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Factors influencing hysteresis characteristics of concrete dam deformation
Water Science and Engineering, 2017 Thermal deformation of a concrete dam changes periodically, and its variation lags behind the air temperature variation. The lag, known as the hysteresis time, is generally attributed to the low velocity of heat conduction in concrete, but this ...
Jia-he Zhang, Jian Wang, Li-sha Chai
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German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Set in the fictional Austrian border town of Dunkelblum in the historically momentous summer of 1989, Eva Menasse's novel Dunkelblum (2021) is a polyphonic narrative recounting stories of the town's ‘sogenannten kleinen Leute’ and revolving around the dark core of a Nazi‐era atrocity.
Kylie Giblett
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Water Science and Engineering, 2023 The anti-sliding stability of a gravity dam along its foundation surface is a key problem in the design of gravity dams. In this study, a sensitivity analysis framework was proposed for investigating the factors affecting gravity dam anti-sliding ...
Bo Xu, Shi-da Wang
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Large‐scale irrigation schemes are central to agrarian transformation in sub‐Saharan Africa, yet their political implications are often reduced to questions of land redistribution or agrarian differentiation. Although existing scholarship has documented how irrigation restructures agrarian relations and generates dispossession, less attention ...
William's Daré
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Sensitivity of 3D Base‐Isolated Buildings to Individual Isolator Variability
Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, Volume 55, Issue 11, Page 2653-2668, September 2026.ABSTRACT Variability in elastomeric isolators arises from differences in rubber formulation and curing, leading to noticeable changes in stiffness and damping among nominally identical bearings. While most previous studies have examined global isolator variability associated with environmental or aging effects, individual isolator variability has ...
Norouz Jahan, Niel C. Van Engelen
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Advances in Civil Engineering, 2020 There are various uncertainties in the design, construction, and operation of dams. These uncertainties have an important impact on the seismic response and seismic safety evaluation of concrete dams. In this research, a typical nonoverflow monolith of a
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Precarious Development: Climate Crisis and Hydrosocial Futures in the Punjab Canal Colonies
The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 3, September 2026.Short Abstract This essay traces the history of the hydrosocial arrangement in Pakistan's Punjab province to reveal how colonial and postcolonial irrigation infrastructural development set up the present moment of crisis instead of enduring development.
Abdul Aijaz
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement
British Educational Research Journal, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 2428-2448, August 2026.Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
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Seafloor Displacements Across the Mid‐Ocean Ridge Eruption Cycle Modulated by Mush Zone Viscosity
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 131, Issue 8, August 2026.Abstract Mid‐ocean ridges (MORs) are active volcanic systems where axial magma lenses (AMLs) are replenished on decadal time scales, enabling frequent dike intrusions. The associated seafloor deformation, however, remains scarcely understood. Here we assess this deformation by simulating cycles of steady AML inflation followed by instantaneous dike ...
H. Boulze, J.‐A. Olive
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Computing consensus: Language ideological work in LLM‐assisted deliberative democracy
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract This article examines how the digital platform Polis and its experiments with large language models (LLMs) reconfigure democratic participation through a particular vision of consensus. Through analysis of media coverage of Polis and developers' public discussions of the platform, I argue that developers reframe consensus from a discursive ...
Janet E. Connor
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