“Near Ballymourne all paths led towards the sea. Not alone fishermen found it a source of income, but from its shores farmers drew their best and cheapest manure in form sea-weed” (T...

Temporary shoring structures are used in the construction of reinforced concrete buildings to transmit loads newly poured slabs onto lower floors. The main problems involved use shores/props are: (1) possibility having higher than those initially foreseen, and (2) structural efficiency cost system, which is normally oversized due being designed bear maximum load most demanding building operatio...

A new method was tested using SPOT images for mapping of variations of the reflectances and depth of sea-bottom French Polynesia, where the standard error on computed depth was less than 0.2 m for average depths of 2 m. The method uses "soils line" for zero-depth calibration and "brightest pixels line" for diffuse attenuation coefficients and actual value of K as linear functions of band ratios...

This paper presents a heterarchical model for the regional occupation of sambaqui (shellmound) societies settled in southern coast Santa Catarina, Brazil. Interdisciplinary approaches articulate geographical scope and environmental dynamics Quaternary with human patterns that took place therein between middle late Holocene (approximately 7.5 to 1.5 ky BP). The longue durée perspective on natura...

Located on the picturesque shores of Lake Geneva, freshly inaugurated Bernoulli Center for Fundamental Studies at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) hopes to become a beacon advancement fundamental research in mathematics, theoretical physics, and computer science.