Historically, in the event of Islam's arrival Malay Archipelago, ways Islam were adapted to lifestyle community. It's part modernizing traditional thoughts (akliah) which is influenced by Islamic values and teachings. One manifestations influence can be identified from design characteristics Traditional houses, developed with underlying principles Islam. This paper discusses application Sarawak...

A critical component of preventing the spread of vector borne diseases such as Chagas disease are door-to-door campaigns by public health officials that implement insecticide application in order to eradicate the vector infestation of households. The success of such campaigns depends on adequate household participation during the active phase as well as on sufficient follow-up during the survei...

BACKGROUND Women's crisis houses have been developed in the UK as a less stigmatising and less institutional alternative to traditional psychiatric wards. AIMS To examine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of women's crisis houses by first examining the feasibility of a pilot patient-preference randomised controlled trial (PP-RCT) design (ISRCTN20804014). METHOD We used a PP-RCT study...

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ABSTRACT: These years in Japan, the demand for three-dimensional (3D) urban model is growing in various applications, such as preparedness to fire spread caused by earthquakes. Airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) has been reported to be potential to effectively generate 3D urban model because it measures point clouds containing 3D coordinate which may be easily processed into the 3D mo...

In the traditional feudalistic society of China, there is a characteristic residential pattern several core families with common ancestors living together in one house, as far possible. Hence, habitation large and their social dynamic always have complex function hierarchical structure. this article, we consider courtyard South China an example to enable discussion mathematical relationship amo...