To reduce the impact of climate change in form low-carbon developments, innovations sustainable building strategies are imperative. In this regard, performance a double-roof house consisting photovoltaic panel roof (PV) and green (GR) was compared to traditional solar-roof buildings. The synergy between both PV GR systems analysed by numerical simulations physical modelling across four seasons....

Youth gangs are on the rise. Today they threaten virtually every major city, many small communities, and even rural areas. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is committed to helping communities overcome this problem, and an essential first step is understanding the factors that contribute to the growth of youth gangs and the relationship of gang membership to deli...

A preliminary study of structural concepts for noncircular fuselage configurations is presented. For an unconventional flying-wing type aircraft, in which the fuselage is inside the wing, multiple fuselage bays with non-circular sections need to be considered. In a conventional circular fuselage section, internal pressure is carried efficiently by a thin skin via hoop tension. If the section is...

Core-shell double emulsions produced using microfluidic methods with controlled structural parameters exhibit great potential in a wide range of applications, but the low production rate of microfluidic methods hinders the exploitation of the capabilities of microfluidics to produce double emulsions with well-defined features. A major obstacle towards the scaled-up production of core-shell doub...

Precisely tailoring the structure and fully making use of the components of nanoparticles are effective to enhance their catalytic performance for a given reaction. We herein demonstrate the design of cage-bell structured Pt-Pd nanoparticles, where a Pd shell is deliberately selected to enhance the catalytic property and methanol tolerance of Pt for oxygen reduction reaction. This strategy star...

This paper presents an automatic method for gable roof detection in terrestrial images. The purpose of this study is to refine the roofs of a 3D city model automatically derived from aerial images. The input images consist of geo-referenced terrestrial images acquired by a mobile mapping system (MMS). The raw images have been rectified and merged into seamless façade texture images (one texture...