The Italian building heritage is aged and inadequate to the high-performance levels required nowadays in terms of energy efficiency seismic response. Innovative techniques are generating a strong interest, especially multi-level approaches solution optimizations. Among these, Nested Buildings, an integrated intervention approach which preserves external existing structure provides new structura...

Unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings are highly vulnerable to seismic ground motion, calling for quantitative risk assessment and mitigation programmes in different earthquake-prone countries reduce future losses. Despite the effectiveness of base isolation technology reducing response buildings, high costs conventional isolators prevent their application low-cost housing developing countries. ...

INTRODUCTION Many recent mentoring initiatives have sought to help improve the proportion of underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities (URMs) in academic positions across the biomedical sciences. However, the intractable nature of the problem of underrepresentation suggests that many young scientists may require supplemental career development beyond what many mentors are able to offer. As ...

Malawi is an earthquake-prone country that lies within the East African Rift. A large proportion of its population lives in non-engineered single-storey constructions made clay bricks and low-strength mortar. Walls are typically single-skin often lack adequate wall-to-wall connections, leaving them vulnerable to seismic actions. This work reports a comprehensive study on fragility unreinforced ...

Inadequate seismic performance of unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings is frequently encountered in earthquake prone countries such as Italy and New Zealand consequently, effective economical retrofit strategies need to be adopted order guarantee safety the preservation URM building stock. The technique studied herein consisted connecting vertical timber elements (strong-backs), interior surfac...

Unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings are susceptible to extraordinary actions such as earthquakes compared steel or reinforced concrete buildings. Various methods have been developed for the computational analysis of URM in last few decades. The equivalent frame method (EFM) is one numerical modeling approaches widely used nonlinear analyses Different macroelements context EFM proposed. However...

Perforated unreinforced masonry (URM) walls in out-of-plane (OOP) two-way bending are commonly encountered natural hazard investigations. However, related research is rather limited. This study focuses on the influence of openings capacity URM walls. An experimental database about perforated OOP was created. A brief review results show that arrangement opening area can significantly affect (def...

Disparities in racial diversity the field of dermatology continue to persist given that has second lowest percentage underrepresented minorities (URM), only orthopedic surgery. This study aims investigate any trends representation residency applicants over a five-year period. Dermatology applicant race data was extracted from Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) Association American ...

Background Underrepresented-minorities (URM) remain few in number amongst practicing cardiologists and across cardiology fellowship training programs the U.S. Increased diversity is needed entire field particularly necessary within graduate medical education programs. Objectives This cross-sectional study was performed to identify which strategies were supported implemented by program directors...