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Impacts to the mountain‐valley circulation from the 2023 annular solar eclipse

open access: yesWeather, EarlyView.
In October 2023, as part of the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP), faculty and students from the University of North Dakota (UND) in coordination with Pueblo Community College Southwest collected weather observations during an annular solar eclipse colloquially known as a ‘ring of fire’ eclipse.
Jared W. Marquis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Energy-Based Modal Pushover Procedure for Asymmetric Structures

open access: yes, 2010
Energy-based seismic evaluations of structures can give clear illustrations of seismic demands made upon structures. This paper presents a 3-dimensional energy-based modal pushover analysis (3D EMPA) method with equivalent three degree of freedom (ETDOF)
Zhongxian Li   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Riding out the storm: Behavioural responses of a large herbivore to high‐Arctic winds

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Using 11 years of GPS data from 61 muskoxen in Northeast Greenland, we show how increasing wind speed and Arctic storms reshape movement modes and habitat selection. Muskoxen respond by bedding in dense vegetation, prioritizing energy conservation over foraging, revealing a simple behavioural strategy with potential fitness consequences under ...
Floris M. van Beest   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

„PUSHOVER“ ANALIZA ARMIRANOBETONSKOG OKVIRA [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik radova Građevinskog fakulteta, 2019
Mila Svilar, Aleksandar Prokić
openaire   +1 more source

Analisi pushover di ponti in muratura

open access: yes, 2006
I ponti ad arco in muratura sono assai diffusi nella rete infrastrutturale nazionale; si tratta di opere costruite per lo più nel secolo scorso, che svolgono tuttora la propria attività a pieno regime. Il recente adeguamento delle Norme Tecniche per le Costruzioni riporta in primo piano la necessità di effettuare valutazioni di vulnerabilità sismica ...
Aprile, Alessandra   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
wiley   +1 more source

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