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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello +2 more
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A Method for Making Transparent Hard Rock-Like Material and Its Application
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2019 At present, a similar material most commonly used in the similarity model experiment of rock blasting is cement mortar. However, it is not transparent, which leads to the problem that the cracks in the model made of cement mortar after the test cannot be
Jinjin Ge, Ying Xu
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Discrete element models of rock blasting [PDF]
, 1992 In the last decade numerical methods are becoming increasingly popular in rock blasting. Various techniques have been used and among others the finite element method as well.
Munjiza, Ante, Owen, D. Roger J.
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Visualization test and numerical simulations of 2D blasting crack propagation
Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical EngineeringDrilling and blasting, characterized by their efficiency, ubiquity, and cost-effectiveness, have emerged as predominant techniques in rock excavation; however, they are accompanied by enormous destructive power. Accurately controlling the blasting energy
Shan Guo, Manchao He, Seokwon Jeon
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Rylands v Fletcher Redux: Rubis Bahamas Ltd v Russell
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.The decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Rubis Bahamas Ltd v Russell is the most significant development in the law of Rylands v Fletcher for decades. Rejecting the view that the rule is merely a sub‐species of private nuisance, the Committee reconstructed it as an independent rule of strict liability governing harm caused by ...
Marco Cappelletti
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Blasting in densely jointed rock to obtain slabs
, 1995 The economic return of rock blasting is not provided by brute volume of broken rock, rather by the amount of marketable product. That i s the case of the porphyry quarries of Trento district, whose output is mainly absorbed by road paving and building ...
Cardu M. +3 more
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance
History, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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Rock damage control in bedrock blasting excavation for a nuclear power plant
Drill and blast is a major method for bed rock excavation in nuclear power plant engineering. Under blasting excavation, blast-induced vibration propagates in rock mass and induces damage to surrounding rock.
Li, H. B. +5 more
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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
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