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Measuring the Stringency of Building Height Regulations

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study proposes a novel methodology to measure the stringency of building height regulations. This measure gauges the difference in building heights with and without regulations. The primary challenge is to recover unobserved building heights in the absence of regulations.
Yusuke Adachi
wiley   +1 more source

Imaging-Based Parallel Seismic Test for In-Service Bridge Pile Foundations. [PDF]

J Imaging
Luo Z, Luo W, Wang P, Gu Y, Zhu P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Faith in the Marketplace: Christian Legal Narratives and the Refusal to Serve Gay Customers

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In June 2023, the US Supreme Court in 303 Creative v. Elenis held that an anti‐discrimination statute could not force a Christian business owner to provide certain business services to gay people. The decision has created a slew of legal and social uncertainties, which require a deeper investigation of the contemporary conflict between the gay
Mantas Grigorovicius
wiley   +1 more source

Numerical simulation study on the energy dissipation characteristics of energy-dissipating pile-anchor structures. [PDF]

PLoS One
Wang R, Luo T, Liu X, Zhou T, Ding X, Zhang B.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

When brokers fail, brokers proliferate! Generational change and the failure of development in remote Papua New Guinea

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent efforts to secure development by Febi and Kubo people in Papua New Guinea's Western Province reveal a patterned history of failing brokers, incomplete projects and wasted money. Within this longer trajectory, three overlapping waves of brokerage can be discerned, each emerging in response to the limitations of its predecessors.
Monica Minnegal, John Cox
wiley   +1 more source

Hillslope memory of sequential earthquakes. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Wang X, Jansen JD, Chen L, Dai L, Bhuyan K, Fang C, Nava L, Catani F, Fan X.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Differences of dynamic responses of single-pile and pile-group foundations in Meizoseismal areas. [PDF]

PLoS One
Dong Y, Feng Z, He J, Wang Z, Wang B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Performance analysis of U-shaped viscoelastic seismic brace for pipelines. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Liu J, Liu S, Zhang C, Wang J, Shang Y, Yang S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Earthquake magnitude estimation using an optimized CNN-DNN-GRU model with binary differential evolution and firefly algorithm. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Ahmed N, Abbas S, Fouad Y, Osman AM, El-Bakry HM, Elshewey AM.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Integrated GIS-based multi-criteria and geospatial approach for seismic hazard mapping in the arabian-eurasian convergence zone. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Chomani K, Pshdari S, Ali R, Vishwakarma DK, Aldohan A, Kisi O, Youssef YM, Nahas F.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source