patient with staff with the appropriate skills. Implementing and evaluating hospital-wide systems present new challenges that are different to our approach to a new drug or procedure. As well as agreeing to the appropriate criteria and response, the system needs leadership and support across the whole hospital, including education programmes and, monitoring with appropriate quality assurance activities. Increasingly, the specialty of intensive care is designed around the needs of the seriously ill, rather than being geographically confined within the four walls of an intensive care unit. The concept of rapid response systems is part of that process.
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Geißler, Fabian. Erweiterung eines miniaturisierten FMCW-Radarmoduls. Technische Universität Dresden, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25368/2022.401.
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This thesis presents the design of a miniature frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar with a frequency range of 50 MHz to 3 GHz using only commercial off the shelf (COTS) components. The system is intended for use as ground penetrating radar (GPR) as part of a lunar lander. State of the art topologies for ultra wideband signal synthesis are presented and compared. The theoretical background of split frequency ramps and the thus required stitching of baseband signals is discussed. The schematic design, layout and software development is described. The characterization of the radar system shows that the specification is met within a temperature range of −40 °C to 75 °C and while exposition to radiation with an accumulated dose of up to 168 Gy. The use of COTS components does not impair the performance. Finally suggestions for hard- and software improvements are given, that resulted from working with the radar system.
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Fúquene Retamoso, Carlos. The adoption of environmental strategies in large Colombian businesses. Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.9789587816525.
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This research explains the adoption of environmental strategies of large companies in Colombia. Large companies play an important role in global environmental issues, aimed at controlling climate change and resource scarcity.They are increasingly expected to address these environmental issues. However, companies adopt different strategies; some companies focus primarily on environmental compliance, while others implement new technologies and adopt proactive strategies such as eco-design, cleaner production and industrial symbiosis for waste recycling and shared resources in green systems design.
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Pearson, Ronald K. Discrete-time Dynamic Models. Oxford University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195121988.001.0001.
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Fueled by advances in computer technology, model-based approaches to the control of industrial processes are now widespread. While there is an enormous literature on modeling, the difficult first step of selecting an appropriate model structure has received almost no attention. This book fills the gap, providing practical insight into model selection for chemical processes and emphasizing structures suitable for control system design.
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Konstantinou, Thaleia, Nataša Ćuković Ignjatović, and Martina Zbašnik-Senegačnik. ENERGY: resources and building performance. TU Delft Bouwkunde, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.47982/bookrxiv.25.
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The use of energy in buildings is a complex problem, but it can be reduced and alleviated by making appropriate decisions. Therefore, architects face a major and responsible task of designing the built environment in such a way that its energy dependence will be reduced to a minimum, while at the same time being able to provide comfortable living conditions. Today, architects have many tools at their disposal, facilitating the design process and simultaneously ensuring proper assessment in the early stages of building design. The purpose of this book is to present ongoing research from the universities involved in the project Creating the Network of Knowledge Labs for Sustainable and Resilient Environments (KLABS). This book attempts to highlight the problem of energy use in buildings and propose certain solutions. It consists of nine chapters, organised in three parts. The gathering of chapters into parts serves to identify the different themes that the designer needs to consider, namely energy resources, energy use and comfort, and energy efficiency. Part 1, entitled “Sustainable and Resilient Energy Resources,” sets off by informing the reader about the basic principles of energy sources, production, and use. The chapters give an overview of all forms of energies and energy cycle from resources to end users and evaluate the resilience of renewable energy systems. This information is essential to realise that the building, as an energy consumer, is part of a greater system and the decisions can be made at different levels. Part 2, entitled “Energy and Comfort in the Built Environment”, explain the relationship between energy use and thermal comfort in buildings and how it is predicted. Buildings consume energy to meet the users’ needs and to provide comfort. The appropriate selection of materials has a direct impact on the thermal properties of a building. Moreover, comfort is affected by parameters such as temperature, humidity, air movement, air quality, lighting, and noise. Understanding and calculating those conditions are valuable skills for the designers. After the basics of energy use in buildings have been explained, Part 3, entitled “Energy Saving Strategies” aims to provide information and tools that enable an energy- and environmentally-conscious design. This part is the most extensive as it aims to cover different design aspects. Firstly, passive and active measures that the building design needs to include are explained. Those measures are seen from the perspective of heat flow and generation. The Passive House concept, which is explained in the second chapter of Part 3, is a design approach that successfully incorporates such measures, resulting in low energy use by the building. Other considerations that the following chapters cover are solar control, embodied energy and CO2 emissions, and finally economic evaluation. The energy saving strategies explained in this book, despite not being exhaustive, provide basic knowledge that the designer can use and build upon during the design of new buildings and existing building upgrades. In the context of sustainability and resilience of the built environment, the reduction of energy demand is crucial. This book aims to provide a basic understanding of the energy flows in buildings and the subsequent impact for the building’s operation and its occupants. Most importantly, it covers the principles that need to be taken into account in energy efficient building design and demonstrates their effectiveness. Designers are shaping the built environment and it is their task to make energy-conscious and informed decisions that result in comfortable and resilient buildings.
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Urban Stormwater. CSIRO Publishing, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643100596.
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The intense concentration of human activity in urban areas leads to changes in both the quantity and quality of runoff that eventually reaches our streams, lakes, wetlands, estuaries and coasts. The increasing use of impervious surfaces designed to provide smooth and direct pathways for stormwater run-off, has led to greater runoff volumes and flow velocities in urban waterways. Unmanaged, these changes in the quantity and quality of stormwater can result in considerable damage to the environment.
Improved environmental performance is needed to ensure that the environmental values and beneficial uses of receiving waters are sustained or enhanced.
Urban Stormwater - Best-Practice Environmental Management Guidelines resulted from a collaboration between State government agencies, local government and leading research institutions. The guidelines have been designed to meet the needs of people involved in the planning, design or management of urban land uses or stormwater drainage systems. They provide guidance in ten key areas: Environmental performance objectives; Stormwater management planning; Land use planning; Water sensitive urban design; Construction site management; Business surveys; Education and awareness; Enforcement; Structural treatment measures; and Flow management.
Engineers and planners within local government, along with consultants to the development industry, should find the guidelines especially useful. Government agencies should also find them helpful in assessing the performance of stormwater managers.
While developed specifically for application in Victoria, Australia, the information will be of value to stormwater managers everywhere.
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Camargo-Plazas, Pilar, Jennifer Waite, Michaela Sparringa, Martha Whitfield, and Lenora Duhn. Nobody listens, nobody wants to hear you: Access to healthcare/social services for women in Canada. Ludomedia, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.11.e554.
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In Canada, an unacceptable number of women live below the poverty threshold. Some subgroups of women, such as Indigenous, visible minorities, immigrants and refugees, older adults, and single mothers are more likely to live in poverty, as they face multiple systemic barriers preventing their financial stability. Further, socioeconomic status, employment, gender, and access to healthcare and social services negatively impact women’s well-being and health. Yet little is known about how these factors affect healthcare behaviours and experiences for women living on a low income. Our goal is to describe and understand how gender and income influence access to healthcare and social services for women living on a low income. Methods: Partnered with a not-for-profit organization, we explored the experiences of women living on a low income in Kingston, Canada. Using participatory, art-based research and hermeneutic phenomenological approaches, our data collection methods included photovoice, semi-structured interviews and culture circles. A purposive sample was recruited. Analysis was conducted following the social determinants of health framework by Loppie-Reading and Wien. Results: Participants perceived the healthcare and social services systems as unnecessarily complex, disrespectful, and dismissive–one where they are mere spectators without voice. They do not feel heard. They also identified problematic issues regarding living conditions, housing, and fresh food. Despite these experiences, participants are resilient and optimistic. Implications: Learning from participants has indicated priority issues and potential, pragmatic solutions to begin incremental improvements. Changing system design to enable self-selection of food items is one example. Conclusion: For an individual to feel others view them as unworthy of care, especially if those ‘others’ are the care providers, is ethically and morally distressing–and it certainly does not invite system-use. While our early findings reveal considerable system improvements are required, we are inspired by and can learn from the strength of the participants.
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Camargo-Plazas, Pilar, Jennifer Waite, Michaela Sparringa, Martha Whitfield, and Lenora Duhn. Nobody listens, nobody wants to hear you: Access to healthcare/social services for women in Canada. Ludomedia, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.11.2022.e554.
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In Canada, an unacceptable number of women live below the poverty threshold. Some subgroups of women, such as Indigenous, visible minorities, immigrants and refugees, older adults, and single mothers are more likely to live in poverty, as they face multiple systemic barriers preventing their financial stability. Further, socioeconomic status, employment, gender, and access to healthcare and social services negatively impact women’s well-being and health. Yet little is known about how these factors affect healthcare behaviours and experiences for women living on a low income. Our goal is to describe and understand how gender and income influence access to healthcare and social services for women living on a low income. Methods: Partnered with a not-for-profit organization, we explored the experiences of women living on a low income in Kingston, Canada. Using participatory, art-based research and hermeneutic phenomenological approaches, our data collection methods included photovoice, semi-structured interviews and culture circles. A purposive sample was recruited. Analysis was conducted following the social determinants of health framework by Loppie-Reading and Wien. Results: Participants perceived the healthcare and social services systems as unnecessarily complex, disrespectful, and dismissive–one where they are mere spectators without voice. They do not feel heard. They also identified problematic issues regarding living conditions, housing, and fresh food. Despite these experiences, participants are resilient and optimistic. Implications: Learning from participants has indicated priority issues and potential, pragmatic solutions to begin incremental improvements. Changing system design to enable self-selection of food items is one example. Conclusion: For an individual to feel others view them as unworthy of care, especially if those ‘others’ are the care providers, is ethically and morally distressing–and it certainly does not invite system-use. While our early findings reveal considerable system improvements are required, we are inspired by and can learn from the strength of the participants.
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Godden, Lee, and Anne Kallies. Smart Infrastructure: Innovative Energy Technology, Climate Mitigation, and Consumer Protection in Australia and Germany. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198822080.003.0022.
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‘Smart infrastructure’, such as smart meters, are innovative, information-based energy technologies designed to promote systemic energy efficiency, cost savings, and to transition energy markets toward sustainable outcomes, including reducing climate change impacts. Smart meters promise innovation in electricity markets–as an enabler of demand-side services and a more distributed energy system. The chapter examines three case studies of legal reform for smart meter introduction in Australia and Germany. It concludes that the realization of the innovation promise of smart infrastructure requires the legal system to address consumer-oriented social and economic changes. While legal responses are growing in sophistication, significant questions around consumer protection remain, although Germany emphasizes consumer privacy more than Australian case studies. Finally, Germany most closely links innovation to climate change and electricity system transitions, whereas, increasingly, Australian policies emphasize the consumer benefits and innovation in the business models for electricity distribution.
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Boden, Leslie I., and Emily A. Spieler. Workers’ Compensation. Edited by Daniel Béland, Kimberly J. Morgan, and Christopher Howard. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199838509.013.027.
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This chapter describes the history and current status of workers’ compensation programs in the United States. Workers’ compensation, the oldest social insurance system in the United States, was designed to provide medical and cash benefits to people with work-related injuries and illnesses while protecting employers from liability. Primarily established state by state, these programs vary significantly among jurisdictions. The chapter explores several disturbing themes: the failure of these systems to provide benefits for many occupationally caused injuries and illnesses; the questionable adequacy of benefit levels; confusion and humiliation of applicants; and the recurring political issue of fraud. The chapter also briefly describes the relationship of workers’ compensation programs with other disability and health insurance systems, employment relations, and workplace safety regulation. It closes with questions about the future of workers’ compensation in the United States.
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Hritz, Carrie, Christian Isendahl, Lisa J. Lucero, John Meunier, Steffen Nijhuis, Payam Ostovar, Clemens Reichel, Vernon L. Scarborough, Federica Sulas, and T. L. Thurston. IF THE PAST TEACHES, WHAT DOES THE FUTURE LEARN? Ancient Urban Regions and the Durable Future. Edited by John T. Murphy and Carole L. Crumley. TU Delft, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.47982/bookrxiv.32.
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How can we transform urban environments to encourage durability and mediate the social price of myriad risks and vulnerability?Our work here is to build a bridge from archaeology to mainstream architectural and design theory. The study of places, landscapes, and regions links the two fields. Architecture can be shaped and enhanced by the long-term cultural and geographic perspective afforded by archaeology; architecture can offer archaeology a ride into the future. We hope that our efforts are novel enough to be inspiring and connected enough to allow existing concepts to be furthered. The bridge unites three domains: material, social, and aesthetic. We look to the past to find material technologies—new engineering and conceptual solutions to an array of problems—and the past obliges with many examples. However, these technologies in their material aspects are only part of the story. The archaeologist sees them as playing a role in a system. This system, while mechanically functional, is also profoundly social: it includes administrative structures, but also innumerable other kinds of relationships—kin groups, neighborhoods, genders—that mirror the embedded relations between humans and nature. As in architecture, systems include semantics and aesthetics: not only are these forms pleasing to the eye, but they also tell stories of history and place and give identity and meaning to the lives in which they are enmeshed. This multi-functionality and multi-vocality are inherent in past systems.
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Schwartz, Moisés J., and Diether W. Beuermann, eds. Economic Institutions for a Resilient Caribbean. Inter-American Development Bank, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003053.
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This volume focuses on economic institutions defined as rules and organizational arrangements that, if they govern the design and implementation of fiscal and monetary policies, can better align those policies with long-run citizen interests. Specifically, the economic institutions covered are those that promote more sustainable fiscal management, adequate implementation of monetary policy, and more resilient financial systems. On fiscal management, the book covers public revenue administrations, public financial management systems, public debt management institutions, fiscal rules, medium-term fiscal frameworks, independent fiscal councils, and the design features of sovereign wealth funds. While pension schemes are not a fiscal institution, they are also analyzed because of the fiscal burden and contingencies that these systems may entail. In terms of institutions that support effective monetary policy, the focus is on the importance of central bank independence and transparency. On financial systems, the book analyzes the relevance of financial regulation and supervision to promote more stable and efficient markets that are better suited to confront challenges and more resilient against external shocks. Some institutional enhancements that foster access to credit and deeper financial systems are also analyzed.