Published online in Wiley Interscience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/tal.368 PROS AND CONS OF MULTISTORY RC TUNNEL-FORM (BOX-TYPE) BUILDINGS EROL KALKAN1* AND S. BAHADIR YÜKSEL2 2 1 California Geological Survey‚ Sacramento‚ CA‚ USA Department of Civil Engineering‚ Selcuk University‚ Konya‚ Turkey SUMMARY Tunnel-form structural systems (i.e.‚ box systems)‚ having a load-carrying mechanism composed of reinforced concrete (RC) shear walls and slabs only‚ have been prevailingly utilized
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given a box or a jar‚ called “pithos” in Greek. Gods told her that the box contained special gifts from them but she was not allowed to open the box ever. Then Hermes took her to Epimetheus‚ brother of Prometheus‚ to be his wife. Prometheus had advised Epimetheus not to accept anything from the Gods‚ but he saw Pandora and was astonished by her beauty‚ thus he accepted her right away. Pandora was trying to tame her curiosity‚ but at the end she could not hold herself anymore; she opened the box and
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Characters Box Trolls was an interesting movie with an immense amount of insight to leadership and followership. The characters included: the box trolls (who humans looked down on)‚ the man with the red hat (who was driven by greed)‚ The lordship who wore a white hat‚ his daughter Winnie and the boy who was raised by the box trolls. The principles or ethics portrayed in the movie are valuable lessons. For instance‚ the Box troll’s exterminators kept following a questionable leadership. If a follower
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the Eightfold Path in Siddhartha’s journey. To complete this task‚ we made a explosion box. The explosion box is the box that opens into a flat surface when you open the lid. We decided to make this because we thought it would be a creative and unique way of visual representation. When you open the box‚ there is one more smaller box inside‚ which allows the box to have eight sides in total. Each sides of the box has description of each of the steps in the eightfold path. The Eightfold Path includes
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In The Box Man‚ written and narrated by Barbara Lazear Ascher‚ she uses the style of diction to compare and contrast the difference between the solitary and loneliness lifestyles. The reveals that “The Box Man” has chosen a solitary life style and lives in solitude‚ she also gives two more examples such as the lady down the hall‚ or the lady in the shop. She creates and clear image that the man overcame loneliness and lives a life of solitude become his own friend. In the first few paragraphs she
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There are several ways worth considering improving the current situation‚ such as by using a collocation of adopting different rental terms of 4 weeks‚ 8 weeks‚ and 12 weeks. However‚ the proportions of the rental terms need to be chosen carefully. Below are three options for consideration: • Option A: capture 60% of the four-week market‚ 30% of the eight-week market‚ and 10% of the twelve-week market; or • Option B: capture 40% of the four-week market‚ 40% of the eight-week market‚ and 20% of
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A red–black tree is similar in structure to a B-tree of order[note 1] 4‚ where each node can contain between 1 to 3 values and (accordingly) between 2 to 4 child pointers. In such B-tree‚ each node will contain only one value matching the value in a black node of the red–black tree‚ with an optional value before and/or after it in the same node‚ both matching an equivalent red node of the red–black tree. One way to see this equivalence is to "move up" the red nodes in a graphical representation
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School were seated in the front row. One of the old students of the school and an Executive Officer of Queens Dumpster Rental Company was also among those present. The Class of 2007 organized this school event as a way of bringing together all old students of the school that could attend the occasion. An Award of Recognition was given to the Executive Officer of Queens Dumpster Rental Company. This award recognized the good work that the company had done in making the city clean. The dumpster company
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the vacancy percentage and increase the revenue for the rental company. This is thought of as a temporary fix on a month to month lease basis and provides us with a good example of what microeconomics is. When a new company decided to move into town and increase the population as well as increase the number of jobs provides us with another good example of microeconomics. Because the population increased and the jobs increased means the rental rates are increased as well in order to respond to
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extreme curiosity. Both Pandora and Norma receive two strange gifts. Pandora receives a special box presented by the messenger of the gods‚ Hermes. With the box she also got a warning to never open it. Making this task a bit harder‚ Hera the wife of Zeus gave Pandora the gift of curiosity. Curiosity and a mysterious box? Not such a great combination. Pandora tried extremely hard to fight the urge to open the box‚ she even chained it up and buried it in the ground‚ and sadly her temptation was to powerful
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