The contemporary armed conflicts that have recently taken place in Ukraine, the Gaza Strip, and Nagorno-Karabakh serve to illustrate the inherent difficulties associated with combat operations.Despite the high degree of transparency on the battlefield, the nature of the conflict, characterized by friction, uncertainty, violence, and high lethality,
This paper proposes an improved RRT*-Connect algorithm (IRRT*-Connect) for robotic arm path planning in narrow environments with multiple obstacles.A heuristic sampling strategy is adopted with the integration of the ellipsoidal subset sampling and goal-biased sampling strategies, which can continuously compress the sampling space to enhance the sa
The article is devoted to the analysis of a group of fabrics from the collection of the Ashmolean Museum - the Center for Islamic and Asian Art.Yousef at Oxford University (Ashmolean - Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Center for Lighting Islamic and Asian Art).More than 1000 textile fragments from the graves and from the garbage mounds of the citi
Dorothy Moye explores the prevalence and significance of the X-code, a symbol used by search-and-rescue teams in 2005 to mark searched property in post-Hurricane blade guard Katrina New Orleans.She considers the purposes of these codes and how returning New Orleanians felt about these Male Spade Terminals symbols, as well as the stories these marki
With an increasing focus on sustainable development and the reuse of disused infrastructure, there is a pressing need for effective decision-making methods.This study Lighting explored the use of the PROMETHEE method within a collaborative decision-making framework to assess the adaptive reuse options for a disused railway in Sicily, Italy.Using a