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TYPHOONS AND TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS RECOMMENDED FOR EXISTING AND NEW HOUSES IN THE CYCLONIC REGIONS IN VIETNAM

TYPHOONS AND TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS RECOMMENDED FOR EXISTING AND NEW HOUSES IN THE CYCLONIC REGIONS IN VIETNAM

... beam (or the foundation bracing) above the brick footing (at the ground level) continuously running around the perimeter of the house. The depth of the bond beam is from 70 to 140 mm, the width ... with pillars at the distance of 2.5m in order to increase the stability and stiffness of the single wall.  The RC bond beam (the width equals to the thickness of the wall, the thickness is ... at the level above the windows and door (to be replaced the lintel) in the brick wall and continuously run around the house.  The starting rebars should be arranged at the location where the...

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The last test of grade 8 ( very good)

The last test of grade 8 ( very good)

... up high.(3) can go inside the statue. The statue is so(4) that as many as twelve people can stand inside the torch. (5) people can stand in other parts of the (6) The statue (7) 225 tons and ... large, weigh, gift, many) One of the most (0) famous statues in the world stands on Ellis Island New York Harbor. This statue (1) , of course, the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty is a(2) ... District -Nam Dinh province English test # 4 (The second term grade 8 )– I. Listen . Fill the blanks in the table with information you hear.(2p.) City Weather Temperature Low High Sydney Tokyo London Bangkok II....

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LINH DAM NEW TOWN - SOLUTION FOR THE HIGH-DENSITY DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SETTLEMENTS IN THE SOUTH-WEST OF HANOI

LINH DAM NEW TOWN - SOLUTION FOR THE HIGH-DENSITY DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SETTLEMENTS IN THE SOUTH-WEST OF HANOI

... center, The New Towns are mainly distributed in three parts: - The North of the Red River: The area covers a new settlement area in the Northern 662 Linh Dam new town - Solution for the High-density ... ABSTRACT The study focuses on Linh Dam New Town in the south-west of Hanoi - the biggest and most diverse new residential area of the city with many projects of New Towns. Hanoi expansion to the ... positions. There are three local parks with 28 ha in total and 13 m2 green area per person: one in the north, one in the east and the last one in the west of Linh Dam area. Among them, the eastern...

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LINH DAM NEW TOWN - SOLUTION FOR THE HIGH-DENSITY DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SETTLEMENTS IN THE SOUTH-WEST OF HANOI

LINH DAM NEW TOWN - SOLUTION FOR THE HIGH-DENSITY DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SETTLEMENTS IN THE SOUTH-WEST OF HANOI

... Hanoi ABSTRACT At the present, about 53% female rural labors work partime in Hanoi. With a low literacy level, they often choose jobs as family care, selling goods in the streets or in-waiting ... Although working time is rather long (11- 13 hours/day) and continuously, their montly income average only ranges from VND 2.34 to 3.8 million. 100% labors selling goods in the streets and in-waiting ... unsafe environments; their daily life are rather poor. 22.86% female freelane labors live in boarding houses characterized by poor facilities, insanitation and unsafeness. They always feel lonely...

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skkn new về môn thể dục

skkn new về môn thể dục

... vòng hoặc theo nhóm sức khoẻ, đòi hỏi giáo viên phải chọn vị trí đứng thích hợp để giải thích và điều khiển học sinh tập luyện. Tuỳ theo tính chất của bài tập mà giáo viên có tổ chức theo nhiều ... DUNG: 1.Cơ sở lý luận: Hiện nay các môn học của nhà trường đang được đổi mới phương pháp dạy học theo hướng tích cực hoá cho người học. Phương pháp tích cực hoá người học rất phù hợp với mục tiêu ... sau, xuất phát cao – chạy nhanh 30m. Bài tập: Nhảy dây đơn, bật cóc tiếp sức. _ TTTC(bóng đá): Theo kế hoạch học của giáo viên. II/ YÊU CẦU: 1. Lớp học tổ chức trật tự, kỷ luật, bảo đảm an toàn. 2....

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The conditions in Africa and Eurasia during the last glacial cycle

The conditions in Africa and Eurasia during the last glacial cycle

... inhibited altogether. Further east, on the Russian Plain, the dense temperate forest of the last interglacial maximum was replaced by open, harsh, loess-steppe with the onset of the LGM (Rousseau ... of the middle Pleistocene (Jahns et al., 1998). The complexity of the African climate is the result of the size and heteroge- neous nature of the continent. Nevertheless links between Northern ... 1992). The progressive glaciation of the northern hemisphere commenced towards the end of the Pliocene al- though cooling started as early as the Eocene. The Quaternary is characterised by the alternation...

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NEW FOODS IN THE SOUTHERN NEW WORLD

NEW FOODS IN THE SOUTHERN NEW WORLD

... occupying new territories as it was in conquering them. A couple of hundred years later, the Chimú empire arose on the north coast, while in the south, the popu- lous city of Tiahuanaco on the southeastern ... have been domesticated for their fl esh as well as for their labor, that fl esh freeze-dried to become charqui, which lasts New Foods in the Southern New World 129 The Pizarro expedition reached ... (responsible for the mysterious “Nazca lines” etched in the desert) while, at the same time, the Moche culture (with its famous Temple of the Sun) achieved a similar dominance in the north. The social...

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LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY -The Last Leaf

LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY -The Last Leaf

... sleeping when they went upstairs. Sue pulled the shade down to the window-sill, and motioned Behrman into the other room. In there they peered out the window fearfully at the ivy vine. Then they looked ... it there the night that the last leaf fell." Sue look solicitously out of the window. What was there to count? There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the blank side of the ... were loosed. The day wore away, and even through the twilight they could see the lone ivy leaf clinging to its stem against the wall. And then, with the coming of the night the north wind...

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Tài liệu VIRTUAL REALITY - A NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR THE MECHANICAL ENGINEER docx

Tài liệu VIRTUAL REALITY - A NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR THE MECHANICAL ENGINEER docx

... to the response of the virtual environment to the user's actions. For example, if there is too much lag between the time a person moves his or her hand and the time the ... doing the display on the main processor. In addition to reducing the computational workload on the main processor, another benefit of running the input component on a PC is that there ... components: the user input processing component, the application component, and the output component. The input processing component captures and processes the user input (typically from the ...

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Accounting for new organisational forms the case of subcontracting and outsourcing

Accounting for new organisational forms the case of subcontracting and outsourcing

... agency could either make some savings or incur more costs if the actual salary they paid the recruited nurses was below or above the relevant mid-point on the scale. Despite the good record of the private ... clause then they could just be left to do what they like and there’s no real incentive to meet the terms of the contract’ (senior management accountant). The shift from external outsourcing (the ... indicators. The main changes in the management accounting function were the ways in which they were integrated into the business and the tasks that they were asked to perform.With the case study organisations...

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Tài liệu New Estimates on the Effect of Parental Separation on Child Health ppt

Tài liệu New Estimates on the Effect of Parental Separation on Child Health ppt

... are of other race, mother is white (not father), mother is Hispanic (not father), mother is of other race (not father), mother is foreign-born (not father), father is foreign-born (not mother), ... foreign-born, mother’s education, father’s education, father is less educated than mother, father is more educated than mother, length of time parents knew each other before pregnancy, father suggested ... X i , the distribution of the counterfactual outcome C i (0) in the treated group is the same as the (observed) distribution of C i (0) in the non-treated group. In other words, the outcomes of the...

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Tài liệu NEW ADVANCES IN THE BASIC AND CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY docx

Tài liệu NEW ADVANCES IN THE BASIC AND CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY docx

... antibiotic therapy. The fetus and the newborn are particularly vulnerable to the injuries caused by infectious agents or immunological mechanisms related to the immaturity of the immune system. The ... are synthesized from lactose syrup using the enzyme β -galactosidase (Frost & Sullivan, 2000; Gibson, 2004). They are neither hydrolyzed nor absorbed in the human New Advances in the Basic ... the intestines. It is not surprising therefore that approximately the eighty per cent of the immune system is found in the area of the intestinal tract and it is particularly prevalent in the...

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Tài liệu Fertility, Family Planning, and Women’s Health: New Data From the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth pptx

Tài liệu Fertility, Family Planning, and Women’s Health: New Data From the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth pptx

... white and other women for the NSFG. Sampled women who had moved since the NHIS interview were traced to their new address, and an interviewer conducted the interview at the new address. The numbers, ... nonvoluntaryintercourse.Onesetof questionswasintheinterviewer- administeredportionofthesurveyand thesecondwasintheself-administered portion(AudioCASI).Inthe interviewer-administeredseries,they wereaskedwhethertheirfirst intercoursewas‘‘voluntaryornot voluntary.’’Forabout8percentof women15–44yearsofagewhohave hadintercourse,theirfirstintercourse wasnotvoluntary(table21).Forthose whosefirstintercourseoccurredatage 15oryounger,thatfirstintercoursewas nonvoluntaryfor16percentcompared with7percentorlessforthosewhose firstintercourseoccurredatage16or older.Thepercentwhosefirst intercoursewasnonvoluntaryisnearly 10percentamongwomenwhosefirst intercoursewasbefore1975compared withabout6percentamongwomenwho firsthadintercourseinthe1990’s (table21). Intheself-administered(Audio CASI)portionoftheinterview,women wereaskedarelatedbutdifferent question:whethertheyhadeverbeen forcedbyamantohavesexual intercourseagainsttheirwill.About 20percentofwomenreportedthatthey hadbeenforcedbyamantohave intercourseagainsttheirwillatsome timeintheirlives(table22).Thus, table21showsthatfor8percentof women,theirfirstintercoursewas nonvoluntary;table22showsthat 20percenthadhadnonvoluntary intercourseatsometime—not necessarilyatfirstintercourse.Table22 alsoshowsthat6percentofwomen reportedthattheywereforcedtohave intercoursebeforetheywere15and another6percentbeforetheywere18.A fairlyhighpercentofformerlymarried (divorcedorseparated)women—about 35percent—reportedthattheyhadbeen forcedtohaveintercourse.Thisfinding deservesfurtherstudy. FirstSexualPartner Therehasbeenmuchpublic discussionaboutthepartnersofsexually activeteenagers.Table23profilesthe ageofmalepartnersatwomen’sfirst voluntaryintercourse.Abouttwo-thirds (66percent)ofwomenwhohadtheir firstvoluntaryintercoursebeforethey were16hadfirstpartnerswhowere under18yearsofage;21percenthad firstpartners18–19yearsofage; 7percenthadfirstpartners20–22years ofage,2percenthadfirstpartners 23–24yearsofage,and4percenthad firstpartners25yearsofageorolder (table23). Only3percentofwomenhadtheir firstintercoursewithamantheyjust met.About3outof5women (61percent)were‘‘goingsteady’’or ‘‘goingtogether’’withthemantheyhad intercoursewiththefirsttime,andabout 1in5wereengagedormarriedtohim. About12percentofallwomenwere marriedwhentheyhadtheirfirst intercourse.Amongwomen40–44years ofage(bornin1951–55),23percent weremarriedtotheirpartneratfirst intercoursewhileabout2percentof women15–19yearsofage(born 1971–75)weremarriedtotheirfirst partner.Womenwholivedwithbothof theirparentsthroughouttheirchildhood weremorelikelythanotherwomento havebeenmarriedtotheirpartnerat firstintercourse(table24). FirstIntercourseRelativeto FirstMarriage Amongever-marriedwomen15–44 yearsofage,82percenthadfirst intercoursebeforetheyweremarried. About69percentofthosefirstmarried in1965–74hadtheirfirstintercourse beforemarriagecomparedwith 89percentofthosefirstmarriedinthe 1990’s.Only2percentofthosefirst marriedin1965–74hadtheirfirst intercourse5yearsormorebefore marriagecomparedwith56percentof thosefirstmarriedinthe1990’s (table25). NumberofSexualPartners Asmentionedpreviously,some questionsonabortion,sexualpartners, andforcedsexualintercoursewere askedinboththeinterviewer- administeredandtheself-administered (AudioCASI)portionsoftheinterview. Responsestosensitivequestionsappear tohavebeenaffectedbythecomputer self-administeredmodeofinterviewing. Tables26–31showdataonthenumber ofsexualpartnersinthelast1year,5 years,andlifetime,usingboththe interviewer-administeredandself- administeredmethods.Presentingdata basedonbothmodesofinterviewing allowstheexaminationofdifferencesin reportingduetothemodeof interviewing(table26versus27, table28versus29,andtable30versus 31);andtheselectionoffindingsmost appropriateforcomparisontoother surveys. About3percentofunmarried womentoldtheinterviewerthatthey hadhadfourormoremalesexual partnersinthelast12months(table26), comparedwith9percentreportingfour ormorepartnersinAudioCASI (table27).Asimilardisparitywasfound whencomparingtheinterviewerresults withAudioCASIresultsforthenumber ofpartnerssinceJanuary1991(alittle lessthan5years,onaverage). Amongunmarriedwomen,14percent toldtheinterviewertheyhadfouror moremalesexualpartnerssinceJanuary 1991(table28)while18percent reportedinAudioCASIthattheyhad hadfourormorepartnersinthattime (table29). Thistopicdeservesmoredetailed study,butitappearsthatusingthemore privateinterviewtechniquegavea higherandpresumablymorecomplete estimateofthenumberofpartners amongunmarriedwomen(8,11). MarriageandCohabitation Tables32–37show1995dataon formalmarriageandunmarried cohabitation.About38percentof women15–44yearsofagehadnever beenmarriedwheninterviewedin1995 (table32).Thepercentnevermarried washigherineveryagegroupin1995 thanitwasin1982(24).Abouthalfof women25–39yearsofagehavehadan unmarriedcohabitationwithamanat sometimeintheirlives;10to 11percentofwomenintheirtwenties arecurrentlycohabitingwithaman (table33). About30percentofwomen25–39 yearsofagelivedwithaman (cohabited)beforetheirfirstmarriage (table34).Overone-half(57percent)of Series23,No.19[Page5 ... marital status provided by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. The 10,847 women in the NSFG represent the 60.2 million women in the civilian noninstitutional population of the United States in 1995. Thus,...

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Tài liệu Bringing Social Impact Bonds to New York City: The City of New York pdf

Tài liệu Bringing Social Impact Bonds to New York City: The City of New York pdf

... oversees the day-to-day implementation of the project and manages the Osborne Association and Friends of Island Academy, the two non-profit service providers that deliver the intervention; ã The ... whether the project achieves the targeted reductions in reincarceration; ã The Department of Correction pays MDRC based on reduced re-admissions and the associated cost savings and MDRC then ... Bringing Social Impact Bonds to New York City The City of New York Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor What are the Benefits? ã Investing in outcomes to improve the lives of those in need ã...

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Tài liệu The Last Man pptx

Tài liệu The Last Man pptx

... to the last. My garments were torn, and they, as well as my hands, were stained with the blood of the man I had wounded; one hand grasped the dead birds—my hard-earned prey, the other held the ... if in the calm of their measured reveries, if in the deep meditations which fill their hours, they feel the ecstasy of a youthful tyro in the school of pleasure? Can the calm beams of their heaven-seeking ... neither the lonely meditations of the hermit, nor the tu- multuous raptures of the reveller, are capable of satisfying man's heart. From the one we gather unquiet speculation, from the other...

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