This paper introduces a new perspective of transforming the use of Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) in designing the built environment. This perspective conceives the design process of the built environment to be an integration of technical and social processes. Virtual Design Environments (VDEs) open exciting new territory and have the potential to advantage the design of the built e...

The service-dominant logic (S-D logic) provides a novel and valuable theoretical perspective that necessitates a rethinking and reevaluation of the conventional literature on innovation. This literature is built upon a goods-dominant logic and has resulted in a restricted and out-moded perspective that overlooks many major discontinuous innovations. In this article, we show how many innovations...

Visual imagery plays a prominent role in mental simulations of past and future events: people tend to “see” events in their mind’s eye when they think about them. When picturing events people often use their own first-person perspective, looking out at the situation through their own eyes. However, other times people use a third-person perspective, so that they see themselves in the image from ...

The analysis of observed time series from nonlinear systems is usually done by making a time-delay reconstruction to unfold the dynamics on a multi-dimensional state space. An important aspect of the analysis is the choice of the correct embedding dimension. The conventional procedure used for this is either the method of false nearest neighbors or the saturation of some invariant measure, such...

In the previous lecture notes, we saw that any metric (X, d) with |X| = n can be embedded into R 2 n) under any the `1 metric (actually, the same embedding works for any `p metic), with distortion O(log n). Here, we describe an extremely useful approach for reducing the dimensionality of a Euclidean (`2) metric, while incurring very little distortion. Such dimension reduction is useful for a nu...

The behavioral responses of zebrafish (Danio rerio) to sublethal concentrations of sodium hypochlorite (NaClO)-based household bleach were quantified in order to index toxicity of the solution. The swimming behavior of zebrafish was captured using nonplanar 3D stereocameras in combination with 3D coordinate computation with perspective correction (3DCCPC) to compute for actual 3D coordinates. S...

Researchers have suggested that viewing social inequity as dominant-group privilege (rather than subordinate-group disadvantage) enhances dominant-group members' support for social policies aimed at lessening such inequity. However, because viewing inequity as dominant-group privilege can be damaging to dominant-group members' self-images, this perspective is frequently resisted. In the researc...

In tunnel construction, predicting the roughness of discontinuity is significant for preventing collapse excavation face. However, currently, we are unable to use a parameter with invariant properties quantify and predict discontinuity. Fractal dimension D one such that be used characterize The study proposes new method from fractal outcrops. measurement coordinates outcrops firstly summarized,...

Using the data of China Family Tracking Survey (CFPS) Peking University, this paper systematically studies influence Chinese family cultural values on entrepreneurship. Based Hofstede’s national culture theory and from five dimensions collectivism, power distance, masculinity, long-term orientation uncertainty avoidance, further constructs a comprehensive index values. Through endogeneity test,...

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach has become the prevailing language teaching methodology across the world. However, beginning language teachers’ application of CLT in foreign language teaching has yet to be explored in past research. This paper reports the use of CLT from the perspective of beginning Mandarin teachers. A grounded theory approach is employed as research methodology...