Superhydrophobic materials have a lot of interesting potential applications. The self-cleaning property is a unique feature. Rendering the water-loving cellulosic paper superhydrophobic can open the door for value-added applications. Superhydrophobic paper is a fairly new area, and only very limited scientific publications are available in the literature. Among these publications, the topics on...

The online game industry is an emerging entertainment software industry. It is successful and fast growing. Prior studies have identified characteristics of this industry that are distinctive from traditional entertainment industries. Currently one of the most important business challenges this industry faces is securing investments for development or evaluation of development projects. An onli...

In this paper Decision-making Orbital Health! (DOH!) will be described as a game derived from the basic functions necessary for BopIt! , a familiar game. that will ask the educational audience to respond to changing commands to Bop It!, Twist It!, and Squeeze It! The success of the new version of the game, will be that the Earth will be making these commands from Dynamic Planet, and the crowd a...

iran due to its unique condition in terms of tourist attraction and because of the specific location and a variety of natural resources and human phenomena, that different regions of the country including guilan province has a typical position in terms of tourism which attracts a lot of tourists. by itself, ecological, environmental, cultural, historical and religious attraction in the north, w...

Software Process Improvement (SPI) is about learning to work smarter – continuously changing the processes to get a working environment in which people can do a better job. The underlying assumption is that an improved process will lead to better, faster and cheaper software development. But how can we change these processes and at the same time be sure that the changes are for the better? Firs...

An active and synchronous teamwork approach to software development is suggested as a partial remedy to the shortage of programmers and quality problems faced by the software industry. The advantages and disadvantages of the approach are discussed. Examples of the use of the ideas are described.

Although mule spinning has been used in the cotton and wool industries for about two centuries, the *earliest recorded cases of mule spinners' cancer were not reported until the end of the nineteenth century. From then on the number of cases rapidly increased. Evidence accumulated which strongly suggested that the mineral oil used to lubricate the mule spindles was the cause. It is remarkable t...

population growth as well as development of industry and agriculture has increased the demand and competition over water resources in large watersheds especially in zayandeh rud basin and severely affected on agriculture and environment sectors. hence, providing a best scenario for the allocation of water in this basin is essential. in this study, due to alternating periods of wet, drought and ...