Behavior Of A 2-dimensional Ceiling Jet Flow: A Beamed Ceiling Configuration

An impressive ceiling.

Visualising Damage on a Heritage Ceiling

Photographic survey techniques were employed ceiling of the Queen’s Staircase at Hampton Court Palace mounted on an 8 metre telescopic mast, raised to approximately 60 cm below the ceiling images were taken from a fixed camera position method was applied with images from ten lamp positions map. Cross-sections at the estimated surface resolution of 7.7 pixels/mm, resolution of approximately 100 ...

Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe

Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap across the wages distribution. We use quantile regression (QR) techniques to control for the effects of individual and job characteristics at different...

Fever's glass ceiling.

The importance of an upper limit of the febrile response has been recognized since the time of Hippocrates. Although the precise temperature defining this limit varies according to the site at which body temperature is measured, human core temperature is almost never permitted to rise above 41 degrees C-42 degrees C during fever. There are compelling physiological reasons for such an upper limi...

Is There a Glass Ceiling in Sweden?

Using data from 1998, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and accelerates in the upper tail of the distribution, which we interpret as a glass ceiling effect. Using earlier data, we show that the same pattern held at the beginning of the 1990’s but not in the prior two decades. Further, we do not find this pattern either for the log wage gap...