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This course provides an introduction to rock mechanics principles including the mechanics of rock materials, rock joints and rock masses, rock mechanics characterisation and rock mass classifications. The course is prepared for students studying civil and mining engineering, and other science and engineering disciplines concerning rocks.
The course is an on-line course, with approximately 30 hours of lectures. It covers 5 parts: (a) origin of rocks and rock masses, (b) properties and mechanics of rock materials, (c) properties and mechanics of rock joints, (d) rock mass classifications and properties, and a supplement part (e) rock mechanics testing and analysis.
The lectures are given by Professor Jian Zhao, who has been teaching rock mechanics and rock engineering since 1990, first at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, then at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne of Switzerland, and currently at Monash University in Melbourne of Australia. He is a Fellow of the International Society for Rock Mechanics since 2015.
Rock Engineering, a sequential on-line course to Rock Mechanics Principles given by the same lecturer will be made available in near future.
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- Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
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- Rock mechanics Engineering geology
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The Rock Engineering Practice course was recorded by Professor Zhao Jian, an ISRM fellow, of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and contains 21 lectures divided in three parts.
Part 1. Site Investigation and Testing
Part 2. Rock Slope Engineering
Part 3. Rock Foundation Engineering
Part 4. Underground Rock Excavations
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- Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
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- Rock mechanics Engineering geology
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The world of design is extensive. Learn the most important terms that you need to navigate your design career. This article touches on misused terms and explains some important typesetting terminology.
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- Typography and Design Elements
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- Type type-founding Printing Graphic design (Typography)
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Display fonts are essential if you're looking to create a certain atmosphere and feeling in your design. In this article, get familiar with the history of display fonts and how they came to be so popular.
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- Typography and Design Elements
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- Type type-founding History Graphic design (Typography)
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There’s no shortage of fonts these days. There are so many options for every single project. Building a font collection is a smart way to organize all your favorite fonts. Check out this article to learn more about classifications and find some great inspiration.
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- Typography and Design Elements
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- Type type-founding Web sites -- Design Graphic design (Typography)
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Typography is an essential part of graphic design. When I was a beginner designer, I had trouble understanding and combining fonts for a project. In this article, you'll learn how to use this important tool with simple tips and tricks.
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- Typography and Design Elements
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- Web typography Type type-founding Graphic design (Typography)
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Do you want to learn a bit more about the history of sans serifs? The last few years have brought a lot of changes in branding. Many companies were shifting from serif fonts to sans serifs. Check out this article to learn more about the reasons behind it.
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- Typography and Design Elements
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- Type type-founding History
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Choosing color combinations for logos is an important job as color can affect emotions and behaviors. We’ve all felt uncertain at times when designing a brand and not being able to decide what to choose. This article helps you understand how to effectively use color for a logo.
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- Interactive and Digital Media and Design Elements
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- Color in design Signs symbols -- Design Icons (Computer graphics) Logos (Symbols) -- Design
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- Others
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Have you ever wondered what makes metaphors, similes, and analogies different? Or do you want to know what the three types of irony in literature are? If you're analyzing prose, poetry, nonfiction, or any other piece of text, you'll need to know the literary devices highlighted in this video. I'll show you the definitions of each device and concrete examples drawn from some of my favorite books, poems, movies, and TV shows. These devices will definitely help if you are annotating text or taking the AP Lit and AP Lang exams. Stay tuned for part 2!
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- ELC2011 Advanced English Reading and Writing Skills
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- English Language
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- English language -- Discourse analysis Figures of speech Metaphor
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This video is actually a link for learning Japanese language and the video belongs to the edX course organizer, Waseda University
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- CBS1C16 Understanding Japan: A Journey into Japanese Culture and Society
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- Japanese Language
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- Japanese language -- Study teaching
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SimsUshare CTC™ is versatile training simulation software: a virtual incident command simulator, fire simulator, HazMat simulator, safety simulator, command training center, all rolled into one! Easily and rapidly create all-hazards training simulations using your own photos. Add realistic smoke, fire, and other effects to create an unlimited number of incidents. Connect your crews to run sims anywhere!
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- IC2180 Structural Engineering and Fire Safety
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- Building Services Engineering
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- Fires -- Computer programs Flame Smoke
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"forall x: Calgary is a full-featured textbook on formal logic. It covers key notions of logic such as consequence and validity of arguments, the syntax of truth-functional propositional logic TFL and truth-table semantics, the syntax of first-order (predicate) logic FOL with identity (first-order interpretations), translating (formalizing) English in TFL and FOL, and Fitch-style natural deduction proof systems for both TFL and FOL. It also deals with some advanced topics such as modal logic, soundness, and functional completeness. Exercises with solutions are available. It is provided in PDF (for screen reading, printing, and a special version for dyslexics) and in LaTeX source code. A proof editor/checker for the proof system used is available at proofs.openlogicproject.org."--BCcampus website.
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- Philosophy
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- Textbooks Logic
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"The phrase "Internet of Things" (IoT) alludes to the billions of physical devices connected to the Internet in order to exchange raw data and analyze the information. This book introduces the IoT use cases and technologies. It uses practical examples to demonstrate the effect of IoT and its potential to change our world, and it discusses the existing wired and wireless communication technologies that have enabled IoT. The book also includes multiple choice and review questions to support student learning and reflection."--BCcampus website.
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- Computing
- Keywords:
- Internet of things
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"This book is based on the idea that there is a particular framework used by economists to interpret observed reality. This framework has been called the economic way of thinking, the economic approach, and the method of economics. This book is different from the many other books that attempt to teach microeconomics in three ways: It explicitly applies the recipe of the economic approach in every example
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- Economics
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- Microeconomics Microsoft Excel (Computer file)
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"If you are looking for a quick study guide in Computer Studies, this book is an excellent resource. Skip the lengthy and distracting books and instead use this book to guide your studies, review your knowledge, or help with tutoring. This book quickly gets to the heart of each particular topic, helping students with a quick review before doing homework or preparing for a test."--BCcampus website.
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- Computing
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- Microcomputers Operating systems (Computers) Business -- Computer programs
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"This book is the result of a co-design project in a class in the Masters of Education program at the University of Calgary. The course, and the resulting book, focus primarily on the safe and ethical use of technology in digital learning environments. The course was organized according to four topics based on Farrow's (2016) Framework for the Ethics of Open Education and discusses Artificial Intelligence (AI) , social networking services (SNS), 3D printing, resource sharing, adaptive learning systems, STEM, assistive technologies, admissions, and communications. In each of the nine chapters, the authors discuss the connection to the value of technology in education, and practical possibilities of learning technologies for inclusive, participatory, democratic, and pluralistic educational paradigms."--BCcampus website.
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- Educational technology Education -- Philosophy
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- e-book
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"Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion introduces some of the major traditional arguments for and against the existence of God, as well as some less well-known, but thought-provoking arguments for the existence of God, and one of the most important new challenges to religious belief from the Cognitive Science of Religion. An introductory chapter traces the connection between philosophy and religion throughout Western history, and a final chapter addresses the place of non-Western and non-monotheistic religions within contemporary philosophy of religion."--BCcampus website.
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- Religious Studies
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- Philosophy Religion Textbooks
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- e-book
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"Introduction to Philosophy: Logic provides students with the concepts and skills necessary to identify and evaluate arguments effectively. The chapters, all written by experts in the field, provide an overview of what arguments are, the different types of arguments one can expect to encounter in both philosophy and everyday life, and how to recognise common argumentative mistakes."--BCcampus website.
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- Philosophy
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- Philosophy Textbooks Logic
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"This eBook contains self-paced learning modules that were written as a tool to guide and teach students to master Inventor. No two students learn at the same pace, therefore, the modules were written as competency-based bite-size pieces to allow students to work at their own pace. This book can be used in correspondence courses, online courses, instructor-lead classes, or by individuals teaching themselves to use Inventor in their own home or office. An editable, Pressbooks version of this resource is under development."--BCcampus website.
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"Since the 18th century, the historical study of "Indians," "Natives," and "Aboriginals" in universities and colleges was contextualized within the story of colonization and growing European influence. Whatever justification might be mustered for that practice, it had real and dire effects: Canadians -- including many Indigenous people -- came to understand Indigenous histories as tangential, small, unimportant, and even a blind alley. This kind of thinking enabled Canadian authorities and citizens to regard Indigenous communities as being "without history," as in, outside of history, which we can agree in modern times is simply untrue, as this book strives to show. The preface introduces you to some of the practices and challenges of Indigenous history, focusing on the nature and quality of sources, innovative historical methodologies, and the leading historiographical trends (that is, what historians are thinking very broadly and what they have studied in the last decade or four). It turns, then, to histories of Indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere before ca. 1500. The twelve chapters that follow are arranged under three headings: Commerce and Allies, Engaging Colonialism, and Culture Crisis Change Challenge. And there is a thirteenth chapter that brings us deep enough into the twenty-first century to allow a visit with two of the most important recent developments in Canadian civic life: Idle No More and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Both of these processes arose from the failures of colonialism and the resilience of Indigenous communities. They reveal, therefore, as much about the history of Canada as they do of the historical experiences of Indigenous peoples"--BCcampus website.
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- Area Studies
- Keywords:
- Canada Indigenous peoples History
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- e-book