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Re-building untold histories to preserve historical fragments along the street Rua do Benformoso in Lisbon
No full textUnbalanced tourist flows combined with aggressive lending and real estate markets can threaten the preservation of the built heritage, its sensitive and adaptive reuse. The sustainable management of endangered (or underrepresented) buildings is particularly critical in overcrowded historic centres, such as Lisbon.
This research focuses on the spatial configuration of the street Rua do Benformoso in a traditional parish of Lisbon, where the building blocks remained unscathed after the 1755 earthquake. In revealing permanence, dissonance, and change of individual plots (or part of plots), this study draws attention on one of those physical features that characterized this street, the overhanging timber-frame constructions.
The importance of interpreting the changes of the street-blocks by combing different records and bringing urban morphology, history, architecture and engineering is emphasized. In future studies, distinct morphological periods can be analysed considering map-based information and archival photos. Keeping alive irreplaceable physical legacies (or historical fragments) can contribute to sustainable heritage management of popular tourist cities, like Lisbon.
Although this graspable memory is partial, it can represent a vehicle for a closer relationship to the past and for connecting urban morphology to heritage conservation practice
The intertidal zone and waterfront – A study on the morphological mechanism of the marshland zone in the south of Guangzhou city
No full textThis paper analyzes the influence of urban elements on urban plots and their mutual transformation process in history and finds that the intertidal zone plays a key role in the cycle of urban expansion into the river. Historically, river canals and roads were both the transportation lines on which plots depended, while the ramparts fixed the city site, southern city became waterfront area and between the Pearl River was the intertidal zone. With the sedimentation and artificial filling, new levees, waterfront areas and new canals were born in intertidal zone, while old canals silted up into roads or eventually disappeared. However, the construction of the Long-Bund break the cycle, creating a stable hard boundary beside Pearl River and exhausting the scope for expansion of southern city. As a result, the Long-Bund turned to high-rise buildings, forming the financial and commercial center of Guangzhou at that time. On the other hand, it can be observed that the new types of buildings on the Long-Bund were still partly constrained by the logic of traditional plots. The Long-Bund area was the result of a series of historical mechanisms and events
Terapia przez sztuki plastyczne z młodzieżą z uzależnieniami w ramach Dziennego Oddziału Terapii Uzależnienia od Środków Psychoaktywnych w OPiLU w Zabrzu
No full textElement Identification of Spatial Disorder in Northeast China’s Cities –A Study Using Photovoice Method
No full textThe paper applied a method of photovoice to explore residents' identification of spatial disorder elements at the neighborhood scale in a low-economic city in northeastern China. Through the photographs taken and the interviews, the paper summarized eight thematic elements of disorder, from which the seven most influential elements were extracted using participatory sessions, further emphasizing the participatory nature of the method. A low-inference approach was used to analyze the coded contents. The results indicated that the element of disorder in low-quality communities in China differ from those in public housing in Western countries, with pedestrian safety being a key element in identifying spatial disorder in communities for Chinese residents. Moreover, in a community with high levels of disorder, occupants' identification of the causes of disorderly elements is frequently associated with the lack of management of properties in the community and the uncivil behavior of other residents. These findings provide a reference for the refined management of some older neighborhoods in China, as well as filling the gap in neighborhood-scale disorder perception in the Chinese context
Mixing Synthetic and Real-world Datasets Strategy for Improved Generalization of the CNN
No full textIn this paper, we deal with the problem of supervised training
neural networks with an insufficient number of real-world training examples.
We propose a method that at the beginning trains the neural network
using a relatively simple synthetic dataset. In the following epochs, we add
more challenging and real-life images to the training dataset. We compare
the proposed strategy with other methods of using artificial and real-world
datasets for training the neural network. The obtained results show that
the proposed strategy allows for obtaining the neural network with higher
generalization capabilities than competitive methods
Antioxidant properties of Moringa oleifera and Withania somnifera extracts and their use in cosmetics for men
No full textNowadays, men are paying more and more attention to their appearance, and thus try to provide their skin with proper care so that it looks healthy and without signs of aging. In the present study, ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) and moringa oleifera (Moringa oleifera) were selected from the most popular adaptogens used in cosmetics, which are currently not commonly used in cosmetic preparations for men. The selected adaptogens were compared for their phytochemical and antioxidant properties to determine their skin care effects in cosmetics. The phytochemical content was evaluated through the determination of total phenolic content and in vitro antioxidant capacity was determined by DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) and ABTS{2,2′-azinobis-(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid)} free radical scavenging tests. The total phenolic contents 1.81±0.13 and 0.14±0.02 mg GAE/g extract were found to be present in Moringa oleifera and Withania somnifera glycol-water extracts, respectively. Among the two chosen extracts, Moringa oleifera exhibited significant free radical scavenging activity, ABTS (0.964 ± 0.021 mg TE/g extract) and DPPH (0.822 ± 0.004 mg TE/g extract). It can be concluded that Moringa oleifera extract has strong antioxidant properties than Withania somnifera extract
Spektroskopia i obrazowanie ramanowskie w badaniach biomedycznych: od ex-vivo do in-vitro
No full textŹródło BIP (https://politechnikalodzka.ssdip.bip.gov.pl/dyscyplina-nauki-chemiczne-dr-hab/277853_dyscyplina-nauki-chemiczne.html
