Typological universals are skewed distributional patterns whereby languages recurrently display certain grammatical as opposed to others. Explanations for these usually based on their synchronic properties, not actual diachronic processes that shape the pattern cross-linguistically. The paper discusses evidence about origins of some typological pertaining word order and aspect/tense conditioned...

Purpose This paper aims to explore four disruptions that practice theory makes traditional social marketing approaches school physical activity (PA) intervention. Design/methodology/approach The draws on existing literature from sustainable consumption, sociology of health and illness the authors’ experiences working with primary schools in UK plan execute PA, targeting interconnected practices...

This study proposes a practical fragility-oriented approach for the seismic retrofit design of case-study structures. relies on mapping increase global displacement-based ratio capacity to life-safety demand ( CDR LS ) building-level fragility reduction. Specifically, due retrofitting is correlated with corresponding shift in median values multiple structure-specific damage states, observing th...