This paper presents the buzzing issue of green brick technology with the promises to protect the environment against the multidimensional damage done by traditional brick system. Bangladesh now facing a flourish in real estate sector that stimulates the brick industry too, but the very traditional brick making system destroys the diminishing forest of this country intensifying the emission of c...

Military forces operating in urban environments are facing numerous challenges. One of them consists in being able to identify buildings material to support missions involving tactical breach or blast damage prediction. This paper reports on a method that combines both LIDAR and through-wall radar imagery to provide detailed information about a building front wall features and its construction ...

AIMS To use microstructural computer models to study how four features of myocardial architecture affect propagation: brick wall tissue structures, jutting at cell ends, gap junction distribution and conductance along cell borders, and increased structural discontinuity. METHODS AND RESULTS Simulations of longitudinal and transverse plane wave propagation and point propagation were performed ...

BACKGROUND Kabul, Afghanistan, is the largest focus of anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) in the world. ACL is a protozoan disease transmitted to humans by the bite of phlebotomine sand flies. Although not fatal, ACL can lead to considerable stigmatization of affected populations. METHODS Using data from a standardized survey of 872 households in 4 wards of Kabul, Afghanistan, univar...

Perforated unreinforced masonry (URM) walls in out-of-plane (OOP) two-way bending are commonly encountered natural hazard investigations. However, related research is rather limited. This study focuses on the influence of openings capacity URM walls. An experimental database about perforated OOP was created. A brief review results show that arrangement opening area can significantly affect (def...