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Two Modalities of Building for the Poor: Empowering Architecture of Kere and Vernacular Modernity of B. K. Dushi
No full textSometimes, the most powerful architecture is not built to impress, but to uplift. This research compares two architects Francis Kere of Burkina Faso and Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi of India, who both address how design can serve the underserved communities through educational architecture. They come from different backgrounds and countries, however, both demonstrate that architecture can be an instrument of empowerment rather than privilege. This paper engages in Architecture research by understanding how community participation and cultural longevity become a method of social transformation. Using research methods such as comparative material analysis, case studies, and geometric methodology to dissect both architects\u27 material choice and process of design in their perspective ways of shaping a community.Through this analysis, I found that Kéré’s Gando Primary School is a demonstration of local participation ,redefining power and ownership and environment. adaptation. This paper also demonstrates that . Doshi’s Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, shows us how vernacular methods can be embedded into modern geometry to design a spatial order and balance. These results showcase how both architects created works that resonate with the culture and can be grounded contextually.Collectively, these two architects are demonstrating to us ways to build for the poor. Concluding that building for the poor doesn’t work through limitations but through liberation. They defined a community\u27s way to evolve doesn\u27t just depend on wealth, but how design can connect with the environment and culture of its people
Port of Being
No full textIn the furthest, West Point of Africa, Dakar Senegal, the current fishing port is dually acting as a driver for survival and a neglected civic threshold. This site is identified by its fast paced utility usage and has quite a bit of infrastructural decay. My architectural thesis is driven by research to reimagine how Dakar’s fishing port can turn into an iconic civic space for the community. I believe that built environments show a reflection of the mental state of its people. How can we heal social fragmentation by changing the necessity of this infrastructure into an experience? To have a piece of infrastructure that transcends beyond simple industrial usage. Using ideas from Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs this project defines designing from a framework that meets survival instincts and discovers self actualization. By creating a space where physiological safety needs can propel the community to have a sense of belonging through cultural expression and empowering the economy. I plan to use methods of spatial mapping, as well as socioeconomic statistics to understand the relationship that lies between vendors, fisherman, and the transportation of supplies. I propose that this port gets transformed into an area where it contains educational facilities, markets, communal gathering spaces, and food supply storage. By threading in public gathering spaces and proper circulation into this area, it can now be positioned as a space to be the civic common area rather than feeling excluded if you are not utilizing it for labor. Utilizing this as a form of framework really attacks how infrastructural architecture that is typically ruled by logistics and efficiency can transcend into a place with urban resilience. By redesigning this area, it\u27s no longer just a place that people go to fish or transport, but a renewal framework of civic gatherings. This piece inevitably argues that architecture can address a full spectrum of what a person needs, evolving from an instrument of survival into a heart of community nuance
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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