... dredging Water Quality Study A detailed water quality study was carried out at the main rivers discharging into the coastal water The study included sampling of water quality parameters at strategic ... Improvement works layout plan CAFEO 28 Hanoi, Vietnam (18-22nd Dec 2010) Coastal Management - Beach Rehabilitation At Pulau Tioman, Malaysia Figure - Cascaded Seawall Design Plate -Cascaded Granite Block ... needed safe navigation and boat mooring and berthing infrastructures (Plate 8) The boating facilities has the capacity to accommodate at least 102 nos of boats The berthing facility consists of a floating...
Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2013, 08:20
... an active complex that mediates an intracellular event (for example, activation of adenylate cyclase) The Gα subunit is activated and starts a cAMP signalling cascade, as shown in Figure The international ... the data All the authors have been involved in drafting and revising the manuscript and have read and approved the final manuscript Author Details 1DIMORFIPA, University of Bologna, Italy, 2Faculty ... subjects in the two intermediate areas (yellow and orange) have been interpreted as having a misleading diagnosis of major depression, as described in the literature [14] (b) SOM areas Green = normal,...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21
Environmental performance and sustainable architecture a critical review in the context of singapore public housing 2
... matrix of pair-wise comparisons A = (aij) can be established as follows: A1 A2 An A1 a1 /a1 a1 /a2 a1 /an A2 a2 /a1 a2 /a2 a2 /an An an /a1 an /a2 an/an 149 where ai/aj = aj/ai for all i, ... parking area development (to minimise the adverse affects of on-grade parking areas) Quality of parking area development Parking areas are in multi-storey carpark surrounded with some landscaping, ... operating hours that indoor air temperature within living area are likely to be within accepted comfort ranges In accordance to GBC' manual, for natural s ventilated area, the indoor operative...
Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29
Environmental performance and sustainable architecture a critical review in the context of singapore public housing 3
... architectural design domains, on top of environmental performance domain, impacting building environmental performances and sustainable housing performances o Establishes an integrated approach to each ... domain and the influential factors of socioeconomics domain; and (c) Discuss the approaches to achieve high sustainable housing performance from the Integrated Framework for Sustainable Housing ... equation (12), include the total site area (Asite), building footprint area (Af), percentage of hard-paved area of the site (P), and total net usable area of the building (Anet) L = [Af + (Asite...
Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29
Environmental performance and sustainable architecture a critical review in the context of singapore public housing 4
... established ways of designing (Hagan, 2003) The Integrated Framework encourages and facilitates architectural students to engage in a truly interdisciplinary approach as early as during conceptual design ... developing sustainable public housing in Singapore (section 14.3) 14.7.4 Systematic approaches to sustainable housing performance and preliminary development of ArchSAM The systematic approach to each ... (both intentionally and unintentionally) spiritual, qualitative, contextual, holistic and innovative approaches have significant potentials to contribute to sustainable housing performance With insights...
Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29
Environmental performance and sustainable architecture a critical review in the context of singapore public housing 1
... (see Chapter 2) Meanwhile, the approaches from architectural design domain have its own agenda of making sustainable design a mainstream in architectural design and discourse (Hagan, 2001) As a result ... Structuralist approach BEAMs, adopting a structuralist approach, contain identical environmental performance criteria and weighting system among criteria in a regional context The approach undoubtedly ... effects have also been acknowledged as an inevitable factor (Dorf, 2001) Similarly, the techno-centric approach has many contributions as an initiating and radical approach, but also has drawbacks...
Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29
ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS: A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO MEASURING AND REPORTING ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PERFORMANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT pot
... presented in statistical or graphical form, they are distinct from statistics or primary data Indeed, indicators and highly aggregated indices top an information pyramid whose base is primary data derived ... construction, and manufacturing (including mining) Pollutants, waste, and materials dissipation stem mainly from manufacturing (including mining), energy production and consumption, agriculture, the transport ... are aggregated first under each attribute and then into a single Approximated Sustainability Index But the indicators of each attribute appear to be assigned somewhat arbitrarily and the attributes...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Veterinary decision making in relation to metritis - a qualitative approach to understand the background for variation and bias in veterinary medical records"
... Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 Background Files with information on animal disease have a variety of applications at both the herd and national level, including monitoring the incidence ... understanding provides insight into potential errors (bias and random error) related to data based on clinical examina- Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica ... 'external evidence' can be found in Variation and bias in data based on clinical examinations can be linked to veterinarians' individual perception of the purpose of, and their motivations for, data...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45
a decentralized approach for implementing identity management in cloud computing
... advocate using a hybrid misuse-anomaly detection approach to take advantage of anomaly detection’s ability to detect new attacks, but without the approach s accompanying high rate of false positives ... selection approach with the data mining technique and the machine learning technique Figure decentralized IdM in cloud computing C Problem area As demonstrated in [5], current approaches to IdM are ... heterogeneous and federated scenarios It’s somewhat similar to [9] The main thought is adopting the “IdM/SP model” allows to solve the SSO authentication problem using a global approach and integrating many...
Ngày tải lên: 31/07/2013, 09:43
A STUDY ON THE USE OF CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE AS MOTIVATION FOR SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN THE CONTEXT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEAC
... and the same main point: the understanding of this relationship is exclusively vital for discipline to be satisfactorily maintained I.4 Factors affecting discipline and motivation in a language ... possible interferences are under investigation, and so are ways to maintain discipline and motivate language acquisition in a language classroom It also goes further to point out specific steps towards ... as a manager, an instructor, a resource, a guide, an evaluator, an organizer who helps facilitate and accelerate the learning process In this light, a number of roles of a teacher are listed in...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:06
Managing and Practicing OD in an IT Environment - A Structured Approach to Developing IT Project Teams
... (implementing new computers or software), database management and revision (ensuring proper data storage and access), hardware and software upgrades (replacing or enhancing existing assets), and network ... sponsor before involving the team, ascertaining that the project is a good strategic fit and that the expectations of the team are reasonable, and saving considerable trouble in having a thinly stretched ... slips and turnover among the team The database analysts and the programmers are unable to agree on the proper ways to pass information back and forth between the interface and the database, and...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20
Tài liệu An Evaluation of A Participatory Research Approach in Rainfed Lowland Area of Vinh Trach Village, B pptx
... the small-scale household farming in utilizing and managing of agricultural and natural resources reasonably Central elements in this participatory research are team-work (based on site working ... team-work and also multiple perspectives It gives the appreciative character of social organization of innovation In fact that SWG acts to bring a collaborative and linking among important actors ... monthly, farmers made saving and sharing skills and experiences in farming among themselves, especially to manage and use their own finance effectively Besides learning more about women farming activities,...
Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 21:20
Tài liệu A Strategic Approach to Cost Reduction in Banking - Achieving High Performance in Uncertain Times docx
... clear financial objectives and operating model • An incontestable fact base and cost baseline • Ongoing transparency and reporting of cost and benefits linked to financial plans • Clear alignment ... banking industry globally Many financial institutions have posted huge write-downs, particularly in North America and Europe Japan's major banks have reported weak earnings results, due in part ... sufficient, and risks cutting muscle as well as fat Instead, financial institutions need to take a more strategic approach by viewing cost-cutting as part of a broader efficiency effort Balancing short-term...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Teamwork in Multi-Agent Systems: A Formal Approach pptx
... the overarching architecture behind TeamLog from Kim Does, Harmen Wassenaar, Alina Strachocka and Andrzej Szałas In addition, Kim, Michał and Alina also offered a great support by bringing numerous ... string aba is embeddable in itself, in aaba and in abca (notation aba ≤ abca), but not in aabb Parikh and Krasucki (1992) extend this notion to so-called C-embeddability for the epistemic language ... 1987; Salwicki, 1970; Szałas, 1995) Both approaches have their own advantages and disadvantages, as well as proponents and detractors Lately, the two approaches are starting to be combined and their...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "A Feature Based Approach to Leveraging Context for Classifying Newsgroup Style Discussion Segments" pptx
... Perceptron Learner, in all cases we evaluate combinations of alternative history sizes (0 and 1) and alternative feature sets (base and base+AllContext) In our experimentation we have evaluated larger ... feature based approach with a state-ofthe-art sequential learning technique (Collins, 2002) Both approaches are designed to leverage context for the purpose of increasing classification accuracy ... scheme that novel thread based features have a greater and more consistent impact on classification performance Data and Coding We make use of an available annotated corpus of discussion data where...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "A HYBRID APPROACH TO REPRESENTATION IN THE JANUS NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSOR" pot
... Stallard, David Answering Questions Posed in an Intensional Logic: A Multilevel Semantics Approach In Research and Development in Natural Language Understanding as Part of the Strategic Computing ... patterns of syntax and semantics arising from verbs, by providing examples of the verb's usage, Since IRACQ assumes that a large vocabulary is available for use in the training examples," a way ... semantics of predicates which should have intensions as arguments are unfortunately specified separately Examples that have arisen in our applications involve changes in a reading on a scale,...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo khoa học: A new approach for distinguishing cathepsin E and D activity in antigen-processing organelles pdf
... Azuma T, Nakajima M, Yasuda K, Hayakumo T, Mukai H, Sakai T & Kawai K (2000) Clinical significance of cathepsin E in pancreatic juice in the diagnosis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma J Gastroenterol ... intracellular localization of cathepsin E and cathepsin D in human gastric cells and various rat cells J Biochem (Tokyo) 110, 956–964 Tsukuba T, Hori H, Azuma T, Takahashi T, Taggart RT, Akamine A, Ezaki ... 24 Zhang T, Maekawa Y, Hanba J, Dainichi T, Nashed BF, Hisaeda H, Sakai T, Asao T, Himeno K, Good RA & Katunuma N (2000) Lysosomal cathepsin B plays an important role in antigen processing, while...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 09:20
Studying Aesthetics in Photographic Images Using a Computational Approach pot
... aesthetics and originality ratings for a given image A plot of 3581 unique photograph ratings can be seen in Fig As can be seen, aesthetics and originality ratings have approximately linear correlation ... Li and J Z Wang, “Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures by a Statistical Modeling Approach, ” IEEE Trans on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelli., 25(9):1075–1088, 2003 13 W Y Ma and B S Manjunath, ... subjective, and there are no agreed standards for rating This may render absolute scores less meaningful Again, ratings above or below certain thresholds on an average by a set of unique users generally...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20