this research is going to explore methods of utilizing nature in architecture and use them to evaluate naturalism of the samples of iranian contemporary architecture, both qualitatively and quantitatively. the use of various aspects of the nature in iranian contemporary architecture is less than the past. so the main questions in this research are: “which methods of utilizing nature have influe...

Scholars have long argued that gender impacts how space can be occupied in traditional locations, such as bazaars. However, deeply divided societies an added factor of privilege relation to ethnosectarian identity has considered. This article uses intersectional lens understand people occupy the bazaar Kirkuk, Iraq. It pays particular attention intersection (Kurd, Sunni Arab, Turkmen) and gende...

During the last decades, the software for supporting hospitals’ information systems became more flexible in terms of adaptability and configurability. Some hospitals use these capabilities to create local IT innovations. However, information on these local IT innovations is rarely available, as a preceding Grounded Theory based study revealed. To tackle this shortcoming, a two year action resea...

E-commerce agents with Bayesian learning were first proposed by Zeng and Sycara in their Bazaar automated bargaining system [18]. Many studies have directly applied or extended Bazaar to agent learning. In Bayesian learning, it is critical to construct the conditional probabilities for new events in order to obtain an accurate estimation of the posterior probability. The construction of such co...

During the last decades, international outsourcing has received huge attention in political discussion as well as in economic research. In empirical studies, outsourcing is measured in different ways. The several measurements are mostly calculated from different datasets, which often lead to diverse results and thus complicate comparative analysis. In Germany, the discussion about international...

the body of residential complexes is affected by social interactions between residents over time. of the most important places for social communications are bazaars as the backbone of iranian cities. ancient bazaar of babol in north of iran contains natural features which makes a special sense of place. this essay tries to answer to how concept of sense of place is presented and what are factor...

from 60 decade  sustainability issues  and sustainable developing  have opened a way in scientific meetings associated with  environment and urbanization and architecture. sustainability goals are improving of environment situation , less pollution  and at least interference on  land and interaction of  natural and artificial environment , that most of these cases attracted attention in archite...