Settlers of Catan is a board game where the main goal is to collect victory points by building a society of settlements, cities and connecting roads. We have constructed a multi-agent system solution able to play the game and evaluated it against other available bots for the game. Our initial results show that even if the proposed solution does not beat the best monolithic solutions, its strate...

nowadays, tube bonding in vehicles structure is noticeably considered by many researches. in this paper, local tube compression process by a rubber ring has been studied. firstly, simulation of the process was performed by fem. then, experimental test has been carried out to validate the numerical results. numerical and experimental results were compared showing a good agreement. in the second ...

The paper addresses the long-term impact of mining towns and villages under authority these on waterscapes in northern area medieval Kingdom Hungary (presentday Slovakia). focuses privileging practices settlers founded by burghers a town, Kremnica. argues that analysing Kremnica’s practice settling towns’ surroundings may one hand shed light privileges town itself, other, be crucial to understa...

Cigars were one form of Native American tobacco use observed by Columbus and early European settlers. A long, thick bundle of twisted tobacco leaves wrapped in a dried palm or maize leaf was used by Native Americans as a primitive cigar. Smoking of cigars is recorded on artifacts of the Mayas of the Yucatan region of Mexico, and the Mayan verb “sikar,” meaning to smoke, became the Spanish noun ...

to Ranchi coolies living in Base Camp. This camp accommodates about 500 artificers, Forest Staff labourers and some free Indian settlers. The population is composed of Ranchi coolies? Ooryans and Mundas, Bengalis, a few Indians from other parts of India and Burma. The only class affected was the Ranchi coolies, and the Mundas suffered more than the Ooryans in the proportion of 6 to 1. Both the ...

chest tube (ct) or tube thoracostomy placement is often indicated following traumatic injuries. premature movement of the chest tube leads to increased hospital complications and costs for patients. placement of a chest tube is indicated in drainage of blood, bile, pus, drain air, and other fluids. although there is a general agreement for the placement of a chest tube, there is little consensu...

common (and generic) name is of obscure origin, but it was used by the French settlers in Florida as early as the sixteenth century. The tree is characteristically a plant of forest margins and clearings, but it also is often somewhat weedy, appearing in old fields, hedgerows, and along roadsides where it rapidly forms clumps by means of suckers and stolons. It is often thought of as being a ra...

Marine noise is an emerging pollutant inducing a variety of negative impacts on many animal taxa, including fish. Fish population persistence and dynamics rely the supply early life stages, which are often very sensitive to disturbance. Impacts marine pollution (MNP) juvenile fish have rarely been investigated in temperate regions. This particularly true for Mediterranean Sea, considered as MNP...

The massive die-off of the herbivorous sea urchin Diadema antillarum in 1983 and 1984 resulted phase shifts on Caribbean coral reefs, where macroalgae replaced as most dominant benthic group. Since then, D. recovery has been slow to non-existent reefs. Studying settlement rates can provide insight into mechanisms constraining antillarum, while efficient collectors be used identify locations wit...