This paper draws on learning from two research projects: (i) “Rapid climate change in the UK: towards an institutional theory of adaptation”, funded by the UK Economic and Social Science Research Council’s Environment and Human Behaviour Programme, and (ii) “Thaan Vuzha Nilam Tharisu: The land without a farmer becomes barren”, carried out by SPEECH, a Tamil NGO, as part of a larger Internationa...

One important objective of molecular assembly research is to create highly complex functional chemical systems capable of responding, adapting, and evolving. Compared with living systems, the synthetic systems are still rather primitive and are far from realizing those features. Nature is by far the most important source of inspiration for designing and creating such systems. In this critical r...

Our reviewers often note that contributing authors to this journal have a tendency give short shrift the background literature on which we build our field. Too frequently, return papers requesting revisions highlight central issues already been part of publication record. And all too receive research create new scales for measuring constructs reliable tools, validated instruments, and data can ...

Automated website synthesis is more straightforward than automated program synthesis in artificial intelligence research but can yield clear benefits for large groups of people. We briefly describe our current work and approach to building websites for academic research and aviation accident reporting. Automated website synthesis is applicable to many situations which require efficiency in crea...

In this paper a range synthesis algorithm is proposed as an initial solution to the problem of 3D environment modeling from sparse data. We develop a statistical learning method for inferring and extrapolating range data from as little as one intensity image and from those (sparse) regions where both range and intensity information is available. Our work is related to methods for texture synthe...

Cubist art movement of fracturing objects into geometric shapes. The term cubism draws on the art critic Louis Vauxcelles’ reference to the bizarre cubes he saw in budding artwork that fragmented form into interlocking blocks. Many Cubists reduced objects into cylinders, spheres, and cones and painted them in a single plane as if all faces of an object are visible simultaneously or successively...

Background: Pedagogical knowledge management is the management of knowledge and experiences in teaching, assessment, learning theories, and classroom management, and other areas of education. An analytical study of the literature can be helpful in understanding the pedagogical knowledge management approach. Therefore, this study is aimed on research synthesis of the effectiveness of pedagogical...

javad afsar was born in 1988 in hamedan, iran. he obtained his b.sc. (2011) and m.sc. in organic chemistry (2013) from bu-ali sina university, hamedan, iran. currently, he is working towards his ph.d. under the supervision of prof. mohammad ali zolfigol and prof. ardashir khazaei at the same university. his research involves design, synthesis and applications of new catalyst in organic synthesis.