Living Under the Trees

Fantastic Realism in “The City which Died under Cedar Trees”

Fantastic Realism is a genre which remind us of Russia and its great writer Dostoevsky. This genre has been developed in Iran among Iranian writers who have been familiar with the books of world literature, especially Russian literature. Fantastic Realism employs and combines reality and imagination, and while it concerns the reality related to human beings, it pictures that kind of reality whi...

Out From Under the Trees

This work is motivated by the observation that hard disk seek capability per byte of storage has declined exponentially for decades, and yet most popular access structures are still based on basic ideas proposed 30 years ago. These access structures are typically seek-intensive. In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for data access and organization called the linear file, which aims to drast...

Sitting with the women under the trees.

News Q: After more than ten years working with the United Nations in Africa, what motivated you to take the position of General Secretary of the World YWCA? A: My work with the United Nations involved both the heavy political space of peace negotiations and the development space. I had great positional power but I felt that I was missing the power of the people, of being able to speak without a...

Nondestructive detection of decay in living trees.

We used a four-point resistivity method to detect wood decay in living trees. A low-frequency alternating current was applied to the stem and the induced voltage measured between two points along the stem. The effective resistivity of the stem was estimated based on stem cross-sectional area. A comparison within a group of trees showed that trees with butt rot had an effective resistivity that ...

Routing on Trees under the Matching Model