Preferred crystallographic orientation, or texture, occurs almost universally, both in natural and man-made systems. Many components and devices in electronic and magnetic systems are fabricated from materials that have crystallographic texture. With the rapidly increasing use of thin film technology, where sharp axisymmetric crystallographic texture normal to the film plane is frequently obser...

The Mao-Kung Ting is one of the most precious artifacts in the National Palace Museum. Having five-hundred-character inscription cast inside, the Mao-Kung Ting is regarded as a very important historical document, dating back to 800 B.C.. Motivated by revealing the great nature of the artifact and interpreting it into a meaningful narrative, we have proposed an innovative Virtual Exhibition Syst...

Practical Experience has shown that the agglomeration and successful rate of the entrepreneurial activity in the industrial clusters was much higher than non-industrial clusters, the aim of this paper is to contribute to a greater understanding of the process about how the industrial cluster promote the entrepreneurial activities functioning as the incubator of the entrepreneurs and enterprises...

Historical urban textures are the whole of open and closed public spaces with buildings transportation axis, shaped by cultural heritages cities. One most important elements in historical textures, bringing dwellers nature, giving life to city, landscape spaces. The capital Cyprus, Nicosia, also has a very rich texture. Within this context, aim study is examine texture Nicosia from past present...

in the late decades of the 20th century, urban planners, due to the environmental worries arising from modernist urbanism looked for paradigms of new sustainable development regarding ideal city forms, since urban sprawl and horizontal expanse of cities lead to different socio–economic and structural disorders; therefore , during the recent decades , planners who are unanimously heading for sus...