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Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM Spring Convention and Conference (RSCC2020) Volume 1 Strategies for a Resilient Built Env


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English | ISBN: 3030765466 | 2021 | 363 pages | PDF | 15 MB
This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 3rd RILEM Spring Convention and Conference, held at GuimarĂ£es and hosted by the University of Minho, Portugal, on March 9-14, 2020. The theme of the Conference was "Ambitioning a Sustainable Future for Built Environment: comprehensive strategies for unprecedented challenges", which was aimed at discussing current challenges and impacts of the built environment on sustainability. The present volume is dedicated to the topic "Strategies for a resilient built environment", which covers the current and emerging approaches that lead to an optimized design and maintenance of constructions and systems. It includes the development of service life models and life cycle design, in order to maximise longevity and level of service while minimising the environmental impact of constructions and systems. It also includes the analysis and design of larger systems, such as communities, cities or regions, aiming at reducing risk andincreasing resilience. The following subtopics are included: resilience and robustness of the built environment and communities at local and global scales; risk based inspection and maintenance; life cycle analysis and service models; performance based design; improved design strategies by integrating materials and structures.

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Proceedings of the 10th Hydrogen Technology Convention, Volume 1


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819986303 | 510 Pages | PDF (True) | 77 MB
This open access book highlights the latest advances in fundamental research, technologies and applications of hydrogen energy and fuel cells. In recent years, energy conversion between electricity and hydrogen energy has attracted increasing attention as a way to adjust the load of the grid. This book discusses and exchanges cutting-edge findings and technological developments in fields such as new proton exchange membrane electrolyzers, new electrode materials and catalysts, renewable energy, off-grid/grid-connected water electrolysis for hydrogen production, key materials and components of fuel cells, high-temperature solid oxide water electrolysis, energy storage technologies and research, CO2 hydrogenation to methanol, nitrogen to ammonia and other applications with industrial potential.

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Proceedings of the 10th Hydrogen Technology Convention, Volume 3


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819985803 | 646 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 95 MB
These proceedings highlight the latest advances in fundamental research, technologies and applications of hydrogen energy and fuel cells. In recent years, energy conversion between electricity and hydrogen energy has attracted increasing attention as a way to adjust the load of the grid. These conference records discuss and exchange cutting-edge findings and technological developments in fields such as new proton exchange membrane electrolysers, new electrode materials and catalysts, renewable energy, off-grid/grid-connected water electrolysis for hydrogen production, key materials and components of fuel cells, high-temperature solid oxide water electrolysis, energy storage technologies and research, CO2 hydrogenation to methanol, nitrogen to ammonia and other applications with industrial potential.

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Proceedings of the 10th Hydrogen Technology Convention, Volume 2


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819985846 | 589 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 120 MB
This book highlights the latest advances in fundamental research, technologies and applications of hydrogen energy and fuel cells. In recent years, energy conversion between electricity and hydrogen energy has attracted increasing attention as a way to adjust the load of the grid. This book discusses and exchanges cutting-edge findings and technological developments in fields such as new proton exchange membrane electrolyzers, new electrode materials and catalysts, renewable energy, off-grid/grid-connected water electrolysis for hydrogen production, key materials and components of fuel cells, high-temperature solid oxide water electrolysis, energy storage technologies and research, CO2 hydrogenation to methanol, nitrogen to ammonia and other applications with industrial potential.

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The Aarhus Convention Towards Environmental Solidarisation


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English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 209 Pages | ISBN : 3031435354 | 4.4 MB
The Aarhus Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters has been celebrated as a pioneering international environmental agreement. Given that a quarter-century has passed since Aarhus was opened for signature, now is an opportune moment to revisit it from a fresh perspective. Marking this anniversary, this book explores Aarhus from the vista of the English School of International Relations, an ethically-minded perspective used to gauge the prevalence of state-oriented and human-oriented progress from the Convention’s rationales and realities. It firstly considers Aarhus’ propagation, investigating the legal, diplomatic and geopolitical contexts enabling its emergence. It secondly investigates Aarhus’ germination, with reference to its trinity of procedural rights. Thirdly, the book examines the Convention’s growth, in terms of the development of its organisational infrastructure. The chief finding is that Aarhus demonstrates, in environmental contexts, the feasibility and benefit of fostering ‘humankind’ solidarist progress, rooted in moral cosmopolitanism, within the existing power arrangements of a sovereignty-based pluralism. Pluralist concerns for diversity and international order are found to be a precondition for more ethically ambitious solidarist endeavours. These observations reinforce the logic of solidarisation, an English School innovation that presents sovereignty as (a) being ethically matured by solidarism whilst (b) delimiting solidarism within the threshold of states’ tolerance.

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The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates [Audiobook]


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English | October 29, 2019 | ASIN: B07Z5GNH8H | MP3@64 kbps | 16h 31m | 446.08 MB
Author: Ralph Ketcham – editor, Ralph Ketcham – introduction
Narrator: Sean Runnette

The complete texts of the documents that tell the story of the clashes and compromises that gave birth to the Unites States of America.

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