The widespread brittle failure of welded beam-to-column connections caused by the 1994 Northridge and 1995 Kobe earthquakes highlighted the need for retrofitting measures effective in reducing the strength demand imposed on connections under cyclic loading.Researchers presented the reduced beam section (RBS) as a viable option to create a weak zone
In coupled social-ecological systems, the same driving forces can result in combined social and environmental health inequities, hazards, and impacts.Policies that decrease social inequities and improve social cohesion, however, also have the potential to improve health outcomes and to minimize and offset the drivers of ecosystem change.Actions tha
The impacts of changing climate on agriculture have consequences on livelihoods and food security.Smallholder farmers, who have heterogeneous farming systems and limited resources, compounded with multiple risks, are greatly affected.There has been limited research showing how vulnerability assessments have evolved in the smallholder agricultural s
Abstract Background To understand the evolution of animals it is essential to have taxon sampling across a representative spread of the animal kingdom.With the recent rearrangement BABY MID CASTILE BAR of most of the Bilateria into three major clades (Ecdysozoa, Lophotrochozoa and Deuterostomia) it has become clear that the Lophotrochozoa are relat
Philaenus spumarius and Neophilaenus campestris are the main vectors of the invasive bacteria Xylella fastidiosa and key threats to European plant health.Previous studies of the potential distribution of P.spumarius reveal that climatic factors are the main drivers of its distribution on the Mediterranean Basin scale.Other local studies reveal GLUC