On Water & Works -- Risk Communication

Essential Works on Technical Communication

INTRODUCTION When I began the task of developing a bibliography of “essential works on technical communication” for this special issue of Technical communication, I soon realized that no list of works or definition of essential could adequately represent the wide range of activities of those in technical communication. I concluded that what is essential could only be defined by practitioners, e...

How Digital Communication Works

Supplementary section for Understanding Networked Applications: A First Course, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999. Copyright notice: Permission is granted to copy and distribute this material for educational purposes only, provided that this copyright notice remains attached. The underlying technology for transporting a bit stream on a communication link is digital communication. In networked computing, th...

Water Works in India

Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies strapped to their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug. On good days, they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker rumbles across the rutted dirt path that passes for a road in Kesum Purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of New Delhi. On bad days, when ther...

Measuring Market Liquidity Risk - Which Model Works

Syntactic Properties of Language of Scientific Communication in Persian Scientific Works

Purpose: The language of science is one of the social types of Persian language, which is used by the educated classes in scientific works and contexts. The purpose of this research is to present an overall picture of the syntactic properties of the Persian scientific language. The types of sentences, types of tenses, verb tenses, and syntactic constructions have been identified in the scientif...