Evaluating The Vegetation Recovery In The Damage Area Of
Wenchuan Earthquake Using Modis Data,
2015
Beijing Normal University
Evaluating The Vegetation Recovery In The Damage Area Of Wenchuan Earthquake Using Modis Data, Wei-Guo Jiang, Kai Jia, Jian-Jun Wu, Zhenghong Tang, Wen-Jie Wang, Xiao-Fu Liu
Community and Regional Planning Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity
The catastrophic 8.0 Richter magnitude earthquake that occurred on 12 May 2008 in Wenchuan, China caused extensive damage to vegetation due to widespread landslides and debris flows. In the past five years, the Chinese government has implemented a series of measures to restore the vegetation in the severely afflicted area. How is the vegetation recovering? It is necessary and important to evaluate the vegetation recovery effect in earthquake-stricken areas. Based on MODIS NDVI data from 2005 to 2013, the vegetation damage area was extracted by the quantified threshold detection method. The vegetation recovery rate after five years following the earthquake …
Ventilation Rates And Airflow Pathways In Patient Rooms:
A Case Study Of Bioaerosol Containment And Removal,
2015
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Ventilation Rates And Airflow Pathways In Patient Rooms: A Case Study Of Bioaerosol Containment And Removal, Ehsan S. Mousavi, Kevin R. Grosskopf
Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications
Most studies on the transmission of infectious airborne disease have focused on patient room air changes per hour (ACH) and how ACH provides pathogen dilution and removal. The logical but mostly unproven premise is that greater air change rates reduce the concentration of infectious particles and thus, the probability of airborne disease transmission. Recently, a growing body of research suggests pathways between pathogenic source (patient) and control (exhaust) may be the dominant environmental factor. While increases in airborne disease transmission have been associated with ventilation rates below 2 ACH, comparatively less data are available to quantify the benefits of higher …
Adaptive Predictive Functional
Controller,
2015
Sidney, OH
Adaptive Predictive Functional Controller, Fadi Alsaleem, Arvind Rao
Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications
A controller device and a method for controlling a system that utilizes an adaptive mechanism to self-learn the system char acteristics and incorporates this adaptive self-learning ability to predict a control parameter correctly to provide precise control of a system component.
An Adaptive Photovoltaic Topology To Overcome
Shading Effect In Pv Systems,
2015
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
An Adaptive Photovoltaic Topology To Overcome Shading Effect In Pv Systems, Mohamed Amer Chaaban, Lana El Chaar, Mahmoud Alahmad
Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications
Shading in photovoltaic systems can cause many undesired effects.When shading occurs, the power generated from the PV system is much less than nominal power, increasing the electrical mismatching losses between PV system components. Active research to address this power loss focuses on static and adaptive systems.This paper addresses an adaptive system solution and proposes a new method to adaptively overcome losses due to shading during low radiation conditions. In addition, a statistical analysis for choosing the most feasible and efficient configuration for the system size is presented. The proposed system has been validated under shade conditions in a simulation and …
Building Envelope And Interior
Grading Systems And Methods,
2015
Troy, OH
Building Envelope And Interior Grading Systems And Methods, Fadi Mohammad Alsaleem
Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications
A difference module determines differences between an out door ambient temperature and an indoor temperature, deter mines a first average of the differences, and determines a second average of the differences. A storing module stores a first data point, the first data point including the first average and a first total run time of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system, and stores a second data point, the second data point including the second average and a second total run time of the HVAC system. A fitting module fits a line to the first and second data points. An …
The Richmond Maker Museum: The Evolution Of Process,
2015
Virginia Commonwealth University
The Richmond Maker Museum: The Evolution Of Process, Erin E. Casey
Theses and Dissertations
The Richmond Maker Museum is a working museum design, offering an inside look at past achievements, juxtaposed with the unlimited future possibilities of an evolving, active maker culture. It is a dynamic place designed to allow makers to showcase skills, take risks, engage the public, and grow their craft in real time. The museum displays finished pieces, introduces makers, demonstrates the processes they employ in their work, and invites the community to meet the artisans who, through skill, ingenuity, and hard work, make the artifacts on display. This type of educational museum experience does not currently exist on this scale …
Plotinus And The Artistic Imagination,
2015
Roger Williams University
Plotinus And The Artistic Imagination, John Shannon Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
In the thought of Plotinus, the imagination is responsible for the apprehension of the activity of Intellect. If creativity in the arts involves an exercise of the imagination, the image-making power that links sense perception to noetic thought and the nous poietikos, the poetic or creative intellect, then the arts exercise the apprehension of intellectual activity. According to John Dillon in “Plotinus and the Transcendental Imagination,” Plotinus’ conception of the imagination led to the formulation of the imagination as a basis of artistic creativity. In Plotinus, imagination operates on several different levels: it produces images in sense perception, it …
Tropic Architecture,
2015
Roger Williams University
Tropic Architecture, John Shannon Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
Mannerist architects in the Cinquecento created what can be called “tropic architecture.” They set out to break the rules of classical architecture, but the rule-breaking was done systematically, by applying rhetorical tropes, or figures of speech, to architectural composition, the four most common being metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. According to Paul Oskar Kristeller, rhetoric was an important basis of Renaissance humanism. Students learned tropes and other figures of speech from well-circulated classical texts such as the Rhetorica ad Herennium and Quintilian’s Institutio oratorio. Examples of tropic devices can be found in works such as Giulio Romano’s Palazzo del …
Ua1c2/42 Information Center Photos,
2015
Western Kentucky University
Ua1c2/42 Information Center Photos, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Images of the Information Center.
Ua1c2/81 Career Planning & Placement Building Photos,
2015
Western Kentucky University
Ua1c2/81 Career Planning & Placement Building Photos, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Images of the Career Planning & Placement building.
Ua11/3 Public Affairs Building & Construction File,
2015
Western Kentucky University
Ua11/3 Public Affairs Building & Construction File, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records regarding campus buildings and construction projects used for writing press releases. Includes construction information sheets, press releases and clippings from newspapers around the state.
Ua3/8/1 President's Office-Meredith Correspondence / Subject File,
2015
Western Kentucky University
Ua3/8/1 President's Office-Meredith Correspondence / Subject File, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Correspondence and subject files created by the President's Office during Thomas Meredith's tenure as president of WKU.
Section 106 Review Process For The Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy Corktown Revitalization Project,
2015
Eastern Michigan University
Section 106 Review Process For The Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy Corktown Revitalization Project, Sam Constantine
Historic Preservation Final Projects
No abstract provided.
46.59 N, 16.45 E,
2015
Virginia Commonwealth University
46.59 N, 16.45 E, Rachel Elder
AUCTUS: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Whose Urban Forest? The Political Ecology Of Foraging Urban Nontimber Forest Products,
2015
Ursinus College
Whose Urban Forest? The Political Ecology Of Foraging Urban Nontimber Forest Products, Patrick T. Hurley, Marla R. Emery, Rebecca J. Mclain, Melissa R. Poe, Brain Grabbatin, Cari L. Goetcheus
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
Drawing on case studies of foraging in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, we point to foraging landscapes and practices within diverse urban forest spaces. We examine these spaces in relation to U.S. conservation and development processes and the effects of management and governance on species valued by foragers. These case studies reveal the everyday landscapes of urban foraging and suggest that ideas about what constitutes the suite of appropriate human-environment interactions in the sustainable city are contested and accommodated in diverse ways.
Making Thought Matter : Postmodern Models For Material Thinking,
2015
University at Albany, State University of New York
Making Thought Matter : Postmodern Models For Material Thinking, James Kenneth Belflower
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Making Thought Matter: Postmodern Models for Material Thinking, crosses disciplines to trace the aesthetic contexts of Postmodern American artists whose work employs the senses to make legible creative and critical modes of synthesis. I contend that in practicing a material thinking—the artistic mobilization of the intimate and affective qualities of conceptual and physical surfaces—these artists reinsert perceptual knowledge and bodily agency into Postmodernism’s “emptied” surfaces. Consequently, their work opposes late theorists of Postmodernity who characterized contemporary artistic forms as immaterial, abstract, and emotionally deficient. To assess contemporary syntheses I develop Philip Johnson’s late International Style Glass House into an analogy …
Rapid Urbanization And The Informational Metacity In China,
2015
Chulalongkorn University
Rapid Urbanization And The Informational Metacity In China, David Grahame Shane
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
An informational revolution created a new awareness of recent rapid global urbanization, with China providing a clear case study. Big data and global statistics created a governmental model ofan informational Metacity exemplified by China's Shanghai Expo, but this model has unintended consequences. Some consequences such as mass tourism are global in character with Chinese characteristics. Others such as the conversion of old factory Danwei and urban villages are local and specifically Chinese. The scale and speed of China's urbanization and the Shanghai Expo provides a special laboratory for the study of the development of multi-scalar and mixed-use in a context …
Smart City: A Case Of Seoul,
2015
Chulalongkorn University
Smart City: A Case Of Seoul, Myounggu Kang
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
Smart City is a city that efficiently and effectively solves its challenges in advancing the quality of life and work of its citizens by adequately making use of the best available technologies, which are mainlyinfrastructure technology in the early stages of urbanization and information technology for everyday use. In addition, it is also argued that a city requires not only technology but also new regulations to become a smart city. With new technology and rules Smart City successfully achieves prosperity and sustainability. This paper briefly reviews what defines a smart city and discusses the case of Seoul.This paper discusses two …
Urban Spatial Development To Mitigate Urban Heat Island Effectin The Inner Area Of Bangkok,
2015
Chulalongkorn University
Urban Spatial Development To Mitigate Urban Heat Island Effectin The Inner Area Of Bangkok, Jittisak Thammapornpilas
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
An urban heat island is one of the factors that cause a climate change to become more critical. Bangkok is one of the mega cities in the world in which urban areas have been affected by the urban heatisland, especially the inner area of Bangkok and its CBD. The survey data from a satellite confirmed the hypothesis of the affected area in the inner zone of Bangkok. From the study it has been found that the urban heat island problem in the urban area of Bangkok was developed by the augmentation of its physical surroundings of all the man-made construction. …
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2015
Chulalongkorn University
.Flt.Cn, Timothy Jachna
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
This paper presents a near-future scenario for urban China, derived through application of scenario planning techniques to extrapolate components of a possible urban future, based on analysis ofrecent and current digitally-mediated urban spatial practice in Chinese cities. The scenario provides a framework for exploring the interplay of top-down modes of control and bottom-up "performance" in the digital city; the co-forming relationship between urban spatial practices and the appropriation of digital communications networks for social and spatial experimentation; and the culturally and socially conditioned roles that digital technologies play in the formation and evolution of urban morphology and urban societies.
