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The Concept of the Urban Palimpsest. The Urban Fabric Transformations in Inherited City image
No full textTransformations and spatial patterns of physical forms are the basis of urban morphological studies to understand and interpret the process-based – multi-layered – transitions, transformations and spatial patterns of physical components. The concept of palimpsest explains the continuous construction over time (historical stratification), but the scale of urban palimpsest is more than that. The research points out the pragmatic nature of the urban fabric and aims to examine the relationship between the fundamental types of transformations and their distinctive forces. Thus, in the current study, the structure of historical layering analysis includes elaborating the proposed palimpsest concept via comparison/overlapping historic maps of urban fabric types. The layers of inherited city image can experience through the combination of different urban morphological approaches. Via the combination of historico-geographical, typo-morphological, and configurational approaches of urban morphology, the layering analysis will be established. The purpose of the current paper is to demonstrate the urban palimpsest concept and make a proof of the concept in the urban conservation sites of Istanbul
Development of a recipe and production method for enzymatic hand peeling
No full textThe study focused to develop an enzyme hand peeling. The first stage of the investigation dependent on selecting the qualities that the cosmetic should have. When creating the product, the assumption was made that it would have an exfoliating, moisturizing, firming and even-toning effect. The peeling was developed in several stages starting with the consideration of the cosmetic formulation, the selection of suitable raw materials and the execution of the formulation according to the adopted method. For the preparation of the peeling, the emollients used were so-called oily emollients, including sweet almond oil, Shea butter, coconut oil, oil/water (O/W) emulsifier, stabilizers, moisturisers, rheology modifier, filler, active substances, preservative and solvent. The peeling was prepared on the principle of O/W emulsion. The formulation was made using the classic "hot" method. More than a dozen trials were performed to obtain a product with the desired properties. Subsequently, the peeling was subjected to sensory and hedonistic analysis. Its density, viscosity and stability were evaluated. The formulation was also tested for pH.
The final scrub was characterized by an intense but pleasant fragrance, very easy spreading on the skin, light texture, pleasant sensation after use. Hedonistic research has shown that obtained enzyme peeling was fully acceptable in terms of application, color, consistency and feelings after use. The final cosmetic product was also characterised by poor moisturisation and too strong abrasiveness
Use of social media in employer branding
No full textAktualnie zauważane zmiany w otoczeniu przedsiębiorstw przyczyniły się do
wzrostu zainteresowania marką pracodawcy oraz metodyką jej tworzenia,
a także unowocześnienia stosowanych przez firmy rozwiązań w tym obszarze
zarządzania. Employer branding, marka pracodawcy, opisuje reputację
pracodawcy jako miejsca pracy i jego propozycję wartości dla pracowników,
w przeciwieństwie do bardziej ogólnej marki korporacyjnej i reputacji klientów.
Efektywne dotarcie do kandydatów poszukujących pracy wymaga stosowania
odpowiednich, dopasowanych do odbiorców narzędzi, które powinny uwzględniać
doświadczenie i status kandydata, preferowane sposoby komunikowania się
z otoczeniem, czy też wyznawane wartości życiowe. Szybki rozwój mediów
społecznościowych sprawił, że stały się one jednym z najważniejszych narzędzi
wykorzystywanych w procesie budowania marki pracodawcy. Celem niniejszego
artykułu jest przedstawienie sposobów włączenia mediów społecznościowych
w proces budowaniu marki pracodawcy.The currently observed changes in the environment of enterprises have
contributed to the increased interest in the employer brand and the methodology of
its creation, as well as the modernization of the solutions used by companies in this
area of management. corporate and customer reputation. Effectively reaching
candidates looking for a job requires the use of appropriate tools tailored to the
recipients, which should take into account the candidate's experience and status,
preferred ways of communicating with the environment, or professed life values.
The rapid development of social media has made it one of the most important tools
used in the employer branding process. The purpose of this article is to present
ways of including social media in the process of building an employer brand
Zastosowanie procesu elektrodepozycji w celu otrzymania implantów przeznaczonych do wspomagania regeneracji obwodowej tkanki nerwowej
No full textŹródło BIP (https://politechnikalodzka.ssdip.bip.gov.pl/dyscyplina-inzynieria-chemiczna-dr-hab/277857_dyscyplina-inzynieria-chemiczna.html
Urban Design Thinking of Early Modernist Pioneers – Taking Adolf Loos and Giuseppe Terragni as Case Studies
No full textThe Beaux-Arts education and the acceptance of modernist ideas have made the architectural creations of early modernist pioneers present a composite character, that is, the architecture itself has a distinctly modernist style while maintaining a harmonious relationship with the city and has a readable ‘urbanity’. Taking the architectural works of architects Adolf Loos and Giuseppe Terragni as examples, this paper elaborates on this composite character in terms of urban tissue, plot, facade, and detail. It is proposed that the simple and conscious ‘urban design thinking’ of the early modernist architectural pioneers should be re-examined from the perspective of urban morphology, which leads to the consideration of how the relationship between modernist architecture and the city has moved from the initial complex synthesis to the later abstract singularity. Whether contemporary architects are critical of modernism as a whole or insistent and submissive, such discussions and reflections are undoubtedly valuable to them
Shifting Spaces of Resistance: A Processual Study of the Recent Protests in the Everyday in Delhi
No full textThis paper studies the recent shift in spaces of resistance from designated to non-designated, peripheral and everyday public spaces in Delhi, the political capital of India. It further argues that this shift is essentially a state driven phenomenon instigated by preventing access to public space administered as a mechanism to diminish resistance against state activities. The study critiques the shrinking nature of democratic spaces in Delhi, thereby exposing how the city has been, in many ways, reorganised around the idea of preventing or subjugating protest. Drawing from an ethnographic study of the spontaneous anti CAA protests at Shaheen Bagh in 2019–20 and the Farmers protests against the three farm bills at the borders of Delhi in 2020–21, the research analyses how new forms of resistance emerge in these sites chosen and reclaimed by the public barred from institutional channels.
By analysing the organic processes involved in the movement, occupation and identity formation, it examines the unique urban morphologies of transience, formed during the social and spatial evolution of the protest site. In doing so, findings reveal the transformative potential associated with these protests, thereby questioning the idea of permanence in their transience. This has implications on the definitions of a true protest, and represents how such spatial acts of resistances are manifestations of peoples aspirations and anxieties, where new communities of citizenship formed at protest sites are characterised by inversive processes of inbetweenness. The study thus attempts to redefine the everyday as a boundless space that allows for diversity, complexity and simultaneity in extraordinary situations as opposed to the dominant authoritarian narrative of the planned public space. Therefore, this paper situates within a larger discussion about alternative space-making processes in the city from ground up which reflects in the long standing ontological debate over use and value of public space
Redevelopment and Revitalization of Urban Units: A Case Study of the Extended Area of Longmenhao Historical Block in Chongqing
No full textLongmenhao Historical Block, the last well-preserved historical block in the central urban area of Chongqing, is a typical historic urban landscape that has witnessed the history of urban development in Chongqing and is therefore known as a specimen of old Chongqing on the south bank of the Yangtze River. Given the intensifying pressure of development, it is imperative to address the development challenges faced by Longmenhao Historical Block. Typo-morphology reveals the inherent characteristics and the diachronic evolutionary process of urban morphology and architectural type from different scales and levels and provides a basic foundation and a starting point for the conservation of historic urban landscape in the real world. This paper applies the theory of typo-morphology to analyze the renewal and conservation of Longmenhao Historical Block from the perspectives of urban context, evolutionary history of urban spatial morphology, morphological tissue and architectural style, and explores the specific application and role of typo-morphology in the conservation and development of historic urban landscape
On Usefulness of Dominance Relation for Selecting Counterfactuals from the Ensemble of Explainers
No full textCounterfactual explanations are widely used to explain ML model
predictions by providing alternative scenarios. However, choosing the most
appropriate explanation method and one of generated counterfactuals is not
an easy task. In this paper, we propose an approach that filters out a large
set of counterfactuals generated by a set of diverse algorithms through a
multi-criteria subset selection problem solved using the dominance relation.
Experiments show that exploiting the dominance relation results in a concise
set of counterfactual explanations
A New Approach to Learning of 3D Characteristic Points for Vehicle Pose Estimation
No full textThis article discusses the challenges of estimating the pose of a
vehicle from monocular images in an uncontrolled environment. We propose
a new neural network architecture that learns 3D characteristic points of vehicles
from image crops and coordinates of 2D keypoints on images. To facilitate
supervised training of this network, we pre-process the ApolloCar3D
dataset to obtain labelled 3D characteristic points of different car models.
We evaluate our approach on the ApolloCar3D benchmark and demonstrate
results competitive to state-of-the-art methods
