Middle of squares, one of the components of physical aspect is considered as an appropriateindicator in designing successful urban squares, which consequently promotes visual quality. The present study aims todetermine how the above mentioned aspect was presented in the Middle-Ages and Renaissance within Italian squares.Considering the aim of the investigation, library studies as well as visual...

Information and Communication, Technology (ICT) is dramatically expanding in Taiwan; however, ICT in early childhood education is deficient in educational implication. The purpose of this study is to apply ICT in developing digital learning materials for enhancing young children’s creativity. To achieve the purpose, the methods of the study included focus group, observation and experimental res...

AIM To examine the role of wind in the spread of Q fever (Coxiella burnetii) from the source of infection (sheep on the pastures) to the factory where there was an outbreak of Q fever among the employees. METHODS We performed clinical (fever, coughing, myalgias, arthralgias), laboratory (complete blood test, aminotransferases, antibodies to Coxiella burnetii), radiographic (chest X-ray), and ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Research has shown that health related conditions and socio-economic factors influence disability in the elderly. We examined the prevalence of health related disability in community dwelling elderly (> or =65 yr) residents in a suburb of Bangaluru, Karnataka, India, and assessed the association of disability with various socio-economic variables and current health statu...

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...

INTRODUCTION Australia is the sixth largest country (in area) in the world with a total area of over 7.5 million km² (3 million miles²). To date much of the research and policy activity in the dental workforce has been based on simple statistical analysis including practitioner-to-population ratios; however, risks are associated with the application of these types of ratios. This study examined...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether tobacco retailer density and cigarette prices differ between low and high socioeconomic status suburbs in South-East Queensland. METHODS A survey of retail outlets selling cigarettes was conducted in selected suburbs over a two-day period. The suburbs were identified by geographical cluster sampling based on their Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and D...

The purpose of article is to examine whether the current feminist philosophies in intersection identity, politics and environment can have practical purchase urban problem-solving. My argument mobilised using story Greater Dandenong, a multicultural suburb approximately 30km south-east Melbourne's central business district. This witnessed what I call ‘bubble clash.’ In recent years, Dandenong h...

Cross-border shared resources have always been one of the legal and economic issues, since they are highly important to governments. Because inherent characteristic governments their willingness exercise sovereignty over land, resources, protection these common cross-border challenging a subject disagreement between stakeholder countries, in legal, economic, political. These challenges become m...