Recently, Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology has attracted much attention in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. Despite the growing interest in BIM technology, the benefits of BIM have not yet been fully realized during the course of implementation of BIM because of its low adoption rate among architects. Therefore, it is significant important in success...

Lucio Biggiero (Università dell’ Aquila, Italy), Pier Paolo Angelini (Interuniversity Research Centre for Sustainable Development (CIRPS), Italy), Mario Basevi (Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italy), Nunzia Carbonara (Politecnico di Bari, Italy), Antonio Mastrogiorgio (Interuniversity Research Centre for Sustainable Development (CIRPS), Italy), Eliano Pessa (University of Pavia, Ital...

The following is an up-to-date compilation of peer-reviewed research directed at microbial food safety risks, modes of contamination transfer, and disinfection or other risk reduction interventions for cantaloupe, honeydew, and watermelon. It was originally intended to support an updated, industry –oriented “white paper” on practical food safety guidance for melon growers, shippers, handlers, p...

Lycopene is a naturally occurring antioxidant that is responsible for the red color of fruits such as tomatoes, guava, rosehip, watermelon, and pink grapefruit. Numerous scientific studies have linked lycopene intake with the rate of occurrence of prostate cancer the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in American men. This link is of even more significance for African-American men, who, unfo...

recreation (creativity) is undoubtedly one of the important designing bases and a durable, matchless and unique factor which determines distinction, excellence, and elegance of a building in comparison with other buildings; and architecture as one of the manifestations of human life in a special time and place can be a reflection of thoughts, ideas and living method and also represent identity ...

With very few exceptions since Ancient Greece, architecture has ignored for most of its history, its relation to power and politics, focusing instead on different ideals of beauty, perfection and purity of forms. It is no surprise then that architecture was used for political purposes mainly by people who are not architects, like Charles Fourier, Robert Owen, N.A. Miliutyn, to name just a few. ...

Very large systems have an architecture that is designed to allow them to evolve through a long life. Such systems are developed by teams of architects. One of the first things the architects do is make a model of their architecture. This model constitutes the formal architecture description based on which software engineers will eventually build the real system. The architecture model is norma...

Modern automotive electric/electronic (E/E) architectures are growing to the point where architects can no longer manually predict the effects of their design decisions. Thus, in addition to applying an architecture reference model to decompose their architectures, they also require tools for synthesizing and evaluating candidate architectures during the design process. Clafer is a modeling lan...

Virtualization technology has been widely applied across a broad range of contemporary datacenters. While constructing a datacenter, architects have to choose a Virtualization Application Solution (VAS) to maximize performance as well as minimize cost. However, the performance of a VAS involves a great number of metric concerns, such as virtualization overhead, isolation, manageability, consoli...

Many architects understand that learning to program can be a challenge, but assume that time and practice are the only barriers to performing well enough at it. However, research from computer science education does not support this assumption. Multinational studies of undergraduate computer science programs reveal that a significant number of students in their first and second year of full-tim...