This paper presents findings from an investigation into applications to improve the structural resilience and safety of low-rise vernacular masonry homes when subject extreme flooding. In 2016 2017 flooding brought devastation throughout many areas in Sri Lanka. Findings field investigations evaluate, characterize, quantify extent nature damage low rise houses these flood events are presented. ...

This paper describes the development of a scale, the Community-Oriented Programs Environment Scale (COPES), which attempts to systematically assess the psychosocial environments of transitional community-oriented psychiatric treatment programs such as halfway houses, rehabilitation centers, day care centers, and community care homes. The psychometric characteristics of the scale are given, samp...

JANE CHRISTIE DAQUIN Vicarious Victimization: Examining the Effects of Witnessing Victimization While Incarcerated on Offender Reentry (Under the direction of DR. LEAH DAIGLE) Witnessing victimization in prison is a relatively new area of research. Prison victimization research focuses on direct experiences of victimization and its attending consequences; however, studies have not focused on th...

traditional houses enjoy an organizing with inner spaces based on religious and traditional notions of iranian families. space flexibility, readability, introversion, spatial hierarchy and family privacy have had a special status in architecture of iranian houses, replaced with an outward-oriented architecture. the traditional architecture which has had all the necessary spaces for any communic...

We propose a simple, yet expressive proof representation from which proofs for different proof assistants can easily be generated. The representation uses only a few inference rules and is based on a fragment of first-order logic called coherent logic. Coherent logic has been recognized by a number of researchers as a suitable logic for many everyday mathematical developments. The proposed proo...

June last, we showed that the classes had, during the last ten years, undergone a very remarkable development. The increase has been more rapid and embarrassing in the Bengali class than in the English; the numbers in the one case having, during the period in question, undergone nearly a five-fold increase, and in the other, rather less than a three-fold. The Military or Hindustani class has no...

Over 50% of the total energy consumed by buildings in a hot and dry climate goes toward cooling regime during harsh months. Non-residential buildings, especially houses worship, need tremendous amount to create comfortable environment for worshipers. Today, mosques are regarded as energy-hungry whereas past, they were designed according sustainable vernacular architecture. This study was aimed ...

This paper discusses some of the issues that have to be addressed for a systematic treatment of vernacular mathematics. In vernacular proofs, variable letters are introduced and used in a way that does not conform to the usual interpretation offered for referring expressions in the formal semantics of natural language (Kamp and Reyle, 1993; Kamp, 1981; Heim, 1982; Groenendijk and Stokhof, 1990;...