Abstract Adaptations to the humeral torsion angle have been identified in the professional throwing athlete. This movement pattern increases the humeral torsion angle, and also increases the extent of external rotation movements in the dominant, throwing limb when compared with the nondominant limb. The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis that the humeral torsion angle is an adaptation to upper limb use. This project examines the humeral torsion angle in a number of medieval British ...
Tópico(s): Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
2005 - Wiley | American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Esther Travé Allepuz, José Ignacio Padilla Lapuente,
... aras deuna mayor adecuacion tecnica.Palabras clave: Arqueologia medieval, Hornos, Alfareria,Tecnologia, Centros de produccion.Abstract: (Potteries, Kilns and ceramic production inMedieval and Modern Catalonia: A suggestion for debate)During the last ten years, archaeological –mainly preventive–fieldwork allowed finding out some kilns from medieval andmodern times that complete the panorama known until ...
Tópico(s): Archaeological and Geological Studies
2013 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Strong-Stress Metre in Fourteen-Line Stanza Forms Ruth Kennedy Almost every poet w h o attempted rhymed, stanzaic alliterative verse from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries in England and Scotland decided on the 13-line stanza with itsfive-linecaudal but the 14-line form made up ofan octave and six-line cauda was used only rarely. Jakob Schipper, after dealing with the 13-line corpus, appended a mere two sentences on the 14-line form - in essence: An interesting variety of the common ...
Tópico(s): Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization
2000 - Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies | Parergon
A fibre model to describe the global dynamic response of slender masonry towers is presented for use in deterministic vulnerability analysis. The main stresses are axial in this type of structure, and coupling between flexural and axial modes in the inelastic region may be critical. The model accounts for the three-dimensional response of the structure and the relations between coupling effects and masonry characteristics. An exhaustive parametric study revealed that compression strength and height ...
Tópico(s): Structural Response to Dynamic Loads
1998 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Earthquake Engineering
The detailed planning of English medieval towns has received scant attention from scholars. Two towns in Midland England, Stratford-upon-Avon and Lichfield, founded in the twelfth century by episcopal lords are investigated to demonstrate the nature of the medieval town plans at the time of their foundation. It is shown that the ideal geometrical plan in the mind of the surveyor was adapted in a number of ways as development proceeded. First, features of the established pre-urban landscape were ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Environmental Studies
1987 - Wiley | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
The ancient town of Pavia was seized with panic on the 17th March 1989, when the 900 year old Civic Tower suddenly collapsed without warning. That alarming collapse could have been due to soil subsidence or strength deterioration by environmental actions, so that similar actions could be dangerous for other ancient buildings, among them several extremely slender towers standing since the Middle Ages. In order to assess the stability of the 6 tall towers still standing in the center of Pavia, it ...
Tópico(s): Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
1993 - Taylor & Francis | Structural Engineering International
Tópico(s): Historical and Religious Studies of Rome
1992 - Springer Science+Business Media | Historical Archaeology
Tópico(s): Archaeological and Geological Studies
2014 - | Revista Universidad de Antioquia
Tópico(s): BIM and Construction Integration
2013 - | International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM ...
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2005 - University of Chicago Press | Speculum
We analyze the transport properties of 4-(6-(4-chlorophenyl)-4-phenyl-1,3-diaza-bicyclo[3.1.0]hex-3-en-2-yl)-2-nitrophenol molecular optical switch using first-principles calculations. Molecule consisting switch can transform among closed and open forms by visible or ultraviolet irradiation. We have studied multiple attributes such as I–V characteristics, electronic transmission coefficients T(E), the effect of electrode materials (Au, Ag, and Pt) on electronic transport properties, on-off ratio ...
Tópico(s): Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
1990 - Elsevier BV | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
Marco Valente, Gabriele Milani,
This paper investigates the seismic response and partial failure mechanisms of the Castle of St. George, one of the most renowned monumental constructions of the invaluable cultural heritage in Mantua (Northern Italy), which was hit by the 2012 Emilia seismic sequence. The first part of the study is based on historical analysis, documentary research, photographic collection and field surveys to achieve an accurate knowledge of the castle and a proper evaluation of the damage caused by the earthquake. ...
Tópico(s): Building materials and conservation
2019 - Elsevier BV | Engineering Failure Analysis
Tópico(s): Hygrothermal properties of building materials
2000 - Elsevier BV | Building and Environment
José Luis Mingote Calderón.Tecnología agrícola medieval en España: una relación entre la etnología y la arqueología a través de los aperos agrícolas. Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación ...
Tópico(s): Archaeological and Geological Studies
1998 - University of León | Estudios Humanísticos Filología
Sara Casciati, Lucia Faravelli,
Abstract The seismic vulnerability of an ancient civic bell tower is studied. Rather than seeing it as an intermediate stage towards a risk analysis, the assessment of vulnerability is here pursued for optimising the retrofit design. Vulnerability curves are drawn by carrying out a single time history analysis of a model calibrated based on experimental data. From the results of this analysis, the medians of three selected performance parameters are estimated, and they are used to compute, for each ...
Tópico(s): Wind and Air Flow Studies
2009 - Taylor & Francis | Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
Rosa Lasaponara, Nicola Masini,
The potential of high‐resolution QuickBird satellite imagery for archaeological investigations is assessed in the well documented site of Monteserico Village in the Southern Italy. The considered test site presents complex topographical and morphological features, typical of many medieval settlements, which make archaeological prospection with any remote sensing technologies difficult. Results from our investigations showed that the QuickBird fused products can be a valuable data source for reconstructing ...
Tópico(s): Remote-Sensing Image Classification
2005 - American Geophysical Union | Geophysical Research Letters
Manuel Fernández-Miranda, Ignacio Montero Ruíz, Salvador Rovira Lloréns,
A través del uso de la aleación de cobre y estaño en la tecnología metalúrgica de la Edad del Bronce europea se analizan las relaciones culturales e intercambios que tienen lugar entre los diversos grupos culturales.Al principio la disponibilidad de recursos minerales de estaño condicionó la composición de la aleación, pero más tarde el establecimiento de relaciones comerciales condujo a una mayor homogeneización en la producción.La Península Ibérica aparece durante el Bronce Antiguo desconectada ...
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1995 - Spanish National Research Council | Trabajos de Prehistoria
One of the most important techniques to be applied in medieval archaeology is access analysis, in which the spaces inside a structure are categorised by their relative ease of access and interpreted in terms of privilege and privacy. The author demonstrates the method, taking buildings from Salisbury town and Cathedral Close as a case study.
Tópico(s): Historical and Archaeological Studies
2003 - Cambridge University Press | Antiquity
This research investigates the stability of rock slopes in the foundations of selected medieval castles in Slovakia. In the first phase, static analysis of the 45 selected medieval castle rock slopes was performed, where more than 12,000 potentially unstable blocks were analyzed and the factor of safety in static condition was calculated using the key block theory implemented in the Kbslope module of PTworkshop software. Based on results of the static stability analysis, a pseudo-static analysis ...
Tópico(s): Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
2012 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Cultural Heritage
Excavations around the Prediger Church in Zurich (Switzerland) for a building project prompted interest in the region beneath the choir, which dates from the thirteenth century. To supplement archaeological information on the church, the hidden remains beneath the choir were investigated with ground-penetrating radar (GPR). An initial coarse GPR survey with shielded high-frequency antennae mapped the locations and dimensions of buried walls beneath the choir. The choir was determined to be rectangular ...
Tópico(s): Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
2000 - Wiley | Archaeological Prospection
This paper reports a case study from 15 to 16th century Ireland of a mature adult male with upper and lower limb asymmetry. All of the bones of the right upper and lower extremity were atrophied and demonstrated limb shortening. This individual also had severe scoliosis and accessory facets on the superior aspect of the distal ends of the right metatarsals. These facets were most likely caused by the individual walking predominately on his toes to make up for the height difference between the lower ...
Tópico(s): Anatomy and Medical Technology
2016 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Paleopathology
Jens Hildenhagen, K. Dickmann,
The UV wavelength at 248 nm of an excimer laser was used for basic investigations in cleaning of various encrusted sandstones as well as corroded medieval glass. Due to the combination of UV wavelength and short pulse duration (20–40 ns), this laser enables a removal with very low thermal load onto the artwork. Our studies have shown that this is true for the removal of dense crusts, bio-layers and organic layers (due to former conservation) from medieval glass. The potential of excimer lasers in ...
Tópico(s): Building materials and conservation
2003 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Cultural Heritage
Thomas Schmid, Robert Jungnickel, Petra Dariz,
Abstract When used as a mineral binder, gypsum is thermally dehydrated and mixed with water, resulting in a paste hardening in the backreaction to calcium sulphate dihydrate (CaSO 4 · 2 H 2 O). Although nowadays mainly hemihydrate‐based (CaSO 4 · ½ H 2 O) binders are employed, higher firing temperatures in medieval kilns yielded anhydrite II (CaSO 4 ). Except for the discrimination of the metastable phases anhydrite III and I due to different crystal structures, variations within the production temperature ...
Tópico(s): Geophysical Methods and Applications
2019 - Wiley | Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
Roger Bilham, Bikram Singh Bali,
An entry in the Tarikh-i-Hassan records that in 883 AD during the reign of King Avantivarman (855–883) an earthquake in Kashmir triggered a landslide that impounded the River Jhelum and flooded the Kashmir Valley. Kalhana's Rajatarangini provides abundant details about how the ninth century engineer Suyya both cleared the natural dam, drained the valley and instituted numerous irrigation works. We identify the landslide(s) responsible for this Medieval flood and from twentieth century discharge statistics ...
Tópico(s): Seismic Performance and Analysis
2013 - Springer Science+Business Media | Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
Alberto Carpinteri, Giuseppe Lacidogna,
This investigation concerns the structural stability of two medieval buildings, "Torre Sineo" and "Torre Astesiano," rising in the center of Alba, a characteristic town in Piedmont, Italy. The geometrical and structural aspects of these masonry towers were analyzed and tests were performed to assess the evolution of damage phenomena. The slant of the towers was determined with the customary topographic survey methods. Nondestructive testing methods were used, instead, to determine the extent of damage ...
Tópico(s): Geophysical Methods and Applications
2006 - American Society of Civil Engineers | Journal of Structural Engineering
Jörg Stelzner, Florian Gauß, Philipp Schuetz,
The analysis of early Medieval swords is of great significance due to the eminent position of the find category in the study of the early Medieval period. X-ray computed tomography is a non-destructive analytical method permitting the collection of data that otherwise could only be gathered with considerable effort and much damage to the object. Beyond the usual morphological and dimensional parameters, the method allows for the fast and accurate gathering of knowledge about the construction and ...
Tópico(s): X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis
2015 - Taylor & Francis | Studies in Conservation
Jon Adams, William A. Kneller, D. Dollimore,
Tópico(s): Masonry and Concrete Structural Analysis
1992 - Elsevier BV | Thermochimica Acta
Tópico(s): Mechanics and Biomechanics Studies
1991 - Springer Nature | Scientific American
Tópico(s): Civil and Structural Engineering Research
2017 - | Journal of Civil Engineering and Science
Markéta Lednická, Zdeněk Kaláb,
Tópico(s): Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
2013 - Springer Science+Business Media | Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica