Both ecological and social factors play an important role in determining the structure of animal settlement patterns. While the ecological factors determining animal settlement are generally well known, the relative importance of social factors in mediating fine-scale settlement choices is poorly understood. As a result, we have little knowledge of why individuals choose to settle near specific...

Settlement size predicts extreme variation in the rates and magnitudes of many social and ecological processes in human societies. Yet, the factors that drive human settlement-size variation remain poorly understood. Size variation among economically integrated settlements tends to be heavy tailed such that the smallest settlements are extremely common and the largest settlements extremely larg...

This research was undertaken to predict the result of vault settlement during excavation super-large-span tunnels in soft rock strata, which are prone deformation and hard aftermaths. Numerical simulation applied tackle with problems such as proneness prediction on settlement. As a result, model for continuous tunnel face keeps advancing proposed, influencing factors span depth taken into consi...

In the article problem of geotechnical application clay nd claystone as a base driven pile foundations has been considered. When using these foundations, compaction zone is formed in space around pile. The purpose this research to analyze influence zones on results analytical and numerical calculations for predicting settlement layered soils. following tasks were solved: 1) existing investigati...