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Fragility of Hydraulic Elevators for Use in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering [PDF]
, 2007 New performance-based earthquake engineering methods developed by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, the Applied Technology Council, and others include damage analysis at a highly detailed level, requiring the compilation of fragility ...
Porter, Keith
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Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences
European Journal of Political Research, EarlyView.Abstract Have concerns about equal rights and equal chances crowded out economic equality as a priority of left parties? Despite the increased importance of inequality in political science, this contentiously fought debate has been standing on shaky empirical foundations.
ALEXANDER HORN +2 more
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, 2019 Earthquakes induced during hydraulic fracturing operations have occurred in a number of locales. However, in-situ studies aimed to discern the triggering mechanism remains exclusively statistical in their nature.
Schmitt, Douglas R. +2 more
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Sustainable Food System Chapters in Trade and Investment Agreements: Lessons on Policy Innovation
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The need to adapt existing global policy instruments to achieve sustainable development objectives is increasingly recognised worldwide. Responding to the global need to help countries progress towards transforming food systems, the EU proposed, negotiated and agreed to adopt a chapter dedicated to Sustainable Food Systems in its free trade ...
Dori Patay +7 more
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Assembling for Water: The Prefigurative Politics of Land Futures in Argentina
Antipode, EarlyView.Abstract As in other areas of Argentina, residents from the Norte Neuquino in the northwestern reaches of Patagonia are concerned about the recent advancements of extractivism onto their territories. Their analysis is clear: the environmental crisis is directly linked to a democratic one, and they engage in a wide range of actions to envision and enact
Mattias Borg Rasmussen +1 more
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, 2009 We study a simple model of periodic contraction and extension of large intruders in a granular bed to understand the mechanism for swimming in an otherwise solid media.
Dirk Kadau +4 more
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Ultra-shallow-marine anoxia in an Early Triassic shallow-marine clastic ramp (Spitsbergen) and the suppression of benthic radiation [PDF]
, 2015 Lower Triassic marine strata in Spitsbergen accumulated on a mid-to-high latitude ramp in which high-energy foreshore and shoreface facies passed offshore into sheet sandstones of probable hyperpycnite origin.
Beauchamp, Benoit +8 more
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Non‐visible aspects of ceramics: Archaeological science approaches in Andean pottery studies
Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the history of the application of archaeological science in studies of pre‐Hispanic pottery from the Andes, South America, through academic publications from the 1960s to the present. It details the questions addressed by, analytical tools used for and theoretical underpinnings of investigations into provenance and ...
Andrea Martínez‐Carrasco +1 more
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Boreas, EarlyView.Diamictic deposits within a presumed Early Pleistocene overdeepened basin are investigated with a combined sedimentological‐geotechnical approach including analysis via μCT scans. Sedimentary facies, geotechnical properties, and microstructures reflect a transition from glacier‐proximal deposition towards direct ice contact and subglacial deformation ...
Clare A. Bamford +5 more
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Pliocene-Pleistocene marine cyclothems, Wanganui Basin, New Zealand: a lithostratigraphic framework [PDF]
, 1995 The Rangitikei River valley between Mangaweka and Vinegar Hill and the surrounding Ohingaiti region in eastern Wanganui Basin contains a late Pliocene to early Pleistocene (c. 2.6-1.7 Ma), c.
Abbott S. T. +13 more
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