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Globalized Sin: The Shortcomings of Globalization and the Importance of Regionalism in Architecture
No full textAt the turn of the twentieth century, architecture stood at a crossroads: should it carry forward the traditions of the past or embrace a new vision for the modern world? The decision to move forward led to the rise of modernism, a movement born from a desire to address the urgent needs of an industrializing, rapidly changing society. Groups such as CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d\u27Architecture Moderne) formed to redefine architectural practice in response to new social, technological, and economic realities. However, while modernism aimed to be progressive and people-centered, it ironically became rigid, and its leaders became gatekeepers for what architecture should be on a global scale.
Architects such as Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe understood that architecture must serve human needs, however, their universalist often abandoned specific cultures and regions. In seeking a one-size-fits-all solution, modernism failed the very people it claimed to serve, committing the greatest sin in architecture. This paper will explore how that contradiction emerged, and how later architects such as Álvaro Siza and Jeanne Gang have reoriented architectural practice towards a more contextualized, regionalist approach, that respond more authentically to the people it is meant to serve. Rather than demonizing globalized architecture, the goal here is to understand its limitations, learn from its missteps, and argue for a more nuanced, inclusive vision of architectural practice—one that places people, culture, and context at the center
Synergistic Effect of Clove & Cinnamon against Aspergillus flavus in Georgia peanuts
No full textAspergillus Flavus is a common fungal contaminant in peanuts, producing aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), a potent class 1 carcinogen. Current control methods rely on synthetic fungicides, which pose health and environmental risks. This study evaluated the antifungal efficacy of clove and cinnamon essential oils (EOs), individually and in synergy, against A. flavus and AFB1 production in Georgia peanuts.
Peanuts were surface-disinfected, inoculated with A. flavus spores, and treated with cinnamon, clove, or a combined EO blend (250-2000 ppm). Samples were incubated, and AFB1 was extracted and quantified via HPLC-MS.
AFB1 levels decreased with higher EO concentrations across all treatments. The synergistic blend showed the strongest inhibition, reducing AFB1 to 1.11E+04 at 2000 ppm, compared to 2.86E+04 (cinnamon), 3.16E+04 (clove), and 5.44E+04 (control). The blend reduced AFB1 by 30% from 250 to 2000 ppm, highlighting enhanced efficacy at higher doses.
These findings support the synergistic use of GRAS-status EOs as effective, natural alternatives to synthetic fungicides for controlling aflatoxin contamination in peanuts
Imposition or Integration: Comparing the Critical Regionalism of Luis Barragan and Phenomenology of Place of Peter Zumthor
No full textThere something remarkable of one walking into a space that evokes a feeling deeper than the surface and visual – in architecture, that term is coined phenomenology. The phenomenological and regional experiences offered by architecture can behold contrasting and yet converging features that evoke a range of human emotions. This phenomenological nature of place comes in a variety of expressions and perceptions. This paper explores these approaches to context by comparing the works of Latin American architect Luis Barragán and Swedish architect Peter Zumthor- specifically in the works of Barragán’s Torres de Satélite (1957) and Zumthor’s Therme Vals (1996). Besides style, these architects pursue emotionally resonant spaces that deeply connect to humanity, offering a similar sense of dwelling even in their diverging methodologies. Looking specifically into the way these sites were approached, the question of integration versus imposition arises. Torres de Satélite, a group of sculptures planted onto a traffic junction in Mexico City, offers an abrupt yet vernacular presence that is experienced as a reminder of the human capability for innovation in the world. Therme Vals, on the other hand, is notably merged into the rolling hills of Vals, Switzerland, appearing to be emerging from the context itself as a seamless presence both in structure and materiality. Comparing the two, they both offer nostalgic reminders for humanity’s role in existence- being one of creation and innovation yet originating from the earth around us. As Barragan highlights vivid expressiveness of colors and planes, Zumthor highlights an intentional stillness and honesty of materiality and form in its given context. Despite crafting with a similar purpose in mind of heightening our awareness of belonging, both architects can offer information about the way a multifaceted humanity relates to itself
Reintegrating the River: Sope Creek Mill as the Site for Reviving the Connection to Chattahoochee
No full textWhat environmental feature does San Antonio, Chicago, and Atlanta have in common? Despite their radically different urban cultures, these cities are all built around rivers! As anthropologists have shown, rivers are foundational to the creation of human settlement, and many cities design their urban fabric to interact with their respective rivers. Despite the scale of the Chattahoochee River, a visitor of Atlanta might not see the river as it is covered with highways and other infrastructures. Since the inception of colonial Atlanta as a railroad town in the nineteenth century, the urban design deviated from having the rivers be central to the city’s evolution, as scholarship shows. There was still an existing relationship with its rivers when waterways played essential roles in the economy as power sources for industrial mills. Once the economic use of mills declined, the relationship with rivers also fizzled out. This broken ecological relationship can be seen through the rise and fall of mills as a once-important part of Atlantean landscape. One such mill was Marietta Paper Mill on the Chattahoochee River that was once a booming economic source that lays abandoned today. These ruins symbolize the current relationship that the people of Atlanta have with rivers. This research design project brings into light the fraught relationship between Atlanta and its rivers. How can architectural interventions transform Sope Creek Paper Mill ruins to reconnect the broken ecological relationship between the Chattahoochee River and people into the urban fabric of Atlanta? This design research explores adaptive reuse of the Sope Creek Paper Mill as a technique to revive the connection between people and the Chattahoochee River. By reprogramming the Sope Creek Paper Mill and restoring the space, people who are not just hikers would interact with the space and establish their connection to the Chattahoochee River
Transit Hubs as Mixed-Use Areas: Architectural Solutions for 24/7 Vibrant Streets
No full textMonday morning, again. Walking into the cold, isolated transit hub reflects your internal emotion of dragging your feet back to work. All to do it again the next day. The routine of walking past architectural marvels like Mercedes-Benz Stadium and the Marquis Hotel just to walk into a cold and distant transit hub displays two drastic priorities of the architectural fabric in Atlanta. The largest transit hub for MARTA within Atlanta is Five Points, which contains all four train lines currently in use today. According to Downtown Atlanta’s Master Plan published in 2017, “In 2015, close to 1.2 million people used Downtown MARTA rail stations each month, with almost 500,000 using Five Points alone,” which is more than the total population of Atlanta at the time of the 2010 census, which was a reported 420,003 people. This signifies the importance of Five Points as a MARTA transit hub within the city of Atlanta. According to a study analyzing the feasibility of commercial to residential within the Five Point station area done in 2024, the building stock by use in 2023 contained 75% office buildings, 18% hotel buildings, and 7% residential buildings. Even though most of the buildings in the area are office buildings, there has been an increase in mixed-use projects being approved, like Centennial Yards, multiple projects near the Beltline, and others. With the research already done and to be done, this design research project will explore successful mixed-use transit hubs in the US, Asia, and Europe to propose a redeveloped Five Points station that elevates the notion of what a transit hub can look like, using examples like Shinjuku Station and Dongdaemun Design Plaza as a baseline. This research argues that transit hubs should serve as mixed-use areas to create 24/7 vibrant streets, with this paper demonstrating the importance of transit hubs to the downtown core of Atlanta
Real Time Human Fall Detection with Artificial Intelligence Using an Infared Camera on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
No full textThe use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has dramatically increased in the lives of average Americans. This growing use in AI can range from reading articles, answering questions, generating media, or even identifying objects (annotation) within existing media, such as pictures and videos. Research on AI’s ability to annotate media has grown in popularity as more open-source models have become publicly available. However, these annotations are limited by the AI model and not being able to reliably identify a subject from varying angles and distances. Kennesaw State University’s Aerospace Education and Research Organization (AERO) Lab is researching live, AI-assisted object identification utilizing aerial footage. The researchers are doing this by employing modern Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to provide high quality aerial footage. They use said footage to train an open-source AI model which specializes in object identification known as You Only Look Once (YOLO), to excel in annotating common objects such as people, cars, bikes, etc. from arial pictures and videos. The AERO Lab has been able to use this custom AI to dramatically increase the ability in identifying a wide range of objects, increasing the confidence level of the annotation, giving specified object orientation (sitting, standing, laying down), and the ability to vary angles and distances of the subject in the footage without a significant reduction in confidence level. These tasks are completed while providing the annotations in real time, on a monitor for the user to see. The AI is trained not only in Red, Green, Blue (RGB) sources, but also thermal and infrared, which allows for use of the model at night and in heavily forested areas. The researchers aim to use this ability to aid in human search and rescue missions, as well as disaster relief for locating survivors
Defining the European Union’s Top Public Health Priorities: What Can be Gleaned From Its Multi-State Interdisciplinary Systems?
No full textDelineation of the European Union’s (EU) contemporary public health agenda is examined within the evolving architecture of a ‘European Health Union.’ Five interdependent domains are synthesized: climate and planetary health, digital transformation, resilient systems and workforce development, non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention, and cross-sectoral and global leadership. Mutual reinforcement is essential for achieving equitable outcomes. The climate pillar reframes environmental disruption as a public health emergency, embedding adaptation, mitigation, and Planetary/One Health approaches across EU initiatives. The digital pillar examines the European Health Data Space and adjacent tools (telemedicine, e-prescribing, mobile health) as infrastructure for secure interoperability, research, and quality improvement. System resilience is enhanced through lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing surveillance, medical supply chains, surge capacity, and a sustainable, ethically recruited workforce. NCD analysis emphasizes the need for coordinated policies addressing tobacco, alcohol, diet, physical activity, environmental pollution, and mental health, underpinned by the EU’s current framework. A health-in-all-policies lens connects transportation, agriculture, housing, education, and social protection to health equity, while the Global Health Strategy positions the EU as a diplomatic and regulatory actor aligned with the World Health Organization (WHO) and regional partners. Collectively, the findings characterize an anticipatory, data-driven, and solidarity-based model that links domestic reform to action, policy, and security, demonstrating that progress depends on governance mechanisms that integrate evidence across directorates, cohesion instruments, and robust evaluation of distributional effects to prevent widening inequalities among member states. Policy coherence, interoperable data ecosystems, workforce investment, and meaningful civil-society engagement emerge as necessary conditions for durable gains, while transparency in digital and emergency measures remains an ethical guardrail for legitimacy. These recommendations provide a roadmap for resilient and inclusive European health governance.
Keywords: European Health Union; EU Top Public Health Priorities; Planetary Health; European Health Data Space; Health-System Resilience; Workforce; Non-Communicable Diseases; NCDs; Health-in-All-Policies; Health Equity; Global Health Strateg
(Mens) Fashion & Style in the Renaissance
No full textThe Renaissance period was a major time in history where it was known for its awakening out of the Dark Ages. There were also many notable people that were celebrated in its time and throughout modern history. These people were known mostly by their works, however, the ways people would know who another was, was mostly by their fashion and their styles they wore. Men’s fashion and styles in particular, told others about their culture, their profession, social class, etc. The overall purpose of this research study of men’s fashion in the Italian Renaissance is to examine portraits and paintings of the time, and analyze the men\u27s fashion and certain styles, to gain a better understanding of how important appearance and style were to how people lived in the Rebirth Era. Texts will be studied and about 3 portraits and paintings will be displayed to gain better visual understanding as well. It is expected that through analyzing historical paintings and portraits, it can connect the learning in how to study a specific time in Historical Italy and its society. Cultural conclusions will be made in defining the culture of its time by using the portraits and paintings
Computational Study of C2-C10 Carbon Cluster Stability via HOMO-LUMO Gaps Analysis
No full textThe exploration of linear and cyclic carbon clusters has been a topic of widespread interest in recent years, particularly in materials discovery and nanotechnology. Previous studies of small linear and cyclic carbon clusters (C2-C10) have produced experimental data, and newer theoretical research provides frameworks for further exploration and potential experimental applications. The study of the HOMO-LUMO gaps in carbon clusters of various sizes, as the number of carbons, n, increases, is crucial for understanding their molecular properties and potential uses. In this project, HOMO-LUMO gaps of C2-C10 carbon clusters are calculated using Density Functional Theory (DFT) with the Becke 3-Parameter Lee-Yang-Parr functional (B3LYP) and the augmented aug-cc-pVTZ (AVTZ) basis set. After optimizing the geometries of the clusters, we calculate their HOMO-LUMO gaps, along with structural parameters and vibrational analyses, to verify the global minima and transition state geometries using Gaussian 16 and GaussView 6. Our goal is to identify trends in the HOMO-LUMO gap and cluster stability as the number of carbons increases from n=2 to n=10, and to explore how aromaticity and anti-aromaticity may influence the gap and properties such as stability and conductivity. Cn clusters (where n\u3c 10) have ground state linear geometries, while Cn (n=10) has a cyclic ground state with a global minimum energy. HOMO-LUMO gaps for each Cn cluster (n=2-10) are calculated at singlet (M1) states, and SOMO-LUMO gaps at triplet (M3) states. The gaps will be analyzed, and we will investigate how these gaps behave across different cluster sizes, conformations (linear or cyclic), and during isomerization pathways
New Electron-Rich Polycyclic 1,2-BN-Heteroarenes with Phenyl Spacer: Synthesis and Photophysical Properties
No full textIncorporating a B–N bond into polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons generates planar azaborine scaffolds with unique optoelectronic features, including high photochemical stability, strong absorption, high fluorescence quantum yields, large Stokes shifts, and tunable emission. These attributes make BN-substituted heteroarenes promising candidates for applications such as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and related optoelectronic devices. However, enhancing electron density and controlling conjugation without compromising stability remain significant challenges. To address this, we designed and synthesized new electron-rich polycyclic 1,2-BN-heteroarenes incorporating strong electron-donating groups, including carbazole and dimethylaminodiphenyl, attached through a phenyl spacer. This design improves conjugation, introduces steric modulation, and enables control over charge-transfer interactions while mitigating aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) of emission. Using palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling method, we successfully synthesized two target compounds featuring extended π-systems and enhanced donor–acceptor character. We propose that the phenyl spacer and bulky substituents reduce ACQ, improve photophysical stability, and yield tunable optical responses with potential multi-stimuli responsiveness. These structural modifications highlight a versatile strategy for tailoring BN-based heteroarenes. Beyond OLEDs, such multifunctional chromophores hold promise for chemical and biological sensors, adaptive optoelectronic systems, and security applications, expanding the utility of BN-embedded materials in next-generation technologies