One of the major purposes of optimization in civil engineering is to perform a suitable design for the structure. This goal has to fulfill technical criteria and contain the minimum economical costs. Building frames are of the most customary civil engineering structures. Therefore, optimization of these types of structures could be of a great concern from the economical viewpoints. One of the c...

Highly oriented growth of a hybrid microarray was realized by a facile template-free method on gold substrates for the first time. The proposed formation mechanism involves an interfacial structure-directing force arising from self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) between gold substrates and hybrid crystals. Different SAMs and variable surface coverage of the assembled molecules play a critical role...

As multithreading and object-oriented paradigms become prevalent programming models for large and complex softwares, fault-tolerance in such programming environments also becomes essential. Traditional checkpointing mechanisms limit the flexibility and sophistication of higher level fault-tolerance schemes for such a platform. Comparatively, selective checkpoints, those involving only communica...

Restructuring is an important activity to improve software internal structure. Even though there are many restructuring approaches, very few consider the refactoring impact on the software quality. In this paper, we propose an semiautomatic software restructuring approach based on quality attributes. We rely on the measurements of the Quality Model for Object Oriented Design (QMOOD) to recommen...

A Dutch hospital had a problem with the planning of their Short Stay department and asked for a scheduling support system. In this paper, we describe the development of this system. We describe techniques from Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can be used to model the situation. We have used the AI-techniques because we believe a user-oriented approach is required to dev...

A novel and generic approach named as "history-oriented envisioning" is proposed to qualitatively envision all the possible and the sound situations focusing on our intended partial behaviors and actions of an objective system. Some basic notations called a "partial history" and a "partial situation" are introduced as the extensions of the conventional history and its situations representing qu...

the major purpose of the present this study is to reviews the classifications of approaches to religious education, and introducing an alternative classification of religious educator theory. to this end, approaches to islamic education which have been categorized typologically and are associated with the cognitive context of iranian intellectuals have been studied. in line with this goal, the ...

DNA methylation at CpG islands (CGIs) is one of the most intensively studied epigenetic mechanisms. It is fundamental for cellular differentiation and control of transcriptional potential. DNA methylation is involved also in several processes that are central to evolutionary biology, including phenotypic plasticity and evolvability. In this study, we explored the relationship between CpG island...

With the growing presence of BPM and SOA in the IT industry, their impact on the IT education will be profound. Many institutions are becoming aware of the acute need of developing learning and teaching resource frameworks for the BPM and SOA. In this paper, we present part of such an effort from a team at the University of New South Wales, currently developing Service Learning and Teaching Fou...