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The ongoing population growth is resulting in rapid urbanization,
new infrastructure development and increasing demand for the
Earth's natural resources (e.g., water, oil/gas, minerals). This,
together with the current climate change and increasing impact of
natural hazards, imply that the engineering geology profession is
called upon to respond to new challenges. It is recognized that
these challenges are particularly relevant in the developing and
newly industrialized regions.The idea beyond this Volume is to
highlight the role of engineering geology and geological
engineering in fostering sustainable use of the Earth's resources,
smart urbanization and infrastructure protection from geohazards.
We selected 19 contributions from across the globe (16 countries,
five continents), which cover a wide spectrum of applied
interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research, from geology to
engineering. By illustrating a series of practical case studies,
the Volume offers a rather unique opportunity to share the
experiences of engineering geologists and geological engineers who
tackle complex problems working in different environmental and
social settings. The specific topics addressed by the papers
included in the Volume are the following: pre-design site
investigations; physical and mechanical properties of engineering
soils; novel, affordable sensing technologies for long-term
geotechnical monitoring of engineering structures; slope stability
assessments and monitoring in active open-cast mines; control of
environmental impacts and hazards posed by abandoned coal mines;
assessment of and protection from geohazards (landslides, ground
fracturing, coastal erosion); applications of geophysical surveying
to investigate active faults and ground instability; numerical
modeling of seabed deformations related to active faulting; deep
geological repositories and waste disposal; aquifer assessment
based on the integrated hydrogeological and geophysical
investigation; use of remote sensing and GIS tools for the
detection of environmental hazards and mapping of surface geology.
The ongoing population growth is resulting in rapid urbanization,
new infrastructure development and increasing demand for the
Earth's natural resources (e.g., water, oil/gas, minerals). This,
together with the current climate change and increasing impact of
natural hazards, imply that the engineering geology profession is
called upon to respond to new challenges. It is recognized that
these challenges are particularly relevant in the developing and
newly industrialized regions. The idea beyond this volume is to
highlight the role of engineering geology and geological
engineering in fostering sustainable use of the Earth's resources,
smart urbanization and infrastructure protection from geohazards.
We selected 19 contributions from across the globe (16 countries,
five continents), which cover a wide spectrum of applied
interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research, from geology to
engineering. By illustrating a series of practical case studies,
the volume offers a rather unique opportunity to share the
experiences of engineering geologists and geological engineers who
tackle complex problems working in different environmental and
social settings. The specific topics addressed by the authors of
chapters included in the volume are the following: pre-design site
investigations; physical and mechanical properties of engineering
soils; novel, affordable sensing technologies for long-term
geotechnical monitoring of engineering structures; slope stability
assessments and monitoring in active open-cast mines; control of
environmental impacts and hazards posed by abandoned coal mines;
assessment of and protection from geohazards (landslides, ground
fracturing, coastal erosion); applications of geophysical surveying
to investigate active faults and ground instability; numerical
modeling of seabed deformations related to active faulting; deep
geological repositories and waste disposal; aquifer assessment
based on the integrated hydrogeological and geophysical
investigation; use of remote sensing and GIS tools for the
detection of environmental hazards and mapping of surface geology.
This volume is part of the proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast
International Congress and Exhibition on Sustainable Civil
Infrastructures, Egypt 2017.
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Modelling Foundations and Applications - 12th European Conference, ECMFA 2016, Held as Part of STAF 2016, Vienna, Austria, July 6-7, 2016, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Andrzej Wasowski, Henrik Loenn
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R2,380
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th European
Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications, ECMFA 2016,
held as part of STAF 2016, in Vienna, Austria, in July 2016. The 16
papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and
selected from 47 submissions. The committee decided to accept 16
papers, 12 papers for the Foundations Track and 4 papers for the
Applications Track. Papers on a wide range of MBE aspects were
accepted, including topics such as multi- and many models, language
engineering, UML and meta-modeling, experience reports and case
studies, and variability and uncertainty.
This textbook describes the theory and the pragmatics of using and
engineering high-level software languages - also known as modeling
or domain-specific languages (DSLs) - for creating quality
software. This includes methods, design patterns, guidelines, and
testing practices for defining the syntax and the semantics of
languages. While remaining close to technology, the book covers
multiple paradigms and solutions, avoiding a particular
technological silo. It unifies the modeling, the object-oriented,
and the functional-programming perspectives on DSLs. The book has
13 chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 introduce and motivate DSLs. Chapter
3 kicks off the DSL engineering lifecycle, describing how to
systematically develop abstract syntax by analyzing a domain.
Chapter 4 addresses the concrete syntax, including the systematic
engineering of context-free grammars. Chapters 5 and 6 cover the
static semantics - with basic constraints as a starting point and
type systems for advanced DSLs. Chapters 7 (Transformation), 8
(Interpretation), and 9 (Generation) describe different paradigms
for designing and implementing the dynamic semantics, while
covering testing and other kinds of quality assurance. Chapter 10
is devoted to internal DSLs. Chapters 11 to 13 show the application
of DSLs and engage with simpler alternatives to DSLs in a highly
distinguished domain: software variability. These chapters
introduce the underlying notions of software product lines and
feature modeling. The book has been developed based on courses on
model-driven software engineering (MDSE) and DSLs held by the
authors. It aims at senior undergraduate and junior graduate
students in computer science or software engineering. Since it
includes examples and lessons from industrial and open-source
projects, as well as from industrial research, practitioners will
also find it a useful reference. The numerous examples include code
in Scala 3, ATL, Alloy, C#, F#, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin,
OCL, Python, QVT, Ruby, and Xtend. The book contains as many as 277
exercises. The associated code repository facilitates learning and
using the examples in a course.
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Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering - 19th International Conference, FASE 2016, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2-8, 2016, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Perdita Stevens, Andrzej Wasowski
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R2,901
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International
Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE
2016, which took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April
2016, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and
Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016. The 23 full papers presented in
this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 90
submissions. They were organized in topical sections named:
concurrent and distributed systems; model-driven development;
analysis and bug triaging; probabilistic and stochastic systems;
proof and theorem proving; and verification.
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Shane (Paperback)
Mary Ann Wasowski
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R367
Discovery Miles 3 670
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In today’s South, where fine gardening is a tradition, many
homeowners and professional gardeners are discovering a vast
“new” palette of plant materials—native plants. They are
realizing that these native wildflowers, trees, shrubs,
groundcovers, vines, and grasses are far better suited, and
therefore easier to grow and maintain, than most of the imported
plants that populate traditional landscapes. In this book, the
authors offer an exciting vision of the many possibilities and
advantages of “going native.” Lavishly illustrated with more
than 250 gorgeous color photographs, this book is both an
introduction to more than 200 of the most familiar and
easiest-to-find native plants of the South and a basic primer on
how to use them effectively.
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Revive (Paperback)
Mary a. Wasowski
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R571
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Run (Paperback)
Mary a. Wasowski
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R431
Discovery Miles 4 310
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'My revenge on Hitler is a lifetime in which delight has reached me
from a hundred sources, and been welcomed.' A story of courage,
unconventionality and lust for life. Vera Wasowski was just seven
years old when German soldiers marched her family into the Lvov
Jewish ghetto in Poland. She watched her father take his own life
and her mother accede to sexual blackmail in order to ensure her
and Vera's survival. With unsparing honesty and the blackest
humour, she recalls a world where the desire to survive was
everything. After the war, Vera studied journalism at Warsaw
University, throwing herself into the bohemian scene. In 1958, she
migrated to Australia with her husband and young son, to escape
rising anti-Semitism. Here she would carve out an adventurous
career as an ABC TV researcher and producer on pioneering programs
such as This Day Tonight. It was a wild time for politics and the
media, and Vera was at the centre of it all, mixing with the Hawkes
in the 1980s, and forming a close friendship with artist Mirka
Mora. In Vera, acclaimed biographer Robert Hillman has captured the
fierce and passionate life of an amazing Australian. 'Vera's life
is part tragedy, part farce but like the roast goose that she cooks
so magnificently it is always succulent, rich and unforgettable.'
Barrie Kosky 'Vera was wild, exotic and utterly outrageous when I
met her as a young journalist in Melbourne. When you've survived
both Hitler and Stalin there's not a lot to hold you back. She has
a great story to tell.' Kerry O'Brien
Change is never easy. For seventeen year old Nicolette Vanelle,
life is about to change... Relocating to California, Nicolette
finds herself starting over. A new high school. New friends. New
life. Attending her first Hollywood event, Nicolette meets bad boy
Michael St. Clair, and unknowingly becomes the object of his
obsession. Feeling overwhelmed by Michael's attention, she escapes
the party to go to the beach where she meets Simon Paulson. He
takes her breath away, an inevitable connection leading to romance
between the young couple. Nicolette and Simon's happiness is short
lived and their relationship is put to the ultimate test when
tragedy befalls Nicolette. Can Nicolette find the strength and
courage to emerge from the darkness she fell into? Will Simon's
unconditional love be enough to bring her back into the light? Life
can change in an instant, leaving you changed forever.
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