We surveyed 110 country churches in south-western Sweden for presence of brown long-eared bats Plecotus auritus in summer 2016 by visual inspection and/or evening emergence counts. Each church was also classified according to the presence and amount of aesthetic directional lights (flood-lights) aimed on its walls and tower from the outside. Sixty-one of the churches had previously been surveye...

Natural disasters are one of the things that have risks and hazards to population. This study aims simulate flood hazard calculate its impact on Hitoyoshi area, Japan residential areas. was chosen as case because area experienced a catastrophic in 2020 destroyed city. The calculation this is also based mapping land function, damage buildings, building materials, especially areas affected by flo...

ii Abstract When a given 3D city model, consisting of mainly buildings and roads, is viewed at reduced scale, its objects not only become smaller but tend to conflict due to small area available. Generalization plays an important role to overcome these effects and helps in preserving the required legibility. Various operations are performed during generalization on these objects. One of the pri...

Rapid damage assessment after natural disasters (e.g. earthquakes, floods) and violent conflicts (e.g. war-related destruction) is crucial for initiating effective emergency response actions. Remote sensing satellites equipped with multispectral and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging sensors can provide vital information due to their ability to map affected areas of interest with high geome...

Between 1969 and 1979, 20 patients under-went pneumonectomy for tuberculous destroyed lungs (TDL) at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Nigeria. Their ages ranged from 9 to 57 years, with an average age of 24 years. The left lung was involved in 16 patients (80 percent) and the right lung in four patients (20 percent). All patients had received treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis (...