Cholera, which is caused by Vibrio cholerae, persists as a devastating acute diarrheal disease.Despite availability of information on socio-cultural, agent and hosts risk factors, the disease continues to claim lives of people in Tanzania.The present study explores spatial patterns of cholera cases during a 2015-16 outbreak in Mwanza, Tanzania usin
Steel Plate Shear Walls (SPSW) provide significant lateral load capacity and can be utilized in the seismic retrofit and upgrade of existing reinforced concrete (r/c) Collections buildings.In this study, the application of SPSW to retrofit a r/c building designed according to older seismic provisions is presented.Three different options to model SP
Argentina and Brazil find themselves in a situation in which the apparent agreement in their internal political changes and the harmony between their leaders seem to be serving as triggering elements for the coordination of their foreign policies.Sharing, asthey do, a series of common problems in their machine-accessories insertion into the multila
Traditional visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems rely on point features to estimate camera trajectories.However, feature-based systems are usually not robust in complex environments such as weak textures or obvious brightness changes.To solve this problem, we used more environmental structure information by introducing line s