Mortise-and-tenon joints reinforced with split wedges and dowels are traditional joint systems that have been the mainstay of vernacular houses for Acehnese people to endure earthquakes centuries. This is no longer used now because construction uses conventional rigid frame techniques. The essential transformation this connection in product urgently needed Aceh many conventionally landed experi...

The West Sumatra earthquake on September 30, 2009, has left a long sorrow for the families of victims. number children who died at “Bimbel” center that time was proof how vulnerable and at-risk were to threat earthquakes. Learning from past earthquakes, local government policy makers Province have taken steps take preventive measures, especially since 2009 earthquake. Follow-up efforts such as ...

Introduction: Transtheoretical model (TTM) is one of the models applied to assess the physical activity behavior. From critiques to this model is that the majority of the studies based on the transtheoretical model have employed cross-sectional designs so that it fails to show the dynamic nature of change. Thus, the aim of the current study was to investigate transitional shifts in Physical Act...

Background: During last decades, many otologists attempted to make a long standing dry ear, resulting in better hearing after cholesteatoma surgery. This study evaluated the prognosis of two common methods of cholesteatoma ear surgery considering ten years follow-up. Methods: This retrospective analysis was done using medical records of 108 adult patients with cholesteatoma. After ten years of ...

Dear Editor, I was greatly interested in the article "Surgery in cholesteatoma: Ten years Follow-up" by Dr. M. Ajalloueyan published in your journal in March 2006; Vol 31, No 1: 37-40.I think there are grave misconceptions and many doubts about this article. That article has some misleading data that should be clarified by the author. The descriptions of table 1, "Statistical characteristics of...

A 30-year-old Caucasian female presented with a hairless plaque on her head. The patient admitted that she had this asymptomatic lesion since birth. However, the patient complained that the size of the lesion had gradually increased in the last ten years. The physical examination of the patient revealed a firm, well defined, pink-orange coloured, oval, alopecic plaque with cerebriform surface m...

Nowadays, in modern societies, growing activities in construction affairs and their economic development have been resulted construction wastes and so much demolition in the past three decades. Most of these wastes have not been treated and therefore caused severe damages to the environment. In this research, after reviewing construction and demolition management methods and their accesso...