the scientific panel on “landscape ecology” was held in nazar research center by presence of professors and experts in “landscape” and “ecology”, in order to discuss the relation of these concepts and definition of “landscape ecology”. in this panel arranged by dr. seyed amir mansouri, director of landscape architecture department at university of tehran and president of nazar research center, ...

Unexpected equipment downtime is a 'pain point' for manufacturers, especially in that this event usually translates to financial losses. To minimize this pain point, manufacturers are developing new health monitoring, diagnostic, prognostic, and maintenance (collectively known as prognostics and health management (PHM)) techniques to advance the state-of-the-art in their maintenance strategies....

Changes in land use have generated a new landscape configuration in the Andino orobiome (mountain range) of the tropical Andes, resulting in a mosaic of cultivation and pastures interrupted by small fragments of forest and live fences. This has resulted in an ongoing decrease in the biodiversity of this biome. In the upper basin of the Cane-Iguaque River (Villa de Levya-Boyacá, Colombia), locat...

despite various researches on different aspects of world heritage sites in iran approved by unesco, little has been done on the landscapes of these valuable sites and complexes and their importance in achieving place identity. this is whilst the landscape of each complex is a valuable resource, and is similar to the work itself in need of conservation and maintenance. the importance of this iss...

Shape-from-shading and shape-from-texture methods have the serious drawback that they are applicable only to smooth surfaces, while real surfaces are often rough and crumpled. TO extend such methods to real surfaces we must have a model that also applies to rough surfaces. The fractal surface model [Pentland 831 provides a formalism that is competent to describe such natural 3-D surfaces and, i...