Recent development cooperation with Guinea‐Bissau, focusing on good governance, state‐ building and conflict prevention, did not contribute to democratization nor to the stabili‐ zation of volatile political, military and economic structures. The portrayal of Guinea‐ Bissau as a failed “narco‐state”, as well as Western aid meant to stabilize this state, are both based on dubious...

A removahedron is a polytope obtained by deleting inequalities from the facet description of the classical permutahedron. Relevant examples range from the associahedra to the permutahedron itself, which raises the natural question to characterize which nestohedra can be realized as removahedra. In this note, we show that the nested complex of any connected building set closed under intersection...

Part and parcel of building green homes (GHs) with favorable thermal comfort (TC) is to design and build with reduced carbon footprint (CF) from embodied energy in the building envelope and reduced operational CF overall. Together, the environmental impact of GHs can be reduced significantly. Nevertheless, there is still a need to identify the base CF value for Malaysian GHs and this can be don...

This paper proposes an intelligent Resilient Control Strategy (RCS) for Model based building control to improve the Building Automation System (BAS)’s performance against unanticipated adverse conditions or incidents such as model mismatch, weather disturbances, and component failures/ faults. The concept of resiliency of the BAS in terms of Quality of Control (QoC) is quantified and realized b...

Children (N = 114, ages 7–13) witnessed a transgressor steal money from wallet and then asked them to lie about the theft when interviewed by novel interviewer. During interview, children were either describe various experienced events (Narrative Practice Rapport-building condition) or participate in an interactive activity designed focus on relational aspects of rapport-building including mutu...

Introduction: A childs world centers around the home, school and the local community. These should be healthy places. But in reality, these places are often so unhealthy that they underlie majority of accident and disease among children in the developing world. The aim of this study was to determine ergonomic, safety and environmental health status at primary schools in Markazi province. Materi...

A theory-based research program is a dedicated effort to focus research studies on certain aspects of organizational life so that a coherent knowledge corpus can be developed. Such an effort also can add to and strengthen the theory under consideration. A focused research program is difficult to plan from the beginning. Even after the goal of the plan is agreed upon, developing the theoretical ...

The present work aims to introduce an efficient set of high spatial resolution (HSR) images in order to more fairly evaluate building detection algorithms. The introduced images are chosen from two recent HSR sensors (QuickBird and GeoEye-1) and based on several challenges of urban areas encountered in building detection such as diversity in building density, building dissociation, building sha...