Sustainable design aims to reduce the negative impacts either on people (e.g., create healthy) or on planet (e.g., minimize waste). In other words, sustainable design is the philosophy that tends to improve design performance by incorporating health and safety attributes (for people), and environmental attributes (for planet) into products. In this paper, we develop an analytical model to exami...

IR active jammers or the directed infrared countermeasures(DIRCM)generate IR signals which attack the guidance signals passed to the sensors in IR-guided weapons. They provide IR signals with appropriate frequency, phase and intensity which will be superposed on those produced by the IR energy of the target passing through the reticle. When both the jamming signal and the modulated target energ...

Animal fable is often discussed as a genre in its own right, associated with moralising, criticism, and popular ideology. 1 Yet any instantiation of a fable in a literary text intersects with the conventions of the host-genre. While fable is found in various ancient genres, it has a particular association with Greek iambus, and Hellenistic and Roman imitators of archaic iambus turn regularly to...

There is a dearth of research describing the campsite user segment and in assessing camp-site users’ perceptions bio-physical impacts use Sri Lanka. Using structured questionnaire, we evaluated characteristics, visitor motivations, behaviors, how experience affected by visible biophysical at campsites. Based on underlying motivations derived through Factor Analysis Cluster Analysis, identified ...

The imitation of successful peers is often heralded as an intelligent shortcut to reduce individual learning costs. Using computer simulations, we demonstrate that this advice can be ill-founded and harmful in a cognitive inference task involving continuous learning. In particular, success-based imitators perform worse than both learners who integrate the learning experience of all group member...

There is a growing consensus that asylum seekers with professional nursing skills should be allowed to work here, but obstacles prevail. For example, attaining UK registration is not easy because of the difficulty of obtaining certificates and references from an asylum seeker's home country. Furthermore, current immigration restrictions prevent asylum seekers from working for six months followi...

Because unemployment negatively affects people's well-being, it is of crucial importance that unemployed individuals move back to work. The process of getting reemployed, however, is difficult and complex. Therefore, many unemployed job seekers are assisted by employment counselors. The present study focuses on motivating and hindering factors in the reemployment process, examining the added va...

Scientific progress is driven by innovation — which serves to produce a diversity of ideas — and imitation through a social network — which serves to diffuse these ideas. In this paper, we develop an agent-based computational model of this process, in which the agents in the population are heterogeneous in their abilities to innovate and imitate. The model incorporates three primary forces — th...

Partial plant knowledge may be used to develop model-based extremum seekers; however, existing results rely on a type of time-scale separationwhich leads to slow optimization relative to the plant dynamics. In this work, a fast model-based extremum seeking scheme is proposed for a Hammerstein plant, and semi-global stability results are provided. The structure of a Hammerstein plant is used to ...