156 research outputs found
Declaracion magistral sobre las emblemas de Andres Alciato con todas las historias, antiguedades, moralidad y doctrina tocante a las buenas costumbres.
No full textIncludes errata, leaf [4] of preliminaries.Includes index.Signatures: [paragraph]⁸ A-3N⁸ 3O⁴.On t.p. is the engraved coat of arms of don Diego Hurtado de Mendoça, to whom the work is dedicated. Each of the 210 engraved emblematic ill. is preceded by a Latin motto, and followed by explanatory verses in Latin and explication in Spanish prose. Head-pieces of printer's ornaments, woodcut tail-pieces.The 1st of 2 eds. See Palau y Dulcet.Palau y DulcetMode of access: Internet.As in other copies, the privilege over the printed signature of Iorge de Touar has been signed in MS by Diego Lopez, p. [4] of preliminaries.On front free endpaper verso are the owner's initials R.E.M., dated abril 2 de 1933, Madrid. Signature at foot of t.p. of D. Cuengo; it is repeated on leaf 3N5v, with the date 12 April 1687. On t.p. verso is property stamp of Ricardo F. Molinari, followed by the signature of Ricardo L. Molinari. Bookseller's label on back free endpaper verso of Luis Bardon, Madrid.Binding: 20th-century mottled calfskin. Gilt tooled on spine (including author, title & imprint), and on edges of boards and turn-ins. Page edges red. Lavender silk place marker
Resilient Urban Landscapes: Landscape as an Evolutionary Socio Ecological System
No full textUrban flooding is a problem faced by many mayor cities around the world nowadays. That is the case of several areas of the Greater Miami Area. Rapid urbanization and the depletion of natural buffer zones that used to storage rain water, added to climate change effects, specifically the increase of heavy rainfalls and sea level rise have only aggravated the situation during the past two decades. This thesis focuses in the necessity to provide new types of resilient and sustainable landscapes for the cities of Hialeah and Miami Springs in order to deal with this issue. There have been and still on the going, numerous urban regeneration projects throughout the Miami Dade County. However, most of these plans don’t contemplate the use of landscape as a mean to deal with water management problems like floods. The goal of this graduation project is to improve the current and future social and ecologic needs of both cities through new types of urban landscapes that will also contribute to water management solutions for the area. The purpose of the research is to gather information to understand the problem and the site in order to establish a comprehensive set of design principles and strategies to guide the design. The key concept of the theoretical framework is the implementation of landscape as water infrastructure through the transformation of existing underused public space and urban infrastructures, as well as future areas for redevelopment within the sites. The expected result is to achieve responsive socio environmental local solutions to create an evolutionary landscape in the cities of Hialeah and Miami Springs.Miami LabArchitecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Landscape Architectur
Contesting metropolization by Neoliberalism: Activating vulnerable areas through inter-municipal spatial planning in Santiago de Chile
No full textMetropolization process in Santiago de Chile has been strongly influenced by neoliberal rationale in the field of urban planning. A diffuse interaction between the forces of the urban land market, national-global trends of capital agglomeration and fragmented governance have led to a highly segregated socio-spatial structure. These processes have fostered the economic marginalization of the most vulnerable municipal areas unable to profit within the current model of market-driven development. During the last five years, the Chilean government has raised the necessity to address these issues through new governance and planning national agenda. Based on this context, this graduation thesis investigates the evolution of those urban issues in the Metropolitan area of Santiago (MAS) and evaluates a collaborative spatial planning strategy for three vulnerable municipalities by using adaptive scenarios. A paramount emphasis is focused on the social and economic activation of the morphological urban tissue of these areas by using a multi-scalar approach.This thesis has been realized thanks to the support of the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research of Chile.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Citie
An attempt to regain Paradise: Urban regeneration of the largest residential community - Paradise Gateway in Beijing - from the inter-scalar perspective
No full textChinese cities are going through an intense transformation of urbanization, which the world haven't experienced before. Beijing, as the capital, is the first to be affected by both developments and problems through this transformation. The flow of people from rural to urban, and from small cities to large cities is dramatic. The phenomenon of Drifters, migrants in Beijing, started to draw the attention of the whole society since the 1980s. Economic and political restrictions made the life adventures of Drifters hard enough.This project aims to find alternative solutions towards overcrowding densities and housing shortage crisis in Paradise Gateway, Beijing. Although my appeal is not as strong and influential as the Red political specialists, whose lifelong pursue is to prove how our people live in rejoicing based on imagination. I found it is my duty, as an urban planner, to work on a better future for citizens, instead of benumbing people with slogans. Born in Beijing, the author personally experienced the poor traffic condition of the city. Congestion can easily happen anywhere, especially at the peripheral of the city center, which is a clear sign of the overcrowding. Various measures towards congestion have been carried out, from the license-plate lottery to odd-and-even license plate control rule. There are rumors about tolls on ring road are going to be charged in the coming 2017. 'The song for the fifth ring' gains huge popularity among Citizens in Beijing, expressing the mixed feelings about the city's infrastructure. Another part of the motivation of this project is the attempt to reveal the primary cause of congestion in Beijing.In conclusion, the project will aim toward counteracting the quality effects of the mega-residential communities in Beijing. These communities are playing an important role in the settlement of immigrants, where living condition and traffic condition is bad. As density rises, living quality of local citizens goes down. Is there any possibility of revitalizing the giant communities
Explicitness of Task Instructions Supports Motor Learning and Modulates Engagement of Attentional Brain Networks
No full textMotor learning is a complex cognitive and motor process underlying neurorehabilitation. Cognitive (e.g., attentional) engagement is important for motor learning, especially early in the learning process. In this study, we investigated if task instructions enforcing the underlying task rule of a virtual sailing task modulate attentional engagement and motor learning. Our results suggest that enforcing the rule of a motor task using explicit knowledge or visual cues enhances motor learning compared with no enforcement of task rules. Further, training with visual cues may support early visuo-attentional engagement.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Human-Robot Interactio
Agronomic Renaissance: Towards a socially fairer and circular agrifood system in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area
No full textThe AMA region wants to make the transition towards a circular economy. To make the circular economy happen, social, environmental and economic challenges have to be integrated in the transition. This report will identify these challenges and propose a vision, a development strategy and projects/policies to propose a new system in the sector where most of these challenges come together: the agrifood sector. The agrifood sector being one of the most polluting sectors in the world plays a key role in a circular economy. The project uses the circular economy as a tool to establish normative change in the case of the imbalanced agrifood sector. The development strategy of the project provides a framework for a future circular economy in a fairer agrifood sector. The framework encompasses localising the food network and creating a local circularity in the flows of energy, water, heat, fodder, CO2 circulation and organic material. This localisation aims to create jobs for the low to middle educated people that are struck by socio-spatial polarization. It also suggests new ways of protein production and of the usage of peatlands. The conclusion is that, while already a big portion of the circular economy can be realised, more research is needed to be able to make the circular economy happen in the agrifood sector. To balance the sector, it has to be deconcentrated and localised. This localisation is essentially a modern form of the traditional sector from the 18th and 19th century. Therefore it’s called an agronomic renaissance. Due to the traditional nature of the sector, institutional change has to happen, which can only be achieved by a long term strategy, strong policy and a periodical review. Giving the sector guidance and a perspective is important to instigate the change needed for a circular agrifood system that also accounts for the social, environmental and economic challenges mentioned. This project gives a possible direction for this long term perspective.REPAi
Composition and digestibility of different sources of feed phosphates by growing pigs
No full textThree experiments were conducted to determine the composition and digestibility of different sources of feed phosphates. In Exp 1, the hypothesis was that the process of production of feed phosphates removes most impurities including those potentially harmful for growing pigs. Seven sources of monocalcium phosphate (MCP), 4 of dicalcium phosphate (DCP), 2 of monosodium phosphate (MSP), and 1 magnesium phosphate (MgP) were used. Each feed phosphate was analyzed for minerals and then the P and Ca bound to impurities was calculated. Results indicated that the concentration of macro minerals were not different within each source of feed phosphate; whereas, micro minerals were more variable. For the potentially harmful minerals, the feed phosphates had variable concentrations but lower than the level of tolerance of the animal for all feed phosphates. In conclusion, the process to produce feed phosphates appears to be effective in generating a product with a specified concentration of P and low concentrations of potentially harmful minerals. In Exp. 2, the hypothesis was that P in feed phosphates from volcanic (igneous) sources have a greater digestibility than feed phosphates from sedimentary deposits when fed to growing pigs. A source of MCP and MSP from volcanic deposits and from non-volcanic (sedimentary) deposits were procured. Four diets were formulated to contain each source of phosphate as the sole source of P. A P-free diet was also formulated to estimate the endogenous P loss from pigs. Forty pigs were allotted to the 5 diets and housed individually in metabolism crates. Collection of feces took place 4 d after a period of adaptation of 5 d. Results indicate that the apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) and standardized total tract digestibility (STTD) of P were not different between MCP and MSP from volcanic deposits and MCP and MSP from non-volcanic deposits. Values of digestibility were in agreement with previous data for STTD of P in MCP and MSP. In conclusion, the hypothesis was rejected because no differences were found between the volcanic and non-volcanic feed phosphates. In Exp. 3, the hypothesis was that the ATTD and STTD of P in feed phosphates was increased by the use of microbial phytase when fed to growing pigs. A source of MCP, one source of MSP, and one source of MgP were procured. Three corn-soybean based diets were formulated to included 0, 500, or 4,000 units of microbial phytase (FTU) per kg but with no inclusion of feed phosphates. Nine additional diets were formulated by adding each of the 3 feed phosphates to the 3 basal diets. A P-free diet was formulated to estimate basal endogenous loss of P. A total of 13 diets were used in the experiment. One-hundred and seventeen pigs were allotted to the 13 diets for a total of 9 replicate pigs per diet. Each pig was housed individually in metabolism crates that allow the total collection of feces. A period of 5 d was given to the pigs for adaptation to the diet, prior to a 4 d collection period. Results indicated that the ATTD and STTD of P increased in all diets with the inclusion of phytase. However, the ATTD and STTD of P in the feed phosphates were not affected by the inclusion of phytase. This implies that the increase in the ATTD and STTD of P observed in the mixed diets was due to the release of P from phytate in corn and soybean meal but not from an increase in digestibility of P in feed phosphates. Results also indicated that MgP had a lower (P < 0.05) ATTD and STTD of P than MCP and MSP. In conclusion, the inclusion of microbial phytase did not increase the digestibility of P in feed phosphates.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2022-08-01The student, Diego Lopez Diaz, accepted the attached license on 2020-06-15 at 18:24.The student, Diego Lopez Diaz, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2020-06-15 at 18:31.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2020-06-18 at 11:06.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15449 on 2020-10-02 at 15:30:50Made available in DSpace on 2020-10-07T22:07:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Resilient Energy, Energetic City: Adaptive strategies for coastal system in transition
No full textThe project is about the reverse of risks from changing climate and transitional energy system into opportunities to become evolutionary resilient cities.Climate change is happening globally and is becoming more and more serious now. The temperature rise, sea-level rise, land shifting, precipitation pattern change, extreme weather increase the potentiality of risks like coastal flooding, pluvial flooding, landslide, snow slide and so on. To mitigate the climate change, energy transition is put forward which is the most effective way to control greenhouse emission. But this kind of measure requires the change of energy system also including social, economic and spatial alteration, especially the country like Norway who benefits from the petroleum sectors since the years of history. The combination of climate change and transitional energy system will threaten the whole urban systems and the people will finally become the victims.On the other side, considering the main climatic change and geographical condition of Norway, more water from sea, river and sky brings the opportunity to accelerate energy transition. Therefore, in this project energy sector in transition is utilized as the tool to explore how to diminish the impact of climate change, meanwhile to reduce the vulnerability of urban systems and even convert the risks into opportunity of evolutionary resilience. The transitional process is proposed towards 2050.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
Urban Resources: Banking on cities for secondary resources to release the pressure on natural environment and progress towards Environmentally Sustainable urban integrated systems
No full textThis thesis seeks to explore the concept of Circular Economy and its integration into urban planning as a tool of implementation. The goal of this thesis is to develop environmentally sustainable cities. To develop environmentally sustainable cities, the thesis focuses on two major resource flows in the city: food and water, whose waste streams and high demand are causing damage to the environment. The thesis has developed regional strategies for both the resource flows in decentralized systems and centralized systems. It has emphasized the integration of socio-ecological systems and socio-technical systems that are required in order to successfully implement a circular economy in developing countries. The strategies and the spatial design are elaborated in two pilot projects which have different challenges.Urban MetabolismArchitecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanis
Redefining Bangkok’s Inclusive Water-Based Society: Flood Resilience Planning of Adaptive and Performative Hybrid Infrastructure Network
No full textPerception and relation of people towards water in Bangkok have changed through time, from a way of living to threat of lives. Growth of urbanization from adaptive water-based society to land-based mega-polis has led to a major shift of urban infrastructures changing lifestyle and perception of people. Water is currently perceived in form of flood threatening various land-based developments by the interruption of daily systems. To reinforce the growth of land-based urbanization, Grey infrastructure solutions are heavily promoted, protecting the city from flood, in the same time, water get devalued and separated from people life. The indigenous socio-ecological living with water is vanished from the urban society and water, as valuable natural asset, is in the stage of decaying socially and ecologically. In the rapid climate change era, on behalf of continuing to avoid and live against nature, Bangkok and the inhabitants are challenged to adapt reliving with water once again. The paper mainly focuses to transform the existing grey infrastructures into hybrid flood adaptive and performative resilience system of Bangkok, reducing flood risks and provoking socio-ecological transformation with water-based identity.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
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