1,253 research outputs found
The Border: El Paso (U.S.A.), Juarez (Mexico)
No full textThe borderlands between the U.S.A. and Mexico are usually associated with problems of immigration, violence and illegal trades. As a reaction, the architecture of the border and its crossings is one of aggression, control and exposure creating an identity and spatial experience that undermines and damages the binational communities, socially, politically and culturally. The binational border, by its nature, is the place where differences in culture, language and politics meet. A balance between its resistance and permeability potentially creates an environment that attracts and stimulates authenticity and diversity. At the heart of the twin-cities of El Paso, U.S.A. and Juarez, Mexico, lies the second busiest crossing along the U.S.-Mexican border for which I made a new design. The design has to deal with over 50.000 people crossing every day both on foot and by car. In the design I enlarged the space between the border check points creating a political free zone in which I tried to oppose the current architectural trend by focussing on, freedom and ambiguity in movement and use and on spaces that offer shelter and privacy. The border is materialized as a 25 meter tall wall that encloses a contextual vacuum in which the people, the current border and the existing crossing can be seen in a new light, and can act free from contextual connotations and expectations.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Project
Architecture of production: Juárez Garment Factory
No full textDesign proposal for a garment factory in the Mexican city of Juarez, along the U.S. - Mexico border. The project proposes a new approach for factories in this region, which are facing many problems due to an ever increasing demand to reduce costs, to meet the requirements of the global market.Architecture and The Built EnvironmentArchitectureComplex Project
Waste Management Center
No full textDue to Free Trade Agreement and location at USA – MEX border there is an overload of urban and toxic wastes which are very poorly managed or dumped illegaly. New position towards urban waste management encourages united El Paso – Juarez strategy and merges different types of waste management - sorting (recycling), Waste-to-Energy (WTE), reuse and education. Research proved that these functions complement one another and reduce expenses, transportation and landfilling rate. New clean and efficient technology encourages to rethink location and architect’s role while designing an industrial building that can be simultaneously attractive and engaging to public. Design consists of 4 volumes with different program (as mentioned above) and 3 functionally related dithes. This arrangement allows public to observe technical process within building while walking at safe ground level. ‘Waste Campus’ atmosphere is created and can be regarded as continuation of neighbouring university and school campus.Architecture and The Built EnvironmentArchitectur
The My Lai Massacre in American history and memory
No full textThis book examines the response of American society to the massacre and its ambiguous place in American national memory. The author argues that the massacre revelations left many Americans untroubled, and it was only when the soldiers most immediately responsible came to be tried that the controversy really came to public attention. He finds that, contrary to interpretations of the Vietnam conflict as an unhealed national trauma or wound, many Americans have assimilated the war and its violence rather too well, and they were able to do so even when that violence was most conspicuous and current. Consistent with the view that US soldiers have subsequently been cast in national culture as the conflict’s principal victims, it was the American perpetrators of the massacre and not the Vietnamese they brutalized who, even in the case of My Lai, became the central object of popular concern
Magnetic HUB: prototype to shorten the distance between Cd Juarez and El Paso
No full textThe aim of my project would be using the complex building as the activators for the cities to improve the urban decentralization around the border area.Architecture and The Built EnvironmentArchitectur
Charcot-marie-tooth: Present situation and prospects [Enfermedad de charcot-marie-tooth: Actualidad perspectivas]
No full textThe Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is defined as a sensory-motor polineurophatic abnormality, of demyelinating or axonal type, and genetic and clinical heterogeneity. Objective: This review is intended to update the clinical spectrum of this disease, as well as to know the molecular and therapeutic advances that contribute to understand and manage better this heterogeneous entity. Development: The Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is a genetically complex syndrome with more than 30 associated genes; it is one of the more common hereditary neuropathies, whose reports indicate an estimated prevalence of 17-25 cases / 100,000 inhabitants. The clinical spectrum is broad, without an established genotype-phenotype correlation; however, there are a number of clinical features that allow their inclusion in several clinical subtypes. Typically, the patients present with distal muscle weakness and atrophy often associated with foot sensory loss and mild to moderate depression of tendon reflexes. Conclusions: The Charcot-Marie-Tooth classification is complex and constantly subject to a review of new genes and mutations. The observed clinical variability coincides with the involvement of different genes and proteins that help maintain function and integrity of the peripheral nerve, so that they become an important research target for developing new and better therapies. © INNN 2012
Characterization of the 5? and 3? breakpoints of the Spanish (??)0-thalassemia deletion in Mexican patients
No full textThe Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is defined as a sensory-motor polineurophatic abnormality, of demyelinating or axonal type, and genetic and clinical heterogeneity. Objective: This review is intended to update the clinical spectrum of this disease, as well as to know the molecular and therapeutic advances that contribute to understand and manage better this heterogeneous entity. Development: The Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is a genetically complex syndrome with more than 30 associated genes; it is one of the more common hereditary neuropathies, whose reports indicate an estimated prevalence of 17-25 cases / 100,000 inhabitants. The clinical spectrum is broad, without an established genotype-phenotype correlation; however, there are a number of clinical features that allow their inclusion in several clinical subtypes. Typically, the patients present with distal muscle weakness and atrophy often associated with foot sensory loss and mild to moderate depression of tendon reflexes. Conclusions: The Charcot-Marie-Tooth classification is complex and constantly subject to a review of new genes and mutations. The observed clinical variability coincides with the involvement of different genes and proteins that help maintain function and integrity of the peripheral nerve, so that they become an important research target for developing new and better therapies. " INNN 2012.",,,,,,,,,"http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12104/40008","http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84887435229&partnerID=40&md5=4c40cb9231b6f09fa1e175e8b36db5b6",,,,,,"2",,"Archivos de Neurociencias",,"11
Thick-bedded deep-marine sandstones: The use of analogs for reservoir appraisal
No full textCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Characterization of deltaic rocks for numerical reservoir simulation
No full textCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Upscaling of permeability heterogeneities in reservoir rocks; an integrated approach
No full textThis thesis presents a hierarchical and geologically constrained deterministic approach to incorporate small-scale heterogeneities into reservoir flow simulators. We use a hierarchical structure to encompass all scales from laminae to an entire depositional system. For the geological models under consideration we propose a five-scale hierarchy with sedimentary structure and subfacies as key elements. The five scales are the lamina, sedimentary structure or bed, subfacies, facies, and depositional system. We use the term subfacies to denote a rock type, i.e. a body of rock with internally consistent sedimentary properties. The term facies denotes an assemblage of subfacies. The depositional system may be thought of as a sequence, i.e. an assemblage of genetically related deposits formed during periods between "catastrophic" events such as an abrupt sea level rise. Although sedimentary architecture is very complicated, the hierarchical approach lends itself naturally to implementation of heterogeneity in a reservoir simulator. For this reason we distinguish flow units, flow cells and grid cells. Flow units are subfacies schematised in a rectangular structure. The building block of the flow unit is a particular type of flow cell. Flow cells are periodic unit cells (PUC) that contain one or more sedimentary structures. The advantage of the assumed periodicity is that PUC's can be used to obtain average flow characteristics over the representative elementary volume (REV) of the flow unit. Such an REV consists of a large collection of PUC's. For flow simulations on the oil field scale we divide the flow units into rectangular grid cells that contain the flow characteristics of the flow cell. The simulations based on SPE 9th comparative program show the importance of incorporating small-scale heterogeneities.Civil Engineering and Geoscience
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