Is it a wrong way of thinking?

Recently someone observed that by adding a research paper his ResearchGate (RG) score increases only 0.03, while by adding a comment like "thank you", his RG increase 0.3, and he concluded based...

06 July 2018 4,556 5 View

Can we make such a reasoning?

That some of us are always cold and others are constantly hot does not imply temperature is subjective:...

06 July 2018 6,389 0 View

Is the goodness of an environment a matter of fact, or of opinion?

The above question can be equally rephrased as follows: Is the goodness of architecture a matter of fact, or of opinion? Is the goodness of an artifact a matter of fact, or of opinion? Give me of...

06 July 2018 8,588 4 View

What is space?

What is space? Is it what is conceived by Newton or by Leibniz? Both Newtonian and Leibnizian views of space are framed under the mechanistic thinking of Descartes back to the 17th century....

05 June 2018 1,994 4 View

Where are the pattern language's co-authors?

"A Pattern Language: Towns, buildings, and construction" written by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, and Shlomo Angel, and published in...

04 May 2018 8,649 3 View

Is geography a science?

03 April 2018 9,740 8 View

If people suddenly disappeared, would the buildings we now consider Beautiful, still be Beautiful?

Someone posted this question in traditional architecture emailing list, and I found it of interest, so I re-post it here: If people suddenly disappeared, would the buildings we now consider...

02 March 2018 1,806 2 View

Which pattern is more beautiful?

Given the two following patterns: the left or the right, which one is more beautiful than another?

07 August 2017 6,372 32 View

DEM rendering - what do you prefer for different classifications?

For a same digital elevation model (DEM), I applied different classifications. In the following figure, to the left is the outcome of natural breaks (Jenks 1967), while to the right is that of...

03 April 2015 1,880 14 View

Are maps subjective?

Maps refer to either those produced by human cartographers or those created by computer tools such as geographic information systems (GIS). In other words, the maps we refer to are those produced...

02 March 2015 441 10 View

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

MGL tools

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How climate change will influences human and animal behavioral change?

The role of climate change influencing the human behavior as well as economics interest

01 June 2021 0 0 View

flexibility of polymers chain

effect of double bond on the flexibility of polymers

07 April 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

24 March 2021 0 0 View

Formulation of polymer color flakes

I am writing to request some information for making polymer color flakes. I would appreciate the help.

17 March 2021 0 0 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

What is the most Operating System (OS) which can be INSTALL on Tiny hard devices like Raspberry Pi (RPi) hardware ?

I'm targeting to deploy a mesh network and manually configure MANET routing protocols. I'm preparing scenarios, architectures, and hard devices needed to do that. Are there some step-by-step...

03 March 2021 1,931 5 View

Can we classify HV and LV lines based on line length?

I have dataset which shows the length of power lines. I need to classify the lines based on the line length. Is there a rule to classify the High voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) lines based on...

03 March 2021 4,116 4 View