The Shining Hospital is situated in the town of Pokhara in the Himalayan foothills, at an altitude of 1000 metres. To the north lie the desolate peaks of the Annapurna range, while in other directions numerous small villages are scattered among the hills. The people of these agrarian communities, together with the traders of Pokhara Bazaar, make up the hospital's catchment population of about o...

with the purpose of presenting a design approach of interventions for conservation of historic districts of cities, the city of ardebil is discussed as a case study. with the complexity of cultural relations in the contemporary world, it has a great importance to protect human connections and also urban historic spaces in which these cultural relations had been presented for long time. the city...

In this paper we explore how to import intelligent support for group learning that has been demonstrated as effective in classroom instruction into a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) context. The Bazaar agent architecture paired with an innovative Lobby tool to enable coordination for synchronous reflection exercises provides a technical foundation for our work. We describe lessons learned, di...

The resolution of growing conflict between monkey and man requires quantitative data on the nature and context of man-monkey agonistic (aggressive-submissive) interactions particularly in the urban areas. The ethological approach was followed to study the effect of habitat, species, and season on agonistic interactions between humans and monkeys in the city of Shimla. Three way ANOVA revealed t...

During the last five years, our research group has studied the architecture and evolution of several large open source systems — including Linux, GCC, VIM, Mozilla, and Apache — and we have found that open source software systems often exhibit interesting differences when compared to similar commercially-developed systems. Our investigations of these systems have involved the creation of softwa...