This paper proposes a simple low cost SIR （sustainability index for roads） that can be easily implemented by any local government that has a flexible pavement road network. The SIR includes the three pillars of sust...This paper proposes a simple low cost SIR （sustainability index for roads） that can be easily implemented by any local government that has a flexible pavement road network. The SIR includes the three pillars of sustainability, economic, social and environmental. The economic pillar is development from a new perspective of pavement deterioration from the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation＇s Pavement Management System. The new perspective is easily seen when the deterioration is plotted in three dimensions. This new exponential curve provides an equation for the return on investment in a road network, in terms of a future pavement condition index versus the annual rehabilitation budget. The environmental pillar will be developed by determining which road rehabilitation treatments cause the most environmental damage and recreating the new curve with these treatments being incrementally removed. The resulting curves will provide the annual cost of minimizing environmental damage and the loss of pavement condition index for minimizing environmental damage. The social pillar is, consultation with the community on what pavement condition index they are willing to fund, that is, balancing annual cost, environmental damage and desired pavement condition. This more efficient reporting conforms with the USA Government Accounting Standards Board requirements but not necessarily with the International Financial Reporting Standards. This new SIR reduces the current financial reporting requirement for local govemments in Queensland, Australia and can greatly improve comparability of financial reporting, where local governments calibrate the pavement deterioration factors in their Pavement Management Systems and use the newly developed regional rulebase.展开更多
Fashion Film is the last communication tool in fashion market, that was born for the Web about 20 years ago, but in these last 10 years it has increased its diffusion and its expressive potentiality definitely and we ...Fashion Film is the last communication tool in fashion market, that was born for the Web about 20 years ago, but in these last 10 years it has increased its diffusion and its expressive potentiality definitely and we think that it is designed to influence the communication in other markets. Nowadays Fashion Films are reinforcing the power of fashion images, building up new brand experiences for net-consumers： they are painting new worlds for fashion brands thanks to the old cinematographic language mixed to recent Internet logics. Starting from this observation, our main question was： Can we talk about a new fashion net-aesthetics for these new fashion tales？ Using a semiotics approach, this study investigates how Fashion, Cinema and the Net come together, producing new aesthetics, with new languages and new imaginary in fashion. The result can be really visionary.展开更多
文摘This paper proposes a simple low cost SIR （sustainability index for roads） that can be easily implemented by any local government that has a flexible pavement road network. The SIR includes the three pillars of sustainability, economic, social and environmental. The economic pillar is development from a new perspective of pavement deterioration from the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation＇s Pavement Management System. The new perspective is easily seen when the deterioration is plotted in three dimensions. This new exponential curve provides an equation for the return on investment in a road network, in terms of a future pavement condition index versus the annual rehabilitation budget. The environmental pillar will be developed by determining which road rehabilitation treatments cause the most environmental damage and recreating the new curve with these treatments being incrementally removed. The resulting curves will provide the annual cost of minimizing environmental damage and the loss of pavement condition index for minimizing environmental damage. The social pillar is, consultation with the community on what pavement condition index they are willing to fund, that is, balancing annual cost, environmental damage and desired pavement condition. This more efficient reporting conforms with the USA Government Accounting Standards Board requirements but not necessarily with the International Financial Reporting Standards. This new SIR reduces the current financial reporting requirement for local govemments in Queensland, Australia and can greatly improve comparability of financial reporting, where local governments calibrate the pavement deterioration factors in their Pavement Management Systems and use the newly developed regional rulebase.
文摘Fashion Film is the last communication tool in fashion market, that was born for the Web about 20 years ago, but in these last 10 years it has increased its diffusion and its expressive potentiality definitely and we think that it is designed to influence the communication in other markets. Nowadays Fashion Films are reinforcing the power of fashion images, building up new brand experiences for net-consumers： they are painting new worlds for fashion brands thanks to the old cinematographic language mixed to recent Internet logics. Starting from this observation, our main question was： Can we talk about a new fashion net-aesthetics for these new fashion tales？ Using a semiotics approach, this study investigates how Fashion, Cinema and the Net come together, producing new aesthetics, with new languages and new imaginary in fashion. The result can be really visionary.
