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A mesh generation method for historical monumental buildings: An innovative approach
, 2016 The numerical modeling of historical monumental buildings is a challenging task for contemporary civil engineers. One of the main reasons for this is that the use of traditional simplified structural schemes is inadequate due to the complex geometry of ...
Antonio Tralli +15 more
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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AN APPRAISAL OF BASE ISOLATION FOR LARGE MONUMENTAL BUILDINGS
, 2014 Traditional techniques for improving the seismic performance of buildings are based either on the increase in strength or in ductility or, sometimes, of both at the same time. This approach, however, can lead to interventions often deemed as too invasive
CHESI, CLAUDIO +3 more
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Explaining Maya monumental architecture [PDF]
, 2012 The task of archaeologists is to infer the cultural processes at work in the (often distant) past, based on an examination of the artifactual, biological, and environmental evidence of human civilizations that remains today. Ancient monuments, like other
Sack, Nancy
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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, 2019 Human beings have changed their continent, country or region throughout history by migrating because of climate change, wars, conquests etc. It is thought that the underlying factors of all these place seeking are the sense of belonging, the need to ...
Engin, Nihan, Bıyık, Hatice
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Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1
Journal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
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Dutch dilemma: Housing prices and flood risk exposure
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This article studies the impact of flood risk exposure on housing prices in a major river delta. Analyzing 1.8 million property transactions from 1998 to 2023 in the Netherlands, we find an average price discount of 1.1%. We observe considerable heterogeneity in price effects driven by exposure intensity, institutional settings that vary ...
Piet Eichholtz +2 more
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, 2015 Monumental reliefs, also known as “historical” or “state” reliefs, adorned an unprecedented range of public buildings in the Roman empire. Introduced during the Republic, produced mainly under the Principate in Rome, and rarely used as a marker of Roman ...
Grunow Sobocinski, Melanie +1 more
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Noninvasive low-cost monitoring of moisture in monumental buildings
, 2016 In this work, a noninvasive low-cost TDR-based system for monitoring moisture content in Cultural Heritage structures is presented. The proposed system relies on an adhesive (removable) tape, constituted by two copper strips which run parallel to each ...
Trebbels D. +6 more
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