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Wind forces from extreme wind events are the dominant loading for
many parts of the world, exacerbated by climate change and the
continued construction of tall buildings and structures. This
authoritative source, for practising and academic structural
engineers and graduate students, ties the principles of wind loads
on structures to the relevant aspects of meteorology, bluff-body
aerodynamics, probability and statistics, and structural dynamics.
This new edition covers: Climate change effects on extreme winds -
particularly those from tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons
Modelling of potential wind vulnerability and damage Developments
in extreme value probability analysis of extreme wind speeds and
directions Explanation of the difference between 'return period'
and 'average recurrence interval', as well as 'bootstrapping'
techniques for deriving confidence limits Wind over water, and
profiles and turbulence in non-synoptic winds An expanded chapter
on internal pressures produced by wind for various opening and
permeability scenarios Aerodynamic shaping of high- and low-rise
buildings Recent developments in five major wind codes and
standards A new chapter on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), as
applied to wind engineering A greatly expanded appendix providing
the basic information on extreme wind climates for over 140
countries and territories Additional examples for many chapters in
this book
The annotations in this volume, originally published in 1996,
intend to assist the reader of Faulkner's The Hamlet to understand
obscure or difficult words and passages, including literary
allusions, dialect, and historical events that Faulkner uses or
alludes to. This title will be of great interest to students of
literature.
The annotations in this volume, originally published in 1996,
intend to assist the reader of Faulkner's The Hamlet to understand
obscure or difficult words and passages, including literary
allusions, dialect, and historical events that Faulkner uses or
alludes to. This title will be of great interest to students of
literature.
Wind forces from extreme wind events are the dominant loading for
many parts of the world, exacerbated by climate change and the
continued construction of tall buildings and structures. This
authoritative source, for practising and academic structural
engineers and graduate students, ties the principles of wind loads
on structures to the relevant aspects of meteorology, bluff-body
aerodynamics, probability and statistics, and structural dynamics.
This new edition covers: Climate change effects on extreme winds -
particularly those from tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons
Modelling of potential wind vulnerability and damage Developments
in extreme value probability analysis of extreme wind speeds and
directions Explanation of the difference between 'return period'
and 'average recurrence interval', as well as 'bootstrapping'
techniques for deriving confidence limits Wind over water, and
profiles and turbulence in non-synoptic winds An expanded chapter
on internal pressures produced by wind for various opening and
permeability scenarios Aerodynamic shaping of high- and low-rise
buildings Recent developments in five major wind codes and
standards A new chapter on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), as
applied to wind engineering A greatly expanded appendix providing
the basic information on extreme wind climates for over 140
countries and territories Additional examples for many chapters in
this book
Collecting together contributed lectures and mini-courses, this
book details the research presented in a special semester titled
"Geometric mechanics - variational and stochastic methods" run in
the first half of 2015 at the Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli
(CIB) of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. The aim of
the semester was to develop a common language needed to handle the
wide variety of problems and phenomena occurring in stochastic
geometric mechanics. It gathered mathematicians and scientists from
several different areas of mathematics (from analysis, probability,
numerical analysis and statistics, to algebra, geometry, topology,
representation theory, and dynamical systems theory) and also areas
of mathematical physics, control theory, robotics, and the life
sciences, with the aim of developing the new research area in a
concentrated joint effort, both from the theoretical and applied
points of view. The lectures were given by leading specialists in
different areas of mathematics and its applications, building
bridges among the various communities involved and working jointly
on developing the envisaged new interdisciplinary subject of
stochastic geometric mechanics.
This book illustrates the broad range of Jerry Marsden's
mathematical legacy in areas of geometry, mechanics, and dynamics,
from very pure mathematics to very applied, but always with a
geometric perspective. Each contribution develops its material from
the viewpoint of geometric mechanics beginning at the very
foundations, introducing readers to modern issues via illustrations
in a wide range of topics. The twenty refereed papers contained in
this volume are based on lectures and research performed during the
month of July 2012 at the Fields Institute for Research in
Mathematical Sciences, in a program in honor of Marsden's legacy.
The unified treatment of the wide breadth of topics treated in this
book will be of interest to both experts and novices in geometric
mechanics. Experts will recognize applications of their own
familiar concepts and methods in a wide variety of fields, some of
which they may never have approached from a geometric viewpoint.
Novices may choose topics that interest them among the various
fields and learn about geometric approaches and perspectives toward
those topics that will be new for them as well.
We consider quantum dynamical systems (in general, these could be
either Hamiltonian or dissipative, but in this review we shall be
interested only in quantum Hamiltonian systems) that have, at least
formally, a classical limit. This means, in particular, that each
time-dependent quantum-mechanical expectation value X (t) has as i
cl Ii -+ 0 a limit Xi(t) -+ x1 )(t) of the corresponding classical
sys- tem. Quantum-mechanical considerations include an additional
di- mensionless parameter f = iiiconst. connected with the Planck
constant Ii. Even in the quasiclassical region where f~ 1, the dy-
namics of the quantum and classicalfunctions Xi(t) and XiCcl)(t)
will be different, in general, and quantum dynamics for expectation
val- ues may coincide with classical dynamics only for some finite
time. This characteristic time-scale, TIi., could depend on several
factors which will be discussed below, including: choice of
expectation val- ues, initial state, physical parameters and so on.
Thus, the problem arises in this connection: How to estimate the
characteristic time- scale TIi. of the validity of the
quasiclassical approximation and how to measure it in an
experiment? For rather simple integrable quan- tum systems in the
stable regions of motion of their corresponding classical phase
space, this time-scale T" usually is of order (see, for example,
[2]) const TIi. = p,li , (1.1) Q where p, is the dimensionless
parameter of nonlinearity (discussed below) and a is a constant of
the order of unity.
This volume, Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity: Media,
Film, Gender, Youth and Education , addresses a range of issues
which underlie the notions of European identity. Among them are:
what does it mean to be a European? What ideologies have shaped the
political debate over the last two centuries? What place will
minorities find in the Europe of the twenty-first century? What
roles will women play in the future communities? Will Europe become
more open to diversity, or become increasingly introspective, a
'fortress Europe'?
Contributors: Madeleine Brainerd, Joe Conway, Fraser Easton,
Christopher GoGwilt, Shari Goldberg, Melanie D. Holm, Sarah Kay,
Kaori T. Kitao, Holt V. Meyer, Isabel A. Moore, Fawzia Mustafa,
Gavin Sourgen. Mocking Bird Technologies brings together a range of
perspectives to offer an extended meditation on bird mimicry in
literature: the way birds mimic humans, the way humans mimic birds,
and the way mimicry of any kind involves technologies that extend
across as well as beyond languages and species. The essays examine
the historical, poetic, and semiotic problem of mimesis exemplified
both by the imitative behavior of parrots, starlings, and other
mocking birds, and by the poetic trope of such birds in a range of
literary and philological traditions. Drawing from a cross-section
of traditional periods and fields in literary studies (18th-century
studies, romantic studies, early American studies, 20th-century
studies, and postcolonial studies), the collection offers new
models for combining comparative and global studies of literature
and culture. Editors Christopher GoGwilt is Professor of English
and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. He is the author
of The Passage of Literature: Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad,
Rhys, and Pramoedya (Oxford, 2011), The Fiction of Geopolitics:
Afterimages of Culture from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock
(Stanford, 2000), and The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and
the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire (Stanford, 1995). Melanie
D. Holm is Assistant Professor of the English Department and
Graduate Program of Literature and Criticism at Indiana University
of Pennsylvania. She also teaches in the university's Women's and
Gender Studies program. Her scholarly focus is on
eighteenth-century literature and skepticism. Contributors
Madeleine Brainerd taught at Washington University in St. Louis and
at Excelsior College. Since 2004 she has taught therapeutic yoga
and medical qi gong in New York City, at the Integral Yoga
Institute, Kenshikai Dojo, Gouverneur Hospital, and other venues.
She studies histories of yoga's intersections with ecological
in/justice, animality, and affect theory. Joe Conway is an
Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of
Alabama in Huntsville. His articles have appeared or are scheduled
to appear in the journals Women's Studies, Early American
Literature, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts. He is currently at
work on a monograph about the social life of antebellum money that
charts how discourses of noneconomic phenomena such as medicine,
race, nationalism, and aesthetics informed nineteenth-century
debates about what constitutes good money. Fraser Easton is
Associate Professor of English, University of Waterloo, Canada. A
specialist in eighteenth-century literature, he has published on
Jane Austen, Daniel Defoe, Maria Edgeworth, and Christopher Smart,
as well as on newspaper records and historical accounts of passing
women in the eighteenth century. Shari Goldberg is Assistant
Professor of English at Franklin & Marshall College in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Quiet Testimony: A
Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature
(Fordham, 2013). She has also published essays on silence,
politics, and personhood in American literature. Her current
research focuses on late-nineteenth-century models of mind and
person in narrative and psychological writing. Sarah Kay teaches
French and Medieval Studies at New York University. She has written
widely on medieval literature across languages, genres, and
periods; her work combines the study of medieval texts, especially
troubadour songs, with philosophical and theoretical inquiry. Her
two most recent books are Parrots and Nightingales: Troubadour
Quotations and the Development of European Poetry (2013) and Animal
Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries
(2017). Kaori Kitao (William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art History,
Emerita, Swarthmore College) taught art history at Swarthmore
College from 1966 to 2001. She was born in Tokyo and studied
architecture at UC Berkeley and art history at Harvard. Her main
specialization is Italian renaissance and baroque art; she has also
taught courses in cinema history, material culture, urban studies,
and Japanese architecture. Holt V. Meyer is Professor of Slavic
Studies at Erfurt University. He is the author of Romantische
Orientierung (1995) and numerous articles and has co-edited the
collections Juden und Judentum in Literatur und Film des slavischen
Sprachraumes. Die geniale Epoche (1999), Inventing Slavia (2005),
Schiller: Gedenken-Vergessen-Lesen (2010), and Gagarin als
Archivkoerper und Erinnerungsfigur (2014). He is co-editor of the
new book series Spatio-Temporality. Practices-Concepts- Media (De
Gruyter). He is currently working on a book about the official
Stalinist Pushkin celebrations of 1949. Isabel (Annie) Moore
completed her Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of
California-Irvine. From 2011 to 2013, she held a postdoctoral
fellowship in English at the University of Victoria. She has
published on Contemporary Irish and Canadian poetry, and her book
project is titled The Ends of Lyric Life: A Theory of Biopoetics.
Fawzia Mustafa is Professor of English and African and African
American Studies at Fordham University. She also teaches in the
university's Comparative Literature and Women's, Gender and
Sexuality Studies Programs. The author of V. S. Naipaul (1995), she
has published numerous articles on postcolonial literature and
development. Gavin Sourgen is Visiting Assistant Professor of
English at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic
University. He completed his D.Phil. at Balliol College (Oxford) in
2013, concentrating on the transitional poetics of Lord Byron's
verse, and has published on Byron, Coleridge, and romantic
aesthetics in general.
Functional Neurology utilizes our understanding of how the nervous
system works in the treatment of a variety of clinical conditions.
Fuctional Neurology for Practitioners of Manual Medicine takes the
reader from the embryonic beginnings of the nervous system, through
the biochemistry of receptor activation and on to the functional
systems of the nervous system. Both the student and the clinician
will find this text a valuable source of information and clinical
guidance in the application of detailed neurological principles to
their practice. Concepts, relationships and scientific mechanisms
of the nervous system function are covered, and this aids the
practitioner in developing their clinical approach to a wide
variety of patient presentations. This text explores the
neurological impact of the application of functional neurological
principles, using a detailed clinical approach supported by
clinical case studies. The text is fully referenced, which allows
the reader to immediately apply the concepts to practice
situations. New for this edition are new chapters on pain
(including headache) and theoretical evidence, plus extensive
electronic resources supporting the text. "Overall this text would
be an excellent resource to any practising physiotherapist or
health professional within musculoskeletal and orthopaedics from
the new graduate to the experienced clinician. It is concise, clear
to follow and covers each subject extensively with evidence-based
practise to accompany manual techniques. A must have for enhancing
clinical practise." Reviewed by: Tracy Ward, MCSP, BSc (HONS), MSc,
Senior Physiotherapist and Clinical Pilates Specialist, BMI
Healthcare Albyn Hospital, Aberdeen Date: Aug 2014 Utilizes our
understanding of how the nervous system works in the treatment of a
variety of clinical conditions Demystifies the clinical results
seen in the practice of Functional Neurology and scientifically
validates its clinical success Addresses function rather than
pathology, allowing the reader to gain a firm understanding of the
neurological processes seen in health and disease Contains clinical
cases which are designed to be read and answered before starting
the chapter to allow the reader to gauge their current state of
knowledge 'Quick Facts' introduce new concepts or allow rapid
review of information already presented in the text in a brief and
succinct manner Contains a detailed overview of the concepts
relating to our understanding of the development of emotion to
demonstrate the link between physical health and the mind Contains
abundant references to support controversial concepts Contains new
chapters on theoretical evidence and the management of pain
(including headache) Contains a wide range of additional case
studies, 'clinical conundrums' and key questions and answers for
each topic Bonus DVD contains fully searchable text, a downloadable
image bank, brain dissection and video clips of the manipulative
techniques and examination procedures found within the volume plus
200 multiple choice questions
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