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BIM-Based Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Buildings
The management of the life cycle of large publicly owned social housing complexes requires a large amount of human and technological resources, the optimization of which is a desirable and shared objective. This article proposes a workflow for the enhancement of these management processes based on BIM (Building Information Modelling), a methodology capable of integrating architectural infor…
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- 9783036555201, 9783036555195
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BIM in the Construction Industry
Many researchers have stated that lean and building information modeling (BIM) have positive synergies. This integrative literature review aims at exploring this body of knowledge within the scope of combinations of BIM and the Last Planner® System, as an important Lean construction method, in the phase of construction execution.
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- 9783039365739, 9783039365746
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Bilingualism and Deafness. On Language Contact in the Bilingual Acquisition o…
This book examines sociolinguistic, educational and psycholinguistic factors that shape the path to sign bilingualism in deaf individuals and contributes to a better understanding of the specific characteristics of a type of bilingualism that is neither territorial nor commonly the result of parent-to-child transmission
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- 9781501504990
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Bilingual Couples in Conversation (Volume 149)
In this sociolinguistic study, the speech and the modes of communication of ten bilingual couples were analysed, based on a corpus of in-depth interviews with both partners. My main aim was to draw a detailed picture of various areas pertaining to the communication between native speakers of English and Swiss partners who, despite being late bilinguals, have a high level of proficiency in …
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- 9783772057632
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Bildungspraktiken der Aufklärung / Education practices of the Enlightenment.…
: For a short period in the early 18th century the city of Gdańsk held a notable position as an intersection of scholarship within the Baltic Sea region. Acting as an autonomous state, the commercial metropolis not only became one of the most populous cities in East-Central Europe in the Early Modern times, but also a significant centre for information and communication
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- 9783110671827
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Bildung / Transformation
Kulturelle und gesellschaftliche Umbrüche, die gegenwärtig in allen möglichen Formen stattfinden und sich durch die »Globalisierung« zu vervielfältigen scheinen, stellen eine der großen Herausforderungen für die Sozialwissenschaften dar
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- 9783933127945
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Bilateral Vestibulopathy - Current Knowledge and Future Directions to Improve…
Bilateral vestibulopathy has had several names, paralleling growing numbers of publications and interest in its pathophysiology and treatment. The condition was formerly Dandy syndrome, eponymously associated with neurosurgeon Walter Dandy who worked at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1918 to 1946. Having developed expertise in vestibular schwannoma surgery, Dandy became interested in vesti…
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- 9782889456284
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Bijective point maps, point-stationarity and characterization of Palm measures
In the theory of stationary spatial point processes, Palm distributions are used to describe the point process seen from one of its points. Such an intrinsic frame of reference is not only interesting for theoretical considerations, but also useful in related fields such as queuing theory and stochastic geometry.
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- 3866440170
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- IV, 82 p.
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Bigger Than You: Big Data and Obesity
In her first inquiry toward a decelerationist aesthetics, Katherine Behar explores in this essay chapbook the rise of two “big deal” contemporary phenomena, big data and obesity. In both, scale rearticulates the human as a diffuse informational pattern, causing important shifts in political form as well as aesthetic form. Bigness redraws relationships between the singular and the collective.
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- 9780692652831
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Big Research Questions about the Human Condition
What is at stake in this chapter is my desire to understand and systematise the conditions for the spread and acceptance as well as the rejection of knowledge. The notion of knowledge is here taken in its broad and classical Platonian sense as justified true belief, still a workable definition
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