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Free Download Land Subsidence Analysis in Urban Areas: The Bangkok Metropolitan Area Case Study By David G. Zeitoun, Eliyahu Wakshal (auth.)
2013 | 307 Pages | ISBN: 9400755058 | PDF | 10 MB
Cities built on unconsolidated sediments consisting of clays, silt, peat, and sand, are particularly susceptible to subsidence. Such regions are common in delta areas, where rivers empty into the oceans, along flood plains adjacent to rivers, and in coastal marsh lands. Building cities in such areas aggravates the problem for several reasons:1. Construction of buildings and streets adds weight to the region causing additional soil deformations. 2. Often the regions have to be drained in order to be occupied. This results in lowering of the water table and leads to hydro-compaction.3. Often the groundwater is used as a source of water for both human consumption and industrial use. 4. Levees and dams are often built to prevent or control flooding.Earth fissures caused by ground failure in areas of uneven or differential compaction have damaged buildings, roads and highways, railroads, flood-control structures and sewer lines. As emphasized by Barends , "in order to develop a legal framework to claims and litigation, it is essential that direct and indirect causes of land subsidence effects can be quantified with sufficient accuracy from a technical and scientific point of view." Most existing methods and software applications treat the subsidence problem by analyzing one of the causes. This is due to the fact that the causes appear at different spatial scales. For example, over-pumping creates large scale subsidence, while building loading creates local subsidence/consolidation only. Then, maximum permissible land subsidence (or consolidation) is a constraint in different management problems such as: groundwater management, planning of town and/or laws on building construction. It is, therefore, necessary to quantify the contribution of each cause to soil subsidence of the ground surface in cities urban area. In this text book, we present an engineering approach based on the Biot system of equations to predict the soil settlement due to subsidence, resulting from different causes. Also we present a case study of The Bangkok Metropolitan Area (BMA).

Free Download Ontological Engineering: With Examples from the Areas of Knowledge Management, e-Commerce and the Semantic Web By Asunción Gómez-Pérez PhD, MSc, MBA, Mariano Fernández-López PhD, MSc, Oscar Corcho MSc (auth.)
2004 | 404 Pages | ISBN: 1852335513 | PDF | 5 MB
Ontological Engineering refers to the set of activities that concern the ontology development process, the ontology life cycle, the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, and the tool suites and languages that support them. During the last decade, increasing attention has been focused on ontologies and Ontological Engineering. Ontologies are now widely used in Knowledge Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science; in applications related to knowledge management, natural language processing, e-commerce, intelligent integration information, information retrieval, integration of databases, b- informatics, and education; and in new emerging fields like the Semantic Web. Primary goals of this book are to acquaint students, researchers and developers of information systems with the basic concepts and major issues of Ontological Engineering, as well as to make ontologies more understandable to those computer science engineers that integrate ontologies into their information systems. We have paid special attention to the influence that ontologies have on the Semantic Web. Pointers to the Semantic Web appear in all the chapters, but specially in the chapter on ontology languages and tools.

Free Download Selected Areas in Cryptography: 19th International Conference, SAC 2012, Windsor, ON, Canada, August 15-16, 2012, Revised Selected Papers By Martin R. Albrecht, Gregor Leander (auth.), Lars R. Knudsen, Huapeng Wu (eds.)
2013 | 407 Pages | ISBN: 3642359981 | PDF | 6 MB
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2012, held in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, in August 2012. The 24 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: cryptanalysis, digital signatures, stream ciphers, implementations, block cipher cryptanalysis, lattices, hashfunctions, blockcipher constructions, and miscellaneous.

Free Download Lesego Senyana Stone, "Protected Areas and Tourism in Southern Africa "
English | ISBN: 1032044330 | 2022 | 310 pages | PDF | 19 MB
This volume discusses the complex relationship between Protected Areas and tourism and their impact on community livelihoods in a range of countries in Southern Africa.

Free Download Advances in Enzymology and Related Areas of Molecular Biology, Volume 71 By
1996 | 279 Pages | ISBN: 0471127019 | PDF | 7 MB
Enzymes a revised frequently in modifying proteins for specialized uses. These books cover the latest advances in this field and its applications in the field of molecular biology.Content:

Free Download Advances in Enzymology and Related Areas of Molecular Biology: Mechanism of Enzyme Action, Part A, Volume 73 By
1999 | 292 Pages | ISBN: 0471246441 | PDF | 12 MB
Biological catalysis plays a dominant role both in fermentation and industrial process chemistry. This collection of chapters, written by a well-known biochemist and enzymologist, should serve as an invaluable reference to those investigators seeking to optimize the application of enzymatic catalysis for commercial purposes.Content:

Free Download Advances in Enzymology and Related Areas of Molecular Biology: And Related Areas of Molecular Biology, Volume 76 By
2008 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0471235849 | PDF | 16 MB
Encompasses the latest advances in the field. New series editor, Daniel Purich, is a well-known biochemist and enzymologist. Content:

Free Download Advances in Enzymology: And Related Areas of Molecular Biology, Volume 75 By
2006 | 326 Pages | ISBN: 0471205036 | PDF | 14 MB
Advances in Enzymology and Related Areas of Molecular Biology covers the advances in enzymology, explaining the behavior of enzymes and how they can be utilized to develop novel drugs, synthesize known and novel compounds, and understand evolutionary processes.Content:

Free Download Transcultural Areas By Dr. Wolfgang Berg (auth.), Dr. Wolfgang Berg (eds.)
2011 | 123 Pages | ISBN: 3531182811 | PDF | 2 MB
Based on culture as a complex system of rules it is too obvious that each rule has a particular range which is only exceptionally congruent with national or natural borders. In general, cultural exchange is not limited by political borders or rivers, forests, seas, or mountains. Those areas are rather transcultural, which is especially true for markets and towns. Dealing with cities like Buenos Aires or Riga, regions like Podlachia (Poland), Northern Ireland, or Bukovina, and the area of the Danube river the case studies give evidence for this thesis. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of cultural and intercultural studies.

Free Download Teaching Writing in Chinese Speaking Areas By Mark Shiu Kee Shum, Lu De Zhang (auth.), Mark Shiu Kee Shum, Lu De Zhang (eds.)
2005 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0387263926 | PDF | 16 MB
One of the most civilized nations in history, China has a long-standing writing tradition and many Chinese texts have become world treasures. However, the way the Chinese teach writing in various countries in contemporary times is little known to the outside world, especially in Western countries. Undoubtedly, the Chinese have had an established traditional method of writing instruction. However, recent social and political developments have created the perception amongst both practitioners and researchers of a need for change. Whilst certain socio-political changes, both in Mainland China and in the territories, acted as agents for reform of the teaching of composition, the shape these reforms are taking has been due to many different influences, coming both from inside the countries themselves and from foreign sources. Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore have each developed their own approach to the teaching of composition. Teaching Writing in Chinese Speaking Areas aims to provide an accurate picture of the diverse composition teaching contexts and approaches in these four regions and countries. This is the first book that systematically introduces recent developments in teaching composition in Chinese-speaking areas. It outlines current theories and paradigms originating both in the West and in China and Chinese-speaking territories and the way in which these have been adapted to suit the various cultural contexts and learning environments. The overview is of relevance not only to the East, but throughout the world.