At Home with Density


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Hong Kong has one of the lowest crime rates in the world and is one of the most prosperous societies , but much of the population lives in low quality, high-density housing. Through qualitative interviews with long-term residents of public housing, this book explores residents' experience of high-density space. It traces the development of Hong Kong housing forms and analyses how people's expectations of domestic space have been affected by social mobility and shifting cultural values of space, lifestyle, and design. The accompanying award-winning documentary film, A Thousand Pieces of Gold, will enable readers to experience these spaces and listen to revealing interviews with the tenants.




Density is Home


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Conté: Aires Mateus : Housing for the Elderly, Alcácer do Sal ; Alberola, Díaz-Mauriño, Martorell : Vara de Rey, Madrid ; Arch. Workshop : Klarheit, Tokyo ; B612: Dolez, Brussels ; Batlle i Roig : Vilamarina Housing and Shopping Centre, Viladecans ; BIG : 8 House, Copenhagen ; Bogdan & Van Broeck/VBM : The Maltery, Leuven ; Brendeland & Kristoffersen : Svalbard Housing, Longyearbyen ; Chiba Manabu : Stitch, Tokyo ; Colomès Nomdedeu : Student Housing, Troyes ; Diener & Diener/MCBAD/Paillard : Zac Seguin Housing, Boulogne Billancourt ; Druot, Lacaton & Vassal : Tour Bois le Pretre, Paris ; Edouard François : Coming Out, Grenoble ; EE/ECDM/MG/PG/MVRDV : Le Monolithe, Lyon ; EM2N : Rosenberg Conversion, Winterthur ; Guidotti : Rosa Housing, Monte Carasso ; Hamonic + Masson : Docks Dombasles, Le Havre ; Jordi Garcés : Non-Conventional Housing, Barcelona ; Kempe Thill : Atriumtower Hiphouse, Zwolle ; Kempe Thill : Urban Renewal Europarei, Uithoorn ; Lion, Lapierre, Gap, Berim : Square des Sports, Gonesse ; Marlies Rohmer : Neighbourhood Factory, Amsterdam ; MGM : Monte Hacho Housing, Ceuta ; Moriko Kira : IJburg Block 65b, Amsterdam ; Moussafir/Katz/Tachon : Emile Chaîne Area Regeneration, Paris ; Nicolas Michelin : Grand Large-Neptune, Dunkirk ; Pampols : 19 Youth Housing, Lleida ; Rueda Pizarro : 64 social Housing Units, Madrid ; S333 : Arch Street, London ; S333: Block 3, Tarling East, London ; Serrat, Egea, García : Can Travi Elderly Housing, Barcelona ; TOA : Housing, Sports Hall and Community Gardens, Paris ; VA Studio : MD housing, Vila Nova de Gaia ; Victor López Cotelo : Caramoniña Housing, Santiago de Compostela ; Wiel Arets : 4 Towers Osdorp, Amsterdam ; X-TU : Duploye Housing, Paris ; ZigZag : Vivazz, Mieres.




Practical Density Measurement and Hydrometry


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The introduction of the ISO 9000 quality standard resulted in renewed interest and pressure on industry to strengthen their quality and metrology standards. To meet this renewed interest Practical Density Measurement and Hydrometry provides invaluable, contemporary information on mass metrology. The book highlights the principles of physics involved and the technology needed to accurately measure the density of solids and liquids to high precision to meet the increasing demands on the metrology industry. Starting with national and international density standards, the book proceeds to discuss the variety of methods used to accurately measure solid and liquid density, to compare and contrast these techniques, and to thoroughly explain the thermal dilation of liquids. It also examines interferometers used in dimensional measurements of solid-based density standards, corrections applicable due to finite aperture, phase change due to reflection and ringing, and special methods for density determination. The final chapters detail specific points of relevance to density measurements and hydrometry for materials commonly used in industry. Complimented with practical guidance on applying these measurement techniques, calibration procedures, and data tables, this book is an essential reference for metrologists and a valuable introduction for graduate students.




What Floats? What Sinks?


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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! A rock sinks in the water. A hot air balloon floats in the air. Many objects float and sink. But what makes them move this way? And how do people use floating and sinking in their lives? Read this book to find out! Learn all about matter, energy, and forces in the Exploring Physical Science series—part of the Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life!




Hands-on Science and Math


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Encourage young investigators to feel, listen, smell, taste, and see their way to discovery by seamlessly infusing math and science throughout the school day As you incorporate all five senses into learning experiences, you will give little innovators the opportunity to observe and explore the world around them. The activities in Hands-On Science and Math: Fun, Fascinating Activities for Young Children will help you plan engaging science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) lessons that will excite children and foster their critical thinking. Children can experience the thrill of scientific inquiry through simple experiments: Launching Recycled Rockets Shake and Freeze: Homemade Ice Cream Look Out Volcano Erupting The Mystery of Suspensions Go, Car, Go Simple Machines and Inclined Planes Designed to work with easy-to-find materials, the Hands-On Science and Math activities are inexpensive and uncomplicated, yet they lay the groundwork for understanding more complex STEM concepts later on. Award Winner Recipient of the following awards: 2015 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award 2015 Tillywig Toy Brain Child Award 2015 Academics' Choice Smart Book Award




Complex Housing


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Complex Housing introduces an architectural type called complex housing, common to the Netherlands and found in other Northern European countries. Eight fully illustrated case studies show successful approaches to designing for density, which reflect values such as long-term planning, a right to housing, and access to light and air. The case studies demonstrate a wide range of applications including a mixture of urban and suburban sites, various numbers of dwelling units, low- to high-density approaches, different architectural styles, and organizational strategies that can be adopted in projects elsewhere. More than 350 color images.




What is Density?


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Explains what density is, using examples from a birthday party--such as a room filling with people, a floating balloon, and the bubbles in a cup of soda--to illustrate the concept.




TheDadLab


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The ultimate collection of DIY activities to do with your kids to teach STEM basics and beyond, from a wildly popular online dad. With more than 3 million fans, TheDadLab has become an online sensation, with weekly videos of fun and easy science experiments that parents can do with their kids. These simple projects use materials found around the house, making it easier than ever for busy moms and dads to not only spend more quality time with their children but also get them interested in science and technology. In this mind-blowing book, Sergei Urban takes the challenge off-screen with fifty step-by-step projects, including some that he has never shared online before. Each activity will go beyond the videos, featuring detailed explanations to simplify scientific concepts for parents and help answer the hows and whys of their curious children. Learn how to: explore new fun ways to paint; make slime with only two ingredients; defy gravity with a ping-pong ball; produce your own electricity, and more! With TheDadLab, parents everywhere will have an easy solution to the dreaded "I'm bored" complaint right at their fingertips!




Local Density Theory of Polarizability


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During the past decade the theoretical physics community has learned how to evaluate accurately polarizabilities and susceptibilities for many-electron systems such as atoms, solids, and liquids. The most accurate numerical technique employs a method often called the Time-Dependent Local Density Approximation, which is abbreviated TDLDA. The present volume is a review of recent research on the theory of po larizabilities and susceptibilities. Both authors have been doing these cal culations. However, this review surveys the entire field, summarizing the research of many contributors. The application of an external field, either ac or de, will induce a dipole moment which can be calculated and compared with experiment. For mod erately strong fields, both linear and nonlinear processes contribute to the moment. We cover topics such as polarizability, hyperpolarizability, pho toionization, phonons, and piezoelectricity. Density functional theory in the Local Density Approximation (LDA) has been shown to be a very accurate method for calculating ground state prop erties of electronic system. For static external fields, the induced moments are properties of the ground state. Then the calculation of the polarizability · is very accurate. For ac fields, the moment is not part of the ground state. However, the TDLDA methods are still very accurate.




Density Waves In Solids


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?Density Waves in Solids is written for graduate students and scientists interested in solid-state sciences. It discusses the theoretical and experimental state of affairs of two novel types of broken symmetry ground states of metals, charge, and spin density waves. These states arise as the consequence of electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions in low-dimensional metals.Some fundamental aspects of the one-dimensional electron gas, and of the materials with anisotropic properties, are discussed first. This is followed by the mean field theory of the phases transitions?discussed using second quantized formalism?together with the various experimental observations on the transition and on the ground states. Fluctuation effects and the collective excitations are reviewed next, using the Ginzburg-Landau formalism, followed by the review of the interaction of these states with the underlying lattice and with impurities. The final chapters are devoted to the response of the ground states to external perturbations.