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Why animals construct helical burrows: Construction vs. post‐construction benefits
AbstractThe extended phenotype of helical burrowing behavior in animals has evolved independently many times since the Cambrian explosion (~540 million years ago [MYA]). A number of hypotheses have been proposed to explain the evolution of helical burrowing in certain taxa, but no study has searched for a general explanation encompassing all taxa.
Sean Doody +2 more
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A Construction Process Model for Implementing Constructability in Construction [PDF]
In construction, failure of design professionals to consider how a builder will implement the design can result in scheduling problems, cost escalation, delays and disputes during the construction process. The integration of construction knowledge and experience during planning and design is termed here as ‘constructability’.
Langkemper, J. +2 more
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In the context of English and Spanish in contact, issues of identity arise at various levels, including: how people’s national and ethnic identities are bound up with their language choices; how the national and ethnic identities were formed historically, and are continually re-formed, in conjunction with languages; how languages themselves are defined
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Constructed Global Space, Constructed Citizenship [PDF]
AbstractThis article examines the relation between global space and citizenship by examining the cases of WTO meeting and Hong Kong Disneyland. Scholars assert that global space can unsettle naturalised social relations. Yet, an ambiguous and vague sense of citizenship and a neoliberal spatiotemporal frame constrain how the state, the media, and the ...
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Este trabalho apresenta diretrizes para a integração de requisitos de segurança no trabalho à etapa de desenvolvimento de produto (DP) na construção civil.
Tarcisio Abreu Saurin
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Accumulation of irreversible deformation of soils as a result of repeated loading
Objective. The purpose of the study is to establish the patterns of accumulation of irreversible soil deformations from repeated loading.Method. When loading soils, the balance between external and internal forces is established gradually over a more or ...
K. G. Kondrashin +2 more
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The paper discusses the circumstances and technical solutions that contribute to the integration of electrical and thermal networks of urban neighborhoods within the framework of a surplus of electricity generating capacities arising from the imbalance ...
A. V. Sednin, M. I. Pozdnyakova
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The Arabic Word between phonology and Morphology [PDF]
The Arabic language tried to make harmony between the sounds making the word, which reflects easy pronunciation and apply less physical effort, and reaching a great way of clarity.
Raed Mohammad Mansoor
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La construcción del discurso nacional español en la obra literaria de Modesto Lafuente
This works examines how Modesto Lafuente, mostly known for being the author of the colossal 19th century Historia General de España constructs the concept of collective Spanish identity in his earlier literary and journalistic works. For instance, in the
Monica Fuertes Arboix
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Constructing the constructible universe constructively
27 pages.
Matthews, R., Rathjen, M.
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