The Landslide Handbook — A Guide to Understanding Landslides potx

... 1-613-947-0333 pbobrows@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca 12 The Landslide Handbook A Guide to Understanding Landslides Translational Landslide The mass in a translational landslide moves out, or down and outward, along a relatively ... show a schematic and an image of a rotational landslide. 4 The Landslide Handbook A Guide to Understanding Landslides Figure 1....

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... obtain a color’s reflectance curve, we can apply mathematics to map the color onto a color space. To do this, we take the reflectance curve and multiply the data by a CIE standard illuminant. The ... of a color — in other words, how close the color is to either gray or the pure hue. For example, think of the appearance of a tomato and a radish. The red of...

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... various critical cod- ing skills work together to make software that is readable, scalable, maintainable, and elegant. In addition to these individual authors and thought leaders, we also want ... away, because they are not part of the API of the service and we don’t want any other object, now or in the future, to become coupled to them (the way they work or even that they...

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... bag, into the pond and allowing the water in the bag to reach the same temperature as the pond. Another method is to gradually add pond water to the container until the temperatures are similar. ... four, arranged in whorls around the stem. Spacing between whorls is more compact toward the end of the stem than at the base. Chara. Chara is a form of algae that gro...

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... interest and repay its debt. Custodian—An organization, usually a bank, that holds the securities and other assets of a mutual fund. Depreciation A decline in an investment’s value. Diversifi cation The ... IT EASIER TO INVEST AND CAN HELP YOU TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF DOLLAR-COST AVERAGING. 22 A Guide to Understanding Mutual Funds The annual report d...

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... is a “snapshot” statement. The com- pany is frozen on the date shown at the top, and the balances in its balance sheet accounts are shown on that specific day— typi- cally the last day of the ... that someone’s trying to pull a fast one (usually not, anyway). But eyeballing statements to evaluate a company’s con- 42 THE A GILE MANAGER’S GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING F...

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... mistake. The CPA who prepared the statement for the naive owner had mistakenly classified the company’s $200,000 mortgage balance— which had twenty years to run—as a current liability. That meant it ... to do the year -to- year vertical analysis comparisons you learned about in the last chapter. Also, companies can’t just opt for the method that makes the bottom line loo...

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