Equivalent or closely related terms include famine response, starvation mode, famine mode, starvation resistance, starvation tolerance, adapted starvation, adaptive thermogenesis, fat adaptation, and metabolic adaptation.
Introduction. Arches and lintels are found wherever it is necessary to support a wall etc. over an opening which is usually not more than about two metres wide. They provide support in completely different ways and an understanding of this is fundamental to selecting, specifying and assessing them.ntroduction. Arches and lintels are found wherever it is necessary to support a wall etc. over an opening which is usually not more than about two metres wide. They provide support in completely different ways and an understanding of this is fundamental to selecting, specifying and assessing them.
The first known ones were probably built in the middle east around 5500 years ago. Books often refer to something called a corbelled arch, which is not an arch under the usual definition. ===== Corbelled Arches A corbel is a stone which projects from masonry. It is a simple example of what has come to be called a cantilever. A corbelled arch looks something like the diagram at left.