Today, there are many concepts such as a sense of place and attachment to place presented in architecture and urban literature in the field of environmental studies. Meanwhile, relationship between the two is not much explained. This study defines the concept of sense of place and attachment to place and the factors influencing them followed by providing a four- dimensional model derived from s...

As with relational data, XML data changes over time with the creation, modification, and deletion of XML documents. Expressing queries on timevarying (relational or XML) data is more difficult than writing queries on nontemporal data. In this paper, we present a temporal XML query language, XQuery, in which we add valid time support to XQuery by minimally extending the syntax and semantics of X...

Area bloat in physical synthesis not only increases power dissipation, but also creates congestion problems, forces designers to enlarge the die area, rerun the whole design flow, and postpone the design deadline. As a result, it is vital for physical synthesis tools to achieve timing closure and low power consumption with intelligent area control. The major sources of area increase in a typica...