... Preventive maintenance ofhistoricbuildings 235 17 Fire 251 18 Presentation ofhistoricbuildings 261 19 Cost control of conservation projects 273 20 Rehabilitationofhistoricbuildings 277 v Contents ... decay ofhistoricbuildings The scope of conservation of the built environment, which consists mainly ofhistoric buildings, ranges from town planning to the preservation or consolidation of a ... Diocese of Norwich who employed me under the 1955 Inspection of Churches Measure, the application of which in England laid the foundations of an approach to the scientific conservation ofhistoric buildings...
... regulates the Implementation of Ordinance for Tax of Land and Housing • Official letter No 2944/TC-TCT dated October 28, 1995 of Ministry of Finance regulates the tax remission of housing program • Law ... of land and other assets when land acquisition results in the loss of shelter, the loss of all or part of productive assets, or access to them, and the loss of income sources or other means of ... house and 60% of the cost of the land 25.2 To ensure that the objectives of the policy are met, a special decision of the Government of VietNam regarding waiver of Article 25 of Decree 22/CP is needed...
... Supervisors Professor Anja Ainamo University of Helsinki Associate Professor Timo Närhi University of Turku Reviewers Professor Warner Kalk Univesity of Gronningen Professor Aune Raustia University of Oulu ... Prosthetic rehabilitationof the edentulous elderly and adequacy ofrehabilitation (Papers I, II) Forty-six per cent of the 364 elderly, 40% of men and 48% of women were edentulous A set of CDs was ... Prosthetic rehabilitationof the edentulous elderly and adequacy ofrehabilitation (Papers I, II) 28 8.3 Prosthetic rehabilitationof the dentate elderly and adequacy ofrehabilitation (Paper...
... Department of Finance (DOF), Department of General Services (DGS), Department of Transportation (Caltrans), Department of Water Resources (DWR), and Division of the State Architect (DSA) 14 State of ... Resources California Department of General Services, Office of Risk and Insurance Management California Department of Finance California Department of General Services City of Portland, Environmental ... Financial Benefits of Green Buildings two lists of technologies that are intended to guide development of new buildings. 56 The Tier list includes many green technologies – such as "cool roofs" (described...
... architecture The use of Moorish styling in the Krotona Inn and most of the other prominent buildingsof Krotona may be seen as a strategy to produce an architecture expressive of the essence of the southern ... need It was the earlier of two buildings in the colony designed by the San Diego-based firm of Mead & Requa.17 The working drawings (now in the collection of the San Diego Historical Society) bear ... Colony, Page The Surviving Buildingsof Krotona in Hollywood Grand Temple of the Rosy Cross (immediately southeast of 2130 Vista del Mar Avenue) supported by the fact of the Roberts Temple being...
... to historicrehabilitation While rehabilitationof a single historic site may not generate enough demand to draw skilled preservation professionals and labor to an area, rehabilitationof a historic ... called the “Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentive” This program allows “a tax credit of up to 20% of the cost of renovation for certified rehabilitationof a certified historic structure ... availability of liability insurance; - the lack of information and funding with respect to orphan sites; - the lack of information of the current environmental condition of the land; - the lack of public...
... Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ 2Department of Quantitative Methods, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ 3Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of ... Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center Grant # H133E050011 Author details Department ofRehabilitation and Movement Sciences, University of Medicine and ... to higher levels of fatigue associated with the initiation of an intense training protocol in these subjects A comparable pattern of high levels of fatigue during the early days of a trial has...
... automated rehabilitation devices, ADAPT allows both delivery of large intensity of training and longitudinal measurements of performance and limb use However, the design of ADAPT departs from that of ... crucial issue in the design of ADAPT Our choice of design makes our robot safer than a traditional multi-DOF robotic arm because of the small overall workspace The linear DOF is only used for tool ... all DOFs When pressed, two emergency stop buttons stop all robot operation and turn on magnetic brakes to disable any movement of all DOF of the robot The main emergency red stop button of the...
... reports of Electroencephalograpy (EEG)-based BCIs for rehabilitation in stroke patients The major part of these reports for stroke recovery focus on the rehabilitationof upper limbs, specifically of ... environment Despite the exact role of the motor cortex in control of gait is unclear, available evidence may be applied to gait rehabilitationof post-stroke patients GAIT REHABILITATION AFTER STROKE ... a wider diffusion of robotic devices for gait restoring, such as their high costs and the skepticism of some members ofrehabilitation teams [116] probably based on the lacks of clear guidelines...
... size & range of movement of each individual finger Fischer et al assisted the finger extension of mildly affected stroke patients with the help of a powered orthosis Following six weeks of training ... beneficial effect of robot-assisted upper limb treatment on the impairment of severely affected stroke patients [4-9] There are fewer clinical reports of machine-assisted movement of paralysed fingers ... Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008, 5:21 ing the intensity ofrehabilitation after stroke Several devices, to treat wrist,...
... minimum (MIN) of the curve of joint movement Beside this, the mean values of MAX and MIN were considered For ankle joint, in addition to ROM on sagittal plane, peak of plantarflexion, peak of dorsiflexion ... the values of gait velocity Cadence (steps min-1), duration of stance phase (as % of gait cycle), duration of single support (as % of gait cycle), stride length (m) and walking speed (m s-1) ... picture of patients with PWS, aim of our study was to characterize the gait pattern of these subjects by using 3D-Gait Analysis The results were compared with those obtained in a group of healthy...
... Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008, 5:5 http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/5/1/5 Figure 66th frame of one of the video sequences used for training ANN1 66th frame of one of the ... interval of co-activation of flexor and extensor muscle The value of 1.5 s is the total observation time Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation ... movement The The proof of concept of a new non-invasive FES-assisted rehabilitation system for the upper limb has been presented In the system, called smart FES (sFES), the electri- Page of 12 (page...
... demonstrated successful rehabilitationof older adults with COPD McAnelly et al [12] described a case of hip disarticulation and successful rehabilitationof an individual with COPD None of these papers ... regardless of their age and preexisting respiratory disorders, and a trial period ofrehabilitation should be considered to explore the possibility of prosthetic fitting We also suggest that the use of ... complained of right leg pain at rest and developed ulceration of the right toes The patient underwent right trans-tibial amputation in August 2007 because of ischemia and gangrene of the foot...
... overdentures in fact offer the feasibility to compensate the retruded maxilla by placing prosthetic teeth anterior to the maxillary alveolar process, but that means a loss of the advantages of fixed tissueintegrated ... resorptive pattern of the edentulous maxilla and mandible often leads to a discrepancy between the jaws such that a significant class III malocclusion occurs [11] Sailer published a method of Le Fort ... placement of endosseous implants for treatment of patients with atrophied maxillary alveolar bone and class III jaw relationship [5] This sandwich technique permits simultaneous correction of the...
... ofrehabilitation Outcome measurements in relation to COPD rehabilitation Experience of selection, completion and dropout ofrehabilitation Hypothesis Aims of ... COPD rehabilitationRehabilitation outcome measures reflect the goals ofrehabilitation Measures therefore include the results of walk testing, assessments of health-related QoL, and evaluation of ... clinical routine rehabilitation and in terms of the quality of the rehabilitation offer Research addressing quality assurance of inclusion and effect monitoring in clinical routine rehabilitation...
... rotation of the Haptic Knob [unitless] normalized number of zero crossing of the acceleration [1/s] number of crossing in and out of target window [unitless] number of crossing in and out of target ... for a DOF haptic knob for hand rehabilitation DOF Haptic Knob for hand rehabilitation Kinematic model of the Haptic Knob Design features of the ... radial aperture of the thumb parallelogram of the Haptic Knob [cm] radius of the pulley fixed on the shaft of motor M1 [cm] score of the opening/closing exercise [unitless] score of the pronation/supination...
... 142 viii LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF FIGURES Figure Histogram of number of guest rooms in hotels 53 Figure Histogram of dry bulb temperature in hotels 57 Figure Histogram of relative humidity ... percentage of the global energy demand and has huge potential of making energy efficiency improvements This research practice deals with energy performance of hotel buildings, one of the most ... unreserved support i TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS i TABLE OF CONTENTS ii SUMMARY v LIST OF TABLES viii LIST OF FIGURES ...