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Canada’s efforts in healthy housing are based mainly in various low energy house programs. Since the early 1980s, Natural Resources Canada has launched two major programs to promote the construction of energy efficient or low energy houses (Mayo and Sinha 1996, Sinha 1996). The first one is the R-2000 program that was established in 1982. The performance target for R2000 houses was based on a 5...

Longji Terrace, one of the three ancient terraces in China, is a comprehensive tourist scenic spot with agricultural as main body and integrating natural landscape, cultural landscape ethnic customs. In this paper, taking Terrace Guilin research object, using geographic information technology to study its ecosystem structure from aspects space, components, etc., explore material energy flow pat...

There is an urgent need to evaluate the environmental impacts of both traditional and more recent innovations in sustainable building materials. This study conducted a life cycle assessment (LCA) single three-storey (aboveground) terrace Ireland composed three timber-framed residential workplace units. The supply raw materials, their transport manufacturing site, processes for materials used ac...

Microscopy of coverslips that had been allowed to float on water from an aquarium standing over sand in a deep Petri dish revealed the presence of two kinds of colorless flagellates living in stalked, transparent vase-shaped houses (Fig. 1). One of the flagellates inhabits an urn-shaped house which in my material was invariably attached to the sheath around chains of the bacterium Sphaerotilus ...

MANY patients in mental hospitals, while no longer needing the active treatment services of a hospital, are still unable to live in the community without help. In addition, there are many patients in the community for whom hospitalisation is not yet necessary but for whom some form of help is needed to prevent it in the near future. Voluntary and governmental groups have long been aware of the ...

[1] Both Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements and studies of Late Quaternary faulting are consistent with a slip rate of 10 mm/yr along the central segment of the Altyn Tagh Fault and a systematic decrease in that rate toward the eastern end of the fault. Dates of terraces above and below laterally offset terrace risers yield bounds on Quaternary slip rates that range from those that ag...