In order to reduce large shear reversals in the core walls in the basement, and at the top of the tower base level, the ground floor, basement levels 1 and 2 and the 5th and 6th floors, the floor slabs and beams are separated horizontally from the core walls.

The building consisted of two levels: a stoa on the upper level providing open space, and a palaestra, pool and baths on lower floor.

The game is played indoors on a wooden or rubber mat floor, making it a year-round sport at amateur and professional levels.

Programming features such as randomization, variables, and intermap script activation enable smooth hub gameplay and are responsible for most of the special effects within the game: On-screen messages ; random sound effect and monster spawning ; sidedef texture changes ; versatile control of polyobjects ; level initialization for deathmatch ; and even complex environment changes such as earthquakes manipulating floor levels and textures.

As the sufferer approaches a phobic stimulus, anxiety levels increase ( e. g. as one gets closer to a snake, fear increases in ophidiophobia ), and the degree to which escape of the phobic stimulus is limited and has the effect of varying the intensity of fear in instances such as riding an elevator ( e. g. anxiety increases at the midway point between floors and decreases when the floor is reached and the doors open ).

It is a particularly popular attraction for visitors: the " Arkaden " shopping mall is 180 metres in length and contains 133 shops and restaurants on three levels giving a total sales floor area of approx.

** Pier D is the largest pier and has two floor levels.

Nothing of relevance is being ' hidden ', and even when, for example, hum is present at 50 or 100 Hz at a level above the quoted ( weighted ) noise floor this is of no importance because our ears are very insensitive to low frequencies at low levels, so it will not be heard.

For example, a building without an elevator may prevent the child from accessing higher floor levels.

In the Late Pleistocene, sea levels were about 140 m lower than in the present day, exposing the floor of the shallow Taiwan Strait as a land bridge that was crossed by mainland fauna.

Small changes in the design of a floor system can have significant impact on material costs, construction schedule, ultimate strength, operating costs, occupancy levels and end use of a building.

Land bridges can be created by marine regression, in which sea levels fall, exposing shallow, previously submerged sections of continental shelf ; or when new land is created by plate tectonics ; or occasionally when the sea floor rises due to post-glacial rebound after an ice age.

An incidental effect of pollarding in woodland is the encouragement of underbrush growth due to increased levels of light reaching the woodland floor.

Here, light levels on the woodland floor are extremely low owing to the thick growth of the pollarded trees.

The area resulted from a gradual uplifting from the sea floor followed by fluctuating sea levels, wind and water erosion that have slowly eroded the range and plain leaving behind a range of rugged limestone, deep canyons and pristine beaches.

Passengers waiting there are expected to use the restrooms on any of the upper floor levels of the main terminal.

The same floor is also known as the podium, since visitors going to higher levels have to change elevators here.

Some say that this ghost walks upon the original floor levels which have been altered since her day, such that her ghost appears as legs and lower body projecting from the ceiling on one floor with head and upper body gliding along the floor above.

The ground floor, foyer area and basement levels of One Canada Square are open to the general public, having an underground shopping area and a transport interchange from Canary Wharf tube and Docklands Light Railway stations.

University Hall has over of floor space and contains over 1, 000 parking spaces in three underground levels.

She decided to stay in Geneva alone, living first on the lake at Plongeon ( near the present United Nations buildings ) and then at the Rue de Chanoines ( now the Rue de la Pelisserie ) with François and Juliet d ’ Albert Durade on the second floor (" one feels in a downy nest high up in a good old tree ").

A revolving restaurant located on the 62nd floor, called " Revolving 66 ", overlooks other tall buildings below and the harbour.

Gaunt's architectural style emphasised rectangular design, the separation of ground floor service areas from the upper stories and a contrast of austere exteriors with lavish interiors, especially on the 1st floor of the inner bailey buildings.

In Dancer in the Dark, jump shots and dramatically-different color palettes and camera techniques were used for the " real world " and musical portions of the film, and in Dogville everything was filmed on a sound stage with no set where the walls of the buildings in the fictional town were marked as lines on the floor.

All three movies will be shot in the same distinctive style, on a bare sound stage with no set and buildings marked by lines on the floor.

The Georgian stone buildings in Charlestown that are visible today had to be partially rebuilt after the earthquakes, and this led to the development of a new architectural style, consisting of a wooden upper floor over a stone ground floor ; the new style resisted earthquake damage much more effectively.

In the floor of the hall is a circular hearth paved with pebbles, as is typical in Mycenaean megaron hall buildings ; other unusual architectural features are paved benches and podiums.

However, despite a Woolworths store on its ground floor, a major travel company housed on the floor above, and a restaurant offering fine views over the city on the top floor, the economic situation of the time meant that it would not be followed by more buildings in that vein: no further redevelopment in the immediate vicinity of Potsdamer Platz occurred prior to World War II, and so Columbushaus would always seem out of place in that location.

Lehigh encompasses, including of recreational and playing fields and 150 buildings comprising four million square feet of floor space.

These buildings featured an innovative structural design that freed the interiors from support columns in order to allow future alterations of their floor plans.

PCBs were also used as plasticizers in paints and cements, stabilizing additives in flexible PVC coatings of electrical wiring and electronic components, pesticide extenders, cutting oils, reactive flame retardants, lubricating oils, hydraulic fluids, and sealants ( for caulking in schools and commercial buildings ), adhesives, wood floor finishes ( such as Fabulon and other products of Halowax in the U. S .), paints, de-dusting agents, water-proofing compounds, casting agents, vacuum pump fluids, fixatives in microscopy, surgical implants, and in carbonless copy (" NCR ") paper.

The apartments are usually eight stories high ( including the ground floor ) mainly because the city regulation, until February 2008, required that all buildings higher than or eight stories install elevators ).

** Multi-family house-Often seen in multi-story detached buildings, where each floor is a separate apartment or unit.

Silicone foam has been used in North American buildings in an attempt to firestop openings within fire-resistance-rated wall and floor assemblies to prevent the spread of flames and smoke from one room to another.

Heat transfer in buildings occurs through convection, conduction, and thermal radiation through roof, walls, floor and windows.

It is therefore most commonly associated with solid concrete floor slabs in naturally ventilated or low energy mechanically ventilated buildings where the concrete soffit is left exposed to the occupied space.

Morgan Stanley had offices located on 24 floors, running from the 59th floor to the 74th floor, of buildings 2 and 5 of the World Trade Center in New York City.

In modern buildings, there are numerous services provided via ducts or wires underneath the floor or above the ceiling.

I didn't want to touch him and I hoped Ma would do it but she kept looking at the kid's clothes piled on the floor and the pool of water by them and didn't make any move to.

The appeal of the suburb is particularly strong for heavy industry, which must move bulky objects along a lengthy assembly line and wants enough land area to do the entire job on one floor.

Or say a waiter brings you a bowl of soup with a dead fly in it -- all you got to do is bannnnnng, stooooomp your cane on the floor.

The scraping of the ocean floor in bottom dragging is devastating to coral, sponges and other long-lived species that do not recover quickly.

Mestre Bimba often said, " o chão é amigo do capoeirista " ( the floor is a friend to the capoeirista ).

People do not often press the button for the floor they are already on, and in any case, the lift might have enough spare memory that this could happen hundreds or thousands of times.

It can be grown around a rope that is anchored to the sea floor so that they do not drift away.

Similar to other U. S. territories, the islands do not have representation in the U. S. Senate, but are represented in the U. S. House of Representatives by a delegate ( beginning January 2009 for the CNMI ) who may vote in committee but not on the House floor .< ref >

The first company to do this was Saks Fifth Avenue which received the zip code of 10022-SHOE for the eighth floor shoe department in its flagship Fifth Avenue store.

Because lateral moraines are deposited on top of the glacier, they do not experience the postglacial erosion of the valley floor and therefore, as the glacier melts, lateral moraines are usually preserved as high ridges.

Plywood for flooring applications is often tongue and groove ; This prevents one board from moving up or down relative to its neighbor, so providing a solid feeling floor when the joints do not lie over joists.

Bobby tells the unbelieving Helen and Tom what has transpired, but not until Tom finds a diamond on the floor of Klaatu's room do they begin to accept his story.

The authenticity of this speech is questioned, however, since the Register of Debates and the Congressional Globe do not contain transcripts of speeches made on the House floor.

One punch hit Zulu in the jaw, he fell to the floor and tried to rise, but the referee stopped the fight before he could do so.

In the third round Mayorga attempted to counter with punches to the body but did not do significant damage to his opponent, however later in the round one of these punches made Trinidad lose his balance and touch the floor with one glove which the referee counted as a knockdown.

Reefs around tropical islands and atolls drop abruptly to great depths, and do not have a floor.

* The 2009 Britney Spears song " 3 " features the lyrics " Twister on the floor, what do you say ".

Commenting on the event, Peter Baker in The New York Times, said " back and forth resembled the British tradition where the prime minister submits to questions on the floor of the House of Commons – something Senator John McCain had promised to do if elected president.

She recalls that they had to do " all these really physical scenes together, rolling around on the floor and stuff ".

They do not make me walk the floor

Of the vertical slab houses, the most distinctive are poteaux en terre (" posts-in-the-ground ") where the walls made of upright wooden slabs do not support the floor.

Sholes had told Presley to stand on a painted X on the floor, telling him " Whatever you do, don't move ".

The reason is that nobody has yet calculated what natural number is the floor of this real number, and it may not even be physically possible to do so.