Capacity-Building to Support Safer Housing through Appropriate Hurricane Strap Use

SAFER under vehicle inspection through video mosaic building

The current threats to US security, both military and civilian, have led to an increased interest in the development of technologies to safeguard national facilities such as military bases, federal buildings, nuclear power plants, and national laboratories. As a result, the imaging, robotics, and intelligent systems (IRIS) laboratory at the University of Tennessee has established a research con...

Shadowed by War: Building Community Capacity to Support Military Families

The context of military service has changed greatly since the events of 9/11. The forward deployment of service members to active war zones, which involves the issues of separation, time away from home, and eventual reunion, increases the vulnerability of their families to multiple, negative short-term and long-term effects. This article explores these issues and suggests a new approach to buil...

Building Laboratory Capacity to Support the Global Rotavirus Surveillance Network

In 2001, in anticipation of rotavirus vaccine licensure and introduction, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners established regional laboratory surveillance networks for rotavirus detection and strain type monitoring among hospitalized children aged <5 years. In 2006, two WHO-prequalified oral rotavirus vaccines were licensed: a 2-dose, single-strain vaccine (Rotarix, GlaxoSmithKline...

Emergy analysis of building manufacturing, maintenance and use: Em-building indices to evaluate housing sustainability

In recent years, integrated building design practices based on the definition of ‘‘green building’’ criteria as common standards of measurement have been promoted. For example, Green Building Rating Systems such as LEED (US) and BREEAM (UK) provide national standards for developing high-performance sustainable buildings. However, integrated environmental accounting methods and global sustainabi...

Capacity Building to Improve Hospital Managers’ Performance in West Asia