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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Structural form"”.
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Form follows finance? ...finance follows form?
… after by financial firms together with the structural form, aesthetics and floor plate requirements commonly requested by such firms.
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Topic-comment constructions in the acquisition of Chinese as a second/foreign language
… constructions by adult English speakers in a formal classroom setting. The focal point of investigation is the effect the subject-prominence of English grammar has on the learning of Chinese topic constructions. All five types of topic are in the surface structural form of …
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Functional linear regression on Namibian and South African data
… aims to model the observed differences in structural form of the trees between geographically spate populations with functional regression analysis using climate variables at each location. A number of statistical challenges present themselves such as the multivariate nature of the data. …
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Collapse analysis of unreinforced masonry domes and curving walls
… horizontal ground accelerations. Two different structural forms are studied and collapse conditions are established for each. The aim of this research is to allow simple, but meaningful, analytical models and experimental results to inform each other in an effort to better define masonry …
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INDECISION 2008: REAPPROPRIATION AS POLITICAL ARGUMENT IN THE DAILY SHOW'S COVERAGE OF THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
… of each type of reappropriation, and the structural form of the argument.
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An Exploration of Movement and the Human Form
The Human form can be translated and diagrammed in multiple components, such as movement, structure, emotion, and tendency. As the art of dance redefines the limits of the body, these characteristics can be directly applied to the development of and progression through an architectural space. By …
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Tunable spin-charge conversion in vanadium dioxide
… easily modified without changing the chemical or structural properties of the material. To date most of the explored materials, have significant electrical conductivity and are in their pure, stable, intrinsic structural form. Most importantly, they exhibit negligible variation in the electrical …
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2-Factor Models in Credit and Energy Markets
… Part A is focusing on assessing the ability of structural – form framework to predict the spreads and the prices in two different market regimes before and during the credit crisis. In Part B a 2 – factor model with local volatility for oil market is developed. For the first part three …
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Essays on the dynamics of qualitative aspects of firms' behavior
… econometric aspects of firms' exit decisions. Structural econometric analyses of exit decisions of firms involve rather naturally a number of qualitative dimensions. This chapter investigates the exit decision empirically by means of panel data from COMPUSTAT for U.S. manufacturing firms which …
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Free form finding of grid shell structures
… a shell structure can have a great impact on its structural performance. This thesis presents a numerical implementation that finds the funicular form of grid shell structures. Two methods are implemented for the form finding: the potential energy method (PEM) and the force density method (FDM). …
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Application of a gradient-based algorithm to structural optimization
… methods have shown to be efficient at improving structural design, but their use is limited in the engineering practice by the difficulty of adapting state-of-the-art algorithms to particular engineering problems. This study proposes the use of a robust gradient-based algorithm, whose adaptation …
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Computer aided analyses of symmetrically loaded thin cylindrical shell using transfer matrix method
Thin shells as a structural form have made important contribution to the development of several branches of engineering, e.g., chemical, power, structural engineering, etc. The aim of this research is to analyze symmetrically loaded thin cylindrical shell structures using transfer matrix method. A …
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Structural design of shallow masonry domes
… has been established as the dominant structural form for residential and commercial usage in the developing world, with the flat two-way slab as the most common (almost universal in northern India) spanning solution for these designs. Over the same time period, local artisans in the …
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Interpreting trends in graphs: A study of 14 and 15 year olds
… kinds of conceptions is influenced by both the form of the graph and its context. In another study, the pupils were given two structurally isomorphic graph interpretation tasks. The results of this investigation also show that the context of a graph in relation to its structural form, has a …
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The acquisition of inductive constraints
… very sparse data. The final model discovers the structural form of a domain--for instance, it discovers whether the relationships between a set of entities are best described by a tree, a chain, a ring, or some other kind of representation. The hierarchical Bayesian approach captures several …
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Essays on residential desegregation
… the ethnic housing quotas. I employ both reduced form and structural form methods. In Chapter 1, I use regression discontinuity analysis to estimate the impact of the quota on prices, quantity and quality of units sold. Because an individual's decision on where to locate affects ethnic …
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Apartheid and resistance in the political economy of gentrification: The dialectics of black working-class struggles in Atlanta, Georgia, 1970-2015
… subsequent gentrification in Atlanta served as a structural form of anti-poor black pogrom—the planned destruction or removal of a significant portion of a specifically defined group from a location. I contend that this intraracial class struggle is fundamental to contemporary black urban life and …
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Vaulted Earthen Floor Systems for Low-Cost Housing Construction
… for low-cost residential construction. Typical structural floor systems consist of a reinforced concrete flat slab, which is problematic as concrete and steel are expensive, carbon-intensive materials. As urbanization rates increase globally, informal and structurally inadequate settlements …
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Development of a Reusable Thin-Shell Concrete Flooring System
… digital fabrication techniques and a funicular form. Inspired by the classical fan vault geometry, the segmented fan concrete shell consists of thin-shell glass fibre reinforced concrete elements which thrust against each other to maintain its structural form without any mortar. Form-finding, …
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Development of space truss systems in timber
Space trusses are a valuable structural form for architects and structural engineers due mainly to their efficiency in providing large unobstructed areas, associated with faster erection speeds and low maintenance cost. Most space trusses are made of steel and aluminium whilst a few are of timber. …
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