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The bibliographic database (without full-text dissertations) is known as Dissertation Abstracts or Dissertation Abstracts International. PQDT annually publishes more than 90% of all dissertations submitted from accredited institutions of higher learning in North America as well as from colleges and universities in Europe and Asia.
International Journal of Social Welfare is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell. The journal was established in 1992 as Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, obtaining its current name in 1999. [1] The journal covers topics associated with social welfare and social work and
Core-and-veneer, brick and rubble, wall and rubble, ashlar and rubble, and emplekton all refer to a building technique where two parallel walls are constructed and the core between them is filled with rubble or other infill, creating one thick wall. [1] Originally, and in later poorly constructed walls, the rubble was not consolidated.
Emergent design is a phrase coined by David Cavallo to describe a theoretical framework for the implementation of systemic change in education and learning environments. This examines how choice of design methodology contributes to the success or failure of education reforms through studies in Thailand.
Doctor of Education (EdD or DEd) theses, for example Mary Greaves thesis. [31] Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil) by prior publication in peer reviewed journals, for example Jill Steward's thesis. [32] Doctor of Philosophy in creative writing, for example Sally O'Reilly's thesis. [33]
In the past two decades the steel plate shear wall (SPSW), also known as the steel plate wall (SPW), has been used in a number of buildings in Japan and North America as part of the lateral force resisting system. In earlier days, SPSWs were treated like vertically oriented plate girders and design procedures tended to be very conservative.
Social Work Research is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering social work. It was established in 1977 as Social Work Research and Abstracts, and in 1995, this split into two separate journals: Social Work Research and Social Work Abstracts. It is published by Oxford University Press as part of their partnership with the National ...
By 1963, a new structural system of framed tubes had appeared in skyscraper design and construction. Fazlur Rahman Khan, a structural engineer from Bangladesh (then called East Pakistan) who worked at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, defined the framed tube structure as "a three dimensional space structure composed of three, four, or possibly more frames, braced frames, or shear walls, joined at or ...