introduction: since nurses are the largest group of health care providers playing an important role in responding to disasters, evaluating the state of nursing and nursing knowledge about common patterns of disasters is undeniable in importance and necessity. however, based on studies conducted by researchers, there are few models for nursing that show nurses’ disaster readiness. this study was...

Diverse types of structured domain models are nowadays in use in various contexts. On the one hand there are generic models, especially domain ontologies, which are typically used in applications with artificial intelligence (reasoning) flavor; on the other hand there are more specific models that only come to use in areas like software engineering or business analysis. Furthermore, the discipl...

nanofluids are gaining much importance over the past decade due to their enhanced thermal conductivity, specific heat, cooling capacity, electrical conductivities. novel properties of nanofluids are yet to be explored to the highest potential applications. one of the prominent applications of nanofluids is in thermal conduction. the presence of nanoparticle in a fluid can enhance the thermal co...

A generalization of the Degradation-Entropy Generation (DEG) theorem to multi-disciplinary multi-physics system-process analysis via a combination with pre-existing system models is presented in this article. Existing and DEG methodology are reviewed, method for evaluating degradation coefficients Bi proposed. These characterize system’s transformation based on active dissipative mechanisms, in...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is mainly used for the design and construction of new buildings. However, one main challenges facing BIM adoption existing or old buildings constructed without consideration their modeling obtaining raw accurate building data converting it to model. Based on this challenge, study develops a framework that uses different capture techniques buildings, then tran...