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How to Estimate Building Losses and Construction Costs

The new and completely up-dated Fourth Edition of the guide used by thousands of adjusters, claim managers and contractors now enables you to prepare building damage estimates--or evaluate those prepared by others--with even greater ...

Building Construction in Mughal India

The Evidence from Painting

Despite the fame of the Taj Mahal and the Red Fort of Delhi, little is known of the Mughal building techniques and building industry that produced them. This book draws on contemporary Mughal and western sources, particularly a wealth of visual material afforded by Mughal and non-Mughal paintings, to reconstruct the factors influencing building; the role, identity, and training of the people involved; the materials, tools, and techniques used; and related questions of specialization, social status, literacy, and family links.

This book draws on contemporary Mughal and western sources, particularly a wealth of visual material afforded by Mughal and non-Mughal paintings, to reconstruct the factors influencing building; the role, identity, and training of the ...

The Lighthouse Stevensons

A romantic historical story full of adventure and invention, The Lighthouse Stevensons is a unique account of how a single family virtually defined the Scottish coast by designing and building lighthouses in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For centuries the seas around Scotland were notorious for shipwrecks. Mariners' only aids were skill, luck, and a single coal-fire light on the east coast, which was usually extinguished by rain. In 1786 the Northern Lighthouse Trust was established, with Robert Stevenson appointed as chief engineer a few years later--the beginning of a partnership spanning almost two centuries and four generations of the same family, which became known as the "Lighthouse Stevensons." The Stevensons fought foul weather, jagged coastlines, and certain opposition to build these lighthouses in some of the most remote and inhospitable locations on the Scottish coast and reefs. They not only designed the lighthouses towers to resist the gales of the North Sea but supervised the actual construction under often desperate conditions and perfected a design of precisely chiseled interlocking granite blocks that would withstand the enormous waves that batter these stone pillars. The same Stevensons also developed the lamps and lenses of the lights themselves, which "sent a gleam across the wave" and saved the lives of thousands of sailors whose ships would otherwise have foundered on the headlands and hidden reefs of Scotland.

In this engrossing book, Bella Bathhurst reveals that the Stevensons not only supervised the construction of the lighthouses under often desperate conditions but also perfected a design of precisely chiseled interlocking granite blocks that ...

Cold War

Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989

In the early 1950s, the historian Professor William Hoskins, in his pioneering work The making of the English landscape, lamented what he saw as the devastation of the countryside by scientists, the military and politicians. He saw his world as dominated by "the obscene shape of the atom-bomber, laying a trail like a filty slug upon Constable's and Gainsborough's sky. England of the Nissen hut, the "pre-fab", and the electric fence, of the high barbed wire around some unmentionable devilment". A generation later, this book reveals what lay behind the fence and how the sites are now, in dereliction, a new aspect of the complex landscape history of Britain.

A generation later, this book reveals what lay behind the fence and how the sites are now, in dereliction, a new aspect of the complex landscape history of Britain.

Building Problem Solvers

After working through Building Problem Solvers, readers should have a deep understanding of pattern directed inference systems, constraint languages, and truth maintenance systems.

After working through Building Problem Solvers, readers should have a deep understanding of pattern directed inference systems, constraint languages, and truth maintenance systems.

Building Stata

The Design and Construction of Frank O. Gehry's Stata Center at MIT

The evolution of a Frank Gehry building, from planning and design and architect-client interaction to construction; with color illustrations throughout.

Frank Gehry's design integrates flexible and interconnected workspaces and incorporates a series of steps from public to private space, with places for social and intellectual interaction on lower levels giving way to space for study and ...

Building Digital Experience Platforms

A Guide to Developing Next-Generation Enterprise Applications

Use digital experience platforms (DXP) to improve your development productivity and release timelines. Leverage the pre-integrated feature sets of DXPs in your organization's digital transformation journey to quickly develop a personalized, secure, and robust enterprise platform. In this book the authors examine various features of DXPs and provide rich insights into building each layer in a digital platform. Proven best practices are presented with examples for designing and building layers. A special focus is provided on security and quality attributes needed for business-critical enterprise applications. The authors cover modern and emerging digital trends such as Blockchain, IoT, containers, chatbots, artificial intelligence, and more. The book is divided into five parts related to requirements/design, development, security, infrastructure, and case study. The authors employ proven real-world methods, best practices, and security and integration techniques derived from their rich experience. An elaborate digital transformation case study for a banking application is included. What You'll Learn Develop a digital experience platform from end to endUnderstand best practices and proven methods for designing overall architecture, user interface and integration components, security, and infrastructureStudy real-world cases, including an elaborate digital transformation building an enterprise platform for a banking applicationKnow the open source tools and technology frameworks that can be used to build DXPs Who This Book Is For Web developers, full stack developers, digital enthusiasts, digital project managers, and architects

Improved user satisfaction: The banking XP should improve the usability thereby improving the overall user experience. • Faster time to market: The banking XP should provide optimized processes and reusable technical building blocks ...

Multidisciplinary Perspectives Towards Building a Digitally Competent Society

The world is undergoing a transformation as technology enters every ecosystem. Subsequently, there is a need to develop higher-order digital skills to ensure one's employability as professionals need to build digital competencies to remain competitive in the current work environment. Additionally, businesses must also continue to update their digital practices in order to remain relevant. Multidisciplinary Perspectives Towards Building a Digitally Competent Society explores multidisciplinary perspectives towards building a more digitally competent society, considers new business models and the need for organizations and individuals to develop the right mindset to embrace digitalization, and discusses how social capital can become a key driver in crafting a whole new digitally competent social fabric. Covering topics such as technological transformation, social media, and corporate social responsibility, this reference work is ideal for corporate practitioners, business owners, policymakers, scholars, researchers, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Innovations in digital banking service brand equity and millennial consumerism . In Digital transformation and innovative services for ... Health System Competency for Maternal Health Services in Balasore District and Jaleswar Block ...

Ripple and Stablecoins: Building Banks of Tomorrow

Use Cases on International Remittance, Capital, and Money Markets, based on Swaps, Micropayments, Trade Finance, Islamic Finance, and Stablecoins

Step-by-step guide to learn Ripple and explore $155 trillion+ market on international remittance DESCRIPTION The book is written for all IT professionals. It starts with the loopholes existing in the banking as well as payment industry, especially in the international remittance space, that have led to the invention of Bitcoin, a Blockchain product, followed by Ethereum, and finally Ripple. The book focuses on Ripple’s architecture and the different open source and enterprise products offered by Ripple, which have been widely adopted by the global payment industry today. For developers, there are adequate examples covering Ripple’s development APIs with different features such as instant payment, partial payment, escrow, checks, and micropayment. In later chapters, the book reviews different use cases on money market, e-auction, trade finance, swaps, etc., which will help you greatly to use Ripple and create new business models for international trading. In last few chapters, the book focuses on some of the leading Stablecoins such as JPM Coin, Libra, and Tether that are threatening to disrupt the finance industry. Use cases on tokenization and Stablecoins are discussed, especially in Islamic banking, which is an area less travelled by industry leaders. Finally, the book elaborates how Ripple has invaded the global market and lists the major players in this space so far. KEY FEATURES ● Know the inefficiencies of banks in international remittance and how Ripple can help ● Learn Ripple’s architecture and its product offerings such as xCurrent, xRapid, and xVia ● Acquire development skills on Ripple’s XRP ledger ● Understand and apply all the features of XRP ledger, such as direct and partial payments, escrows, checks, micropayments, and fees ● Learn to integrate XRP ledger with your traditional and Blockchain-based solution in trade finance, e-auction, money market, swaps, and more ● Learn operation of Stablecoins and how to implement them in Islamic banking ● Know the wide spectrum of acceptance of Ripple across the globe WHAT WILL YOU LEARN By the end of the book, readers will have enough information on the right usage of Ripple to create value for their business models by eliminating age-old, lengthy, expensive payment channels with frictionless commerce for smoother execution of business processes. Business scenarios and solutions are provided, along with flowcharts, diagrams, and sample codes, that stakeholders can refer to and further enhance, as per their respective business need, and deploy them in live projects. The best and unique part of the book is that all the examples are written in Java, which most readers understand. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR Influencers, customers, decision makers, or developers — this book would be very useful for any reader who is eager to learn the industry’s vision on Ripple, or the use cases that can benefit from Ripple and crypto adoption, or wish to develop applications connected to the rippled server for upgrading their payment mechanism. Table of Contents 1 – INTRODUCTION 2 – RIPPLE ARCHITECTURE 3 – DEVELOPMENT WITH RIPPLENET AND XRP 4 - USE CASE: MICROPAYMENTS 5 - USE CASE: INSTANT SECURITY SETTLEMENT IN STOCK MARKET 6 – USE CASE: SETTLEMENT FOR INTRADAY TRADING IN MONEY MARKET 7 - USE CASE: DERIVATIVES AND SWAPS 8 – TRADE FINANCE 9 - STABLECOINS 10 - USE CASE: ISLAMIC BANKING 11 – BANKS OF TOMORROW

Following are some of the advantages that our thousand-year-old banking system never offered. ... Ripple eliminates the need for nostro and vostro accounts, which block a fortune to minimize the risk related to the delay in liquidity ...

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering

ICCCBE 2020

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information technology in civil and building engineering, presented at the 18th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), São Paulo, Brazil, August 18-20, 2020. It covers highly diverse topics such as BIM, construction information modeling, knowledge management, GIS, GPS, laser scanning, sensors, monitoring, VR/AR, computer-aided construction, product and process modeling, big data and IoT, cooperative design, mobile computing, simulation, structural health monitoring, computer-aided structural control and analysis, ICT in geotechnical engineering, computational mechanics, asset management, maintenance, urban planning, facility management, and smart cities. Written by leading researchers and engineers, and selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, the contributions highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaborations.

A public ledger, also known as the non-permissioned ledger, permits a node to create and authenticate blocks as well as ... Privacy Description Scalability Suitability Public It is based on a public DL Block size limit Banking sector.