Abstract: The subtraction operation of intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) has been scarcely used for practical applications since it was introduced. Therefore, it is necessary to propose an aggregation operator based on the subtraction operation of IFSs for engineering applications. Then, clay-brick selection is an important decision-making problem for better building construction. To handle the ...

Seasonal casual labour migration in India has conventionally been understood as the result of extreme poverty whereby villagers are forced to become migrants for the dry six months to subsist or merely survive. This article draws on fieldwork in a village in Jharkhand and a brick kiln in West Bengal to argue that migrants do not understand their movement in economic terms alone. Many see the br...

LEGOsheets was created. LEGOsheets is an educational environment implemented in Agentsheets, a grid-based tool for creating visual programming languages [5]. Programming can serve as a vehicle to create learning opportunities in the constructionist sense [3]. The LEGO1 Programmable Brick gives children the ability to create physical artifacts, such as vehicles and robots, and program them with ...

The development of synthetic biology requires rapid batch construction of large gene networks from combinations of smaller units. Despite the availability of computational predictions for well-characterized enzymes, the optimization of most synthetic biology projects requires combinational constructions and tests. A new building-brick-style parallel DNA assembly framework for simple and flexibl...

The prediction of wall losses is a fundamental aspect in the planning of cellular systems. The broad variety of building materials and construction codes makes accurate attenuation prediction very difficult without the support of specific construction data or measurements. In this paper, the attenuation and equivalent electric parameters and of brick and doubly reinforced concrete walls are est...

Introduction: Immunization against common childhood diseases has been an integral component of mother and child health services in India since adoption of the primary health care approach. According to WHO, immunization prevents between 2-3 million deaths every year. The focus of this study is to assess the immunization status of children under five years of age amongst migrant construction and...

423 Successful robotic and automated systems require a well defined, structured and controlled work environment . It is therefore clear that before automation in the construction process can be effectively implemented , uniformity and clarity of the various tasks to be automated must be introduced . The structuring of this process must be addressed in the design phase and maintained through to ...

COVER A multirobot construction system inspired by mound-building termites. Independent climbing robots with onboard sensors automatically build user-specifi ed structures out of specialized brick-sized building material. The robots are limited to local sensing and coordinate their activity indirectly by manipulating their shared environment and reacting to what they encounter. See pages 742 an...