Haiti is not alone amongst developing nations that have suffered losses due to the poor construction of concrete and masonry structures in an earthquake. In the wake of the disaster, a considerable amount of public sympathy and substantial funding was raised that supported short term, front line activities. However, there is little recognition of the need for adequately funded systems of organi...

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...

In this paper, we briefly introduce different types of buildings such as spherical buildings, Euclidean buildings, twin buildings, R-buildings and describe some of their applications to many subjects: (1) differential geometry such as Mostow strong rigidity, rank rigidity of nonpositively curved manifolds, Margulis superrigidity, quasi-isometry rigidity, classification of isoparametric manifold...

On February 6, 2023, at 04:17 and 13:24 Turkish time, with the epicenter in Pazarcık Elbistan districts of Kahramanmaraş, Mw7.7 (depth focus = 8.6 km) Mw7.6 7 km), two earthquakes occurred. More than 33,000 aftershocks up to 6.7 Mw occurred after earthquake. The question caused great destruction our country 11 provinces Syria. According World Health Organization (WHO), affected areas Turkey Syr...

Case report 76 year old woman who went to her local hospital with fever up to 39°C, brownish expectoration, left chest pain and breathlessness that has been increasing in recent weeks. She had a colostomy as a result of an adenocarcinoma colon intervention 18 years ago. She used wheelchair due to an ischemic stroke with paresis of the left lower limb during the postoperative. She had never smok...

the concentration of pollutants around tall buildings can be influenced by many factors such as down wind effects, waves, airflow due to free convection of heat transfer, building height etc. the main objective of this research was the investigation of the variation of pollutants concentration at different heights around tall buildings. research was carried out measuring parameters such as co o...

in the early years, the rising of the sea level, which is a part of natural treatment, destroyed many buildings, arable lands, residential and commercial areas. it seems that the main reason of these destructions is the diminishing of the legal setback efficiency and the proceeding of human activities. the aim of this study is to introduce the appropriate setback for southern coast of caspian s...

In 2011 a tsunami over 20 meters high struck Japan's northeastern coastline. Along with causing close to 20,000 deaths, it destroyed many buildings, leaving behind landscape of ruins. the years since disaster, various groups in Japan have interpreted these ruins as way work through “what went wrong.” Some pointed local officials’ failure properly prepare for well form economic development that ...