scholarly journals Improving Interior Environmental Quality Using Sustainable Design in Jordanian Hospital Bedrooms

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 443
Author(s):  
Saeed Hussein Alhmoud ◽  
Çiğdem Çağnan ◽  
Enis Faik Arcan
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Building Assessment ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One

As the wave of sustainability is sweeping across the major countries and cities of the world, the effect of the inevitable change is finding its way through to the health sector as well. Since the main functions of the hospital include healing the patient, it aims to provide adequate health services to people. Hospitals managers should strive to realize facilities that meet a certain level of demand. This study aims to present the interior environmental quality (IEQ) of bedrooms in Jordanian hospitals and propose a solution to improve indoor environment quality using sustainable design principles. A qualitative research methodology is used in this study. A comparative analysis is made between the original set up of the hospital buildings and the present conditions in which they are in. During the research, it was found that the design to be applied for a hospital should be following the healing environmental characteristics. Besides, the design of hospitals should be made with the climatic conditions of the area in mind. In the advanced countries of the world, hospitals are generally built with extensive research and important factors such as temperature, wind direction and humidity are taken into consideration. The design for a hospital building should be assessed according to the German Green Building Assessment (DGNB) criteria. It has been found that the one-bedroom is ideal for patients because it provides the necessary privacy and also greatly reduces the spread of the disease. In hygienic practices, there should be a first-class healing environment with evidence-based medical research. It was concluded that the practices involving the use of sustainable designs can be followed with the hints received from hospitals in the advanced countries of the world. Keywords: Jordan hospital; IEQ; bedroom; interior design; healthcare; green building assessment; DGNB

scholarly journals PLATFORM COOPS NOW!: A team entrepreneurship capacity building program to create platform coops

2021 ◽  
pp. 135-156
Author(s):  
Liher Pillado Arbide ◽  
Ander Etxeberria Aranburu ◽  
Giovanni Tokarski
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
New School ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Building Program ◽  
Capacity Building Program

Traditional labour relationships have been disrupted due to the digital platforms based businesses. This article aims on the one hand to share the consequences the sharing economy has generated for workers, and how MONDRAGON’s principles as one of the best examples of worker owned business group in the world, can be applied within the new digital era. On the other hand, this paper provides a literature review on how digital platforms can operate with fairer principles based on the framework that platform coops consist of. Last but not least, Mondragon University and The New School have set up a capacity building program on team entrepreneurship and an online incubation program that aims to support the creation of platform coops, whose results after two editions and future opportunities for research are shared.

Group Insolvencies

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinhard Bork ◽  
Renato Mangano
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

This chapter deals with European cross-border issues concerning groups of companies. This chapter, after outlining the difficulties encountered throughout the world in defining and regulating the group, focuses on the specific policy choices endorsed by the EIR, which clearly does not lay down any form of substantive consolidation. Instead, the EIR, on the one hand, seems to permit the ‘one group—one COMI’ rule, even to a limited extent, and, on the other hand, provides for two different regulatory devices of procedural consolidation, one based on the duties of ‘cooperation and communication’ and the other on a system of ‘coordination’ to be set up between the many proceedings affecting companies belonging to the same group.

scholarly journals Indoor Environmental Quality Assessment of Historic Buildings in the State Park: A Case Study in Michigan

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Suk-Kyung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Green Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Indoor Environmental Quality ◽  
Park Planning ◽  
Environmental Quality Assessment

Michigan State University and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources established a partnership for sustainable park planning in October 2011. The purpose of the partnership was to enable students in the design fields to work on real-world projects and provide practical solutions. One of the notable projects was to assess old historic buildings in one state park and propose renovation plan to improve its indoor environmental quality and energy efficiency. The buildings in the park functioned as the traveler’s destination in the 1920s and still preserve original interior and exterior features. The team of undergraduates and faculty in interior design visited the park and assessed the interior and exterior conditions of two of its buildings. They used an assessment tool which was designed on a basis of the elements in the indoor environmental quality category (IEQ) of the US Green Building Council’s LEED. Results revealed that the indoor environmental conditions of the buildings should be improved. The energy efficiency of the buildings was low. Based on this assessment, this study offered practical suggestions for improving the building’s indoor environmental quality. This study also proposed an assessment tool for the historic buildings in the state parks in Michigan to assess current indoor environmental quality of those buildings.

Assessment Indexes and Systems of Environmental Quality of Green Buildings in China

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bing Wei ◽  
Wen Luo ◽  
Bin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Outdoor Environment ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Assessment Index ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Set Up

With the rapid development of modern economy in China, the concept of “green building” is paid more attention, and the assessment to green buildings becomes more important than before. In green building assessment systems, the assessment to the environmental quality is one of the most important content. The research to the assessment index systems of environmental quality is of great significance to developing green buildings in China. In this paper, based on the technical requirements and design outlines of green buildings, the assessment rule, object, method and mode that are suitable for the situations in China are discussed by combining the characteristics of indoor and outdoor environment of green buildings, and the assessment index and system of environmental quality are set up. In the process, the evaluation models of AHP (analytic hierarchy process) are established. The weight factor of the indexes of environmental quality are made certain using the method of AHP, which will be the basis of the whole assessment system of green building and the reference for the implement of green building evaluation policy in China. All the work is to promote the development of green buildings.

Regional Characteristics on Green Building and the Development of Assessment System in China

2010 ◽  
Vol 113-116 ◽  
pp. 598-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang Hong Li
Keyword(s):  
Green Building ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Regional Characteristics ◽  
Construction Market ◽  
Local Characteristics ◽  
Building Assessment ◽  
The World ◽  
Regional Factors

Green building increases the efficiency and reduces impacts on the environment, which may resolve serious resource and environmental problems in China that is the largest construction market in the world. This paper analyzed the unbalanced regional characteristics of green building in China. Taking the only platinum score as example, the method of how to get the green building criteria is debated. This paper suggests that analyzing the regional characteristics of the building and adjusted weights of regional factors to establish scientific green building assessment system with local characteristics is needed to be considered urgently.

scholarly journals Highlighting the Undemocratic Hegemony of Totalitarian Regime: An Analysis of Bisma’s The Queue

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Muhammad Arif ◽  
Humaira Ahmed ◽  
Bakht Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Basic Question ◽  
It Projects ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Democratic Norms

The study highlights elements of totalitarian regime in the light of the pattern given by Hanna Arendt in her book Origin of Totalitarianism. The authorities of such regimes prove to be despotic, centralized, horrible, and non-democratic. They use different techniques such as tyrannical exertions, oppression by the state, fright and trepidation, constant war on purpose, censorship of media and demand of unquestionable obedience from the masses. The research article has taken into consideration The Queue by Bisma Abdul Aziz. There is a consistent approach on the part of the ruler to set up and sustain the absolute government. It projects the desperate struggle of the regime to impose authority on the masses and signifies that any possible revolt is stricken hard as it may prove to be a threat to the regime. The study contextualizes the current political upheaval across the globe since on the one hand, there are frequent efforts to develop the democratic norms across the world while on another hand, there are countries which smash these norms just for the sake of attaining the power. The article works on the basic question that how the selected text of fiction portrays the tyrannical exertions by the omnipotent authority for the accomplishment of its ends? The aims of the study are to highlight these horrendous efforts of the authority in the selected text and to highlight its undemocratic practices.

scholarly journals Civil Society Associations vs. So-called Non-governmental Organisations

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 212-225
Author(s):  
Csaba Varga
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Large Volume ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One

Do­mestic lan­guage use makes a dis­tinc­tion between or­gan­isa­tions es­tab­lished on the basis of the in­ternal needs and ini­ti­at­ives of civil so­ci­ety, and non-gov­ern­mental or­gan­isa­tions, the lat­ter un­der­stood as form­a­tions cre­ated and op­er­ated as local agents of in­ter­na­tional net­works, from for­eign­ers’ in­tent and fund­ing. Al­though their pres­ence in the world is noth­ing new, the cur­rent large volume of such or­gan­isa­tions is the product of glob­al­ism and the pur­suit of global con­trol is the cause of their wide spread, ex­tent and net­work-like set-up and op­er­a­tion. The one-way dir­ec­tion from the start­ing point of the in­flu­ence to­wards the tar­get areas evokes the situ­ations of clas­sical col­on­isa­tion, al­though using the soft and hy­brid tools ad­ap­ted to our era. For this reason, as new forms of for­eign in­tru­sion and in­ter­ven­tion, they should ne­ces­sar­ily de­serve the na­tional se­cur­ity at­ten­tion and ap­proach that was once evoked by the former forms, re­gard­less of how this can be achieved in today’s legal situ­ation. However, the lack of dis­tinc­tion and the in­her­ent con­cep­tual am­bi­gu­ity already a pri­ori show the in­ten­tion to hide the genu­ine fea­tures of the lat­ter.

Low-Carbon Building Assessment and Model Construction

2013 ◽  
Vol 361-363 ◽  
pp. 903-907 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhong Wen Liu ◽  
Peng Zhao Gao ◽  
Ya Wen Kang
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Index System ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Carbon Structure ◽  
Building Assessment ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Low Carbon Energy

Based on the green building, ecological architecture and sustainable development construction, this paper puts forward the idea of development of low-carbon building, which means reducing carbon emission in architecture`s life cycle. In addition, the evaluation index system of low-carbon building and assessment model which depends on AHP and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation are set up in the paper by considering from five aspects: low-carbon structure, low-carbon material, low-carbon energy, low-carbon technology and low-carbon management.

Constantine and the Church

1990 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Stuart G. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Knowledge Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Eusebius Of Caesarea ◽  
Ascent To Heaven ◽  
The Church

Constantine was already on his way to sainthood when Eusebius of Caesarea delivered panegyrics in his honour in 335—6. His Laudes are in the tradition of pagan panegyric, in which the virtues of the emperors were praised, especially their piety to the gods and the divine favour to them. Such had earlier been given to Constantine himself, relating him to his persecuting predecessors. But now it is his services to the one God the Creator, who inspired him with justice and wisdom to rule the Empire, to root out idolatrous error, and to set up the symbol of the Cross for mankind’s salvation. In the Life of Constantine, which must be largely or wholly from Eusebius, the whole career is surveyed in a form which combines panegyric, biography, history, and proclamation. The Emperor was, it was claimed, deeply, skilfully, and consistently Christian. He had fulfilled apocalyptic prophecy by destroying the persecuting dragon that corrupted the world, represented chiefly by Licinius. Constantine had filled the Empire with churches and Christian governors; he had pacified barbarians and brought them to the knowledge of God and the rule of law. In death he lay between monuments of Apostles, sharing the prayers of the Church to whose bosom he had finally been received in baptism. Coins depicted his ascent to heaven on a quadriga (a pagan tradition which Eusebius saw with Christian eyes), and the sons of his body continued to exercise his single, quasi-divine government of the world.

Psychology from Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic Perspectives

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fouad A-L.H. Abou-Hatab
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Western Psychology ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

This paper presents the case of psychology from a perspective not widely recognized by the West, namely, the Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic perspective. It discusses the introduction and development of psychology in this part of the world. Whenever such efforts are evaluated, six problems become apparent: (1) the one-way interaction with Western psychology; (2) the intellectual dependency; (3) the remote relationship with national heritage; (4) its irrelevance to cultural and social realities; (5) the inhibition of creativity; and (6) the loss of professional identity. Nevertheless, some major achievements are emphasized, and a four-facet look into the 21st century is proposed.

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