Predictions of suspended sediment load for Soolegan River, Iran using selected empirical equ-ations were made based on 355 data sets. Data include flow discharges from 3.11 m3/s to 43.81 m3/s, flow velocities from 0.22 m/s to 1.03 m/s, and flow depths from 0.5 to 1.03 m. Equations of Einstein (1950), Bagnold (1966), Toufalleti (1968), Brooks (1963), Chang-Simons-Richardson(1965),Lane-Kalinske (...

This paper discusses Brooks’ The Mythical Man-Month, a landmark work in the software project management field, and compares the software project management advice given there with practices employed some 25 years later. To find out the state of today’s practice 20 experienced software developers were interviewed regarding their impressions of factors leading to success or failure of software de...

If exhaustion or muscle fatigue is discussed in a general conversation, usually people will refer lactate accumulation as a primary cause. Lactate accumulates in blood and tissues during exercise, particularly when oxygen is lacking. The concentration is highest at or just following exhaustion. Lactate has historically been considered as a dead-end waste product of anaerobic metabolism due to h...

AI: “The agents should be embodied as mobile robots...the new approach can be extended to cover the whole story, both with regards to building intelligent systems and to understanding human intelligence” (Brooks 1991a, p. 585). This article argues that even if we accept Brooks’s first position and seek to build complete agents in realworld environments, we need not accept robotics as the founda...