Three studies of creative design in engineering and product design are reported. The studies are of outstanding or exceptional designers and comprise one protocol study and two retrospective case studies. In each case, an example of the designer’s creative approach to a particular design problem is analysed. Comparisons between the three examples are drawn, and there appear to be some striking ...

the reproductive performance of a dairy herd has a significant effect on the profitability of that herd. common measures of reproductive performance are days to first service, days to conception, calving interval, services per conception, conception rate, estrus detection rate, and pregnancy rate. most cow operations would benefit economically by reducing the number of operational days, decreas...

designers draw diagrams to think about architectural concepts and design concerns. scientists are interested in programming computers to recognize and interpret design diagrams to deliver appropriate tools for the design task at hand. researchers conducted empirical studies to find out if designers share drawing conventions when designing. the experiment results show that designers use differen...

Texture plays an important part in many Content Based Image Retrieval systems. This paper describes the results from a human study, which asked 30 volunteers to classify images from the Brodatz Textures album. We use these results to derive a subset which show good agreement among the different individuals. The results for this subset were used to evaluate the retrieval performance of a range o...

22 Recently, the deterministic tourist walk has emerged as a novel approach for texture analysis. This 23 method employs a traveler visiting image pixels using a deterministic walk rule. Resulting trajectories 24 provide clues about pixel interaction in the image that can be used for image classification and identifi25 cation tasks. This paper proposes a new walk rule for the tourist which is b...

Study of different patterns on a local neighborhood of a texture plays an important role in characterization, and classification of the textures. Many preprocessing steps are used in the generation of textures for a better quality. The present paper studies how the percentage of occurrence factor of a typical pattern varies after applying various local preprocessing steps. For this eight simple...

aestheticians and moralphilosophers alike are inclined to the view that there is no particular!j beneficial effect on moral life ofa developed aesthetic sensibility. the usual supporting witness is the pitiless nazi ss officer with a refined tastefor mozart and torture. but though his testimony can hard!j be gainsaid, there is an unnoticed and unwarranted narro1ving of the scope ofaesthetic sen...

forty ewes (3-6 years of age, average weight 41.2 kg)were randomly chosen from the flock of the sheep experiment station of tripoli university. ewes were divided into two groups, control group (c) received untreated barley straw and treatment group (t) received barley straw treated with 10% urea solution applied as 40% (v/w). barley straw was sprayed with molasses when fed to animals. both grou...