Integrative Model for Quantitative Evaluation of Selection Telecommunication Tower Site

This paper analyzes the weight of impact factors on selection the antenna places for mobile telecommunication system in Jordan. The new technique plays a lead role in divided area and selects the place of antennas' sites. The main objective of this research is to minimize the antenna numbers in order to reduce the cost. Research follows flowcharting categories and stages as: The first stage aim to classify the effective factors on the: signal radius, better position of antenna from candidate points, reserved area, and non-preferring position. The second stage focuses on finding the effective weight of these factors on the decision. The third stage suggest the new proposed approach by implement the MCLP and P-center problems in linear function. The last stage has the pseudo code for the proposed approach, where the proposed approach provides the solution that helps the planners in telecommunication industry and in related government agencies make informed position of the antennas

Blurred Borders: Trans-Boundary Impacts & Solutions in the San Diego-Tijuana Border Region

Over the years, the border has divided the people of San Diego County and Tijuana over language, culture, national security, public safety and a host of other cross-border issues ranging from human migration to the environment. For some, the 'us' versus 'them' mentality has become more pervasive following the tragedy of September 11, 2001, with a growing number of San Diegans focusing greater attention on terrorism and homeland security, as well as the need to re-think immigration policy in the United States as a means of fortifying the international border. This is validated by a recent KPBS/Competitive Edge research poll that found 46% of English-speaking San Diegans desiring that the U.S. impose tighter restrictions on the border. Yet the question remains: if San Diegans and Tijuana are so different, why is our shared port of entry the most busily crossed international border in the world with over 56 million crossings a year? The answer is simple. Opposites attract. The contrasts and complementarities between San Diego and Tijuana are so powerful that residents, as well as visiting tourists and business people, endure post-9/11 traffic and pedestrian delays to cross the border for work, school, cultural enrichment, maintaining family ties or sheer economic necessity

Multi-Agent Systems

This Special Issue ""Multi-Agent Systems"" gathers original research articles reporting results on the steadily growing area of agent-oriented computing and multi-agent systems technologies. After more than 20 years of academic research on multi-agent systems (MASs), in fact, agent-oriented models and technologies have been promoted as the most suitable candidates for the design and development of distributed and intelligent applications in complex and dynamic environments. With respect to both their quality and range, the papers in this Special Issue already represent a meaningful sample of the most recent advancements in the field of agent-oriented models and technologies. In particular, the 17 contributions cover agent-based modeling and simulation, situated multi-agent systems, socio-technical multi-agent systems, and semantic technologies applied to multi-agent systems. In fact, it is surprising to witness how such a limited portion of MAS research already highlights the most relevant usage of agent-based models and technologies, as well as their most appreciated characteristics. We are thus confident that the readers of Applied Sciences will be able to appreciate the growing role that MASs will play in the design and development of the next generation of complex intelligent systems. This Special Issue has been converted into a yearly series, for which a new call for papers is already available at the Applied Sciences journal’s website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Multi-Agent_Systems_2019

A Framework for Evaluating the Performance of Supply Chain Risk in E-commerce

The perceived risk is found to be a barrier for e-commerce application. It has been widely demonstrated in previous studies that the e-commerce is closely related with risk assessment. Taking into account of the scope of supply chain management, the activities of e-commerce system mostly deal with information flow, rather than either product or service flows. With regard to the rapid growth of e-commerce, there is imbalance between preparation and mitigation activities. More specifically, there is no formal model which shows supply chain risk in the e-commerce system, regarded as the research gap. Hence, one way to analyze and map out complex system as potential risk is to make Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) framework. This study is conducted to develop a framework about SCRM in the e-commerce area. Taking a case study on e-commerce based company, the SCRM framework is developed incorporating 8 perceived risk model in e-commerce: such as financial, social, time, performance, physical, privacy, security, and psychological risk. The expected contribution in theory and practice is discussed

Performance art and politics on the US Frontera, 1968-present

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-232).Artists working on the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexican border have, since the 1970s Chicano movement, actively explored this charged site in generating socially conscious art projects. This border art, formerly seen as "marginal," is explored in this dissertation as central to an interrogation of site-specificity and globalization - particularly in the medium of performance art. Based on an analysis of artworks from four decades by artists such as David Avalos and the Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Coco Fusco, Felipe Ehrenberg, and the collaborative team of Allora and Calzadilla, the dissertation claims that border artists both anticipated and responded to larger economic and social shifts, particularly the trade relations heralded by NAFTA in 1994. Site-specificity and performance became complex and sometimes contradictory tools that these artists used to make statements on the nature of economic and political relations between North and South, rich and poor, American and Mexican, citizen and immigrant. Art, rather than pure political action, is particularly equipped to encourage such exploration, as the indeterminacy of art (rather than the determinacy of political action) allows for the processes of social change. This line of inquiry can be extended to other border and transnational regions. Rethinking art and art history from its "borders" - literal and metaphorical - ultimately destabilizes traditional art historiographic narratives in a productive way.by Ila Nicole Sheren.Ph.D

Babel : Interpreting the manifest ; confronting chaos

A Masters dissertation, 2017The  physicist,  Albert  Einstein’s  startling  statement,  “There  are  only  two  ways  to  live  a   life,  one,  is  that  nothing  is  a  miracle,  and  the  other,  is  that  everything  is  a  miracle.”   prompted  a  series  of  questions  in  relation  to  my  own  questioning  as  to  the   miraculousness  of  life  itself  and  the  disconcerting  coexistence  of  uncertainty,  apparent   chaos  and  seeming  randomness  of  the  world  around  me.  Paradigms  of  the  mystical  and   the  scientific,  in  the  succeeding  chapters,  compete  and  coalesce  within  a  process  of   interpretation  in  an  attempt  to  investigate  the  structural  ambiguity  of  holding  both   views  simultaneously.           The  scope  of  my  investigation  has  focused  on  an  analytical  interplay  between  the   biblical  narratives  of  Babel  and  Abraham,  with  the  scientific  psychosocial  theory  of   Danah  Zohar’s  Quantum  Self.  These  seemingly  dramatically  different  paradigms  are  used   as  a  lens  to  analyze  the  complex  structure  of  a  series  of  random  or  miraculous  events  in   Alejandro  Gonzalez  Iñárritu’s  2006  film,  titled  Babel.           Ultimately,  the  insights  gained  from  these  texts  and  the  analysis  of  the  film  had  a   profound  effect  on  the  production  of  a  body  of  work,  which  also  engaged,  with  multiple   modes  of  translation  and  interpretation.  Significantly,  in  a  personal  attempt  to  engage   with  a  unified  field  of  meaning  a  criticality  emerged,  which  personally  empowered  me  to   challenge  yet  integrate  my  deep-­‐seated  Judaic  beliefs  with  a  contemporary  scientific   paradigm  profoundly  affecting  my  art  practice.          XL201

Spartan Daily, October 16, 1974

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Spartan Daily, October 16, 1974

Volume 63, Issue 21https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/5905/thumbnail.jp