Remote laboratories provide a new way of supplementing traditional laboratories by permitting laboratory facilities to be utilized from any place and at any time. This paper focuses mainly on the customization of two engineering systems to be controlled and manipulated from remote locations and finally to integrate them within a remote laboratory facility. The systems are Roomba Create and a sm...

Given appropriate representations of the semantic relations between carpenter and wood and between mason and stone (for example, vectors in a vector space model), a suitable algorithm should be able to recognize that these relations are highly similar (carpenter is to wood as mason is to stone; the relations are analogous). Likewise, with representations of dog, house, and kennel, an algorithm ...

We provide an analysis that might help distinguish rationally justified movements in house prices from potentially non-rational movements, using a two-sector business cycle model, in which investment in housing is subject to collateral constraints. A large portion of the evolution of U.S. house prices during the past 20 years can be reproduced when expectations of future income growth as publis...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the importance of skopos in the translation of political texts from English into Persian. To do this, 30 Iranian translators were conveniently selected and equally divided into the in-house and freelance translators. They were asked to translate a translation test encompassing 10 short political texts that were extracted from English news websites...

In this paper, we aim to reveal the monetary value of open space by using a hedonic pricing model of residential property values. The analysis is supported by the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). We present three local Dutch housing market case studies in the Randstad region. In all studies we distinguish open space on three different scale levels, ranging from a view of a small loc...

AIM The aim of this study was to test and improve the unidimensionality and item hierarchy of the Modified House Classification (MHC) for the assessment of upper limb capacity in children with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP) using Rasch analysis. The construct validity of the Rasch-reduced item set was evaluated. METHOD Modified House Classification items were scored from 369 videotaped assess...

Abstract: This paper explores a Mathematical model for obtaining the minimum total cost of Multi-items with Mult-objectives in a Fuzzy Environment. The paper incorporates four constraints such as warehouse space and the constraint, investment amount constraint, percentage of utilization of volume of the ware house space and the shortage level constraint by allowing shortages. The previous resea...

This paper addresses the optimal design and location facility of biodiesel supply chains (BSC) under economic and environmental criteria. The economical aspect scale is assessed by the total annualized cost. The environmental objective is evaluated by the total GHG (Green House Gases) emissions for a whole life cycle. A mathematical model that can be used to design the supply chain (SC) and man...

The inclusion of spatial correlation of house price in hedonic pricing model may produce better marginal implicit price estimate(s) of the environmental variable(s) of interest. Most applications where a spatial econometric model is applied to the estimation of a hedonic property value model have used either a spatial lag model or a spatial autoregressive (SAR) error model. Incorrect spatial sp...