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Static! The Aesthetics Of Energy In Everyday Things, S Backlund, M Gyllenswärd, A Gustafsson, S Ilstedt Hjelm, R Mazé, J Redström

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Static! is a project investigating interaction and product design as a way of increasing our awareness of how energy is used in everyday life. Revisiting the design of everyday things with focus on issues related to energy use, we have developed a palette of design examples in the form of prototypes, conceptual design proposals and use scenarios, to be used as a basis for communication and discussion with users and designers. With respect to design research and practice, the aim has been to develop a more profound understanding of energy as material in design, including its expressive and aesthetic potential, …

Contemporary Design In China: The Road To Modernity And Commercialization, W. S. Wong

DRS Biennial Conference Series

“China's rising! The sleeping dragon is waking up!” It is common to see these kinds of headlines in the Western media about the recent development of People’s Republic of China. In the foreseeable future, China is expected to become one of the world’s biggest economic players. There is growing interest in the West about China’s economic boom. The government, private sector and individuals have been revisiting “design” (or Sheji in Chinese), and beginning to recognize its importance from product positioning to marketing promotion, rather than an evil ideology for Communism. This paper addresses the development of modern design and design …

A Preliminary Study Of Learnable Pictogram Languages, Ting-Ju Lin, Michael A R Biggs

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Pictogram languages that are based on a non-phonetic idea were the earliest symbols such as Cuneiform and Chinese in oracle-bone (Rogers, 20005). In the other words, pictogram languages have existed ever since the Egyptian hieroglyphs around 3000BC and Chinese Oracle-bone scripts from about 1400 to 1200 BC (Robinson, 1995). The two writing systems are composed of pictograms, and most parts of them are also based on non-phonetics. Users of hieroglyphs and Chinese Oracle-bone scripts had to learn the symbols which resembled the meanings and natural object they represented. This article suggests that non-phonetic pictogram languages are learnable with examples, like: …

Design Games Reinstalling The Designer In Collaborative Design, M Johansson

DRS Biennial Conference Series

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Referencing The Sociocultural During Designing, Mk Strickfaden, P Rodgers, P Langdon

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The development of an artefact is inherently bound up with meanings, relationships, and value systems relative to the individuals creating them, and to the context of their immediate and external environments. This paper begins to explore the sociocultural affects on the design process through two field studies within two industrial design education studios. Two separate design groups and projects are followed for extended periods of time in order to collect naturally occurring ‘references’. These are analyzed revealing central themes and categories that are presented here as indicators of the varying context of artefact design. In doing so, a model called …

The Evolution Of The Mars Daisy, A Woodcock, J Burns, E Gaura, R.M. Newman, S Mount

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The paper traces the evolution of the Mars Daisy animation; a visualisation developed to initiate collaboration between two groups within the university, enhance communication and understanding within the Cogent Computing Group, publicise an expanding, difficult area of research and enrich the learning experiences of students.

Research Through Design Through Research - A Problem Statement And A Conceptual Sketch, Jonas Wolfgang

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper re-addresses the issue of a lacking genuine design research paradigm. It tries to sketch an operational model of such a paradigm, based upon a generic design process model, which is derived from basic notions of evolution and learning in different domains of knowing (and turns out to be not very different from existing ones). It does not abandon the scientific paradigm but concludes that the latter has to be embedded into / subordinated under a design paradigm.

Are We Designing Female Audiences? The Case Of Beme.Com A Women’S Commercial Online Portal, N M Sadowska

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Feminist critique of design practice has drawn attention to continuing problems women have as design practitioners and design consumers. A case study analysis of BEME.com, a commercial online portal design for female Internet users, offers an opportunity to address some of the issues such a critique raises. Notwithstanding that Internet technology and design offer new means of communicating with women, a feminist critique highlights that particularly within a commercial context there is an unwillingness within design practice to problematise its participation in the processes that embody gendered meanings. Instead, gender frequently features as part of design practitioners’ creative toolkit when …

A New Look At Design Thinking: Research In Progress, Rob Cowdroy, Michael Ostwald, Anthony Williams

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper reports on work in progress in a programme of highly innovative cross-disciplinary collaborative research into design thinking. This research programme departs from current reductivist theoretical approaches to design including computational and neuroscience models; instead the programme uses empirical methods from behavioural and cognitive psychology, social anthropology and neuropsychology to study elite designers at work. Designers are usually characterised as creative individuals who work alone and autonomously, and design education is almost universally oriented accordingly. In practice, however, designers also typically work in two other key environments: in design teams and in interaction with computers in CAD environments. Pilot …

2006 Global F'Inancial Market Overvew & Compensation Report, Options Group

Documents

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Climate Change And Adaptation In South West Western Australia, State Greenhouse Action Committee, Luke Morgan

Bulletins 4000 -

Phase One of Action 5.5, State Greenhouse Strateg.

A report to the Western Australian Government and Australian Greenhouse Office

Community, industry and government views on past and future climate change for South West Western Australia

Module 4: Effects Of Climate Change - Project: Training Educators For The Development Of Educational Activities On Climate Change, Miguel Fernández F., Iris Guzmán O., Tania Vázquez V., Ana María Michel V., Gladys Rojas P., Noelia Cerruto T., Juan Carlos Parra B., Marcelo Torrez S.

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This document provides information and detailed descriptions of the effects that climate change has the humans and natural phenomena.

Module 2: Graphs And Images From The Energética Curriculum, Miguel Fernández F., Iris Guzmán O., Tania Vázquez V., Ana María Michel V., Gladys Rojas P., Noelia Cerruto T., Juan Carlos Parra B., Marcelo Torrez S.

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This is a PDF of the images and graphs (excluding photos) from Module 2 of the Bolivian national ENERGÉTICA Curriculum on climate change, titled ""Efecto Invernadero"" / ""Greenhouse Gas Effect"", which can be used as supplementary materials for classrooms.

Carbon Dioxide And Climate Changes, Gregorio Marbán, Ana Arenillas, Ángeles Gómez Borrego, Teresa Valdés-Solís Iglesias, Marta Álvarez Rodríguez, Jesús M. Arrieta López De Uralde, Alexandra Coello Camba, Carlos M. Duarte Quesada, Neus Garcías Bonet, Núria Marbà Bordalba, Aurore Regaudie De Gioux, Sergio Ruiz Halpern, María Sánchez Camacho, Raquel Vaquer Suñer, Roberto Martínez Orio, Isabel Suárez Díaz, Ignacio Cruz Cruz, Diego Martínez Plaza, Fernanda Sánchez Ojanguren

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This short guide is divided into four sections. Each one provides an explanation of climate change and how it affects the following: ecosystems; our role as global citizens; our daily habits; the problems associated with the current energy sector; possible clean energy alternatives; and the challenge of transportation.

Health Care Law, Michael C. Guanzon

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

Grazing Management Effects On Sediment And Phosphorus In Surface Runoff, Matthew M. Haan, James R. Russell, Wendy J. Powers, John L. Kovar, Jamie L. Benning

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Sediment and phosphorus (P) in runoff from pastures are potential non–point-source pollutants in surface waters that may be influenced by surface cover, sward height, treading damage, surface slope, soil moisture, and soil P. The objectives of the current study were to quantify sediment and total P loads in runoff produced during simulated rainfall from pastures and to evaluate their relationships with the physical and chemical characteristics of the soil and sward. Five forage management treatments— ungrazed (U), hay harvest/fall stockpile grazing (HS), continuous stocking to a sward height of 5 cm (5C), and rotational stocking to sward heights of 5 …

Convergence Of Agriculture And Energy: Implications For Research And Policy, Kenneth Cassman, Vernon Eidman, Eugene Simpson, Larry Berger, Robert Loomis, Marie Walsh, Todd A. Peterson, Edward Runge

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Access to an adequate energy supply at reasonable cost is crucial for sustained economic growth. Unfortunately, oil prices and the need to import from politically unstable countries lowers the reliability of the U.S. energy supply and hinders economic development. Although biofuels have been identified as an important component of the national strategy to decrease U.S. dependence on imported oil, the ability to sustain a rapid expansion of biofuel production capacity raises new research and policy issues. This document seeks to identify the most critical of these issues to help inform the policy development process. The goal is to enhance the …

Systems Thinking And Counterinsurgencies, Jim Baker

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

The Limits Of Training In Iraqi Force Development, Gary Felicetti

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Parameters Editors

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Taking The Sting Out Of Reporting Requirements: Reproductive Health Clinics And The Constitutional Right To Informational Privacy, Jessica Ansley Bodger

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Punishment, Prisons, And The Bible: Does "Old Testament Justice" Justify Our Retributive Culture?, Martin H. Pritikin

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Student Life, November 01, 2006

Student Life Newspapers

November 01, 2006 issue of Student Life, the independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since 1878. 2006-2007 academic year. Permanent URL: https://doi.org/10.7936/K7PN94QG

Table Of Contents (V. 48, No. 2)

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Review Of El Tren Pasa Primero, By Elena Poniatowska, Traci Roberts-Camps

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 31, November 1, 2006

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

Iran, Iraq, And The United States: The New Triangle's Impact On Sectarianism And The Nuclear Threat, Sherifa D. Zuhur Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

This monograph considers the issues of Iranian influence in Iraq, and its impact on continuing sectarian violence there. It also questions the claims that a Shi'a crescent of power is solidifying by examining the distinct features of Iraqi versus Iranian Shi'ism and political Islam. Iran and Iraq have historically influenced and threatened each other. Today, the situation has been further complicated by the post-2003 change in the Iraqi Shi'a community’s status, Iran's development of a nuclear program, and international efforts to contain that program. These issues are now influenced by a new pattern of Iraqi-Iranian, U.S.-Iraqi and Iranian-U.S. dynamics. This …

Russian Defense Reform: Current Trends, Irina Isakova Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the topic of Russian defense policy has not received great attention. The rebuilding of Russian military strength is a high priority of President Vladimir Putin, and one to which he and his subordinates have devoted considerable time and resources. Therefore, inattention to Russian defense policy is unwise and even dangerous because it causes us to overlook potentially major changes not only in Russian policy, but in international affairs more generally. This monograph encompasses virtually all aspects of the reform of the forces, their organizational structure, the financing of the military, reform of the …

Russia, Iran, And The Nuclear Question: The Putin Record, Robert O. Freedman Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The author analyzes the Russo-Iranian relationship through the spring of 2006. This issue is vitally important in U.S. foreign policy, not just as it relates to Iran and the overall issue of nonproliferation, especially in the Middle East, but also as U.S. foreign policy pertains to relations with Moscow. Thus this monograph should also be read in light of the current crisis with Iran and bearing in mind the dimensions of Iranian proliferation and the issues surrounding it. At the same time, the numerous challenges to regional security in the Middle East, and the addition of great power rivalry to …

Developing Institutional Faculty Communities To Review And Assess Sotl Work, Paul Savory, Amy Nelson Burnett, Amy M. Goodburn

Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

This workshop explores theoretical questions and practical strategies for how to develop faculty peer reviewers for SOTL work. After reading a set of faculty case-study files that include varying forms of SOTL work, participants will engage in guided discussion about reviewing and assessing such work and about developing faculty communities equipped to do such work. Presenter(s) also will seek feedback on guidelines that they have developed for external reviewers of SOTL work. Many teaching efforts have focused primarily on engaging faculty to participate in SOTL initiatives, with little attention to creating mechanisms for evaluating and assessing the work resulting from …