In April 2006, the Housing Assistance Council (HAC) brought together national green building organizations, local rural housing developers, funders, and other stakeholders in the sustainable housing development movement in a roundtable forum to explore aff ordable green housing in rural areas.1 Rural aff ordable green building is an area with little current research and one that is increasingly...

BACKGROUND Over the last decade, Thailand has experienced an aging population, especially in rural areas. Research finds a strong, positive relationship between good quality housing and health, and this paper assesses the impact and living experience of housing of older people in rural Thailand. METHODS This was a mixed-method study, using data from observations of the physical adequacy of ho...

geothermal energy serves as a renewable and clean energy. thanks to its great advantages such as relatively harmless, low costs and environmental friendly, it may be a good substitute for fossil fuels. in the present study, a geothermal survey is conducted in an area prone geothermal ferdows of south khorasan province in eastern iran using etm+ data landsat 7 geo-referenced to topography map in...

Floods are a devastating kind of natural disaster. About half of the population in China lives in rural areas. Therefore, it is necessary to assess the flood disaster risk of rural housings. The results are valuable for guiding the rescue and relief goods layout. In this study, we take the severe flood disaster that happened at Kouqian Town in Jilin, China in 2010 as an example to build an risk...

We propose a multiple view layered representation for tracking and segmentation of multiple objects in a scene. Existing layered approaches are dominated by the single view case and generally exploit only motion cues. We extend this to integrate static, dynamic and structural cues over a pair of views. The goal is to update coherent correspondence information sequentially, producing a multi-obj...