THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE is a topic of great public interest. Much of the public debate among non-economists takes it for granted that, if the funds were made available, development would follow: Pogge (2005), Singer (2004), and at least some economists agree (Sachs 2005, 2008). Others, most notably Easterly (2006), are deeply sceptical, a position that has been forcefully ar...

Prescribed fires have many benefits, but existing ignition methods are dangerous, costly, or inefficient. This paper presents the design and evaluation of a micro-UAS that can start a prescribed fire from the air, while being operated from a safe distance and without the costs associated with aerial ignition from a manned aircraft. We evaluate the performance of the system in extensive controll...

All aspects of life cannot escape the development times with last phenomenon being influence digital world which is called process "digitalization". Architecture as one aspect certainly does not undergoing this digitilization process. Aim paper discusses digitalizing architecture using a philosophical point view. The research was conducted Desk research, from data and existing literature. then ...

abstractthe aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the glass ceiling on women creative ideas working in administrative province units of lorestan state with moderating of their self-concept variable. the population of this cross-correlation, stady was all women employees of administrative province.units of lorestan state. using stratified sampling,and basis of morgan 306 persons select...

Creativity is a tool that helps in effective problem solving utilizing optimum scarce resources in any business. This paper presents a conceptual framework of a multilayer evolutionary system that supports creative thinking. The system evolves, using a genetic algorithm, new ideas from a set of basic ideas that are casually provided through an interactive editor or selected from past transactio...

Semantic Web technology is able to provide the required computational semantics for interoperability of learning resources across different Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Object Repositories (LOR). The EU research project LUISA (Learning Content Management System Using Innovative Semantic Web Services Architecture) addresses the development of a reference semantic architecture f...

This paper presents an architecture for INFORM, a domain-independent, expertdirected knowledge acquisition aid for developing knowledge-based systems. The INFORM architecture is based on information requirements and modeling approaches derived from both decision analysis and knowledge engineering. It emphasizes accommodating cycles of creative and analytic modeling activity and the assessment a...

Semantic Web technology is able to provide the required computational semantics for interoperability of learning resources across different Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Object Repositories (LOR). The EU research project LUISA (Learning Content Management System Using Innovative Semantic Web Services Architecture) addresses the development of a reference semantic architecture f...

Abstract With the development of economic globalization and information age, architecture has gradually become a kind seal politics, capital culture, is divorced from spirit life experience existing places in region. Therefore, field constantly seeks new research paradigm interdisciplinary perspective reconsiders creative activities architecture. From late last century, with introduction by pos...

Protection of architectural heritage is a very delicate mission that needs to be supported by big set knowledge and experience. Adding new, dissimilar element historic building importance in rehabilitation process particularly disputed addressed with even more research justification. Contrasting styles one can controversial matter. In some cases, modern additions successfully preserve the origi...