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The bedroom : an intimate history
\"The winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives--the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans to today, examining its myriad forms and functions, from royal king's chamber to child's sleeping quarters to lovers' trysting place to monk's cell. The history of women, so eager for a room of their own, and that of prisons, where the principal cause of suffering is the lack of privacy, is interwoven with a reflection on secrecy, walls, the night and its mysteries. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including architectural and design treatises, private journals, novels, memoirs, and correspondences, Perrot's engaging book follows the many roads that lead to the bedroom--birth, sex, illness, death--in its endeavor to expose the most intimate, nocturnal side of human history.\"--From front jacket flap
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Assessment of indoor activity and its associated dose due to exposure to radon and thoron in dwelling
In the present study, assessment of indoor activity of radon and thoron is being carried out in dwellings of Duligaon area of Kokrajahar, Assam, using Solid state nuclear track based detector-Single entry Pin-hole dosimeter. The observed average indoor radon and thoron concentrations is found to be 246.06 Bq.m −3 and 44.08 Bq.m −3 respectively. Notably, these values are relatively higher than the global average which is 40 Bq.m −3 for radon and 10 Bq.m −3 for thoron. However these indoor metrics are within the acceptable range (200-300 Bq.m −3 ) as recommended by International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). The estimated annual effective dose due to radon and thoron is estimated at 8.1 mSv.y −1 , which is within the action limit (3-10 mSv.y −1 ) set by ICRP. We have also investigated the variation of radon and thoron activity in different house types, and using appropriate Seasonal Correction Factor (SCF), we have also estimated the seasonal activity of radon and thoron.
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The crocodile by the door : the story of a house, a farm and a family
'The Crocodile by the Door' by Selina Guinness is a remarkable, compelling and moving memoir of a farm, a family and a home. When Selina Guinness and her partner Colin, both young academics, moved in with Selina's uncle Charles, an elderly bachelor, they had no idea what the coming years held for them.
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Animal Architecture
The spider spinning its web in a dark corner; wasps building a nest under a roof: there is hardly any part of the built environment that can't be inhabited by nonhumans, and yet we are extremely selective as to which animals we allow in or keep out. This book considers many different animals, opening up new ways of thinking about architecture and the more-than-human. Looking closely at how animals produce spaces for themselves, Paul Dobraszczyk asks what we might require in order to design with animals and become more attuned to the other lifeforms that already use our structures. Animal Architecture is a provocative exploration of building in a world where humans and other animals are already entangled, whether we acknowledge it or not.
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Effects of Crop Rotation Diversification and Livestock Integration on Above‐Ground Arthropod Dynamics Under Conservation Agriculture
Diversification through integrating diverse crop species and livestock is key to enhancing above‐ground arthropod diversity and promoting the sustainability of cropping systems within conservation agriculture (CA) in South Africa. This study compared two crop rotation treatments, A (Wheat‐Wheat‐Wheat‐Wheat) and G (Canola‐Medics‐Wheat‐Medics), as part of a long‐term CA trial conducted in a wheat‐producing region of South Africa. For crop rotation system G, each phase of the rotation sequence was represented in separate plots annually. Surface‐dwelling arthropods were sampled using pitfall traps, while plant‐dwelling arthropods were captured through sweep‐net sampling. These methods comprehensively assessed above‐ground arthropod diversity 90 days after crop emergence. The results showed that crop rotation diversification positively influenced arthropod diversity, though the effects varied depending on the arthropod group and sampling position. Ground‐dwelling arthropods exhibited less pronounced differences between crop rotation systems, whereas plant‐dwelling arthropods displayed more crop‐specific variations. Analysis of individual arthropod orders revealed that the effects of crop rotation diversification varied across different arthropod groups. Our findings emphasize the importance of examining multiple arthropod groups to understand diversification's impacts fully within CA farming systems. Diverse crops in conservation agriculture systems can support a variety of arthropods, while sampling methods affected arthropod diversity outcomes. Canola‐Medics‐Wheat‐Medics rotation had a varied effect on arthropod diversity. We suggest that multiple taxa are necessary to compare diversification practices.
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Characterization and Thermal Evaluation of a Novel Bio-Based Natural Insulation Material from IPosidonia oceanica/I Waste: A Sustainable Solution for Building Insulation in Algeria
Natural bio-based insulation materials have been the most interesting products for good performance and low carbon emissions, becoming widely recognized for their sustainability in the context of climate change and the environmental impact of the building industry. The main objective of this study is to characterize a new bio-sourced insulation material composed of fibers and an adhesive based on cornstarch. This innovative material is developed from waste of the marine plant called Posidonia oceanica (PO), abundantly found along the Algerian coastline. The research aims to valorize this PO waste by using it as raw material to create this novel material. Four samples with different volumetric adhesive fractions (15%, 20%, 25%, and 30%) were prepared and tested. The collected fractions underwent a series of characterizations to evaluate their properties. The key characteristics studied include density, thermal conductivity, and specific heat. The results obtained for the thermal conductivity of the different composites range between 0.052 and 0.067 W.m[sup.−1].K[sup.−1]. In addition, the findings for thermal diffusivity and specific heat are similar to those reported in the scientific literature. However, the capillary absorption of the material is slightly lower, which indicates that the developed bio-sourced material exhibits interesting thermal performance, justifying its suitability for use in building insulation in Algeria.
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Pitfall Traps
Pitfall traps are commonly used in diet studies for insectivorous and omnivorous wildlife. Pitfall trap methodologies and designs vary considerably among studies and investigators. Such variation and lack of standardization limits scientists’ abilities to compare their results with others. We conducted a literature review to identify the most common methods used by past investigators who placed pitfall traps for the purpose of quantifying indices of arthropod abundances, and used this information to guide our proposal for standardized pitfall trapping methods. We documented the pitfall-trap methods of 257 studies published between January 1994 and March 2016 in 107 scientific journals. Pitfall-trap methods varied greatly across the time period. We found only minor differences in the pitfall-trap methods most commonly used in different vegetation communities (e.g., preservative was used less frequently for pitfall trap studies in grasslands). Studies published in wildlife journals tended to use pitfall traps of larger diameters than studies published in other disciplines; these studies also had worse rates of methodological reporting than those in entomology journals. We did not detect a decline in negligent reporting over time; ≥1 key methodological detail was missing from >50% of studies regardless of the decade published. Published 2018. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.
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At Home in Postwar France
After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home.At Home in Postwar Franceexamines key groups of actors - state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers - arguing that modernizers looked to the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building; designers and advocates of the modern home contributed to the democratization of French society; and the French home of theTrente Glorieuses, as it was built and inhabited, was a hybrid product of architects', planners', and residents' understandings of modernity. This volume identifies the \"right to comfort\" as an invention of the postwar period and suggests that the modern mass home played a vital role in shaping new expectations for well-being and happiness.
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Tracing ephemeral human occupation through archaeological, palaeoenvironmental and molecular proxies at tabajowa Cave
Confirming ephemeral human occupation is a crucial issue in cave archaeology. The project 'Tracing human presence in caves of Polish Jura' focuses on the application of molecular methods to decode the history of past human activities in cave sediments in the Krakow-Czestochowa Upland. The results will be compared with archaeological and palaeoecological proxies.
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