Earth observation satellite programs are currently facing, for some applications, the need to deliver hourly revisit times, subkilometric spatial resolutions, and near-real-time data access times. These stringent requirements, ...

This work will try to determine which models have truly been influential when considering the construction of a building for administrative use. This paper upholds four types created in the United States in less than a ...

A pentapod is usually defined as a 5-degrees-of-freedom fully-parallel manipulator with an axial spindle as moving platform. This kind of manipulators has revealed as an interesting alternative to serial robots handling ...

As architects, we are trained to think critically and see the world in a different perspective. We are asked to solve problems and create visions for many and this ability to critically think is vital to our success. This ...

Parallel programming presents an efficient solution to exploit future multicore processors. Unfortunately, traditional programming models depend on programmer’s skills for synchronizing concurrent threads, which makes ...

The growing complexity of multi-core architectures has motivated a wide range of software mechanisms to improve the orchestration of parallel executions. Task parallelism has become a very attractive approach thanks to its ...

Architecture and the city are two of the oldest and most important cultural constructions in human history. They give shelter, provide interchange and convey emotions. Nowadays they are rapidly becoming the habitat for the ...

The shower takes an important position within enclosing architecture. As a system, it is spread in penitentiaries in two forms, the gas chamber and the collective shower, becoming an architectonic device where domination ...