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... Mechanics and Meaning in Architecture This page intentionally left blank Mechanics and Meaning in Architecture Lance La Vine M IN NE SO TA University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis • London ... mechanics and meaning Architecture's Loss of a Distinct Technological Voice 17 The rise of engineering in the building professions; architectural incorporation of engineering constructs; a case in point; ... they, in and of themselves, provide an inclusive and satisfying definition of the role of technology in architectural design Architectural drawings increase the scope of this definition by linking...

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... of innovation : change and meaning in the age of the Internet / Ilkka Tuomi p cm Includes bibliographical references and indexes  Technological innovations  Computer networks  Internet  Linux ... descent, and a chair affords sitting We, therefore, see ladders and chairs as such, instead of seeing meaningless objects, which only after information processing become infused with meaning (Tuomi, ... managers, and modern policymakers There are, however, many ways to make profit In the future good business may require understanding how meaning is produced . INVESTMENT AND INVENTION OF MEANING It...

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... iteratively enhancing only the edgy regions in the low-frequency band rather than the entire initially interpolated image because the chrominance is smoother in the low-frequency band than in the whole ... the main steps The dashed lines in the graphs indicate the original values for the blue channel, and the solid lines indicate the estimated values for the blue channel There are four main steps: ... as shown in Figure This is because the Hirakawa and Zhang algorithms try to overcome discontinuity in the thin edges by smoothing which leads to blurred edges In short, in terms of CMSE and S-CILAB...

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... mnemonic quality in the areas of recognition and recall.4,13 Colour may play a role in imparting information, creating lasting identity and suggesting imagery and symbolic value.4,13 Dowling8 notes ... choice for both desired meaning and inferred meaning For this representative design, yellow (refreshing), green (reliable) and red (warm) were significantly related to meanings predicted by colour ... 1350-23IX Brand Management Vol 16, 8, 545–555 COLOUR AND MEANING IN CORPORATE LOGOS (4) Henderson, P and Cote, J (1998) ‘Guidelines for selecting or modifying logos’, Journal of Marketing, Vol 62,...

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... essentially in the epidermis of NFA + 50 and in the endodermis The main changes in Istebna occurred in the endodermis, mesophyll and vascular bundle and in beech, they were in the parenchyma and vascular ... spruce clones and calcium and potassium in beech only The interaction of drought and ozone had a significant effect on calcium levels in the Istebna clone and potassium levels in Gerardmer and beech ... perturbation of the mineral nutrition at root level Barnes and Pfirrmann (1992) and Lucas et al (1993) explained the increase of K and Ca levels in ozone-treated trees by an increasing ion uptake at...

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... conversion ; 5) net income as defined above ; 6) final weight ; 7) index I where the traits included in the aggregate genotype and in the index were : daily gain and food intake and the economic weights ... composition, selling and net income after fattening Among type were price on Within biological types, feed intake and feed conversion ratio were greatly influenced by initial weight and daily gain but ... ratio ) I initial weight, daily gain, dressing-out percentage and percent lean in the T&dquo; ribcut, considered alone or in different combinations, are given in table (feed intake) and by (feed...

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... Immunohistochemical staining of the precursor protein of collagen I and III was present mainly extracellularly, being visible as linear and reticular fibers or as more intensive bands in the subepithelial ... deparaffinized in xylene and rehydrated in a descending ethanol series Endogenous peroxidase was blocked by incubating the sections in 3% hydrogen peroxide in absolute methanol for 15 minutes ... protein of collagen III in their large airways In bronchioles i.e in small airways, the staining of precursor protein of collagen III was increased in the smokers and in these cases the thickness...

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... Human and animal urine Multiresidue including (2000) spectrometry acephate and methamidophos (Aguera et al., 2002 Tandem mass Vegetables and fruits Multiresidue including ¨ spectrometry acephate and ... dependent and require use of buffer to inhibit any change in pH In this review, we propose analytical procedures and materials used in the determination of the acephate and methamidophos present in different ... lg/L and lg/L, respectively (Araoud et al., 2010) 4.2 Determination of acephate and methamidophos in human and animal urine Acephate concentrations in the human urine were determined by different...

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... for the injector opening Based on the preset timing and duration the injector was opened for injection and closed after injection The injection timing and injection duration was varied within the ... by times in port injection and times in manifold injection however there is an increase in smoke by 36 % in port injection and 44 % in manifold injection The CO emission is found to be increases ... ratios In order to minimize the possibility of flashback occurrence, the injection timing of the hydrogen injection was fixed in coordination with the intake valve opening timing Hydrogen used in...

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... 2011, pp.845-852 849 loading in the environment and receiving waters, poor water quality, carbon emissions and contamination of the food chain [27] Integrating a legume into a crop rotation is ... research interests are energy, modeling and simulation, and mechanization E-mail address: shahinrafiee@ut.ac.ir A Jafari was born in 1970, received his B.Sc degree in Agricultural Machinery Engineering ... Mohammadi was born in 1983 in Tehran/Iran, received his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Agricultural Machinery Engineering from the Urumia University and University of Tehran, Iran, in 2005 and 2008, respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:30

... enhanced with increasing temperature; OsHsfA2c showed maximum binding at 32 and 37 °C; OsHsfA9 showed efficient binding at 22, 32 and 37 °C; and OsHsfB4b showed maximum binding at 22 °C In contrast, ... amino acid protein and contains an oligomerization domain but lacks the DNA binding domain, signal sequences for nuclear localization and export and the AHA motif [16] Considering this entry also ... hetero-oligomers with HsfA4, thereby interfering in the HsfA4 DNA binding capacity and thus acting as a selective repressor [24] In addition to Hsf–Hsf interactions, a large body of information has been accumulated...

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... before and after germination 3.6 Vitamin E The changes in the vitamin E (tocopherols) content of different parts of rough rice before and after germination are shown in Table The a-, b, and c-tocopherol ... The changes in free sugar content of different parts of rough rice seed before and after germination are shown in Table Fructose and sucrose were found before germination, and fructose and glucose ... parameters to determine the significance of the changes before and after germination Results and discussion 3.1 Crude protein and lipids The changes in crude protein of the different parts of rough...

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... Reversal of agerelated increase in brain protein oxidation, decrease in enzyme activity, and loss in temporal and spatial memory by chronic administration of the spin trapping compound N-tert-butyl-aphenylnitrone ... were incubated in NaCl/Pi for 90 min, the intracellular fluorescence signal dramatically increased in all cases (Fig 9, Table 1) The increases, in comparison to the signals observed in standard ... quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding Anal Biochem 72, 248–254 Prohaska, J.R & Ganther, H.E (1976) Selenium and glutathione peroxidase in developing rat brain J Neurochem...

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... are shown in (A) and (B) Silver staining is shown in (C) and (D) in blue superimposed with the spots of oxidized proteins shown in red Protein labels: 1, a-tubulin; 2, b-tubulin; 3, actin; 4, PDI; ... tyrosine residues in a target protein In the first experiments, we assessed whether PDT can cause dityrosine (dityramine) formation, and the covalent coupling of the Tyr-Fluo to a model protein ... acetylTyr-Fluo, resulted in the labeling of cellular proteins, as shown in Fig PDT-induced protein labeling was dependent on the concentration of the photosensitizer (Fig 3, lanes and 4) and the dose of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:21

... Fangfang Feng, and Andrew McCallum 2004 Chinese segmentation and new word detection using conditional random fields In COLING 2004, pages 562–568, Geneva, Switzerland, August 23-27 Chooi-Ling GOH, Masayuki ... classification and tagging need to define the position of character inside a word Traditionally, the four tags, b, m, e, and s stand, respectively, for the beginning, midle, end of a word, and a singlecharacter ... B, and the other Scheme E 3.3 Learning Model and Features While memory-based and margin-based learning approaches such as support vector machines are popularly applied to shift-reduce parsing,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 20:20

... www.it-ebooks.info Introduction to Flexibility and Robustness in Scheduling 19 Figure 1.1 shows a single machine scheduling problem involving two tasks T1 and T2 with p1 = 2, p2 = 1, r1 = and r2 = ... www.it-ebooks.info Robustness in Operations Research and Decision Aiding 37 2) Resistance can have the following meanings: protecting from, adapting to, being rather insensitive to, remaining stable, ... points, we should then explain the different options which deserve to be considered within this formulation in order to take inaccurate determination, uncertainty and arbitrariness margins into...

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... 142 Meaning Making 160 The Making of Meaning 160 The Negotiation of Self in Technology 162 Intentionality and Responsibility 164 Recreating the World, Ourselves, and Our Senses 168 Meaning Making ... scientists and engineers, but those distinctions are becoming increasingly vague in the nanotechnology initiative Both scientists and engineers work as principal investigators within laboratory settings ... from now and doing things in very similar ways.… I think the greater danger is that by coming to focus on these, let me call them man–machine interfaces, things where we are trying to invent artificial...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 15:19

... electromagnetic waves in layered lossy and dispersive medium and after the physical forward modeling experiment, in chapter 7, the delamination in polished wall paintings by wall coupling antennas using GPR ... line, a and b are the inner and outer radii of the coaxial line, respectively, γ0 is the absolute value of the propagation constant in free space (see (16)), Si and J0 are the sine integral and ... consists in not making any assumption on the dispersive laws and in determining the real and imaginary parts of the material complex parameters at each measurement frequency (on a point-by-point basis)...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 19:20

... fields in the inner and outer regions is found by calculating the currents on the interface between the regions 28 Behaviour of Electromagnetic Waves in Different Media Will-be-set-by -IN- TECH and ... Waves in Different Media Will-be-set-by -IN- TECH and Structures cylinder or sphere (see Fig 2) This allows us to utilize ISP formulated in cylindrical or spherical coordinates to determine aggregated ... (3) 32 Behaviour of Electromagnetic Waves in Different Media Will-be-set-by -IN- TECH and Structures Bearing in mind that the scattered field obtained during the iteration process depends on the...

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... containing the investigated element and then utilizing the analytical iterative model for determining scattering parameters of arbitrary configuration of objects The obtained solution can be combined ... Waves in Different Media and Structures where χ is the matrix of chirality parameter, and a symmtric one Substituting Eqs (5) and (6) into Eqs (124) and (125), respectively, and multiplying them ... (1999) Frequency-domain and timedomain finite element solution of Maxwell’s equations using spectral Lanczos decomposition method Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol 169, No...

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