[1] This paper examines levee-protected floodplains and economic aspects of adaptation to increasing long-term flood risk due to urbanization and climate change. The lower American River floodplain in the Sacramento, California, metropolitan area is used as an illustration to explore the course of optimal floodplain protection decisions over long periods. A dynamic programming model is develope...

negotiating is the process of communicating back and forth for the purpose of reaching a joint agreement about differing needs or ideas. for successful negotiations, both parties should come to the negotiating table with having done some serious thinking about the barriers to and complexities of cross- cultural communications. there are four phases in negotiations: relationship building, inform...

Tradition is part of people's lives, because various activities are carried out according to traditions that have been passed from generation generation. Likewise with the Dumia um Banua tradition which an ancestral cultural heritage has important role in lives Laikit Village. This study aims describe process, as well educational norms and values contained Village, Dimembe District, North Minah...

Using a function algebra characterization of exponential time due to Monien 5], in the style of Bellantoni-Cook 2], we characterize exponential time functions of linear growth via a safe course-of-values recursion scheme.

This article is a critical review of some of the methods that have been used for the sampling, analysis, and monitoring of vapor-phase toluene diisocyanate (TDI). Only some of the methods that have received relatively widespread application have been addressed in this article. This review includes a "tutorial style" discussion of basic definitions and basic principles and procedures of quality ...

This essay examines the ways in which pre-modern Muslim jurists adapted their legal methods to accommodate complexity of act listening music. I classify those from least most inclusive underlying notions moral value. study shows that models on opposite ends spectrum function similar ways. Whether, as Ibn Ḥazm’s work, scope norms is confined immediate textual meaning, or, Taymiyya’s thought, for...

Urbanization is the process in which green space (fields, trees, wetlands, etc.) is converted into black space (concrete and asphalt). Urbanization occurs because people move from rural areas to urban areas. This usually occurs when a country is still developing. Slums and its consequences of overcrowding lack of sanitation, global warming, air pollution, water pollution and loss of forest cove...