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Umme Tahmina Haque, a graduate of the Department of Architecture, University of Asia Pacific (UAP) won First Prize in the Tamayouz International Graduation Projects Award 2020 for her graduation project conducted last semester at UAP.
A highly reputed international jury panel made the winners selection and ranking in this competition where 1,089 submissions received worldwide, representing 141 universities and 64 countries. As the winner of this competition, Umme has won a two-year fully funded MSc scholarship at the Polytechnic University of Milan along with medal, certificate, and travel scholarship to attend the annual ceremony and the international design workshop.
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Rivers in Europe are more fragmented meaning their natural flows are interrupted by man-made barriers than any other continent’s rivers, new research shows.
In a four-year study spanning 36 European countries, scientists surveyed almost 1,700 miles of river by foot and found at least 1.2 million obstacles preventing European rivers from flowing freely. That’s more than one barrier for every mile of river (or 0.74 barriers per kilometre).
“The numbers we found are higher than expected, and show that European rivers are broken,” says Barbara Belletti, a river geomorphologist who led the study at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
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A visitor to the LinkedIn profile of Werner Vogels, chief technology officer for Amazon.com Inc., will find an image of a warehouse with shelves of books stacked as far as the eye can see.
The photo is a nod to both Amazon’s roots as an online bookseller and the massive computing infrastructure required to keep close track of every item in the company’s vast inventory. As a 16-year veteran of the firm, Vogels (pictured) has played a key role in both the rise of the largest retail platform in the world and the market dominance of the most widely used public cloud.
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Göbekli Tepe may also be the world s oldest science building.
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Magli of the Polytechnic University of Milan hypothesizes it may have been built due to the “birth” of a “new” star; the brightest star and fourth brightest object of the sky, what we call Sirius (Greek for glowing ).
Sirius, which we also call the dog star due to its location in the constellation Canis Major, was obviously not born 12,000 years ago, but Hipparchus would not discover the phenomenon of precession until 200 BC, when he compared the equinoxes in his time with older charts and made the connection. Precession at the latitude of