IMPROVEMENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR TUNNELLING: SELECTED CASE HISTORIES Guido Pellegrino Nicholson Construction Company ABSTRACT Soil improvement technologies have been widely employed over the recent decades to overcome tunnelling problems in difficult grounds‚ their range of application growing proportionally to the technological development. The constant advancement in the different mechanical (flexible and more powerful equipment) and electronic (enhanced reliability and direct quality control) aspects
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that battle‚ I read “Common Ground” by Judith Ortiz Cofer. At first‚ I read the title and thought it’d be something for pro-equality and how people are essentially created equal. By the second stanza‚ with the line‚ “when I look in the mirror I see my grandmother’s stern lips‚” it was clear that it wasn’t a poem about being created equal‚ but about how people do share that “common ground” with people they may not have wanted to grow up like. The title “Common Ground” clearly indicates that there
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Pro-Life/Pro-Choice: The Middle Ground Black and white‚ up and down‚ right and wrong; there is always some sort of inbetween factor between all of these. But how could there be one for people who support and oppose abortion? These two topics seem like they could never be similar or intersect at all. In order for a middle ground to be found between Pro-Life and Pro-Choice on Abortion‚ it is necessary to examine the history of these two groups‚ their ideals‚ and the reason for middle ground. The history of the
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in Wayne County Ground Moraine (14‚000 to 24‚000 years old)- Ground Moraines often show up as rolling‚ strangely shaped land covered in grass or other vegetation. They don’t have the sharp ridges of other moraines. A ground moraine is made of sediment that slowly builds up directly underneath a glazier by tiny streams‚ or as the result of a glazier meeting hills and valleys in the natural landscape. When a glazier melts‚ the ground moraine underneath is exposed. Ground moraines are the most
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Standing on Holy Ground must have a big significance for people that see the nursing profession as a call from God and is accepting that call. In our daily living‚ we can perceive a lot of nurses that see their job just like a way to have a good income‚ they can be great nurses but there is something missing. “When you see nursing as a calling‚ you go to this higher level which is the vocation level‚ which has a spiritual dimension to the profession” [O’Brian‚1]. The vocation gave to the nurse’s
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remember the steps for the members. Rules: set ground rules; Identify issues we would like to change; decide on what to work on first‚ Goals: what do we want to achieve? Explore the issues in more detail; Strategies/activities: work out ways of achieving goals. When social worker dealing with family issues has to develop ground rules for the family members. RIDGES steps are essential to social workers when sessions are undertaken with families. Ground rules include confidentiality‚ record keeping
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I believe that all citizens should be allowed the “Stand Your Ground” law for self-defense from harmful threats around the U.S. Crime rates in the U.S. have been rising over the last couple of years. Many people do not know how to protect themselves from a threat. Many are too scared to as they could get in serious trouble if the threat is not posing a threat to them. State legislative bodies have been pushing to expand self-defense laws in the U.S. In recent years this law has only applied
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Schools‚ particularly public high schools in the US‚ attempt to ensure this by implementing “zero-tolerance” policies. Zero-tolerance describes a set of rules and disciplinary codes for students in order to keep as many students from harm as possible. Commonly‚ a zero-tolerance policy disallows‚ on threat of suspension or expulsion‚ bringing anything that could be classified as a weapon onto school grounds‚ accidentally or on purpose‚ or any form of physical violence‚ even in self-defense (Gjelten
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Zero Dark Thirty is a movie about the manhunt for Osama bin Laden that lasted almost 10 years beginning after the September 11‚ 2001 terror attacks on the United States and finally ending on May 2‚ 2011 when Osama bin Laden was killed. The film bounces around in different locations around the Middle East and the United States as the CIA is on the hunt for bin Laden. Pakistan is the primary focus‚ however. The film takes the viewer to different locations of Black Sites. Black Sites were places of
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ESSAY – GOOD FAITH BARGAINING The objective underlying the Fair Work Act 2009 was to “get the balance right” (Smart Company‚ 2010 ; Forsyth‚ 2005) between fairness and flexibility in Australian workplaces while getting rid of the harsher aspects of Work Choices which preceded it. The Fair Work Act sought to restore collective bargaining in the Australian workplace relations system‚ including enhanced rights for union involvement and‚ most importantly‚ the good faith bargaining requirements. Good
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