The back cover of this book characterizes it as ‘an up-to-date critical introduction to linguistic typology’. The title might suggest that it gives equal coverage to morphology and syntax, but it is mainly about syntax. Chapter 1, ‘Introducing linguistic typology’, is a useful introduction to typology. For someone new to the area, it lays out the object of linguistic typology and discusses some...

Energy consumption in residential buildings is increasing and continues to escalate. As a developing country, Malaysia faced rapid urbanization due population growth heavy migration from rural areas cities which raised the need for economic development, resulting rising demand more than ever. Guidelines conserving energy have become critical now, encouraging of sustainability concerns Malaysia....

• Sensitivity analysis and Bayesian approaches are used for model calibration. The building stock performance is predicted through a hybrid bottom-up method. Predicted average annual discomfort hours H-typology in southern Spain 68%. most influential modelling parameters on thermal comfort obtained. 10 Latin Hypercube Samples per parameterized variable report solid results. Due to 2030 2050 tar...

just like any other economic field, housing market has two basic foundations which are demand and supply. its obvious that disequilibrum between these foundations, will drasticaly affect the housing affordability and can also lead to wide slump in many markets. that’s why, policy makers usually intend to stimulat the supply by means of providing low intrest loans, low priced land, etc. in this ...

Changes in the structural characteristics of population, such as age structure, household size, and number households indicate shifts population moving from younger towards older populations result reduction size. Former extended families have turned into a nuclear even one-person household. Shifts status, both composition, size lead to formation new housing typology. It can affect type, number...

Southern Europe has an old housing stock and the challenge, as rest of European Union Member States, to transform it into a decarbonized one, by means transforming existing buildings Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB). States have large margin discretion when defining requirements for nZEB. In this paper, nZEB renovation residential in Portugal Spain are studied detail (unlike usual more gener...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this paper is to examine whether there is an underlying multidimensional typology of drinking according to gender among a population presenting heterogeneous drinking profiles in Canada. METHODS Latent class analysis was chosen to analyze the degree of statistical relationship among three indicators of drinking practices: patterns of drinking - i.e., frequency and quanti...

One of the most important aspects of genomic analysis is the prediction of which pathways, both metabolic and non-metabolic, are present in an organism. In IMG, this is carried out by the assignment of IMG terms, which are organized into IMG pathways. Based on manual and automatic assignment of IMG terms, the presence or absence of IMG pathways is automatically inferred. The three categories of...

abstract considering the dominance of public open space use, over the use of private open space of single-family housing, in large cities in iran, an important issue in programming for designing open spaces of residential complexes is to facilitate the appropriate development of the children in open spaces. the present paper attempts to provide a flexible framework for tackling the challenge of...

nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. the nigerian government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’ acceptability of this new housin...