Applicability of lean principles to construction might seem to require that construction’s differentiating characteristics be softened or explained away. This is the strategy employed by those who advocate making construction more like the manufacturing from which lean thinking originated. Following that line of thought, successive waves of implementation would leave ever smaller remainders tha...

Abstract Nostalgia for the Soviet figures prominently in public imaginaries. Such nostalgia has been viewed as subverting and critiquing post-Socialist neoliberal order. Others have suggested that “nostalgia” is a poor vocabulary talking about post-Soviet affect. Ethnographic attention to reveals multiplicity of nostalgic registers. I argue nostalgias can be roughly divided into lyrical, heroic...

The examination of the word “‘izza” (honor) in the divine discourse and its attribution to God, the Prophet (s), and the believers is important in determining and directing the personal and social life policies. In this article (which is on the manifestation of the divine honor in Imām Ḥusayn’s heroic act), we aim to illustrate some of the honorable deeds of Imām Ḥusayn on his way from Medina t...

This paper considers the kinds of AI systems we want involved in art and art practice. We explore this relationship from three perspectives: as artists interested in expanding and developing our own creative practice; as AI researchers interested in building new AI systems that contribute to the understanding and development of art and art practice; and as audience members interested in experie...

We describe the fundamentals of vanilla and exotic microlens-ing. Deviations from the standard form of an achromatic, time-symmetric lightcurve can be caused by the parallax and xallarap effects, finite source sized effects and binarity. Three applications of microlensing from the First Heroic Decade are reviewed in detail – namely (i) searches for compact dark objects in the Galactic halo, (ii...