in metropolitan development management, quality of public services is influential in every public sector to satisfaction of citizens on quality of services. nowadays, satisfaction are with such important matters that should be considered in the planning, implementation, management and maintenance of many public services such as subway, transportation, traffics, parks, markets and so on. the pur...

i am delighted to announce completion of the second issue of the new journal of “geopersia”, a product of the new era of replacing the persian language journals with specific english-language ones. our purpose is to provide a journal that offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of issues concerning geology subjects (i.e. sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, petroleum geology, engineering geo...

Topological insulator (TI) states have been demonstrated in materials with a narrow gap and large spin-orbit interactions (SOI). Here we demonstrate that nanoscale engineering can also give rise to a TI state, even in conventional semiconductors with a sizable gap and small SOI. Based on advanced first-principles calculations combined with an effective low-energy k · p Hamiltonian, we show that...

Research on agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) methodologies and multi-agent system (MAS) infrastructures has developed in the last years along two opposite paths: while AOSE methodologies have essentially undergone a top-down evolution pushed by contributions from heterogeneous fields like human sciences, MAS infrastructures have mostly followed a bottom-up path growing from existing a...

I n the 1960s, the gender gap in college enrollments was 1.55 males for every female. By the 1980s, this gap had been erased. By 2003, the college gender gap was 1.30 females for every male undergraduate (Goldin, Katz, and Kuziemko, 2006). All cohorts of U.S. women born since 1960 have had higher average years of schooling than their male counterparts (Charles and Luoh, 2003). This educational ...

In this paper, we broaden the concept of interdependence beyond its focus on task to include technology, defining technology interdependence as technologies’ interaction with and dependence on one another in the course of carrying out work. With technologies increasingly aiding knowledge work, understanding technology interdependence may be as important as understanding task interdependence for...

The gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) engagement is large and persistent. This gap is significantly larger in technological fields such as computer science and engineering than in math and science. Gender gaps begin early; young girls report less interest and self-efficacy in technology compared with boys in elementary school. In the current study (N=96), we assess...

We present a growth process relying on pulsed laser deposition for the elaboration of complex van der Waals heterostructures large scales, at 400 °C CMOS-compatible temperature. Illustratively, we define multilayer quantum well geometry through successive in situ growths, leading to WSe2 being encapsulated into WS2 layers. The structural constitution is confirmed by Raman spectroscopy combined ...