scholarly journals Functional Reuse of Contemporary Residential Houses to Multiple Functions in Baghdad : an investigation of the most widespread functions, using Sulaikh 600 as a case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 1067 (1) ◽  
pp. 012014
Author(s):  
N H Ali ◽  
S K Alkindy
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Functions

scholarly journals Being Normal: Stigmatization of Lord’s Resistance Army Returnees as ‘Moral Experience’ in Post-war Northern Uganda

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Macdonald ◽  
Raphael Kerali
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Moral Experience ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
Lord's Resistance Army ◽  
Post War ◽  
Lord’S Resistance Army

Abstract The literature on Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) returnees in Acholiland, northern Uganda tells us that those who returned from the rebel group are likely to experience stigma and social exclusion. While the term is deployed frequently, ‘stigma’ is not a well-developed concept and most of the evidence we have comes from accounts of returnees themselves. Focusing instead on the ‘stigmatizers’, this article theorizes stigmatization as part of the ‘moral experience’ of regulating post-war social repair. Through interview-based and ethnographic methods, it finds that stigmatization of LRA returnees takes many forms and serves multiple functions, calling into question whether this catch-all term actually obscures more than it illuminates. While stigmatization is usually practised as a form of ‘social control’, its function can be ‘reintegrative’ rather than purely exclusionary. Through the northern Uganda case study, this article seeks to advance conceptual and empirical understanding of the manifestations and functions of stigmatization in spaces of return, challenging the logic underpinning those interventions that seek to reduce it.

scholarly journals Protein Surface Printer for Exploring Protein Domains

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Li ◽  
Baofu Qiao ◽  
Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Cell Receptor ◽  
Atomistic Simulations ◽  
Protein Surface ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
Binding Domains ◽  
Protein Functions ◽  
Surface Domains ◽  
Positively Charged ◽  
Spike Proteins

AbstractThe surface of proteins is vital in determining protein functions. Herein, a program, Protein Surface Printer(PSP), is built that performs multiple functions in quantifying protein surface domains. Two proteins, PETase and cytochrome P450, are used to validate that the program supports atomistic simulations with different combinations of programs and force fields. A case study is conducted on the structural analysis of the spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV, and the human cell receptor ACE2. Although the surface domains of both spike proteins are highly similar, their receptor binding domains(RBDs) and the O-linked glycan domains are structurally different. Statistically, the outer surface of ACE2 displays less correlation with the RBD of SARS-CoV-2 than that of SARS-CoV. The O-linked glycan domain of SARS-CoV-2 is highly positively charged, which may promote binding to negatively charged human cells. Our program paves the way for an accurate understanding of protein binding for aggregation and ligand recognition.

The Curious History of Theorizing about the History of the Western Nuclear Family

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Scott Smith
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Family History ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Popular Image

The history of the family lacks a history. Sociologists and historians rarely cite interpretative literature written before the last third of the twentieth century. Curiously, at least for the discipline of history, recent scholars have seemingly regarded older perceptions as relics of a prescientific past.This foray into intellectual history will demonstrate that ignoring the history of this field also distorts it. My case study considers what is widely regarded as the largest revision in thinking about the history of the family—the complete overthrow of what William J. Goode, the sociologist most credited with its rejection, has derisively called (1970: 6) “the classical family of Western nostalgia.” Kertzer and Hogan (1988: 84) have aptly summarized the chief elements of the interpretation overturned by the revisionists: “Until recently, the popular image of Western family history pictured people as living in large extended family units that had multiple functions. With the advent of industrialization, it was thought, this system was transformed into one characterized by small, nuclear family units having more specialized functions.”

scholarly journals Analysis of the water, energy, and food nexus using system archetypes: A case study in the Jatiluhur reservoir, West Java, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
muhamad bahri
Keyword(s):  
System Dynamics ◽  
Water Availability ◽  
Water Distribution ◽  
End Users ◽  
Feedback Loops ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
System Archetypes

The reservoir usually has multiple functions such as hydropower and water distribution for different end users. Multiple functions and multiple agents also mean there are tradeoffs among multiple functions among different end users. Through feedback loops, the system dynamics tools concern on the interdependency and the complexity of the nexus elements. This paper applies the system archetypes in investigating water-energy-food-land nexus (WEFLN) in the Jatiluhur reservoir, the largest reservoir in Indonesia. Using the system archetypes. It is found that there are growth engines to support industrial, residential, and fisheries sectors. However, water availability will be a crucial issue that possibly bounds the growth engines. This situation is called the limits to growth archetype. Another system archetype, the success to successful, is also identified. This archetype reminds us the distribution of water and power should be adjusted accordingly to sustain the growth in all sectors including industry, residence, and fisheries.

scholarly journals A Framework to Achieve Multifunctionality in Biomimetic Adaptive Building Skins

Buildings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aysu Kuru ◽  
Philip Oldfield ◽  
Stephen Bonser ◽  
Francesco Fiorito
Keyword(s):  
Performance Improvement ◽  
Performance Comparison ◽  
Base Case ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
Simulation Results

Building skins should host multiple functions for increased performance. Addressing this, their design can benefit by learning from nature to achieve multifunctionality, where multifunctional strategies have evolved over years. However, existing frameworks to develop biomimetic adaptive building skins (Bio-ABS) have limited capabilities transferring multifunctionality from nature into designs. This study shows that through investigating the principles of hierarchy and heterogeneity, multifunctionality in nature can be transferred into biomimetic strategies. We aim at mapping the existing knowledge in biological adaptations from the perspective of multifunctionality and developing a framework achieving multifunctionality in Bio-ABS. The framework is demonstrated through the case study of Echinocactus grusonii implemented as a Bio-ABS on a digital base-case building. The methods include the Bio-ABS case study demonstrating the framework and simulating the performance of the case study and base-case building to comparatively analyze the results. The outcomes are a framework to develop multifunctional Bio-ABS and simulation results on the performance improvement Bio-ABS offer. The performance comparison between the Bio-ABS and base-case building show that there is a decrease in the discomfort hours by a maximum of 23.18%. In conclusion, translating heterogeneity and hierarchy principles in nature into engineered designs is a key aspect to achieve multifunctionality in Bio-ABS offering improved strategies in performance over conventional buildings.

Complex products and comprehensive service agreements: A case study of outsourcing in contract cities

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer T. Brien ◽  
Leslie L. Hine
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Product Complexity ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Complex Products ◽  
Comprehensive Service ◽  
The Government ◽  
Lock In ◽  
The City

This study investigates how outsourcing multiple public functions in a single contract increases the complexity of the services rendered under the agreement. We hypothesize that product complexity arises in these bundled service agreements due to several factors including diseconomies of scope, the 'lock-in' problem, and communications problems between the contractor, the government and the public. We investigate these questions using a textual analysis research methodology to examine the initial contract documents that formalized an agreement between the City of Sandy Springs Georgia and the firm CH2M Hill. The results of this qualitative study identified several ways that different combinations of functions increased product complexity. It also revealed ways the contracts were designed to mitigate the risks of outsourcing multiple functions in a single contract.

Shaping Memory of the Conquests: The Case of Tustar

2015 ◽  
pp. 70-90
Author(s):  
Sarah Bowen Savant
Keyword(s):  
Interesting Case ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
The Military

The military conquest of a hostile territory and its population is a paradigmatic form of violence and leaves deep imprints on the memories of the conquerors and the vanquished alike. Examining these imprints and the ways in which they are manipulated by later narrators in specific historical cases can bring to light the multiple functions that memories of violent conquest can serve. An interesting case study is provided by the Muslim conquest of the Iranian city of Tustar. Towards the end of a short seventh-century Nestorian work known as the Khūzistān Chronicle, we find as something of an appendix an account of the Arab conquest of the region and of Shūsh and Shūstrā, or as Arabs came to know the towns, al-Sūs and Tustar. The Chronicle was completed, at the latest, by 680 and is widely recognised as providing a rare window into events, because of its detailed reporting and proximity.

Experiencing Dance as Social Process: A Case Study of the Summer Paniyiri in Ikaria Island

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 148-155
Author(s):  
Katerina Fatourou
Keyword(s):  
Social Process ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
Cultural Events

The Ikarian paniyiri, one of the main cultural events in the island of Ikaria, has always acted as an important social process with various functions. Currently, it has also incorporated another role, acting as a cultural product aimed for touristic attraction. This transformation has affected the musical and dancing performance in the paniyiri, and especially the performance of the “ikariotiko,” the local dance of Ikaria. This presentation explores the multiple functions of dancing in the Ikarian paniyiri, the redefining of culture in a globalized setting, and also the process of participant integration through an intersubjective interpretation.

Comparative Suitability of RISHA’s Modular Structure for the Spatial Dimension of Human Activities (Case Study: The Living Bandung Korean Project Building, Indonesia)

2021 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carissa Carissa ◽  
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Anastasia Maurina ◽  
Budianastas Prastyatama ◽  
Mia Wimala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Almost All

Rumah Instan Sederhana Sehat (RISHA or the Simple Healthy Instant House) is a prefabricated, modular, and knock-down system for simple housing, developed by the Research Institute for Human Settlements, Ministry of Public Works and Housing in 2004. The current modular grid and its component sizes, which were initially developed based on the type of 36 m2 simple house, produce a space following the required function. The Living Bandung Korean Project (LBKP) building, selected as the case study of RISHA application on a non-residential building in this research, was programmed with multiple functions on its two stories. The study aims to gauge the suitability of RISHA components against each function in LBKP. Started with a literature study, this research focuses on comparing the referenced standard architectural spatial dimension for human activities and functions to that programmed into the LBKP building. The result shows that of the eight analyzed functions, almost all the spatial dimensions using RISHA components do not meet the standard. The RISHA components are too long for functions requiring smaller spaces, such as pantry and toilet, yet too short for ones requiring larger spaces, e.g., workshops, office, musala, minimarket, café, and guest rooms. This result is expected to inform the future development of RISHA’s alternative component sizes to fulfill the space functions.

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