The problem of metal-plate-connected wood joints is an important aspect structure design and research. Metal-plate-connection (MPC), tenon-mortise connection pin are the three most common forms in timber structures. mechanical properties safety joint connections structures great value to evaluate performance building components anisotropic its susceptible external factors (e.g., moisture conten...

This paper reports a large-scale direct-test study of absolute pitch (AP) in students at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Overall note-naming scores were very high, with high scores correlating positively with early onset of musical training. Students who had begun training at age ≤5 yr scored 83% correct not allowing for semitone errors and 90% correct allowing for semitone errors. Performa...

France is geographically located in a central maritime position within the European Union (EU). Consequently, the experience gained and the solutions proposed in France may be of interest within a much wider geographical and institutional framework. The EU directives and regulations and the international treaties and conventions bind it. Among the ‘tools’ for environmental protection and manage...

Living roots and their rhizodeposits can stimulate microbial activity and soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition up to several folds. This so-called rhizosphere priming effect (RPE) varies widely among plant species possibly due to species-specific differences in the quality and quantity of rhizodeposits and other root functions. However, whether the RPE is influenced by plant inter-species in...

track assessment of the global impacts of climate change, a major input to the much-heralded Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, indicates that through the year 2100, the contribution of climate change to human health and environmental threats will generally be overshadowed by factors not related to climate change. Hence, climate change is unlikely to be the world’s most important ...

Currently envisaged mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions will be insufficient to appreciably limit climate change and its impacts. Adaptation holds the promise of ameliorating the impacts on a small subset of systems being affected. There is no question that both will be needed. However, climate change is only part of a broader multi-stress setting of global through to local changes. ...

Purpose of the study is to develop a scale determine vocational self-efficacy perceptions conservatory opera undergraduate students. Participants are 356 students enrolled in conservatories at public and private universities across Turkey. In first step item generation was realised, subsequently field experts assessed content adequecy, afterwards items were administrated 100 participants for pi...

Climate change due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG) is expected to have important impacts on water resources, with a variety of societal impacts. Recent research has shown that applying different methodologies to assess hydrologic impacts can lead to widely diverging projections of water resources. The authors classify methods of projecting hydrologic impacts of climate change into those...

We report on laboratory experiments with series of games with dynamic externalities, where the current actions of each player affect not only the player’s payoff today, but also the group payoffs levels of the game that will be played tomorrow. The motivating example is the climate change problem, where welfare opportunities (payoff levels) in the present depend on the stock of greenhouse gases...

Downloaded: 23 Feb 2012 IP address: 131.227.185.53 PROJECT 3 ( July 2007) was developed as a site-specific durational dance performance situated in a gallery-esque site – the orangery and adjoining conservatory spaces within the mansion of Bretton Hall1 (see images opposite). The aim was to construct a work that relied upon the choreographer’s and per formers’ embodied site-responses as rev eal...