throughout human evolution history, beauty has always been one of the necessary integral components of human need. as greer (2010) said, “one of the prehistoric human’s responses to the animal life around them was to etch and paint these animals on the walls of their caves. turning them into art and rendering them beautiful was a natural response - a way to help make sense of a hostile and conf...

The Cray XT Programming Environment will support the implementation of dynamic shared libraries in future Cray XT CLE releases. The Cray XT implementation will provide the flexibility to allow specific library versions to be chosen at both link and run times. The implementation of dynamic shared libraries allows dynamically linked executables built with software other than the Cray Programming ...

built environment does not “simply appear overnight, like a movie-set springing up on a vacant lot, but has to be produced”.thus, the first point in dealing with such an environment is considered to be the tracing of time in the evaluation of the city and keeping in mind that the whole is more than its parts. the last point becomes naturally understood when the process of city building is p...

one of the major aspects of quality of life is place-attachment which is affected by human-nature interactions. looking at such a critical issue in human settlements requires the study of the relationship between architecture and nature. it is a critical issue in the contemporary literature of built environment and is discussed in specific frameworks such as phenomenology and environmental psyc...

for more than a decade, academic libraries have been wrestling with the thorny issue of managing the acquisition of electronic resources. where are we in the continuum from paper lists to vendor-designed management systems? this paper takes a look at several in-house initiatives around the country, commenting on the successes and failures of the homegrown programs built to track. update and man...

This paper describes a flexible distributed transactional workflow environment based on an extensible object-oriented framework built around class libraries, application programming interfaces, and shared services. The purpose of this environment is to support a range of EC-like business activities including the support of financial transactions and electronic contracts. This environment has as...

Age-friendly built environments have been promoted by the World Health Organisation (WHO, Geneva, Switzerland) under Global Cities (AFC) movement in which three domains are related to environment. These are: housing, transportation, outdoor spaces and public buildings. The aim is foster active ageing optimising opportunities for older adults maximise their independent living ability participate...