In contemporary architectural design new and experimental forms are constantly searched for and in the interaction between structural and architectural design a readable structural function adding to the architectural experience can be of interest. Cross-laminated timber plate elements show a high stiffness to weight ratio, and provide a wide range of possible structural applications. They have...

We attempted to define the central nervous system (CNS) concomitants of various types of orbital fractures in children by reviewing the records of 95 inpatients with admission diagnoses including orbital fracture who presented to the Children's National Medical Center from 1987 through 1994. Patients were divided into three age groups: group I: 0-5 years; group II: 6-12 years; group III: older ...

have problems weighing the various factors that influence the need for roof repair. So, how can you do away with these traditional, bulky, tools, while improving service and the ability to train new staff? We devised a PDA-based expert system that uses artificial neural networks to provide a roofing advisor. Roofers might be familiar with a large number of roof types but concentrate on those fo...

The U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducted a study to determine the effectiveness of a filtered air delivery system to reduce respirable dust exposure of roof bolter operators in underground coal mines. When performing roof bolting operations, roof bolter operators may experience exposure to high levels of respirable dust during a working shift, especially ...

In this work, an automated approach for 3D building roof modelling is presented. The method consists of two main parts, namely roof detection and 3D geometric modelling. For the detection, a combined approach of four methods achieved the best results, using slope-based DSM filtering as well as classification of multispectral images, elevation data and vertical LiDAR point density. In the evalua...

In February 2006, an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease (LD) was identified in Beachlands, a small, isolated east Auckland suburb. It was investigated through case finding, a case-control study, sampling potential sources of infection and by molecular typing (using sequence-based typing (SBT) of all Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 (Lp1) isolates). Lp1 was isolated from the respiratory tract o...

Laser scanning is a new technology for obtaining Digital Surface Models (DSM) of the earth surface. It is fast method for sampling the earth surface with a high density and high point accuracy. In this paper a procedure for building detection and roof extraction from the DSM is presented. The procedure starts by re-sampling elevation as obtained by laser scanning into regular grid. The core par...