the historic environment is an irreplaceable asset representing the investment of centuries of skills and resources. it gives places a unique competitive advantage. most of it is in daily use; it is capable of an economic future. the opportunities for regenerating historic environment require both conservation and development motivators to keep a unique sense of the historic environment whilst ...

Meso-mechanical analysis of deformation characteristics for dynamically triggered slip in a granular medium M. Griffa a , B. Ferdowsi a , E.G. Daub b c , R.A. Guyer b d , P.A. Johnson b , C. Marone e f & J. Carmeliet a g a Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), ETH Domain – Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Zürich, Switzerland b Solid Earth Geophysics Gro...

In this paper, factors affecting the development and effectiveness of ICT in Iran’s educational system, based on survey results from a group of computer engineering colleagues are discussed. Participants in the study were 22 students studying in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, selected through a voluntary basis from a pool of students who had taken at least one web-based class at the university...

This chapter describes the importance of evaluator education and some different ways in which evaluators can learn about field.It discusses a historic perspective on alongside its recent developments, areas where further discussion is needed, including critical adult education, universal design for learning, explicitly linking with contemporary anticipated future needs. It concludes by asking “...

This article aims at analyzing the historic development of infrastructure asset management (IAM) resulting from increase challenges over time. Furthermore, it suggesting corresponding requirements for enrichment educational programs to provide decision makers tomorrow with right competences. The evolution IAM is here described as characterized by three periods introducing an increased complexit...

This study presents a quantitative approach to exploring the spatio-functional characteristics of historic Chinese towns (HCTs) from heritage tourism perspective. In recent years, HCTs have evolved being resident-oriented more tourist-oriented, in part due their significance for attracting tourists. Spatio-functional qualities town are essential elements town’s urban morphology and great concer...

More than a quarter of human populations now suffer from hypertension paralleling the marked increase in the dietary intake of salt during the recent several decades. Despite overwhelming experimental and epidemiological evidence, some still debate the relation between salt and hypertension. Pointing to some conflicting data in a few flawed studies, they argue that policy interventions to reduc...

A promising, but also controversial approach to ecological restoration is trophic rewilding, i.e., species introductions to restore top-down trophic interactions and associated trophic cascades to promote selfregulating biodiverse ecosystems. To provide historically-informed base-lines for trophic rewilding in the Neotropics, we aggregate data on late-Quaternary (last 130,000 years) large-bodie...