Restorative Potential And Working Memory Capacity Of Exposure To Vegetation In Indoor Built Environments, 2020 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Restorative Potential And Working Memory Capacity Of Exposure To Vegetation In Indoor Built Environments, Jee Heon Rhee
Theses and Dissertations
This research seeks to understand how natural elements – specifically, vegetation in the indoor environment - influence people’s ability to restore attention and working memory capacity. Previous research demonstrates the benefits of nature on human beings in various ways. For instance, numerous studies show the positive effects of nature on stress reduction (Hartig, Mang, & Evans, 1991; Ulrich et al., 1991) and attention restoration (Staats, Kieviet, & Hartig, 2003). However, most of these studies focus on the effect of nature in outdoor settings. Relatively few studies focus on the presence of natural elements indoors. This is an important gap in …
A Window To Urban Arabia, 2020 University of Puget Sound
A Window To Urban Arabia, Andrew M. Gardner
All Faculty Scholarship
This set of images collectively seeks to provide viewers with a window into Doha, Qatar, and into the urban heart of the modern Middle East that’s arisen on the Arabian Peninsula. Designed as an exhibit of photography, the images include overlapping themes that explore particular facets or threads of the urban landscape and life therein. In the final accounting, the collection as a whole is intended as an ode to the city itself.
The Bridge Newsletter Winter 2020, 2020 Missouri University of Science and Technology
The Bridge Newsletter Winter 2020, Missouri University Of Science And Technology
The Bridge Newsletter
-Kummers give largest single gift in the history of Missouri higher education
-$1M gift from the Sunderland Foundation completes ACML lab
-Miner alumni step up
-Academy of Civil Engineers inducts 11 new members
Privacy In Multigenerational Homes Before And Amidst Covid-19, 2020 Stephen F. Austin State University
Privacy In Multigenerational Homes Before And Amidst Covid-19, Jennifer Luque
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Multigenerational households in the United States are more prevalent now than they have been in the last forty years. In part, aging, illness, job loss, saving money, and even tradition are factors that contribute to the idea of multiple generations living together in one home. Given the health of the individuals, size of the home, and number of dedicated bedrooms and bathrooms, living multigenerational can have both positive and adverse effects. Many family groups fall into the category of multigenerational living. However, this study investigates the relationships between adults and senior family members in terms of privacy in the home. …
Tanzanian Concrete Masonry Walls, 2020 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Tanzanian Concrete Masonry Walls, Edward J. Kaminski
Architectural Engineering
Walls that replicate masonry walls used in Tanzania are constructed and tested. The results from testing was compared with the respective predictions made using code guidelines from ASCE 7 and TMS 402.
Ppmexplorer: Using Information Retrieval, Computer Vision And Transfer Learning Methods To Index And Explore Images Of Pompeii, 2020 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Ppmexplorer: Using Information Retrieval, Computer Vision And Transfer Learning Methods To Index And Explore Images Of Pompeii, Cindy Roullet
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In this dissertation, we present and analyze the technology used in the making of PPMExplorer: Search, Find, and Explore Pompeii. PPMExplorer is a software tool made with data extracted from the Pompei: Pitture e Mosaic (PPM) volumes. PPM is a valuable set of volumes containing 20,000 historical annotated images of the archaeological site of Pompeii, Italy accompanied by extensive captions. We transformed the volumes from paper, to digital, to searchable. PPMExplorer enables archaeologist researchers to conduct and check hypotheses on historical findings. We present a theory that such a concept is possible by leveraging computer generated correlations between artifacts using …
A Deep Dive Into Natural Swimming Pool Filtration: Living Walls As Technical Wetland Filters, 2020 Utah State University
A Deep Dive Into Natural Swimming Pool Filtration: Living Walls As Technical Wetland Filters, Anna Farb
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Vertical gardens such as living walls can filter air and water, in addition to cooling buildings, reducing noise, increasing urban biodiversity, providing food, and enhancing well-being. Natural swimming pools (NSPs) are an ecologically sound alternative to chemically treated pools, but they have not reached their potential in the U.S. We investigated whether a living wall could be integrated into an NSP system for water filtration purposes, given that the vertical filter would have to produce excellent water quality for human swimmers. This could be a novel landscape design, particularly in the cases of steep contours, urbanized sites with limited space, …
Building On Spatial Mismatch: A New Review Of Literature And An Example Case Study, 2020 University of Texas at Arlington
Building On Spatial Mismatch: A New Review Of Literature And An Example Case Study, Steven Matthew Reeves
Planning Theses
Barriers to employment exist at different levels for minority groups, especially those that are residentially segregated. Many studies have examined these barriers, including a physical separation between the residential location and the available job opportunities since John Kain’s 1968 Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis. However, recent studies of modal mismatch, racial mismatch, and skill or language mismatch, have been identified with significant impact on accessible employment without being included in a comprehensive review of mismatch literature. This research provides an updated literature review of Spatial Mismatch. It also includes a case study of a little-studied region, Dallas – Fort Worth metropolitan area. …
Americanization Of Islamic Cultural Design: Erasure, Orientalism/Exoticism, And Americanization, 2020 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Americanization Of Islamic Cultural Design: Erasure, Orientalism/Exoticism, And Americanization, Peter L. Stanley
Landscape Architecture Undergraduate Honors Theses
Islam arrived in North America primarily through the importation of Muslim African slaves. Subsequent suppression of the slaves, and by extension their religion and places of worship, generated a lack of understanding and misunderstanding about Islam. Over time, this misunderstanding evolved into xenophobic and orientalist representations of the religion. This Capstone project researches Islam’s roots in colonial America through the period before the Columbian Exposition of 1893, and its evolution after the Columbian Exposition, with defining time periods expressed as Erasure, Orientalism/Exoticism, and Americanization. With the help of cultural trust organizations such as the Aga Khan Foundation, the contemporary Americanization …
Apollo And Columbia: Landscape As Power In Washington D.C. And Versailles., 2020 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Apollo And Columbia: Landscape As Power In Washington D.C. And Versailles., Beau Cameron Burris
Landscape Architecture Undergraduate Honors Theses
The grounds of the Palace of Versailles and the urban fabric of Washington, D.C. are monumentally scaled, richly mythologized landscapes of power. Through massive baroque geometries, both sites impress order on the vastness of space, reframing it for the glory of their respective creators. Within these grand spaces, symbolism and iconography provide narratives of conquest, violence, glory, and fear. Stories of seemingly immortal men emerge from classical traditions of architecture and sculpture. Louis XIV and the presidents and war heroes of the United States have become god-heroes in bronze and stone, presiding over palatial grounds and public space as if …
Oceanside Transit Center Transit-Oriented Development (Otc Tod): Revisioning North San Diego's County Transit Hub, 2020 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Oceanside Transit Center Transit-Oriented Development (Otc Tod): Revisioning North San Diego's County Transit Hub, Chad Johnston
City and Regional Planning
Many California coastal communities lack a supply of housing, produce high levels of greenhouse gas emissions by daily auto commuters but have existing local and commuter rail stations with large fields of parking surrounding it. Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) integrates the building of housing, retail, office, and public space together focused around transit stations. This infill of development locates people within comfortable walking distance, usually within a quarter-mile, of a public trail transit station reducing automobile dependence for local trips or commuting for work.
The Oceanside Transit Center (OTC) is a major railway interchange, serving as a gateway to the San …
Making Commuting Satisfying For The Employees By Allocating Them To The Proximate Jobsite, 2020 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Making Commuting Satisfying For The Employees By Allocating Them To The Proximate Jobsite, Yoo H. Kim
Construction Management
Building a structure is a long process and it is the construction manager’s job to verify and be prepared for any curve balls that can occur. However, construction managers can often get busy and get carried away by their responsibilities and inevitably pay less attention for employee's life after work. For my Senior Project, I have put together a website that can be used by the construction managers to allocate work not only based the skillset but also based on proximity. The name of the website is ✦Proximate and it uses Google Earth Outreach (free tool) to make allocation possible. …
Moorish Revival Synagogue Architecture: Community And Style, Past And Present, 2020 Binghamton University
Moorish Revival Synagogue Architecture: Community And Style, Past And Present, Emily S. Jelen
Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal
The Moorish architectural style, originating in medieval Spain, was revived in the mid-nineteenth century. It became strongly linked with synagogues, first in Germany and then throughout the Western world. My research analyzes why the architects and Jewish communities were so attracted to the Moorish Revival style. During this period, European Jewish communities were tasked with constructing synagogues that could showcase their newfound freedoms as well as their history, culture and aspirations. Many argue that this style was chosen to demonstrate the connection between the communities and their ancient Middle Eastern history.
Applied Studies On Enhancing Public Open Spaces Of The Coastal Cities: The Case Of Tripoli City_ Urban Community Of Al-Fayhaa, 2020 PhD Student, Faculty of Architecture – Design and Built Environment, Beirut Arab University, Beirut, Lebanon
Applied Studies On Enhancing Public Open Spaces Of The Coastal Cities: The Case Of Tripoli City_ Urban Community Of Al-Fayhaa, Nehmat K. Karim
BAU Journal - Creative Sustainable Development
Over the past three decades there has been a tremendous transformation in cultural heritage, both in terms of practices and in the understanding of cultural heritage. These changes are very much connected to wider changes in the very nature of culture and reflect major social and political transformation. They are also very much evident in the re-shaping of public space in more inclusive ways for diverse histories and experiences (Gerard Delanty). Furthermore, having cultural features in the public spaces of the cities contributes in bringing communities together and strengthening the local economy as well. Thence, enhancing heritage and innovations in …
Comparison Between Nano-Hydroxyapatite And Cpp-Acpf In Remineralizing Early Carious Lesions (In Vitro Study), 2020 Post Graduate Resident, Division of Operative and Esthetics, Department of Restorative Science, Faculty of Dentistry, Beirut Arab University, Beirut, Lebanon
Comparison Between Nano-Hydroxyapatite And Cpp-Acpf In Remineralizing Early Carious Lesions (In Vitro Study), Raneem Saudi, Mohamed A. Ibrahim
BAU Journal - Creative Sustainable Development
Poor oral hygiene, bacteria and orthodontic appliances mainly lead to early demineralized lesions where early detection and diagnosis of the lesion is a must so that it can be assessed and cured with the least invasive treatment. The objective was to evaluate the effect of nano-hydroxyapatite (nano-HA) and casein phosphopeptide-amorphous calcium phosphate fluoride (CPP-ACPF) on early demineralized enamel using DIAGNOdent pen and energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX). Materials and methods: A total of 60 enamel specimens were divided into four groups (n=15), where Group A: experimental; treated with nano-HA tooth paste, Group B: self-control for group A, Group C: experimental; …
Methods Of Adaptive Reuse In Alexandria’S Buildings With Heritage Values, 2020 Assistant Professor, Architectural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Pharos University
Methods Of Adaptive Reuse In Alexandria’S Buildings With Heritage Values, Mina Nader Morkos
BAU Journal - Creative Sustainable Development
Due to the rapid progress in the digital technology, using 3D modelling and augmented reality in architecture, now we can transform, create qualitative and sustainable changes in the interior architecture of our architectural heritage, to achieve sustainable cities, this study of the interior architectural solutions developed between architectural heritage, digital registration processes, and parametric construction and fabrication systems. Also using of Information Systems in recording and documenting buildings and archaeological areas.
It helps in designing through computer systems “Virtual Reality” to determine methods of conservation and dealing with archaeological areas and buildings. Using information networks to exchange information globally and …
Creating A Web-Based Tool For Determining Drought Acknowledgments In State Plans, 2020 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Creating A Web-Based Tool For Determining Drought Acknowledgments In State Plans, Raeanna Hartsgrove
Community and Regional Planning Program: Professional Projects
Drought is a lingering and costly disaster and can cause billions of dollars of damage throughout the United States. Drought produces social, economic, and environmental impacts which makes it become a disaster. Due to the long-lasting and intense effects, drought research is needed to understand weather and climate more efficiently so that preparedness, mitigation, response recovery, and resilience is more effective. Policies that include drought mitigation are shown to reduce the likelihood that drought become disasters. The National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) has been working on a new web-based tool to identify which plans in a state address key aspects …
Innovator - Spring 2020, 2020 Thomas Jefferson University
Innovator - Spring 2020
Innovator
05 - Message from the President
08 - The Past is a Prologue
15 - Shrinking World/Expanding Horizons
16 - The Nexus: News at Jefferson
20 - Jefferson Hits the Runway at NYFW
22 - A Game Changer
26 - Binge Swatching
30 - Breaking Down the Walls
38 - Coming Full Circle
44 - Question and Innovate
46 - Designer Health
50 - The Site is the Star
54 - Transcend and Include
60 - Reimagine
64 - Ram Roundup
68 - Class Notes
74 - In Memory
78 - Triva
Innovator - Winter 2020, 2020 Thomas Jefferson University
Innovator - Winter 2020
Innovator
8 - A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
10 - WHAT’S HAPPENING AT JEFFERSON
16 - DEFINING THE FUTURE OF LEARNING AND WORK
How well are institutions of higher education preparing their graduates for the realities of work in the 21st century?
26 - IT’S IN OUR DNA
Innovative partnership leads to Jefferson Institute for Bioprocessing.
32 - JEFFERSON IS GLOBAL
Jefferson’s study away program provides life-changing experiences for students.
36 - PURSUING KNOWLEDGE AND IMPACT
Provost Mark L. Tykocinski, MD, explores the different research initiatives happening across Jefferson.
38 - LIVING THE DREAM
Jefferson grad orbits among the stars like …
Innovator - Winter 2010, 2020 Thomas Jefferson University
Innovator - Winter 2010
Innovator
2 - STEPPING FORWARD AS A NATIONAL MODEL
PhilaU takes a leadership role in green education
6 - 125 THINGS THAT MAKE PHILAU GREAT
Celebrating our 125th Anniversary
12 - PRESIDENT SPINELLI COMMENTARY
A Solid Foundation for the 21st Century
14 - NEW VISION FOR THE ACADEMY
A day in the life of Provost Randy Swearer
18 - STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
Developing the model for professional education in the 21st century
22 - PROFILES
24 - TRUSTEE UPDATE
26 - PHILAU NEWS
31 - AWARDS AND HONORS
32 - EMBRACING THE NEW WORLD OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
Faculty commentary by Michael A. …