This paper adopts a life course approach to investigate the pathways into living alone in mid-life in Britain and how these vary by gender and socio-economic status. The rise in the proportion of people living alone over the past three decades has been well documented. However, much of the focus of the existing literature has been on either people living solo in young adulthood or in later life...

There is a significant building stock of post-WWII low- and mid-rise unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings in Serbia the region (former Yugoslavia). Numerous this typology collapsed due to devastating 1963 Skopje, Yugoslavia earthquake, causing fatalities, injuries, property losses, as well experienced damage few recent earthquakes region, including 2010 Kraljevo, earthquake (MW 5.5) 2020 Petrin...

The seismic performance of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) composite shear walls with different expandable polystyrene (EPS) configurations was investigated. Six concrete shear walls were designed and tested under cyclic loading to evaluate the effect of fine RAC in designing earthquake-resistant structures. Three of the six specimens were used to construct mid-rise walls with a shear-span ra...

Bu çalışmada, ülkemizde yapılabilecek 14 katlı betonarme bir konut binası için deprem yönetmeliğinde verilen tasarıma esas olabilecek taşıyıcı sistem türleri karşılaştırmalı olarak irdelenmiştir. Süneklik düzeyi yüksek olan salt çerçeveli, perdeli ve plandaki perde oranı düşük iki adet çerçeveli-perdeli model tasarlanmıştır. Bunlara ilaveten beşinci süneklik karma modeli Deprem yönetmeliğimizde...

Soil-structure interaction (SSI) effects are usually omitted in the seismic vulnerability analyses of buildings. However, it has been proved that they might notably affect their performance. In fact, European codes establish should be included certain structures: with considerable second order (p-Δ) or mid/high-rise These characteristics shared by reinforced concrete (RC) buildings Portugal, wh...

•COVID-19 positives (n = 2091) were assessed for spike gene target failure (SGTF).•The B.1.1.7 lineage was found in 93.2% of the 226 SGTF samples.•The results support local transmission since mid-December 2020. In this Journal, Tang and colleagues recently discussed emergence a new Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant UK necessity to determine its impact on socie...