We live in a world where everyday artifacts are designed and augmented as media interfaces. Technologies are created based on this mission, which enable everyday objects to sense, interact, and communicate with us. Since the design and deployment of any interactive sensing system requires pre-defined content and sensor mapping between the hardware and software systems, having a platform that is...

Systems that are formed by massively distributed mobile resources, such as satellite constellations, often provide mission-critical functions. However, many existing quality-of-service (QoS) management concepts cannot be applied to those systems in a traditional way, due to the continuously changing readiness-to-serve of their mobile resources. In this paper, we describe a case study that inves...

today, there are many concepts such as a sense of place and attachment to place presented in architecture and urban literature in the field of environmental studies. meanwhile, relationship between the two is not much explained. this study defines the concept of sense of place and attachment to place and the factors influencing them followed by providing a four- dimensional model derived from s...

introduction: this research is planning to observe the influence of sense of social security on doctors’ social health in tehran. therefore, it seems that there is a meaningful relationship among doctors’ social health as a dependent variable, and sense of social security of doctors as the main independent variable. also, piety, life satisfaction, social morality and assessing by others as the ...

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are increasingly called to substantiate their impact on society in terms of inclusivity and social sustainability, as prioritized the pursuit “Third Mission” (TM). Today, HEIs confronted with demand ensure refugees’ inclusivity. However, how administrative teaching staff enact such change within organization match TM goals is under-investigated. This study e...

Abstract. The growing employment of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs, commonly referred to as drones) in civilian and military environments, along with the increasing accuracy avionics components, has led definition more stringent drone-based mission requirements. In this sense, following work summarizes a series Ph.D. research activities aimed at improving UAS performance under different aspects,...

The paper treats the mission design for the Dutch-Chinese FAST (Formation for Atmospheric Science and Technology demonstration) mission. The space segment of the 2.5 year mission consists out of two formation flying micro-satellites. During the mission, new technologies will be demonstrated and, using spectropolarimeter and altimeter payloads on both spacecraft, observations will be performed c...