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The Masonry Yearbook 2016 is mainly concerned with the subjects of
building materials, refurbishment, and the Eurocodes in practice.
In addition, current articles explain questions such as shear
design and reliability analysis.
In the year of the official introduction of Eurocode 6, the Masonry
Yearbook gives useful practical help in its application. Further
main themes: reinforced masonry and fixings. In addition, as ever:
all new developments requiring approval and building material
characteristics.
Does participatory governance benefit the environment? The European
Water Framework Directive (WFD), which came into force in 2000 with
the aim of revolutionizing European water governance, mandates
participatory river basin management planning across the European
Union. The belief of European policymakers and the European
Commission is that participation will deliver better policy outputs
and implementation. This book examines a range of approaches to
participatory river basin management planning, and considers
whether and how participation impacted on the environmental
standard of planning documents, quality of implementation, and
social outcomes. It draws on evidence from WFD implementation in
eight case studies from Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom on
the basis of a matched comparative case study design. The Directive
sets common timeframes and procedural requirements, which provides
a perfect test-bed and unique opportunity to study the effects of
participation on implementation and outcomes in comparative
perspective.
Proven and new: practical compendium for masonry for 39 years and
counting: basics, examples, code commentaries - current and
firsthand. Focus for 2015: Eurocode 6, Energy Saving Ordinance,
Restoration
Does participatory governance benefit the environment? The European
Water Framework Directive (WFD), which came into force in 2000 with
the aim of revolutionizing European water governance, mandates
participatory river basin management planning across the European
Union. The belief of European policymakers and the European
Commission is that participation will deliver better policy outputs
and implementation. This book examines a range of approaches to
participatory river basin management planning, and considers
whether and how participation impacted on the environmental
standard of planning documents, quality of implementation, and
social outcomes. It draws on evidence from WFD implementation in
eight case studies from Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom on
the basis of a matched comparative case study design. The Directive
sets common timeframes and procedural requirements, which provides
a perfect test-bed and unique opportunity to study the effects of
participation on implementation and outcomes in comparative
perspective.
An overview of recent developments in high performance computing
and simulation, with special emphasis on the industrial relevance
of the presented results and methods. The book showcases an
innovative combination of the state-of-the-art modeling, novel
numerical algorithms and the use of leading-edge high-performance
computing systems.
Prof. Dr. Egon Krause Aerodynamisches Institut, RWTH Aachen
Wiillnerstr. 5 u. 7, D-52062 Aachen Prof. Dr. Willi Jager
Interdisziplinares Zentrum fiir Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
Universitat Heidelberg 1m Neuenheimer Feld 368, D-69120 Heidelberg
High Performance Computing is progressing as a discipline providing
im- portant tools for research and development in science and
industry. The High- Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)
is not only providing the facilities, hard- and software for a
growing community of researchers and developers, but it also
promotes the know-how to use supercomputers effi- ciently. Regular
exchange of information, of ideas and methods is essential in
improving the proper use of the facilities,and their performance as
well as the application of algorithms and of simulation techniques.
A Second Result and Review Workshop on High-Performance Computing
in Science and Engineering, (October 4 -6,1999) was organized by
the HLRS in order to give an overview of the scientific work
carried out during the past year and to demonstrate the state of
the art in the various fields. In 1998 the Land Baden-Wiirttemberg
decided to extend the responsibilities of the Steering Committee of
the HLRS and therewith also the rules of access to its Scientific
Supercomputing Center (SSC) Karlsruhe. That center was recently
upgraded with the IBM RS 6000 SP, thereby significantly increasing
the attractivity of the two centers, since the joint portfolio of
computer- architectures now covers most of the application-profile
of their users.
For rather a long time numerical results in chemical kinetics could
only be obtained for very simple chemical reactions, most of which
were of minor practi ca 1 importance. The avail abil ity of fast
computers has provi ded new opportunities for developments in
chemical kinetics. Chemical systems of practical interest are
usually very complicated. They consi st of a great number of
different el ementary chemi cal reacti ons, mostly with rate
constants differi ng by many orders of magni tude, frequently with
surface reacti on steps and often wi th transport processes. The
deri vati on of a 'true' chemical mechani sm can be extremely
cumbersome. Mostly this work is done by setting up 'reaction
models' which are im- proved step by step in comparison with
precise experimental data. At this early stage mathematics is
involved, which may al ready be rather complicated. Mathematical
methods such as pertubation theory, graph theory, sensitivity
analysis or numerical integration are necessary for the derivation
and application of optimal chemical reaction models. Most
theoretical work aimed at improving the mathematical methods was
done on chemical reactions which mostly were of little practical
im- portance. Chemi cal engi neers, who evi dently k now well how
important the chemical model s and their dynamics are for reactor
desi gn, have al so to be convinced not only on the theoretical
work but also on its practical applic- abil ity.
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the work
shop "Modelling of Patterns in Space and Time," organized by the
80nderforschungsbereich 123, "8tochastische Mathematische Modelle,"
in Heidelberg, July 4-8, 1983. The main aim of this workshop was to
bring together physicists, chemists, biologists and mathematicians
for an exchange of ideas and results in modelling patterns. Since
the mathe matical problems arising depend only partially on the
particular field of applications the interdisciplinary cooperation
proved very useful. The workshop mainly treated phenomena showing
spatial structures. The special areas covered were morphogenesis,
growth in cell cultures, competition systems, structured
populations, chemotaxis, chemical precipitation, space-time
oscillations in chemical reactors, patterns in flames and fluids
and mathematical methods. The discussions between experimentalists
and theoreticians were especially interesting and effective. The
editors hope that these proceedings reflect at least partially the
atmosphere of this workshop. For the convenience of the reader, the
papers are ordered alpha betically according to authors. However,
the table of contents can easily be grouped into the main topics of
the workshop. For practical reasons it was not possible to
reproduce in colour the beautiful pictures of patterns shown at the
workshop. Since a larger number of half-tone pictures could be
included in this volume, the loss of information has, however, been
kept to a minimum. The workshop has already stimulated cooperation
between its parti cipants and this volume is intended to spread
this effect."
Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal
composition, public performance, and popular reception of
vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval French and
English cultures. This collection of essays considers the
extra-literary and extra-textual methods by which vernacular forms
and genres were obtained and examines the roles that performance
and orality play in the reception and dissemination of those
genres, arguing that late medieval vernacular forms can be used to
delineate the interests and perspectives of the subaltern. Via an
interdisciplinary approach, contributors use theories of
multimodality, translation, manuscript studies, sound studies,
gender studies, and activist New Formalism to address how and for
whom popular, vernacular medieval forms were made.
Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal
composition, public performance, and popular reception of
vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval French and
English cultures. This collection of essays considers the
extra-literary and extra-textual methods by which vernacular forms
and genres were obtained and examines the roles that performance
and orality play in the reception and dissemination of those
genres, arguing that late medieval vernacular forms can be used to
delineate the interests and perspectives of the subaltern. Via an
interdisciplinary approach, contributors use theories of
multimodality, translation, manuscript studies, sound studies,
gender studies, and activist New Formalism to address how and for
whom popular, vernacular medieval forms were made.
Die moderne Gesellschaft wird in den Beitragen des Bandes als
Organisationsgesellschaft analysiert, wobei insbesondere
organisatorische Governance-Strukturen und Zusammenhange zwischen
formalen Organisationen und gesellschaftlichem Wandel unter die
Lupe genommen werden. Mit Beitragen von Uwe Schimank, Andre
Kieserling, Klaus Turk, Raimund Hasse/Georg Krucken, Stefan Lange,
Helmut Wiesenthal, Roger Haussling, Stephan Voswinkel, Thomas
Brusemeister, Ursula Holtgreve, Andreas Langer, Niklas Luhmann,
Stefan Liebig/Holger Lengfeld, Walter Muller-Jentsch, Lars Clausen,
Wieland Jager und Michael Faust.
Dramatische soziale Ereignisse wie das Ende der sozialistischen
Staaten oder die Demontage des Wohlfahrtssystems decken
grundlegende theoretische Defizite der gegenwartigen Soziologie des
Wandels auf. Diesseits der besonders in der amerikanischen Debatte
erhobenen Forderung nach einem konzeptionellen Neubeginn werden in
dieser Studie aktuelle soziologische Gesellschaftstheorien
daraufhin untersucht, was sie zum Abbau der Mangel soziologischer
Analyse des Wandels beitragen konnen. Der Beutezug bei
zeitgenossischen Titanen der Soziologie (Bourdieu, Giddens,
Coleman, Munch, Habermas) steht unter der Leitfrage: Was leisten
gegenwartige soziologische Theorien aus der Theorieperspektive des
sozialen Wandels? Im Ergebnis lassen sich diese Theorien mit
erheblichem konzeptionellen Gewinn auch als Theorien des sozialen
Wandels lesen.
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