Blind systems have been introduced to provide visual and thermal comfort, as well as to reduce energy use in buildings. A wide variety of such systems exist in terms of thermal and optical properties, location (exterior, interior), and physical configuration (size, distance between the blind slats). The current problem with blinds is that their operation is not based on the dynamics of the room...

Assistive robotics has brought convenience especially to disabled and handicapped including the blinds. Mobile housekeeping robots such as floor cleaners are capable of local obstacle avoidance. However there is always a risk of hitting moving obstacles or blind human when they walk through the environment. In this article, a new decision mechanism is introduced for modelling path planning stra...

Finding the proper trade-off between blocking direct sunlight, ensuring sufficient indoor daylighting and view out is a particularly delicate task especially in arid climates, due to harsh environmental conditions. As a tentative answer to this challenge, an adaptive shading and daylighting system (Shape Variable Mashrabiya – SVM) has been developed by the authors, described in an earlier paper...

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Over the past twenty years, prominent theorists of citizenship envisaged cosmopolitan openings, re-making national identity, and progressive multicultural change. The paper explores perspectives on civic inclusion in Kymlicka's Multicultural Odysseys, Soysal's Limits Citizenship, Benhabib's Another Cosmopolitanism. It this work light two recent political episodes, formulation an “anti-separatis...

The orphanage is one of the solutions to handling every abandoned individual. It helps improve child’s welfare a way educating, taking care of, guiding, giving directions, and providing some skill sets develop independence for each which focus this research aiming at economic where an entrepreneur mindset expected among blinds inside orphanage. This has become attractive point since will be gui...