the question of whether architectural creativity is more of an artistic or engineering nature is one with a long history but also one with no conclusive answer. the art camp would argue that technology should be treated as a means towards and end, and that technology alone cannot give meaning to our lives. the engineering camp on the other hand would argue that good problem-solving results in b...

interested in understanding, modeling and forecasting hydrological fluxes at large spatial scales based on land surface and climatic indices. Other topics of research include water resources planning and management and environmental assessment in developing countries. the interface of environmental process engineering and energy. This includes topics such as the conversion of waste materials to...

Epithelial-specific Ets (ESE) transcription factors, consisting of ESE-1, ESE-2, and ESE-3, are constitutively expressed in distinct epithelia of mucosal tissues, including the lung. Each ESE member exhibits alternative splicing and yields at least two isoforms (a and b) with transcriptional targets largely unidentified. The studies described herein define a novel role for ESE transcription fac...

systems in which reaction terms are coupled to diffusion and advection transports arise in awide range of chemical engineering applications, physics, biology and environmental. in these cases, thecomponents of the unknown can denote concentrations or population sizes which represent quantities andthey need to remain positive. classical finite difference schemes may produce numerical drawbacks s...

SOA is an emerging architectural style to achieve loosely-coupling and high interoperability of soŸware components and systems by using message exchanges via standard public interfaces. In SOAs, soŸware components are exposed as services and typically coordinated by using processes which enable service invocations from corresponding activities. ese processes are described in high-level or low-l...

The progress of information technology (IT) and the need for global distribution of geospatial information and remotely sensed imagery create strong needs for web-based geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing facilities (Tsou and Buttenfield, 1998; 2002; Limp, 2001). This paper introduces a webbased remote sensing application that can provide advanced image comparison and proces...