Conservation easements are one of the primary tools for conserving biodiversity on private land. Despite their increasing use, little quantitative data are available on what species and habitats conservation easements aim to protect, how much structural development they allow, or what types of land use they commonly permit. To address these knowledge gaps, we surveyed staff responsible for 119 ...

Design for Reuse: Designing and building components to be reusable is a key area in software reuse research. Practitioners and researchers need to address the problem of how to build reusable components. We will study design principles that can be applied to make components reusable. These design principles are language and domain independent. With an empirical study we will identify the most c...

Traditional fossil fuels lead to environmental problems and are also depleting. A significant portion of global energy consumption is due to building’s air conditioning. Nowadays there is a great attention toward renewable and sustainable energy sources to support the buildings energy requirements. In this study, a solar cooling machine was designed for a three-floor residential building under ...

We use the finite lattice method to calculate the radius of gyration, the first and second area-weighted moments of self-avoiding polygons on the square lattice. The series have been calculated for polygons up to perimeter 82. Analysis of the series yields high accuracy estimates confirming theoretical predictions for the value of the size exponent, ν = 3/4, and certain universal amplitude comb...

Gesture language is considered as secondary language for most of people and main language for hearing impaired people, it is considered as international non-spoken language that make the understanding between different tongues possible regardless which country is this, it is also considered the first language that can be act for children in which they express they need in a movement. There are ...