This paper presents an ontological account of creative designing. It identifies processes and activities in designing that can produce novel design concepts to change the state space of possible designs. Activities that foster creativity are integrated in an ontological framework of design, the situated function-behaviourstructure (FBS) framework. This provides a foundation for locating these a...

introduction: fasting during ramadan provides an opportunistic setting for smoking cessation intervention. smokers find it easy to cease smoking during ramadan due to the religion, cultural and environmental influences. this study aims to determine the changes in smoking behaviour during ramadan among malay muslim male students who were current smokers. methods: this is cross sectional study us...

Design ontology plays an important role in modern multi-party collaborations and knowledge-intensive designs. In this paper, a product design ontology system is proposed by analyzing and deconstructing the design function–behavior–structure (FBS) model and geometry application programming interfaces (APIs). Geometry APIs and surface behavior are considered minimum structure units and concrete f...

The second part of the First Byurakan Survey is aimed at detecting all bright (B < 16.5) UV-excess starlike objects in a large area of the sky. By comparison with major X-ray and radio surveys we tentatively identified as QSOs 11 FBS objects. We made spectroscopic observations of nine of them. We found six new QSOs bringing the total number of known QSOs in this survey to 42. By comparison with...

a non-linear finite element model could be a useful tool in the development of a method of predicting soil pressure-sinkage behaviour, and can be used to investigate and analyze soil compaction. this study was undertaken to emphasize that the finite element method (fem) is a proper technique to model soil pressure-sinkage behaviour. for this purpose, the finite element method was used to model ...

we are concerned: the number of road traffic fatalities is rising since 2014 again, in germany, in the european ::union::, in the usa, after a continuous decline over the last 40 years. many reasons are discussed:  human behaviour, e.g. texting while driving; no respect for traffic rules; daily life competition, who will be the fastest; more traffic, more vehicles, more kilometres driven. the i...