Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), technologies are presented as solutions to manufacturing organizations, which need to perform well in all customer-related dimensions simultaneously. In the literature, CIM technologies providing such benefits as more frequent production changes, reduced inventory level, improved ability of producing complex parts with a high degree of accuracy and repea...

today, ecotourism is a major tourist activity around the world. it is based on environment potential through which suitable utilization and conservation of sites under management practices including considering accurate planning, potential, and peoples’ preferences are realized. the present study was conducted to determine people’s recreational preferences using questionnaires to evaluate the e...

local planning is a basic principle as well as a major part of comprehensive rural development in which main emphasis is placed on local initiatives to make human interactions more active and dynamic. in local planning, all parties including local people, governmental bodies and ngos interact to fulfill the basic goals of community development. one may find good examples of local planning exper...

Family planning has been imported to Greece as a means of encouraging individuals to become modern adults by rationalizing their sexual relations and fertility-control efforts. But family-planning discourse neglects how such factors as emotion and so-called traditional belief—including gender norms— guide people's reasonable actions. In this article, I examine how the purported gender neutralit...

Nonholonomic constraints in robotic systems are the source of some di culties in planning and control; however, they also introduce interesting properties that can be practically exploited. In this paper we consider the design of a robot hand that achieves dexterity (i.e., the ability to arbitrarily locate and reorient manipulated objects) through rolling. Some interesting issues arising in pla...

Generic SAT solvers have been very successful in solving hard combinatorial problems in various application areas, including AI planning. There is potential for improved performance by making the SAT solving process more application-specific. In this paper we propose a variable selection strategy for AI planning. The strategy is based on generic principles about properties of plans, and its per...

This paper investigates the use of ant-colony optimization, simulated annealing, and genetic algorithms for distribution network expansion planning (DNEP) including distributed generation (DG). It may be introduced as a combinatorial optimization method that determines the location and capacity of feeders and substations while minimizing the network loss and installation cost. In this paper, DG...

We introduce the notion of kinematic controllability for second-order underactuated mechanical systems. For systems satisfying this property, the problem of planning fast collision-free trajectories between zero velocity states can be decoupled into the computationally simpler problems of path planning for a kinematic system followed by timeoptimal time scaling. While this approach is well know...

Recognizing that planners' decisions affect the public's health, some public health officials are becoming more involved in city and regional planning. This article describes city and regional planning fundamentals to help public health practitioners better understand plan making and plan implementation, including the development project review process; provides examples of how three local publ...

“When you are high, it is tremendous. Shyness goes, the right words and gestures are suddenly there, the power to seduce and captivate others a felt certainty. Feelings of ease, intensity, power, well-being, financial omnipotence and euphoria now pervade one’s marrow. But somehow, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast and there are far too many, overwhelming confusion replaced by fear a...