The work presents a practical investigation on the degree of efflorescence on different types of bricks available in Bangladesh. A relationship between the type of brick and degree of efflorescence is observed. The study is performed on five different types of samples. For this purpose the general procedure for a brick production is followed by making two samples of customized brick from two di...

We describe an improvisational companion based on the concept of harmonic bricks, as articulated by Cork and others. Our companion is software that can play background for, and trade melodies with, a human soloist. While exhibiting creativity itself, its greater purpose is to improve creativity of its user. Bricks, originally intended for memorization of chord progressions, are used here as a s...

Objective: To determine whether egocentric distance judgments are accurate in a virtual environment using a perceptual matching task. Methods: Observers were immersed within a virtual environment consisting of an L-shaped room with a test object (a column) located down one corridor and a comparison object (a flagpole) located down the other. Perceived distances were measured by having the obser...

If you have any questions, please contact: [email protected] [email protected] The Archaeological Sites Finds Identifier application is a tool for expert users and nonprofessionals to identify findings made all over Europe. In our prototype implementation, developed in course of the BRICKS project, the integrated findings are restricted to coins found in the Uni...

During narrative comprehension, readers construct representations of the situation described by a text, called situation models. Theories of situation model construction and event comprehension posit two distinct types of situation model updating: incremental updating of individual situational dimensions, and global updates in which an old model is abandoned and a new one created. No research t...

according to high height and weak tensile strength of materials in minarets, it is necessary to study the structural behaviour of minarets under earthquake loading. therefore nine historical brick masonry minarets in isfahan have been modelled and analysed by applying the nonlinear finite element method for two cases: 1) the whole minaret, and 2) only the outer shell. results show that all mina...

In type A, Bott-Samelson varieties are posets in which ascending chains are flags of vector spaces. They come equipped with a map into the flag variety G/B. These varieties are mostly studied in the case in which the map into G/B is birational to the image. In this paper we study Bott-Samelsons for general types, more precisely, we study the combinatorics a fiber of the map into G/B when it is ...