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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Lisbon"”.
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Conflict and convergence : a proposition in Lisbon
The built environment's neutrality as response to diversity has proven inadequate and at times catastrophic. In a world of increasingly permeable borders it is no longer possible to design for a nostalgic image of a homogenous mode of living. Globalization has created cities of the uprooted and the …
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Modeling preferences for innovative modes and services : a case study in Lisbon
… ride, and congestion pricing) in the context of Lisbon, Portugal using stated preferences (SP) techniques. The survey design is challenging from several aspects. First of all, the large number of existing and innovative modes poses a challenge for the SP design. To simplify choice experiment, …
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A study of the design and construction of buildings in the Pombaline quarter of Lisbon
In the year 1755, the lower part of the city of Lisbon was hit by a severe earthquake. Immediately following the earthquake a complex reconstruction process began, which introduced new urban, architectural and constructional concepts. This resulted in the creation of new innovative rentable …
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The evolution of the lower Missouri River: Stratigraphy, geomorphology, and habitat dynamics at Lisbon Bottom
<p>"A study of Lisbon Bottom, a confined meander bend of the Missouri River near Glasgow in central Missouri, as well as an overview of the Missouri River between Kansas City and St. Louis concludes that (1) with three minor exceptions, the southern limit of Pleistocene glaciation coincides very …
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A study of illegal housing of Lisbon built in 1974 to 1984 : from description to computation
… built by homeowners in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon between 1974 and 1984 is presented. This description is based on a parametric set grammar that attempts to formulate both topological and geometric aspects of the house. Therefore, the grammar is made of shapes, symbols, and their relations …
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Collective Labour Rights As An Element Of The Substantive Constitutionalisation Of EU Law After The Treaty Of Lisbon
… formats, and argues that, following the Lisbon Treaty, the EU has reached a point where it can be examined through the tools provided by its own ‘substantive constitution’. Fundamental values and objectives that form the normative foundation of the Union's constitutional architecture are …
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Development Impacts of high-speed rail : megalopolis formation and implications for Portugal's Lisbon-Porto High-Speed Rail Link
… case studies are applied to Portugal's proposed Lisbon-Porto HSR corridor. Several possibilities of future scenarios of megalopolis forms and the associated impacts are discussed and analyzed. As a result of improved accessibility and increased interaction between the cities stimulated by HSR, …
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Dinoflagellate paleoecology and biostratigraphy of the Middle Eocene Tallahatta and Lisbon Formations from the Baldwin County, Alabama, Core
… cysts from the Middle Eocene Tallahatta and Lisbon Formations in the Baldwin County, Alabama, Core. This is part of a larger project being conducted by the ARCO Depositional Sequence Analysis Group to gather paleontological, sedimentological, paleomagnetic, geophysical, and geochemical data …
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To what extent is it true that, following the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, what sports’ specific nature entailed, remained contested?
… specific nature. Yet, the implementation of Lisbon and with it, sports’ express mention inside the Treaty was referred to as codification of pre-existing practice. This, to a certain extent, implied that the EU dealt with sport and its specific nature in a sufficient manner, even without a …
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Private parties and the revised standing criteria under article 263 TFEU: dawn of effective judicial protection or a false one?
This thesis examines the effect of the Lisbon Treaty reform of the locus standi criteria in Article 263(4) TFEU on the EU judicial review system and its compliance with the right of private parties to effective judicial protection. The force of the criticism against the EU judicial review system …
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From sink to stock : the potential for recycling materials from the existing built environment
… within an existing urban environment. Using Lisbon, Portugal as a case study, I propose three context-specific material recycling scenarios to make use of mineral construction waste generated as city's aging residential building stock is replaced over the next 30 years. The objective of the …
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Planning for land-use and transportation alternatives : towards household activity-based urban modeling for sustainable futures
… In our implementation and development of the Lisbon model, we started with case 0 first - the four-step travel demand model without considering any land use change. Then given the considerations of data and modeling purpose, what began as a standard version of the UrbanSim model linked to the …
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"""Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land"": The story of Ana, a public kindergarten teacher in Portugal"
… was developed in a kindergarten just outside Lisbon, Portugal, involving Ana, a preschool teacher. Ana is considered an excellent teacher by her colleagues, parents, and university supervisors. The questions of the study were: What is the commitment and competence that distinguishes Ana as a …
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Collected Snow Globes
… spectrums, and geographical locales such as Lisbon, the American south, and Kentucky. </p>
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A nemzeti parlamentek lehetőségei az európai uniós döntéshozatal befolyásolására. Út a lisszaboni szerződésig és azon túl = Possibilities of the national parliaments to influence the european union’s decision-making. Way till the treaty of lisbon and beyond
A nemzeti parlamentek uniós döntéshozatali befolyásolásának lehetőségét vizsgálni igen aktuális téma. Egyrészről a Lisszaboni Szerződés hatálybalépésével a nemzeti parlamentek történelmi jelentőségű jogi lehetőségeket kaptak az uniós döntéshozatal befolyásolására. Ugyan továbbra sem tekinthetők a …
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How national diversity shapes the future of a genuine common European security and defence policy
One of the innovations of the Treaty of Lisbon has been the renaming of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP): since December 2009 the EU does not only have a Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), it also has a Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). When the Treaty of Lisbon …
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THE NEW POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
… notably, institutional reforms introduced by the Lisbon Treaty emerge as the main drivers of this phenomenon, the chances of politicization result greater when negotiations involve countries whose trade structure is poorly compatible with EU's, while the degree of public support for the Union is …
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The Constitutional Court of a More Mature Legal Order: Constitutional Review by the Court of Justice of the European Union
… of the Court since the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty. In marked contrast with earlier periods in its history, the Court now subjects EU legislation to high-intensity review in cases of serious interference with the EU’s core constitutional principles. The Court has also adopted an …
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Upgrading of substandard housing in Portugal : planning strategies for the technical improvement of marginal settlements, case study, the Casal Ventoso
… to a chosen prototypical case study area in Lisbon. A thorough explanation of the upgrading policy is given in Chapter 2.0, where social, political and economical issues are dealt with. The core of the thesis is found in Chapter 4.0, where intermediate technologies for sanitation are exposed …
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