The success of urban spaces is proportional to the extent in which that space is being used and to human presence. In fact, architecture and urban planning should attempt to enhance social interactions and human solidarity rather than differentiation and separation. However, today what is witnessed in most of urban spaces is reduction of relationships and social participation of those residing ...

background addiction is considered a basic structural problem in modern society, and seems to reach an epidemic scale in the last decades. choosing a method to fulfill the intervention is an important issue to conduct educational interventions to prevent addictive behaviors. in this regard, web-based education has been widely used to introduce preventive programs to risky behaviors during recen...

We present a neutron-scattering study of depletion interactions in a mixture of a hard-sphere-like colloid and a nonadsorbing polymer. By matching the scattering length density of the solvent with that of the polymer, we measured the partial structure factor Sc(Q) for the colloidal particles. It is found that the measured Sc(Q) for different colloid and polymer concentrations can be well descri...

Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....

By assuming that the underlying distribution belongs to the domain of attraction of an extreme value distribution, one can extrapolate the data to a far tail region so that a rare event can be predicted. However, when the distribution is in the domain of attraction of a Gumbel distribution, the extrapolation is quite limited generally in comparison with a heavy tailed distribution. In view of t...

the objective of this study is evaluation of topographic wetness index (twi) using attraction model in northern of fars province. the first attraction model was used to enhance the spatial resolution of digital elevation model (dem). in this research to estimate of value of sub-pixels neighboring pixels, touching and quadrant neighboring models were used. after manufacturing output images for s...

Museums are playing a more active role in modern societies beyond preserving a society’s cultural heritage. They have become an important learning environment and some of them even a tourist attraction. Traditional storytelling aid for museums consisting of texts and labels may not be personalized to fit each individual personal taste and are static sources of information. This paper introduces...

This paper presents a systematic methodology for designing move blocking strategies to reduce the complexity of a model predictive controller for linear systems, with explicit optimisation of the blocking structure using mixed-integer programming. Given amove-blocked predictive controller with a terminal invariant set constraint for stability, combinedwith an input parameterisation to preserve ...