1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996199237403316

Autore

Vitruvius Pollio

Titolo

On Architecture . Volume II / / Vitruvius Pollio ; Frank Stephen Granger (translator)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , 1934

ISBN

0-674-99309-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (430 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Loeb classical library ; ; 280

Disciplina

720

Soggetti

Architecture

Architecture - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial artillery or military engines, and was architect of at least one unit of buildings for Augustus in the reconstruction of Rome. Late in life and in ill health he completed, sometime before 27 BCE, De Architectura which, after its rediscovery in the fifteenth century, was influential enough to be studied by architects from the early Renaissance to recent times. In On Architecture Vitruvius adds to the tradition of Greek theory and practice the results of his own experience. The contents of this treatise in ten books are as follows. Book 1: Requirements for an architect; town planning; design, cities, aspects; temples. 2: Materials and their treatment. Greek systems. 3: Styles. Forms of Greek temples. Ionic. 4: Styles. Corinthian, Ionic, Doric; Tuscan; altars. 5: Other public buildings (fora, basilicae, theatres, colonnades, baths, harbours). 6: Sites and planning, especially of houses. 7: Construction of pavements, roads, mosaic floors, vaults. Decoration (stucco, wall painting, colours). 8: Hydraulic engineering; water supply; aqueducts. 9: Astronomy. Greek and Roman discoveries; signs of the zodiac, planets, moon phases, constellations, astrology, gnomon, sundials. 10: Machines for war and other purposes.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809545303321

Autore

CHEN JIQUAN

Titolo

Biophysical Models and Applications in Ecosystem Analysis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[S.l.] : , : MICHIGAN STATE UNIV PRESS, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

1-60917-667-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Collana

Ecosystem Science&Applications

Disciplina

577.01/13

Soggetti

Biotic communities - Research - Methodology

Biotic communities - Simulation methods

Ecology - Simulation methods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"The past five decades have witnessed a rapid growth of computer models for simulating ecosystem functions and dynamics. This has been fueled by the availability of remote sensing data, computation capability, and cross-disciplinary sciences. These models contain many sub-modules for simulating different processes and forcing mechanisms, albeit it has become challenging to truly understand the details due to their complexity. Most ecosystem models, fortunately, are rooted in a few core biophysical foundations, such as widely recognized Farquhar's model, Ball-Berry-Leuning-Medlyn family models, Penman-Monteith model, Priestley-Taylor Model, Machaelis-Menten kinetics, and others. After an introduction of biophysical essentials, four chapters present the core algorithms and their behaviors in modeling ecosystem production, respiration, evapotranspiration, and global warming potentials"--