Across the courtyard

The Courtyard in Rural Homesteads of Bangladesh

In rural settlements of the floodplains in Bangladesh, an intrinsic element is the homestead. The homestead layout is defined by the courtyard, formed by the arrangement of dwelling units and ancillary buildings around a rectangular open space. The courtyard has important physical and functional characteristics derived from local climatic requirements and living patterns. However, particularly ...

The Catholic School as a Courtyard of the Gentiles

a comparative pragmatic analysis of the speech act of “disagreement” across english and persian

the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...

Analysis of Flow Instabilities Inside a Street and a Courtyard

Spatial distribution of momentum flux and moments of third order of velocity components obtained from one-point measurement are investigated. The area of interest covers an inner part of street canyon and adjacent intersection. Timeaveraged momentum flux were divided into particular quadrants using Quadrant Analysis method. Comparison between flux events and skewness provides some insight into ...

About the Cover Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). The Prison Courtyard (1890)

V an Gogh painted The Prison Courtyard while " imprisoned " himself, in the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint Rémy. He died 5 months later of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the culmination of his long struggle with physical and mental illness (1). The first Dutch master since the 17th century, van Gogh did not become an artist until 10 years before the end of his life. His early interests ...