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<title>Pull-out forces in shear connectors in composite beams with large web openings</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/39089/Pullout_forces_in_shear_connectors_in_composite_beams_with_large_web_openings.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/39089/Pullout_forces_in_shear_connectors_in_composite_beams_with_large_web_openings.html</guid><description><![CDATA[Composite beams with large web openings are often used, and their design is controlled by Vierendeel bending at the four corners of each opening, which is assisted by local composite action with the floor slab. Development of this Vierendeel bending resistance may be limited by pull-out failure o...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:34:49 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Simple Methods to Estimate the Influence of Limestone Fillers on Reaction and Property Evolution in Cementitious Materials</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/39006/Simple_Methods_to_Estimate_the_Influence_of_Limestone_Fillers_on_Reaction_and_Property_Evolution_in_Cementitious_Materials.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/39006/Simple_Methods_to_Estimate_the_Influence_of_Limestone_Fillers_on_Reaction_and_Property_Evolution_in_Cementitious_Materials.html</guid><description><![CDATA[A commercial interest in sustainable cementing materials is driving efforts to reduce the use of cement in concrete. Limestone fillers are a promising direction towards achieving such cement use reductions. In spite of increasing filler use, little information is available to rapidly estimate the...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 02:30:58 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Austerity and reform to affordable housing policy</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38982/Austerity_and_reform_to_affordable_housing_policy.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38982/Austerity_and_reform_to_affordable_housing_policy.html</guid><description><![CDATA[The recession has created significant challenges for the government with regard to providing affordable housing. Even during the UK’s housing boom the supply of housing failed to keep pace with demand. Therefore, increasing housing supply and improving affordability in a recessionary period wil...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:52:27 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Architects and non-architects: differences in perception of property design</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38983/Architects_and_nonarchitects_differences_in_perception_of_property_design.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38983/Architects_and_nonarchitects_differences_in_perception_of_property_design.html</guid><description><![CDATA[This study is an analysis of the perceptions of experts and non-experts in the building industry concerning a series of real estate promotions in the city of Valencia (Spain). Differential semantics were used to obtain a set of 7 dimensions or affective responses which users employ to assess real...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:52:27 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Public mortgage guarantee: instrument to cope with impacts of the financial crisis on the owner-occupied housing market evidence from the Netherlands</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38984/Public_mortgage_guarantee_instrument_to_cope_with_impacts_of_the_financial_crisis_on_the_owneroccupied_housing_market_evidence_from_the_Netherlands.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38984/Public_mortgage_guarantee_instrument_to_cope_with_impacts_of_the_financial_crisis_on_the_owneroccupied_housing_market_evidence_from_the_Netherlands.html</guid><description><![CDATA[The global credit crunch had a deep impact on the mortgage markets in Europe, including the Netherlands. When the credit crunch transformed into a debt crisis, this impact deepened. The impact of the credit crunch and the debt crisis (together: the global financial crisis) on the Dutch housing ma...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:52:27 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Modes of housing production in developing countries: the contemporary role of land, labour, and capital in Lagos, Nigeria</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38985/Modes_of_housing_production_in_developing_countries_the_contemporary_role_of_land_labour_and_capital_in_Lagos_Nigeria.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38985/Modes_of_housing_production_in_developing_countries_the_contemporary_role_of_land_labour_and_capital_in_Lagos_Nigeria.html</guid><description><![CDATA[The strategies of participants in housing production, in developing countries, are diverse and not fully understood. Governments in most developing countries have not been able to, sufficiently, explore how the production factors: land, labour and capital, impact on housing production. As a resul...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:52:27 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Third places” and social interaction in deprived neighbourhoods in Great Britain</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38986/Third_places_and_social_interaction_in_deprived_neighbourhoods_in_Great_Britain.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38986/Third_places_and_social_interaction_in_deprived_neighbourhoods_in_Great_Britain.html</guid><description><![CDATA[This paper explores social interaction in local ‘public’ social spaces such as local shops, pubs, cafés, and community centres in deprived neighbourhoods. More specifically, it examines the importance, role and function of these places, which have been described by Oldenberg and Brissett (Qu...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:52:27 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>An evaluation of Akabe mass housing settlement in Sanliurfa, Turkey</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38987/An_evaluation_of_Akabe_mass_housing_settlement_in_Sanliurfa_Turkey.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38987/An_evaluation_of_Akabe_mass_housing_settlement_in_Sanliurfa_Turkey.html</guid><description><![CDATA[Traditional living spaces contain climatic and cultural elements that may be used in the design of future living spaces. The sustainable characteristics that have been developed by trial and error for hundreds of years can be reinterpreted in contemporary architecture according to modern conditio...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:52:27 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>From energy efficiency to integrated sustainability in housing development in China: a case study in a hot-summer/cold-winter zone in China</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38988/From_energy_efficiency_to_integrated_sustainability_in_housing_development_in_China_a_case_study_in_a_hotsummercoldwinter_zone_in_China.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38988/From_energy_efficiency_to_integrated_sustainability_in_housing_development_in_China_a_case_study_in_a_hotsummercoldwinter_zone_in_China.html</guid><description><![CDATA[China has introduced a series of policies and laws to promote green building since 2000. Energy efficiency is the central issue, partly due to China’s energy structure. As advocated by these policies and laws, more and more green buildings are being built. The overall aim of this paper is to ex...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:52:27 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Hunting for hotspots in the countryside of Northern Sweden</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38989/Hunting_for_hotspots_in_the_countryside_of_Northern_Sweden.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38989/Hunting_for_hotspots_in_the_countryside_of_Northern_Sweden.html</guid><description><![CDATA[This study deals with counterurbanisation in Sweden and how it can be understood and explained by a focus on both demography and housing market conditions at a low geographical level. A central concept is the hotspot. A hotspot is a place that appears side by side with other places considered to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:52:27 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The policy-planning divide: an evaluation of housing production in the aftermath of operation Murambatsvina in Zimbabwe</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38990/The_policyplanning_divide_an_evaluation_of_housing_production_in_the_aftermath_of_operation_Murambatsvina_in_Zimbabwe.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38990/The_policyplanning_divide_an_evaluation_of_housing_production_in_the_aftermath_of_operation_Murambatsvina_in_Zimbabwe.html</guid><description><![CDATA[There is a very thin line of divide between policy and planning, let alone between policy and politics. In most post-colonial states, the situation has been aggravated by the ruling elites’ determination to divorce themselves completely from colonial practices. This in turn has significantly tr...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:52:27 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The middle classes and the remaking of the suburban family community: evidence from the Netherlands</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38991/The_middle_classes_and_the_remaking_of_the_suburban_family_community_evidence_from_the_Netherlands.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38991/The_middle_classes_and_the_remaking_of_the_suburban_family_community_evidence_from_the_Netherlands.html</guid><description><![CDATA[This paper presents data on everyday life in three recently built Dutch suburban areas constructed under the Vinex national urban planning policy. Its focus is on family households and today’s division of work and care, social life and neighbourhood activism. The results show that suburbs are n...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:52:27 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Mortgage-equity release: the potential of housing wealth for future Dutch retirees</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38992/Mortgageequity_release_the_potential_of_housing_wealth_for_future_Dutch_retirees.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38992/Mortgageequity_release_the_potential_of_housing_wealth_for_future_Dutch_retirees.html</guid><description><![CDATA[Interest in the use of housing wealth for future retirees is a topic of growing interest amongst policymakers and scientists. Owner-occupiers who are outright owners have lower housing expenses than tenants do, and they have substantial nest eggs. Mortgage markets leapt on this development and of...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:52:27 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Occupant behaviour in energy efficient dwellings: evidence of a rebound effect</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38993/Occupant_behaviour_in_energy_efficient_dwellings_evidence_of_a_rebound_effect.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38993/Occupant_behaviour_in_energy_efficient_dwellings_evidence_of_a_rebound_effect.html</guid><description><![CDATA[The energy required for space heating has been significantly reduced in recent decades by making use of insulation and more efficient heating and ventilation systems. Even so, wide variations in energy consumption are still observed between similar dwellings and between actual and predicted level...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:52:27 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Out-of-plane behaviour of a full-scale stone masonry façade. Part 1: specimen and ground motion selection</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38876/Outofplane_behaviour_of_a_fullscale_stone_masonry_faade_Part_1_specimen_and_ground_motion_selection.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38876/Outofplane_behaviour_of_a_fullscale_stone_masonry_faade_Part_1_specimen_and_ground_motion_selection.html</guid><description><![CDATA[The out-of-plane response of walls in existing stone masonry buildings is one of the major causes of vulnerability commonly observed in post-earthquake damage surveys. In this context, a shaking table (ST) test campaign was carried out on a full-scale masonry façade mainly focusing on the charac...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 07:51:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Conditional-Spectrum-based ground motion selection. Part II: Intensity-based assessments and evaluation of alternative target spectra</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38877/ConditionalSpectrumbased_ground_motion_selection_Part_II_Intensitybased_assessments_and_evaluation_of_alternative_target_spectra.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38877/ConditionalSpectrumbased_ground_motion_selection_Part_II_Intensitybased_assessments_and_evaluation_of_alternative_target_spectra.html</guid><description><![CDATA[In a companion paper, an overview and problem definition was presented for ground motion selection on the basis of the conditional spectrum (CS), to perform risk-based assessments (which estimate the annual rate of exceeding a specified structural response amplitude) for a 20-story reinforced con...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 07:51:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>A flow-through method for measuring the dissolution rate of alite and Portland cement clinker</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38823/A_flowthrough_method_for_measuring_the_dissolution_rate_of_alite_and_Portland_cement_clinker.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38823/A_flowthrough_method_for_measuring_the_dissolution_rate_of_alite_and_Portland_cement_clinker.html</guid><description><![CDATA[A flow-through method for measuring dissolution rates of cement minerals is described. The quantity of dissolved material is measured after the dissolution experiment from SEM-BSE images. This makes it possible to measure dissolution rates of individual phases in multiphase cements. The SEM image...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:12:07 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Net ZEB Office in Sweden - a case study, testing the Swedish Net ZEB definition</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38720/Net_ZEB_Office_in_Sweden__a_case_study_testing_the_Swedish_Net_ZEB_definition.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38720/Net_ZEB_Office_in_Sweden__a_case_study_testing_the_Swedish_Net_ZEB_definition.html</guid><description><![CDATA[An important measure for climate change mitigation is reduction of energy use in buildings worldwide. In 2010 Skanska Sverige AB began designing an office building in the southern parts of Sweden, aiming towards a Net Zero Energy Building (Net ZEB) balance. The construction work started in the mi...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 11:13:49 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Lightweight aggregates from water reservoir sediment with added sodium hydroxide</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38705/Lightweight_aggregates_from_water_reservoir_sediment_with_added_sodium_hydroxide.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38705/Lightweight_aggregates_from_water_reservoir_sediment_with_added_sodium_hydroxide.html</guid><description><![CDATA[Lightweight aggregates were produced from a mixture of water reservoir sediment and sodium hydroxide at a temperature of 1045–1085°C. The mixtures were also pre-cured at 120°C to observe the effect of geopolymerization. The physical properties of dry and wet sediment samples were observed at ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 11:10:47 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Electromagnetic wave absorbing properties of multi-walled carbon nanotube/cement composites</title>
<link>http://techniscience.com/stories/38706/Electromagnetic_wave_absorbing_properties_of_multiwalled_carbon_nanotubecement_composites.html</link>
<guid>http://techniscience.com/stories/38706/Electromagnetic_wave_absorbing_properties_of_multiwalled_carbon_nanotubecement_composites.html</guid><description><![CDATA[The electromagnetic wave absorbing properties of multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT)/cement composites were studied. The influence of the MWCNT content and sample thickness on the electromagnetic wave reflectivity was discussed and analyzed in the frequency ranges of 2–8GHz and 8–18GHz. When...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 11:10:47 +0100</pubDate>
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