could help lower the growth in flood losses that is currently projected to accompany expanding populations. Such regulations imposed on future development will need to be accompanied by investments in both relocation and retrofits for existing construction in areas where flood risk is high and/or gro...
5. A return level is the level the water is expected to reach on average only once in a return period, and it is an often used statistic, for example, when planning construction in coastal areas. The return levels are interesting for such purposes because they suggest how likely it is ...
Bid Ask Spread is the average daily high-low spread estimated during the 90-day period prior to the conference call. s Restructuring is an indicator variable that takes the value of one for non-zero restructuring costs as reported on a pre-tax basis (RCP) in fiscal year t, and zero othe...
How does this impact construction costs? If we make the mistake of comparing the pipe material costs of a length of RCP with the pipe material costs of the equivalent length of a flexible pipe (HDPE, PP, PVC, or CMP), then it appears that the RCP is more expensive. However, if we ...
94 A projection based on RCP4.5 predicted that, by the end of the 21st century, the minimum WBGT would rise in every region of Japan, and there would be no days during the hottest month of August with WBGT below 21 °C in western Tokyo. The WBGT of 21 °C is stipulated as a the...
Second, the incremental heat effect in urban areas (see39 and references therein), i.e., the urban heat island effect, and its potential large effects on, for example, construction workers, should be explored with the WBGT or alternative heat stress indicators including a human heat balance ...
The latest development of this technology was the construction of the overburden conveyor bridge type “F60”. In 1989, 300 Mt lignite were produced in Eastern Germany (in both mining districts of Lusatia and Central Germany) and Lusatia was the clearly dominating mining district of the GDR [15...
Therefore, quality HPC material is always required for wind turbines for its good workability during grouting, its beneficial mechanical properties during construction, and its long-term durability. Thus, the parameters of an HPC sample (i.e., the experimental values from individual tests for all ...
In particular, conflicts due to dam construction have aggravated. As shown in Figure 1b, China has now completed and is operating six dams along the upstream of the Mekong River as of 2013. Consequently, water shortages have occurred downstream of the Mekong River, while the sudden discharge ...
She got to see many states as a child as her father worked construction on dams. After World War II, her family settled in The Dalles in June 1953. She was a 1965 graduate of The Dalles High School. During school she was a part of the girls Booster Club, and an avid horse woman,...