in recent years, due to absence of integrated watershed management in most regions, natural resources have witnessed numerous damages with severe floods as one of its consequences which further leads to economic, social and environmental damages. presently, there is no optimal utilization of land in most watersheds hence no optimal model matching with facilities and objectives is used in the wa...

Demolition can generate fungal spore suspensions in association with various adverse health effects, such as high risk of invasive aspergillosis in immunocompromised patients. One block of Edouard Herriot Hospital was entirely demolished. The aim of the present study was to evaluate Hirst-type spore traps utility in monitoring outdoor Aspergillaceae (Aspergillus spp. + Penicillium spp.) spores ...

Noise produced by construction activities has become the second most serious acoustic polluting element in China. To provide industry practitioners with a better understanding of the health risks of construction noise and to aid in creating environmentally friendly construction plans during early construction stages, we developed a quantitative model to assess the health impairment risks (HIA) ...

The characteristic of expansiveness represented by swelling pressure is considered as major parameter in design of engineering structures. In order to determine the potential expansion, the swelling pressure experiments are usually conducted. In the present study, neuronets have been used to predict swelling pressure of undisturbed as well as remolded soils from given geotechnical parameters su...

Intelligent Excavation System (IES) has been considered to be one of the desirable solutions to improve the productivity, quality and safety of the current earthwork processes. IES is composed of various hardware and software modules including task planner (work command generator), local and global work environment sensors, GPS and other sensors to acquire the excavator’s status, robotic contro...

• LiDAR automatic feature extraction successfully identifies archaeological mounds. Our model identified known and unrecorded mound sites, was field verified. is highly generalizable can be used in different regions. Tribal collaboration crucial when creating models. Archaeologists need new methods to survey large areas overcome environmental barriers site discovery heavily forested (light dete...

High-speed railway construction is extending to mountainous areas, and the harsh environment complex climate pose various risks slope construction. This seriously threatens human lives causes huge economic losses. The existing research results on safety of high cutting in HSRs are limited, a complete set risk assessment processes methods has not yet been formed. Therefore, this study, we aimed ...