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Energy efficient design strategies for contemporary vernacular buildings in Egypt [Elektronisk resurs]

open access: yes, 2013
: Current practice of sustainable design encompasses a range of green strategies. Modern passive design concepts have learned to build upon climate responsive methodology that was found in and inspired from vernacular and traditional buildings.
Dabaieh, Marwa,, Lund University.
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A Framework for Subgroup Dynamics Through the System Dynamics Lens: An Integrative Review of the Attribute and the Network Views

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Subgroups are dynamic entities evolving constantly in response to changing contexts and time. Although scholars from both the attribute and the network views have acknowledged that subgroups are inherently complex and fluid, research in these traditions has remained bifurcated, with limited efforts to integrate the two perspectives to more ...
Jinhee Moon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Chance‐Constrained Model for a Production Routing Problem With Uncertain Availability of Vehicles

open access: yesNetworks, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Production Routing Problem (PRP) is a complex integrated problem that allows for the achievement of competitive advantages, such as better management of inventory, reduction in operational costs and lead times, improvement in efficiency and customer service, and better response to market changes.
Alline Zanette   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Literacy and the vernacular : a case study based on the post-colonial history of Mauritius, with particular reference to Mauritian Creole

open access: yes, 2015
This thesis examines the process of the literization of the vernacular, and seeks to establish the island of Mauritius as a case study of this process.
Hills, Laura
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Cruck Database

open access: yes, 2006
This database was originally created (as 80 column cards) by N W Alcock as a Vernacular Architecture Group project, with the collaboration of many members of the group.
Vernacular Architecture Group (VAG)
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Meyna grisea (King & Gamble) Robyns and Meyna peltata Robyns (Rubiaceae: Vanguerieae) – a new record of two ethnobotanically significant fruit trees from Manipur, India

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Meyna grisea and M. peltata, two new records from Imphal Valley, Manipur, India, characterised by a capitate stigma with 4–5 divergent, spreading lobes on a globose base, and a prominent peltate stigma, respectively, are described and illustrated here. Photographs, key to the species, along with their coordinates and diagnostic characters in comparison
Pallavi B. Dhal   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Word Variant Identification in Old French

open access: yesInformation Research: An International Electronic Journal, 1997
Increasing numbers of historical texts are available in machine-readable form, which retain the original spelling, which can be very different from the modern-day equivalents due to the natural evolution of a language, and because the concept of ...
Peter Willett
doaj  

Rural anthroponyms in the shchuchin dialect of the Voronezh region

open access: yesНеофилология
INTRODUCTION. The study is carried out in the context of the anthropocentric paradigm and is devoted to the topic of “Man”. Nickname nominations and their unique characteristics are considered.
L. V. Nedostupova
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking Public Administration Reform: Institutional Layering of Bureaucratic, Managerial and Community Logics Over Time in Nigeria's Tax Administration

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The reform of public institutions has attracted sustained attention in both scholarship and policymaking. Increasingly, however, there is growing recognition that reforms are rarely implemented in an institutional vacuum. Instead, new reforms are layered onto existing arrangements, producing hybrid institutional landscapes shaped by prior ...
Edidiong Bassey
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Surface : Neo-Vernacular Architecture in Sweden and Denmark’s Contemporary Landscape

open access: yes
In Scandinavian architecture, the neo-vernacular movement has gained ground as a means of sustainable building design. Hence, the objective of this paper is to investigate Danish and Swedish neo-vernacular in order to examine whether these building ...
Tanderup Eybye, Birgitte   +2 more
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