Ellis County / Midlothian To Waxahachie Regional Trail Corridor Research,
2015
University of Texas at Arlington
Ellis County / Midlothian To Waxahachie Regional Trail Corridor Research, James Richards, Taner R. Özdil, Michael C. Walton, Nhasala Manandhar, Alexandra Tracz
Landscape Architecture Faculty Publications - Archive
The research project examines the alignment options and feasibility of constructing a regional shared-use path (trail) facility in Ellis County, Texas, linking the cities of Midlothian and Waxahachie and connecting to the larger Regional Veloweb (Dallas - Fort Worth's regional trail network) adopted by the Regional Transportation Council as part of the Metropolitan transportation plan. The project includes coordination with key stakeholders, examining existing conditions, community outreach, and preparation of alternative alignment options for public feedback. This report details the preliminary alternative alignments and the final recommended trail alignment for the regional shared-use path, a diagrammatic plan, and the extent …
Cfmd Research Journal 2015 Volume 4,
2015
University of Texas at Arlington
Cfmd Research Journal 2015 Volume 4, Center For Metropolitan Density, Michael P. Buckley, Taner R. Ozdil, Kevin Sloan
Center for Metropolitan Density Publications - Archive
The Center's research efforts focus on best practices to develop multi component urban projects, such as this Journal's article on Public Private Partnerships, and on Designed Open Space to create value. Our scenarios are feasibility-tested with market support and achievement of investment returns. For cities, these scenarios are also sound fiscal contributors of the long term, and more valuable investments with better economic efficiency and environmental sustainability.
Maya Construction History: Explorations Through Buildings Archaeology And Conservation,
2015
University of Texas at Arlington
Maya Construction History: Explorations Through Buildings Archaeology And Conservation, Leah M. Mccurdy
Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Publications - Archive
No abstract provided.
Universal Design Project St. Michael's House 1.,
2015
Technological University Dublin
Universal Design Project St. Michael's House 1., Andrea Deac, Jamie Lyons, Jennifer Mcauley, Jennifer Olakitan
Students Learning with Communities
No abstract provided.
Shtëpi Banimi Individuale Ekologjike,
2015
University for Business and Technology - UBT
Shtëpi Banimi Individuale Ekologjike, Arianit Rexhepi
Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Optimalizimi I Planit Dinamik Për Objektin 2b+P+6 Në Prizren Duke Shfrytëzuar Planin Dinamik Të Fuqisë Punëtore - Histogramin,
2015
University for Business and Technology - UBT
Optimalizimi I Planit Dinamik Për Objektin 2b+P+6 Në Prizren Duke Shfrytëzuar Planin Dinamik Të Fuqisë Punëtore - Histogramin, Egzona Morina-Thaqi
Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Procedural Modeling For Ancient Maya Cityscapes: Initial Methodological Challenges And Solutions,
2015
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Procedural Modeling For Ancient Maya Cityscapes: Initial Methodological Challenges And Solutions, Heather Richards-Rissetto, Rachel Plessing
Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications
Digital reconstruction of 3D cityscapes is expensive, time-consuming, and requires significant expertise. We need a 3D modeling approach that streamlines the integration of multiple data types in a time-efficient and low-cost manner. Procedural modeling—rapid proto-typing of 3D models from a set of rules— offers a potential solution to this problem because it allows scholars to create digital reconstructions that can be quickly updated and used to test and formulate alternative hypotheses that are derived from and linked to underlying archaeological data. While procedural modeling is being used to visualize ancient Roman, Etruscan, and Greek cities, in the Maya region the …
Accounting For The Short Term Substitution Effects Of
Walking And Cycling In Sustainable Transportation,
2015
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Accounting For The Short Term Substitution Effects Of Walking And Cycling In Sustainable Transportation, Daniel P. Piatkowski, Kevin J. Krizek, Susan L. Handy
Community and Regional Planning Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity
The environmental benefits of bicycling and walking depend on the degree to which their use substitutes for car driving. Assuming that every walking and bicycling trip replaces a driving trip is likely to produce overestimates of the potential for such modes to reduce vehicle travel and city-scale greenhouse gas emissions. Measuring this ‘‘substitution effect’’ is not straightforward. There are many dimensions of the substitution effect, including trip type, substituting mode, extent, time horizon, and activity patterns. Previously used approaches to measure substitution include indirect inference and direct questioning. This study piloted an intercept survey using the direct questioning approach at …
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.
