The number of business applications operated by enterprises to provide support for the business has increased over the last years. With increasing number of applications and connections between them, also the overall complexity of the application landscape has grown. A main task in managing an application landscape is maintaining quality levels. This article contributes a set of metrics for mea...

resilience thinking in urban environment has been recently proposed as an effective measure to realize the objectives of sustainable development, minimize uncertainties and non linear interactions. this concept, in the context of modern urban ecology makes it possible to integrate natural and human factors and in urban systems and understanding the interactions between them, expanding sustainab...

urban design and landscape architecture are considered as modern art (knowledge) which are developed through integration of various art and science fields of studies. formal emergence of urban design in 60s and landscape design is occurred at the beginning of 20th century. the success of these two fields is because of their attention to environmental qualities upgrade in public and open spac...

LIMING HE†‡ and ZHANQING LI*†§ †Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA ‡Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3G3 §State Laboratory of Earth Surface Process and Resource Ecology, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Be...

At the American Psychoanalytic Association meeting in December 1998, there was a Presidential Symposium entitled “Psychoanalysis and American Medical Education for the Millennium: Teaching and Practice-Building Opportunities.” The speakers included national leaders in psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and medical education. The talks covered the range of relevant topics, from the new economic organiz...

1. Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York 10964, U.S.A., [email protected] 2. U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA 94025, U.S.A., [email protected] 3. University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, U.S.A., [email protected] 4. Present address: Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, University Greifswald, Grimmer Strasse 88, Greifswald 17487, Germany, wilmking@uni-greifsw...

Cognitive ecology is a term that has been used in environments that are more tightly coupled and purposespecific than environments of everyday life. In this paper I consider cases from a cognitive ethnography of older adults. These cases show the analytical use of understanding the diachronic and synchronic cognitive ecology in which cognitive processes of everyday life occur. Specifically I di...