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A procedure for the seismic reliability assessment of monumental buildings
Within heritage buildings, a distinction can be made between historical buildings and monumental buildings: the former can be identified with the buildings of artistic and/or cultural value that are found in significant numbers (for example in historic ...
P. Giovenale +2 more
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Thinking with trees: Responding to sympoietic plant relations through visual art
Amid escalating climate crises, this paper explores how we might rethink our relationship with the natural world, particularly with plants and trees, through the perspectives of visual art. This paper reveals how art invites us to see trees and other plant life not as passive background scenery, but as living beings with their own forms of experience ...
Xiaoyu Yang
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Giants or Geniuses? Monumental Building at Mycenae
ln this paper I will focus on some aspects of the history of building technology, a neglected field in archaeology. The related subject is the monumental tholos tombs of Bronze Age Mycenae, and I will argue that a fuller understanding of the building procedure is necessary to interpret the monuments in their historical context.
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Re-functioning monumental buildings
Cataloged from PDF version of article.Includes bibliographical refences.This thesis is a study on re-functioning monumental buildings. It is supported by a case study, which is a project of re-functioning a church called "Kavakli kilise" into a ...
Furtun, H. Pınar
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Disturbing structure : reading the ruins [PDF]
In this paper, we look at buildings from the ‘disturbing’ perspective of ruin and ruination. The relationship between buildings and ruins appears to be an antithesis, one between organisation and disorganisation: a dyad of mutually exclusive opposites ...
Burrell, G, Dale, K
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Traditional Chinese Medicine for lung cancer: Mechanisms, clinical evidence, and future perspectives
Graphical abstract represents the risk factors for lung cancer, TCM efficacy and clinical outcomes to future challenges. Abstract Lung cancer remains a leading cause of global cancer mortality. Despite advances in conventional treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy, challenges including drug resistance, toxicity ...
Zhangdeng Chen, Liujun Bao
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THE LIGHTNING PROTECTION OF MONUMENTAL WOODEN SACRAL BUILDINGS
This paper gives the principles of designing lightning conductor system for wooden sacral buildings i.e. churches and chapels. The new method of mounting the down conductors directly on inflammable materials was presented in the article of prof.
Hirsch, Zenon
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The effects of environmental conditions on monumental buildings [PDF]
Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Mimarlık Ana Bilim Dalı, Koruma-Yenileme ve Restorasyon Bilim DalıTarihi merkezler, şehirlerin ilk kurulduğu yerler olarak özel bir öneme sahiptir. Şehrin mimari mirasını oluşturan, geçmişten gelen çoğu yapıyı barındırır.
Sağdıç, Halil İbrahim
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ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson +2 more
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Binnengasthuis: Why large needs small – introducing housing in monumental buildings
Within the context of increasing vacancy in both offices as institutional buildings, transforming the monumental buildings of the Binnengasthuis area into a housing purpose is a relevant assignment as the housing demand in Amsterdam will always maintain.
Brinks, F. (author)
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