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A reflection on the habitat for the unmarried woman in algeria
Abstract: The beginning of the building of habitat is a commemoration of a civilization which reflects their way of life; either every individual has his place, or he practices his life and exercises his ambition except that the present time has the complexity of life causes creation of new category which does not exist before, or rather it represents a minority (women unmarried), supporting according to statistics. There is about 11 …
Published in International Journal of Housing and Human Settlement Planning · Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2018 · pp. 37–41 Read article
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Energy assessment of residential building using passive strategies
Abstract: Energy efficiency in building requires specific type of building materials in the design and construction, improving building insulation and sealing performance and enhancing efficiency of heating systems to reduce energy consumption. The main aim of the project is to reduce the energy consumption, carbon emission, life cycle cost, annual operation cost of the building and residential envelope transmittance value. In this project, Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit, IES VE & ECO-NIWAS …
Published in International Journal of Housing and Human Settlement Planning · Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2021 · pp. 7–16 Read article
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Innovations in Landscape Architecture and Urban Designing
Abstract: Urbanization has become a worldwide phenomenon after the second half of the last century. Today more than half of the world population lives in urban environments. According to the World Bank data, 51% percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas as of 2010 (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.U RB.TOTL.IN.ZS/countries/1W?display=gr aph). Urbanization is a complex and multidimensional concept with its spatial, ecological, economic, social and cultural aspects. While urbanization is widely accepted as …
Published in International Journal of Landscape Planning and Architecture · Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2016 · pp. 1–15 Read article
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Prediction of Shear Strength Parameters Using Multiple Regression Analysis
Abstract: Shear strength is a principal engineering property of soil. It controls the stability of a soil mass under structural loads and is used in design of foundation. In this study, a survey was carried out in and around the Bhauti region of Kanpur district, Uttar Pradesh and accordingly nine sampling locations was identified. All the samples were collected from a depth of 50 cm and analyzed for different geotechnical properties …
Published in International Journal of Landscape Planning and Architecture · Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2019 · pp. 26–39 Read article
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Design Analysis of Offshore Petroleum Platforms
Abstract: Platform design is a difficult issue in deep offshores. Foundation of afloat structures is a platform to search afloat facilities at deep sea scaled. Offshore oil production is one of the most visible of these applications and represents a significant challenge to the design engineer. Offshore structures must function safely for design lifetimes of twenty-five years or more and are subject to very harsh marine environments. Some important design considerations …
Published in International Journal of Landscape Planning and Architecture · Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2019 · pp. 9–16 Read article
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Assessment of Landscape Components in Hospital Environment for General Hospital Buildings in Enugu State, Nigeria
Abstract: The visible landscape is believed to have effect on human beings in many ways in provision of aesthetics appreciation, good health as well as the general well-being of human. It is observed that some of the hospitals in Enugu State, Nigeria lack landscaping elements which have resulted to unhealthy and uncomfortable environment especially to the patients. This research is aim to assess landscaping elements in hospital environment in order to …
Published in International Journal of Landscape Planning and Architecture · Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2020 · pp. 1–10 Read article
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Planning and Management of Water for Green Building
Abstract: Green buildings are designed, constructed and operated to improve the betterment of their occupants and support a healthy community and natural environment, as compare to a conventional building. Green rating has been started in many countries for the building. In India, three agencies have their own rating system. Water conservation, Water quality and conservation, Water conservation measures are among one from thevarious criteria for rating of buildings. Though India has …
Published in International Journal of Landscape Planning and Architecture · Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2023 · pp. 12–15 Read article
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Role of Digital India in Enhancing Transportation Smart and Safe Solutions for Accident Free India
Abstract: Digital India is a programme to prepare India for a knowledge future. The focus of digital India is on making technology central to enabling change. This is Umbrella programme which is covering many departments. Digital India weaves together a large number of ideas and thoughts into a single comprehensive vision so that each of them is seen as part of larger goal. Each individual element like transportation stands on its …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2017 · pp. 20–32 Read article
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Temporal Approach for Exploring Spatial Evolution at Sacred Pilgrimage Towns in India: Relevance to Contemporary Urban Planning
Abstract: This paper traces spatial development of the built form at Vrindavan through a historical narrative and explores its rootedness in the mythical sacred geography of Braj. It focuses on built form development process as a function of cultural variations in patterns of pilgrimage, patronage and governance to assimilate cultural memory embedded in the built environment. The threshold transformations in spatial patterns are explored in relation to culturalhistorical narratives to reveal …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2017 · pp. 44–57 Read article
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Slum Rehabilitation: Re-Location or In Situ Rehabilitation
Abstract: In rapid globalizations, today every towns and metropolis are depending more and more on workforce coming from developing countries, smaller cities, villages, rural areas. Worldwide any metropolitan city’s working-class people are coming from neighbor towns, villages. However, cities are not able to provide better life style and sufficient livelihoods to our working-class people who are immigrating from rural to cities. Urban slum and this problem are widely spreading across the …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2017 · pp. 84–90 Read article
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Development of Critical Thinking through Undergraduate Architectural Training
Abstract: Critical reasoning is an elementary tool for doing well in all walks of life today. It is gaining importance in a time of constantly evolving work profiles, multicontextual problems scenarios and in living a more aware life- unplagued by sociocentrism and egocentrism. A research conducted by James Flynn across different specialisation domains at one of America’s top universities concluded that ‘there is no sign that any department attempts to develop …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2019 · pp. 18–27 Read article
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Sustainable Resilience: A Case for Vaastu Principles in Urban Planning
Abstract: In recent years, an increasing number of local governments are recognizing the impact of climate change on different urban sectors. This has led many to pursue climate adaptation planning, seeking to achieve preparedness through reducing vulnerability and enhancing the resilience of the population, assets, and municipal operations. Different planning approaches have been undertaken by many cities sharing the above mentioned common goal. In this paper, we examine urban ecology, Vaastu …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2020 · pp. 43–51 Read article
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Analysis of Smoke Production and Movement in Shopping Malls/Centers
Abstract: Malls, like any other retailing centre, are vulnerable to a variety of hazards, including fire, which is a common occurrence in shopping malls. Fires at crowded malls can result in many fatalities as frantic people rush to escape the flames, as well as significant property damage. This computational study explores the possibility of smoke spread and evacuation from dangerous fires in large shopping centers. Large enclosed areas or voids are …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 8, Issue 1, 2022 · pp. 1–23 Read article
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“Traditional building methods and materials for earthquake-resistant structures in earthquake-prone zones”
Abstract: An earthquake is one of the natural disasters that cause various causality including loss of life, destruction of property, and other effects depending on the magnitude. During an earthquake, the destruction of structures causes many casualties. To minimize the loss, earthquake-resistant constructions are made in earthquake-prone zones. This paper focuses on understanding the impact of large earthquakes on the lifestyles and civic infrastructure of earthquake-prone regions. The study aims to …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2023 · pp. 24–31 Read article
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Ecological threat to Bacopa monnieri: An Assessment
Abstract: Now –a- days the anthropogenic activities are so aggressive that they become serious threat to the plants especially the herbs which has even the immense medicinal property but they totally dependent on the upper sol surface not only the direct influence but the indirect influence of the human activities like increase in the temperature of the earth crust, water deficit due to decrease water level of the earth, directly influence …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 1, Issue 1-2, 2015 · pp. 22–30 Read article
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Response of Plants to Drought Stress: A Review
Abstract: Stress tolerance has long been fascinated plant biologists as a challenge to understand the mechanism of plant survival under biotic and abiotic stress conditions. Exposure to abiotic stresses such as high salinity, drought, extreme light and temperature of plants results in worldwide major loss in crop productivity. The main cause of crop loss worldwide is abiotic stresses, reducing average yield for most major crop plants by more than 50%. The …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2016 · pp. 35–42 Read article
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An Overview on Cannabis and its Medical Applications
Abstract: Today, cannabis plant is raising interest in medical field due to its potential applications, for example, in antitumor drugs, to treat inflammation, cell proliferation, and cell survival. Cannabinoid receptors have a major role in the mechanism of cancer therapy. But in spite of its advantages in medical field, it has some disadvantages also. Due to lack of proper information, it may cause severe side effects. This paper reviews recent work …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2018 · pp. 1–5 Read article
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Imminent Bioperspectives of Aromatic Plant Leaf Extracts from Cinnamomum tamala and its Biopesticidal Potential against Tribolium castaneum (Herbst.)
Abstract: present research work concluded that when the C. tamala leaf extract of five various solvents revealed that acetone extract possessed potential biopesticidal efficiency because it contains the cinnamaldehyde and linalool like compounds present in the same extract. Totally eleven compounds are elucidated from the leaf (acetone extract) through a GCMS analysis. It was almost conformed that these two aldehyde and aromatic carboxylic acid groups were presented in the acetone extract …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2019 · pp. 31–43 Read article
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Antioxidant, Anti-inflammatory and Anti-proliferative potential of Amaranthus viridis and Swertia chirata
Abstract: AbstractMedical plants have been used to treat various chronic disease from ancient times. The development of science and technology in recent time makes it possible to discover the active constituents present in these plants and establish their biological targets for evolving them as a remedy for treating diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the phytochemical constituents and antioxidant potential of methanolic extracts of Amaranthus viridis and Swertia …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2021 · pp. 16–25 Read article
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Neutralization of Naja Naja Snake Venom by Ethanolic Leaf Extracts of Rivea hypocrateriformis
Abstract: Snake venom has been the cause of innumerable deaths worldwide.For the last century, antivenin is the only available antivenom in market for specific treatment. However,antivenin does not provide enough protection against venom induced haemorrhage, necrosis, nephrotoxicity and often develops hypersensitivity reactions. India has a rich source of the usage of medicinal plants. Many Indian medicinal plants in olden days used by tribal people like Gonds, Bhils, santhal, kasha etc to …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2021 · pp. 26–31 Read article