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Disproportionate Collapse Prevention of CLT Platform-Type Buildings
, 2020 Without additional design considerations, such as structural robustness, the failure of a building’s structural element can develop into a progressive and/or disproportionate collapse. The existing requirements given in international guidelines for preventing disproportionate collapse are generally not practical and uneconomic when applied to multi ...
Mpidi Bita, H. +2 more
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, 1999 Time delays reduces the performance of any controlled system. If neglected in the design phase, the system may even become unstable when using the designed controller.
Blom, Jonas +2 more
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Robustness of Multistory Buildings with Masonry Infill [PDF]
, 2015 Izzuddin, BA, Macorini, L, Xavier, FB
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"Employment Inequalities" [PDF]
This paper documents the employment disadvantage faced by the less qualified part of the labor force and examines the factors that influence the differing extent of this disadvantage across OECD countries.
Andrew Glyn, Wiemer Salverda
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Demographic change and fisheries dependence in the northern Atlantic [PDF]
, 1998 Northern Atlantic fisheries have experienced a series of environmental shifts in recent decades, involving collapse or large fluctuations of the dominant fish assemblages. Over roughly the same period, many fisheries-dependent human communities have lost
Hamilton, Lawrence C. +1 more
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The Housing Bubble Fact Sheet [PDF]
This paper explains the basic facts about the current housing market. It lays out the evidence that the rise in housing prices constitutes a housing bubble - and explains what can be expected when it inevitably collapses.
Dean Baker
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Trade Prices and the Global Trade Collapse of 2008-2009 [PDF]
We document the behavior of trade prices during the Great Trade Collapse of 2008-2009 using transaction-level data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Brent Neiman +2 more
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, 2011 From Hegel to Merkel, from Bismarck to BMW, German culture has defined and re-defined itself through a cycle of reaction; thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
Rosenberg, Cory H.
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Trade crisis ? What trade crisis ? [PDF]
We provide an analysis of the 2008-2009 trade collapse using microdata from a small open economy, Belgium. First, we find that changes in firm-country-product exports and imports occurred mostly at the intensive margin: the number of firms, the average ...
Giordano Mion +2 more
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Increasing Inequality, Status Insecurity, Ideology, and the Financial Crisis of 2008 [PDF]
The current financial crisis has been blamed on inadequate regulation stemming from laissez-faire ideology, combined with low interest rates. But beneath these widely-acknowledged causal factors lies a deeper underlying determining cause that has ...
Barton Baker, Jon D. Wisman
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