An Architectural Approach to Neighborhood Design in The Quarry Road Informal Settlement in Durban by Viloshin Govender, Ameen Shaikjee

“…Synthesizing architecture and informality through an understanding of the existing socio-spatial dynamics, culture, economic networks, insurgent practices, and approach to the production of the built form of informal settlement communities can produce a more responsive architecture capable of increasing informal settlement communities' resilience to site-specific challenges, improving their quality of life, and ultimately aiding them towards their hopes and aspirations. …”
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An Investigation into the Tunnel-Soil-Pipeline Interaction by In Situ Measured Settlements of the Pipelines by Xinggao Li, Ting Wang, Yi Yang

“…Sharp increases in the pipeline settlement occurred in the specific stages (stages 2 and 4). …”
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Air Quality Issues and Settlement Suitability Analysis in Iğdır Central District by Mücahit Çoşkun, Hüseyin Şahiner, Onur Canbulat, Ahmet Öztürk

“…Air pollution can be a concern during certain seasons, specifically in autumn and winter, in the city center of Iğdır owing to the city’s geomorphological and climatological features. …”
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Settlement and Civility as Pre-Requisite of Evangelization in the <i>Chichimeca</i> Frontier by Manuel Mendez Alonzo

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Soils of the Settlements of the Yamal Region (Russia): Morphology, Diversity, and Their Environmental Role by Evgeny Abakumov, Alexandr Pechkin, Sergey Kouzov, Anna Kravchuk

“…The population of the Arctic zone of Russia is extremely urbanized, and up to 84% of the population lives in cities and industrial settlements. In this regard, we studied the background soils of forests and tundras and the soils of settlements. …”
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Research on the Settlement Patterns of Tunnel-Surrounding Rock Under Groundwater Conditions by Haining Liu, Tianyi Wang, Wenjia Ma, Minglei Kang, Yunyou Fu, Tingsong Yan

“…Changes in groundwater levels, whether rising or falling, can either accelerate or delay the point at which settlement stability is achieved. (2) The numerical simulation settlement curves closely align with the field monitoring curves, with simulated settlement values slightly exceeding the monitored results. …”
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Regional settlement systems in Ukraine: features of development in terms of decentralization reform by Liudmyla Niemets, Kateryna Sehida, Kateryna Kravchenko, Ievgeniia Telebienieva, Taras Pohrebskyi

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Light and dark biofilm adaptation impacts larval settlement in diverse coral species by Paul A. O’Brien, Sara C. Bell, Laura Rix, Abigail C. Turnlund, Shannon R. Kjeldsen, Nicole S. Webster, Andrew P. Negri, Muhammad A. Abdul Wahab, Inka Vanwonterghem

“…Further, we show that specific biofilm taxa were either positively or negatively correlated with coral settlement, indicating potential inducers or inhibitors. …”
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LIVING AMONG RUINS: THE MEDIEVAL HABITAT IN THE ANCIENT SETTLEMENT OF POROLISSUM AND IN ITS SURROUNDINGS by Dan Culic

“…Also the preoccupation of studying the roman ruins was, justly predominant at the expense of the few medieval sites that can now be sketched on the map of the Roman settlement. The artefacts found in Porolissum, dated from different periods of the Middle Ages indicates us that the same geographical features that made humans inhabit that specific area since Prehistory, thru the Iron Ages and culminating in the Roman Era, made the medieval people to live among the ruins.…”
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The European Union in International Investment Governance: a Hybrid Approach to Dispute Settlement by Beatriz Pérez de las Heras

“…Investor-state dispute settlement and arbitration, in particular, stands at the centre of a process intended to reform the global regime of international investment treaties. …”
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Electric Drive Discrete Control System with Automatic Switching-On Reserve for Autonomous Settlement by Tsytovich L.I., Brylina O.G., Nesterov A.S., Tyugaev A.V, Loginova N.A, Lopukhova E.A.

“…The paper aims at developing of control the water supply system’s electric drives for autonomous settlement. The system provides automatic switching to a reserve control channel at refusal of any of the functional elements of the working regulation channel. …”
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Studying and Prioritizing the Vulnerability of Rural Settlements of Khuzestan Province against Natural Disasters by Hojjatollah Sadeghi, Yaghoub Seif, Skandar Seidaiy, Maryam Salehi Kakhki

“…Furthermore, about 28 rural settlements, or about 1.4 percent of the study area have a standardized vulnerability of rural settlements more than 0.8. …”
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Spatial Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Human Settlement Environment in the Kuye River Basin by Zhonghua ZHANG, Hao WU

“…Exploring the complex relationship between human settlement environment and hydrological environment in the Kuye River Basin from the perspective of human – water relationship is helpful to guide the harmonious symbiotic development of human settlement environment and hydrological environment in the Basin, and then promote the high-quality development of human settlement environment in the Basin.MethodsThe evaluation system for the quality of human settlement environments in sub-basins has been established, with the weight of each index factor determined using the entropy method. …”
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FEATURES AND CLIMATOGEOGRAPHIC SOCIOCULTURAL ADAPTATION OF COSSACKS UNDER SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS by Elena G. Berberova

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Spatial assessment of settlement consolidation potential: insights from Zhejiang Province, China by Qiushi Zhou, Wenze Yue, Mengmeng Li, Hongwei Hu, Leyi Zhang

“…In general, smaller settlement patches exhibit higher consolidation potential. …”
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Integrated Analysis of Optimization and Settlement Characteristics in Hybrid Pile Systems for Reused Foundations by Jingsen Niu, Zheng Yang, Siyu Yin, Shengzhao Cheng

“…Additionally, the pile cap size has a boundary effect on the combined pile system, specifically, as the pile cap length/width ratio is 4:2, the settlement disparity between new and existing piles tends to stabilize. …”
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Probabilistic Evaluation of Grouting Reinforcement on Settlement Control Effectiveness in Shield Tunneling Construction by LAN Mulin, SHEN Mengfen, HE Su, XU Quan, CHEN Zhehui, BAO Lichun

“…［Method］Taking the shield tunnel of Hangzhou Metro Line 12 passing under the pile foundation building in a certain section of Xiasha Road as an example, and based on the FLAC 3D finite difference software, two methods of deterministic analysis and reliability analysis are adopted respectively to evaluate the effectiveness of grouting reinforcement measures in controlling foundation settlement caused by shield construction. ［Result & Conclusion］In the deterministic analysis, both the on-site measured data and the numerical analysis results show that the maximum building foundation settlement occurs on one side of the tunnel that is first excavated; grouting reinforcement technology can effectively reduce the building foundation settlement caused by shield excavation, making the building settlement value meets the specification design requirements. …”
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Historical traces in Southern Grevena during Ottoman occupation by Vasileios D. Spanos

“…The main body of the work is related to the succinct presentation of the historical course of each settlement in the southern part of the Prefecture of Grevena, during the Turkish rule in Greece. …”
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New Abashevo Culture Sites in the Steppes of the Southern Trans-Urals by Irina P. Alaeva, Ivan V. Molchanov

“…These new sites were identified within the territory of unfortified settlements from later Bronze Age periods, with the specific feature of being located on different parts of the same sectors. …”
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Towards the West. Conflict and Settlement in the Maniot Diaspora (17th‑18th Centuries) by Giampaolo Salice

“…It is a dispersion of population that spread from the eastern Mediterranean to the western one and then to North America through the Atlantic, involving six chancelleries that sought to intercept it and employ it in their respective internal settlement plans (Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia, Kingdom of Spain, Great Britain, and France). …”
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