Model Driven Architecture for Reverse Engineering Technologies: Strategic Directions and System Evolution (Premier Reference Source)

Author(s): Liliana Favre
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2010-01-31    
Format:pdf    
Language:English    
ISBN10: 1615206493    
Pages: 386    
ISBN13:9781615206490

The demand for modernization of legacy systems has created the need for new architectural frameworks that improve interoperability, productivity, process quality, and maintenance costs involved with model driven architecture.

Model Driven Architecture for Reverse Engineering Technologies: Strategic Directions and System Evolution emphasizes the importance of validation and verification in the modernization of systems that are critical to safety, security, and economic profits. Containing integration analyses to control the evolution of legacy systems towards object oriented technologies, this innovative publication provides critical research for those that have adopted reverse production practices or are considering an investment in system modernization.

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Prefabs: The history of the UK Temporary Housing Programme (Studies in History, Planning, and the Environment)

Author(s):     Brenda Vale
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 1995-08-01    
Format:PDF    
Language: English    
ISBN10: 0419188002    
Pages: 200
Quality: Good    
ISBN13:9780419188001

The book looks at the emergence of the prefab as a unique housing form. It examines the reasons prefabs have survived way beyond their design life of fifteen years, when other post-war housing types have been demolished. There is no other single text that sets the temporary housing programme in context.

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Civil Engineering Formulas (Pocket Guide)

Author(s): Tyler Hicks
Publisher:    McGraw-Hill Professional
Date: 2001-09-30    
Format:PDF    
Language: English    
ISBN10: 0071356126    
Pages: 350    
ISBN13:9780071356121

 Indispensable portable reference for all practicing civil engineers and students

 Now you can get a single compilation of all essential civil engineering formulas and equations in one easy-to-use portable reference. More than three-quarters of the material in Tyler Hicks Civil Engineering Formulas Pocket Guide is in the form of formulas, tables, and graphs, presented in SI and USCS formats. Each chapter, offering collections of problems and calculations, gives you quick reference to a well-defined topic:

Conversion Factors for Civil Engineering Practice
Beam Formulas
Column Formulas
Piles and Piling Formulas
Concrete Formulas
Timber Engineering Formulas
Surveying Formulas
 Soil and Earthwork Formulas
 Building and Structures Formulas
 Bridge and Suspension-Cable Formulas
 Highway and Road Formulas
 Hydraulics and Waterworks Formulas

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Urban Space And Representation

Author(s):      Maria Balshaw
Publisher: Pluto Press
Date: 2000-01-01   
Format: PDF   
Language:English   
ISBN10: 0745313493   
Pages: 256
Quality: Good   
ISBN13:     9780745313498

Theories of urban space have become the focus of a great deal of work by scholars in cultural geography, urban studies and critical theory. This volume contributes to that debate by analysing the relationship between theories of urban space and literary and visual representations of the city – an emergent area of confluence in literary, film and cultural studies. The contributors address themes such as visual culture and spectacle; class and capital; community and public space; and nation, diaspora and belonging. Cities covered include New York, Chicago, Jerusalem, Paris, London, Birmingham and Freetown, Sierra Leone. Artists and writers discussed include Piet Mondrian, Nella Larsen, Rudolph Fisher, Amos Oz, David Grossman, Sarah Schulman, Jonathan Larsen, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Paul Auster and Wayne Wang.

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Air Quality and Comfort in Airliner Cabins

Author(s): Niren Laxmichand Nagda
Date: 2000-11    
Format:pdf    
Language: English    
ISBN10: 0803128665    
Pages: 290    
OCR: Y    
ISBN13: 9780803128668

This significant, new ASTM publication provides a valuable insight into the numerous issues and challenges associated with air quality in airliner cabins. It examines 15 peer-reviewed papers, written by professionals known worldwide for scientific investigations of the aircraft cabin environment. Specific attention is give to potential causes of adverse health symptoms and discomfort reported in airliners. These concerns include air pollutants such as aldehyedes, bioaerosols, carbon monoxide, ozone, and VOCs, as well as carbon dioxide, cabin barometric pressure, vibration, temperature, and humidity.

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Sustainable Urban Housing in China: Principles and Case Studies for Low-Energy Design (Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries)

							Author(s):  Leon Glicksman, Juintow Lin Publisher: Springer Date: 2006-12-28     Format: PDF     Language: English     ISBN10: 1402054122     Pages: 292     OCR: Y     ISBN13: 9781402054129 This book features case studies and recommendations for new approaches to environmentally responsive sustainable building, illuminating many principles of sustainability and energy efficiency applicable to buildings worldwide, and in developing countries in particular. These projects identify practical technologies, new and existing, that will yield energy-efficient, healthy, and comfortable designs. Individual chapters address ventilation, controls, materials, and daylighting. Design guidelines and organizational methods suited to urban projects are also discussed.
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