BUILDING HABITABILITY AND RANKING OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON SAFETY AND SUSTAINABILITY TO DISASTERS. CASE STUDY: WOODEN HOUSES

Building habitability and ranking of discrimination based on safety and sustainability to disasters. Case study: Wooden houses

Every housing should fulfill safety, comfort and durability standards, even more when due to climate change disasters occur more often than ever.In Chile, construction standards can be found in the General Urban Planning and Construction Ordinance (OGUC), whose update will include elements for risk management in order to decrease vulnerability.In t

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THE INCORPORATION OF THE USA ‘SCIENCE MADE SENSIBLE’ PROGRAM IN SOUTH AFRICAN PRIMARY SCHOOLS: A CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACH TO SCIENCE EDUCATION

The Science Made Sensible (SMS) program began as a partnership between the University of Miami (UM), Florida, USA, and some public schools in Miami.In this program, postgraduate students from UM work with primary school science teachers to engage learners in science through the use of inquiry-based, hands-on activities.Due to the success of the SMS

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Increasing recognition of historically marginalized scientists: Lessons learned from the Nomination Task Force

The Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) created a Nomination getpureroutine.com Task Force (NTF) in 2017 upon concerns that the numbers of women nominated for AGU Fellow were significantly lower than would be expected based on SPA membership representation, including as low as zero in two of the four pre

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