The objective of this study is to provide a simplified worksheet based on the Total Equivalent Temperature Difference (TETD) Approach estimate building's cooling load under Iraqi climate conditions. heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system was applied scientific laboratories at College Engineering, University Warith Al-Anbiyaa, Karbala, Iraq. estimates building, which consists 10...

A method for detection and description of rectilinear buildings from two or more aerial intensity images is described. The multiple images may be taken at different times under differing imaging conditions. Detection and description of buildings under these conditions is a difficult task. It is not possible to compute a dense 3-D map just by intensity correlation. Instead, we need to match feat...

One of the main challenges to malaria elimination is the resilience of vectors, such as Anopheles arabiensis, that evade lethal exposure to insecticidal control measures or express resistance to their active ingredients. This study investigated a novel technology for population control that sterilizes mosquitoes using pyriproxyfen, a juvenile hormone analogue. Females of An. arabiensis were rel...

The text presents the description of a research work that has as its main objective the development of a technological tool to support the maintenance activity of buildings, with resort to new information and visualization technologies. There were analyzed three main components of the building: roofs, facades and interior walls. A survey of the main anomalies that occur in these components, the...

Climate changes, rising warmth, drought, and CO2, are now seriously influencing agriculture. In this study, four separate greenhouses (labeled GH1, GH2, GH3, GH4) were built with plastic roofs walls, except which had three walls mesh to evaluate the impact of temperature stress on growth, biomass, yield rice variety IR50404 under different regimes. The control treatment group was grown ambient,...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Ariadne's house, located at the city center of ancient Pompeii, is of great archaeological value due to the fresco paintings decorating several rooms. In order to assess the risks for long-term conservation affecting the valuable mural paintings, 26 temperature data-loggers and 26 relative humidity data-loggers were located in four rooms of the house for the monitoring ...

As an ancient plant from thousands of years ago, Hemp has been used as the most prominent sustainable material in buildings and other fields. great potential to be a building can grown Cyprus weather with less cost than imported materials. Hemp’s initial is mostly cheaper insulation materials; long term save almost 50% total energy cost. It being load-bearing construction material, best insulat...

characteristics of efficient roof shape is a part of configuration of efficient architecture which seems to be an ideal in contemporary architecture especially in contemporary architecture of developing countries such as iran. this study is to investigate two roof shapes in view of air flow and indoor-temperature to find efficient roofs shapes for residential buildings in tehran. computational ...

This paper reviews ways of reducing surface transport noise by natural means. The noise abatement solutions of interest can be easily (visually) incorporated in the landscape or help with greening the (sub)urban environment. They include vegetated surfaces (applied to faces or tops of noise walls and on buildings’ façades and roofs), caged piles of stones (gabions), vegetation belts (tree belts...

Rhodnius prolixus is the main vector of Chagas disease in Venezuela, where it is found colonising rural housing consisting of unplastered adobe walls with palm and/or metal roofs. Vector control failure in Venezuela may be due to the invasion of houses by silvatic populations of R. prolixus found in palms. As part of a study to determine if domestic and silvatic populations of R. prolixus are i...