Building patterns are salient urban and rural structures for map readers (e.g. urban geographers and tourists) to understand the organization, function, history and development of a city or city parts (Lévi-Strauss, 1963). To represent and preserve the patterns at various scales for different applications has always been a challenge for cartographers, as it requires knowledge and experience on ...

The problem of detecting specific patterns in images of materials obtained through High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy is addressed. A supervised classification method is proposed using an extension of Principal Component Analysis and a new a procedure for building the training set. Experiments on two different types of images indicate that the proposed method is superior to the co...

the article depicts the situation before cold war in which developing countries (dcs) and least developed countries (ldcs) found themselves big loser, as they were deprived from participation in trade negotiation process, leading into establishment of gatt . therefore, they resorted to unctad  as the sole defender of their interests against developed countries in trade negotiations. unctad has ...

undoubtly it can be said that climate and how weather conditions effect on building shape including limited architecture elements which has been noticed at the beginning of making shelter by human beings and the principle of this need has not been changed by passing time and changing the styles and movements and definitions of art and beauty and changing needs and attitudes and expanding archit...

Building Management Systems (BMS) are widely adopted in modern buildings around the world in order to provide high-quality building services, and reduce the running cost of the building. However, most BMS are functionality-oriented and do not consider user personalization. The aim of this research is to capture and represent building management rules using organizational semiotics methods. We i...

The effects of confinement on the dynamics of binary encounters between spherical particles in shear flow are studied for a system bounded by a single planar wall or two parallel planar walls under creeping flow conditions. We show that wall proximity gives rise to a new class of binary trajectories resulting in cross-streamline migration of the particles. In contrast, in unbounded space spheri...