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The Connection between Architectural Elements and Adaptive Thermal Comfort of Tropical Vernacular Houses in Mountain and Beach Locations

Energies, 2021
Passive thermal comfort has been widely used to test the thermal performance of a building. The science of active thermal comfort is important to be connected with the science of architecture.
Hermawan Hermawan, Jozef Švajlenka
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Terrains of Country: Mapping Co-Design Methods

ASEAN Journal of Community Engagement
This paper explores the ‘discursive’ as well as the physical terrains of Country as part of a co-design methodology employed with Nukunu. It examines a curatorial and archival perspective in its documenting of Nukunu Country forming part of the Time ...
Julie Nichols, Uncle Lindsay Thomas, Travis Thomas, Jared Thomas, Fu Hong Tang, Delene Weber   +5 more
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‘Scrupulous and Timid Conformism’: Ireland and the Reception of the Liturgical Changes of Vatican II

Religions, 2021
The Second Vatican Council and, in particular, its Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, changed much in the daily life of the Church. In Ireland, a country steeped in the Catholic tradition but largely peripheral to the theological debates that shaped ...
Gary Carville
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The poetry as reliable evidence of linguistic phenomena [PDF]

, 2013
Many linguists refuse to believe that poetic and especially metrical - texts can provide reliable evidence of linguistic phenomena. In this article, I show that the Medieval Greek poetry represents an exception.
Soltic, Jorie
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The heritage of light and shade in Cairo

Ochrona Dziedzictwa Kulturowego
Conservation principles and practices were introduced to Islamic historic cities by European orientalists in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. While they played an important role in the conservation of the historic built heritage,
Hossam Mahdy
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Ambiguities of modernist nationalism: architectural culture and nation-building in early Republican Turkey [PDF]

, 2004
Reviews the book "Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic," by Sibel ...
Akman, Ayhan
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Layout Optimization of Residential Buildings to Improve the Outdoor Microclimate of Neighborhoods Along an Urban Bay: A Case Study of Shantou’s Inner Bay, China

Buildings
In summer, the urban heat island effect causes unbearable warmth in Shantou City, especially in the urban areas along the Inner Bay with densely populated neighborhoods.
Wenqing Liu, Chang Miao, Lei Xiao, Junhang Mai, Yingzi Wang   +4 more
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Jazzthetic Technique: Oralizing Fiction and Jazz Strategies in Toni Morrison’s Jazz

Humanities, 2023
Toni Morrison represents the improvisations of life in the 1920s and posits her novel Jazz as a work that negotiates sound as a distinguishing characteristic of her writing genre.
Trivius Gerard Caldwell
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Study on The Influence of Colonial Architecture of Vernacular Environment

Paragraphs Environmental Design
A traditional house is a symbol that represents a certain environmental area with their culture. However, there is a number of urban configuration in DI Yogyakarta that reflects the influence of Dutch colonization (1816-1941).
Fernaldy A. Hamsjah, Kania M. Ariana, Rasya N. Radhiyya, Rahma A. Tiarawati, Nur E. Nuffida, Didit Novianto   +5 more
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Liturgical Inculturation: The Future That Awaits Us [PDF]

, 2003
(from Introduction) Among Lutherans liturgical inculturation is not a novelty. When Martin Luther translated the Latin liturgy into German and adopted popular songs for church services, he embarked on liturgical inculturation.
Chupungco, Anscar J.
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