The design configuration of the nozzle has a vital role in performance measures machining processes. However, parameter optimizations are primary considerations published works. This study optimizes parameters to minimize environmental impacts and enhance surface quality for diamond burnishing (DB) operation. considered energy efficiency (ED), noise emission (NE), total height profile roughness...

Integral to the scientific process are theoretical frameworks that motivate specific research questions and empirical methodologies. This paper introduces ecological psychology argues it can serve as a new framework for architecture design. Ecological holds people their environments must be defined relative each other, with this relationship being empirically quantified by affordances, percepti...

Urban designers, ecologists, and social scientists have called for closer links among their disciplines. We examine a promising new tool for promoting this linkage—the metaphor of “cities of resilience.” To put this tool to best use, we indicate how metaphor fits with other conceptual tools in science. We then present the two opposing definitions of resilience from ecology, and give reasons why...

Environmental monitoring in ecological and hydrological watershed-scale research is an important and promising area of application for wireless sensor networks. This paper presents a system design of IPv6 wireless sensor network (IPv6WSN) in Heihe river watershed in Gansu province of China to assist ecological and hydrological scientists collecting field scientific data in an extremely harsh en...