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Tidal inlets connect the ocean to inner water bodies and are present worldwide. Shallow inlets display fast morphological changes, due to complex interactions between tides, waves, and shallow depths. Their closure is commonly observed under storm waves, but the underlying processes remain only partly understood. Here, we present new field evidence that infragravity waves contribute to the closure of shallow inlets. The analysis of new field data collected at a shallow inlet under storm waves reveals that infragravity waves up to 0.4 m high can propagate inside the lagoon during flood but are blocked by opposing currents during ebb. At the passage of an infragravity wave crest, currents peak over 2.5 m/s and increase instantaneous sand fluxes by 2 orders of magnitude. Large accumulations of sand at the lagoon entrance damp tidal propagation until full inlet closure. This mechanism provides a new explanation for the closure of shallow inlets observed worldwide.

There are, in the interior of Igreja de São Roque (St. Roch Church), in Lisbon, linings of azulejos attributed to the productions of Seville. They form two very distinct groups of panels: one, with tiles painted over a yellow background, is in the nave, near the entrance to the church; while a second group, with tiles painted over a white background, is set in the transept, against a lining of punta de clavo patterned tiles. In this paper, the authors identify the sets that make up each group, point to their peculiarities, present the results of an analytical study and discuss their possible common provenance and chronology. It is also wondered: why buy from Seville what could be acquired in Lisbon?

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Depois de uma reflexão introdutória sobre as tipologias da arrumação doméstica, o artigo avança para a abordagem da arrumação na cozinha, considerada, de certa forma, estruturadora ou harmonizadora de toda a arrumação doméstica, abordando-se, em seguida, a arrumação, dita,

Under the Safe System framework, Road Authorities have a responsibility to deliver inherently safe roads and streets. Addressing this problem depends on knowledge of the road network safety conditions and the number of funds available for new road safety interventions. It also requires the prioritization of the various interventions that may generate benefits, increasing safety, while ensuring that reasonable steps are taken to remedy the deficiencies detected within a reasonable timeframe. In this context, Road Safety Inspections (RSI) are a proactive tool for identifying safety issues, consisting of a regular, systematic, on-site inspection of existing roads, covering the whole road network, carried out by trained safety expert teams.This paper aims to describe how topic modelling can be effectively used to identify co-occurrence patterns of attributes related to the run-off-road crashes, as well as the corresponding patterns of road safety interventions, as described in the RSI reports. We apply latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), a widespread method for fitting a topic model, to analyse the topics mentioned in RSI reports, divided into two groups: problems found; and proposed solutions. For this study, 54 RSI gathered over six years (2012 - 2017) were analysed, covering 4011 km of Irish roads.The results indicate that important keywords relating to the

This paper describes a shake table test on a one-storey full-scale unreinforced masonry structure, which complements an earlier testing of a two-storey structure with similar characteristics. The building specimen was meant to represent the upper floors of the end-unit of a terraced house, built with cavity walls and without any particular seismic design or detailing. In these specimens, the masonry walls were composed of two leaves: a load-bearing inner one made of calcium silicate bricks sustaining a reinforced concrete floor and an external leaf made of clay-bricks connected to the inner leaf by means of metallic ties. A pitched timber roof was supported by two triangular gable walls. Floor acceleration response histories of the previously tested two-storey specimen were used as input motions. An incremental dynamic test, with vertical and horizontal inputs, was carried out up to the explicit collapse of some bearing elements of the structure. In particular, a two-way bending out-of-plane collapse of a load-bearing wall was observed and described.

O artigo desenvolve uma reflexão inicial sobre o interesse de podermos usar, atualmente, modelos de projeto de arquitetura urbana integrados, em termos de edifícios e espaços urbanos, em soluções com escala humana expressiva, adequada capacidade pedonal, muito variadas e estruturadas por sequências de vistas, que incentivem a deslocação e a paragem eventual; desenvolve-se, também uma comparação genérica entre este tipo de soluções e o tecido urbano vivo que podemos experimentar nos bairros históricos e conclui-se com uma série de desenhos comentados de acordo com esta temática.

The current study aims at economic asset valuation of water and wastewater infrastructures to prioritize rehabilitation interventions using the infrastructure value index (IVI) as a key performance indicator. The proposed methodology follows a three-step procedure: (1) identification, characterization and site inspection of existing assets; (2) estimation of the current replacement cost and the current value; and (3) establishment of the priority needs. Data from a utility in the Algarve region of Portugal are used as a case study. The specific objectives are to illustrate the methodology and highlight the inherent challenges and complexities associated with economic asset valuation. Results include the IVI calculation for different assets using scenarios of service lives. Different strategic interventions of rehabilitation in the long term were studied, allowing to assess the evolution of IVI, rehabilitation cost and increased risk assets. Asset valuation is important to establish short-term rehabilitation priorities and to analyse long-term strategies of rehabilitation.

Aborda-se a temática do projeto dos vãos de porta em relação com a matéria da qualidade arquitectónica interior, iniciando-se o artigo com uma abordagem mais genérica dos vãos de porta, seguindo-se as matérias específicas associadas às portas principais e, depois, às portas interiores da habitação.

Sheds roof is a natural ventilation strategy that presents roof openings working as air collectors or extractors. A detailed review of the literature indicates a lack of research analyzing the impact of different sheds roof shapes and roof configurations on natural ventilation potential. his paper aims to evaluate the impact of changes in distance and alignment between wind catcher and leeward sheds roof. The methodology was Computational Fluid Dynamics (FCD) simulation. tests were performed in a atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnel on a 1:15 scale model to evaluate the accuracy of CFD simulations in different design configurations of sheds roof. The analysis showed that CFD simulations are generaly in good agreement with the wind tunnel tests. The difference between the most o the monitored points in the two tools used had errors below 10%. besides this, the results show that changes in alignment of the sheds and increasing distance between them decrease and increase the internal airflow to the leeward and windward sheds of the roof, respectively. In the first case it is due to the reduction in the sheds openings area. In the second these changes turn the sheds more effective in the air capture.