Many houses are at risk of being destroyed by wildfires. While previous studies have improved our understanding of how, when and why houses are destroyed by wildfires, little attention has been given to how these fires started. We compiled a dataset of wildfires that destroyed houses in New South Wales and Victoria and, by comparing against wildfires where no houses were destroyed, investigated...

Thirty five Slovak households were selected for an investigation of indoor environmental quality. Measuring of indoor air physical and chemical factors and a questionnaire survey was performed during May 2017. The range of permissible operative temperature was not met in 11% of objects. Relative humidity met the legislative requirements in all monitored homes. Concentrations of total volatile o...

We consider the equation ut = ∆u + f(u) on RN . Under suitable conditions on f and the initial value u0 = u(·, 0), we show that as t→∞ the solution u(·, t) approaches a planar propagating terrace, or a stacked family of planar traveling fronts. Using this result, we show the asymptotic one-dimensional symmetry of u(·, t) as well as its quasiconvergence in Lloc(R ).

The carved and painted decorations in traditional Batak houses and buildings, gorga, are the source of their exoticism. There are no identical patterns of the ornaments within Batak houses and the drawings are closely related to the way ancient Batak capture the dynamicity of the growing “tree of life”, one of central things within their cosmology and mythology. The survey of ornaments of Batak...

A study was undertaken to correlate the impact of housing and patterns of house construction on the vector density and transmission of filaria among the inhabitants of these houses. Three different types of houses in ecologically similar hamlets of Hariharpur village in Varanasi were selected for determining the density of Culex quinquefasciatus, the vector of Wuchereria bancrofti and its infec...