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Drinking Seawater: of storms and survival

Drinking Seawater: of storms and survival

Walt F. J. Goodridge; Riza Oledan-Ramos

Riza Ramos Company
2016
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On the night of Sunday, August 2, 2015, Typhoon Soudelor made landfall on the island of Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). Though officially recorded as a "Category 5-equivalent super typhoon," speculation continues that Soudelor's winds far exceeded this category. Cars and even trucks were overturned, and it was later discovered that the wind speed recording equipment was destroyed during the storm; the highest speed recorded before the failure was 180 miles per hour. At the time, it was the most powerful storm to make landfall....ever...anywhere that year. The eye of a storm is a roughly circular region of mostly calm weather, typically 30-65 km (20-40 miles) in diameter, located at the center of strong tropical cyclones. It is surrounded by the eyewall, a ring of towering thunderstorms where the most severe weather occurs. Soudelor's core-the eye and eyewall-was smaller than the island. That's why the devastation on Saipan was so intense, and why the neighboring island of Tinian, only two miles away, was virtually untouched by the storm. Riza Ramos, her husband Ferdinand, and two children survived the devastation of that typhoon, during which-at one point-they were actually outside and unsheltered. Drinking Seawater is that story. However there is more. A metaphor and more Along with about half the population of 48,000 on Saipan, Riza Ramos is an OFW (Overseas Filipino Worker). What is it like to live and work over a thousand miles from home, family and loved ones? What is it like to provide for a family of four on a contract worker's income? What is it like to experience the storms and challenges of such a life choice? The answer to those questions is: seawater. , br> According to the rules of survival at sea, if you ever find yourself adrift in the ocean, the last thing you should ever do is drink seawater. It dehydrates the body and brings on death more surely than anything else. However, according to the rules of survival in life, as Riza and her family discovered, sometimes drinking seawater can be the only way to save your life. "Drinking seawater" is a metaphor for survival. Sometimes, survival requires that you courageously drink seawater as you cross oceans in pursuit of your dreams. Sometimes, you drink the seawater of your own tears of despair far away from your family and homeland. Sometimes you drink seawater when you swallow your pride for the sake of your family. Sometimes, you might have to drink seawater-literally-when disaster strikes. Drinking seawater-the metaphor-encompasses the courage, sacrifice, patience, perseverance, resiliency and compassion often required to survive life's storms be they figurative or literal. Drinking Seawater-the book-from heart-breaking pain to heart-stopping terror and back again, peppered with flashbacks of how it all came to be, is a peak into one woman's and one family's survival through life and storms of all kinds. I hope her adventure touches you.--Walt F.J. Goodridge, editor and author of several books on Saipan, including Chicken Feathers & Garlic Skin: Diary of a Chinese Garment Factory Girl on Saipan)
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Spoken Dialogue Technology

Spoken Dialogue Technology

Michael F. McTear; T.V. Raman

Springer London Ltd
2004
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Spoken Dialogue Technology provides extensive coverage of spoken dialogue systems, ranging from the theoretical underpinnings of the study of dialogue through to a detailed look at a number of well-established methods and tools for developing spoken dialogue systems. The book enables students and practitioners to design and test dialogue systems using several available development environments and languages, including the CSLU toolkit, VoiceXML, SALT, and XHTML+ voice. This practical orientation is usually available otherwise only in reference manuals supplied with software development kits. The latest research in spoken dialogue systems is presented along with extensive coverage of the most relevant theoretical issues and a critical evaluation of current research prototypes. A dedicated web site containing supplementary materials, code, links to resources will enable readers to develop and test their own systems (). Previously such materials have been difficult to track down, available only on a range of disparate web sites and this web site provides a unique and useful reference source which will prove invaluable.
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Intelligent Residential Buildings and the Behaviour of the Occupants

Intelligent Residential Buildings and the Behaviour of the Occupants

Pedro F. Pereira; Nuno M. M. Ramos; Joao M. P. Q. Delgado

Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2018
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This book presents the state of the art of two areas: intelligent residential buildings and the behaviour of their occupants. These areas need to be treated together in order to develop new concepts for buildings, which are more efficient, more comfortable and more healthy. The concept of intelligent building is associated with the creation of a management system that takes into account the requirements of the occupants in terms of thermal comfort and their daily activities, maintaining good indoor air quality and minimizing energy consumption. In commercial or office buildings, these systems are already at an intermediate stage of implementation. However, in the residential sector they have yet to be significantly implemented. In mild climates, where the interactions of the occupants with the building mechanisms are the primary way to ensure adequate comfort and ventilation, the importance of occupant behaviour studies and their incorporation in the algorithmsof the intelligent buildings becomes even more crucial. This book offers new concepts on how to bring these aspects together.
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Impacts of the Fleet Response Plan on Surface Combatant Maintenance

Impacts of the Fleet Response Plan on Surface Combatant Maintenance

Roland J Yardley; Raj Raman; Jessie Riposo; James Chiesa; John F Schank

RAND
2006
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To achieve a more responsive and more readily deployable fleet of surface combatants, the Navy adopted the Fleet Response Plan (FRP) in 2003 to replace its traditional two-year ship maintenance cycle. The authors of this report look at the effects the FRP has had thus far and determine whether maintenance resources are meeting maintenance demands and whether related industry resources have been coordinated effectively.
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A Methodology for Estimating the Effect of Aircraft Carrier Operational Cycles on the Maintenance Industrial Base

A Methodology for Estimating the Effect of Aircraft Carrier Operational Cycles on the Maintenance Industrial Base

Roland J Yardley; John F Schank; James G Kallimani; Raj Raman; Clifford A Grammich

RAND
2007
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The Fleet Response Plan is a U.S. Navy program to enhance the operational availability of the aircraft carrier fleet. This report describes program modeling that varies the time between depot availabilities and the size of the depot work packages, to estimate its effect on the maintenance industrial base and the operational availability of the aircraft carrier fleet.
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Application of Data Mining Techniques in the Analysis of Indoor Hygrothermal Conditions

Application of Data Mining Techniques in the Analysis of Indoor Hygrothermal Conditions

Nuno M.M. Ramos; João M.P.Q. Delgado; Ricardo M.S.F. Almeida; Maria L. Simões; Sofia Manuel

Springer International Publishing AG
2015
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The main benefit of the book is that it explores available methodologies for both conducting in-situ measurements and adequately exploring the results, based on a case study that illustrates the benefits and difficulties of concurrent methodologies.The case study corresponds to a set of 25 social housing dwellings where an extensive in situ measurement campaign was conducted. The dwellings are located in the same quarter of a city. Measurements included indoor temperature and relative humidity, with continuous log in different rooms of each dwelling, blower-door tests and complete outdoor conditions provided by a nearby weather station.The book includes a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines, such as building physics, probability and statistics and civil engineering. It presents a synthesis of the current state of knowledge for benefit of professional engineers and scientists.
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