MODERN GEOPHYSICAL METHODS FOR SUBSURFACE WATER EXPLORATION

Geophysics ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 633-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. Breusse
Keyword(s):  
Geophysical Methods ◽  
Subsurface Water ◽  
Water Supplies ◽  
Large Expansion ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
History Of ◽  
Electrical Soundings ◽  
Electrical Prospecting

The use of exploration geophysics in the discovery of oil is well known, but applications of these methods in exploration for subsurface water are less publicized and less well known, despite the fact that geophysics has been employed in this field for more than thirty years and has been developing continually. Consequently, this paper is oriented towards exploration geo‐geophysical methods for ground‐water supplies. After a summary of the history of the methods, the paper examines the geophysical methods employed with their respective advantages and drawbacks: electrical prospecting using “electrical soundings” and resistivity mapping, shallow refraction, spontaneous polarization, and induced polarization. The principal problems that may be resolved by geophysics are reviewed, as well as practical considerations concerning the composition of a crew, its production, and costs. Some examples of hydrology surveys are presented to illustrate different types of problems that may be encountered. In conclusion, a large expansion in geophysical exploration and particularly electrical methods is expected as the need for sub‐surface water supplies increases in various regions of the world and the existing deficient supplies become known in industrialized nations.

United and Uniting Churches

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Haire
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Ecumenical Movement ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
World Council ◽  
History Of

United and uniting churches have made a very significant contribution to the ecumenical movement. In seeking to assess that contribution, the chapter first defines what these churches are, considers the different types of union that have been created, examines the characteristics of these churches, and looks at the theological rationale for them. It goes on to trace the history of their formation from the beginning of the nineteenth century, and particularly during the years leading up to and following the Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches at New Delhi in 1961, under the influence of Lesslie Newbigin. Giving a theological assessment, it emphasizes that the existence of these churches, despite difficulties, provides places where the final unity of Christ’s one body is most clearly foreshadowed. They will always present proleptic visions of that goal.

Monasticism: A Very Short Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
History Of ◽  
Monastic Communities

Monasticism is a social and religious phenomenon that originated in antiquity, which remains relevant in the 21st century. Monasticism: A Very Short Introduction discusses the history of monasticism from the earliest evidence for it, and the different types that have developed. It considers where monasteries are located around the world, and how their settings impact the everyday life and worldview of the monks and nuns who dwell in them. Exploring how monastic communities are organized, this VSI also looks at how all aspects of life are regimented. Finally, it discusses what the stories about saints communicate about monastic identity and ethics, and considers what place there is for monasticism in the modern world.

scholarly journals The Belief Stories in the Texts of Oral History of the People in Late Adulthood Period

2021 ◽  
pp. 423-430
Author(s):  
Damian Gocół
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Late Adulthood ◽  
Divine Intervention ◽  
The People ◽  
History Texts ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Devil

In my article, I analyze selected belief stories from the oral history texts. The research material contains the three biographical accounts of the people in late adulthood (over 65). The belief stories (belief tales) are one of the genres of speech typical for the accounts rooted in a folk view of the world. The demonic characters appear in them, e. g. the devil, the striga or the południca. The belief stories contain a detailed description of the world. They have an explanatory function. They are to explain how the world works. Belief stories do not appear often in the oral history texts created by the people in late adulthood who were not related to the countryside or were related to it in a limited extent. This way of shaping the narrative may be related to changes in the rationality of the narrators. The common and the scientific view of the world intersect in their narratives. The narrators add the numerous comments to their belief stories, in which they distance themselves from the folk view of the world or try to scientifically rationalize the fantastic events. Nevertheless, the fragments in which other genres of speech are realized, especially in anecdotes, reveal a clear relationship between the narrative of oral history and the common sense and belief vision of the world. The narrators often explain their own experiences by introducing elements of belief tales into other genres. Such fragments reveal the schemes of punishment and reward, non-worldly divine intervention, anthropomorphization of inanimate objects and assigning them the rank of demonic beings. Despite the intersection of different types of rationality in the narratives, a belief-based vision of the world still plays an important role in shaping of the oral narratives about the past.

scholarly journals Functional, social and technical aspects of wooden leisure architecture of Lodz surroundings

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 057-072
Author(s):  
Wojciech Pardała
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Garden Cities ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Set Up

Paper sums up different types of wooden leisure architecture of surroundings of Lodz, pointing at the most notable, emerging at the time of modernism, „glass house” made of wood. They emerged, in the mid-30s, as a fulfillment of a few garden-cities (conceived mostly as a leisure towns). Wooden houses, built in at least three different styles (local village-like, national and modern), became part of densely set-up complexes. Leisure houses were used as intended, only for a few years, before the World War II. Their use has changed form leisure to all-year housing, lasting till now, causing many conservational, technical and social problems. Now, among the growing knowledge of their value to history of architecture and urbanism, some ideas how to renew them, appear. A few of them are proposed by the local society of Kolumna „forest-city”.

Envisioning Civilian Childhood

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-51
Author(s):  
Rebecca A. Adelman
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Period ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
History Of

“Envisioning Civilian Childhood” focuses on a collection of scandals related to the exposure of civilian children to militarized violence. These scandals are fueled by the affects of apprehension, affection, admiration, gratitude, pity, and anger, and all of them unfold in classrooms. In every case, a range of stakeholders—including parents, administrators, and journalists—rush to the defense of the children’s senses, especially their sight, to insist that they deserve a view of the world unclouded by violence. To contextualize the anxieties reflected in these scandals, the chapter begins with a brief history of the construct of ‘childhood’ in America, from the Colonial period to the present. This history demonstrates that predominant beliefs about childhood innocence are not simply natural responses to their vulnerability. Instead, these beliefs are historically variable, socially constructed, and unevenly applied to different types of children. Here, they are activated around the civilian child encountering the graphic realities of war. An analysis of the resultant scandals reveals that these affects become overwhelming when the vision of the innocent, apolitical child is threatened, insulted, or troubled.

scholarly journals Desalination: From Ancient to Present and Future

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 2222
Author(s):  
Andreas N. Angelakis ◽  
Mohammad Valipour ◽  
Kwang-Ho Choo ◽  
Abdelkader T. Ahmed ◽  
Alper Baba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Reuse ◽  
Rainwater Harvesting ◽  
Water Supplies ◽  
Available Water ◽  
Water Demands ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Rivers And Lakes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times

Water is life, and without water, there would be no civilizations and a vacant Earth. Water is considered an abundant natural resource on the earth. Water covers 3/4 of the surface. However, 97% of the available water on the earth is salty oceanic water, and only a tiny fraction (3%) is freshwater. This small portion of the available water supplies the needs of humans and animals. However, freshwater exists in underground, rivers, and lakes and is insufficient to cover all the world’s water demands. Thus, water saving, water reuse, rainwater harvesting, stormwater utilization, and desalination are critical for maintaining water supplies for the future of humanity. Desalination has a long history spanning centuries from ancient times to the present. In the last two decades, desalination has been rapidly expanding to meet water needs in stressed water regions of the world. Yet, there are still some problems with its implementation in several areas of the world. This review provides a comprehensive assessment of the history of desalination for wiser and smarter water extraction and uses to sustain and support the water needs of the earth’s inhabitants.

scholarly journals Creator and Art in Hans Christian Andersen’s Novels

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-73
Author(s):  
Andrey V. Korovin
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Spiritual Power ◽  
Poor Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Hans Christian Andersen ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Plot ◽  
The One ◽  
Alter Ego

The article deals with three novels by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, who is known worldwide as an author of fairy tales. In his novels The Improviser (1835), Only a Fiddler (1837) and Lucky Peer (1870) the main plot is built on the issue of relationships between a creator, an artist and the rest of the world. The theme of art is the one of the most important for the Romantic esthetics and Andersen discusses it in different ways in his novels. Philosopher S. Kierkegaard criticized Andersen’s conception of how a talent interacts with the reality as naive and fictive, but Andersen gives different visions of the artist’s way in these texts. The first novel is the history of an Italian boy who has an outstanding talent of improvisation. He receives assistance from people and eventually becomes a real artist in Romantic sense of the word. The hero of the second novel Christian is partly alter ego of the author, a boy from a poor family who tries to realize his musical talent but has not enough spiritual power to overcome all troubles in his life. He cannot find himself as an artist and dies. The title of the last novel is relevant to its subject — it is a story about the rise of а talented singer and his death on the top of fame. These three heroes are different types of interaction between a creator and reality in its romantic interpretation.

scholarly journals Nikolai Gogol's text in the works of Vladimir Nabokov: the history of foundation of the issue in criticism and literary studies

2019 ◽  
pp. 148-153
Author(s):  
Oksana S. Rudova
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Vladimir Nabokov ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The author of the article tried to trace the formation of the idea about the connection of the works of Vladimir Nabokov with Nikolai Gogol's tradition based on the material of the Russian émigréecritics’ works of and literary critics of the 20th—21st centuries. This process is considered as a progressive one, largely specified by the development of researching idea. The émigréecriticism saw the reason for the similarity these writers’ works in their similar aesthetics based on the relationship of the perception of the world and the human. In turn, literary studies of the late 20th century presented a new way of comparison, where Nabokov's prose is considered to be a complicated fiction on the whole, in which there is not only Nikolai Gogol's subtext, but also allusions to the other writers’ works, called "polygenetics". The author of the article offers a generalisation of methodological nature, indicating different types of literary links.

scholarly journals Multilingualism in opera production, reception and translation

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Mateo
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
History Of ◽  
Opera House ◽  
Opera Production ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Opera Productions

Despite the significant presence of multilingualism in both opera production and reception as well as in the context of opera translation, the coexistence of different languages in the world of opera has only sporadically received any research attention, either from musicologists or translation scholars. After a brief discussion of the problematic language issue in the history of opera, this article will examine the multilingualism which marks the genesis of opera texts and many opera productions. Next, it will present different types of multilingualism in opera pieces, with examples of each type. Finally, it will study the relationship between translation and multilingual operas from different standpoints, including a brief analysis of the plurilingual reception context often created by the various translation modalities applied to opera works. A descriptive and contextual approach will mainly be used in this study, which aims to do justice to the presence of multilingualism in the opera house, in both source and target contexts, as well as to encourage further research on this topic within Translation Studies.

scholarly journals EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION AS A GLOBAL INTEGRATION PROJECT: NOT ONLY ABOUT THE ECONOMY

2018 ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
M. D. Valovaya
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
World Community ◽  
Eurasian Economic Union ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Union ◽  
Integration Project

In the current framework of interconnectivity and interdependence national countries can't develop effectively without international cooperation. Countries establish different types of regional unions taking into account their economic, political, geopolitical or geoeconomic interests. Globalization finds its expression in the strengthening and acceleration of the processes of integration. These processes are at the center of attention in all regions of the world. Formation of economic unions is an important part of this global process, which is covering all regions of the world. The history of recent decades clearly demonstrates that at the present stage of the development of the world system, no country can alone enter the world community as an equal partner. The Eurasian economic union came into force in 2015, it has to overcome a lot of difficulties, so it is extremely important to draw the lessons from accumulated experience. The article is devoted to the problems of functioning of the Eurasian Economic Union and to the analysis of its experience. There is a need for deepening integration.

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