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DESA1002 'Nine Quarter City' - <Wan Nurul Sabihah W Husain>
Get PDFBOARDING HOUSE IN MADRID The rational of making a boarding house in Madrid is to provide a comfortable place for the tourist to stay. The location of the house is close to the must-visit Plaza Mayor. The main idea that I would like to show in my design is creating a building which brings sense of belonging to the area. Initially, the building was made in different shape, which was more similar to other buildings in this site. They are block buildings. However, it was pretty hard to avoid difficult spaces when the building occupies much spaces on the ground floor. This is because I couldn’t provide windows for the building as there are too many people on the street that are able to see what’s inside the building. In that case, I changed the shape in a way that it only takes a little space on the ground floor which is for the entrance. I also designed the windows for the ground floor to be a bit higher than usual.However, what happened next was that my building was lacking the connection between the levels. Therefore, I sheared the second floor to create 1.5m gap so that you can see what’s happening on the lower floor. One of the walls on the top floor had also been removed and replaced by a hand rail so that you can see most of the spaces in the building.The whole building structure is mainly load bearing walls and slabs. However the ground floor is made of the combination of both load bearing walls and post and beam structure. Due to the large span created by the space before the entrance, huge columns were made so that they are able to support the slab on top of them. The building is made of concrete. The external surfaces of the building have red bricks cladding. Also, some parts of them are covered with climbing plants. The roof is made of glass with steel frame. I’m using steel because it is suitable for long spans. It is also the best choice when tensile strength is required, in this case due to the glass roof which is heavy.This is how the spatial relationship works. Before you enter the building, you are welcomed by the collonaded space. Once you’re inside the building, you will have to register at the counter provided and then you can go upstairs. While you are walking on the staircase, you are able to view the plaza which is famous for its collonaded walkway. The scenery that you’re viewing is similar to what you have just experienced before you came into the building. This shows you how the building itself is connected to the surrounding area. As you go upstairs, you’ll find yourself being blocked by a wall and the only thing that is obvious is the staircase. Therefore, of course you are going to use the staircase and go upstairs. This is the space where the kitchen and the dining area is located. The shape of the space is long. So you’ll feel like you have to explore until the end of this space, where another staircase is waiting for you. When you go to the upper floor, the same case reoccured where you’re blocked by walls which lead you to a spiral staircase. And now you have reached the top floor which allow you to view the Plaza Mayor through large windows provided. This is a space where the living room is situated. As a whole, the spatial sequences in the building is actually a journey to the top floor. What special about this floor is that it ressembles the main idea of creating a building that belongs to the area. See, when you stand by the window, you’ll feel like you’re standing inside the plaza due to the shape of the building which is a little extended into the plaza. Plus, it is a four storey house which is higher than the average height of the neighbouring buildings. Therefore, you are able to see what’s happening inside the plaza
Causal relationship framework between risk factors and project performance in design build construction projects in Malaysia / Sabihah Saaidin
Get PDFThe issue of low performance in design build (DB) projects is a common phenomenon
nowadays. Risk identification is a critical phase of project risk management which
involves not just identifying individual risks but also the interrelationship among these
risks. Previous studies have mostly focus on the identified risks through individual risk
ranking by using risk matrix. Risks factors should not be segmented and managed
independently because risks are dynamic and highly interdependent. Nonetheless a
network of various risk path which represents the causal relationship among the risks,
has been recognized as a better way to reflect the real conditions of construction projects
than using just risk checklists. In this research, a considerable effort was made towards
the establishment of a causal relationship framework of Risk Factors and Project
Performance (RISPER) in DB construction projects. In the process of developing and
validating the RISPER framework, four research objectives were outlined and three
stages involved in this research. Stage I; data were collected through a questionnaire
survey which focused on the objective (1) to explore risk factors in DB projects. Stage
II; structured interview with case DB projects were conducted which focused on the
objective (2) to identify the risk factors affecting the project performance in real DB
projects. Stage III; objective (3) to establish a causal relationship framework between
the risk factors and the performance of DB construction projects and finally objective
(4) to validate the causal relationship framework established between risk factors and
the DB construction project performance using Partial Least Square (PLS) Structural
Equation Modelling (SEM) analysis. In the findings from objectives one and two
showed that in individual risk factor the financial problems are main factors as the most
critical affect to the project performance in DB projects. Then, the confirmatory factor
analysis result from objective three revealed that the design factor; financial factor;
information factor and legal and regulation factor; have given significant and negative
impact on project performances. The validation from 12 experts also agreed that the
four risk factors influence low project performance in DB project in Malaysia. Further,
the time performance was found to be most critical in DB project in Malaysian
construction project. The findings contribute to the body of knowledge in design build
risk analysis, and the findings also enable stakeholder to prioritise the most influential
factors in regards to project performance from front-end planning for DB projects
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
Hubungan etnik di kalangan Orang Asli: Satu kajian etnografi terhadap Orang Temiar di Kampung Chengkelik, RPS Kuala Betis, Kelantan / Sabihah Ibrahim
Get PDFKajian ini dilakukan di Kampung Chengkelik , RPS Kuala Betis , Kelantan. Ianya bertujuan untuk mengetahui kehidupan Orang Asli di sini dengan lebih mendalam serta melihat sejauhmanakah perhubungan etnik yang wujud di antara mereka dengan masyarakat luar dan kebenaran bahawa Orang Asli adalah masyarakat yang terang dan tertutup. Penulisan ini dilakukan dalam tujuh bab mengikut aspek aspek yang berlainan. Bab1: Menerangkan tujuan kajian dilakukan, bidang yang dikaji serta kaedah yang digunakan danmasalah yang timbul serta care menqatasinya. Bab 2: Latar belakang Orang Temiar dari segi identifikasi , bahasa, organisasi sosio-politik serta kegiatan ekonomi tradisi mereka. Bab ini memberikan gambaran asas tentang perkaitan dengan bab-bab seterusnya. Bab 3: Latar belakang dan lokasi kampung yang dikaji dari sudut sejarah, demografi, organisasi kampung dan kemudahan yang boleh didapati. Bab 4: Perhubungan dari segi ekonomi antara penduduk kampung ini dengan masyarakat luar melalui peranan orang tengah, pembelian barang dan
kesan ekonomi pasaran kepada masyarakat di sini. Bab 5: Hubungan dengan kerajaan dari segi projek- projek yang dilaksanakan serta di segi politik di samping soal tanah . Tentang sikap Orang Asli terhadap pemerintah serta kesannya. Bab 6: Pengaruh sosial seperti perkahwinan , mass media serta peranan mubaligh dan agama dalam proses mengintegrasiken masyarakat ini dengan masyarakat luar. Bab 7: Kesimpulan terhadap kesan- kesan ekonomi, politik dan sosial kepada matlamat kerajaan dalam mengwujudkan integrasi antera masyarakat serta menghapuskan imej Orang Asli sebagai masyarakat yang mundur, terasing dan tertutup. Cadangan-cadangan untuk memajukan taraf Orang Asli
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
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