studies addressing such concepts as place, sense of place, place attachment, place identity, place dependence, rootedness, genius loci, topophilia, and place-making can be found in count-less disciplinary and applied fields devoted to the design, planning, stewardship, and restoration of places that vary in kind and scale from homes, neighborhoods, and cities to parks, and ecosystems. this arti...

This paper reports on ongoing work to develop ad hoc wireless networking for application in distributed mobile robotics. The paper discusses a mission scenario in which a number of mobile robots are required to autonomously disperse into a physically bounded region, take sensor readings at predetermined time intervals, and then communicate the sense data back to a single collection point. There...

Robots are machines that sense, think, act and (more recently) communicate. Sensing, thinking, and communicating have all been greatly miniaturized as a consequence of continuous progress in integrated circuit design and manufacturing technology. More recent progress in MEMS (micro electro mechanical systems) now holds out promise for comparable miniaturization of the heretofore-retarded third ...

a greenhouse experiment was carried out to evaluate the effects of salinity stress on growth and macroelements contents of two olive varieties under hydroponic conditions. in the research, one-year old saplings of two olive varieties, ‘zard’ and ‘mission’, were subjected to different salinity levels induced by nacl including 0, 4, 8, 12 and 16 dsm-1 for 5 months. based on the results, total dry...

Networks used in mission-critical applications must be highly fault-tolemnt. W e propose an FDDI-Based Reconfigumble Network (FBRN) that can survive multiple faults. A n FBRN consists of multiple FDDI trunk rings and has the ability to reconfigure itself in the face of extensive damage. W e consider three classes of FBRNs depending on their degree of reconfigumbility: N-FBRN (nonreconfigumble),...

a few years after the implementation of computerize maintenance management systems (cmms), showing the analysis results of the collected data in these systems is necessary and important for continuing the usage of these systems. equipment downtime and cost data can identify patterns of equipment faults and equipment costs. it can also show deficiencies in the implementation of maintenance syste...

the sherley brothers' mission in iran dealt with some aspects. they carried a message from england and the christian world to shah abbas. in addition, they trained iranian army and taught them how to make artillery, they fought with the iranians against the ottoman empire shoulder to shoulder and both of them were sent to europe for political and commercial purposes by shah abbas. shah abb...