at present, arising of blank verse is assumed as a turning point in arabic language and literature. by birth of poetic modern phenomenon, verse total meaning and especially its poetic music were transformed. as a result, in the course of the given process, musical structure of contemporary arabic verse exited from its traditional and ancient texture and reached to a completely different archite...

The College of Architecture and Environmental Design at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo is the only college in the nation that has departments of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Construction Management and Landscape Architecture in the same college. The institution has a 60 year tradition of collaboration between the engineering, architecture and construction...

A Digital Microfluidic Biochip (DMFB) offers a promising platform for medical diagnostics, DNA sequencing, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), and drug discovery and development. Conventional Drug discovery procedures require timely and costly manned experiments with a high degree of human errors with no guarantee of success. On the other hand, DMFB can be a great solution for miniaturization, int...

Mohammad-Karim Pirnia, one of the most prominent scholars of the history of Iranian architecture, has recorded two major achievements: the principles of Iranian architecture and the stylistics of Iranian architecture. In this article we will discuss his suggested principles for Iranian architecture. For this purpose, we will first show how his five principles have evolved and completed th...

1 Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, [email protected] 2 Tony M. Louca, North Carolina State University, Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, [email protected] Abstract  A Web-based database of course materials in computer architecture is being developed. Its goal is to allow...

Software architecture is a software engineering field, which deals with the transition from requirements to software design and implementation. The transition has to take into consideration technical and business constraints, existing solutions, and patterns. Software architecture learning can be founded on student projects. The paper presents the problems, challenges, and achievements, encount...

In this paper we propose a complete architecture of an automatic computer based educational system which exploits tools and methodologies taken from various Artificial Intelligence areas. We use a smart description of knowledge (concerning both the didactic domain knowledge and the student model) and inference mechanisms to achieve an efficient and reliable planning of the student course. Final...

Listening training can change the neurophysiological responses of the human central auditory system. We and others have measured behavioral and neurophysiologic responses preand post-training and found that the magnitude of neurophysiological responses increases as perception improves.1–3 However, the relative time course of the neurophysiological changes and behavioral learning is unknown. Som...