a methodology for landscape architecture

... of fish blasts, the total capacity of urban wastewater treatment plants, and the total capacity of treatment plants for industrial wastewater Examples of empirical parameters in RaMCo are the price ... variables No data Rational validation Stimuli MODEL SYSTEM Objective variables Available data Empirical validation Stimuli REAL SYSTEM Objective variables Figure 2.1 Conceptual framework of analysis ... like a river or an estuary to a complete water system such as a river basin or a coastal area These changes result in integrated coastal-zone management, integrated river basin management and/or...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 10:35

... “the average American family” has 2.125 children) Other quantitative variables have values that are potentially associated with real numbers—such variables are called continuous variables For example, ... Definition 3.3 A qualitative variable has values that are intrinsically nonnumerical (categorical) As suggested earlier, the values of a qualitative variable can always be put into numerical form The simplest ... categorical variable when appropriate [As discussed before, a categorical variable can always be made numerical by (as in Table 3.1) arranging the values alphabetically and numbering the observed categories...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20

... increased hardware utilization and hardware density Small size and similar shape means that space is not wasted due to gaps or irregular fit between adjacent bit-serial library components in a placement ... placement Hardware area savings or area efficiency in the bit-serial architecture comes at the expense of reduced sample rate compared to a bit-parallel design 2.1 Filter architecture A rearrangement ... Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware resources used to implement this FIR filter and increased hardware density is facilitated by an areaefficient bit-serial FIR filter architecture [10] at the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20

... of fish blasts, the total capacity of urban wastewater treatment plants, and the total capacity of treatment plants for industrial wastewater Examples of empirical parameters in RaMCo are the price ... variables No data Rational validation Stimuli MODEL SYSTEM Objective variables Available data Empirical validation Stimuli REAL SYSTEM Objective variables Figure 2.1 Conceptual framework of analysis ... like a river or an estuary to a complete water system such as a river basin or a coastal area These changes result in integrated coastal-zone management, integrated river basin management and/or...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... 25 age bracket Suppose also that each driver is insured for $100,000 for accidental death What annual rate would the insurance company have to charge to break even? (Assume a fatal accident rate ... second formula makes sense Suppose that we measure temperature in ◦ C The average is calculated for a series of readings The average can be transformed to ◦ F by the formula average in ◦ F = average ... selected at random is both Caucasian and blood group A (a) (b) (c) (d) Are the events “blood group A and “Caucasian race” statistically independent? Are the events “blood group A and “Caucasian race”...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 18:21

... than one random variable on each experimental unit Multivariate statistical analysis consists of data analysis of multivariate data The majority of data collected are, in fact, multivariate data ... Wangensteen et al., published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association advocating gastric freezing A balloon was lowered into a subject’s stomach, and coolant at a temperature of ... standard error is approximately a standard normal variable when there is no association between the quantities This may be used as a statistical test for association in lieu of the chi-square...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 18:21

... State and Some Related Variables State Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Washington, DC Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine ... Columbia No mortality data are available for Alaska and Hawaii for this period It is well known that the incidence of melanoma can be related to the amount of sunshine and, somewhat equivalently, ... state with a higher latitude had a lower melanoma rate in comparison with a state at a lower latitude It was not true that in each case when individual A ran on the treadmill a longer time than...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 18:21

... summarized in an analysis of variance table (anova), as in Table 10.2 2 The variances 6s /sp and sp are called mean squares for reasons to be explained later It is Y clear that the first variance measures ... anova from Group Means and Standard Deviation In many research papers, the raw data are not presented but rather, the means and standard deviations (or variances) for each of the, say, I treatment ... out a one-way anova on the differences See Problem 10.5 Two-Way ANOVA from Means and Standard Deviations As in the one-way anova, a two-way anova can be reconstructed from means and standard...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 18:21

... equation, is nonsignificant, we may accept the quadratic equation as appropriate Figure 11.5 is a scatter diagram of the data as well as the linear and quadratic curves Note that the quadratic ... between Y and Y is no longer equal to the desired average causal effect, and additional analytical approaches are required to obtain approximate causal effects Example 11.6 Table 11.8 gives an example ... of local anesthesia is confounded by trauma and does not reflect an average causal effect To adjust for trauma, we use regression with the indicator variables, trauma(j ) = if trauma = j and otherwise,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 18:21

... Calculate and plot the probability of CHD for the woman in part (c) as a function of age 13.7 In a paper that appeared four years later, Halperin et al [1971] reexamined the Framingham data analysis ... as well as discrete or categorical variables such as cigarettes per day (0 = never smoked, = less than one pack a day, = one pack a day, = more than a pack a day) and ECG (0 = normal, = certain ... interventions and motivate patients Various diagnostic classification rules also exist for coronary heart disease A person presenting at a hospital with chest pain may be having a heart attack, in which case...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 18:21

... Paul SMSA, state of Colorado, and the San Francisco–Oakland SMSA The information used in this chapter refers to the combined data from the Atlanta SMSA and San Francisco–Oakland SMSA The data ... INCIDENCE, AND PREVALENCE The areas were the Detroit SMSA (Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area); Pittsburgh SMSA, Atlanta SMSA, Birmingham SMSA, Dallas–Fort Worth SMSA, state of Iowa, Minneapolis–St ... (relative to the total), calculate standardized death rates for halothane and cyclopropane Are the standardized rates significantly different? Calculate the standardized mortality rates for halothane...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 18:21

... a naive analysis may provide summaries that are not representative of the original target population Analysis of correlated data Statistical analysis of longitudinal data requires methods that ... visits apart have correlation ρ2 , and in general all pairs of observations that are k visits apart have correlation ρk A banded correlation matrix will have a total of n−1 correlation parameters ... and control groups to “maintain” the favorable status Statistical inference can be based on standard two-sample methods for binary data (see Chapter 6) An analysis that summarizes current status...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 18:21

... questions about treatment for back pain by physicians and by chiroprac- tors; hospitalization for back pain; surgery for back injury; smoking status • Physical examination: flexibility; spinal canal ... is a Venn diagram of the estimated amount of predictive information for variables in each of the data collection areas [Fisher and Zeh, 1991] The job perception and psychological areas are about ... be measured by the extent to which a technician’s readings are from a 45◦ line A paper by Lin [1989] nicely provides a framework for analyzing these data In our case, the data are analyzed according...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 18:21

... pleased that Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture is providing for a new generation of landscape architects training in contemporary digital media and its application as an emerging art form ... you find a way that works for you Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture is a book about the moment, bridging analog and digital techniques Digital landscape representation relies heavily on ... software versions that date back to 10 years Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture presents examples and techniques for each of the traditional design drawings: diagram, plan, section/elevation,...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2016, 18:42

... research also draw heavily on the European philosophers, Habermas, Gadamer and Arendt For Habermas, communicative action was the goal and moral purpose of human endeavour, at its best based upon a process ... arbitrary and can provide a basis for action.’ In practice, this is always the position for action researchers: the collection and analysis of data provide a much better basis for taking action than ... Fals-Borda (2001) has been a leader in taking Freire’s ideas forward and developing an ‘alternative paradigm’ of participatory action research (PAR) which is focused on achieving ‘transformations’...

Ngày tải lên: 11/04/2017, 08:56

... Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture provides an original, visual approach to the study of landscape architecture by creating a spatial morphology ... design of landscapes Natural and semi-natural systems, agriculture, settlement, transport, climate and culture affect the form and fabric of regional landscapes Landscape and environmental planning ... that part Landscape fabric This part of the book provides an overview of the broader landscape and landscape processes as a context for design It defines and describes a range of qualities that...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... sparsely allocates states across space and for the possible flows at each spatial location The spatial allocation uses a hierarchy of segmentations, with a single possible flow for each segment at each ... of flow parameters, say (udata , vdata ) for the data term and (uprior , vprior ) for the prior: EGlobal = EData (udata , vdata ) + λEPrior (uprior , vprior ) +γ udata − uprior + vdata − vprior ... algorithms 2.6 Databases and Evaluations Database Design Prior to our evaluation (Baker et al 2007), there were three major attempts to quantitatively evaluate optical flow algo- Creating a ground-truth...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... Rabobank ■ Rand Merchant Bank (SA) ■ Rating Agency Malaysia ■ Raiffeisen International and RZB ■ Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency ■ Shell ■ Société Générale ■ Standard Chartered Group ■ State Bank ... of Banks, Financial Institutions and Corporates worldwide Some of our clients: ■ ABSA ■ Alpha Bank ■ Axa Investment Managers ■ Bank BPH SA ■ Bank of America ■ Bank of China ■ Bank of Kuwait and ... the Middle East ■ Bank Pekao SA ■ Bank Zachodni WBK SA ■ BBVA Group ■ BNP Paribas ■ Calyon ■ Central Bank of Kuwait ■ Caixa Geral de Depositos ■ China International Capital Corporation ■ Citigroup...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20

... success an organization has with a particular technology, the higher its resistance to the prospect of change The initial reaction is always denial We have an amazing capacity for denial in the face ... become norms and lose their advantage Although imitation has been present at all times, today its significance for American business has changed by an order of magnitude Advances in information technology, ... instructions, or ideas contained in the material herein Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gharajedaghi, Jamshid   Systems thinking : managing chaos and complexity : a platform for designing...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 01:28