Grasslands play important roles in ecosystem production and support a large farming and grazing industry. An accurate and efficient way is needed to estimate grassland health and production for monitoring and adjusting management to get sustainable products and other ecosystem services. Previous studies of grasslands have shown varying relationships between productivity and biodiversity, with m...

anthropometry is the study of human body dimensions and proportions among different races. in work environments, poorly designed workstations and tools reduce productivity and can lead to fatigue and musculoskeletal injuries. this study aimed to determine the anthropometric characteristics of iranian workers in comparison to three other asian countries. this cross-sectional study evaluated 400 ...

Behavior adaptation based on execution experience can be a practical tool to increase the robustness of a robot behavior learned from demonstration. While demonstration learning is a powerful technique for the development of robot behaviors, in general development remains a challenge. This work presents an approach for policy improvement through a tactile interface located on the body of the ro...

Most applications driving the advancements in microarchitecture and memory system research have a non-negligible interaction with the operating system. Yet, most architectural investigations are based on user-level simulators in which operating system activity is not modelled. This has motivated us to design SimWattch, a microarchitectural modeling infrastructure. SimWattch is based on Simics –...

We consider the parallel developments in the economics of agglomeration and the economics of networks. We explore the complementarities between the productivity benefits of agglomeration and those of network linkages, arguing that networks of actors dispersed over space may substitute for agglomerations of actors at a single point. JEL classification: D20, L14, R30

NASA is investigating the use of advanced automation to enhance crew productivity for Space Station Freedom in numerous areas, one being failure management. This paper describes a prototype that diagnoses failure sources and assesses the future impacts of those failures on other Freedom entities.

the blue ocean strategy aims to create business in the fields which didn’t exist before. this research has been developed with the aim of designing a blue ocean strategy as a modern solution. the current study is a functional one situated in the descriptive survey group, considering the nature of the subject and the goals. the judgment sampling is applied to determine the criteria frameworks an...

Cellular Automata (CA) models are important for many applications in physics, chemistry, biology and engineering. Thus, programming such CA models to run as parallel applications on modern computer architectures is of great interest. The approach advocated and studied in this paper is to consider CA models as intermediate formalisms that can be mapped into other (better or well-researched) comp...

The economics of recombinant knowledge is a promising field of investigation. New technological systems emerge when strong cores of complementary knowledge consolidate and feed an array of coherent applications and implementations. However, diminishing returns to recombination eventually emerge, and the rates of growth of technological systems gradually decline. Empirical evidence based on anal...

in this paper, we first define spaces of single difference sequences defined by a sequence of orlicz functions without convexity and investigate their properties. then we extend this idea to spaces of double sequences and present a new matrix theoretic approach construction of such double sequence spaces.