AN ASSESSMENT FOR THE CONSERVATION MECHANISM OF MASONRY ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE BASED ON MATERIAL DETERIORATION ANALYSIS: A CASE STUDY OF THE XUHAI DAO SHU SCREEN WALL (XUZHOU, CHINA)

Materials are important carriers of historical information of masonry architectural heritage and can also directly reflect decay problems due to environmental factors during building use, which are key factors to be considered in architectural heritage conservation.Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the logicality and effectiveness of

This paper presents a new two-stage multi-swarm particle swarm optimizer (TMPSO), which employs the multi-swarm method and takes two-stage different search strategies in the whole iteration process.This new optimizer includes two versions: unconstrained TMPSO (uTMPSO) and constrained TMPSO (cTMPSO) for unconstrained and constrained global optimizat

Abstract The global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic spread has seized the entire world and has created extensive health concerns in the general population.Despite various efforts to prevent the pandemic spread, the flare-up of this disease is still soaring due to the community spread in every area.The droplet spread from the afflicted

My aim in this paper is to motivate and defend a version Twin Panel Rails of epistemic contextualism; a version, that is, of what came to be called attributor or ascriber contextualism.I will begin by outlining, in the first part, what I take to be the basic idea of and motivation behind the version of epistemic contextualism that I favor.In the se

The identity of the original material of Juncus kochii F.W.Schultz (Juncaceae) is discussed.The taxon at present is best regarded Nursery Chair as Juncus bulbosus L.subsp.kochii (F.W.Schultz) Reichg.The relevant literature (protologue and references therein) was searched and details of all original elements were compiled.Nomenclatural and taxonomic