The article compares the revenue houses of architect A. Shcherbachev, built for merchant D.E. Chelyshev at end XIX century in Samara. At moment, most these are disrepair or have been lost, so it is necessary to collect all available information on architectural monuments order understand principles and patterns Shcherbachev's design, including first buildings Samara, their preservation restorat...

Estate agents value properties, suggesting a price based on their experience and market data, whereas engineers evaluate performing calculations, structural assessments, property conservation. Nevertheless, specialisedtechnology combining the technical expertise of both professionals can be created to define valuation range for specific property. This study presents application intelligent clas...

Automatic extraction of built-up areas from a multitemporal interferometric ERS-1/2 Tandem SAR dataset was studied. The image data were segmented into homogeneous regions and the regions were classified using their mean intensity and coherence values and additional contextual information. According to comparison with a set of reference points, an overall classification accuracy of 97% was achie...

BACKGROUND Tobacco control policy can only succeed if the burdens of smoking are known. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and correlates of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure among nonsmoking adults in two Nigerian cities. MATERIALS AND METHODS We carried out a cross-sectional study from October 2009 to April 2010 among adult population of two Nigerian cities: Enugu and...

The Public Health and Safety Department of Dubai Municipality had evaluated the indoor air quality in public buildings 2013, then established IAQ (Indoor Air Quality) regulation. Even though building is control, pollution new renovated housing still very problematic. objective this paper to measure residential unit an apartment after renovation evaluate actual condition analyze influential fact...