scholarly journals QGIS and Epigraphy: In Situ and Extra Situm Inscriptions

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Silvia Gazzoli
Keyword(s):  
Relational Databases ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Accurate Representation

The use of georeferenced relational databases for the localisation of epigraphic findings is widely attested with important examples. However, in order to propose an increasingly accurate representation of information related to inscriptions, some methodological issues need to be highlighted and, if possible, solved. This paper will address the problem of the place of discovery of the inscription, which could be in situ or extra situm.

scholarly journals “The feel of the place”: Investigating atmosphere with the residents of a modernist housing estate

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 460-480
Author(s):  
Stephen Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Housing Scheme

Atmosphere is a neglected topic in social work, and so this article considers the production of atmospheres amongst the residents of an extant 1960s housing scheme in Edinburgh (UK). This is in order to address not only the complexity of feelings about living on such an estate but also to consider what consequences the paying of attention to atmosphere’s production and effects might have for a social work concern with welfare and wellbeing. The article is based upon semi-structured and walking interviews with 17 residents – council or private renters and home-owners – of Claremont Court, a mixed, low-rise estate and analyses their description and crafting of atmosphere as a way to understand questions of belonging, welfare and community in situ. After reviewing some existing research on atmosphere and outlining methodological issues relating to the Claremont Court project, the article goes on to consider how residents described their feelings about or sense of the estate and its design before discussing the emergence of contradictory narratives about home. The production of narratives about those needing welfare support is particularly pertinent to atmospheric accounts of the housing scheme, and so the article addresses this before finally making an argument for the relevance of immersive and emplaced accounts of space and place for both social work practice and research.

scholarly journals Generation of an HBIM Library Regarding a Palace of the 19th Century in Lisbon

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 7020
Author(s):  
Alcínia Sampaio ◽  
António Pinto ◽  
Augusto Gomes ◽  
Alberto Sanchez-Lite
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Reference Library ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Accurate Representation ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Parametric Families ◽  
The 19Th Century

The growing interest within the construction industry in the preservation, rehabilitation, and conversion of heritage-value buildings has led to the implementation of Historic Building Information Modelling (HBIM) across all sectors. The rigorously accurate representation of old construction solutions for roofs, floors, and walls, and of the decorative details and finishes, commonly used in historic buildings of patrimonial value, requires specific geometric modelling processes in order to generate relevant libraries of parametric objects. This study addresses the generation of parametric families of representative architectural geometry in the context of the conversion of a building of patrimonial value. A collection of historical information and a detailed inspection in situ, recorded by means of digital images and sketches with annotative dimensions of the architectural forms, were first carried out to support the accurate representation of the building. Several families of objects were generated, namely, guillotine windows, glazed doors, ornamental stonework, staircases, and handrails, thus creating a reference library for use in further similar building projects. The study improves the potential of the BIM process for its application to buildings with distinctive architecture in the context of the preservation or conversion of heritage buildings.

scholarly journals Observing to Coproduce a Collective Narrative: Emplotment of Multiple Parallel Stories

M n gement ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-78
Author(s):  
Justine Arnoud ◽  
Hélène Peton
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Shared Meaning ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Dynamic Observation ◽  
Collection Methods ◽  
Shed Light

Observation captures complex organizational phenomena in situ. The literature on this method explains the possible data collection methods but says less about the use and organization of the data collected. As a result, the question of the meaning of observation data remains open. This article explores that question with the focus on a specific form of observation, dynamic observation, which can grasp indeterminate situations whose meaning is elusive for both practitioners and the researcher. Drawing on the work of Ricœur, we propose a conceptual tool kit founded on mimesis. We show that organizing observation data into a plot and narrative, through an inquiry conducted by researchers and practitioners together, can shed light both on the observation data and the situation observed. We embody our method by applying this tool kit to a dynamic observation conducted in a high-risk industry. We discuss the methodological issues of this co-construction of shared meaning and its role in restoring centrality to observation in the management sciences, and resituating the situations and the actors as core concerns.

Rendez vous with Saturn's rings

1984 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 743-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry T. Nock
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Electric Propulsion ◽  
Power Source ◽  
Propulsion System ◽  
Low Thrust ◽  
Ring Plane ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Total Impulse ◽  
Saturn's Rings

ABSTRACTA mission to rendezvous with the rings of Saturn is studied with regard to science rationale and instrumentation and engineering feasibility and design. Future detailedin situexploration of the rings of Saturn will require spacecraft systems with enormous propulsive capability. NASA is currently studying the critical technologies for just such a system, called Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP). Electric propulsion is the only technology which can effectively provide the required total impulse for this demanding mission. Furthermore, the power source must be nuclear because the solar energy reaching Saturn is only 1% of that at the Earth. An important aspect of this mission is the ability of the low thrust propulsion system to continuously boost the spacecraft above the ring plane as it spirals in toward Saturn, thus enabling scientific measurements of ring particles from only a few kilometers.

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