Urban green spaces are often promoted as nature-based solutions, thus helping to mitigate the negative effects of climate change. Estimating potential environmental benefits provided by urban space is difficult because inconsistencies in management practices and their heterogeneous nature. Collecting data across such a spectrum contexts at large scale costly time consuming. In this study, we ex...

Infiltration process plays an important role in water cycle of the nature. Conducting field experiments is necessary to determine the coefficients of infiltration equations due to the dependence of these coefficients to the soil type, soil surface conditions and the amount of initial soil moisture content. This study has been carried out in a field located in Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht ...

Infiltration process plays an important role in water cycle of the nature. Conducting field experiments is necessary to determine the coefficients of infiltration equations due to the dependence of these coefficients to the soil type, soil surface conditions and the amount of initial soil moisture content. This study has been carried out in a field located in Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht ...

| This paper investigates the relevance of the immune system metaphor to Time Dependent Optimization (TDO). At rst, we review previous results underlining the over-average reactiveness and robustness featured by a Simple Artiicial Immnune System (Sais) in comparison to well known evolutionist approaches ((GC99]). Then, we evaluate its immunization capability (i.e. improving robustness to previo...

Homeless youth face multiple challenges to becoming independent, self-sufficient adults. They struggle to survive from day to day, doing what they can to secure food and temporary shelter. They endure the trauma of street life, often contending with mental health and sub stance use issues. They lack the education and work experience necessary to find employment. In addition to the issues that c...

Metaphor recognition presents a computational challenge, in part due to metaphoric deviation from literal thinking, and also because of a metaphor’s various linguistic expressions. This article forwards a new computational method, an integrated treatment of metaphor recognition from the computational perspective, which recent related studies have not entirely addressed. The authors differentiat...

Scrum as one of the most popular software methodologies, has been growly employed by software teams and companies in recent years. This method provides several simple and effective practices to manage software projects. However, despite of its simple structure, lots of challenges and issues have been reported during Scrum adoption. Te main aim of this paper is to report the main issues of intro...

Market-driven organizations need to structure, store and prioritize their requirements since they often implement the product in successive releases. Through interviews we have seen that the storage can be implemented as a database or a simple Excel sheet open for new requirements to be entered [1]. However, the prioritization is still difficult to manage in practice. In particular, immature or...