Vortex-Induced Vibration: the slower deceleration of the west bank leads to the shortening of the Humen Bridge in Guangdong, China

The Earth self-rotates in the solar and lunar gravitational fields. According to Newton’s Law of Inertia, large mass accelerates and decelerates more slowly than smaller masses, whereas small mass accelerates and decelerates more quickly than larger mass, which gives rise to stress when potential energy is present, damaging civil engineering projects. Humen Bridge of Guangdong, China and two century-old dams in Michigan which were affected recently can be explained by this theory.

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A4. UNRWA, IMPACT OF THE FIRST PHASE OF THE SECURITY BARRIER ON THE QALQILYA, TULKARM, AND JENIN DISTRICTS, GAZA CITY, JULY 2003 (EXCERPTS).

Journal of Palestine Studies ◽

10.1525/jps.2003.33.1.153 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 153-160

Keyword(s):

Civil Engineering ◽

West Bank ◽

The West ◽

Full Report ◽

The World ◽

Aid Coordination ◽

President Bush ◽

Engineering Projects ◽

The U.S

The separation wall, one of the largest civil engineering projects in Israel's history, has been criticized even by the U.S. administration, with Condoleezza Rice stating at the end of June 2003 that it ““arouses our [U.S.] deep concern”” and President Bush on 25 July calling it ““a problem”” and noting that ““it is very difficult to develop confidence between the Palestinians and Israel with a wall snaking through the West Bank.”” A number of reports have already been issued concerning the wall, including reports by B'Tselem (available at www.btselem.org), the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (available at www.palestinianaid.info), and the World Bank's Local Aid Coordination Committee (LACC; also available at www.palestinianaid.info). UNRWA's report focuses on the segment of the wall already completed and is based on field visits to the areas affected by the barriers, with a special emphasis on localities with registered refugees. Notes have been omitted due to space constraints. The full report is available online at www.un.org/unrwa.

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An approach to confirm the existence of a black hole

10.31219/osf.io/znvf4 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Junjin Huang ◽

Chanyuk Lam David ◽

Qiuyun Liu

Keyword(s):

Black Hole ◽

Large Mass ◽

Small Mass ◽

The Earth ◽

Acceleration And Deceleration

Solar and lunar gravitational pulls prompt slower accelerations of large mass or faster accelerations of small mass on the Earth. Gravitation-triggered acceleration and deceleration is the cause of volcanoes, earthquakes, sunspots and starspots. Starspots in neighboring stars can thus be used as the indication for the existence of a black hole.

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Slavery and the Trumpocene: It's Not the End of the World

Oxford Literary Review ◽

10.3366/olr.2019.0264 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 40-50

Author(s):

Claire Colebrook

Keyword(s):

Living System ◽

Racial Violence ◽

First Century ◽

The West ◽

The Earth ◽

The World ◽

End Of The World ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Geological Period

There is something more catastrophic than the end of the world, especially when ‘world’ is understood as the horizon of meaning and expectation that has composed the West. If the Anthropocene is the geological period marking the point at which the earth as a living system has been altered by ‘anthropos,’ the Trumpocene marks the twenty-first-century recognition that the destruction of the planet has occurred by way of racial violence, slavery and annihilation. Rather than saving the world, recognizing the Trumpocene demands that we think about destroying the barbarism that has marked the earth.

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