Seismic screening, evaluation, and rehabilitation design of two existing wood-framed structures are performed using FEMA 154, FEMA 356, ASCE/SEI 31, and the 1997 UBC. FEMA 154 screening demonstrates the importance of examining construction drawings. Plans revealed a structural deficiency, but screening alone indicated no further evaluation is needed. Demand-to-capacity ratios for shear walls an...

Developmental plans of the country emphasize on the exports-focused growth strategy, and export diversification is one of the most appropriate policies in this area. Export diversification moves from primary goods to industrial goods. Yet, export diversification, according to the principles of international trade, must be based on comparative advantage until to change value-added. Changes in th...

Palynological and archaeobotanical analyses have been carried out as part of the interdisciplinary project Colombare di Negrar, a prehistoric site in Lessini Mountains (northern Italy). The palaeoenvironmental economic reconstruction from Late Neolithic to beginning Early Bronze Age was based on 16 pollen samples three macroremains taken two contiguous trenches. landscape shows presence natural...

Tropical forests are under unprecedented pressure for conversion to pastoral and agricultural land or to plantations (including for biofuel production) and from the supply and extraction of forest goods and services, including timber and bushmeat (Kant 2004, Gardner et al. 2009). To preserve them, much effort has gone into setting up and managing a network of protected areas because, for variou...

This article uses the evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Urban Health Initiative (UHI), a 10-year effort to improve health and safety outcomes in distressed cities, to demonstrate the strength of an evaluation design that integrates theory of change and quasiexperimental approaches, including the use of comparison cities. This paper focuses on the later stages of implemen...

A laboratory aerobic incubation study was performed during 18 weeks under controlled conditions to assess the effects of applying different doses of pulp mill inorganic wastes on the physical-chemical properties of an acid Dystric Cambissol. Three different inorganic wastes were tested - wood ash, dregs and grits, and an agriculture limestone was used as reference. Results showed that increasin...

Nacrtak An experiment on the growing and harvesting of willow trees aimed at short rotation forestry was conducted in northern Japan. Willows were harvested using a sugarcane harvester from southern Japan during its agricultural off-season. The growing experiment showed the high potential of willow plantations to produce woody biomass of more than 10 dry-t/ha/y. The harvesting experiment showed...

Abstract The demand for wood biofuel district heating plants and combined heat power (CHPs) has increased, caused by an increase in both the number size of CHPs. This places large demands on logistics system supplying these with fuel, a particular interest use alternative modes transport such as rail sea. aim this paper is to identify industry actors’ requirements, constraints, preferences rega...

forests as a renewable source has effective and useful role in economic and social activities of society. network of forest roads as infrastructure division’s forest planning units (compartments) of forest management plans, management, logging, exit of wood and plays a major role forest protection. aim of this study, designed forest road network according to multi-purpose forestry using the net...