A NON-LINEAR MODEL FOR OPTIMAL ALLOCATION OF IRRIGATION WATER AND LAND UNDER ADEQUATE AND LIMITED WATER SUPPLIES: A CASE STUDY IN SOUTHERN ITALY

2013 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pietro Rubino ◽  
Anna Maria Stellacci ◽  
Roberta M. Rana ◽  
Maurizia Catalano ◽  
Angelo Caliandro
Keyword(s):  
Linear Model ◽  
Irrigation Water ◽  
Optimal Allocation ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Water Supplies ◽  
Non Linear

scholarly journals Optimal Allocation of the Irrigation Water Through a Non Linear Mathematical Model

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 191 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Rubino ◽  
M. Catalano ◽  
R. Rana ◽  
A. Caliandro
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Irrigation Water ◽  
Optimal Allocation ◽  
Non Linear

Non-Linear Model in Architectural Design for Sustainable Social Housing: Case Study Ovča Housing Project Belgrade

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Dušan Stojanović ◽  
Pavle Stamenović
Keyword(s):  
Linear Model ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
Housing Design ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Spatial Needs

The aim of this paper is to reconsider the conventional approaches in architectural design for social housing that lead to low adaptability of architecture regarding spatial needs of its inhabitants. This research explores the potential of nonlinear model in architectural design of sustainable social housing. Sustainability is commonly interpreted through categories of socio-economic availability, notwithstanding the fact that demands of contemporary living greatly exceed the scope of this definition. One of the methods to integrate sustainability into social housing design is to incorporate specific users’ needs into the design process itself. The aim is to specify the common ground for negotiation between all actors in the process. Such a platform could enable multiple options allowing flexibility and a higher level of quality, as well as the comfort of sustainable living. This design approach is developed in the case study project for Ovča social housing community in Belgrade. This project is conceived as an infrastructural system that precedes the building as a finite architecture, therefore anticipating inhabitants’ involvement in the design process. The non-linear model of architectural design is enabled trough a drawing as a tool of communication. Since it is carried out according to previously defined values, this iterative procedure establishes a specific set of outputs that can later be evaluated and modified in accordance to users’ spatial needs. Therefore, the drawing becomes a tool that allows a variety of designing processes while the most important role still belongs to the architect and the user. Such iterative design process creates preconditions that enable the inhabitants to appropriate the space of living, which legitimizes the aim to transfer the design process from conventional towards the non-linear model of architectural design.

scholarly journals The Prism of Change

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Bruun
Keyword(s):  
Linear Model ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Institutional Values ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Way

Abstract This article presents and discusses the communicative behaviour in the continuity texts produced by public service television providers in Denmark in the digital era. Based on a case study of the two main channels, DR and TV 2, the article argues that, after previous trends towards convergence in the way the two providers communicate, the present developments exhibit a divergence. Three major differences are found in the efforts to (1) hold on to and ‘herd’ the viewers within the scope of products and platforms, (2) strengthen the provider–viewer relationship, and (3) stand out with a distinctive set of institutional values. The findings are interpreted as a consequence of the challenges and opportunities facing the providers in terms of funding and in terms of meeting public service obligations, in a situation of tension between a traditional linear model of broadcasting and an emerging non-linear model.

Variable-Structure Linear-Model-Following Control of Manipulators

1993 ◽  
Vol 207 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
S K Tso ◽  
M L Lai ◽  
P L Law
Keyword(s):  
Linear Model ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Robot Manipulators ◽  
Variable Structure ◽  
Structure Model ◽  
Model Following Control ◽  
Model Following ◽  
Non Linear

The paper describes the interaction between modelling, control and adaptation of a variable-structure model-following method applied to highly non-linear plants. The method is particularly appealing in the control of high-performance robot manipulators. The problems concerned with its application are discussed with reference to the use of a controller in a commercial manipulator as a case study.

Grammatical blending and the conceptualization of complex cases of interpretational overlap

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 22-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillaume Desagulier
Keyword(s):  
Linear Model ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Complex Cases

In this paper, grammatical blending is presented as an alternative to the conventional, linear overlap models of grammaticalization when it comes to conceptualizing complex cases of overlaps. The choice of the ‘emerging modal’ want to/wanna as a case study is motivated precisely by its interpretational complexity. For it appears that the grammaticalization of want to/wanna has been shaped by the compositional interaction of form and meaning. In this configuration, the linear model has to be modified for two reasons: being exclusively semantic, it does not take the form of the expression into account; being linear, it does not lend itself to a treatment of constructional compositionality. Grammatical blending, understood as the blend of constructions as defined in the Construction Grammar framework, is one way of altering the linear model so as to enable the representation of non-linear (i.e. compositional) constructional overlaps.

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