BACKGROUND Owing to the emergence of some challenges in the demographic structure of many countries and possible decrease in young human workforce in the future decades, the reduction in the fertility rate has become a major public concern. This study aimed to investigate the effects of climatic factors on fertility. AIM In this correlational study conducted during 2005-2009, the relationship...

Water in the XXI century has become the primary factor for sustainable development, eradication of poverty and reversal of ecosystem degradation. Increasing water demand for agriculture and urbanisation, combined with pollution, eutrophication and amplification of the stochastic character of climatic processes, increases water limitations for ecosystems and societies. The transdisciplinary scie...

This research presents a comparative study of different bio-sourced and recycled insulation materials their impact on energy consumption office buildings located in Ouagadougou, city with dry hot climate. A thorough assessment the country’s meteorological urban development data from 2004 to 2018 was conducted for climatic data. EnergyPlus used thermal comfort based American Society Heating, Ref...

The building sector is the largest consumer of energy, but there are still major scientific challenges in this field. façade, being interface between exterior and interior space, plays a key role energy efficiency building. In context, paper focuses on ventilated bioclimatic wall for nearly zero-energy buildings (NZEB). aim study to investigate an experimental setup based hot box characterizati...

Femoral pseudoaneurysm is a common occurrence in intravenous drug abuser due to repeated trauma to the femoral artery causing arterial leak contained by the surrounding tissue and does not contain all the layers of arterial wall. Rupture of these aneurysm to exterior is a common presentation while rupture into surrounding structure deemed an emergency surgical attention. Hence, we report an unu...

A Stein covering of a complex manifold may be used to realise its analytic cohomology in accordance with the Čech theory. If, however, the Stein covering is parameterised by a smooth manifold rather than just a discrete set, then we construct a cohomology theory in which an exterior derivative replaces the usual combinatorial Čech differential. Our construction is motivated by integral geometry...

Natural analogs of Lie brackets on affine bundles are studied. In particular, a close relation to Lie algebroids and a duality with certain affine analog of Poisson structure is established as well as affine versions of the complete lift and the Cartan exterior calculus.

In many virtual reality applications as well as general computer graphics we need to consider large numbers of objects in order to render one image. In many cases rendering can be preceded by a culling phase which employs simple mechanisms to reject most of the objects. As a result, only a very small portion of the model has to go through the time consuming process of hidden object removal. We ...

We describe a new algorithm for making partially hollow layered parts with thin, dense walls of approximately uniform thickness, for faster build times and reduced material usage. We have implemented our algorithm and tested its output on a fused deposition modeling (FDM) machine, using separate build volumes for a loosely filled interior and a thin, solid, exterior wall. The build volumes are ...