New robotics is an approach to robotics that, in contrast to traditional robotics, employs ideas and principles from biology. While in the traditional approach there are generally accepted methods (e. g., from control theory), designing agents in the new robotics approach is still largely considered an art. In recent years, we have been developing a set of heuristics, or design principles, that...

The Rhyacophila stigmatica Species Group in Turkey is revised and three new species (Rhyacophila alaplica sp. n. from northwestern Turkey, and Rhyacophila caniliensis sp. n., and R. torulensis sp. n., both from northeastern Turkey) are described and illustrated. A redescription of R. zwickorum Malicky 1972 is given. A key to the Turkish males and females of the Group is provided.

In this paper, we present a benchmarking study of industrial transportation companies traded in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). There are two distinguishing aspects of our study: First, instead of using operational data for the input and the output items of the developed Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model, we use financial data of the companies that are readily available on the Internet....

This article presents six new principles emerging from four decades of academic and industry research on the generation of high-qualily creative ideas by "hrainstoming ". The principles are: (a) brainstorming instructions are essential and should emphasize, paradoxically, number and not quality of ideas; (b) a specific, diflcult target should be set for the number of ideas; (c) individuals, not...

A participatory rural appraisal technique (PRAT) was used to obtain information from 132 randomly selected turkey farmers in two out of four agricultural development zones in Kwara state, Nigeria. Data were obtained on socio-occupational status of farmers, their production objectives, experience, flock structure, management practices, marketing and consumption of turkey eggs. The results showed...

OBJECTIVE This study compares the performances of new-molecule (NM) launches in Turkey with those in the European Union and United States for the years 2007-2013. METHODS The Thomson Reuters Newport Horizon for Innovators Database is used to identify NMs with a launch date after January 1, 2007, worldwide and marketing authorization approval after January 1, 2007, in the European Union. The l...

Section Gamosepalum has been reported from Turkey for the first time by Dudley. In recent years, several species of this section were reported as new records for Iran. Four species of Alyssum section are tranfered from sect. Alyssum to sect. Gamosepalum with considering of important characters in each section. These changes made two synonymies. Five species of Gamosepalum section including A. l...