An experimental study of the atmospheric boundary layer modified by a change in surface roughness and surface temperature

Turbulent flow, resembling an on-shore flow from the ocean crossing the beach at an oblique angle, is investigated. Measurements of this flow have been taken at high sample rates and include measurements at various heights, high enough to describe the portion of the mean wind and temperature profiles and fluxes that are of interest for the solution of practical engineering problems. These problems could include air pollution (fumigation and plume trapping), operation of low flying aircraft, crop-spraying and crop-dusting operations

Property and Thomas Piketty: Casting the Lens of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-first Century on Inequality in the Urban Built Environment

Currently, there exists a disturbing urban problem exemplified by the excessive luxury apartments and glamorous office towers being built in cities around the world in the face of the increasing unaffordability of housing and low-cost work, trade or craft space. Seeking to address this complex problem, this paper proposes a theoretical framework that uniquely addresses both the capitalist economic structure that drives the development process and the Marxist-based urban theory by which the socio-economic outcomes are currently evaluated. This framework takes as its meta-theory, the approach of Thomas Piketty in his recent treatise, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” since he deftly employs the Marxist dialectic of labor/capital while investigating the persistent inequality in the history of capitalism by interrogating that system itself. This bifurcated framework of economic analysis affords a new format for examining real estate returns, how they are represented in the market place, who benefits from them, and how resultant inequalities might be avoided in urban development

Thomas Bernhard, la répétition impertinente ou le refus de reformulation : l'exemple du récit autobiographique 'La cave'

Cette étude questionne l'envers de la reformulation : la répétition à l'identique. Car si la reformulation, c'est deux mots pour une chose, comment voir une nomination plurielle là où il n'y a qu'un mot, répété, certes, mais le même. La répétition est à la reformulation ce que l'écriture blanche était à Barthes : son impossible "degré zéro". L'auteur autrichien Thomas Bernhard use et abuse de la répétition, de manière obsessionnelle, dans tous ses écrits. Chez lui, la répétition est un procédé subversif, qui équivaut à un choix de non-reformulation. Alors que la reformulation ne questionne jamais le dit sans donner une réponse (contenue dans l'écart entre le dit et le re-dit), la répétition, elle, questionne, mais ne répond pas. L'analyse du texte autobiographique 'La cave' met à jour l'ambivalence fondamentale de la répétition chez Bernhard : en même temps qu'elle menace la cohésion du texte, c'est elle qui construit l'architecture de sa cohérence

Sprachmagie und Sprachgrenzen. Zu Wort-und Satzwiederholungen in Herta Müllers Atemschaukel

Herta Müllers Sprache ist unverwechselbar, was gewöhnlich auf ihr Zwischen-zwei-Sprachen-Sein und ihre Metaphorik zurückgeführt wird. Hier geht es aber um ein anderes Hauptmerkmal ihrer Prosa, das meistens nicht erwähnt, oder aber als negativ bewertet wird: Es geht um ihre vielen sprachlichen Wiederholungen. Wortwiederholungen (am Beispiel der rhetorischen Anapher) sowie die neunmalige Wiederkehr des Satzes "Ich weiß Du kommst wieder" in Atemschaukel, werden linguistisch unter die Lupe genommen. Gezeigt wird, wie bei Herta Müller das Mehrmals-gleich-Sagen paradoxerweise als eine Technik der Ersparung gedeutet werden kann. Das Mehrmals-gleich-Sagen als ein Mehr-Sagen-Wollen und Nicht-Sagen-Können. Die Wiederholung erlaubt es dann, um das Unsagbare zu kreisen

Property and Thomas Piketty: Casting the Lens of Thomas Piketty\u27s Capital in the Twenty-first Century on Inequality in the Urban Built Environment

Currently, there exists a disturbing urban problem exemplified by the excessive luxury apartments and glamorous office towers being built in cities around the world in the face of the increasing unaffordability of housing and low-cost work, trade or craft space. Seeking to address this complex problem, this paper proposes a theoretical framework that uniquely addresses both the capitalist economic structure that drives the development process and the Marxist-based urban theory by which the socio-economic outcomes are currently evaluated. This framework takes as its meta-theory, the approach of Thomas Piketty in his recent treatise, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, since he deftly employs the Marxist dialectic of labor/capital while investigating the persistent inequality in the history of capitalism by interrogating that system itself. This bifurcated framework of economic analysis affords a new format for examining real estate returns, how they are represented in the market place, who benefits from them, and how resultant inequalities might be avoided in urban development

Drinking Water in the United States: Are We Planning For a Sustainable Future?

Maintaining drinking water quality and quantity is a resource management challenge worldwide. In the United States, there are federal, state and local laws to further drinking water quality protection, but few regulations that address water quantity. The first part of this article summarizes existing water protection laws, especially the division of water quality protection and local land use regulation between federal and state government. The second part assesses current water quality and quantity trends. The third part concludes the article with a discussion of drinking water case studies in the United States, to give a snapshot of current use and protection trends, highlighting planning tools, best management practices and intervention solutions. Given the current status of water protection laws and policies in the U.S., this discussion of best management practices is targeted towards municipalities, with the aim of linking it to sustainable development policies