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BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2020 Background Text messaging systems are used to collect data on symptom prevalence. Using a text messaging system, we evaluated the effects of question load, question frequency, and financial incentive on response rates and reported infant diarrhoea rates ...
Ryan Rego +5 more
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Identification of Ground Deformation Patterns in Coal Mining Areas via Rapid Topographical Analysis
Land, 2023 Coal mining inevitably brings some negative impacts, such as surface subsidence, aquifer breakage, and land degradation, to the eco-geological environment in the mining area. Among these impacts, coal mining-induced ground deformation is the most serious
Zhen Du +7 more
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Unearthing Causative Factors of Cost Overrun on Ghanaian Road Projects
The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, 2022 When determining the success of a road project, cost is one of the most important variables to consider. This is because cost is the project’s backbone and driving force throughout the construction process.
Opeoluwa Akinradewo +4 more
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PIV Measurement and Simulation of Building Thermal Plume under No-wind Conditions [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 To investigate the buoyancy characteristics of building façades, this study deals with experimental and numerical investigations on building façade flow and temperature field in different façade temperature conditions with different height-aspect ratio ...
Zhang Tiantian +3 more
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Assessing urban fire risk in the central business district of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Jàmbá, 2010 Buildings as infrastructure along with people’s lives need protection against fire outbreaks. Knowledge on the use of installed facilities is essential in tackling There emergencies, otherwise their installation becomes meaningless.
Yohannes Kachenje +2 more
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Joint Ventures in the South African Construction Industry: Factors Militating against Success
Buildings, 2023 Joint construction ventures are a global business partnership approach to accomplishing jointly executed construction objectives. The success of joint ventures is not achieved without militating factors and complexity affecting the process.
Modisaotsile Patrick Seiso +2 more
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Mechanical Properties of Adjacent Pile Bases in Collapsible Loess under Metro Depot
Applied SciencesMetro transit construction has begun to develop rapidly in northwest China because of the acceleration of urbanization. Accordingly, metro depots are also regarded as an essential auxiliary facility for stopping, operation, and maintenance of trains ...
Xiaohua Liu +4 more
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BuildingsIn the context of people-oriented and high-quality development, improving the quality of rural public service facilities is an important way to promote rural revitalization.
Xinlei Wang +8 more
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Systems approaches to human settlements [PDF]
Papers of the Regional Science Association, 1977 Regional and urban policies always have consequences for the whole of the national territory, whether or not they were intended to do so. Thus policy makers should have a reasonably good grasp of the structure of human settlement systems and of the nature of the processes that underlie evolving settlement patterns.
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Energy and Built Environment, 2022 Solar lighting technologies can lead sunlight into indoor actively, which has been proved that has great potential to reduce electric lighting consumption and create a healthy visual environment.
Chao Shen +5 more
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