A new littany, designed for this Lent, and to be sung in all the conventicles, in and about London, for the instruction of the Whiggs. By T.D. Gent. Set familiarly to an excellent old tune, call'd Cavalilly man [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNISA996393346403316
• Autore: D'Urfey Thomas <1653-1723.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : printed for Joseph Hindmarsh, (bookseller to his Royal Highness, ) at the Black-Bull in Cornhill, 1684
• Descrizione fisica: 1 sheet ([1] p.)
• Soggetti: Political ballads and songs - England
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: T. D. = Thomas D'Urfey.; Verse: "I. From counsels of six, where treason".; Advertisement at end.; Two columns to the page.; Identified as Wing D93 on UMI Early English books, 1641-1700 microfilm set.; Reproduction of original in the British Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0062

Crypto-economie et droit international / par Matthias Lehmann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910913301303321
• Autore: Lehmann, Matthias
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; Boston, : Brill Nijhoff, 2024
• ISBN: 978-90-04-70670-5
• Descrizione fisica: 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
• Collana: Recueil des cours / Academie de droit international ; 438
• Disciplina: 343.032
• Locazione: FGBC
• Collocazione: X O 28 (438)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Francese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Inclusion and resilience : the way forward for social safety nets in the Middle East and North Africa / / Joana Silva, Victoria Levin, Matteo Morgandi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970526203321
• Autore: Silva Joana
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, DC : , : World Bank, , [2013]
• ISBN: 9780821397725; 0821397729
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxi, 272 pages) : illustrations ; ; 27 cm
• Collana: MENA development report
• Disciplina: 306.0956
• Soggetti: Middle East Social policy 21st century; Africa, North Social policy 21st century; Middle East Economic policy 21st century; Africa, North Economic policy 21st century
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive summary -- The framework for SSN reform in MENA -- The challenge : poverty, exclusion, and vulnerability to shocks -- The current state of social safety nets in MENA -- The political economy of SSN reforms : MENA speaks! -- The way forward : how to make MENA safety nets more effective and innovative -- Annex 1.1: Posters presenting global showcase of best practice in SSN -- Annex 2.1: Demographic statistics and poverty incidence for selected mena countries -- Annex 2.2: Description of the data used for the micro-analysis -- Annex 3.1: Methodological annex -- Annex 3.2: Non-subsidy SSN programs included in household survey assessment -- Annex 3.3: SSN programs in MENA SSN inventory -- Annex 4.1: MENA speaks questionnaire -- Annex 4.2: Awareness of programs and subsidies.
• Sommario/riassunto: The report aims to meet two broad objectives: (a) enhance knowledge about the current state of existing social safety nets (SSNs) and assess their effectiveness in responding to new and emerging challenges to the poor and vulnerable in the region by bringing together new evidence, data, and country-specific analysis; and (b) open up and inform a debate on feasible policy options to make SSNs in the Middle East and North Africa more effective and innovative. The first chapter, 'a framework for SSN reform,' describes and illustrates the reasons for the region's growing need for SSN reform and es

Resilient and Sustainable Buildings

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911007187303321
• Autore: Ellingwood Bruce R
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Reston : , : American Society of Civil Engineers, , 2023; ©2023
• ISBN: 9780784485057; 0784485054
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 pages)
• Collana: Infrastructure Resilience Publication ; ; v.7
• Altri autori (Persone): MahmoudHussam; JoynerMatthew D; JiaYiming; FlintMadeleine M; Roriguez-MarekAdrian; OrorbiaMaximilian E; ChhabraJaskanwal P. S; Van de LindtJohn W; SasaniMehrdad
• Soggetti: Sustainable buildings; Civil engineering
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- Layout of This Book -- Chapter 1 : A Risk-Informed Decision Framework to Achieve Resilient and Sustainable Buildings That Meet Community Objectives -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 The Building Regulatory Process in the United States -- 1.1.2 Building Performance Objectives -- 1.1.3 Community Performance Objectives and Metrics -- 1.1.4 Community Resilience versus Individual Building Performance-De-aggregation of Community Goals -- 1.2 Methodology/Framework/Approach Used in the Project -- 1.2.1 Project Objectives -- 1.2.2 The Importance of Interdependencies in Resilience Assessment -- 1.2.3 Balance between Sustainability and Resilience -- 1.2.4 Life-Cycle Analysis for ; Sustainability and Resilience -- 1.2.5 Role of Fragility Functions in Performance Assessment -- 1.2.6 Role of Scenario-Based Hazard Analysis -- 1.2.7 De-aggregation of Community Goals to the Building Performance Level -- 1.2.8 Building Back Better to Enhance Community Resilience -- 1.3 Detailed Methods, Approaches-Hazards, Building Systems -- 1.3.1 Development of Fragility Functions -- 1.3.2 Life-Cycle Analysis for Residential Buildings -- 1.3.2.1 Total Life-Cycle Cost -- 1.3.2.2 Regular Repair/Maintenance Cost -- 1.3.2.3 Expected Damage Repair Cost -- 1.3.2.4 Assessment of Life-Cycle Carbon Footprint -- 1.3.3 Community Resilience Assessment Framework -- 1.3.4 De-aggregation of Community Goals to the Building Performance Level -- 1.4 Application/Example/Case Study -- 1.4.1 Life-Cycle Analysis at Individual Building and Community Levels -- 1.4.1.1 Illustration of Life-Cycle Analysis of a Single-Family Residential Building -- 1.4.1.2 Illustration of Life-Cycle Analysis for an Ensemble of Residential Buildings.; 1.4.2 Interdependencies and Resilience at a Community Level -- 1.4.3 De-aggregation of Community Goals to the Building Performance Level -- 1.5 Project Conclusions, Lessons Learned -- References -- Chapter 2 : Building Design and Decision-Making for Multihazard Resilience and Sustainability -- 2.1 Introduction and Scope -- 2.1.1 General -- 2.1.2 Research Significance -- 2.1.3 Background and Literature Review -- 2.2 Design Framework -- 2.2.1 Natural Hazard Characterization -- 2.2.1.1 Seismic Hazard -- 2.2.1.2 Joint Wind and Flood Hazards -- 2.2.1.3 Nonstationarities of Wind and Flood hazards -- 2.2.2 Modeling of Fragility and Damage to Building Components -- 2.2.2.1 Seismic Damage -- 2.2.2.2 Wind Damage -- 2.2.2.3 Flood Damage -- 2.2.3 Building Resilience and Sustainability Assessment -- 2.2.3.1 Building Resilience -- 2.2.3.2 Building Sustainability -- 2.2.4 Multiobjective Optimization and Decision-Making -- 2.3 Methodology -- 2.3.1 Natural Hazard Characterization -- 2.3.1.1 Seismic Hazard and Ground Motions -- 2.3.1.2 Ground Motion Demand for Seismic Performance Evaluation -- 2.3.1.3 Joint Probability of Wind and Flood Hazards -- 2.3.1.4 Nonstationary Coastal Wind and Flood Hazard Analyses -- 2.3.2 Modeling of Building Damage and Identifying Fragility and Probability of Failure -- 2.3.2.1 Seismic Damage -- 2.3.2.2 Wind Damage -- 2.3.2.3 Flood Damage -- 2.3.2.4 Probability of Failure -- 2.3.3 Building Resilience and Sustainability -- 2.3.3.1 Building Resilience -- 2.3.3.2 Building Sustainability -- 2.3.4 Multiobjective Optimization and Decision-Making -- 2.3.4.1 Multiobjective Optimization -- 2.3.4.2 Decision-Making: Final Design Selection -- 2.3.5 Decision-Makers' Preference Weights for Building Sustainability and Resilience Criteria -- 2.3.5.1 Final Design Selection.; 2.4 Applications and Examples -- 2.4.1 Resilience-Based Multihazard Performance Evaluation of Buildings Designed to Current Codes -- 2.4.1.1 Envelope and Roof Covering Systems -- 2.4.1.2 Seismic Fragility -- 2.4.1.3 Wind Fragility for Roof Cover Damage -- 2.4.1.4 Seismic Probability of Failure -- 2.4.1.5 Wind Probability of Failure -- 2.4.2 Joint Probability of Wind and Flood Hazards for Boston -- 2.4.2.1 Empirical and Fitted Distributions of Wind and Flood Hazard Intensity Measures -- 2.4.2.2 Copula -- 2.4.2.3 Joint Hazard Curves and Envelopes -- 2.4.3 Nonstationary Coastal Wind and Flood Hazard Analyses for Boston and Miami -- 2.4.3.1 Comparison between Stationary and Nonstationary Probability Distributions -- 2.4.3.2 Coastal Wind and Flood Hazard Curves -- 2.4.4 Building Life Span Flood Damage Evaluation for Boston and Miami -- 2.4.5 Future Building Energy Simulations for San Francisco, ; Boston, and Miami -- 2.4.6 Effect of Envelope Window-to-Wall Ratio on Measured Energy Consumption -- 2.4.7 Optimal Building Designs and Implications for Building Codes -- 2.4.7.1 3D Moment Frame Structure -- 2.4.7.2 3D Moment Frame Structure with Structural Walls -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 : A Sequential Decision Framework to Support Tradespace Exploration of Multihazard Resilient and Sustainable Designs -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Methodology -- 3.2.1 Design as a Sequential Decision Process -- 3.2.2 Bounding Model -- 3.2.3 Interval Dominance -- 3.2.4 Sequencing of Multifidelity Models -- 3.3 Detailed Methodologies -- 3.3.1 Multiobjective Design Optimization of Structural Frame Systems: Deterministic Decision Criteria -- 3.3.1.1 Bounding Models for the Capacity Spectrum Method -- 3.3.1.2 Interval Dominance in the Capacity Spectrum Method.; 3.3.2 Multiobjective Design Optimization of Structural-Foundation-Soil Systems: Deterministic Decision Criteria -- 3.3.2.1 Leveraging Monotonicity and Concavity to Construct Bounding Models -- 3.3.2.2 Dimensionality Reduction through Systematic Deferring of Subsets or Design Variables -- 3.3.3 Multiobjective Design Optimization of a Structural Frame System: Probabilistic Decision Criteria -- 3.3.3.1 Performance Comparison Based on the Precise Values of Decision Criteria -- 3.3.3.2 Development of Bounding Models -- 3.3.3.3 Sequential Decision Process with Probabilistic Decision Criteria -- 3.3.3.4 Illustrative Example -- 3.3.4 Integration of Environmental Impacts and Seismic Damage -- 3.3.4.1 Integrating the Seismic Hazard and Environmental Performance Assessment of Building Designs -- 3.3.4.2 Illustrative Example -- 3.3.5 Optimal Sequencing of Multifidelity Model Evaluation of Design Space -- 3.3.5.1 Problem Formulation as a Finite Markov Decision Process -- 3.3.5.2 Solving the Design Sequential Decision Process by Reinforcement Learning -- 3.4 Applications -- 3.4.1 Multiobjective Design Optimization of Structural Frame Systems: Deterministic Decision Criteria -- 3.4.1.1 Problem Statement: Design Objectives, Variables, and Constraints -- 3.4.1.2 Description of Model, Analysis Method, and Multifidelity Parameters -- 3.4.1.3 Results -- 3.4.2 Multiobjective Design Optimization of Structural-Foundation-Soil Systems: Deterministic Decision Criteria -- 3.4.2.1 Problem Statement: Design Objectives, Variables, and Constraints -- 3.4.2.2 Description of Model, Analysis Method, and Multifidelity Parameters -- 3.4.2.3 Results -- 3.4.3 Multiobjective Design Optimization of a Structural Frame System: Probabilistic Decision Criteria -- 3.4.3.1 Problem Statement: Design Objectives, Variables, and Constraints.; 3.4.3.2 Overview of the Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Framework -- 3.4.3.3 Convergence of Monte Carlo Simulation -- 3.4.3.4 Results -- 3.4.4 Optimal Sequencing of Multifidelity Model Evaluation of Design Space -- 3.4.4.1 Problem Statement: Design Objectives, Variables, and Constraints -- 3.4.4.2 Results -- 3.4.4.3 Comparison with the Optimal Sequence in the Sequential Decision Process Methodology -- 3.5 Project Conclusions and Findings -- References -- Chapter 4 : A Reliability-Based Decision Support System for Resilient and Sustainable Early Design -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Methodology -- 4.2.1 Prerequisite: Problem Definition -- 4.2.2 Framework Objectives and Value -- 4.2.3 Framework Overview -- 4.3 Description of Modules and Developed Tools -- 4.3.1 Decision Framing with SIMPLE-Design -- 4.3.2 Open Performance Data Inventories -- 4.3.2.1 INventory of Seismic Structural Evaluation, Performance Functions, and Taxonomies -- 4.3.2.2 Multihazard Vulnerability Database -- 4.3.2.3 Archetype ; Soil, Foundation, Lateral-Resisting Structural, and Envelope Systems -- 4.3.2.4 Environmental Impact Data -- 4.3.3 Soil, Foundation, Lateral-Resisting Structural, and Envelope System Generator Module -- 4.3.4 Module 2: Probabilistic Life-Cycle Performance Assessment -- 4.3.4.1 Performance-Based Early Design -- 4.3.4.2 Available Routes for Performance-Based Early Design -- 4.3.5 Module 3: Preference-Based Multiobjective Ranking and Optimization -- 4.4 Illustrative Example -- 4.4.1 Building and Site -- 4.4.2 Decision-Makers, Framing, and Metrics -- 4.4.3 Application of the M1 Module to Generate Soil, Foundation, Lateral-Resisting Structural, and Envelope Systems -- 4.4.3.1 Definition of Initial Design Space.; 4.4.3.2 Preliminary Ranking and Selection of Feasible Soil, Foundation, Lateral-Resisting Structural, and Envelope Configurations.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book provides a high-level overview of the methods and outcomes of four major projects funded by the National Science Foundation that focuses on different aspects of resilient and sustainable buildings (RSB), ranging from a single building to a full community.