environment estate management and valuation and the built environment

... simulation’ and ‘4D-CAD’ Use of the term ‘virtual reality’ can direct attention to either the VR medium or the VR system When the term is used to refer to the VR medium there is a focus on the virtual environment ... the medium and their implications, rather than the hardware and software of current computer systems Our interest is how people use and can use virtual reality in the design, production and management ... Reality and the Built Environment (Ijsselsteijn et al., 2000) The immersion and presence that they provide may be important for some built environment applications Some people argue that they are...

Ngày tải lên: 29/04/2014, 15:46

... design features that together generate the need and provide the opportunity for travel (TRB 2005) 22 Driving and the Built Environment and separate land uses In tune with their recommendations, ... that the interpretations and conclusions drawn in the papers are those of the authors The key findings endorsed by the committee appear in the body of the report The briefings received at the ... although the committee disagreed about whether the changes in development patterns and public policies necessary to achieve the high end of these findings are plausible 8 Driving and the Built Environment...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 21:20

... about those woodlands, and those trees in our parks, on our streets, and on the edges of our towns and cities They are the heritage woodlands for the people that live there Where was the debate around ... creating healthy and sustainable town and cities The conference would ‘showcase’ the very latest research on the subject of urban trees and the management of the urban forest Secondly, and most importantly, ... to bring the woodland into the heart of our towns and our cities wherever they might be In all these organisations I have seen the importance of the environment to all our lives At the Forestry...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... provides the skills managers need to: Identify and select the corporate strategies and individual projects that add value to their firm Forecast the funding requirements of their company, and devise ... Counter (OTC) Markets  In the old days, securities were kept in a safe behind the counter, and passed “over the counter” when they were sold  Now the OTC market is the equivalent of a computer ... necessarily parallel to the Treasury curve  The spread between a corporate yield curve and the Treasury curve widens as the corporate bond rating decreases 1 - 46 Hypothetical Treasury and Corporate...

Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2014, 08:23

... presents the basic form of the HOQ Fig 72.5 The House of Quality (HOQ) and its major elements The A-I matrix starts with either raw (verbatim) or restated customer WHATs and their priorities The ... where X is the long-run average for the statistic and 35 is three times the standard deviation of the statistic If the statistic follows the normal distribution (and nearly all will, due to the central ... to the transmission team They may then break their requirements out to fuel injection, piston, gear, and any other suppliers This assures that the voice of the customer is deployed throughout the...

Ngày tải lên: 26/12/2013, 01:18

... empowering and trusting people, acknowledging change as norm, and promoting constant feedback” Shuh, Peter (2005) Integrating Agile Development in the Real World p.2 What is Agile? The formula ... to the shorter timescale Manifesto for Agile Software Development Accessible at http://agilemanifesto.org/ Agile Principles Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the ... anything? – What I have to to get something done? Traditional Project Management …… Agile Project Management …… What‟s the same? • A project is still a project: – Vision – Life cycle – Requirements...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... services can consume The Role of the Configuration Management System and Configuration Management Database other services and be sourced both internally and externally The configuration management system ... section 4.1 of the ITIL V3 Service Design book and illustrated in Figure 3, the service catalog has into the service catalog from the service pipeline, and either charter or reject them Chartered ... analogous to the manufacturing product assembly docu- and maintains information about the relationships of the CIs ments that show the assemblies and subassemblies that to each other As such, the CMDB...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 18:20

... letter) sigma , the higher the interest rate r, the longer the time until the call date t and the lower the strike price L, the higher the value of the option C will be Limitations of the Model As ... (the first term) on the right - hand side, and the expected cost (the second term) if the option is exercised The higher the current share price S, the higher the volatility of the share price (Greek ... calculating an option: the option’s exercise price, the time to expiration, the price of the stock at the time of evaluation, curren t interest rates and the volatility of the stock But they were stuck...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:09

... properties The different treatments had an influence on the Kappa number, the pulpability factor and the active alkali content The Kappa number was higher and the pulpability factor lower for the manually ... content and fibre length (Fig and Tabs IV and V) The second eigenvector, which accommodates the remaining 36% of the variation, is a contrast between the active alkali and fibre coarseness versus the ... interpretation of the results obtained from the pulp and paper tests J Male, A Havenga, J Retief and D Gama of the Forestry and Forest Products section of CSIR for the testing of the pulp and paper properties...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... Sharfman and Fernando and the potential flaws in it I now focus on the treatment that Sharfman and Fernando use to test the specific correlation between ERM and the cost of debt They start their ... (WACC) but they fail to validate their hypothesis on the cost of debt: results indicate that the higher the level of ERM in a firm, the higher the cost of debt Because their hypothesis about the cost ... empirically, and the rationale for choosing them The first hypothesis is based on the study of indirect environmental risks and agency CORPORATE ERM AND THE COST OF DEBT FLORENT ROSTAING 2009 problems The...

Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2015, 21:58

... for the Money Accounting for the money is part and parcel of PBF practice For the funds they handle, health facilities use income and expense registers to document their daily cash flows The quarterly ... part of the PBF indice tool (see section 7.5) and the business plan (see chapter 10), is used by the health facility management committee, the purchasing agency, and the district health management ... Revenues and Expenses for the Next Quarter In the second section of the indice tool, one can fill out the planned income and expenses for the next quarter The section contains two tables: the first...

Ngày tải lên: 21/04/2016, 07:35

... Abderrahman (2000) studied the water demand management in Saudi Arabia, while Mayer et al (1999) and White (2000) both studied on water demand management in Colorado, USA and in Sydney, Australia, ... focus on the qualitative study rather than the quantitative study and the elements studied for water conservation are limited to demand side measures In contrast, this paper focuses on the quantitative ... specifically and independently For example, Murase et al (2005) analyzed the relationship between the water price and domestic water demand structure; Yamada et al (2004) analyzed the domestic water demands...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17

... Reversing the order of the method invocations just reverses the order of the problem and solves nothing The solution of course is to make the method transactional, and in practice this is the behavior ... listTimesheets method and the return value of findTimesheet Listing 5-15 shows these method signatures and the name of the class that implements them (The full implementation of these methods is given ... access to the timesheet instead of relying on the service to retrieve the identified timesheet and then verify the access rights after the fact However, for the sake of this example, we use the less-efficient...

Ngày tải lên: 08/10/2013, 21:20

... either of the polar regions, and have been leaders in the development of Arctic and Antarctic law and policy Australia, the chief initiator of the Antarctic Environmental Protocol, asserts the ... boundary.35 The OCSLA provided for orderly leasing of these lands, while ensuring protection of the environment and that the federal government received fair market value for the land and for mineral ... Department of the Interior, the Department of State, the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency.43 Canada and the United States in protecting the Arctic marine environment: ...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... other pollutants under MARPOL 73/78 standards in these waters has the potential to create serious environmental impact on the marine environment and the marine ecosystem A more practical and environmentally ... by the obligations that it imposes upon the polar states, whether they be territorial claimants or not, to apply the Convention within the polar waters and to their own flagged vessels In the ... any such operation, and the problems caused by polar climate and sea ice In the Southern Ocean there remains the vexed issue of the recognition of ‘coastal states’, while the limitations against...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... exploiting and protecting the seas and the natural environment in general.19 While mentioning the reference by the LOS Convention to other international rules on the protection and preservation of the ... established and maintained; the list of experts in the field of the protection and preservation of the marine environment shall be drawn up and maintained by the United Nations Environment Programme, and ... The Antarctic Treaty System and the Law of the Sea – Competing Regimes in the Southern Ocean’, International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, Vol 10, 1995, p 314 The LOS Convention and the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... genes and the social environment Understanding their implications and the new biology they describe are key goals for the behavioural sciences and for psychiatry Devising testable hypotheses ... interactions in schizophrenia and other disorders One serious issue in these studies will be the specificity of the genetic and environmental risks The search for candidate genes for schizophrenia ... schizoaffective disorder, their unaffected siblings and a group of healthy unrelated controls They also studied the hospital birth records of all the subjects and compared the brain structures of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... decision we must understand the weaknesses in the inputs that have gone into the decision making process and in the approaches taken to reaching the decision The degree to which the various sources ... reflects the decision maker’s interpretation of the available information and their unique sense of risk and return Risk in the Decision-Making Process Analyzing risk requires an understanding of the ... decisions are of the highest possible quality given the constraints of time and resources Quality Decisions and Risk Management The quality of an organization’s risk management is the degree to...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 17:15

... characteristics and using the proceeds to buy assets with a different set of characteristics • The bank borrows short and lends long Bank Management • • • • • • Liquidity Management Asset Management ... Capital Adequacy Management: Safety • Benefits the owners of a bank by making their investment safe • Costly to owners of a bank because the higher the bank capital, the lower the return on equity ... Bank Capital $1M • The cost of selling securities is the brokerage and other transaction costs $90M $10M Liquidity Management: Bank of Canada Advances Borrow $9 million from the Bank of Canada...

Ngày tải lên: 05/01/2014, 16:57

... than the measures themselves, because they develop a clearer picture of the organisation, and the process of developing measures provides focus and strategic alignment even as the measures themselves ... by using the measurement focus of the Scorecard for the following critical management processes (Kaplan and Norton, 1996b): • clarify and translate vision and strategy; • communicate and link ... implementation of the system, and non-recognition of the need to adopt a human relations view Because of the increased complexity of the business environment associated with the 1990s and Scorecard...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 12:20