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Occurrence Of Antibiotics And Antibiotic Resistance Genes In Soils Fromwastewater Irrigation Areas In The Pearl River Delta Region, Southernchina, Livia Min Pan, L.M. Chu

Faculty of Design & Environment (THEi)

The occurrence and distribution of tetracycline (TC) and sulfamethazine (SMZ), and the corresponding antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) were investigated in six agricultural sites in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region in southern China. Irrigation water and irrigated soils at two different depths (0-10 and 10-20cm) were analyzed. The total concentrations of TC and SMZ in irrigation water ranged from 69.3 to 234ng/L and from 4.00 to 58.2ng/L, respectively, while the total concentrations of TC and SMZ in irrigated soils ranged from 5.00 to 21.9μg/kg and from 1.30 to 4.20μg/kg, respectively. After long-term irrigation with domestic and fishpond wastewater in the …

Tanzania Polytechnic College Administration Building Master Plan 2018, Thomas Fowler, Iv

Architecture

The work in this publication is a summary of ongoing work that started in 2014, when architecture and architectural engineering students starting developing the master plan for the proposed Polytechnic University in Samé, Tanzania, Africa,working directly with ARUP’s David Lambert and the MBESESE Initiative. Since this time we have had 60 plus graduate and undergraduate students who have provided research and design input into the development of this project.

This work from 2014 – 2017 provides an update to the master plan and building designs for the Polytechnic University, along with proposed hotel designs have been developed for another location …

The Right To The City. Towards The Dictatorship Of The Digital Proletariat In An Age Of Total Planetary Computation, David Capener

Conference papers

Alexa, turn on the hall lights.’ Words taken from a 2017 promotional video for the Amazon Echo —‘a disembodied voice’, and ‘interface for an extraordinarily complex set of information processing layers.’ ‘Alexa, do x’. The discounted toilet-roll is ordered or the house lights come on, but before they do, travelling at the speed of light, a small packet of data arrives at a banal warehouse in the middle of somewhere where needs, wants and desires are farmed in a repository of disembodied voices. From the mining of tantalum, used in the manufacturing of the Echo, from the geological strata of …

Ua1c2/1 Academic Athletic Performance Center Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of the Academic Athletic Performance Center also called Diddle Arena.

Ua1c6/6 Dedications Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of dedications and groundbreakings.

Investigating The State Of Play Of Geobim Across Europe, Claire Ellul, Jantien E. Stoter, Lars Harrie, M. Shariat, Avril Behan, Maria Pla

Conference papers

In both the Geographic Information (Geo) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) domains, it is widely acknowledged that the integration of data from both domains is beneficial and a crucial step in facing the multi-disciplinary challenges of our built environment. The result of this integration – which can broadly be termed GeoBIM – could answer questions such as identifying an appropriate Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning system for a building based on room usage, outside air temperature, solar exposure and traffic pollution or validating whether a proposed built asset meets relevant planning constraints.

Developing a coherent approach to GeoBIM integration requires …

Against The Grain: Why Is Timber Underutilised In The Irish Construction Industry Given Its Environmental Properties?, Francis Noel Duffy

Other resources

This study explores why timber is underutilised in the Irish construction industry, given its environmental properties. Defined literature discourse (framed by two timber exemplar case study buildings and themed into procurement, policy and academic sections) is analysed in pursuit of factors that meet the research question. The literature data collected is used to formulate action-based research in the form of a “Wood First” motion, subsequently passed into policy by South Dublin County Council in July 2017. The literature is also refined into questions for a two-stage, fourth-generation evaluation interview process. This process further examines the discourse of industry experts and …

Neighborhood Variation Of Sustainable Urban Morphologicalcharacteristics, P. C. Lai, Sissi Si Chen, C. T. Low, Ester Cerin, Robert Stimson, Py Paulina Wong

Faculty of Design & Environment (THEi)

Compact cities and their urban forms have implications on sustainable city development because of high density urban settlement, increased accessibility, and a balanced land use mix. This paper uses quantitative means of understanding urban morphological characteristics with reference to the differing qualities of the urban form (i.e., street patterns, building volumes, land uses and greenery). The results, based on 89 neighborhood communities of Hong Kong, show varying degrees of regional differences in the urban built form supported by numerical statistics and graphical illustrations. This paper offers empirical evidence on some morphological characteristics that can be estimated objectively using modern geospatial …

Quality Of Life In A “High-Rise Lawless Slum”: A Study Of The Kowloon Walled City, Prudencea Leung Kwok Lau, Lawrenceb Wai Chung Lai, Daniel Chi Wing Ho

Faculty of Design & Environment (THEi)

Informed by the ‘quality of life’ model with specific reference to Chinese culture, this article uses reliable and publicly available information seldom used in historical or heritage study to identify the designs of flats and builders of the “Kowloon Walled City” (hereafter the City) and reliable oral testimonies to refute some myths about the quality of life within it. This settlement has been notoriously misrepresented by some as a city of darkness that was razed from the face of the Earth before 1997 to fulfill a pre-war dream of the colonial government. This article confirms the view that this extremely …

Partitioning Of Pcbs From Air To Clothing Materials In A Danish Apartment, Glenn Morrison, H. V. Andersen, L. Gunnarsen, D. Varol, E. Uhde, B. Kolarik

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination of buildings continues to pose an exposure threat, even decades after their application in the form of calks and other building materials. In this research, we investigate the ability of clothing to sorb PCBs from contaminated air and thereby influence exposure. The equilibrium concentration of PCB-28 and PCB-52 was quantified for nine used clothing fabrics exposed for 56 days to air in a Danish apartment contaminated with PCBs. Fabric materials included pure materials such as cotton and polyester, or blends of polyester, cotton, viscose/rayon, and/or elastane. Air concentrations were fairly stable over the experimental period, with …

Draft Programmatic Agreement For Buildings And Structures At Cold War Era Dedicated Instrumentation Sites: White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, Phillip S. Esser

Historic Preservation Capstone Projects

Since 1966, when the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) was signed into law, federal agencies have been required to consider their impact to known or potential historic resources under their jurisdiction. As a potentially costly and onerous process for large government installations such as the military, the law allows for procedures known as “program alternatives” which allow federal agencies to streamline the requirements for inventorying and evaluating categories of, or similar resources (in this case, buildings and structures) for their potential as historic resources.

This Capstone project seeks to capture a category of such resources, building and structures at Cold …

Jane Jacobs And Dark Age America, Peter L. Laurence

Publications

No abstract provided.

Identifying, Explaining, And Rethinking Gentrification, Minkyu Yeom

ETD Archive

This dissertation is composed of three essays. The three essays have different topics, research questions, methods, and conclusions. The first essay focused on how to identify gentrified areas. This dissertation employed census tract data of the urbanized areas within 12 metropolitan statistical areas in the United States of America to identify gentrified census tracts. To discern gentrified census tracts, this dissertation created the Gentrification Index which is composed of Neighborhood Transformation Index and Displacement Index. Among 12,803 total census tracts, 11,690 census tracts (91.31%) have been identified as no gentrification, 843 (6.58%) census tracts have been recognized as somewhat gentrified, …

Venezuela Public Health Issue, Luke Vargas

Global Public Health

While every country around the world faces a form of public health issues, the issues that the country of Venezuela faces are different. Their public health problem is not a disease that can be solved by science, or a cure. It’s a problem that can only be solved by the people within the county itself. The country of Venezuela now lacks the proper medical supplies needed to help cure diseases and normal vaccinations, and the only ones to blame is their government. Because their government has now refused to pay their debts to the surrounding countries they have now lost …

Locating The Memory Of Political Genocide In The Tradition Of Peace: Two Documentation Centers Of Nazism In Germany, Rumiko Handa

Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

How can architectural design assist in making the past present in meaningful ways when applied to buildings that commemorate troubling pasts? This dilemma becomes even more challenging when a preexisting building is located in a district that had provided citizens with a peaceful setting for leisurely activities before it was taken over for politically hostile purposes. Once that evil force has been eliminated, both city authorities and citizens may desire to return the district to its distant past, bringing peace back to the area. Yet they may also desire that the building carry their difficult memories of the more immediate …

Assessing Hazard Vulnerability, Habitat Conservation, And Restoration For The Enhancement Ofmainland China’S Coastal Resilience, Muhammad Sajjad, Yangfan Li, Zhenghong Tang, Ling Cao, Xiaoping Liu

Community and Regional Planning Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

Worldwide, humans are facing high risks from natural hazards, especially in coastal regions with high population densities. Rising sea levels due to global warming are making coastal communities’ infrastructure vulnerable to natural disasters. The present study aims to provide a coupling approach of vulnerability and resilience through restoration and conservation of lost or degraded coastal natural habitats to reclamation under different climate change scenarios. The integrated valuation of ecosystems and tradeoffs model is used to assess the current and future vulnerability of coastal communities. The model employed is based on seven different biogeophysical variables to calculate a natural hazard index …

Mapping Quality Of Life In Nebraska: Population Distribution By Race, Ethnicity, And Age, Sarah Taylor, Maria Rosario T. De Guzman, Grant Daily, Rodrigo Cantarero, Soo-Young Hong, Aileen S. Garcia, Jeong-Kyun Choi, Yan Xia

Mapping Quality of Life in Nebraska

KEY POINTS

This section details key points from the data on racial, ethnic, and age groups across Nebraska.

RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES IN NEBRASKA

• The proportions of Nebraska’s racial and ethnic minority populations tend to be smaller by 4% (i.e., Asian) to 8% (i.e., Black or African American, Hispanic/Latino) than those of the US, except for the Hawaiian and Pacific Islander and American Indian and Alaska Native populations (i.e., smaller only by 0.1% to 0.2%).

• Nebraska’s urban areas, which comprise 73.1% of the Nebraska population, have higher numbers of racial and ethnic minorities than suburban or rural areas. …

Beyond Setting The Scene: Architecture Of The White City, Ashley Glesinger

UCARE: Research Products

This undergraduate research project under the direction of Dr. Rumiko Handa and Dr. James Potter of the University of Nebraska- Lincoln is focused on the Erik Larson book, The Devil in the White City. The book focuses on fictionalized historical events surrounding the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. The project is a part of “Architecture in the Humanities,” an online relational database that connects architecture with literature, theater, film, and art. Literature has the ability to make historical architecture accessible to the contemporary readers. Often the architecture sets the scene for events, but its relevance goes unnoticed. This database …

Landscape Architecture Self-Evaluation Report 2018, Landscape Architecture Program, Diane Jones Allen

Landscape Architecture Accreditation Reports - Archive

Landscape architecture program self-evaluation report with appendices.

Sustainability At Sit: A Look At The Past, A Plan For The Future, Taliesin Haugh

Capstone Collection

Climate change threatens our world and way of life. Intelligent development and investment could mitigate the worst threats of climate change, while simultaneously providing continuous growth for the global economy. The New Climate Economy proposes efforts to combat this ecological collapse that would result in $30 trillion in new annual economic growth by 2030. Stockholm Resilience Center agrees, giving a framework based on global ecological systems that calls for five critical tasks that can bring growth and stability: Renewable energy

Sustainable local food production

New development models, based on what has worked globally

Reduction of wealth inequity

Education, health, and …

Prosocial Religion And Games: Lost & Found, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber

Articles

In a time when religious legal systems are discussed without an understanding of history or context, it is more important than ever to help widen the understanding and discourse about the prosocial aspects of religious legal systems throughout history. The Lost & Found (www.lostandfoundthegame.com) game series, targeted for an audience of teens through twentysomethings in formal, learning environments, is designed to teach the prosocial aspects of medieval religious systems—specifically collaboration, cooperation, and the balancing of communal and individual/family needs. Set in Fustat (Old Cairo) in the 12th century, the first two games in the series address laws in Moses Maimonides’ …

Could Autodesk Revit Be Automated For Code Compliance Checking And Demonstration With A Focus On Fire Safety Regulations?, Ross Harrell, Malachy Mathews

Reports

Often a subject to ambiguity and interpretation, building codes and compliance with them require years of expertise to understand and to integrate into good design. Automation of code compliance through Building Information Modelling (BIM) removes the human aspect from these processes and ensures building codes are correctly adhered to. In this paper, the author reviews current code compliance systems implemented internationally and, with a focus on fire codes, compares them to the current fire certificate application in The Republic of Ireland. By conducting interviews with an Executive Fire Prevention Officer of Dublin Fire Brigade and a Fire Consultant practicing in …

Design And Manufacture Of A Precast Pcm Enhanced Concrete Cladding Panel For Full Scale Performance Monitoring, Dervilla Niall, Roger West, Oliver Kinnane

Conference papers

The overall aim of this study is to develop innovative precast cladding panels for the renovation of Europe’s existing building stock thereby improving their energy performance. Using the mass of a building to store heat and/or cold can reduce the demand on the auxiliary heating and/or cooling systems and hence reduce the overall energy demand of the building. Previous laboratory research has shown that the incorporation of phase change materials (PCMs) into concrete enhances its thermal storage capacity by up to 50%. However in a real application where a PCM-concrete composite material is used in a building to store thermal …

Banim Individual Dhe Afarizem- Vila, Armend Shabanaj

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Muzeu I Artit Dhe Ekspozitë Arti, Argjirë Gashi

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

W. G. Sebald’S Austerlitz : Architecture As A Bridge Between The Lost Past And The Present, Rumiko Handa

Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

Architecture has a way of bringing the past to the present for us. It is an important asset, for the experience of the past constitutes a positive moment in our everyday conduct of life, allowing a contemplation on our existential meaning. It is an often neglected aspect, as it lies outside of architecture's aesthetic, functional, or structural realms. Mechanisms at work in effectuating this feature can vary, among which the following are notable: A building may commemorate a particular event or individual by being a monument. A building may refer to the time of its origin by way of its …

Using Virtual Reality And Photogrammetry To Enrich 3d Object Identity, Cole Juckette, Heather Richards-Rissetto, Hector Eluid Guerra Aldana, Norman Martinez

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

The creation of digital 3D models for cultural heritage is commonplace. With the advent of efficient and cost effective technologies archaeologists are making a plethora of digital assets. This paper evaluates the identity of 3D digital assets and explores how to enhance or expand that identity by integrating photogrammetric models into VR. We propose that when a digital object acquires spatial context from its virtual surroundings, it gains an identity in relation to that virtual space, the same way that embedding the object with metadata gives it a specific identity through its relationship to other information. We explore this concept …

An Examination Of Midwestern Us Cities’ Preparedness For Climate Change And Extreme Hazards, Qiao Hu, Zhenghong Tang, Martha Shulski, Natalie Umphlett, Tarik Abdel-Monem, Frank E. Uhlarik

Community and Regional Planning Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

The increasing occurrence of extreme weather and climate events raised concerns in regard to hazard mitigation and climate adaptation. Local municipal planning mechanisms play a fundamental role in increasing a community’s capacity toward long-term resiliency. This study employs the content analysis method to evaluate the 95 selected cities located in the US Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VII and examine how these local plans, including local comprehensive plans (CPs), hazard mitigation plans (HMPs), and local emergency operations plans (EOPs), prepare communities for climate change and possible extreme events. Results indicate that local plans delineated multiple resources and diverse strategies to …

ประสิทธิภาพการลดการถ่ายเทความร้อนในระบบผนังด้วยฉนวน โดยพิจารณาอัตราส่วนพื้นที่ของผนังโปร่งแสงต่อพื้นที่ผนังทั้งหมด, จิราภา เดชจิระกุล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์ในการศึกษาค่าการต้านทานความร้อนของผนังภายนอกอาคาร เพื่อวางแนวทางในการปรับปรุงอาคารเพื่อเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพการใช้พลังงานและประเมินความคุ้มค่าด้านการลงทุนในฉนวนความร้อนแต่ละชนิด โดยแบ่งอาคารเป็น 3 ประเภทตามกฎกระทรวง และมีช่วงระยะอัตราส่วนพื้นที่ของผนังโปร่งแสงต่อพื้นที่ผนังทั้งหมดแบ่งเป็น 6 ระยะ เริ่มจาก 10% ไปถึง 35% มีช่วงระยะห่างของแต่ละทางเลือกที่ 5% การศึกษาใช้วิธีการวิเคราะห์ค่าการถ่ายเทความร้อนผ่านโปรแกรมคอมพิวเตอร์เพื่อประเมินประสิทธิภาพพลังงานของอาคาร (Building Energy Code Software, BEC) ทำการศึกษาระบบผนัง 4 ประเภท คือผนังก่ออิฐฉาบปูน, ผนังก่ออิฐมวลเบา, ผนังคอนกรีต และผนังก่ออิฐ 2 ด้าน เว้นช่องอากาศ 10 เซนติเมตร ผลการศึกษาพบว่าสำหรับอาคารที่มีการใช้งาน 9 และ 12 ชั่วโมงต่อวัน หากใช้วัสดุคอนกรีตเป็นผนังภายนอกอาคาร สำหรับอาคารที่มีอัตราส่วนพื้นที่ของผนังโปร่งแสงต่อพื้นที่ผนังทั้งหมดเท่ากับ 10%, 15%, 20% และ 25% จำเป็นจะต้องติดตั้งฉนวนความร้อน ในขณะที่อาคารที่มีการใช้งาน 24 ชั่วโมง จำเป็นต้องติดตั้งฉนวนความร้อนที่อัตราส่วนพื้นที่ของผนังโปร่งแสงต่อพื้นที่ผนังทั้งหมดเท่ากับ 15%, 20%, 25% และ 30% จึงสรุปได้ว่าผนังคอนกรีตมีความจำเป็นมากที่สุดในการเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพการลดการถ่ายเทความร้อนผ่านผนัง เนื่องจากมีค่าการถ่ายเทความร้อนผ่านผนังก่อนการติดตั้งฉนวนความร้อนที่ไม่ผ่านเกณฑ์เป็นจำนวนมากหากเปรียบเทียบกับระบบผนังประเภทอื่นๆ เมื่อวิเคราะห์มูลค่าปัจจุบัน (Life cycle Cost) ผนังคอนกรีตอาคารที่มีการใช้งาน 9 ชั่วโมงต่อวัน ควรติดตั้งฉนวนใยแก้ว 32 kg/m³ ความหนา 50 mm. สำหรับผนังคอนกรีตอาคารที่มีการใช้งาน 12 ชั่วโมงต่อวัน ที่อัตราส่วนพื้นที่ของผนังโปร่งแสงต่อพื้นที่ผนังทั้งหมดเท่ากับ 10% และ 15% ควรติดตั้งฉนวนโพลิสไตรีน ความหนา 50 mm. และที่อัตราส่วนพื้นที่ของผนังโปร่งแสงต่อพื้นที่ผนังทั้งหมดเท่ากับ 20% และ 25% ควรติดตั้งฉนวนใยแก้ว 32 kg/m³ ความหนา 50 mm. และสำหรับผนังคอนกรีตยอาคารที่มีการใช้งาน 24 ชั่วโมง ที่อัตราส่วนพื้นที่ของผนังโปร่งแสงต่อพื้นที่ผนังทั้งหมดเท่ากับ 15% และ 25% ฉนวนใยแก้ว 32 kg/m³ …

แบบทาวน์เฮาส์สำหรับการก่อสร้างด้วยชิ้นส่วนคอนกรีตสำเร็จรูป, นฤนาท เกตุพันธ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การศึกษาครั้งนี้ มีวัตถุประสงค์ จะศึกษาสภาพและปัญหา ในการก่อสร้างทาวน์เฮาส์ ด้วยชิ้นส่วนคอนกรีตสำเร็จรูป โดยเลือกทาวน์เฮาส์แบบพฤกษาวิลล์ ของ บริษัท พฤกษา โฮลดิ้ง จำกัด(มหาชน) เป็นกรณีศึกษา เพื่อเสนอแนะรูปแบบชิ้นส่วนคอนกรีตสำเร็จรูปที่เหมาะสม จากการศึกษาพบว่า ปัจจุบันทาวน์เฮาส์ บริษัท พฤกษาฯ ที่สร้างในระบบชิ้นส่วนคอนกรีตสำเร็จรูป ใช้ระยะเวลาก่อสร้าง 20-27 วัน มีขนาดและพื้นที่ใช้สอยต่างๆ ได้แก่ ขนาดหน้ากว้าง 5.00, 5.50 และ 5.70 เมตร ความสูง 2-3 ชั้น ห้องนอน 2-3 ห้อง ห้องน้ำ 2-3 ห้อง และที่จอดรถ 1-2 คัน แม้ว่ารูปแบบด้านหน้าส่วนใหญ่จะคล้ายกัน แต่เมื่อชิ้นส่วนผนัง มีหลายรูปแบบ ทั้งขนาดและช่องเปิด จึงทำให้เกิดปัญหาในการผลิต ชิ้นส่วนผนัง ที่มีระยะริมช่องเปิดน้อย ทำให้ต้องตัดตะแกรงเหล็กเสริม การผลิตจึงล่าช้า และยังมีปัญหาแตกหัก ในระหว่างการขนส่งและติดตั้งอีกด้วย นอกจากนี้มีปัญหาน้ำรั่วซึมบริเวณรอยต่อระหว่างแผ่น เพื่อแก้ปัญหาดังกล่าว จึงปรับเปลี่ยนไปใช้ระบบประสานพิกัด เพื่อให้ขนาดชิ้นส่วนผนังและพื้นเป็นระบบมากขึ้น ลดรูปแบบ และขนาดช่องเปิด และเพิ่มระยะริมช่องเปิด จากเดิมทาวน์เฮาส์หนึ่งคูหาจะประกอบด้วยชิ้นส่วนผนัง 29 ชิ้น 29 รูปแบบ ด้วยวิธีดังกล่าว จะเหลือเพียง 20 ชิ้น 11 รูปแบบเท่านั้น ส่วนปัญหารั่วซึมบริเวณรอยต่อ แก้โดยการยื่นแผ่นผนัง และ พื้น รวมทั้งเสนอให้ปิดรอยต่อด้วยชิ้นส่วนบัวสำเร็จรูป ทั้งนี้ เพื่อให้เกิดความหลากหลายของรูปแบบด้านหน้า เสนอให้ใช้วิธีปรับเปลี่ยนเฉพาะส่วนหน้าของทาวน์เฮาส์ ส่วนภายในให้คงรูปแบบและจำนวนชิ้นส่วนคอนกรีตสำเร็จรูปเหมือนกัน