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Free Podcast Video: Where to track down free podcast video for your iPod / PC

Video podcast (sometimes shortened to vidcast or vodcast) is a term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content via RSS feed. The term is an evolution specialized for video, coming from the generally audio-based podcast and referring to the distribution of video where the RSS feed is used as a non-linear TV channel to which consumers can subscribe using a PC, TV, set- top box, media center or mobile multimedia device.

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Tracking down and downloading free podcast video has been a bit confusing and difficult for video podcasts enthusiasts. With months of searching almost all available contents on most websites that offer free podcast video, I've uncovered a gem of video podcasts for you to enjoy whenever possible. Free podcast video can be found at site such as:

Domain of the infinite creates movies and films that are original and you can also follow up with the creation of new movies. You can download finished videos and new films and get weekly updates on the production process. By subscribing to the weekly Domain of the Infinite Video podcast, you can download finished video chapters and production to your hard drive through iTunes or onto your MP3 player. The videos are compatible with QuickTime.

MeFeedia has a collection of independent video makers and podcasters in its directory who has their own websites and blogs but yet are hard to find. It's a one stop place for hard to find free podcast video. It requires an easy signup and you are ready to enjoy free podcast and videos at absolutely no cost. Vloggers can join mefeedia free; subscribers to their feed will be notified when a new video is posted and you can add a videoblog or podcast feed. MeFeedia doesn't host videos or podcasts, they just help you find the ones you like since they're an independent company.

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The Yahoo podcasts directory makes it easy to subscribe to new podcasts, including free podcast video. Yahoo makes it easy to search for specific keywords related to your video podcast topic and once you find it, click on the video podcasts' related link to visit the website or you can subscribe to it at theYahoo Podcast home page.

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Vodstock has a vast collection of video podcasts that are updated regularly. Vodstock makes it easy to search for shows by entering specific keywords into a search box located at the top of its webpage and shows are categorized into animation, arts etc. right through to travel. To the right of the webpage are top-rated video podcasts, most popular video podcasts and recently added video podcasts.

This is a Videoblog Directory (VlogDir) that allows users to submit their vlog and registered members are notified by email instantly and Google is notified as well. Also, vlogdir has been the first Google search result for 'vlog directory', a common query for people looking for vlogs. You can also subscribe to videoblogs to start watching and download great video shows.

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Podcasting news offers shows submitted by podcasters. There, you'll find shows and meet users at their discussion forum's board. Shows are divided into catogories, including Top 25 Rated shows.

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Ex-Staten Island Zoo Director Joins Victory State Bank As Business-Development VP

Victory State Bank Introduces ‘Scantastic’ Remote Check-Deposit Service
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June 16, 2010

John Caltabiano will work to increase the influence of the only commercial bank headquartered on Staten Island.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — John Caltabiano, a Staten Island businessman and avid community volunteer, recently joined Victory State Bank as vice president of business development.

In his new role at the only commercial bank headquartered on Staten Island, Caltabiano will work to enhance Victory State’s community impact by continuing his role as a highly valued participant in local affairs and social-services organizations.

“John is a well-established member of the Staten Island community and is well-known to the professionals and business owners on the Island,” said Ralph M. Branca, president and CEO of Victory State Bank. “John brings a unique perspective to our bank, having worked in both the public and not-for-profit arenas. John is a welcome addition to our staff and he will be a valuable asset in our business-development strategy.”

Caltabiano’s long and distinguished career includes a wealth of experience, combining property operations, financial management, sales and marketing, strategic planning and risk management in both the hospitality and commercial real-estate industries.

“It is great being back in the private sector again, working for a wonderful organization such as Victory State Bank,” said Caltabiano, who in February concluded a seven-year stint as executive director of the Staten Island Zoo. “In a very short time, everyone here has made me feel right at home. I hope to bring an added dimension to the bank with the skills and experience I have developed over the past 30 odd years.”

Caltabiano had served earlier in the decade as hotel-division vice president for The Nicotra Group LLP, assisting in the development and management of the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel and Conference Center in Bloomfield. In 1990, he and his wife, Patti, founded Calco Management Group LLC, Annadale, a marketing consulting firm, which continues to run under their direction.

“John has a talent for building and retaining business relationships,” said Joseph J. LiBassi, chairman of Victory State Bank. “This has been demonstrated by his history of accomplishments in the Staten Island business and nonprofit community.”

Caltabiano is president-elect of the South Shore Rotary Club; a past-president and board member of Rainbow’s Hope; an Executive Board member of the Staten Island Council, Boy Scouts of America, and a former director of the Miss Staten Island Scholarship Pageant.

He and his wife, Patti, reside in Annadale.

About Victory State Bank:

VSB Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSBN) is the one-bank holding company for Victory State Bank. Victory State Bank is a Staten Island-based commercial bank, which commenced operations on Nov. 17, 1997. The bank’s initial capitalization of $7 million was primarily raised within the community of Staten Island, N.Y. The Bancorp’s total equity has increased to $25.1 million, primarily through the retention of earnings. Victory State Bank operates five full-service locations on Staten Island: The main office in the community of Great Kills, and branches in the communities of West Brighton, St. George, Dongan Hills and Rosebank. For additional information, Victory State Bank may be reached at 718-979-1100 or visited online at http://victorystatebank.com/default.htm.

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A workshop on heritage, religion and difference in Berlin

18 February, 2018

Several members of the Religious Matters project participated in the workshop ‘Heritage, Religion, Authenticity and Difference’, which took place on November 29, 2017, at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. Organized by Duane Jethro, Abdoulaye Sounaye and Birgit Meyer, the event was a collaboration between the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) at Humboldt University, the ZMO and Utrecht University.

The workshop took as its starting point recent controversies concerning the intersection of religion, heritage and authenticity, such as contestation over the face veil in France, debates about Judeo-Christian heritage in the Netherlands and the controversy around the intention to place a cross on the Humboldt Forum museum, which is now under construction in Berlin. As the organizers put it: ‘Across Europe, religion and the secular are thrown into relief when heritage is used as a language for framing seemingly incontestable authentic national cultures and values to among other things shore up against real or perceived social change.’ The organizers pointed to the need for a critical reflection about not only the relationship between religion, heritage and authenticity, but also ‘the management and mediation of forms of difference’. In what ways, they asked, is religious difference construed, either implicitly or explicitly, in these emergent debates about religion and heritage?

The workshop consisted of four panels, each focusing on specific dimensions of the intersection between religion and heritage (see the full program here). The first panel, with presentations by Annegret Roelcke (FU/ZMO), Pooyan Tamimi Arab (Utrecht) and Christine Gerbich (CARMAH), looked at contested debates about the delineation of Islamic heritage, with a special focus on museum practices, in Turkey, Germany and the Netherlands. In the second panel, Duane Jethro (CARMAH, paper co-authored by Regina Sarreiter) and I discussed the reframing of Christianity as cultural heritage, and the debates that these efforts at heritagization elicit, with reference to converted churches in the Netherlands (my paper) and the envisioned cross on the Humboldt Forum in Berlin (Jethro).
Focusing on the relation between heritage and race, Markus Balkenhol (Meertens) and Grit Köppen (Bayreuth) looked at the use of images in postcolonial critiques of the Dutch colonial past and the British Victorian era. In the final panel, Marian Burchardt (Leipzig) and Irene Stengs and Ernst van den Hemel (Meertens) discussed the ways in which the construction of religious heritage involves assemblages (as Burchardt phrased it) involving numerous actors, discourses as well as social, cultural, political and legal dimensions. In the case of Stengs and Van den Hemel, it also specifically involved the multimedia event ‘The Passion’, a popular annual televised show broadcasted in the Netherlands that, they argued, entailed a particular ‘pre-enactment’ of emotion. Burchardt described religious heritage as a new social form in which religion matters in society, particularly under conditions of both unchurching and increased religious diversity.

The workshop ended with responses from Sharon Macdonald (CARMAH) and Birgit Meyer (Utrecht), who both focused on the intersections between religion and heritage. Macdonald asked to what extent talk about heritage operates as a kind of religious discourse and suggested that both heritage and religion offer an atmosphere that is set apart from the everyday as well as from commerce. At the same time, paradoxically, if conflicts arise these are often between the protagonists of heritage and religious groups. Macdonald further suggested that a fruitful avenue of further analysis could be to examine to what extent heritage and religion are characterized by different object ontologies.

Birgit Meyer concluded that the workshop has shown that heritage and religious studies need each other, as religion and heritage refer to processes that are often entwined. Examples include the reframing of religion as heritage (as in debates about abandoned church buildings or the cross on the Humboldt Forum), heritage as quasi-religion (in formations of a ‘secular sacred’) and situations in which religion and heritage become entangled to an extent that makes it hard to separate them from one another (as in ‘The Passion’). Meyer ended with a plea to squarely situate these phenomena in contemporary contexts of diversity, where modes and moods of belonging strongly affect people’s engagement with heritage and religion.
Taken together, the workshop showed the urgency of studying religion and heritage in relation to one another in today’s diversifying and (partly) unchurching societies. How new forms, subjects and modalities of difference are construed in this context is a pertinent question that deserves full attention in our current research agendas.

See also this short summary of the workshop on the website of the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage.


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Category Archives: Young Adult

Book Review: Without Notice by G G Collins

New Review of YA novel “Without Notice”

“G.G. Collins grabbed that young voice and ran with it for an impressive, winning read, perfect for any age!”

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Review by Dianne of Tome Tender.

***** At thirteen, Courtney has faced the death of her mother, moving across the country with her father and sisters and now a true reality kick in the heart, her father has a girlfriend, who may be more than just a friend. Out of sorts, out of her element and wanting to be able to talk to her mother, she is caught up in a tsunami of guilt, fear, insecurity and betrayal. How could her father find someone to replace her mother so soon, if ever? Determined NOT to like Silky, Courtney will discover that when she needs a mother figure the most, an unlikely ally comes to her rescue like a mama bear protecting her cubs.

WITHOUT NOTICE by G.G. Collins was a most fabulous surprise! She takes us into the heart and mind of a teen in pain and clearly not equipped to deal with everything life has been throwing at her. The emotional maturity of a young teen is so fragile, caught between being declared an adult and not quite allowed to be a child, and G.G. Collins grabbed that young voice and ran with it for an impressive, winning read, perfect for any age!

Highly recommended for teens, who will understand and adults who forget what it was like to be so young and vulnerable!

Publisher: Chamisa Canyon Publishing (April 15, 2018)
Publication Date: April 15, 2018
Genre: YA Fiction | Coming of Age
Print Length: 87 pages
Available from: Amazon
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My thanks to Dianne for her review.

Teen & YA New Book “Without Notice”

New Teen Book “Without Notice” by G G Collins

From the author of “Flying Change,” an equestrian novel for teens and up.

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Courtney’s life turned upside down when her mother was killed by a drunk driver. Now, they are moving from Minneapolis to her father’s hometown in New Mexico, where he will run an art gallery. Older sister Francine is heartbroken because she has to leave her boyfriend behind. Younger sister Toby just misses Mom.

One thing is particularly disturbing: her dad’s friend Silky. He says they know one another through the gallery, but is that really all? It seems she is always interjecting herself into their lives. Courtney, who is a good cook, took over cooking meals for the family, but lately Silky’s even intruding there. Silky is a terrible cook, but her father eats everything she prepares and compliments it. Being a teen is hard enough, but she doesn’t want a blended family. Courtney’s conflicted emotions cause her to say hurtful things to Silky, and then regret them. She tries to cope with feelings of loss and the need to move on.

Courtney and Francine hatch a plan to sabotage Silky; but soon Francine has found a new boyfriend leaving Courtney alone in the effort. All the while, Silky is trying to make friends with the family. She invites Courtney to tweak her cooking skills with the promise of teaching her how to make pottery. Drawn to Silky’s tales of Native American artists and their search for the best clay, Courtney grudgingly listens even as her interest grows. Silky’s stories are full of intrigue and clandestine journeys to collect clay under cover of darkness. During one of her pottery lessons, Silky shares a painful story with Courtney. Loss does not play favorites.

She meets Audrey, the girl next door, and immediately strikes up a friendship. Audrey is an outspoken know-it-all with a sense of adventure that is infectious. She takes Courtney on new experiences including the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. She and Audrey attend a mass launch which is unlike anything she has ever seen. Courtney is spellbound watching the hot air balloons. Unfortunately, Audrey has a dark side. She makes a mistake that challenges their newfound friendship and threatens Courtney’s delicate relationship with Silky.

Despite her resentment about moving, thirteen-year-old Courtney discovers this strange new city with its brown houses, Pueblo architecture and ancient stories to be as mysterious as it is beautiful. Even as she resists, Santa Fe casts its spell.

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How Renting A Tree Works

Each year, you rent a tree, or trees on an annual (Jan – Dec) basis.  The current price to rent a tree for the year is £50.

We have run out of trees to rent for 2021 so please add your name and contact email address to our waiting list at the bottom of this page to enable you to rent a tree for 2022.  Once you have added your details we will email you in late September 2021, once we have tree availability again, to enable you to rent a tree then, ready for the 2022 harvest.

We take every measure possible to ensure that your tree produces its optimum yield each year because if you’re happy with the end results you’ll be happy to continue the relationship which we will build. We look after the health and well being of your tree and grow the cherries in a responsible and professional manner as befits our 23 years growing experience.

Throughout the year you will receive, via email or post, 6 newsletters updating you on what we’re doing in the orchard and how this year’s cherry crop is looking. These updates will be most frequent from April to July to keep you fully informed as to how the crop is developing once the flowering period is over. This will also ensure that you’re aware of which week in July your cherries will be ripe and ready to be picked. You will have a period of between 7-10 days in which you will be able to come and pick your cherries.

During flowering in late April we will also invite you to come and enjoy a blossom walk on the relevant weekend so that you can walk the orchard, enjoy the blossom, see the bees at work, have a picnic, and really feel a part of owning a small part of our beautiful countryside and seeing nature at work. We also have a selection of some of the best local producers selling their produce in our farmers market section and have a hog roast and licenced bar for you to enjoy.

You will also be able to email me at any time about a particular point of interest to yourself, how the crop is looking or any other relevant issue. We really would like this experience to be personal and enjoyable, and one that you really benefit from and feel fully encompassed within.

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Simple and easy Tips To Follow Concerning Body Care

Skin care can be a delicate subject that a lot of persons have feelings about. Understanding how to properly care for your skin is some sort of harsh task to manage at times. What anyone need to perform can be educate yourself the virtually all you possibly can to learn exactly how to properly care for your own skin. You can begin here in this informative article.

Strain marks are a annoyance that a lot of people package with. Shea butter possesses shown the exceptional ability to decrease the rankings of stretch marks and even in some cases, completely removes them from vision. Cocoa butter accomplishes the exact same task. Using these goods along with increased sun subjection can greatly aid just about any stretch mark troubles.

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Make positive your skin remains moist in all occasions. When your skin starts to normally dry out, use some lotion or ointment to support bring it back for you to life. Dry up skin can be damaging and may abandon your skin looking scarred. Drinking plenty of waters can also help you keep skin moist and even wholesome.

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If you are prone to very dried up or flaky skin, look at purchasing and using a good humidifier in your bed room, home or office. This is an especially good idea while in the cool, dry winter months. A new humidifier makes a more skin-friendly environment by presenting the surroundings using much-needed moisture, which usually is after that absorbed by simply thirsty skin area.

Use a good mist moisturizer instead of liquid to humidify skin. Water will evaporate and this causes your skin to come to be dry. A mist lotion stay put your skin plus reaches it has the deepest levels. You can also get lotion that contains vitamin supplements if you wish in order to spend less time on your own grooming.

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Steps to Consider While Buying Motorized Bicycle Parts

Are you eliminate through the ever swelling crowd of the general public transports? Do you want a non-public means of shipping but are not able to find the money for a 4 wheeler? If sure, then perhaps it’s time to do not forget having a motorized bicycle to kind out those worries beli sparepart motor.
Motorized Bicycle – Think Before You Make Your Choice
Do you very own a bicycle which you abandoned lengthy in the past as it actually does not meet the site visitors woes? Well the time has come to get a better study your bicycle due to the fact it is able to clear up a number of your worries successfully without a great deal problem. Conversion of your vintage bicycle into a brand new and progressed motorized bicycle is not a lot of a problem furnished you preserve a few matters in mind. All you need are motorized bicycle components and a bike motor package and you are prepared to head.
You can without problems employ your vintage bicycle to be the proud owner of a motorized one by means of simply including on the specified motorized bicycle components to it. However, it’s miles important to head for the right kind of engine and bike motor kit so that you face minimal quantity of trouble. You want to understand your need and opt for the motorized elements and kit as a consequence. Now, you do not need to spend your money on availing a component that you do not really want. Do you? For example, in case you are tight on price range and want transport for masking quick distances, then the ” stroke engine package” might be ideal for you. However, in case you need a motorized bicycle to cover comparatively long distances, then the “4 stroke engine kit” surely comes across as being the extra suitable alternative.
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Performance Implications of Market-Based Assets and Innovation Success

S. Kajalo, A. Rajala, M. Tuominen

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionScientificpeer-review

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAnnual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Beijing, China, 9-11 July, 2010
PublisherChina WaterPower Press
ISBN (Print)7508475899
Publication statusPublished - 2010
MoE publication typeA4 Article in a conference publication

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A systematic review of methods, study quality, and results of economic evaluation for childhood and adolescent obesity intervention

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Colleges, School and Institutes

Many suggested policy interventions for childhood and adolescent obesity have costs and effects that fall outside the health care sector. These cross-sectorial costs and consequences have implications for how economic evaluation is applied and although previous systematic reviews have provided a summary of cost-effectiveness, very few have conducted a review of methods applied. We undertook this comprehensive review of economic evaluations, appraising the methods used, assessing the quality of the economic evaluations, and summarising cost-effectiveness. Nine electronic databases were searched for full-economic evaluation studies published between January 2001 and April 2017 with no language or country restrictions. 39 economic evaluation studies were reviewed and quality assessed. Almost all the studies were from Western countries and methods were found to vary by country, setting and type of intervention. The majority, particularly “behavioural and policy” preventive interventions, were cost-effective, even cost-saving. Only four interventions were not cost effective. This systematic review suggests that economic evaluation of obesity interventions is an expanding area of research. However, methodological heterogeneity makes evidence synthesis challenging. Whilst upstream interventions show promise, an expanded and consistent approach to evaluate cost-effectiveness is needed to capture health and non-health costs and consequences.

Original languageEnglish
Article number485
JournalInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 8 Feb 2019

  • cost effectiveness, methods, children, adolescents, obesity, prevention, treatment


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Analysis on spatial-temporal features of taxis' emissions from big data informed travel patterns: a case of Shanghai, China

Xiao Luo, Liang Dong, Yi Dou, Ning Zhang, Jingzheng Ren, Ye Li, Lu Sun, Shengyong Yao

Research output: Journal article publicationJournal articleAcademic researchpeer-review

72 Citations (Scopus)

Cleaner technologies advancement and optimal regulation on the transporting behaviors and related design in infrastructures is critical to address above issue. To understand the spatial and temporal emissions pattern within transportation lays the foundation for design on better infrastructures and guidance on low-carbon transportation behaviors. The feasibility of Global Positioning System (GPS) and emerging big data analysis technique enable the in-depth analysis on this topic, while to date, applications had been rather few. With this circumstance, this paper analyzed the taxi's energy consumption and emissions and their spatial-temporal distribution in Shanghai, one of the most famous mega cities in China, applying big data analysis on GPS data of taxies. Spatial and temporal features of energy consumptions and pollutants emissions were further mapped with geographical information system (GIS). Results highlighted that, spatially, the energy consumption and emission presented a distribution of dual-core cyclic structure, in which, two hubs were identified. One was the city center, the other was Hongqiao transport hub, the activities and emission was more concentrated in the west par of Huangpu River. Temporally, the highest activity and emission moment was 9–10AM, the second peak occurred in 7–8PM, which were both the traffic rush period. The lowest activity/emission moment was 3–4AM. Causal mechanism for such distribution was further investigated, so as to improve the driving behaviors. Through the exploration of spatial and temporal emissions distribution of taxis via big dada technique, this paper provided enlightening insights to policy makers for better understanding on the travel patterns and related environmental implications in Shanghai metropolis, so as to support better planning on infrastructures system, demand side management and the promotion on low-carbon life styles.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)926-935
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Cleaner Production
Publication statusPublished - 20 Jan 2017
Externally publishedYes

  • Big data mining
  • GPS
  • Shanghai
  • Spatial-temporal emissions distribution
  • Taxi travel pattern

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Environmental Science(all)
  • Strategy and Management
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Region of interest based image coding and progressive transmission

Li Zhuo, Lan Sun Shen, Kin Man Lam

Research output: Journal article publicationJournal articleAcademic researchpeer-review

2 Citations (Scopus)

Combined with highly efficient SPIHT algorithm, an arbitrary shape integer or non-integer wavelet transform is employed to implement the lossless compression of region of interest (ROI) with arbitrary shape and lossy compression of non-ROI. Further, two strategies of ROI coding with priority are proposed to guarantee that the reconstructed image of ROI can achieve more better visual quality that non-ROI even at very low bit rate, which will satisfy the quick and individual browse requirement of users. The compressed bitstreams are all embedded and suitable for progressive transform.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)411-415
Number of pages5
JournalTien Tzu Hsueh Pao/Acta Electronica Sinica
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2004

  • Adaptive shape discrete wavelet transform
  • Lifting scheme
  • Progressive transmission
  • Region of interest
  • SPIHT algorithm

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Stochastic nonlinear complementarity problem and applications to traffic equilibrium under uncertainty

C. Zhang, Xiaojun Chen

Research output: Journal article publicationJournal articleAcademic researchpeer-review

44 Citations (Scopus)

The expected residual minimization (ERM) formulation for the stochastic nonlinear complementarity problem (SNCP) is studied in this paper. We show that the involved function is a stochastic R0function if and only if the objective function in the ERM formulation is coercive under a mild assumption. Moreover, we model the traffic equilibrium problem (TEP) under uncertainty as SNCP and show that the objective function in the ERM formulation is a stochastic R0function. Numerical experiments show that the ERM-SNCP model for TEP under uncertainty has various desirable properties.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)277-295
Number of pages19
JournalJournal of Optimization Theory and Applications
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2008

  • Expected residual minimization
  • Stochastic nonlinear complementarity problem
  • Stochastic R function 0
  • Traffic equilibrium problem under uncertainty

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Optimization
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Applied Mathematics

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Suburban Ark [Eng. versie]

D. Doepel (Editor), T. Matton (Editor), W. Timmermans (Editor)

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This publication deals with a number of topical issues brought together on a installation called the Suburban Ark. The theme of this installation was The Flood, which was also the theme of the 2nd International Architecture Biennial in Rotterdam. In a series of lectures, excursions, and workshops taking place during the Biennial, innovative possibilities were developed for the supply of energy and water. The Suburban Ark functioned as a floating lab with test rigs for wind energy, freshwater-saltwater energy, and energy from digestion. The Suburban Ark opposes the fact that house building on water is subject to the comfort-focused facilities of house building on land, and investigates new parcelization typologies for water dwellings. The Suburban Ark objects to the relentless consequences of parcelization brought about by the installation of the infrastructure. To the point out the direction in which to look for solutions, a number of items of furniture have been developed that are self-contained and capable of operating without the use of existing energy sources, pipes and cables.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationRotterdam
Number of pages80
ISBN (Print)9789059730380
Publication statusPublished - 2006

  • housing
  • boats
  • floods
  • innovations
  • workshops
  • dwellings
  • water potential

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