To date, most modular robotic systems lack flexibility when increasing the number of modules due to their hard building blocks and rigid connection mechanisms. In order to improve adaptation to environmental changes, softness at the module level might be beneficial. However, coping with softness requires a fundamental rethinking of the way modules are built. A major challenge is to develop a co...

A two-dimensional mean field dynamo model is solved where magnetic helicity conservation is fully included. The model has a negative radial velocity gradient giving rise to equatorward migration of magnetic activity patterns. In addition the model develops longitudinal variability with activity patches travelling in longitude. These patches may be associated with active longitudes.

We propose a new connection management architecture for clustered Internet services called Active Connection Management (ACM) to improve the availability, quality of service, and manageability of Internet services. ACM extends the API of load-balancing switches to include application-level primitives. These primitives enable Internet services to manage loadbalancing switches dynamically to cont...

mac intyre believes that the history of the western culture and thought is analyzable in two different lines, so that the modern intellect is a free and liberated and thus wandering intellect that has not found its way to a strengthened and dignified thinking, and the pre-modern intellect is a theological one intertwined with excellence and committed to tradition. the pre-modern rational though...

This study is aimed to investigate the impact of proposition nonexistence and its manifestations in syntactic intellect by considering structures attributed nonexistence, examining most important related linguistic issues studies ancient modern linguists, analyzing on codification structural types Arabic language, terms perception, performance communication. The includes an introduction, a pref...

This essay and a subsequent one will attempt to demonstrate the inadequacy of the definition of Renaissance humanism as a movement which sought primarily secular "wisdom" by the exercise of man's wholly autonomous intellect and will. Such a definition implies that humanist thought involved a radical separation of the realm of faith-grace from the realm of intellectwill. It would exclude certain...

given the importance of intellect in inference, especially in new issues, it is befitting to study the jurists’ works, such as examining the jurisprudential mode of life (sīra) of fayḍ kāshānī as an influential jurist in the evolution of jurisprudence in proving the above issue. to this end, his various books have been examined on the basis of content analysis method and every one of his legal ...

This paper describes key design technology issues as general ideas, rather than for specific fields, with a view to realizing better technology for the future. This paper also discusses the scope of the vision we should adopt, the factors we should be conscious of, and how we should design future systems. The key ideas arise from the belief that technology should be designed in the context of t...