Rumah Unggul Sistem Panel Instan (RUSPIN) technology is the development of Rumah Instan Sederhana Sehat (RISHA) with several improvements.Besides resistance to earthquakes, this technology has advantages such as ease and speed of installation compared to conventional houses.As a new technological innovation that has been proven, to develop RUSPIN t
This paper presents a novel framework based on the non-subsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) and sparse representation (SR) to fuse the multi-focus images.In the proposed here fusion method, each source image is first decomposed with NSCT to obtain one low-pass sub-image and a number of high-pass sub-images.Second, an SR-based scheme is put forwar
The contribution of HDL to adrenal steroidogenesis appears to be different between mice and humans.In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that a difference in lipoprotein profile may be the underlying cause.Hereto, we determined the impact of HDL deficiency on the adrenal glucocorticoid output in genetically modified mice with a human-like
Investment to reduce flood risk for social and economic wellbeing requires quantitative evidence to guide decisions.Direct and indirect flood damages at individual household and business building levels were assessed in this study using multivariate analysis with three groups of flood damage attributes, i.e., flood characteristics, socioeconomic co