In an earlier publication (Allenspach & Hamilton, 1962) an account was given of chick esophageal development and histogenesis up to 10 days of incubation. The esophagus becomes completely occluded at 5 days (stage 26, Hamburger & Hamilton, 1951) and reopens rapidly at 7-J-8 days (stages 33-34). Detailed observations were made of the histological changes in the organs as correlated with the loca...

The need to prepare cities for climate change adaptation requests the urban modeller community to implement sustainable adaptation strategies within their models to be tested against specific city morphologies and scenarios. Greening city roofs is part of these strategies. In this context, the GREENROOF module for TEB (town energy balance) has been developed to model the interactions between bu...

In an earlier publication (Allenspach & Hamilton, 1962) an account was given of chick esophageal development and histogenesis up to 10 days of incubation. The esophagus becomes completely occluded at 5 days (stage 26, Hamburger & Hamilton, 1951) and reopens rapidly at 7-J-8 days (stages 33-34). Detailed observations were made of the histological changes in the organs as correlated with the loca...

In hot arid regions, cooling buildings by passive techniques is very important regarding energy saving and the need to keep clean the environment. In such areas, domed and vaulted roofs are widely used for centuries, such as in the Middle East region and central part of Iran. In this article analysis is made to explore east–west direction of wind flow around north–south vaulted roofs and flat r...

The article presents a cartographic generalisation approach for 3D building models with regard to the thematic visualisation of urban landscapes. Based on our earlier work to utilise approximating planes for generating simplified cell decompositions of the input objects, a new extension is introduced that guarantees well-formed roof structures. This is accomplished by first creating a simplifie...

The drainage of low-sloped roof systems involves multiple design professionals, and often each has a different opinion as to their design responsibility. Roofing issues have been identified as being a number one source of litigation, and rain-induced roof collapses continue to occur with alarming frequency. With the backdrop of several rain-induced roof collapses, this paper illustrates the com...

This paper describes an improved version of our system for robust detection of buildings with a gable roof in varying rural areas from very-high-resolution aerial images. The algorithm follows a custom-made design, extracting key features close to modeling, such as roof ridges and gutters, in order to allow a large freedom in roof appearances. It starts by detecting straight line-segments as ro...

In this work, a multi-objective optimization on novel insulated roof with solar water heating system at low material cost has been carried out through Taguchi based grey relational analysis technique. The novel roofs have concrete, insulating polyurethane, and a channel of water in a metallic pipe tunneling the chromium block. Chromium block is used to conduct more heat to raise the water to re...

One of the most important tasks in urban remote sensing is the detection of impervious surfaces (IS), such as roofs and roads. However, detection of IS in heterogeneous areas still remains one of the most challenging tasks. In this study, detection of concrete roof using an object-based approach was proposed. A new rule-based classification was developed to detect concrete roof tile. This propo...