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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337622303321

Titolo

Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Beer, Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou, Edoardo Patelli, Ivan Siu-Kui Au

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-642-36197-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (3200 p.)

Disciplina

624

Soggetti

Civil engineering

Natural disasters

Construction

Regional planning

City planning

Civil Engineering

Natural Hazards

Basics of Construction

Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Earthquake causes and transmission processes -- Earthquake resistant structural design -- Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering -- Seismic Hazards and Risks -- Case Histories and Developments.

Sommario/riassunto

The Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering is designed to be the authoritative and comprehensive reference covering all major aspects of the science of earthquake engineering, specifically focusing on the interaction between earthquakes and infrastructure. The encyclopedia comprises approximately 300 contributions. Since earthquake engineering deals with the interaction between earthquake disturbances and the built infrastructure, the emphasis is on basic design processes important to both non-specialists and engineers so that readers become suitably well informed without needing to deal with the details of specialist understanding. The encyclopedia’s content



provides technically-inclined and informed readers about the ways in which earthquakes can affect our infrastructure and how engineers would go about designing against, mitigating and remediating these effects. The coverage ranges from buildings, foundations, underground construction, lifelines and bridges, roads, embankments and slopes. The encyclopedia also aims to provide cross-disciplinary and cross-domain information to domain-experts. This is the first single reference encyclopedia of this breadth and scope that brings together the science, engineering and technological aspects of earthquakes and structures.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973583803321

Titolo

Motivation, emotion, and cognition : integrative perspectives on intellectual functioning and development / / edited by David Yun Dai, Robert J. Sternberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

ISBN

1-135-62448-8

1-135-62449-6

1-282-37498-2

9786612374982

1-4106-1051-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (470 p.)

Collana

The educational psychology series

Altri autori (Persone)

DaiDavid Yun

SternbergRobert J

Disciplina

153.9

Soggetti

Intellect

Motivation (Psychology)

Emotions and cognition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

MOTIVATION, EMOTION, AND COGNITION: Integrative Perspectives on Intellectual Functioning and Development; Contents; Preface; PART I-INTRODUCTION; PART II-COGNITION IN MOTIVATIONAL AND



AFFECTIVE CONTEXTS; PART III-INTELLIGENCE AND PERSONALITY: FROM PSYCHOMETRICS TO PERSONAL DYNAMICS; PART IV-DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLECTUAL COMPETENCIES; PART V-INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONING AND DEVELOPMENT IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS; EPILOGUE: Putting It All Together: Some Concluding Thoughts; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

The central argument of this book is that cognition is not the whole story in understanding intellectual functioning and development. To account for inter-individual, intra-individual, and developmental variability in actual intellectual performance, it is necessary to treat cognition, emotion, and motivation as inextricably related. Motivation, Emotion, and Cognition: Integrative Perspectives on Intellectual Functioning and Development: *represents a new direction in theory and research on intellectual functioning and development; *portrays human intelligence as fundame