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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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Auditory and Phonetic Processes in Speech Perception
In the past two decades, great advancements have been made in phonetic, auditory, and psycholinguistic research on speech perception. As the fields have advanced, there has been increasing interdisciplinary collaboration between them, which has, in turn, revealed their interdependence. The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together top scholars in these three related areas to present resear…
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- 9783036574134, 9783036574127
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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 Language Development: The Role of Dominance
It has long been established that bilingual speakers are rarely balanced in their languages so that one language is dominant. The contributions to Bilingual Language Development: The Role of Dominance focus on the potential effects of language dominance on the competence and processing of bilinguals, covering a large variety of language combinations and domains. Important aspects of such wo…
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- 9782889459889
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Bilingual Europe
From medieval times in Italy, the Romance vernaculars and their literatures stood opposite Latin, which was the official, Church and literary language. Dante Alighieri’s Latin work De vulgari eloquentia is a testimony to this linguistic situation.
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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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Biliary Tract
Common bile duct stones (CBDS) incidence is about 10–15%. Clinical signs and symptoms are nonspecific but when associated with biochemical tests and abdominal ultrasound, patients can be categorized into low, intermediate, and high risk of choledocholithiasis
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- 9781803566993, 9781803566986
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Audiovisual Speech Recognition: Correspondence between Brain and Behavior
Perceptual processes mediating recognition, including the recognition of objects and spoken words, is inherently multisensory. This is true in spite of the fact that sensory inputs are segregated in early stages of neuro-sensory encoding. In face-to-face communication, for example, auditory information is processed in the cochlea, encoded in auditory sensory nerve, and processed in lower cortic…
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- 9782889192519
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Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages
This book presents a range of ongoing studies on atypical language development in Romance languages. Despite the steady increase in the number of studies on typical language development, there is still little research about atypical language development, especially in Romance languages. This book covers four main conditions causing atypical language development. Part I explores the linguistic a…
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