Living space is a place of relaxation, and those with a sense of attachment to the environment are more satisfied with their living space. According to the literature, being in nature is very effective in creating positive emotions in people. In recent years, living in apartments has made people away from nature affecting their positive feelings about their living space. This study aimed to inv...

Floods early this year in Queensland, Australia, received a great deal of attention in the media because they affected a land area the size of Germany and France combined. However, on a world scale this is not exceptional as in some years the land area exposed to flooding is > 17 million km, equal to twice the size of the USA. These dramatic floods occur in all continents of our planet and resu...

The task of a neural associative memory is to retrieve a set of previously memorized patterns from their noisy versions using a network of neurons. An ideal network should have the ability to 1) learn a set of patterns as they arrive, 2) retrieve the correct patterns from noisy queries, and 3) maximize the pattern retrieval capacity while maintaining the reliability in responding to queries. Th...

This section define a level subring or level ideals obtain a set of necessary and sufficient condition for the equality of two ideals and characterizes field in terms of its fuzzy ideals. It also presents a procedure to construct a fuzzy subrings (fuzzy ideals) from any given ascending chain of subring ideal. We prove that the lattice of fuzzy congruence of group G (respectively ring R) is isom...

The technological progress within the last few years allows the construction of robots that could be part of our everyday live in near future. Besides human like appearance and communication they require natural patterns of behavior and motion to achieve wide acceptance. To analyze human motions we present different kinds of motion capturing systems and post-processing methods for motion data. ...

Unprecedented, non-stop environmental turbulence accompanied by a progressively accelerated rate of change causes deep concern for businesses today. Almost half a century ago, Emery and Trist (1965) recognized the dependency of organizations on their environments and identified the increasing complexity and pace of environmental change. Since that time, Clarke (1994) and others (see below) repe...

This paper addresses two questions relevant to the design of effective locomotion methods for VR using a novel wheelchair motion simulation interface. First, we investigate the extent to which people's ability to keep track of where they are in an immersive virtual environment can be facilitated by actual physical movement (rotation and translation) in the context of vehicular travel. Second, w...

Humans tend to use high-level semantic concepts when querying and browsing multimedia databases; there is thus, a need for systems that extract these concepts and make available annotations for the multimedia data. The system presented in this paper satisfies this need by automatically generating semantic concepts for images from their low-level visual features. The proposed system is built in ...