the process regarding the formation of different mosque gardens and the elements that contribute to the respective process is the from the foci point of this paper. the significance of the topic lies in the fact that certain scholars have associated the courtyard in mosques with the concept of garden, and have not taken into account the elements that contribute to the development of various typ...

The camp had been christened Balakot Hospital, a glorious name for an altogether inglorious collection of canvas tents and steel operating containers that was the center of a spreading field of refugee tents marked “UNHCR” or “Iran Red Crescent.” Before the earthquake, our camp had been the science high school for this small Northern Pakistani town nestled on the border of Punjab and Kashmir. A...

Feng shui in ancient China was harmonized with the natural environment. The layout of houses following feng is conducive to a comfortable wind To explore positive influence on ventilation, this study takes Prince Kung’s Mansion, which has characteristics layout, as research object. In parallel, assumes dissimilation that lost characteristics. Comparing ventilation courtyards summer for both and...

In rural settlements of the floodplains in Bangladesh, an intrinsic element is the homestead. The homestead layout is defined by the courtyard, formed by the arrangement of dwelling units and ancillary buildings around a rectangular open space. The courtyard has important physical and functional characteristics derived from local climatic requirements and living patterns. However, particularly ...

Alcohol is frequently involved in psychological trauma and often used by individuals to reduce fear and anxiety. We examined the effects of alcohol on fear acquisition and extinction within a virtual environment. Healthy volunteers were administered alcohol (0.4g/kg) or placebo and underwent acquisition and extinction from different viewpoints of a virtual courtyard, in which the conditioned st...

We describe a system that uses laser rangefinders to track the positions of people in typical environments and then builds predictive models of the observed movement patterns and interactions between persons. We represent all human activity as detected by the laser rangefinder system as a probability distribution over the space of possible displacements. The assumption is that different activit...