according to statistics, in 2009 iran’s oil and gas consumption were 1.4 and 3.1 times higher than the world average and during 1998 to 2008 residential sector accounted for 42% of the total energy consumption in the country. as hot-humid climate is the most severe climate across the world, climatic consideration must be incorporated in design of the new dwellings in this area. over the centuri...

This paper presents novel dissimilarity space specially designed for interactive multimedia retrieval. By providing queries made of positive and negative examples, the goal consists in learning the positive class distribution. This classification problem is known to be asymmetric, i.e. the negative class does not cluster in the original feature spaces. We introduce here the idea of Query-based ...

1. Ordered Sets, Ordered Fields, and Completeness 1 1.1. Lecture 1: January 5, 2016 1 1.2. Lecture 2: January 7, 2016 4 1.3. Lecture 3: January 11, 2016 7 1.4. Lecture 4: January 14, 2014 9 2. Sequences and Limits 13 2.1. Lecture 5: January 19, 2016 13 2.2. Lecture 6: January 21, 2016 15 2.3. Lecture 7: January 26, 2016 18 2.4. Lecture 8: January 28, 2016 21 3. Extensions of R: the Extended Rea...

As an old lighthouse (PHAROS in ancient Greek) provided a proper navigation tool for people to find their route when lost at sea, in the same way PHAROS will ensure the right way to navigate in the modern enormous information ocean.

Contents 1. Introduction 2 1.1. The general strategy: the cross-ratio method 2 1.2. Two sample calculations 7 1.3. Notation and Terminology 14 1.4. Summary of results 15 2. Degenerations of rational curves 17 2.1. The basic setup 17 2.2. The main results from deformation theory 20 2.3. The geometry of the Severi varieties 21 2.4. Singularities of the total space 37 3. Formulas 56 3.

The conceptual spaces approach has recently emerged as a novel account of concepts. Its guiding idea is that concepts can be represented geometrically, by means of metrical spaces. While it is generally recognized that many of our concepts are vague, the question of how to model vagueness in the conceptual spaces approach has not been addressed so far, even though the answer is far from straigh...

Introduction 1 1. Bundles 2 1.1. Pullback 2 1.2. Sections 3 1.3. Fiber bundles as fibrations 4 2. Vector bundles 4 2.1. Whitney sum 5 2.2. Sections of vector bundles 6 2.3. Inner products 6 3. Principal Bundles 7 3.1. Morphisms 7 3.2. Sections and trivializations 8 3.3. Associated bundles 9 3.4. Homotopy classification 11 3.5. B as a functor 14 4. Characteristic classes 16 4.1. Line Bundles 16 ...

this paper aims to analyze the effect of perception of nature in the built environment on the sociability of spaces. in this paper, quality of sociability of spaces is considered as a dependent variable which can be affected by possibility and quality of perception of nature in the built environment as independent variables. in order to make the analysis, built environment is considered as a so...