Download or read book Development of a MegaSwapBox for the Trimodal Use in Europe written by Sebastian Jursch and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aufgrund der stetigen Zunahme des gesamten Güterverkehrsaufkommens muss sich der europäische Gütertransport großen Herausforderungen stellen, um insbesondere dem übermäßigen Straßenverkehrsaufkommen entgegenzuwirken. Deshalb müssen Lösungen gefunden werden, mit denen das heutige Verkehrssystem ressourcenschonender genutzt werden kann. Eine sich anbietende Lösungsstrategie ist der Einsatz eines effizienteren Transportsystems in Form universeller intermodaler Ladungsträgereinheiten. Kern der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Entwicklung einer universellen 45 Fuß Ladungsträgereinheit, die im intermodalen Transport auf Straße, Schiene sowie auf Binnen- und Kurzstreckenseeschifffahrtswegen einsetzbar ist, genannt MegaSwapBox. Sie ist volumenoptimiert, bietet eine effiziente Be- und Entladung und ist innerhalb Europas ohne Anpassungen einsetzbar, damit diese einen Beitrag zur effizienteren Nutzung des heutigen Verkehrssystems leistet.
Download or read book Automation Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2015 2016 written by Sabina Jeschke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 975 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Automation Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2011 2012 written by Sabina Jeschke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-22 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the follow-up to its predecessor “Automation, Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2009/2010” and includes a representative selection of all scientific publications published between 07/2011 and 06/2012 in various books, journals and conference proceedings by the researchers of the following institute cluster: IMA - Institute of Information Management in Mechanical Engineering ZLW - Center for Learning and Knowledge Management IfU - Associated Institute for Management Cybernetics Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Innovative fields of application, such as cognitive systems, autonomous truck convoys, telemedicine, ontology engineering, knowledge and information management, learning models and technologies, organizational development and management cybernetics are presented.
Download or read book ECKM2010 Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Knowledge Management written by Eduardo Tomé and published by Academic Conferences Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics written by Hoang Pham and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s global and highly competitive environment, continuous improvement in the processes and products of any field of engineering is essential for survival. This book gathers together the full range of statistical techniques required by engineers from all fields. It will assist them to gain sensible statistical feedback on how their processes or products are functioning and to give them realistic predictions of how these could be improved. The handbook will be essential reading for all engineers and engineering-connected managers who are serious about keeping their methods and products at the cutting edge of quality and competitiveness.
Download or read book Sustainable Development written by Felix Rauschmayer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking new work establishes links between sustainable development, needs, well-being, and the capabilities approach that is central to human development and the United Nations Development Programme. By challenging the role of people in sustainability policy, this collection’s argument refocuses sustainable development on needs and makes it easier for people to relate positively to its core values. This exciting new book incites a whole new way of looking at sustainable development. Even though the word ‘needs’ is central to the most popular definition of sustainable development, the concepts of needs and capabilities remain within the debate on human development, without going further into intergenerational justice or environmental protection. The discussion of needs reaches non-academics in a more direct way than talking about abstract thresholds, substitutability and other issues dear to academic debate on sustainability. This collection links the questions of intra- and intergenerational justice with issues of quality of life, life courses, and well-being. Dealing with needs entails dealing with deeper layers of consciousness, revealing emotions and questioning habits and values. In this way, the collection presents an opportunity for substantial social change as well as a challenge for research and policy-making. This thought-provoking collection asks its readers to reconsider the role of needs based on the philosophical arguments presented, to understand how sustainability can become a part of the capability approach, to better consider the dependency of life chances on birth contingencies, and to see the relationship between capabilities, needs, and well-being in a different light. The editors finish by clarifying the possibilities and challenges of a needs-based sustainability policy for policy makers, and explain the role of deeply held values. This book should be of interest to postgraduates and researchers in Environmental and Ecological Economics, as well as many other disciplines including Political Economics, Social Ecology, Human Ecology, Sustainability Science and Developmental Politics.
Download or read book The Mystery of the Aleph written by Amir D. Aczel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-08-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling narrative that blends the story of infinity with the tragic tale of a tormented and brilliant mathematician.
Download or read book The Folks written by Ruth Suckow and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1992-02 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an introspective, poignant portrait of an American family during a time of sweeping changes. Now nearly sixty years after it first appeared, Suckow's finest work still displays a thorough realism in its characters' actions and aspirations; the uneasy compromises they are forced to make still ring true. Suckow's talent for retrospective analysis comes to life as she examines her own people—Iowans, descendants of early settlers—through the lives of the Ferguson family, living in the fictional small town of Belmond, Iowa. Using her gift of creating three-dimensional, living characters, Suckow focuses on personal differences within the family and each member's separate struggle to make sense of past and present, to confront a pervasive sense of loss as a way of life disappears.
Download or read book Patently Ridiculous written by Richard Ross and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After months of research at the U.S. Patent Office--the repository of delightfully improbable dreams--Ross amassed a collection of some of the most unique, odd, and awe-inspiring patent applications ever seen over the last century.
Download or read book Warriors and Strangers written by Gerald Hanley and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safely Rest written by David Colley and published by Berkley Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1945 to 1950, the United States returned 178,000 dead American servicemen back home and reburied another 80,000 in overseas cemeteries at their families' request. Never before had a nation returned so many of its fallen warriors from distant battlefields. But another 78,000 servicemen were missing in action, their bodies never to be found, their families never to know the peace of closure. Safely Restrecalls this virtually forgotten episode of WWII through the recollections of the survivors and the letters and histories of the dead themselves. It tells of those who struggled to absorb their loss and rebuild their lives-and of those who would never be able to move on. Most memorably, it tells of Lt. Jesse D. "Red" Franks, Jr.--first reported missing, then dead, then alive-and of his extraordinarily devoted father, who gave up everything to work as a missionary in war-torn Europe for years until he discovered what truly happened to his son. If World War II was the "Great Crusade," then its dead are the true heroes of the war. And this is their story.
Download or read book A Little House Reader written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-02-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles, essays, poems, and other writings which shows that the author known for her Little house books was a prolific and talented writer all her life.
Download or read book Johnny Critelli written by Frank Lentricchia and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Utica, New York, in the 1950s, Johnny Critelli evokes the richness, conflicts, lusts, and longings of an Italian-American community trying to embrace American culture as it clings to its own. In Utica, food, family, religion, and Joe DiMaggio are equally transcendent. Every extra penny in town in invested in Little League in a romantic homage to athletic greatness and to a Yankee line-up studded with Italian-American names. At the heart of this story are three generations of the author's own family and Johnny Critelli, a mythical orphan who may have disappeared years before Lentricchia's birth, but who continues to obsess him. Raw and rapturous, this novel extols the creativity of the mind and tenacity of the spirit. The Knifemen is an explosive, blunt-force evocation of the evil voices inside men. It presents a chilling, rapid descent into the mental hell of Richard Assisi, a respectable gynecologist and apparently decent man, who turns self-hatred onto everyone around him, especially those who love him most. Richard is a man moving through ordinary rooms and saying familiar things, but all the while with slaughter and misogyny in his heart. Intensely compelling, The Knifemen dissects the metaphysics of maleness, exposing the primordial lurch toward violence and blood lust.
Download or read book The Shopping Expedition written by Allan Ahlberg and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2005 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A routine shopping trip becomes a grand adventure in the eyes of a little girl.
Download or read book When I Grow Up written by Bernice Rubens and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 2005 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this evocation of her life, Bernice Rubens escorts us, with an array of stories - through her wartime childhood, her first 'major folly', through stints as a teacher, lady's maid, and actress, before stumbling upon a career that bemused her to the end of her days.
Download or read book Spiritual Classics written by Richard J. Foster and published by Fount. This book was released on 1999 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year's plan of carefully selected spiritual readings from ancient and contemporary writers with questions, exercises and commentary for individual or group use. The result is a wealth of spiritual treasures to enrich and delight. Richard Foster's best-selling Celebration of Discipline provides the framework for this new work. The twelve spiritual disciplines featured are now developed as the themes for selected readings and study helps. The 12 spiritual disciplines are: Inward disciplines Prayer Meditation Fasting Study Outward disciplines Simplicity Solitude Submission Service Corporate disciplines Confession Worship Guidance Celebration Christian classic writers will include Augustine of Hippo, John Henry Newman, Thomas Merton, as well as 20th century authors such as, Simone Weil, Catherine Marshall and Joyce Huggett. Each reading will be followed by an introduction to the life and work of that author, as well as relevant scriptural quotations, questions for discussion, suggested exercises and a reflective commentary by Richard Foster.
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