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Perception Of Space In Topological Forms, Dincer Savaskan

Architecture Thesis Prep

"With recent development of computer technologies there has been change in our notion of materiality. We can define our age as flow of information and architecture capture this flow and creates more complex conceptions and interactions through the space. Recent researches on materialism, typological forms, field gradients and diagramming define a new methodology in design approach, which can respond the dynamism and flow. However architectural form is still inseparable from the way we experience the world, which involves our senses and perceptions. It is possible to adopt cinematic techniques of collage and sequencing in computer-generated forms to create continuous references …

Fashioning The Unfashionable: An Architecture Of Waste, Alyson Canal

Architecture Thesis Prep

"It is evident that there exists a connection between architecture and fashion,

and more significantly fashion and waste. Fashioning a material recovery

facility through exhibition space, art, and social interaction will

bring infrastructure back into the designed environment while maintaining

an industrial identity that the site demands. Designing an architecture of

waste through the cultural ideologies of fashion facilitates collectivity and

public engagement."

Residential Square In The 21st Century: Applying A Typology To Create A New Urban Morphology, Elizabeth Whittington

Architecture Thesis Prep

"As a low-rise high-density mixed-use typology, the reconsideration of the residential square can provide a new urban morphology that densifies residential zones, while providing safe public spaces. In addition, I assert that through its combination of juxtaposed functional uses, unit typology the language of the façade, the historical European residential square, can articulate the identity of residents."

Distributed Workplace For Facebook. Inc: A New Office Typology For The 21st Century Workstyle, Haotian Liu

Architecture Thesis Prep

No abstract provided.

School As Community Center: Redefining The Relationship Between The Community And The School In Minsk, Belarus, Kate Talkachova

Architecture Thesis Prep

"A society that values education should place emphasis on the facilities and incorporate in them the values and progress, not blindly stick to the traditional. For a country fighting to regain its identity, it is important that the divisions between the neighborhoods are blurred and a sense of a whole is created. With the school as community center, education remains the central focus, as well as provides the necessary link to the surrounding neighborhoods, becoming more than just a physical center, but an activity center as well."

Sourcing Scarcity, Muneerah Alrabe

Architecture Thesis Prep

"Water is an essential element to human development and urban vitality. As a response to future oil depletion in cities, a new appearance of water emerges in cities: Hydro-urbanism. Through rethinking the potential of water infrastructure in cities, HydroUrbanism situates itself as a spectacular functional event that aims to collect, purify, store, and generate energy within a city. The project reconsiders the production process of water on the periphery of the city and hypothesizes for an integrated process of the production of water to work within the city at an urban scale. Exposing the water infrastructure, fantasizing water, and re-connecting …

Rurality Within The City: A Study Of The Interrelationship Between Urban And Rural Areas, Suho Lee

Architecture Thesis Prep

"My project proposal is to produce a new type of contemporary self-sufficient architectural place to deal not only with the economic and education issues that the rurals are lacking in but also with environmental and unemployment issues that the big cities are lacking in. While it is important to retain the countryside feel in the current suburbs, some issues to improve on for the new city area are to cater towards a younger generation’s needs. As opposed to those who are retired and are looking for a quiet place to settle down for the rest of their life in the …

The Calculus Of Accommodation: Contraception, Abortion, Same-Sex Marriage, And Other Clashes Between Religion And The State, Robin F. Wilson

Scholarly Articles

This Article considers a burning issue in society today— whether, and under what circumstances, religious groups and individuals should be exempted from the dictates of civil law. The “political maelstrom” over the Obama administration’s sterilization and contraceptive coverage mandate is just one of many clashes between religion and the state. Religious groups and individuals have also sought religious exemptions to the duty to assist with abortions or facilitate samesex marriages. In all these contexts, religious objectors claim a special right of entitlement to follow their religious tenets, in the face of equally compelling claims that religious accommodations threaten access and …

Health Law Outlook - Volume 6, Issue 1 (Fall 2012)

Health Law Outlook (archive)

Inside this issue:

• Multi Drug-Resistant TB and Extensive Drug-Resistant TB: Regulating the Growing Crisis, Phil DeFedele
• From School to the 'Real World': Transition Rights for Students with Special Needs, Kristine Kodytek
• Government Tokophobia: Unjustly Denying Pregnant Women Access to Research, Joel Silver
• Criminalizing Prenatal Substance Abuse: Hurting Women and Their Unborn Children, Sara Smith
• Everyone Wants a Piece of Me: The Evolution of Biospecimen Research and the Regulatory World's Attempt to Keep Up, Isabel Heine
• Complications of Globalization: FDA Cracks Down on Fraud in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Clarissa Gomez
• Medical Malpractice Apology Law: "Don't …

Dipl 6129 Preventing Humanitarian Crisis, Li-Wen Zhang Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

The term "humanitarian crisis" is understood to mean any situation in which there is an exceptional and widespread threat to human life, health or subsistence. In such humanitarian crisis people are killed, or suffer from violence, displacement, hunger and disease.

With the increase in intrastate conflict, the growth of international civil society, the increased recognition of human rights, and the growing appreciation of global interconnectivity and the responsibility of governments to their citizens, states are facing a pressure to protect the civilians in countries other than their own.

At the 2005 World Summit, the world's leaders committed themselves to the …

Profiles Of Academic Majors - 2012 Revised, Governors State University

Profiles of Academic Majors

The Profiles of Academic Majors (PAM) provides a ten-year longitudinal snapshot of selected enrollment (e.g., headcounts) and demographic (e.g., age) statistics arranged by fall term, fiscal year, or academic year as appropriate

Profiles Of Academic Majors - 2012, Governors State University

Profiles of Academic Majors

The Profiles of Academic Majors (PAM) provides a ten-year longitudinal snapshot of selected enrollment (e.g., headcounts) and demographic (e.g., age) statistics arranged by fall term, fiscal year, or academic year as appropriate

Epidemiology Of Tuberculosis In Ohio, Usha Bala Vayuvegula

Master of Public Health Program Student Publications

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a global infectious disease often associated with HIV. Study of the distribution and epidemiologic trends may help target prevention and control measures towards high risk areas and groups.

Objective: To determine TB trends in four counties in Ohio, i.e. Franklin, Cuyahoga, Hamilton and Montgomery counties, and to explore differences in distribution of cases across gender, age groups and races.

Methods: TB surveillance data was collected from the Ohio Department of Health website for 12 years (1999-2011). Mean TB rates across gender were compared using the two sample t-test. One way ANOVA was used to compare means …

Jaqueline Eng, Margaret Von Steinen

International Faculty Researchers

Evidence of what might be an ancient funerary defleshing ritual found in human-made caves in the Upper Mustang region of Nepal has been discovered by WMU bio-archaeologist Dr. Jacqueline Eng as a member of a research team that is funded in part by the National Geographic Society.

Jaqueline Eng's website

Voices Raised, Issue 37, University Of Dayton. Women's Center

Women’s Center Newsletter

Included in this issue: Title IX: Liberty and Justice for All; Inspirational Idol Barbara Palmer; Magical Mentoring; Kickin’ it with Kristen Altenau; Give Me Your Hand; Vegetarian Society of Greater Dayton; Songs to Signs; Me, Homesick?; Political Prominence of Women; Dimensions of Wellness.

Extensive And Prolonged Restoration Of Dystrophin Expression With Vivo-Morpholino-Mediated Multiple Exon Skipping In Dystrophic Dogs, Toshifumi Yokota, Akinori Nakamura, Tetsuya Nagata, Takashi Saito, Masanori Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu Aoki, Yusuke Echigoya, Terence A. Partridge, Eric P. Hoffman, Shinichi Takeda

Genomics and Precision Medicine Faculty Publications

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe and the most prevalent form of muscular dystrophy, characterized by rapid progression of muscle degeneration. Antisense-mediated exon skipping is currently one of the most promising therapeutic options for DMD. However, unmodified antisense oligos such as morpholinos require frequent (weekly or bi-weekly) injections. Recently, new generation morpholinos such as vivo-morpholinos are reported to lead to extensive and prolonged dystrophin expression in the dystrophic mdx mouse, an animal model of DMD. The vivo-morpholino contains a cell-penetrating moiety, octa-guanidine dendrimer. Here, we sought to test the efficacy of multiple exon skipping of exons 6–8 with vivo-morpholinos …

Eon, Vol. 01, No. 01, University Of Dayton. Electro-Optics And Photonics Program

Electro-Optics Newsletter

Fall 2012

News and notes from the University of Dayton Electro-Optics Graduate Program.

Faculty Scholarship Showcase 2008-2012, Saint Mary's College Of California

Saint Mary's Scholarship Reports

No abstract provided.

Faculty Scholarship Bibliography 2008-2012, Saint Mary's College Of California

Saint Mary's Scholarship Reports

No abstract provided.

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 1, 2012), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Research Developments (No. 28) -- Summer 2012-2013 (Complete Issue)

Research Developments

Table of contents for this issue: (a) The 'digital natives' and ICT literacy; (b)Reading in online environments; (c) Digital assessments of early learning; (d) School improvement.

Developmental Time, Longevity, And Lifetime Fertility Of Three Introduced Parasitoids Of The Mealybug Paracoccus Marginatus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), Kaushalya G. Amarasekare, Catharine M. Mannion, Nancy D. Epsky

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

Developmental time, longevity, and lifetime fertility of three previously introduced parasitoids (Acerophagus papayae Noyes and Schauff, Anagyrus loecki Noyes and Menezes, and Pseudleptomastix mexicana Noyes and Schauff) (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) of the mealybug Paracoccus marginatus Williams and Granara de Willink (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) were studied in the laboratory to understand the outcome of their recovery in field studies conducted in the United States. The developmental time of both male and female A. papayae and A. loecki was shorter than the developmental time of male and female P. mexicana. Male parasitoids of all three species had a shorter developmental time than …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 037, Number 06, October 1, 2012, Grand Valley State University

2012-2013, Volume 37

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

"They Are Destroying Our Futures": Sexual Violence Against Girls In Zambia's Schools, Women And Law In Southern Africa Trust-Zambia, Cornell Law School. Avon Global Center For Women And Justice, Cornell Law School. International Human Rights Clinic

Avon Global Center for Women and Justice and Dorothea S. Clarke Program in Feminist Jurisprudence

This report examines the problem of sexual violence against girls in Zambian schools. In Zambia, many girls are raped, sexually abused, harassed, and assaulted by teachers and male classmates. They are also subjected to sexual harassment and attack while travelling to and from school. Such abuse is a devastating and often overlooked manifestation of the gender-based violence that occurs in numerous settings in Zambia and other countries throughout the world.

This report explores these issues from an international human rights perspective, drawing upon extensive desk research and interviews with 105 schoolgirls and many other stakeholders in Zambia’s Lusaka Province. The …

Vol. 88, No. 1 | Fall 2012, Bridgewater College

Bridgewater Magazine

No abstract provided.

Between The Columns Newsletter: Fall 2012, Eastern Kentucky University Libraries

Between the Columns Newsletter

Table of Contents

• Friends of EKU Libraries to Feature Silas House: an Evening with an Appalachian Son (p. 1)
• Message from the Dean: Exciting Progress, New Vision (p. 2)
• The Eastern Progress: Historic Issues Going Digital (p. 3)
• EKU Libraries Calendar of Events (p. 3)
• EKU Libraries Enhance Online Learning (p. 4)
• Explore New Online Resources (p. 5)
• A Civil War Story: Private William Waste (p. 6)
• Student Stars in the Noel Studio (p. 7)
• Library Babies (p. 7)
• A Fond Farewell: Freer and Warren retire after a combined 60 years of service (p. 8)

Report Of Tennessee Births 2011, Tennessee. Department Of Health, Division Of Health Statistics

Tennessee Births

Report of Tennessee Births 2011 provides information on final birth data for state residents. Resident data include events that occurred to residents of Tennessee irrespective of where the events took place. Birth certificates filed with the Tennessee Department of Health, Office of Vital Records supplied the data for this report.

The Loop (Fall 2012), Taylor University

The Loop (2012-2017)

The Fall 2012 edition of Taylor University’s The Loop.

Environmental Law At Maryland, No. 34, Fall 2012

Environmental Law at Maryland

No abstract provided.

Business Law Bulletin, Fall 2012

Business Law Bulletin

No abstract provided.