Unreinforced masonry (URM) structures are vulnerable to earthquakes; thus, materials and techniques for their strengthening restoration should be developed. However, the used in some of existing retrofitting technologies URM waste produced at its end-of-life unsustainable. The production ordinary Portland cement (OPC) worldwide has enormously contributed global carbon footprint, resulting persi...

There is a significant building stock of post-WWII low- and mid-rise unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings in Serbia the region (former Yugoslavia). Numerous this typology collapsed due to devastating 1963 Skopje, Yugoslavia earthquake, causing fatalities, injuries, property losses, as well experienced damage few recent earthquakes region, including 2010 Kraljevo, earthquake (MW 5.5) 2020 Petrin...

A two-step strategy for the mechanical analysis of unreinforced masonry (URM) structures, subjected to either in- or out-of-plane loading, is presented. At a first step, semi-automatic digital tool allows parametric modeling structure that, together with an upper bound limit and heuristic optimization solver, enables tracking most prone failure mechanism. second coupled concurrent FE model micr...

Microaggressions are behaviors that stem from implicit bias and occur at an interpersonal level. In medicine, microaggressions may be encountered both in training clinical practice. Although often unintentional or unconscious by the offender, harmful to health safety of women underrepresented minority (URM) medical students, residents, physicians, other providers, patients. This article aims de...

This paper deals with the seismic vulnerability of monumental unreinforced masonry (URM) towers, fragility which has not yet been sufficiently studied. Thus, present fills this gap by developing models to investigate response URM towers up collapse. On mount Athos, Greece, there exist more than a hundred medieval having served mainly as campaniles or fortifications. Eight representative were se...

Abstract The seismic evaluation of masonry buildings in aggregate, largely diffused within the existing Italian and European building stock, represents a difficult open task that has not been exhaustively investigated so far. study proposes procedure aimed at evaluating potential impact combination local mechanisms site-amplification terms fragility curves on an unreinforced (URM) aggregate whi...

Although recent research has reported equity gains in the university-level physics classroom, there remains evidence of significant inequities by race. We conducted a series multiple linear regressions to examine magnitude these introductory mechanics final exam scores. When we followed common method grouping students underrepresented minority (URM) status our statistical analysis, found that w...

The elongator (ELP) complex consisting of Elp1-6p has been indicated to play roles in multiple cellular processes. In yeast, the ELP complex has been shown to genetically interact with Uba4p/Urm1p and Kti11-13p for a function in tRNA modification. Through a Caenorhabditis elegans genetic suppressor screen and positional cloning, we discovered that loss-of-function mutations of moc-3 and dph-3, ...

Unreinforced masonry (URM) is considered one of the most cost-effective structural typologies for low-rise buildings in seismic regions. Near-field (NF) ground motions are sometimes characterized by high-velocity pulses that typically more destructive than far-field (FF) events. Therefore, a fragility analysis URM building subjected to NF and FF events was performed. Four walls were chosen, non...