scholarly journals Design Thinking as the Answer to the Question of Relevance in Engineering Education in Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Kehdinga George Fomunyam
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
And Function ◽  
Intelligent Process ◽  
Education In Africa

Relevance occur in various forms and across various disciplines. More often, it is a property of applicability. Changes in information, conduct, context, processes are occurring at a fast pace compared to time past which begs the question if engineering education is relevant and applicable to proffer solution that suits these changes. This research therefore seeks to conceptualize design thinking as the answer to the question of relevance in engineering education in Africa. Findings from the study revealed that the question of relevance is somewhat puzzling and none has been able to give an in-depth exegesis of the concept. The design thinking concept is a complex cognitive process and in engineering parlance, it is a systematic, intelligent process which is used by designers to generate, evaluate and delineate concepts which will be applicable for devices, systems and processes whose form and function must be to satisfy users objectives or needs while satisfying specific constraints. The study recommended that effort be intensified on engineering education to ensure relevance and proffer solution to socioeconomic disorders in Africa.

Ellipsis in Construction Grammar

2018 ◽  
pp. 187-204
Author(s):  
Adele E. Goldberg ◽  
Florent Perek
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Memory Trace ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Functional Constraints ◽  
Discourse Context ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Function

This chapter emphasizes the shared communicative motivation of ellipsis constructions that leads to cross-linguistic similarities and certain predictable functional constraints. More specifically, ellipsis is licensed by a system of motivated constructions, i.e. learned pairings of form and function. Constructions capture a range of restrictions on form and function, including those related to semantics, discourse context, register, genre, and dialect. Generalizations across constructions are captured by a network of constructions with partially overlapping representations. Semantic recoverability is facilitated not by copying and deleting syntactic structure at the ellipsis site, but by a cognitive process that ‘points’ to information that is, typically but not always, available from the memory trace of an antecedent. This mechanism is independently required for fragments, non-elliptical expressions such as ditto and respectively, and the many examples that do not display the ‘connectivity’ effects that are predicted by copy and deletion accounts.

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of DNA and RNA

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
Patricia G. Arscott ◽  
Gil Lee ◽  
Victor A. Bloomfield ◽  
D. Fennell Evans
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Structures ◽  
Inorganic Materials ◽  
Resolving Power ◽  
Scanning Tunneling ◽  
Tunneling Microscopy ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Dna And Rna ◽  
Calf Thymus ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Relationship

STM is one of the most promising techniques available for visualizing the fine details of biomolecular structure. It has been used to map the surface topography of inorganic materials in atomic dimensions, and thus has the resolving power not only to determine the conformation of small molecules but to distinguish site-specific features within a molecule. That level of detail is of critical importance in understanding the relationship between form and function in biological systems. The size, shape, and accessibility of molecular structures can be determined much more accurately by STM than by electron microscopy since no staining, shadowing or labeling with heavy metals is required, and there is no exposure to damaging radiation by electrons. Crystallography and most other physical techniques do not give information about individual molecules.We have obtained striking images of DNA and RNA, using calf thymus DNA and two synthetic polynucleotides, poly(dG-me5dC)·poly(dG-me5dC) and poly(rA)·poly(rU).

Re-examining the form and function of superstition

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Fluke ◽  
Russell J. Webster ◽  
Donald A. Saucier
Keyword(s):  
Form And Function ◽  
And Function

A New Form and Function for Personality

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Wilt ◽  
William Revelle
Keyword(s):  
Form And Function ◽  
New Form ◽  
And Function

Ausnahmesegment

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (191) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Schönig
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Institutional Organization ◽  
National Welfare ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Welfare State

Going along with the end of the “golden age” of the welfare state, the fordist paradigm of social housing has been considerably transformed. From the 1980s onwards, a new paradigm of social housing has been shaped in Germany in terms of provision, institutional organization and design. This transformation can be interpreted as a result of the interplay between the transformation of national welfare state and housing policies, the implementation of entrepreneurial urban policies and a shift in architectural and urban development models. Using an integrated approach to understand form and function of social housing, the paper characterizes the new paradigm established and nevertheless interprets it within the continuity of the specific German welfare resp. housing regime, the “German social housing market economy”.

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