the objective of this paper is to present a new method for protecting the lives of residents in catastrophic earthquake failures of unreinforced masonry buildings by introducing some safe rooms within the buildings. the main idea is that occupants can seek refuge within the safe rooms as soon as the earthquake ground motions are felt. the information obtained from the historical ground motions ...

contamination with radiopharmaceuticals in nuclear medicine centers in addition to being a health concern requires time-consuming decontamination efforts. according to nrc (nuclear regulatory commission) contamination should be monitored in nuclear medicine centers where radiopharmaceuticals are prepared and administrated at the end of each working session; otherwise, contamination spread to ot...

Space allocation is an important issue in the university sector [1]. Frequently, the utilisation of the estate is calculated as the product of the frequency of use of individual rooms and the associated occupancy at a particular time. Then, poorly utilised estate results in significant over expenditure on both capital and operational budgets across the sector. The Higher Education Funding Counc...

Energy Efficiency and Indoor Air Quality in the healthcare applications and particularly in surgical operating theatres are important features in modernized designs. The various reasons for deviation from obtaining optimum IAQ and energy efficient buildings are listed. The air conditioning systems serving the operating rooms require careful design to minimize the concentration of airborne organ...

Latent Gaussian models are flexible models that are applied in several statistical applications. When posterior marginals or full conditional distributions in hierarchical Bayesian inference from these models are not available in closed form, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods are implemented. The component dependence of the latent field usually causes increase in computational time and divergenc...

LEDA and CGAL are platforms for combinatorial and geometric computing. We discuss the use of LEDA and CGAL for geometric computing and show that they provide a unique framework for exact, efficient and convenient geometric computing.

We determined the attitudes of men and women in the Islamic Republic of Iran to the husband's presence in the delivery room. We randomly selected 150 couples awaiting delivery in 2002 and interviewed them with a standardized questionnaire. Mean ages and standard deviations (SD) of women and men were 26 (SD 4) and 30 (SD 5) years respectively. Most had high school diplomas or higher. Most women ...

hospitalized patients have a potential risk for nosocomial infections. airborne fungi are one of the main causes of fungal infections in this group. the objective of this study was to investigate the concentrations and species of airborne fungi in two general hospitals in shiraz, southern iran. air samples were collected from high-risk wards, using settle plate method. fungal colonies were iden...