Home Away from Home

Affordable rental housing plays an important role in meeting the housing needs of feasibility and short-term stay. This project is intended to assist individuals looking for affordable rental housing throughout their location, preferences and budget during their short term stay. The purpose of this project is to develop an e-commerce site “Home away from Home” that provides easy-to-use search tool that lets a user to look for rental housing using a wide variety of criteria and special mapping features such as find colour photos and detailed information about each unit. It also provides link to resources and accommodating instruments, for example, a rental plan, and extra data about leaseholder rights and commitment. This site helps to contain need-to- know information about property listings, bookings, payment processing, post-rental ratings that can be accessed with a quick tap while on the go. It has 3 parameters: Admin Account, Owner account and Renter/Guest account, each has its own functionality such as profile, settings and privacy policies. This website is mobile friendly, and offers functionalities including account management, uploads, auditing, and reviews on the both renter and the owner of the property

Prognostic Factors for Paediatric Abdominal Trauma at Tertiary Care Center

Introduction: Paediatric abdominal trauma incidence increasing due to rising population, industrialization, modernization, increase in the vehicular traffic, terrorist activities and riots. This study is done to know the prognostic factors in paediatric abdominal trauma which help in decreasing morbidity and mortality. Material and Methods: This retrospective study was conducted at a tertiary care centre, from May 2016 to April 2022. Retrospectively records of all the paediatric patients with a history of abdominal trauma were analysed from case files. Demographic data, mode of injury, mechanism of injury, nature of the injury, definitive treatment and outcome of patients were analysed. Results: There were 110 paediatric abdominal trauma patients. Road traffic accidents was the most common mode of trauma seen in 70% of cases, followed by fall which comprises25.5% cases. 25 (22.7%) cases were hemodynamically unstable on presentation.70 (63.6%) cases required transfusion of blood or blood products. Penetrating abdominal trauma was seen in 19 (17.3%) cases, while blunt trauma seen in 91 (82.7%) cases, most common solid organ of injury was spleen seen in 46 (41.8%) cases, Surgical interventions were required in 29(26.4%) cases, however 81(73.6%) cases were managed conservatively. All patients of traumatic bowel perforation required surgical intervention. Nine (08.1%) patients were succumbed to death. Among the factors leading to mortality, delayed presentation (78%), hemodynamic instability (89%), requirement of transfusion (100%), penetrating abdominal trauma (78%), higher grade injury (67%), surgical interventions (89%) were commonly identified and were poor prognostic factors. Conclusion: Delayed presentation, hemodynamic instability, penetrating abdominal trauma, higher grade of injury, surgical intervention are the poor prognostic factors. Site of injury, mechanism and the mode of injury are other factors contributing and deciding prognosis in paediatric abdominal trauma

Sales Management Portal

This helps to create a fully integrated software application to design for a company’s sales pipeline database portal, at which sales staffs enter clients\u27 information into pipeline by keeping logs of contacts and activities, opportunities and proposals, and eventually projects. The portal enables management to oversee works and track progresses, and in the meantime to interact with and provide guidance to sales staff time

The Role of Technology in Urban Fragmentation

The research deals with one of the most important issues that faces cities during their growth, the “Urban Fragmentation”, which occurs to the city and its parts during its various stages of growth due to many different reasons , technology is one of the most important of those reasons. The research has defined the urban fragmentation as: The state of dismantling, losing coherence, and heterogeneity in urban form and structure, that is linked to the process of city growth, the state of urban fragmentation occurs on different levels such as the formal, spatial, functional and social levels, due to technological developments and functional and economical needs, in addition to the changes in the cultural values and political circumstances. The research problem was determined as: the lack of sufficient knowledge about the role of the information and communication technologies in the fragmentation of cities. The research goal identified as : exploring the phenomenon of urban fragmentation and the most important indicators at the level of form and structure, and define the role of information and communication technology in the fragmentation and re-shaping and structuring the cities. Research has come to build a comprehensive overall vocabulary and indicators to designate the phenomenon of urban fragmentation at formal and spatial , functional and social levels, the main vocabulary of shape and structure was specified for the case study and its secondary vocabulary of the urban fabric, land use and spatial organization of the road grid. By testing the research hypothesis at the Rasafah-Baghdad and Jersey , due to different phases of technological development, the two cities passed through, and the phenomenon of fragmentation as a result of technological progress and development at various stages, at the formal and structural level, the research has come to the most important conclusions of the following: - 1. The level of fragmentation is varying due the technology in cities form and structure over time, as it reached the peak during the Industrial Revolution and began to erode with the development of information and communication technologies at the level of the structure more than the formal level. 2. The new centralities in contemporary cities caused by the techniques of communication and information are centralities of re- link of the land uses, which was fragmented by the industrial revolution, at the same time it represents a new level of fragmentation at another level of formal and social development of the city

Wind resource assessment for an industrial city in Saudi Arabia

Papers presented to the 11th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, South Africa, 20-23 July 2015.This study presents the wind resources assessment of Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. The hourly mean wind speed measurements at 10, 50, and 90 m above ground level (AGL) for five years (2008 to 2012) are used for this study. The wind resources assessment includes annual, seasonal and diurnal wind speed statistics, wind roses, Weibull distribution parameters, local values of wind shear exponent (WSE) and energy output from a 2 MW rated wind turbine. At 10, 50, and 90 m AGL the mean wind speeds were found to be 3.34, 4.79 and 5.35 m/s respectively. The monthly wind speed variation showed that the wind speed was highest in month of June and lowest in October over the entire period of data collection. The annual mean wind speed showed a decreasing trend from 2008 to 2010 but again increased in 2011 and 2012. The most prevalent wind direction at all three heights was from north-west. Wind was found to be available around 76% of time above 3.5 m/s at 50 and 90 m AGL. The local wind shear exponent calculated using wind speed values at three heights was found to vary seasonally from 0.146 to 0.283. Wind shear exponent correlation is presented for wind speed extrapolation to required hub heights. The mean power density at 10, 50 and 90 m was 50.92, 116.03, and 168.46 W/m2. The annual energy production from a commercially available wind turbine was estimated to be 3,847 MWh/year with a plant capacity factor of 22%.am201

Wind power characteristics of seven data collection sites in Jubail, Saudi Arabia using Weibull parameters

The wind characteristics of seven locations in Jubail, Saudi Arabia were analysed by using five years of wind data of six sites and three years data of one site at 10 m above ground level (AGL). The highest annual mean wind speed of 4.52 m/s was observed at Industrial area (east) and lowest of 2.52 m/s at Pearl beach with standard deviations of 2.52 and 1.1 m/s respectively. Weibull parameters were estimated using maximum likelihood, least-squares regression method (LSRM) and WAsP algorithm. The most probable and maximum energy carrying wind speed were found by all the three methods. The correlation coefficient (R2 ), root mean square error (RMSE), mean bias error (MBE) and mean bias absolute error (MAE) showed that all three methods represent wind data at all sites accurately. However, the maximum likelihood method is slightly better than LSRM followed by WAsP algorithm. The wind power output at all seven sites from five commercially available wind machines of rated power from 1.8 to 3.3 MW showed that Jubail industrial area (east) is most promising. The energy output from a 3 MW wind machine at this site was found to be 11,136 MWh/yr. with a plant capacity factor (PCF) of 41.3%The Research Grant Council of Shenzhen Government through grant KQCX2014052114423867.http://www.elsevier.com/locate/renene2018-03-31hb2017Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineerin

Wind speed and power characteristics for Jubail industrial city, Saudi Arabia

This paper presents the wind characteristics and resource assessment of the largest industrial base in the Middle East (Jubail industrial city) using measured hourly mean wind speed data at 10, 50 and 90 m above ground level (AGL) from 2008 to 2012. At respective heights, the mean wind speeds were found to be 3.34, 4.79 and 5.35 m/s. At 50 and 90 m AGL, the availability of wind speed above 3.5 m/s was more than 75%. The prevailing wind direction was from the north-west. The local wind shear exponent calculated using measured wind speed values at three heights was found to be 0.217. The mean wind power density values at measurement heights were 50.92, 116.03 and 168.46 W/m2 respectively. The comparison of energy output from five commercially selected wind turbines of rated power ranging from 1.8 – 3.3 MW showed that the most efficient wind turbine is 3.0 MW rated power. The annual energy production from this turbine was estimated to be 6,285 MWh with a plant capacity factor of 25%.http://www.elsevier.com/locate/rser2016-08-31am201

Food insecurity in Detroit: exploring the relationship between patient-reported food insecurity and proximity to healthful grocery stores

Objective: The objective of the current study was to determine if patients of a large health care system in Detroit who self-identify as food insecure live further away from healthy grocery stores compared with food secure patients. Second, we explored whether food insecurity and distance to healthy grocery stores are related to ecological measures of vehicle availability in the area of residence. Design: A secondary data analysis that uses baseline data from a pilot intervention/feasibility study. Setting: Detroit, Michigan, USA. Participants: Patients of Henry Ford Health System were screened for food insecurity to determine eligibility for a pilot intervention/feasibility study (i.e. Henry’s Groceries for Health), conducted through a collaboration with Gleaners Community Foodbank of Southeastern Michigan. Only patients residing in Detroit city limits (including Highland Park and Hamtramck) were included in the secondary analysis. Of the 1,100 patients included in the analysis, 336 (31 %) were food insecure. Results: After accounting for socio-demographic factors associated with food insecurity, we did not find evidence that food insecure patients lived further away from healthier grocery stores, nor was this modified by ecological measures of vehicle access. However, some neighbourhoods were identified as having a significantly higher risk of food insecurity. Conclusions: Food insecure patients in Detroit are perhaps limited by social and political determinants and not their immediate neighbourhood geography or physical access to healthy grocery stores. Future research should explore the complexity in linkages between household socio-economic factors, socio-cultural dynamics and the neighbourhood food environment

Suitability of utilizing small horizontal axis wind turbines for off grid loads in eastern region of Saudi Arabia

Small wind turbines of 1–3, 5–10, and 15–20kW rated powers are used to find out suitable and efficient turbines for power generation in the eastern region of Saudi Arabia. Additionally, the effect of hub height on energy output and the plant capacity factor is investigated to recommend an optimal hub height to be used in the present case. To achieve the set objectives, hourly mean wind speed data measured at 20, 30, and 40m and wind direction at 30 and 40m during 13 September 2005 to 9 May 2010 have been utilized. The annual mean wind speed values were 5.73, 5.34, and 4.75 m/s at 40, 30, and 20m with north-north west (NNW) prevailing wind direction. An increase of about 20.7% was estimated in wind speed measured at 40m compared to that at 20 m. Wind turbines Fortis Passat—1.4kW, Fortis Montana—5.8kW, Fortis Alize—10kW, and CF20—20kW with annual energy and plant capacity factor of 7.015MW h and 57.2%, 25.955MW h and 51.08%, 42.603MW h and 48.63%, and 54.674MW h and 31.21% were the most efficient turbines for the chosen location, respectively. Highest percentage increase in annual energy yield was obtained for a mere change of 5m from 15 to 20m in hub height in the present case study. The next best annual energy yield was obtained while increasing hub height from 20 to 30 m.The authors wish to acknowledge the support of the Research Institute of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Alam wishes to acknowledge support given to him from the Research Grant Council of Shenzhen Government through grants JCYJ20120613145300404. The authors (A Lashin and N Al Arifi) extend their appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) for funding the work through the international research group project no. IRG14-36.http://www.multi-science.co.uk/eee.htm2016-11-30am2016Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineerin

Social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: quantifying the practice in Michigan - a hotspot state early in the pandemic - using a volunteer-based online survey

BACKGROUND: Public Health policies related to social distancing efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic helped slow the infection rate. However, individual-level factors associated with social distancing are largely unknown. We sought to examine social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Michigan, an infection hotspot state in the United States early in the pandemic. METHODS: Two surveys were distributed to Michigan residents via email lists and social media following COVID-19 related state mandates in March; 45,691 adults responded to the first survey and 8512 to the second. Staying home ≥ 3 out of 5 previous days defined having more social distancing. Logistic regression models were used to examine potential factors associated with more social distancing. RESULTS: Most respondents were women (86% in Survey 1, 87% in Survey 2). In Survey 1, 63% reported more social distancing, increasing to 78% in Survey 2. Female sex and having someone (or self) sick in the home were consistently associated with higher social distancing, while increasing age was positively associated in Survey 1 but negatively associated in Survey 2. Most respondents felt social distancing policies were important (88% in Survey 1; 91% in Survey 2). CONCLUSIONS: Michiganders responding to the surveys were both practicing and supportive of social distancing. State-level executive orders positively impacted behaviors early in the COVID-19 pandemic in Michigan. Additional supports are needed to help vulnerable populations practice social distancing, including older individuals