Earth-Shelter construction is one of the aspects in architecture where the thermal mass of the earth behind the outer walls are applied in order to reduce heat loss and keep the internal temperature at human comfort range. In case of earth-shelter buildings, housing is especially important. As for its applicability the earth-shelter provides good housing. Typological studies of earth-shelter co...

earth-shelter construction is one of the aspects in architecture where the thermal mass of the earth behind the outer walls are applied in order to reduce heat loss and keep the internal temperature at human comfort range. in case of earth-shelter buildings, housing is especially important. as for its applicability the earth-shelter provides good housing. typological studies of earth-shelter co...

Radiation protection is an important habitat design consideration for human exploration missions beyond Low Earth Orbit. Fortunately, radiation shelter concepts can effectively reduce astronaut exposure for the relatively low proton energies of solar particle events, enabling moderate duration missions of several months before astronaut exposure (galactic cosmic ray and solar particle event) ap...

The temporal hierarchy of shelters: a hierarchical location model for earthquake-shelter planning Zhifen Chen a b , Xiang Chen c , Qiang Li a & Jin Chen a a State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, , Beijing Normal University , Beijing , 100875 , China b China Academy of Urban Planning and Design , Beijing , 100044 , China c Department of Geography, , The Ohio State...

PURPOSE We examined the cross-sectional and longitudinal association between social network characteristics and street youths' shelter use, a determinant of health outcomes for homeless youth. METHODS We analyzed interview data from 138 street youth recruited through venue-based sampling in San Francisco, to assess the cross-sectional relationship between shelter use in youths' social network...

The wind’s effectiveness was compared in different points of a watershed using a quantity called The Wind Shelter Index.The wind’s effectiveness was compared in different points of a watershed using a quantity called The Wind Shelter Index. It is necessary to choose a distance called the effective distance in the process of this index determination. The criterion already used for this purpose w...

It appears fairly obvious that life could evolve only in the presence of water. However, from the outset the Earth and Mars had very little water (~0.03%) and protoorganic substances (several orders of magnitude less than that), which poses two problems, namely, (1) a concentration gap, where a reasonable original concentration of aminoacids in water could not be higher than ∼10 kg/l, which mad...