High altitude regions of district Kinnaur in western Himalayan State Himachal Pradesh, due to its high topographical and cold climatic conditions, remains under snow for around six months a year. Most these areas receive snowfall 5 – 7 feet on annual basis. Such extreme conditions have made the life local habitants difficult. The indigenous people developed climate responsive architectural styl...

Low-rise vernacular masonry buildings are vulnerable to damage from extreme flooding. This paper presents findings a study based in Sri Lanka assessing the structural resilience of non-engineered single-storey houses constructed with either fired clay brickwork or cement block walls. A survey flood-damaged enabled characterisation materials, and development proposals improve lateral load capaci...

This focus of this paper is to present an overview of the current research which examines the language and literacy performance of African American children who speak African American Vernacular English (AAVE), as presented from a deficit versus difference perspective. Language and literacy and assessment and remediation of AAVE speakers are discussed in sections one and two. Section three of t...

Kuwait, as most Gulf countries, is suffering from an increasing loss of identity for both the city and its inhabitants. This requires some soul-searching into the deep structure stratum to arrive at mythic images more relevant to the Kuwaiti cultural context. One way of achieving this is through the adoption of the study and analysis of local vernacular built environments as one of the basic me...

Newspapers has shown steep decline of circulation and advertising revenue in the west. Online advertising is taking away the majority of advertising revenue from print Increasing printing costs also a major concern for the decline of profits of newspapers. Asian countries like Japan, China and India is not seeing any immediate threat for daily newspapers as these countries are dominated by vern...