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Landscape, environment and community impacts of nuclear power [PDF]

, 2012
This paper is the third in a series of 8 that make up the evidence base for SDC report 'The role of nuclear power in a low carbon economy'.This document investigates the landscape impacts of all the processes involved in nuclear power from mining the ...
Sustainable Development Commission
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In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of complex interplay of the flash floods and seawater levels on seismic resilience of underground structures: numerical simulations using PLAXIS software

International Journal of Geo-Engineering
The Catacombs of Kom el-Shoqafa in Alexandria, known as Treasure Hill, serve as a remarkable burial site and royal tomb dating back to the 2nd century AD.
Sayed Hemeda
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West Star

Restauro Archeologico
SITE B is the anti-nuclear bunker now known as West Star, located in the municipality of Affi, in the province of Verona. Due to its size and state of preservation, it represents a historical and engineering heritage of extraordinary significance – not ...
Michelangelo Pivetta, Giovanni Minutoli
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The Struggle of Sound Archives in the United States [PDF]

, 1972
published or submitted for ...
Hagen, Carlos B.
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Migration, Repression and Homosexual Sociability in Francoist Spain: An Analysis of the Case Files of the Special Courts of Barcelona (1965–1975)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
wiley   +1 more source

Typology of Qanat Mills in the City of Naein [PDF]

مسکن و محیط روستا, 2016
As one of Iran’s architectural and engineering achievements, water mills have had a vital role in people’s life. However, some constraints including drying or low water reserves of their Qanats, and economic deficiencies, have had a negative impact on ...
Mehdi Soltani, Mehdi Raeisi, Mahsa Fahami   +2 more
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental and finite element assessment of stabilizing configurations for underground heritage sites

Heritage Science
Heritage sites in Alexandria, Egypt, are some of the UNESCO world heritage sites at high risk from geo-environmental hazards, in particular caused by sea level rise and heavy rain due to the climate change.
Sayed Hemeda
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Aeromycology: studies of fungi in aeroplankton [PDF]

, 2014
Air is a natural environment for spores of many genera and species of fungi. Despite its small size and a significant dispersion they have a great impact on human health and different areas of our activities, such as agricultural production. The study on
Jędryczka, Małgorzata
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