The praying mantis is an insect which relies on vision for capturing prey, avoiding being eaten and for spatial orientation. It is well known for its ability to use stereopsis for estimating the distance of objects. The neuronal substrate mediating visually driven behaviors, however, is not very well investigated. To provide a basis for future functional studies, we analyzed the anatomical orga...

In some large enclosures, such as underground stations or factory halls, which involve long reverberation time, low signal-to-noise ratio, public address systems are often used to improve the speech intelligibility. Nevertheless, too many distributed loudspeaker systems suffer an inappropriate use of loudspeakers. This can lead to an imperfect uniformity of audience coverage decreasing the spee...

Due to the demanding acoustic conditions in physical education lessons and the related problems with health and academic success, the aim of this study was to examine the acoustic conditions of teaching in sport halls in Slovenia. Thirtyfive sport halls were selected, reflecting four types of school sport halls grouped according to the period of their construction. The reverberation time was me...

You might try to argue that if the instructor is the target audience for your paper then you can omit facts because it is reasonable to assume that the person setting the assignment should be very familiar with all of the facts underlying their own questions. In reality, you are writing to convince the instructor that you have a clear understanding of the complexities of the question and that y...

Smart praying mats are essential to help old and forgetful Muslims perform their religious needs. Due to the binary representation of pressure sensors embedded into the mat for posture identification, existing smart praying systems either use large sensing arrays, thus becoming expensive and bulky, or utilize only a limited number of sensors, minimizing the cost of posture recognition accuracy....

there are several courtyards of historical buildings in iran that have changed their original function because of reuse and have adopted for physical adjustments of the renovation projects. usually they are covered by lightweight roofsand have been used as religious spaces, praying or audience halls, restaurants, exhibitions rooms, etc. unfortunately most of these lightweight roofs have inappro...

Introduction. Knowing that someone was entangled with cancer is a surprising experience for that person. Being aware of having cancer not only makes the person loose his hopes and ambitions, but also influences his body and mental. Meanwhile, religion can play the proper role of complementary treatment, increasing life expectancy in these patients. Objective. The study was conducted with the ai...

Inspired by the abilities of the praying mantis to judge distance to its prey before the strike by use of motion-based visually mediated odometry, we create miniature model for depth estimation that are similar to the head movements of the Praying Mantis. We develop mathematical models of the praying mantis behavior and describe our implementations and experimental environment. We investigate s...

considering the large amount of investment in railway transportation systems, effective use of resources is highly important. typically, in order to utilize the line capacity, train scheduling plays a substantial role and thus attracts lots of attention all over the world. various train-scheduling models are introduced, according to different conditions of different countries. however, for iran...

In this paper we present AMATI, (Another Massive Audience Teaching Instrument) to enhance knowledge transfer between a lecturer and their student audience as well as encourage the communication among students for both on line and on campus courses. AMATI provides a non-distractive environment for knowledge transfer and communication by using context aware teaching information for a specific cla...