Have you ever noticed how shopping malls, parking lots, or event venues seem to track the number of people or cars present inside? You might think they use an AI camera to count them, but in reality, ...

IN a set of twelve diagrams issued under the above title, the author has supplied a convenience which has been wanted for some time past in the class-teaching of elementary science, thus removing a ...

Binary decision diagrams (BDDs) are directed acyclic graphs used to represent functions over boolean variables. They have enjoyed widespread success in a number of domains, including hardware ...

Abstract: Proactively searching for objects like humans may be a basic requirement for intelligent service robots. The path planning during the searching process can be modeled as a Partially ...

Abstract: Background: In the modeling of object oriented software systems, the UML object diagrams are recognized very useful to complement class diagrams. However, up to now, there exists only one ...

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As true spatial orchestrators, architects’ expertise extends beyond the mere construction of buildings, often transcending the physical realm of design. They possess the unique ability to craft spaces ...

Gerunds, essential parts of the English language, look like verbs but are actually nouns. You’ve likely encountered them in writing without identifying them, because they straddle the division between ...

There is a widespread call in the academy to teach macroeconomics more homogeneously at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Current state-of-the-art research in macroeconomics obliges teachers of ...