Human Populations: Houses for Spouses

Human Populations: Houses for Spouses

Patterns of genetic variability in human populations are profoundly influenced by social organisation, including lifestyle, language, religion and social status. A nice illustration is seen among societies that have specific rules about who can marry whom.

Green houses.

We designed a web server for the analysis of biosynthetic capacities of metabolic networks. The implementation is based on the network expansion algorithm and the concept of scopes. For a given network and predefined external resources, called the seed metabolites, the scope is defined as the set of products which the network is in principle able to produce. Through the web interface the user c...

Halfway Houses

Climate-Responsive Architecture for the Residential Houses of Homs: A Comparison of Traditional and Contemporary Houses

Given that high energy consumption in residential buildings is one of the main problems in Syria, applying criteria for a climate-responsive building design is one of the most important ways to reduce energy consumption. This article seeks to study and compare the historical and contemporary residential buildings of the city of Homs and extract the positive and negative aspects of each. The mai...

Small Houses for Individuals with Cognitive Impairment

groups of individuals are institutionalized for the remainder of their lives: convicted murderers and frail older adults. Deinstitutionalization movements have liberated those who traditionally require care and services. Orphanages, psychiatric hospitals, state schools, and institutions for individuals who are developmentally disabled have all been replaced by more humane, community-based treat...