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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"basements"”.
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Seismic behaviour of structures with basements in liquefiable soil
… can uplift. The performance of structures with basements, which intuitively combines these two problems, is not understood. In this thesis, the seismic behaviour of structures with basements in liquefiable soil has been investigated. A series of highly instrumented dynamic centrifuge tests …
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Detecting sources of heat loss in residential buildings from infrared imaging
… window frames, window surfaces, window cracks, basements, door cracks, corners, chimneys, roof ridges, and soffits. The nine causes of heat loss were mapped to the three modes of heat transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation. It was found that heat losses through window surfaces, window …
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One fish, two fish, lungfish, youfish : embracing traditional taxonomy in a molecular world
… of cumulative human knowledge to gather dust in basements? This thesis explores the current crossroads at which taxonomy finds itself, and offers a solution to preserve the past while diving headlong into the future.
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Population biology and ecology and of Periplaneta americana (L.) in the urban environment
… Investigations provided new evidence that basements of the RRHA-LT apartment buildings served as secondary reservoirs for this pest species. Environmental and ecological parameters that characterize basements as important P. americana population reservoir foci were studied. Understanding …
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La editorial Ricordi y su aportación a la publicidad italiana de principios de siglo XX
… from the great illustrator - Cappiello - in the basements of the Campari company. It had some author's handmade notes, showing the agreement to send to be printed. The sketch had no brand or commercial product, this would be added later, once the agreement was sealed. The Casa Ricordi was born as …
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A comparison between conventional brick and timber-frame brick veneer housing
… - the Harlow project. In most of these cases, basements or crawl-spaces underneath the house were incorporated in the design. In these countries there have a trend towards the use of a brick cladding (veneer) for timber-frame structures. This is a comparatively recent introduction in these …
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Restoring the Lost Rivers of Washington: Can a city's hydrologic past inform its future?
… underground, wreaking havoc on foundations and basements and causing sewer backups and flooding. Can a historically-driven investigation of these buried channels lend credence to the resurrection in some form of a network of surface stormwater channels, separate from the municipal sewage system, …
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The COOP : shared space infrastructure for the creative city
… a gathering of friends. Spare bedrooms, garages, basements, offices and parlors are foregone in the interest of compaction. The Rise of the Creative Class, an economic engine with its roots in the city, faces an especially challenging relationship to space. While the vitality of urban density is …
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Optimal sensor placement for sewer capacity risk management
… and 400,000 backups of untreated sewage into basements (US EPA 2001). Failures in wastewater collection systems can be prevented if they can be detected in time to apply intervention strategies such as pipe maintenance, repair, or rehabilitation. This is the essence of a risk management …
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Svarstymų dėl 1922 m. ir 1992 m. konstitucijų Lietuvai politinių idėjų analizė: tęsiame ar kuriame naują valstybę? /
… In order to demonstrate different ideological basements of interwar and today’s Lithuania this paper focuses on discussions held while preparing 1922 and 1992 constitutions. Word “discussions” reveals methodological issue of this analysis- using history of ideas method, there are shown which …
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Long-term basement heave in over-consolidated clay
… investigate the heave behaviour of rectangular basements underlain by over-consolidated clay. The construction sequence, basement slab stiffness, and embedment conditions at formation level were varied between tests, to investigate the influence of these factors on the magnitude of heave …
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Soil interpretation for non-agricultural and agricultural uses in the soils of the Benchmark Soils Project
… septic tank absorption fields, dwellings without basements, local roads and streets, roadfill, topsoil, playgrounds and irrigation. Improved procedures for estimating soil properties and pitfalls 1n rating Andisols and variable charge, low activity clay Oxisols and Ultisols are discussed.
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EVOLUTION OF THE EASTERN ALPS FROM THE PALEOZOIC ONWARD: CONSTRAINTS AND INSIGHTS FROM THE (ULTRA)BASIC ECLOGITIC COMPLEX OF MILCHENKAR ÖTZTAL-STUBAI COMPLEX (EASTERN ALPS, TYROL, AUSTRIA)
… Together with other polycyclic crystalline basements of the Alps, the OSC preserves various evidences of Late Ediacaran to Ordovician events attributed to the peri-Gondwanan Cadomian orogeny (e.g., Neubauer et al., 2022), particulary in the form of metaigneous bodies ranging from …
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State of the art: museum additions and their impact on occupant experience
… daylight and views, and very often located in basements—in the new museum wings as well as in the older buildings. This dissertation gives an insider's perspective on the state of the occupants and how and why various decisions were made in museum addition designs. It moves the spotlight away …