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PUBLIC + BUILDING, A design approach for the new Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art (VMHK) formerly known as M HKA
No full textThe Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA) is an institution strongly rooted in the existing fabric and socio-political framework of Antwerp South. The museum is located on the outskirts of the city, which has undergone consistent urban development and urban planning as the city grew into one of the most diverse metropolitan areas in Europe. In this development, the Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art gradually sought to evolve with society and make way for a larger institutional purpose that pushed the museum agenda towards a more formal and generic interpretation of art spaces and how they are interpreted in light of the current zeitgeist. In my final project, I revisit the meaning of art presentation in relation to cultural building by reconnecting with MKHA’s historic approach of capturing the essence of conserving and presenting contemporary art, an identity and genesis of an institution that has curated its growing collection between less conventional building layout and architectural fabric.My design proposal is based on the sustainable idea and design language of reusing existing building tissue, specifically the former courthouse building which is assigned for the new developments of the M HKA or at the time entitled: Vlaams Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst (VMHK). A building typology that exists of two prefabricated office towers that are connected by a low-rise structural addition and entrance. Here, the practice of preserving and exhibiting art in an anti-museum condition becomes relevant again through the presence of existing structure and building layout, which, in resemblance to the former MHKA building, reinforces this familiar identity in which exhibiting art bears the title ‘symbiosis between’ anti-museum condition and institutional purpose. Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Interiors Buildings Citie
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Between Theory and Reality: Economic Crises and the Historiography of Early Modern Europe
No full textThe concept of crisis came to historians through the labyrinth of analogy with biology and medicine, and analogies are useful because of their capacity to describe and explain what could not be explained better in other way. This has often led observers to see pathological elements where quite unexceptional processes are at work. For times like the preindustrial epoch, when instability was the norm and the economic trends constituted the real gears of society, the idea of crisis as an analytic tool shows obvious limitations. «The concept of crisis is itself a reflexive one, which not only recounts historical changes and ruptures, but also situates them within a complex semantic network». This archetype has answered too often to the central and ideological concerns of the twentieth century to be left aside, and so the need is to use it very gingerly. Crisis and stability have been inextricably linked in Europe for most of the early modern age – the old Continent always seems to be on the verge of disaster, only to prove incredibly resilient – but the criteria to define an economic crisis have always shown great variability and insufficient uniformity; the terms of the debate on economic crises in the preindustrial era seem often affected by failings in the methodological setting.
Recently distinction has come in between aggregate trends and per capita gross domestic product tendencies, but historical analysis of these comes up against considerable difficulties in relation to the reliability and representativeness of the data chosen and/or available to indicate these magnitudes; also the endeavours to distinguish between crises of underproduction and crises of overproduction, or between local and general crises, or between trend and structural crises meet great setbacks; it is extremely complicated, and at times misleading, to isolate certain significant variables, detect their causal and functional relations, and assess their development over time. It is also indispensable to read the composition of these variables against the background of a cultural and theoretical context, essential for a full understanding also of the extent and nature of economic crises.
Today, for the early modern age, the category of crisis is an analytic premise, a process in an organic conception of history, a turning point in a quantitative series, or even a linguistic bridge between various disciplines. Its versatility is one of its most attractive characteristics, provided it does not mean following the example of Humpty Dumpty in Alice Through the Looking Glass, who asserted that the meaning of words depended on «which is to be the master – that’s all». For historians, whatever their particular field or background may be, words and concepts are no substitute for unceasing verification through sources and archives
Opening "New Business Routes" to Beat the Competition. The Merchants of the Venetian Mainland in Sixteenth-century Europe
No full textThe aim of this essay is to examine the latter phenomenon in depth and to look at some concrete examples of how Mainland silk merchants found profitable markets in central/eastern Europe and the Baltics. Special attention is paid to the various strategies adopted by Mainland businessmen in the sixteenth century in order to move into new markets, with specific reference to the organization of a sales network and product innovation. The final section of the essay looks at the noteworthy case of the multifaceted figure of Veronese patrician Alessandro Guagnini, a soldier and merchant who, in the 1580s, invested enormous sums in the attempt to make Sweden an important market for Italian textiles
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
Intern experience at CH���M Hill, Inc.: an internship report
No full textIncludes author's vita"Submitted to the College of Engineering of Texas A&M University in partial
fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Engineering."Includes bibliographical referencesA review of the author's internship experience with CH���M HILL, Inc.
during the period September 1975 through May 1976 is presented. During this nine month
internship the author worked as an Engineer II in the Industrial Processes discipline of this
large consulting engineering firm... The author's prime responsibility was as one of three
lead design engineers on the design of a large wastewater treatment facility for a pulp mill
in Hoquiam, Washington owned by ITT Rayonier Inc. The work generally consisted of the design
of individual treatment units and associated piping and pumping. The purpose of the project
was to provide wastewater treatment capabilities that would satisfy the effluent limitations
(standards) imposed upon the mill by the State of Washington Department of Ecology and the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The author's assignment also entailed necessary
interaction with the project manager and other CH���M HILL design engineers and support staff
members, the client's representatives, and representatives of two other consulting engineering
firms working on the project. Thus, the internship position at CH���M HILL provided considerable
experience coordinating the author's work with the work of other engineers, guiding the design
and administrative efforts of a support staff, and interacting regularly with the client and
other consulting firms. This broad exposure to a variety of engineering and organizational
problems provided a valuable educational experience
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