This study presents the assessment of the quality of speech intelligibility of two Malaysian mosques and the results are used to develop a set of general acoustical guidelines to be used in the design of a mosque. Two mosques were selected for the research: Masjid UPM and the Masjid Jamek. The objective of the research is to enable the comparison of the acoustics and speech intelligibility betw...

This paper presents the case study of a real-time interactive digital narrative visualisation of the Namaz Pray of a simulated Ottoman Imam in the 16 century virtually restored mosque of Küçük Aya Sofya (previous St. Sergius and Bacchus church) as well as in the Hagia Sophia mosque (previous cathedral of Hagia Sophia), in Istanbul, Turkey. This case study illustrates that the abandonment of tra...

the present research aims to study the role of mosque in increasing social capital from the viewpoint of the quran and islamic narratives. for this reason, specifications of the mosque made in the quran and narratives have been organized based on social capital indicators in order to identify the role of mosque in increasing production of social capital. the research uses a descriptive-analytic...

The numerical investigation of computing the rate of radiated solar-energy requires equations as a function of solar-time according to the radiation angle of the sun (β) in the latitude 37°N and the shape. This paper implements the Lagrange interpolation to obtain the equations of normal diagram of elements based on data obtained from surveying. Also the method of Hann-window equation ...

OBJECTIVE Isolation of potentially pathogenic bacteria from carpets in hospitals has been reported earlier, but not from carpets in mosques. The aim of the present study is to determine the pathogenic and potentially pathogenic bacteria that may exist on the carpets of mosques in Tripoli, Libya. METHODS Dust samples from carpets were collected from 57 mosques in Tripoli. Samples were examined...

there are some evidences on elamite seals that show iranian people had enough knowledge to construct small dome on cylindrical spaces like silo in the third millennium bc. but the foundations of large dome over square spaces were formed in the parthian period. bazeh-hur dome chamber with the corners of wood in khorasan province is the most ancient dome from the sasanian dynasty. since the sasan...

According to the authors, a new marking design for vertical scar breast reduction avoids the tension at nipple level that may occur with the use of a mosque-shaped marking (Lejour technique). Furthermore, better symmetry may be achieved in placement of the areola and nipple.