Constitutions and Gender Equality in Chile and Argentina
Gender equality provisions have become nearly standard in constitutional design for new democracies. How do such provisions affect the ability of women’s rights advocates to achieve social change?
Priscilla Lambert, Druscilla Scribner
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Recent developments and fire design provisions for CFST columns and slim-floor beams
This paper summarizes the latest technical and scientific progresses on steel-concrete composite structures exposed to fire, presenting the recent research carried out on this subject and the progress of the design codes.
M. L. Romero +4 more
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Design and Evaluation of A QoS Provisioning Service [PDF]
Middleware provides distributed objects with a software infrastructure that offers a set of well-known distribution transparencies. These transparencies enable the rapid introduction of applications for heterogeneous, distributed systems. However, to support guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) system-specific QoS mechanisms need to be controlled ...
van Halteren, Aart +2 more
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Shear Capacity of Textile-Reinforced Concrete Slabs without Shear Reinforcement
A reliable and economic utilization of textile-reinforced concrete in construction requires appropriate design concepts. Unlike designs for bending, the development of models for shear is still the subject of current research.
Jan Bielak +3 more
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Performance-based seismic codes ensure proper inelastic behaviour of reinforced concrete frames through capacity design, among others. This strategy relies not only on avoiding brittle failures and providing ductility to plastic hinges but also in their ...
Fernando Gómez-Martínez +1 more
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Design consideration for frequency containment reserve provisions by a multi‐terminal HVDC system
Frequency control is considered to be an important function of multi‐terminal HVDC (MTDC) systems. Sharing frequency containment reserves (FCRs) among interconnected AC systems using HVDC technology is particularly attractive in the European context ...
Kosei Shinoda +5 more
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Perspective of new technical provisions for buildings in the context of defects of current regulation [PDF]
The article portrays the circumstances of the obligation to issue new technical provisions and, based on the example of the current Regulation on the technical conditions to be met by buildings and their location, it presents selected defects of this ...
Kamil Kułaga
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Systematic approach to the analysis of the operation on power technological production lines of agricultural enterprises [PDF]
Considered the issues of system analysis and synthesis of energy technological production lines (ETL). An algorithm for finding optimal solutions for the design, operation and analysis of ETL is proposed.
Bezzubceva Marina +4 more
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The buyers’ perspective on security design: Hedge funds and convertible bond call provisions
Patrick Verwijmeren
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Performance Modeling of a Service Provisioning Design [PDF]
The convergence of the telecommunications and computer industries is nearing a reality leading to service-based business models. The ability to provision services efficiently and quickly will be a competitive differentiator between service providers.
Mohamed El-Darieby, Jerome A. Rolia
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