Technology has much to offer the physically or sensorially impaired veteran in overcoming the handicaps that disabilities and environmental barriers may cause . But successful technology applications require both creative research and deve!opmmnt and effective production and distribution . To discuss evaluation, it is necessary to consider itaro!nina!! phases of this complex process. The basic ...

Art and science are generally found to be the highest intellectual accomplishments. Creativeness, vision and abstraction are typical for both the artist and the scientist. Both of them are motivated by the desire for knowledge, so that they should belong to the same type. Many consider that works of " art " (derives from the Latin word " to fit, to put together "), should be appreciated for the...

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been studied intensively for almost two decades. It has been attractive both for theoretical investigation because of its sound mathematical foundation, and for practical applications because of the possibility of employing a purely empirical learning. In the second half of the nineties, the theory has been given a mature formulation in a unifying view by the wor...

Background: Laparoscopy is one of the most common surgical procedures. General anesthesia as the only suitable technique for laparoscopic procedures is a concept of the past. A problem with modern general anesthetics is that even though patients can be awake and oriented shortly after cessation of the anesthetic. There is growing evidence suggesting that regional anesthesia has an important rol...

This paper commences by outlining notions of creativity before examining the role of emergence in creative design. Various process models of emergence are presented; these are based on notions of additive and substitutive variables resulting in additive and substitutive schemas. Frameworks for both representation and process for a computational model of creative design are presented. The repres...

application of human figures on brocades is valuable for studying. the existence of these motifs on the bouid’s & saljuk’s brocades indicates the popularity of them at this era in persia. these are very important sources for studying the weaving techniques. the production of silk fabrics made a magnificent period for persian textile industry. in this research work samples of fabrics with human ...

It is said that “necessity the mother of invention,” and for all its disruption, COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted innovation, problem-solving creativeness in spheres our professional personal lives. Innovation continuing development (CPD) ophthalmology was no exception; indeed, emergence a global novel virus only increased urgency timely relevant CPD. The travel restrictions strict health safe...

In the era of knowledge economy, improving quality of labor force has great effort on enhancing innovation ability of Chinese enterprise and improving competitiveness of the whole country. Currently, the quantity of Chinese labor force isn’t enough mainly due to several reasons: firstly, population policy emphasized “quantity” rather than “quality”; secondly, the structure in labor force market...