The meniscus is a fibrocartilaginous tissue uniquely adapted to enable load transmission in the knee. Although the meniscus was once considered a useless remnant of joint formation, removal of all or part of the meniscus initiates osteoarthritis. Surgical repair methods focus on fragment stabilization or biologic enhancement of healing. An alternative approach based on tissue-engineering princi...

The chapter includes identification of the need for reconceptualization of architectural and urbanistic discourse in higher education and the definition of the transdisciplinary methodology for a sustainable development of the living environment. Architecture and urbanism as complex disciplines that start from the existential social needs and reach to the most complex challenges and aspirations...

the architectural education along the way of creativity has often involved with the formal and physical aspects of design as an effort to read architectural artifacts through its mere external appearances. this article, however, aims to step beyond the manifestation of conventional perspectives on visual aspects of built environment. that is, an act of interpreting the architectural spaces thro...

For architecture, the critical tool of the information age has been neither the telephone, the computer, nor even the network, but the constantly expanding Sweet's Catalog and the whole messy system of distributing information about building materials, products, and processes. Sweet's originated in the 1890s as a service of F.W. Dodge Construction (who also began publishing the Architectural Re...

1 Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China 2 Institute of Structural Mechanics, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Marienstraße 15, D-99423 Weimar, Germany 3Division of Computational Mechanics, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City 70000, Vietnam 4 School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 40...

December 2000 OVERVIEW Post-tensioning is a method of reinforcing (strengthening) concrete or other materials with high-strength steel strands or bars, typically referred to as tendons. Post-tensioning applications include office and apartment buildings, parking structures, slabs-on-ground, bridges, sports stadiums, rock and soil anchors, and water-tanks. In many cases, posttensioning allows co...

This paper presents various aspects, which characterise the traditional architecture in the town of Florina, north-western Greece, and can be related to bioclimatic and environmental architecture. The study is based on the documentation and the analysis of the architectural and bioclimatic aspects of a sample of forty (40) remaining houses of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The ...

Cerium dioxide, CeO2-δ, remains one of the most attractive materials under consideration for solar-driven thermochemical production of chemical fuels. Understanding the rate-limiting factors in fuel production is essential for maximizing the efficacy of the thermochemical process. The rate of response is measured here via electrical conductance relaxation methods using porous ceria structures w...

To remain competitive, organizations are challenged to make informed and feasible value-driven design decisions in order to ensure the quality of their software systems. However, there is a lack of support for evaluating the economic impact of these decisions with regard to software reference architectures. This damages the communication among architects and management, which can result in poor...