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Ablutionary Urbanisms: Water Infrastructures, Cultural Production and Charitable Dispensation

Frontiers in Water, 2022
With interest in advancing inclusive urban landscapes and guided by principles of social and cultural sustainability, this essay speculates as to localized water infrastructures as “ablutionary urbanisms,” important forms of contemporary design ...
Brook Muller
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Geographical analysis of the vernacular [PDF]

Journal of Information Science, 2012
The BBC Voices project of 2005 resulted in a large repository of lexical, phonological and grammatical data from the UK, which included geographical references. In order to investigate the relationship between language and geography, various clustering algorithms have been applied to the BBC Voices data.
Holliday, J, Upton, C, Thompson, A, Robinson, J, Herring, J, Gilbert, H, Norman, P   +6 more
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Seismic behaviour assessment of vernacular isolated buildings

, 2015
Conference name International Conference on Vernacular Seismic Culture in Portugal Research Project Funded under the National Research Agency FCT, SEISMIC-V 2013.This paper presents the numerical seismic analysis of isolated vernacular buildings ...
Ortega, J, Vasconcelos, G, Lourenço, P, Pinheiro Rodrigues, Hugo Filipe, Varum, H.   +4 more
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Moving beyond neurophobia to cultivate the neuroquisitive learner

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract “Neurophobia,” a pervasive fear of the neurological sciences, poses a significant barrier in medical education, affecting learners and physicians worldwide. Its consequences are far‐reaching, contributing to a limited neurology workforce and diminished confidence among non‐specialists in managing neurological conditions.
Joanna R. Appel, Kirsten A. Porter‐Stransky   +1 more
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Des Powerpoints en chaînes.

Tic & Société, 2019
On PowerPoint chain letters. Forms and circulation of Christian slideshows in Latin America – This article focuses on the forms and circulation of Powerpoint slideshows as digital supports for religious signs in Latin American space.
Gustavo GOMEZ-MEJIA
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Structural conservation and vernacular construction

, 2015
chapter 6 Structural conservation and vernacular constructionBook title: Seismic Retrofitting: Learning from Vernacular Architecture - Vernacular Seismic Culture in Portugal Research Project Funded under the National Research Agency FCT, SEISMIC-V 2013 ...
Varum, H., Vasconcelos, G., Rodrigues, H., Lourenço, P.B.   +3 more
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Urban vernacular architecture in the Middle Ages in Galicia, Spain [PDF]

, 2022
[EN] The emergence of the first urban settlements during the High Middle Ages in Galicia allowed the appearanceof a typology of half-timbered houses with very heterogeneous characteristics according to the differentGalician regions.
Fernandez Palicio, Alejandro
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Data, not documents: Moving beyond theories of information‐seeking behavior to advance data discovery

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 649-664, April 2025.
Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million, Jeremy York, Sara Lafia, Libby Hemphill   +3 more
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Essential work, invisible workers: The role of digital curation in COVID‐19 Open Science

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 703-717, April 2025.
Abstract In this paper, we examine the role digital curation practices and practitioners played in facilitating open science (OS) initiatives amid the COVID‐19 pandemic. In Summer 2023, we conducted a content analysis of available information regarding 50 OS initiatives that emerged—or substantially shifted their focus—between 2020 and 2022 to address ...
Irene V. Pasquetto, Amina A. Abdu, Natascha Chtena   +2 more
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Feast of fools : the carnivalesque in John Kennedy Toole's A confederacy of dunces

Acta Neophilologica, 2010
Despite the fact that the action in John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces has often been compared to a carnival, there is little that the maincharacter, Ignatius Reilly, has in common with those participating in a true medieval carnival as ...
Julija Potrč
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