The Portuguese Tile In The Rudmin Acculturation Learning Model: A Fusion Case.
, 2012 Rudmin Model, fusion acculturation, emigration, imitation.
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State of the art: Portugal [PDF]
, 2007 The aim of this paper is to give an overview of housing in Portugal, presenting the building stock characterisation, the related Portuguese legislation and the socio-economic aspects.
Almeida, Manuela Guedes de +2 more
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IN SITU PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION OF ARCHITECTURAL TILES, MATERIALS AND PROCEDURES: RESULTS OF AN INTERNATIONAL SURVEY [PDF]
, 2015 In order to aid research, improve preservation actions and develop better options for future interventions it is important to know the preservation materials and procedures adopted throughout the past and especially the ones being adopted nowadays.
Candeias, António +4 more
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Natural stone heterogeneities and discontinuities: an overview and proposal of a classification system. [PDF]
Bull Eng Geol Environ, 2023 Pereira ML +5 more
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Natural vegetal fibbers as a new resilient layer for floating floors [PDF]
, 2003 This paper presents a new use for a product made with low cost natural fibbers from vegetal by-products (coconuts coir) to be used as a resilient layer for floating floors to increase impact sound insulation.
António P. O. Carvalho +1 more
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The potential of vernacular materials to the sustainable building design [PDF]
, 2014 Publicado em "Vernacular heritage and earthen architecture : contributions for sustainable development", ISBN 978-1-138-00083-4Vernacular architecture embodies a plurality of constraints from places where it belongs, in which the use of local materials ...
Bragança, L. +2 more
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To serve the community or oneself - the public servant's dilemma [PDF]
Embezzlement of resources is hampering public service delivery throughout the developing world. Research on this issue is hindered by problems of measurement.
Barr, Abigail +2 more
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LAND AND GENDER IN MATRILINEAL TIMOR-LESTE [PDF]
, 2012 There are few groups’ followers of the matrilineal system in the world but they are present in all continents, except in Europe. In Timor-Leste, the matrilineal organization social system is found among 3 ethno-linguistic groups and seems that, in spite ...
Henriques, Pedro Damião de Sousa +2 more
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A WCS-based approach to integrate satellite imagery data in wildfire simulation [PDF]
, 2012 This paper describes the integration of multi-dimensional data from satellite sensors in a Civil Protection application that simulates fire spread. The approach uses standard Web Coverage Services from OGC to fetch and process land cover and recently ...
Esteves, António +1 more
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Assessment of seismic performance of adobe structures in Pakistan and Portugal [PDF]
, 2012 Adobe buildings exist in different parts of the world. The construction of these buildings can be carried out economically, using locally available materials and skills that do not require use of modern machinery.
Ahmed, M. +5 more
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