Total war is usually understood as the blurring of erstwhile political distinctions among people, armies, and government. It is more than this. Total war is a modus operandi involving the destruction—from the cellular to the planetary—of an enemy’s environmental life-world. Working through uncertainty and surprise, total war presents itself as environmental terror. Through the concept of resili...

Housing typologies in China have changed dramatically over the past hundred years. Economic liberalization is accelerating these changes, shifting the understanding of housing in ways that cannot be explained through Western housing theory. Most of China is moving towards housing in “sealed residential quarters” (gated communities), yet these communities have a role and significance very differ...

In this paper we propose the use of a content-adaptive volumetric mesh model for fully three-dimensional (3D) tomographic image reconstruction. In the proposed framework, the image to be reconstructed is first modeled by an efficient mesh representation. The image is then obtained through estimation of the nodal values from the measured data. The use of a mesh representation can alleviate the i...

introduction: the purpose of this study is to assess the integrated role of scintigraphy by tc99m mibi in diagnosis of parathyroid adenoma and its impacts on the myocardium, and to evaluate whether myocardium perfusion gated spect study could be a complementary routine workup for patient with positive parathyroid adenoma on tc99m mibi parathyroid scan. methods: rest myocardium perfusion gated s...

Introduction: The purpose of this study is to assess the integrated role of scintigraphy by Tc99m MIBI in diagnosis of parathyroid adenoma and its impacts on the myocardium, and to evaluate whether myocardium perfusion gated SPECT study could be a complementary routine workup for patient with positive parathyroid adenoma on Tc99m MIBI parathyroid scan. Methods: Rest myocardium perfusion gated ...

The recruitment of participants is an important step which contributes to the success any study involving human participants, but accessing and recruiting prospective can be a challenging task. Drawing on direct experience, this article describes challenges faced strategies adopted in order gain access recruit members gated religious community as research participants. In all, it suggests that ...

Auto-encoders are perhaps the best-known non-probabilistic methods for representation learning. They are conceptually simple and easy to train. Recent theoretical work has shed light on their ability to capture manifold structure, and drawn connections to density modeling. This has motivated researchers to seek ways of auto-encoder scoring, which has furthered their use in classification. Gated...

Gated communities are a modern urban phenomenon whose features vary according to the economic, social and content through criteria indicators achieve sustainability, as it has become global goal that all countries seek achieve. They healthy have positive impact on their residents. The research deals with an analytical study of requirements gated communities, which represented in (urban, environ...