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Urban and Regional Data Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Urban and Regional Data Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-09-05
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Human activities as well as various natural phenomena change the environment and impact on the quality of life. Analysis of those dynamics is required for a better understanding of urban modifications, and to facilitate urban growth and development. Research related to the management of urban data has a long tradition. Through the years a variety of challenging research questions has been investigated related to the collection, storage, use and visualisation of the data representing the urban phenomena in a computer-based environment. The role of the citizens and their wellbeing has become a critical aspect in all research and development activities. Since 1971, the Urban Data Management Soc...

Spatially Integrated Social Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 484

Spatially Integrated Social Science

Spatial analysis assists theoretical understanding and empirical testing in the social sciences, and rapidly expanding applications of geographic information technologies have advanced the spatial data-gathering needed for spatial analysis and model making. This much-needed volume covers outstanding examples of spatial thinking in the social sciences, with each chapter showing some aspect of how certain social processes can be understood by analyzing their spatial context. The audience for this work is as trans-disciplinary as its authorship because it contains approaches and methodologies useful to geography, anthropology, history, political science, economics, criminology, sociology, and statistics.

Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 171

Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation

This book explores how the greater amount of pragmatic information encoded in Korean and Japanese can result in pragmatic (in)visibility when translating between those languages and English. Pragmatic information must be added when translating from English to Korean or Japanese and is easily lost when translating in the other direction. This book offers an analysis of translations in Japanese and Korean of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and The Hobbit, or There and Back Again to show how the translated versions crystallise the translators’ interpretations of relationships in the way characters address one another. This book discusses fan translations of Korean and Japanese to E...

Micro to MACRO Mathematical Modelling in Soil Mechanics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 407

Micro to MACRO Mathematical Modelling in Soil Mechanics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-03-25
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  • Publisher: Springer

This special issue collects selected contributions (excluding general lectures) of a Symposium on "Micro to MACRO Mathematical Modelling in Soil Mechanics", which took place at the University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, from May 29th to June 1st, 2018. The Symposium provided an opportunity to enhance the scientific debate on the construction of mathematical models for the description of the physical behaviour of soils, as well as on the suggestions provided by the micro-mechanical observation of the matter. The focus was on the comparison between the appropriateness of models and the need of mathematics to obtain rigorous results, which involves know-how from applied mathematical physics, geotechnical engineering and mechanics of solids. The contributions were selected by the Editors and the other Members of the Scientific Committee of the Symposium: Gianfranco Capriz (Pisa, Roma), Claudio di Prisco (Milan), Wolfgang Ehlers (Stuttgart), James T. Jenkins (Cornell), Stefan Luding (Twente), David Muir Wood (Dundee), Kenichi Soga (Berkeley).

China's Hegemony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

China's Hegemony

Many have viewed the tribute system as China's tool for projecting its power and influence in East Asia, treating other actors as passive recipients of Chinese domination. China's Hegemony sheds new light on this system and shows that the international order of Asia's past was not as Sinocentric as conventional wisdom suggests. Instead, throughout the early modern period, Chinese hegemony was accepted, defied, and challenged by its East Asian neighbors at different times, depending on these leaders' strategies for legitimacy among their populations. This book demonstrates that Chinese hegemony and hierarchy were not just an outcome of China's military power or Confucian culture but were cons...

Transnational Cultural Flow from Home
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 167

Transnational Cultural Flow from Home

When the first wave of post-1965 Korean immigrants arrived in the New York-New Jersey area in the early 1970s, they were reliant on retail and service businesses in the minority neighborhoods where they were. This caused ongoing conflicts with customers in black neighborhoods of New York City, with white suppliers at Hunts Point Produce Market, and with city government agencies that regulated small business activities. In addition, because of the times, Korean immigrants had very little contact with their homeland. Korean immigrants in the area were highly segregated from both the mainstream New York society and South Korea. However, after the 1990 Immigration Act, Korean immigrants with pro...

Best Practice 4
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 174

Best Practice 4

Cinzia Angelini, Introduction; Paolo Campetella, Pietro Canonica, my personal sculptor; Jin-hyung Kim, Applicability of Forest Experience Family Education Program at the Museum; Gana Lee, Hangeul Bottari - Outreach Museum Education Program; Claire Ponselle, Marie Allaman, La Malle de découverte du Musée des Augustins; Paul Crook, Carolina Silva and Sofia Victorino, Youth Forum: Duchamp & Sons; Mathias Dreyfuss, Raffaella Russo-Ricci, Justine Veillard, Le parcours-atelier « Stéréotypes et préjugés » au Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme; Francine Lelièvre, Élisabeth Côté, Nathalie Lampron, L’atelier Archéo-aventure : vivre une mission archéologique en milieu urbain; M...

Geospatial Information Technology for Emergency Response
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 630

Geospatial Information Technology for Emergency Response

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-01-24
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Disaster management is generally understood to consist of four phases: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. While these phases are all important and interrelated, response and recovery are often considered to be the most critical in terms of saving lives. Response is the acute phase occurring after the event, and includes all arrangemen

Advances in 3D Geoinformation Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 442

Advances in 3D Geoinformation Systems

The book covers the international state-of-the-art research in the field of 3D geo-information modeling. It focuses on comparing several types of 3D models. Due to the rapid developments in sensor techniques more and more 3D data becomes available. Effective algorithms for (semi) automatic object reconstruction are required. 3D analysis and 3D simulation techniques explore and extend the possibilities in spatial applications.

Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 449

Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis

This book is the second in a series that examines how geographic information te- nologies (GIT) are being implemented to improve our understanding of a variety of hazard and disaster situations. The main types of technologies covered under the umbrella of GIT, as used in this volume, are geographic information systems, remote sensing (not including ground-penetrating or underwater systems), and global po- tioning systems. Our focus is on urban areas, broadly de ned in order to encompass rapidly growing and densely populated areas that may not be considered “urban” in the conventional sense. The material presented here is also unabashedly applied – our goal is to provide GIT tools to those seeking more ef cient ways to respond to, recover from, mitigate, prevent, and/or model hazard and disaster events in urban settings. Therefore, this book was created not only with our colleagues in the academic world in mind, but also for hazards professionals and practitioners. We also believe graduate students will nd the material presented here of interest, as may upper division undergraduate students.