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In the ancient Western society, urban sculpture was often regarded as one symbol of the country or nation. Compared with China's ancient urban sculpture, however, the Western's contains rich secularity. First of all, in ancient Greece, portrait was taken as the center of urban sculpture's expression; secondly, in ancient Roma, the depiction object of urban sculpture was converted from the gods to...
Mathematics is one of the key factors in our human society, as it has connection with every field and is the base of any further research of science. Godel Incomplete Theorem is one of the most important result in the mathematics field, it is very complex and conceptual and not easy to be place in the architecture research. The author will discuss the utility of it and its application in the research...
Environment is the foundation of human survival environment, not the human will is nowhere to hide. Since the industrial revolution, human society has undergone earth-shaking changes, it is science and technology are developing rapidly, the environmental plundered all precedents. The environment deteriorating, a direct threat to human survival and health, environmental science will come into being,...
To solve the common damaging problems of construction and the general conservation strategy failures, this article puts forward a gradual conservation strategy, which features a series of changes: from keeping vitality to overall rejuvenation; from inheriting building genes to overall protection; from government dominance to greater public involvement
The common control method cannot achieve good results to the position follow-up system because of its inaccuracy mathematical model. On the base of merits of fuzzy control, i.e. fuzzy control needless inaccuracy mathematical model of controlled plant, this paper performed design process and simulation calculations applying fuzzy controller to design the position follow-up system. Observing the tracing...
Cognition of colour blind people differs significantly from colour normal observers especially in their colour identification and discrimination. Dichromats lacking one of the three cone photoreceptor types identify less colours and have a general confusion determining colour terms. Our research was aimed to reveal several aspects of their colour cognition with newly developed methodologies and diagnostic...
Case Based Reasoning (CBR) solves new problems by re-using the old solutions in similar contexts. However, repetition of previous solutions in new situations is not creative and thus becomes an issue to CBR, considering the fact that creativity is required to solve new problems. The majority of existing CBR applications is still used for solving routine problems. Consequently, this paper firstly identifies...
In this paper we present the results of a pilot study investigating the effects of agents' gender-ambiguous vs. gender-marked look on the perceived interaction quality of a multimodal question answering system. Eight test subjects interacted with three system agents, each having a feminine, masculine or gender-ambiguous look. The subjects were told each agent was representing a differently configured...
The suitability of food taking besides others provisions is one of the vital elements to be considered for the high altitude mountain climbers to combat with the common symptoms of physiological changes like Acute Mountain Sickness, nauseous, breathing difficulties including appetite suppression and reduction of taste. This paper report the experiences of 2007 Malaysian Everest expedition teams with...
Using SMS (Short Message System), cell phones can be used to query for information about various topics. In an SMS based search system, one of the key problems is to identify a domain (broad topic) associated with the user query; so that a more comprehensive search can be carried out by the domain specific search engine. In this paper we use a rule based approach, to identify the domain, called Short...
Strategies for network immunization have been drawing wide interest in the area of complex networks during the past decade. The target strategy, in which degree values are used to determine vaccinating priority, has been supposed to be the most effective strategy. In many networks where large numbers of nodes exists with same degree values, the target strategy will face a problem of deciding the priorities...
Stability is crucial for the development of a competitive strategic alliance, which will also decide whether the alliance can realize its strategic objective. In terms of outer factors, corporation and relationship between companies in the alliance, this article will use AHP to analyze the factors which influence the stability of a competitive strategic alliance. Furthermore, it will adopt weight...
A mental image is the extra-linguistic, internal representation formed in the brain through the interaction of different sense organs. Experiments show that abstract conceptual words denoting emotions have very high imagery values and display properties contrary to those of ordinary abstract concepts. According to cognitive linguists, the linguistic sign system and mental image system are two important...
The analysis of human behavior is the basis of understanding many social phenomena. Based on a large database of taxi billing system, this paper provides an analysis of human mobility data in an urban area of using taxi services in Shanghai. By studying the spatial temporal data of taxi services, it shows that the distribution of running time interval is approximated by Power-law distribution. And...
Social and technological advances have made the expansion of a trend of building scale. From the construction history of mankind, author attempts to find the relationship between dimension of architecture and human, research the meaning of building scale and the impact on human beings. Although the construction scale to a higher trend of further development is inevitable, but we must guard against...
Lean Production is a time tested and trusted world class production system which does more and achieve more with less resources by eliminating waste and ensuring continuous improvement within its value stream. Understandably, it has today become the cynosure of all eyes and center of most scholarly discuss from all fields of human endeavor due to its acclaimed success. But its continuous mill of success...
In the present study, it was aimed to investigate prospective science teachers' (PSTs) awareness of the relationships between information technology (IT) and science, society, technology and environment (STSE). The sample of this study comprised of 40 elementary PSTs who were registered for a STSE course at a state university in the capital city of a non-western country. The data of the study were...
Subjective human factor engineering based on perception is a re-examine of ergonomics under the current situation, and also a complement and enrich for the gaps of ordinary ergonomics research. It gives emphasis on the necessity of subjective perception exploration besides ergonomics, analyzes the relationship between subjective perception factors and ergonomics, proposes a serious of relative concepts...
This paper describes the innovation & creativity with LEAN approach for PPV TIU performance improvement. PPV is CPU's platform validation product screening to confirm product functionality in actual customer computer systems running MS Windows, Linux or other operating systems and software, Test Interface Unit (TIU) is type of custom interface for product testing based on customer requirement...
Innovation is a basic requirement for human being civilization progress, Educational and administrational innovation is the necessity for both externally social and economic development, and internally spanning-mode development of education system itself. Educational and administrational innovation must conform to the object of modernization to realize sustainable development. Against the backdrop...
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