We present results of a ten-month design study targeting the observation of creative artistic practice by a video-artist, a sculptor and a composer. The study yielded the multimedia installation Palafito/Palafita/Home-on-stilts 1.0, featuring 19:30 minutes of sonic material and video footage, and three 5x8x3-meter raw-wood sculptures. This paper focuses on the procedural dimensions of the async...

The evolution of software engineering has passed through various paradigms; including structured programming, object oriented programming, component-based approaches and in recent years service-oriented computing. One of the key activities needed to develop a quality service oriented solution is the specification of service model. The majority of existing methods for service model specification...

leisure time paves the way for the development of the youth and society. the amount of leisure time varies according to age, gender, and culture. however, in all societies leisure time is seen as an opportunity for the development and exaltation. the study aims to identify the patterns of leisure time activities  among the youth in bojnord. a questionnaire was used to gather the data. 384 quest...

The PM project is introduced. Its goal is the design of a distributed object-oriented operating system. One of the research activities is the design of an object model for distributed object-oriented programming. This position papers presents the PM Object Model approach to distribution, concurrency control and object interaction. The system consists of an application system, a distribution sys...

cognitive linguistics gives the most inclusive, consistent description of how language is organized, used and learned to date. cognitive linguistics contains a great number of concepts that are useful to second language learners.  if-clauses in english, on the other hand, remain intriguing for foreign language learners to struggle with, due to their intrinsic intricacies. efl grammar books are ...

INTRODUCTION: To support the US Army Corps of Engineers’(USACE) use of risk-based analysis in flood damage reduction studies, Skahill (2012) identified the most promising state-ofthe-art and practice-oriented approaches to robustly quantify hydrologic and hydraulic (H&H) model uncertainty. Skahill (2012) provides a path forward for related work activities, including software development, prepar...

This study aimed to explain the pattern of development settlements on banks Lasolo River, and factors affecting it. was located in a riverbank Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi-Indonesia. It conducted using qualitative descriptive approach with observation, naturalistic, phenomenological methods reveal phenomena that occur based observations information obtained field. The results this indicate resid...

For any software company that frequently performs quality assurance activities devoted to measurement, evaluation (ME) and change/improvement (MEC) projects, ME and MEC strategies can be valuable organizational assets. In this paper, we analyze the improvement of a ME strategy, which can be considered an organizational resource to be applied to quality assurance activities. This resource is cal...

Background The Mobility Opportunities Via Education (MOVE)TM curriculum includes movement-oriented activities for children with profound multiple disabilities (PMD) and fits in the current educational view in supporting these children. The developers of MOVE claim effects at anatomical and physiological structures and functions as essential for effects at functional skills. This study analysed ...