This article examines the role of creative arts in renegotiating border between memorable and unmemorable lives. It does so with specific reference to (un)forgetting colonial soldiers European armies during World War One. Focussing on aesthetic form generating memorability, it shows how use a medium can help redefine borders imagined communities by commanding attention individual subjects hence...

I propose an analysis of either in either… or … sentences that relates to a broader generalization about the syntax all focus-sensitive operators. argue originates inside disjunction phrase, c-commanding leftmost contrastive focus. Then it is internally merged as sister phrase. Either copy may be pronounced. When appears higher than bare argument ellipsis has occurred second disjunct. This cons...

Earthquake has always endangered cities. This article mainly focuses on the question “whether seismic damages could be diminished through the presentation a preventive operational pattern dealing with physical and nonphysical features of civil defense”. Tehran, the most populous metropolis among Iranian cities is to the south of Alborz mountain range, located on potentially dangerous fault- lin...

A case of right atrial myxoma in a 5 year old male is presented. The Patient was admitted in the pediatric department with systemic manifestations. Myxoma was incidentally diagnosed.

Although high-level real-time distributed computing objects are generally written in forms independent of execution platforms, input and output (I/O) activities involving peripherals are inherently platform-dependent. Yet, writing parts of real-time objects for controlling peripherals should be done in forms compatible with the adopted real-time object programming styles. Basic issues are discu...

Directorate, we are developing architectures for commanding and controlling a cluster of cooperating satellites through autonomous software development for the TechSat 21 program (see the “TechSat 21” sidebar starting on page 10). Many space missions require large, monolithic satellites. This often results in costly, complex, failure-prone vehicles whose physical size constraints limit their pe...

The general aim of the development of virtual reality technology for automation applications at the IRF is to provide the framework for Projective Virtual Reality which allows users to “project” their actions in the virtual world into the real world primarily by means of robots but also by other means of automation. The framework is based on a new task-oriented approach which builds on the “tas...

Methodology / approach A demonstration is presented using two industrial robots and a personal computer (PC) equipped with a sound board and a headset microphone. The demonstration was coded using the Microsoft Visual Basic and C# .NET 2003 and associated with two simple robot applications: one capable of picking-and-placing objects and going to predefined positions, and the other capable of pe...