The design of legged robotic systems targeted for climbing on steep terrain is critical expanding exploration in challenging terrain. While the most advanced quadruped robots show encouraging performance level locomotion, there little knowledge optimal robots. In this paper, we investigate quadrupedal with different joint topologies. To end, present a quantitative comparison performed simulatio...

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in order to determine optimum landuses (in accordance with natural capability) and improve the current land management, landuse planning process was applied by using gis. within the framework of system analysis approach basic ecological and socio-economic , data were mapped. the mapped data were digitized and imported to idrisi and arc/info to build a database ,along with other descriptive data...

in a rapidly changing environment, turbulent, unpredictable and full of uncertainty, organizations should have a productive, creative and continuous learning capability and potential in order to survive, grow, and accomplish goals in order to create superior value for all their stakeholders, especially customers. such a learning capability of organization and its continuous development depends ...

It has been proved that process capability indices provide very efficient measures of the capability of processes from many different perspectives. These indices have been widely used in the manufacturing industry for measuring process reproduction capability according to manufacturing specifications. In the past few years, univariate capability indices have been introduced and used to characte...

The decision of organizations to invest (or not) into a semantic application is, currently, often based on vague considerations and personal feelings. What is lacking is a model that would help determine whether semantic approaches would be adequate, given the aspects of the particular business and concrete adopter. Such model would however need to take into account the heterogeneity of differe...

AbstrAct Achieving IT-business alignment has been a long-standing, critical, information management issue. A theoretical framework of the maturity levels of management practices and strategic IT choices that facilitate alignment was empirically tested and validated. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) validated 6 factors and identified 22 indices to measure strategic alignment maturity. A mixed ...