In hot arid desert environments, the solar radiation passing through windows increases the cooling loads and energy consumption of buildings. Shading of windows can reduce these loads. External perforated wooden solar ...

Sexual violence permeates all sectors of society worldwide. Sexual violence can come in many forms, occur against a diversity of victims and be perpetrated by a variety of individuals. Despite a degree of increased attention ...

This work explores the construction of ethnicity among the Lebanese-Argentine population of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Although exact figures for the Lebanese population of Argentina are unknown, estimates hover around one ...

This study applied the two-step-flow-of-information model within an ethnographic approach to explore the two-step-flow of information model for re-conceptualizing opinion leadership via Twitter in the post-Jan25 revolution ...

Realizing the importance of estimation of drift during the design stage for checking stability and damage limitation to non-structural elements as well as proper estimation of separation distance between buildings, and at ...

One third of the worldâ s population is currently infected with tuberculosis (TB), a consuming airborne disease whose main causative agent is Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The majority of these patients are found in the ...

This thesis will be exploring in depth the urban fabric of the area formerly known as Birkat al-Fil, or Elephant Pond, and its modern day transformation into areas such as Hilmiyya and Hilmiyya al-Jadida. Though the pond ...

There is a growing use of polymers in different applications worldwide. This phenomenon resulted in an enormous increase in the amount of plastic waste. These wastes have significant impacts on the environment including ...

The Red Sea brine pools are unique environments to assess the biochemical adaptation of marine bacteria. The role of nitrogen in marine biogeochemistry is central and greatly influences the diverse elements including carbon ...

Ant-Miner is an application of ACO in data mining. It has been introduced by Parpinelli et al. in 2002 as an ant-based algorithm for the discovery of classification rules. Ant-Miner has proved to be a very promising technique ...