EERI Distinguished Lecture 1997 Professional Commitments to Earthquake Engineering

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-657
Author(s):  
Thomas Paulay
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Design ◽  
Earthquake Engineering ◽  
Structural Design ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
The Other ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Generous Support ◽  
The One ◽  
Creative Effort ◽  
Quality Construction

Philosophical concepts, biased toward structural design in seismic regions, are offered. Certain misconceptions in the aims, planning and execution of structural design are sketched. Apparent diverging professional interests, motivating on the one hand young academics dedicated to pursuing challenges in research, and on the other hand those of experienced practitioners, are contrasted. A plea is made to use in seismic design rationality and simplicity in application. The primary aim in the art of structural design should be to impart to the system specific properties that will make the seismic response of our buildings extremely tolerant with respect to earthquake-induced demands, which presently we can predict only with considerable crudeness. A postulated rational and deterministic, yet simple, design strategy should be implemented with equal dedication to high-quality construction. This part of the creative effort is likely to result in properties of the finished product, our buildings, which earthquakes will also recognize and respect. An appeal is made to all those committed to earthquake engineering to engage in active and generous support of technology transfer in an attempt to alleviate the overwhelming and immediate needs of societies in developing countries.

scholarly journals RISKS OF THE EDUCATION

THE BULLETIN ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (390) ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
R. Aetdinova ◽  
I. Maslova ◽  
Sh. Niyazbekova ◽  
O. Balabanova ◽  
Zh. Zhakiyanova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institution ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Modern World ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Education ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

The article justifies for the need to identify and to keep track, in practice, of different groups of risks inherent in educational institutions under current conditions of pandemic and post-pandemic transformation of education under the influence of modern world uncertainty. Transformation of education functions in the epoch of digital economy changes the content and types of risks concomitant to the activities carried out by schools. Schools belong to the most conservative types of organizations. However, the environment in which schools operate is constantly changing. An educational institution, as any enterprise, has to engage in the activity aimed at risk management. Manifestation of the risk is, on the one hand, fraught with threats and damage, on the other hand, with opportunities. Assessment of possible threats and risks allows timely projection of undesirable results, creation of a system for situational response to unforeseen circumstances and, in the final analysis, formulation of a strategy for development of the university which would allow achievement of modern high quality education, its fundamentality and conformity to important topical requirements of the personality, society and state. Causes of developing risks characteristic of educational institutions are disclosed. External and internal risks characteristic of educational institutions, sources generating them and the importance of managing them are analyzed. The analysis of risks made reveals multi-varied threats and opportunities in the external and internal envi-ronment of the institution and their ability to have a significant effect on educational, organizational and financial activities of the schools.

Big Screens, Little Acts

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Clemens ◽  
Christopher Dodds ◽  
Adam Nash
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Address ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Broadcast Regulation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Modes Of Governance

This chapter demonstrates how the introduction of large screens to contemporary public spaces function to assimilate diverse arts, commercial, and public forms into a conservative regime. On the one hand, the new opportunities that accompany the large public screens are subverted by the logic of capitalist accumulation, which informs a public address designed to achieve high volumes of individual engagement, rather than high quality public engagement. On the other hand, new opportunities to enhance public engagement are subjected to bureaucratic modes of governance, which pre-emptively censor content such that it extends and satisfies conservative regimes of early broadcast regulation. The authors argue that the confluence of capitalist and bureaucratic regimes governing big screens effectively balkanise audiences, valorise nondemocratic forms of participation, and privatise public spaces.

A search for ‘frozen optical messages’ from extraterrestrial civilizations

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Weinberger ◽  
H. Hartl
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Sky Surveys ◽  
Systematic Examination ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Celestial Bodies ◽  
The One

For a quarter of a century we have been engaged in a systematic examination of high-quality photographic (optical) sky surveys in the search for new celestial bodies of various kinds. It took about 5000 hours to cover the whole northern celestial hemisphere and half of the southern one. In total, about 12000 new objects were discovered. From the very beginning of our programme we also searched for objects (or groupings of them) of rather peculiar morphology. The motivation was to detect objects revealing exceptional physical processes, on the one hand, but also to discover constructions possibly created by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations (ETCs), on the other hand. A number of very peculiar objects were indeed found (these were mostly studied in detail later), but none of these appeared likely to be the product of alien masterminds. We may conclude that at least within about 10000–20000 light-years around the Solar system no highly advanced ETCs intend to reveal themselves through such objects.

scholarly journals Research on the application of Chinese traditional pattern cloud pattern in Landscape Sketch

2021 ◽  
Vol 283 ◽  
pp. 02034
Author(s):  
Zhigang Li ◽  
Zhonggui Yang
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Electronic Document ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Cultural Innovation ◽  
Cultural Connotation ◽  
Quality Life ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The One ◽  
Traditional Pattern ◽  
Cloud Pattern

This paper discusses the application of traditional auspicious pattern cloud pattern in landscape sketch design. On the one hand, the purpose is to inherit the form aesthetic feeling and cultural connotation of cloud pattern, so as to apply the traditional cultural innovation in today's design and show our cultural confidence; on the other hand, to provide new ideas for the form innovation of landscape sketch, so as to design a set of cultural It is of great significance to integrate the value and aesthetic conception of landscape sketch, so as to meet the requirements of today's people for high-quality life. This electronic document is a “live” template. The various components of your paper [title, text, heads, etc.] are already defined on the style sheet, as illustrated by the portions given in this document.

scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF ENGLISH HEADLINES AND THEIR TRANSLATION INTO RUSSIAN

2020 ◽  
pp. 72-79
Author(s):  
Елена Николаевна Мозжегорова ◽  
Елена Николаевна Засецкова
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Настоящая статья посвящена исследованию проблемы перевода англоязычного заголовка на русский язык с целью выявления его особенностей и привлекаемых переводческих приемов. Авторами подчеркивается актуальность проведенного исследования ввиду растущей потребности быстрого и качественного перевода публицистических текстов и собственно заголовков как ключевого элемента публикации. В работе приводятся определения понятия «заголовок»; выделяются его функции; подчеркивается противоречивый характер заголовка: он может выступать как самостоятельная речевая единица и как равноправный элемент произведения; раскрываются особенности англоязычного заголовка, а также особенности газетно-информационного стиля современного английского языка. Авторы подробно рассматривают переводческие трансформации, привлекаемые для перевода англоязычных заголовков на русский язык, на примере заголовков периодических изданий Великобритании и США. На основе сравнительно-сопоставительного анализа текстов оригинала и перевода авторам удалось выявить лексические, грамматические и стилистические особенности, используемые в англоязычных газетных изданиях. В статье отмечается ключевая роль заголовка в произведении, а также факт особой ответственности в части перевода данного элемента произведения, поскольку именно корректно составленный и переведенный заголовок обеспечивает привлекательность и конкурентоспособность публикации в целом. The article is devoted to the problem of translation of English headlines into Russian to identify headline peculiarities and employed translation shifts. The authors stress the relevance of the conducted study due to the growing need for quick and high quality translation of social-political texts and headlines playing a key role in them. The paper provides a number of definitions for the term «headline»; points out the functions of the headline; stresses the controversial character of the headline: on the one hand, it is an independent speech unit, and on the other hand, it can be treated as an equal element of a text; identifies the peculiarities of English headlines as well as the peculiarities of the newspaper style of the modern English language. The authors look into the translation transformations employed when translating English headlines into Russian as exemplified by the British and American periodicals. Basing on the comparative analysis of the source texts and translations, the authors managed to identify some lexical, grammar, and stylistic peculiarities employed in the English newspapers. The article also notes the key role of the headline and the significance of its translation since it is a correctly composed and then translated headline which provides the attractiveness and competitiveness of a published work.

scholarly journals Iimitation of Personal and Professional Responsibility under the Terms of the Directives

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-41
Author(s):  
Elena V. Kamneva ◽  
Nikolai S. Prjazhnikov ◽  
Elizaveta V. Babanova ◽  
Svetlana M. Buyanova
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Professional Responsibility ◽  
Good Work ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Public ◽  
The One ◽  
Education Culture

Responsibility is understood as altruistic activity based on awareness of the consequences of one's activities. The article justifies the forced need to imitate responsibility, when an employee is required to have activities contrary to his professional conscience and common sense. Contradictions related to different understandings of “good” work (honest, high-quality, socially oriented) by different subjects of labor relations, including the employee and the bearers of policy prescriptions (leadership, colleagues, members of the public etc.) are analyzed. It proposes a model of predicting possible imitations of personal and professional responsibility, based on the reflection of these contradictions. In the case of creative work (science, education, culture etc.), under strong bureaucratic pressure of various policy prescriptions, the ideas of the development of “parallel” science are proposed, when, on the one hand, it is necessary to imitate a certain activity (ostentatious “workholism”), and on the other hand, to find opportunities for real creativity.

Fostering NCL in Higher Education

2011 ◽  
pp. 331-351
Author(s):  
Serena Alvino ◽  
Guglielmo Trentin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Technology ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Faculty Training ◽  
The Other ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Everyday Activity ◽  
Specific Proposal ◽  
The One ◽  
Quality Learning

Networked Collaborative Learning (NCL) is undeniably a double-edged sword. On the one hand it can yield high-quality learning and enhance both teachers’ and learners’ satisfaction. On the other hand, however, it requires careful planning and specific skills for the design and management of online learning activities. This is one of the main reasons for the limited adoption of NCL in a number of educational contexts. The focus of this chapter is a specific proposal aimed to foster the wide diffusion of Educational Technology (ET) and NCL in higher education (HE). In this perspective the chapter analyses the main barriers that limit the diffusion of Network-Based Educational Technology (NBET) approaches, in particular NCL, and then, in order to overcome them, presents an innovative approach to faculty training in Educational Technology Instructional Design. This approach is founded on multidimensional scaffolding, which supports teachers to integrate rules, heuristics, and best practices for design of active and collaborative online learning into their everyday activity.

BONUS DEMOGRAFI PELUANG DAN TANTANGAN BAGI INDONESIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (32) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Falikhah
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Indonesia gets demographic bonus in 2015-2035. Demographic bonus is when the number of productive population of the age of 15-64 years reaches about 70% or about 180 million people and the rest is about 30% or about 60 million people of unproductive age. The demographic bonus is like a double-edged sword. This demographic bonus becomes a profitable phenomenon on the one hand and on the other hand can be disastrous for a country. Beneficial and potential if a country is able to prepare its young generation with a quality generation and vice versa would be disastrous if the state is unable to prepare its human resources. High quality human resources both in terms of education, health, skills so as to compete in the world of work. This phenomenon is of course interesting to be studied further, especially how the opportunities and challenges for diversity in Indonesia.

The Creation of High-Quality Microhabitats for Small Business in the City Agglomeration

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-10
Author(s):  
В. Бородин ◽  
V. Borodin ◽  
В. Химочка ◽  
V. Himochka
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Agglomeration Economies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

For many years economic theorists are working on issues of development and functioning of business. This is the topic of many articles, it is made numerous findings and proposals concerning the issues of planning, efficiency management, distribution of profits, etc. Along with this, the influence of external environment on individual businesses is not sufficiently researched. The most sensitive to external microenvironment small business is concentrated mainly in the major cities, agglomeration systems. On the one hand, it creates the basis for agglomeration economies, on the other hand, it is entirely dependent on the administrative and managerial processes occurring in it. In this regard, the establishment of an effective management model agglomeration can improve the performance of the business. What models of agglomeration systems are there? Which one is the most effective? The article considers what problems have authorities in the organization of this process.

scholarly journals Villas in the "Underground"

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 55-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kateřina Riedlová ◽  
Věra Kubicová
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Brutalism ◽  
The One ◽  
Family House ◽  
Ruling Party

The political changes of 1948 brought, among other things, a significant shift in the housing policy. Focus was no longer on living in detached family houses or urban villas so popular prior to 1948. On the other hand, we can also find architecturally great villa like family houses designed by professional architects. However, construction of these houses was not far from being illegal since everything was done secretly without the slightest possibility of being presented within the professional circles or the public. The investors recruited mainly from social and cultural groups of famous people with original ideas, were not acceptable to the ruling party. Let us name a few: the villa of the famous film director Věra Chytilová in Trója, Prague (1975), Emil Přikryl`s villa; or three villas from the 1950s: Miroslav Zikmund`s (1954), Jiří Hanzelka`s (1956) and Zdeněk Liška`s (1959), designed by Zdeněk Plesník in Zlín. The most remarkable realization of family houses, so different from other contemporary designs, was the one by Ivan Ruller in Brno. Thanks to the used materials, Ruller`s houses have the capacity to age in a natural in way, without losing any of the powerful touches of modernity. In 1968, Ruller`s type of villa was designed for example for Petráček, the director of Chemoprojekt. Its construction was inspired largely by the trend in architecture “new brutalism”. Some of other Ruller`s villas can be found in Ivanovice (1976) and Mokrá Hora (1979). Architect Josef Němec`s own villa (1976) as well as Růžena Žertová`s atrium family house (1981) are just other examples of high-quality houses from and around Brno.

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