The objectives of this research are to understand pedestrian’s behaviour at a disaster event, to find out pedestrian spriorities in a disaster event and to identify important pedestrian facilities for disaster events. The ...

Traditional Transport Models can under or overestimate the benefits when they try to model a rapidly changing economic surrounding. While looking into transport aspects, they cannot account the changes., the transportation ...

Though University libraries have positioned themselves as the main vehicles for the organization, access, distribution and use of knowledge, current library services will eventually be inadequate to keep pace with the ...

Thermal power generating plants, service stations and oil refineries generate oily wastewaters which are recognized to be a severe threat to aquatic environments. Electrocoagulation has received considerable attention ...

The urbanization process effects both structure and function of the cities. Therefore, the analysis of morphological patterns of a particular urban area have evolved as a result of varying factors of demographics, level ...

Viability of using off-grid micro hydro technology for rural electrification was first demonstrated by the Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) in 1991. Following the demonstration phase, ITDG carried out ...

This paper describes the development of a prototype Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA) system. The main objective of the work was to design and implement a CDMA system, based on its fundamental theoretical ...

Performances of pedestal and table fans were analysed through experimental measurements of the induced flow field (velocity distribution) and the power consumption by three different fan types (makes). A test rig was ...

Until recently timbers used for Structural purposes were limited to timber species that had been “tried and tested” over a long period of time. Today, however, these timbers are scarce and expensive, and it has become ...

This paper explores the possible means to adopt environmentally-friendly passive techniques to promote thermal comfort inside houses with the view of minimizing the use of energy-intensive active means such as fans. ...