Abstract The large corporations cause the most significant damages, but they can contribute to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and its global priorities. purpose of this research was map main impacts related SDG, analysing business sector Brazilian civil construction, including some companies following segments: construction companies, factories cement plants, their sustainability r...

We present a general framework for computing two-dimensional Voronoi diagrams of different site classes under various distance functions. The computation of the diagrams employs the cgal software for constructing envelopes of surfaces in 3-space, which implements a divide-and-conquer algorithm. A straightforward application of the divide-and-conquer approach for Voronoi diagrams yields highly i...

in this paper the factor of safety (fs) and critical line-segments slip surface obtained by the alternating variable local gradient (avlg) optimization method was presented as a new topic in 2d. results revealed that the percentage of reduction in the fs obtained by switching from a circular shape to line segments was higher with the avlg method than other methods. the 2d-avlg optimization meth...

In the growing field of biotechnology research and development, a new phenomenon is emerging – the strategic use of race as a genetic category to obtain patent protection and drug approval. The imbrication of race in the field of patent law as an adjunct to biotechnological inventions is producing new racialized spaces of intellectual property that may have profound implications for broader soc...

Models of story understanding in artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology typically concentrate on the construction of representations of story content. Construction of a 'complete' representation (informally equivalent to an 'understanding') requires inferences which establish coherence links between text statements. This report examines how reality-based links (e.g. causal connections...

This study aims to investigate geo-referenced vehicular noise pollution in Port Harcourt metropolis of Rivers State, Nigeria. Three types data were gathered for this study. Data from traffic measured decibel (dB) using Noise Dosimeter (ND); counts carried out by observing and counting flow at junctions roundabouts as well location map was established Global Positioning System (GPS) instrument p...

Wall and Shortland (1991) have shown that afferent fibers entering the cord in thoracic and lumbar roots of adult rats have branches that may penetrate up to 11 segments caudally from the root entry zone. We have investigated the extent of branching and conduction velocities of ascending and descending branches of lumbar and thoracic primary afferents in isolated spinal cords of adult hamsters ...

The ultra-lightweight construction of large, deployable space structures is a fundamental prerequisite for the realization of Solar Sail propulsion concepts. In addition to the functionality of the deployment technique and the development of control concepts, lightweight aspects and their technical implementation play a key role in future Solar Sail missions. A further development of the set-up...