In spring 2006, Sierd de Vries and I were contacted by Professor Stive about an Australian surfboard manufacturer, Greg Webber, searching assistance in the development of a new invention; a circular pool with surfable waves generated by ship-like hulls. Soon the contact was established and it turned out to be an interesting research project. The results of research are documented in two theses....

In Hiroshima Prefecture, there are warehouse called “Hanya” which have earth and stone masonry walls used for the production storage of ash. this study, we investigated constitution use ash houses to clarify architectural characteristics Hanya. Sixty-five shacks were found mainly in Miyoshi City, most them along Mihara River Miwaka Town Aribara Town, Ueda Town.

In the next twenty years, urban populations in Africa are expected to double, while land cover could triple. An often-overlooked dimension of this transformation is growth small towns and medium-sized cities. paper, we explore ways which straddling rural life, consider how insights into in-betweenness can contribute our understanding Africa’s transformation. particular, examine urbanism produce...

STUDY OBJECTIVE In a previous study a higher than expected prevalence of asthma was found in Lake Munmorah, a coastal town near two power stations, compared with another coastal control town. This study aimed to compare atopy, bronchial hyperreactivity, and reported symptoms of asthma in the power station town and a second control area with greater socioeconomic similarity. DESIGN A cross sec...

Land degradation is one of the significant issues the human beings are confronted with, which has become a bottleneck of restricting the sustainable development of the regional society and economy. In order to ascertain the root causes contributed to the land degradation and characteristics of land degradation, Bijiang watershed, the most important Lead-Zinc mine area of Lanping county of Yunna...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper looks at the role of spatial proximity of other towns' decisions to hold an override vote on the decision of a Massachusetts town to hold an initial override vote under Proposition 2½. We find that if a neighboring town has already held a vote at some point in the past, a town's likelihood of holding an initial vote increases by 10– 15%. A prior vote being succe...

In 1965 the Apartheid government of South Africa followed through on a decision to rezone the District Six area of Cape Town as a whites-only zone. Subsequently, the region was almost completely destroyed, resulting in a huge loss of South African Heritage. All that remains today are a handful of artifacts and an archive of photographs, all of which are housed at the District Six Museum in Cape...

Stephen D. Lawn and Mark P. Nicol Department of Clinical Research, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom; Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Medical Microbiology and Institute for Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Healt...