Sound propagation between a courtyard and an adjacent street canyon, as influenced by a wide range of meteorological conditions, was investigated by means of a real-life experiment in a dense urban setting. During several months, test signals were emitted on a regular base by an outdoor loudspeaker in the courtyard and recorded by wall-mounted microphones in the courtyard and the street canyon....

The ‘wind-rain’ house has a courtyard with glazed roof, which allows more direct sunlight to come into indoor spaces during the winter. The glazed roof can be partially opened or closed and automatically controlled to provide natural ventilation in order to adjust for indoor thermal conditions and the roof area can be shaded by reflective insulation materials during the summer. Two field studie...

We present the case of complete post-mortem decapitation of a 43 years old man killed by gunshots discharged from a distance of 40 - 50 cm. The corpse was left in the courtyard of his isolated carpentry and a mongrel dog lived in that courtyard, maybe attracted by the blood gushed from the wound, got a depredation of the corpse till the complete decapitation and the removal of all intrathoracic...

The paper attempts to uncover the key issues concerning sustainable built form of towns in aftermath rapid urbanization and growing population. objective this study is understand suitability practicability courtyard forms urban settlement. Traditional houses India are native types houses. These typologies have been developed through time-tested method reached widespread acceptance. It became ap...

preston briggs, keith d. cooper, timothy j. harvey and l. taylor simpson Tera Computer Company, 2815 Eastlake Ave. East, Seattle, WA 98102, USA (email: prestonKtera.com) Department of Computer Science, Rice University, 6100 S. Main MS 132, Houston, TX 77005, USA (email: keith,harvKrice.edu) Trilogy Development Group, 6034 W. Courtyard Dr., Austin, TX 78730, USA (email: Taylor SimpsonKtriology.com)

This is a very brief review of some results from Refs. [2] and [3]. In holographic renormalization, we studied the RG flow of a 2d N = (4, 4) CFT perturbed by a relevant operator, flowing to a conformal fixed point in the IR. Here, the supergravity dual is displayed, and the computation of correlators is discussed. The sample stress-energy correlator given here provides an opportunity to explic...

The traditional architectural methods used in the historical cities of Iran provide useful information on various fields related to architecture and urban planning. Of particular interest are the techniques used for designing open and closed spaces in houses located in the hot and humid climate zone. The proportions observed for the courtyard in such houses have a great role in determining the ...

As both an urban and rural prototypical phenomenon the courtyard house type has emerged. It differs dramatically from other types of houses. In it, the outdoor space is enclosed within the interior volume and ultimately becomes the heart of its morphology and spatial organization. As a house type it was usually associated with the wealthy, and involved general physical features that pertain to ...