ABANDONED OBJECTS. FROM UTOPIA TO REALITY: VIABILITY CRITERIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 32-43
Author(s):  
Anna Gelfond ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Town Planning ◽  
Object A ◽  
Environmental Criteria ◽  
Abandoned Object ◽  
Function Design ◽  
Return Path ◽  
Over Time

The article discusses the change in the architectural typology of abandoned objects over time. The influence of time on their town-planning position and typological components - function, design and form are analyzed. Abandoned object - a structure created by man, but not in use today. They went their way “ from reality to utopia.” An attempt is made to figure out why this happened and whether the return path is possible - “ from utopia to reality”. In conclusion, the concepts of general and environmental criteria for assessing the viability of abandoned objects are introduced, and on their basis the concept of the architectural and typological potential of a structure is formulated.

Through the Drinking Glass

2019 ◽  
pp. 178-195
Author(s):  
Angela McShane
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
First Century ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Object A ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Over Time

This chapter argues that drinking things are of central importance to our understanding of the long relationship between humans and alcohol. It explores the history of the English man (and woman’s) pint of beer, as an object, a drink, and a measure, from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century, to show how the relationships between objects, drinks, and measures have been socially and culturally constructed over time. Drawing upon a wide range of objects, images, and textual sources, and benefiting from the theoretical lenses of material performativity and praxeology, it argues that material insights not only help us to understand the deeper cultural processes at play in the routines and rituals of convivial drinking, but also help us to understand their wider role in social and political change.

Mediterranean re-Urban Planning

2015 ◽  
Vol 737 ◽  
pp. 903-908
Author(s):  
Emanuela Nan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
New Models ◽  
Strategy Planning ◽  
New Space ◽  
The City ◽  
Over Time

Starting in '90s, town planning changes from ordinary to strategy planning. The ever-increasing speed of change of the boundary conditions and the increased exponentially the variables involved continues to highlight the need for more targeted approaches and clear horizons, New planning works subdividing independent shares and spaces over time and, at the same time, defining specific projects flexible to re-adjustment and re-definition. All system of territories (networks of urban spaces and not) until now ignored, considered marginal or waste, re-discovered as potential engines of new models and horizons of development and the city (or metropolis) in key sustainable.The urban-territorial contexts Mediterranean, given their special nature and condition emerge as reference in the development of new space and systematic way.

ALBUMIN, HEMOGLOBIN, AND THE TRAJECTORY OF COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER JAPANESE: A 13-YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDY

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Murayama ◽  
S. Shinkai ◽  
M. Nishi ◽  
Y. Taniguchi ◽  
H. Amano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Cognitive Function ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Modeling ◽  
Cognitive Change ◽  
Albumin Level ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Health Examination ◽  
Linear Modeling ◽  
Function Design ◽  
Over Time

Background: Cognitive function can substantially decline over a long period, and understanding the trajectory of cognitive function is important. However, little is known about the linkage between nutritional biomarkers and long-term cognitive change. Objectives: We analyzed 13-year longitudinal data for older Japanese to examine the associations of serum albumin and hemoglobin levels with the trajectory of cognitive function. Design: Longitudinal study. Setting: Community-based. Participants: A total of 1,744 community-dwelling adults aged 65 years or older who participated in annual health examinations in Kusatsu town, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, from 2002–2014. Measurements: Cognitive function was assessed annually by the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). Albumin and hemoglobin levels at baseline (the year when a respondent first participated in the health examination) were divided into quartiles. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to analyze intrapersonal and interpersonal differences in cognitive function. Results: Participants’ MMSE scores decreased at an accelerated rate over the 13-year period. Participants with the lowest baseline albumin level (below the first quartile line) showed a greater accelerated decline in MMSE scores over time, compared with those with the highest level (above the third quartile line). Moreover, MMSE scores in participants with a lower hemoglobin level and lower MMSE score at baseline tended to decline faster over time at an accelerated rate. Conclusions: These findings yield new insights about the complex and diverse roles of these nutritional biomarkers on the trajectory of cognitive function in old age.

scholarly journals Resilience as a Public Object. A Longitudinal Press Analysis of the Press Representations of Resilience in Italy, Spain, and France

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Alessia Rochira ◽  
Terri Mannarini ◽  
Evelyn De Simone ◽  
Serena Verbena ◽  
Alessandra Manfreda
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Object A ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
Over Time

The notion of “resilience” has spilled over from the field of science and entered the field of policy, turning into a public and political object. The current study explores the social representations of resilience produced by press discourses between 2001 and 2017 in three different national contexts (Spain, France, and Italy), and examines the degree to which such representations incorporate technical and scientific meanings or rather include new components. A total amount of 1,298 articles published in three national newspapers (La Repubblica, Italy; Le Monde, France; and El Pais, Spain) were collected and analyzed for themes using the T-LAB software. The findings revealed more similarities than differences among the countries. The interest towards the topic increased over time, with the representations of resilience becoming more and more diversified and multifaceted. The technical and scientific components remained in the background, while a “practical theory” of resilience emerged, echoing the use of the concept in policy making, specifically in the European Union institutions approach.

scholarly journals Iconic Architecture in Morocco Two Pioneering Cities, Two Singular Towers

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 2629-2647
Author(s):  
Tlemçani Mekaoui Nezha
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
Emerging Country ◽  
The Face ◽  
Innovative Materials ◽  
Modern Image ◽  
Over Time

In town planning as in architecture, space is a true transcription of civilizational trends, the expression par excellence of civilizations, continues to develop through the spaces they close, the buildings that it includes and that take shape over time. In this sense, Morocco, an emerging country, is beginning to build a modern image for itself, in the face of time by having recourse to its two pioneer cities, Casablanca and Rabat-Salé. In doing so, many spectacular constructions of iconic buildings have emerged there, the work of star architects using designs distinguished by their complex structures and using innovative materials. This article deals with the design of two buildings through the combination of two concepts grouped together in their designs, namely, the singularity of their architectures in relation to their urban environment and their sought-after technological prowess. The choice fell on the CFC tower (Casablanca Finance City) located in the new urban center "Casablanca finance City" and the Bank of Africa tower also called Tour Mohammed IV, located in Bouregreg, emblematic site of the Rabat-Salé conurbation.

Beliefs in afterlife as a by-product of persistence judgments

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 480-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
George E. Newman ◽  
Sergey V. Blok ◽  
Lance J. Rips
Keyword(s):  
Causal History ◽  
Object A ◽  
Ordinary Objects ◽  
General Account ◽  
History Of ◽  
Supernatural Beliefs ◽  
Over Time

We agree that supernatural beliefs are pervasive. However, we propose a more general account rooted in how people trace ordinary objects over time. Tracking identity involves attending to the causal history of an object, a process that may implicate hidden mechanisms. We discuss experiments in which participants exhibit the same “supernatural” beliefs when reasoning about the fates of cups and automobiles as those exhibited by Bering's participants when reasoning about spirits.

Social transmission bias and the cultural evolution of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hirshleifer ◽  
Siew Hong Teoh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Social Transmission ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Economic Attitudes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Beliefs ◽  
Over Time

AbstractEvolved dispositions influence, but do not determine, how people think about economic problems. The evolutionary cognitive approach offers important insights but underweights the social transmission of ideas as a level of explanation. The need for asocialexplanation for the evolution of economic attitudes is evidenced, for example, by immense variations in folk-economic beliefs over time and across individuals.

Reconstruction of Objects from their Projections Using Orthogonal Functions

1973 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 268-269
Author(s):  
Elrnar Zeitler
Keyword(s):  
Unit Area ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Spatial Density ◽  
Dimensional Representation ◽  
Orthogonal Functions ◽  
Object A ◽  
Plane Normal ◽  
Dimensional Object ◽  
Spatial Density Distribution

Considering any finite three-dimensional object, a “projection” is here defined as a two-dimensional representation of the object's mass per unit area on a plane normal to a given projection axis, here taken as they-axis. Since the object can be seen as being built from parallel, thin slices, the relation between object structure and its projection can be reduced by one dimension. It is assumed that an electron microscope equipped with a tilting stage records the projectionWhere the object has a spatial density distribution p(r,ϕ) within a limiting radius taken to be unity, and the stage is tilted by an angle 9 with respect to the x-axis of the recording plane.

Articulatory Generalization in Two Word-Medial, Ambisyllabic Contexts

1988 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia I. Wolfe ◽  
Suzanne D. Blocker ◽  
Norma J. Prater
Keyword(s):  
Common View ◽  
Perceptual Salience ◽  
The Common ◽  
Unitary Concept ◽  
Over Time

Articulatory generalization of velar cognates /k/, /g/ in two phonologically disordered children was studied over time as a function of sequential word-morpheme position training. Although patterns of contextual acquisition differed, correct responses to the word-medial, inflected context (e.g., "picking," "hugging") occurred earlier and exceeded those to the word-medial, noninflected context (e.g., "bacon," "wagon"). This finding indicates that the common view of the word-medial position as a unitary concept is an oversimplification. Possible explanations for superior generalization to the word-medial, inflected position are discussed in terms of coarticulation, perceptual salience, and the representational integrity of the word.

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