This paper discusses efforts made by past researchers to steady the expansive (problematic) soils using mechanical and chemical techniques - specifically with EPS beads, lime and fly ash.Administering swelling of problematic soils is critical for civil engineers to prevent structural distress.This paper summarizes studies on reduction of swelling p

The semantic segmentation of remote sensing (RS) image is a hot research field.With the development of deep learning, the semantic segmentation based on a full convolution neural network greatly improves the segmentation accuracy.The amount of information on the RS image is very large, but the sample size is extremely uneven.Therefore, even the com

Abstract Background Many low- and middle-income countries have implemented control measures against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).However, it is not clear to what extent these measures explain the low numbers of recorded COVID-19 cases and deaths in Africa.One of the main aims of control measures is to reduce respiratory pathogen transmission

Carrion beetle (Coleoptera: Silphidae) is one of the scavengers which obtain nutrition from carcass decomposition which supported by the microbial symbionts through the mutual symbiosis.In this study, we characterized and compared the gut microbial community from the species of Nicrophorinae (Nicrophorus distinctus Grouvelle, 1885) and Silphinae (N

Islamic economic system centrally focuses on socioeconomic justice and overall welfare of the society especially the bottom of the pyramid segment.Qard-al-Hassan, alongside zakat and sadaqah, is one of the instruments of redistribution of income and wealth from the rich to the poor in Islam.In 2007, Bangladesh struck by super cyclone SIDR, leaving