He was the most popular of the 19 century English novelists, the quintessential Victorian author one who is fondly remembered and read even today, by innumerable readers around the globe. Here is a small personal tribute to Charles Dickens, my favourite social novelist. In his novels, Dickens depicted the disorder, squalor, blight, decay, and the human misery of a modern industrial city.It was ...

Building construction challenge, in recent years, is the reduction of social, economical and environmentalimpacts along with economical nature and increasing life quality, as here sustainable construction is important. Pre-fabrication and industrialization are referred as a solution of sustainable construction due to some of its main characteristics consisting of many sustainability aspects. Du...

Abstract Globalization has gradually shaped the world for ages and it been accompanied by various waves of industrialization. It moved human society from simple energy resources such coal wood to fossil fuels industry as sources sustainable business, step globalized market, every is consumption, so intensive use become fundamental in economy. The Global economy known many challenges, supply dem...

Increasingly, videos and 3D animations get integrated into learning software. The development of high quality content is demanding in regard to technical expertise and financial resources. Such an effort should be justified by an enhanced benefit for the target groups. The question arises if different learner characteristics influence the motivation to use such features. The study presented inv...

We have developed a method for generating non photorealistic animations of a target image. The animations start as a random collection of triangular strokes on a canvas and the target gradually emerges as the animation proceeds. We use genetic programming to evolve programs that draw the brushstrokes. A measure of similarity to the target is used as the fitness function. The best individual in ...

The paper introduces asymmetric production conditions between firms and asymmetric transaction conditions between countries into the Murphy-Shleifer-Vishny model of industrialization. It explores a general equilibrium mechanism that generates circular causation loop that each firm's profitability and its decision of involvement in a network of industrial linkages and trade flows is determined b...