the interaction between architecture and culture, defined in human and built-environment relationships, challenges both theoretical and practical fields of architecture. to have an affective confrontation to this challenge, it is more important to re-define both sides of this interaction, culture and architecture. cultural context should represent in architecture. there are some movements in th...

Localization and decentralization are frequently presented as good for women. However, the reality is not so clear-cut. Local government is the tier that is closest to people but relationships, structures and processes of local governance can both limit the space for women’s participation and the policy potential for addressing gender issues. The experience of democratic reform in South Africa ...

A woman's capacity to participate in politics is a constitutionally entrenched and fundamental right in Bangladesh, repeatedly affirmed in several pieces of legislation, the most recent being the Local Government Act, 2009. Despite the endorsement of a series of affirmative features to promote women's equality, empirical research reveals very disappointing results. This paper investigates some ...

In rural Ermenek a temporal displacement is observed within the framework of climatic cycle and economic inputs. This spatial movement rhythmically evolves into vineyard settlement for agricultural purposes, plateau animal husbandry, winter settlement. Each these settlements forms its own pattern based on temporary permanent status. study focuses Ermenek, mainly abandoned in summer months, inte...

Abstract With the emergence of deep learning method, which has been driven a great success for field person re-identification (re-ID). However, existing works mainly focus on first-order attention (i.e., spatial and channels attention) statistics to model valuable information re-ID. On other hand, most methods operate data points respectively, ignores discriminative patterns some extent. In thi...