Architects deal with shapes all the time in a variety of ways. Shapes in architectural practice are understood as an interesting blend of abstract geometrical forms and their possible or actual material realisations. These entities can even be identified with a real place, a place where people live, which then acquires this mixed nature as well. Thus, architectural shapes and places are not abs...

We present preliminary results of an Earth observation approach for the study of past human occupation and landscape reconstruction in the Central Sahara. This region includes a variety of geomorphological features such as palaeo-oases, dried river beds, alluvial fans and upland plateaux whose geomorphological characteristics, in combination with climate changes, have influenced patterns of hum...

A method for constructing Whitney forms is proposed, which applies to tetrahedra, hexahedra, triangular prisms, and pyramids in a similar way, and proceeds from a unique generating principle, thus unifying their presentation. The principle automatically enforces conformity (i.e., “tangential” or “normal continuity” of the elementary proxy fields) at element interfaces, and generates a complex o...

the root pulling force as well as the amount of transferred soil have not been reported quantitatively for various sugar beet types. this study was designed to measure the amounts of transferred soil from farm and estimate the root pulling force among sugar beets populations with different root shapes at harvest time. the experiment was conducted as a split plot with a randomized complete block...

Within fluvial systems, the spatial variability of geomorphological characteristics of stream channels and associated streambed properties can affect many biogeochemical processes. In agricultural streams of the midwestern USA, it is not known how geomorphological variability affects sediment denitrification rates, a potentially important loss mechanism for N. Sediment denitrification was measu...

With decreasing prices for display technologies and bendable displays becoming commercially available, novel forms of public displays in arbitrary shapes emerge. However, different shapes impact on how users behave in the vicinity of such displays and how they interact with them. With our research we take a first step towards exploring these novel displays. We present findings from an initial s...