the baluarte do cavaleiro is part of the stone masonry wall system existing in the city ofchaves of portugal and it is a construction dated from the xvii century. the baluarte docavaleiro is formed by three walls (north-east, ne; south-east, se; south-west, sw) andby two junction elements (designated here by cunhais). the se wall has suffered twocollapses recently. the main objective of this re...

introduction & objective: after urinary tract infection and prostatic disorders , the urine stones are the third common genitourinary diseases. demographic, environmental and genetic factors affect urine stone formation. the aim of our study is to survey epidemiologic factors in patients with urinary stones referring to educational hospitals of hamadan during 2010-2013.      materials & methods...

Identifying and interpreting stone adze economies in Hawai'i offers valuable in... sights on the technological consequences of contact between non...Western so... cieties and Europeans. Western contact occurred relatively late in the Hawaiian archipelago (Figure 7.1) compared to much of the Old and New Worlds (e.g., Cobb and Ruggiero, chapter 2; Odell, chapter 3), and indigenous metal working d...

This paper looks at the changes in urban air quality and the effect on building materials with particular regard to their deterioration arising from pollution due to vehicles. The paper aims to review basic information on the likely Ž effect of NO and ozone on calcareous building materials limestone, marble, dolomite, calcareous cemented x . sandstone by examining experimental and fieldwork rel...

in this work, the waste stone sludge obtained from the granite and marble stone processing factories was used for the manufacture of artificial stones using vibratory compaction in a vacuum environment. the results obtained showed that water absorption and density increased, and the flexure, compressive, and tensile strengths decreased with increase in the content of the waste stone sludge. the...

According to most Evolutionary Psychologists, human moral attitudes are rooted in cognitive modules that evolved in the Stone Age to solve problems of social interaction. A crucial component of their view is that such cognitive modules remain unchanged since the Stone Age, and I question that here. I appeal to evolutionary rollback, the phenomenon where an organ becomes non-functional and event...

This paper presents the fuzzy expert system for intelligent support of decision making about cause of stone construction crack of building. The system is based on some linguistic expert expressions formalised by 9 fuzzy knowledge bases. Tuning of fuzzy rules by genetic algorithms provided a good concordance between real causes of cracks and results of decision making by the system.

Does interdisciplinary team collaboration enhance the knowledge generated and shared in systems model building or does model building enhance the collaboration and collegiality of interdisciplinary team members? This paper addresses the processes involved in constructing dynamic system models of “deep complexity” related to scientific and environmental issues. Typically such model-building requ...