Post-earthquake fires: risk assessment and precautions

Earthquakes have great damage potential and importance in risk management and structural engineering, causing fires in buildings such as residences and commercial spaces.Post-earthquake fires (PEF) are secondary disasters that can cause material and moral destruction and loss of life.Similar to natural disasters, they show the time of occurrence an

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Towards a broader horizon

In a time of uncertainty and continuous change in architectural education, our discipline urges debate, reflection and renewal of its traditional subjects as a response to external forces that Architecture is increasingly exposed to.This paper will offer a reflection on how a design studio culture can contribute to the renewal of our discipline and

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Assessment of dog owner adherence to veterinarians’ flea and tick prevention recommendations in the United States using a cross-sectional survey

Abstract Background Adherence to a prescribed therapeutic regimen is a critical factor for achieving medication effectiveness and therefore treatment success.In the case of companion animal ectoparasite control, suboptimal owner Concealer adherence to medication recommendations is thought to be a common cause of treatment failure, and previous repo

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