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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Finnish glazed balconies: residents’ experience, wellbeing and use

Buildings & Cities
Amidst sustainability challenges and in an increasingly urbanised context, housing design qualities are crucial to promote residents’ wellbeing. Despite the role balconies play in establishing connections with the surrounding environment and enhancing ...
Léna Jegard, Raúl Castaño-Rosa, Sarah Kilpeläinen, Sofie Pelsmakers   +3 more
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Bespoke geometric glazing design for building energy performance analysis [PDF]

FME Transactions, 2019
Geometry is an important architectural design issue in the assessment of a building model's energy performance using Building Performance Simulation tools.
Wardhana Nicholas Mario, Chatzivasileiadi Aikaterini, Jabi Wassim, Aish Robert, Lannon Simon   +4 more
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Long‐Term Effects of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training Combined With Electrical Stimulation Biofeedback Among Women With Symptomatic Pelvic Organ Prolapse: A Randomised Controlled Trial

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To determine whether adding electrical stimulation (ES) biofeedback to supervised pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) provides additional long‐term benefit in prolapse anatomy among women with symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse (POP). Design Randomised controlled trial. Setting A tertiary hospital in Beijing, China.
Min Li, Yuhan Lyu, Pingping Li, Yaxin Liang, Tianzi Gai, Qiubo Lyu, Shuai Huang, Lin Liang, Yue Yu, Xinyue Zhang   +9 more
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Transcriptomics Unveil Dsx1 as a Critical Regulator in Sexual Dimorphism of Crustaceans

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Sexually dimorphic traits are involved in reproductive competition and are shaped by sex‐biased gene expression. This study identifies Dsx1 as a key male‐biased gene in Morinoia aosen and demonstrates through RNA interference that its disruption feminizes male‐specific T3 leg structures.
Yan Tong, Wenpei Xin, Zeyu Liu, Yami Zheng, Mengyi Huang, Hongguang Liu, Decai Lu, Wei Peng, Zhonge Hou   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer, Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani, Charlène Bouchaud, Elora Chambraud, Vladimir Dabrowski, Hatem Djerbi, Fabien Lesguer, Hervé Monchot, Paul Picavet, Louise Purdue, Bertrand Riba, Shadi Shabo   +11 more
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Between the Indian Ocean and the Gulf: Ceramics From Ḥattā Oasis in the Emirate of Dubai

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents the ceramic finds from archaeological investigations conducted in 2024 at two settlements: ‘Islamic Village' and Suhaila 2, one of a number of mountain villages of the Late Islamic period within the Ḥattā Oasis: a high‐altitude exclave in the Emirate of Dubai. The sites are located on the northeastern slopes of Jabal Qallāt
Seth M. N. Priestman, Agnese Kukela, Mansour Boraik, Hassan Mohammed Zein   +3 more
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Effect of Photovoltaic Energy-Saving Window Factors on Building Heating Load Under Three Control Modes

Buildings
Photovoltaic (PV) glazing is widely used in the building sector for its power generation advantages. However, its low transmittance reduces solar heat gain, limiting energy-saving effectiveness in heating regions.
Jiayi Li, Jianmei Wu, Hongpeng Xu
doaj   +1 more source

Indicateurs énergétiques specifiques aux façades ventilées et vitrées (Energy indices specific to ventilated and glazed facades) [PDF]

Constructii: Journal of Civil Engineering Research, 2012
The evaluation of the energy performance of ventilated and glazed façades can be done based on specific indexes. The paper presents two of those, defined as a function of season, i. e.
Sebastian HUDISTEANU, Monica CHERECHES, Nelu-Cristian CHERECHES   +2 more
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The Material Basis of 18th‐Century Meissen Porcelain

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the summer of 1708, the quest for making hard‐paste porcelain from Saxonian clay and other mineral resources succeeded. This was achieved by applying as its essential ingredient newly discovered pure kaolin from Heidelsberg near Aue, western Saxon Ore Mountains.
Robert B. Heimann
wiley   +1 more source