73 research outputs found
Farshid Moussavi
No full textIn this lecture, Farshid Moussavi will argue that architecturally speaking, politics is about people’s attachment to buildings- how buildings alter what people see, hear and do in and around them. This is not a question that is settled in advance through representation, but has to be evaluated in its irreducible singularity each time.
Alongside leading an award-winning architectural practice, Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA), she lectures regularly at arts institutions and schools of architecture worldwide and is a published author. Moussavi was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to architecture. She was elected a Royal Academician in 2015 and Professor of Architecture at the RA Schools in 2017.
Moussavi’s ideas and work are at the forefront of critical debate about architecture. In 2017 she was Architectural curator of the Royal Academy Summer Show where she proposed a highly original approach, showing the internal mechanisms and the construction process that underpins architecture. Her work is deeply rooted in critical research which she carries out through FunctionLab, the research branch of FMA. FunctionLab explores cultural questions that find actualisation in the building commissions of the office, allowing for informed and innovative results. With the influential series of books that Moussavi published with Harvard, The Function of…, she has explored the theory and built history of ornament, form, and style
sepehrband/Mining_NeuroAnat: version 0.1
No full text<p>release: version 0.1
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date: August 31 2017
author: farshid sepehrband</p>
RDA (Resources Description and Access): A new standard for digital environment
No full textDigital technologies have changed widely environment of libraries and information centers and other knowledge management organizations. So, these organizations have started designing and keeping of data bases in order to access their recourses. According to nonstop-increasing resources in these data bases and the lack of an international standards which make these resources descriptive and accessible, introducing and representing such standard is necessary. RDA as a new standard for description and access to digital resources has been designed to overcome these problems. It is based on Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (AACR). RDA is a collection of instructions and guidelines which is used to describe and access to all kinds of resources and media.
We will introduce the new international standard, RDA, with a review of previous cataloguing rules in this article. RDA is being surveyed of different aspects as: necessities, structure, and consequence of use, characteristics, goals, strategies, revised and development processes. The outline of this standard will be introduced and surveyed properly.
One of the important results of this paper is that the librarians and information scientists become familiar and aware with RDA and usage of it in libraries and scientific information center
Landslides: visualization of the global conceptual trend
Get PDFPurpose: This study discovers the global knowledge structure of landslide research over the past twenty years in Researchers' research outputs.Methodology: This study uses co-word analysis to determine and visualize the global structure of landslide knowledge, track the most widely used subjects, and choose the conceptual dynamics in research on landslides. This scientometric method was used to study data from the Web of Science Core Collection (WOSCC) regarding 9185 landslide research publications produced from 2000 to 2020.Findings: The keyword “geographic information systems (GIS)” had the highest frequency, and the phrase “landslide susceptibility” was the most often used co-word pair. Co-word analysis produced 15 thematic clusters. Cluster 8 has the highest density among the clusters, and the highest centrality was seen in Cluster 1. Most of the thematic clusters are located in the third quadrant of the strategic diagram, indicating either emerging or declining clusters. The maturity and cohesion of each cluster show their trends. Conclusion: Co-word analysis, as a suitable and powerful tool, can visualize the scientific and intellectual structure of landslides and track the most used topics, and determine the conceptual dynamics and areas of Landslide research, and its results will be of great help to research and practical planners and policymakers. The results of the study significantly help researchers and applied planners and policymakers in adopting appropriate measures to reach more effective solutions in the shortest possible time. Also, develop research evaluation policies, and university managers aimed to create research evaluation policies.Value:The research has also explored the complex relationships governing international studies, illuminates angles, highlights research gaps, and leads scholars and analyses. These results will pave the paths forward for planners and policymakers in organizations and centers actively addressing landslide management’s strategic plans. Subsequent studies could focus on the examination of the networks of collaboration between centers and researchers, and their impacts on decision-making
Three proposals for a new urban center in Tehran (1966-1976)
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-108).In 1975, Muhammad Reza Shah, the king of Iran, inaugurated the construction of a ceremonial urban center in northern Tehran. The proposed plan, prepared by Llewelyn-Davies International, consisted of a large plaza and two boulevards lined with governmental and commercial buildings-an extravagant project made possible by the 1973 oil boom that quadrupled Iran's revenue. But the Shah's vision was never realized: construction was soon halted with the eruption of the protests that led to the fall of the Pahlavi monarchy in 1979. The Llewelyn-Davies plan was not the first proposal for the site. It was initially planned in Tehran's master plan-prepared jointly by Victor Gruen and Farmanfarmaian Associates (1966-70). In late 1973, Louis Kahn was solicited to prepare a proposal, which was never finished as Kahn died in March 1974. This thesis examines these three proposed plans for a new urban center in Tehran. Through a detailed examination of consultancy reports, architectural drawings and archival documents, the thesis critically analyzes the urban vision and socio-political underpinnings of the projects. Based on the three main roles of the new urban center-civic, national, and international-I interpret the plans as metaphors of urban life; as political tools of nation building in the postwar web of nation-states; and as products of international design currents. The aim is to delineate the ways in which international design currents meshed with the political, social and intellectual context of Iran in the 1970s, a period characterized by authoritarian rule, monarchical nationalism and rapid modernization. Underlying all three proposals was a yearning to create a modernized, acculturated and apolitical urban middle class. The trajectory of these plans demonstrates how the demand for rapid modernization obliterated alternative voices and led, ultimately, to "the tragedy of development."by Farshid Emami.S.M
Scientific and Professional Performance, Web Presence of Iranian Knowledge and Information Science Academics and Their Publications in Google Scholar, ISCI & Google
No full textWeb presence is one of the areas of research in the field of
webometrics. Due to lack of precise information on the presence of the
Knowledge and Information Science (KIS) faculty members in Iran, this
study aims to address this problem. It studies the level and quality of the
presence of the LIS faculty and its relation to their professional
effectiveness, focusing on their academic and professional performance.
This study is an applied research, taking two approaches: descriptive
survey and webometrics. The study participants are the KIS faculty
members in Iran who hold a PhD degree, have senior lecturer (assistant
professor) position and positions above that, and have scientific
publications and web citations. A checklist was used to collect the webrelated
data on their presence, and a questionnaire was designed to
collect the data on their academic and professional activities. Three
databases were used to collect the web-related data, namely Google,
Google Scholar and the Iran Science Citation Index. The data was
analyzed using statistical analysis and tests of descriptive and
interpretive types. From the web presence perspective, the findings
revealed that besides experienced academics, younger academic
members have remarkable web presence. The findings showed that there
is a meaningful relationship between the level of presence of the studyparticipants and their publications. KIS academics of Ferdowsi University of
Mshhad and Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz have gained highest positions
according to publication web presence in Google. Also, scientific databases, self
citations and university websites have got the first to third ranks in order to
publication web presence themes. In addition, results showed us publishing Farsi
and English articles in credible refereed journals is the most important theme in
scientific and professional performance
The Role of Social Media in the Journals and the Effectiveness of Journals on Social Media: A Comparative Study of Reputable Journals based on OECD Classification
No full textObjective: The purpose of the paper is to study the role of social media in journals and the impact of journals on social media in the six subject areas of OECD.Methodology: This applied research was conducted in 2023 with scientometric indicators and approaches. The research population includes 380 titles from world journals and 41 Iranian journals, which have quartile (Q) and belong to one of the six subject areas of OECD. The data were collected using Web of Science Core Collection (WOSCC), InCite, and altmetrics, which were analyzed using Access, Excel, SPSS, and Data wrapper.Findings: The findings showed that medical and natural sciences journals have a higher rank regarding the variety of social media and the frequency of social citations. Twitter, patents, and news agencies are the most important social media. In world journals, there is a strong correlation between the number of received citations and the number of social citations of natural sciences, engineering, medical sciences, agricultural sciences, and humanities journals, and a moderate correlation with social science journals. In Iranian journals, there was a strong correlation between the number of standard and social citations of Iranian journals in engineering and medical sciences. The variety of media used in Iranian journals is lower than that of world journals, and the gap between the social citations of Iranian journals and the world is vast. The United States and Great Britain users are the most social citers on Twitter and Facebook.Conclusion: The results highlight the necessity of familiarizing the country's researchers and research policymakers with the advantage of social media in promoting and highlighting research outputs and improving the country's scientific status in the long term
Retraction notice to “Rechargeable Batteries for Energy Storage: A review” [e-Prime - Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy 8 (2024) 100510]
No full textThis article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal).Suspicious changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper were discovered.The paper was originally submitted by Ehsan Kianfar as single author. Co-authors Chou-Yi Hsu, Yathrib Ajaj, Ghadir Kamil Ghadir, Hayder Musaad Al-Tmimi, Zaid Khalid Alani, Ausama A. Almulla, Mustafa Asaad Hussein, Ahmed Read Al-Tameemi, Zaid H. Mahmoud, Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa, Farshid Kianfar, and Sajjad Habibzadehwere were added to the revised paper without explanation and without exceptional approval by the journal editor, which is a violation of the journal's policies. The publisher reached out to the authors for an explanation, but they failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to these changes.The Editor has determined that the authorship and the findings of the article cannot be relied upon and has decided to retract the article
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