The adoption and adaptation of enclosures in the arid and semi-arid rangelands of sub-Saharan Africa is driven and sustained by a combination of factors. However, reviews indicate that these factors cannot be generalized, as they tend to be case specific. A study was therefore conducted to explore the history and reasons for enclosure establishment in Chepareria, a formerly degraded communal ra...

New energy-saving enclosing structures with air gaps are proposed; when calculating the temperature fields in structures, method of finite element analysis ANSYS environment was used. As a result study, various structure solutions design options were analyzed. An made thermal resistance values traditional and developed structures. The cladding use two ventilated layers relative to enclosure, as...

The effect of Aspect ration on melting process PCM (polyethylene glycol 1500 (PEG 1500)) in a rectangular encloser was investigated using CFD modelling. model validated by experimental measurement performed for one case aspect ratio 2.31 with height = 155 mm, width 67 and depth 200 mm. study conducted two phases: i) constant enclosure, ii) volume enclosure. main conclusions from this are: the c...

Granular dampers are passive devices used to attenuate mechanical vibrations. The most common configuration consists in an enclosure, partiallyfilled with particles, attached the vibrating structure that needs be damped. energy is dissipated due inelastic collisions and friction between grains inner walls of container as vibrates. As a result collisions, response system often results chaotic mo...

this paper tries to determine efficiency of noise control method using fuzzy logic and based on collected data. from among various methods of noise control in workplace, sex methods (enclosure, installing noise absorber, enclosure and absorber, active, and administrative control, and personal protective equipment) were typically selected based on experts' judgment. for each of selected control ...

Mountains and high ground are often venerated as special places. It is their enigmatic quality as high places, their prominence and permanence in both the mental and physical landscapes that draws us to them. In the Neolithic/Bronze Age mountain tops in Ireland were frequently used for ritual purposes, often indicated by the presence of various monuments such as passage tombs, cairns as well as...

A rigorous numerical algorithm, formally verified with Isabelle/HOL, is used to compute an accurate enclosure for the Lorenz attractor. Accurately enclosing the attractor is highly relevant: a similar non verified computation is part of Tucker’s proof that the Lorenz attractor is chaotic in a rigorous mathematical sense. This proof settled a conjecture that Fields medalist Stephen Smale has put...

In a series of engaging observations on colonialism and territorial conquest, Edward Said crafted the notion of “imaginative geography” to describe the ideological impulses of dominant groups seeking control of places and people.1 According to Said, imagined geography is a process initiated by groups with territorial ambitions who reinvent meanings about the landscapes they covet, and frame dis...