INTRODUCTION Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 hurricane, made landfall in August 2005. Approximately 1,500 deaths have been directly attributed to the hurricane, primarily in Louisiana and Mississippi. In New Orleans, Louisiana, most of the healthcare infrastructure was destroyed by flooding, and > 200,000 residents became homeless. Many of these internally displaced persons received transitiona...

The addition of a rocking structural system will soften the connection between foundation and superstructure help beam-column connections to become softer than typical ones. These structures, with systems, follow elastic gap opening mechanism seismic response. Post-tensioned prestressed tendons dampers are used in systems enable structure return its initial position (self-centering) dissipate e...

This paper presents a new approach to the project of steel buildings, mainly focused on architectural, structural, and seismic design stairs. The objective is structural stair system capable controlling damage contributing bracing building. article begins with review standard (ATC, FEMA, EC8) which current criteria for buildings stairs are based. research based two spatial building models (A–B)...

1048-50 yıllarında Selçuklu soyundan gelen Melik Kavurd İran’daki Büveyhi Devletine son verip ticaret yolları üzerindeki Kirman’ı alarak Kirman devletini kurmuştur. Melikleri ve yollarına önem vererek tüccarın güvenliğini sağlamışlardır. coğrafyasındaki ticareti canlandırmak, yollarının halkın sağlamak bölgeyi bayındır hale getirmek için yollarda kervansaray, mil, havuz ribat gibi birçok eser y...

1 Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Sawangi, Meghe-440 022, Maharashtra, India. 2 Department of Pediatrics, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Sawangi, Meghe-440 022, Maharashtra, India. 3 Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Sawangi, Meghe-440 022, Maharashtra, India. [email protected] Abstract Diabetic polyneuropathy is one of the more comm...