scholarly journals Digitally Documenting the Transformation of the Eternal City. Cities in Text: Rome

2021 ◽  
pp. 333-346
Author(s):  
Selena Anders
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Application ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Digital Representation ◽  
University Of Notre Dame ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Historical guidebooks and maps of Rome provide both an architectural narrative and a snapshot of the city at distinct historical moments. The Historic Urban Environments Lab at the University of Notre Dame (HUE/ND) combined these resources to create Cities in Text: Rome. This interactive research tool was designed to analyze the complex layers of the Eternal City. It provides access to the digital representation of guidebooks produced in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. These works have been transcribed, translated, and linked with historic and present-day maps, photographs, and drawings presented on a website and mobile application (hue.nd.edu). The project led to several discoveries, including identifying the existing remains of Rome’s medieval residential façade porticoes, which were measured, drawn, and mapped. The work contributes to an understanding of the evolution of Rome’s cityscape, including its medieval fabric wholly ignored in these guides but still visible today.

scholarly journals Educational Illustration of the Historical City, Education Citizenship, and Sustainable Heritage

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5706
Author(s):  
Francesc Xavier Hernàndez-Cardona ◽  
Rafael Sospedra-Roca ◽  
David Íñiguez-Gracia
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Conceptual Organization ◽  
History Of ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The Sustainable Development Goals identified by the United Nations (2030 agenda) aim to promote sustainable cities, the need to safeguard cultural heritage, and the importance of quality education. Through different projects, the DIDPATRI research group at the University of Barcelona has developed didactic iconographic models on the historical and heritage dimension of cities. Comprehensible proposals have been made by developing unique techniques and using easily accessible technologies. The working hypothesis has focused on the idea that the models of didactic iconography promote the understanding of the history of the city, and this enables educational actions and contributes to the formation of quality citizenship, aware of the importance of heritage, with a view to the sustainability of urban environments themselves. The components and the layout of the iconographic prototypes tested have been developed with the available technological variables, but, above all, they focus on the conceptual organization of the iconographic contents to show. In other words, it places greater emphasis on techniques than on subsidiary technologies for change. The development of different projects has generated models of empirical effectiveness, which methodologically have contributed to improving, in the key of sustainability, the knowledge of historical urban environments and respect for heritage. The case studies considered in this work are two of the most emblematic developed by the DIDPATRI group: the archaeological site of El Born in Barcelona, and the medieval site of La Seu de Urgell, in the Catalan Pyrenees.

scholarly journals First records for Lasiurus blossevillii, Histiotus humboldti and Enchisthenes hartii (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in an urban region in Southern Ecuador

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 2-8
Author(s):  
Carlos Nivelo-Villavicencio ◽  
Javier Fernández de Córdova ◽  
Amanda B. Quezada
Keyword(s):  
Adult Male ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
New Records ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Urban Region ◽  
Morphometric Characters ◽  
Southern Ecuador ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

Currently in Ecuador there are 171 bats species, however little is known of their presence in urban and peri-urban areas. These information gaps make it difficult to know the distribution of the species, as well as the ecosystems they are occupying. In this work we report for the first time three bats species in the urban and peri-urban area of Cuenca City which is located in the south of the Inter-Andean Valley. The individuals were identified taxonomically by morphological and morphometric characters, these were deposited in the Zoological Collection of the University of Azuay. The specimens reported in this work are: an adult male of Lasiurus blossevillii, a juvenile female of Histiotus humboldti, and an adult male of Enchisthenes hartii. These new records allow us to contribute with information on the distribution of these species, as well as raise new questions about the use of present resources by these bats in the urban and peri-urban environments of the city.

scholarly journals The Experience of Developing a Mobile Game Navigation Application for the Windows 10 Mobile Operating System

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Vladimir Rakovich ◽  
Ilya Trigub ◽  
Iryna Krasheninnik
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Mobile Game ◽  
State Pedagogical ◽  
Application Requirements ◽  
The University ◽  
Intuitive Interface ◽  
The City

The development of mobile applications is one of the fastest improving and most important directions of the IT industry. Windows 10 Mobile is a relatively new operating system (OS), so the development of mobile applications for Windows is very prospective. The authors of the article aim to develop a mobile game application using the mobile phone navigational capabilities for getting the information about the location of state institutions, educational institutions, shops, cafes, restaurants and entertainment establishments in the city of Melitopol, as well as about the location of audiences of Melitopol Bohdan Khmelnytsky State Pedagogical University. A number of tasks are solved to develop a mobile game navigation application. Firstly, in order to study the experience of developing such programs, the analysis of existing navigation programs for the Windows 10 Mobile operating system, namely gMaps, Navitel, CityGuide, Latte Locator, is performed. Mobile application requirements for Windows 10 Mobile are analyzed. It is determined that the basic requirement for Windows 10 Mobile application is compliance of its interface to the standards of Universal Windows Platform (UWP). In addition, advanced requirements for the developing of the Windows 10 Mobile multimedia game application are formulated, such as license cleanliness, freeware, performance, intuitive interface, ergonomics, interactivity, and compliance with the universal Windows platform. Secondly, the selection of content for the publication in the program (city maps, university schemes, information about institutions and enterprises of the city, information about pedagogical university audiences) is carried out. Thirdly, the tools for developing a mobile application are chosen, in particular, Visual Studio 2017 and SDK for Windows 10. The development of a multimedia game application for the Windows 10 Mobile operating system was carried out on the Xamarin platform. As a result, the mobile game navigation application is designed. It consists of two parts: "The City Map" and "The Map of the University". The first contains the information about the location of city institutions and enterprises. The second includes the information about the audiences of Melitopol Bohdan Khmelnytsky State Pedagogical University. The article presents the stages and results of developing a mobile gaming navigation application.

Minimetrò in Perugia as leverage for urban regeneration

TERRITORIO ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 148-163
Author(s):  
Luca Fondacci
Keyword(s):  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Peripheral Area ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Historical Centre

In the 1970s, the fragile historical centre of the city of Perugia was a key area where the binomial of sustainable mobility and urban regeneration was developed and applied. At the turn of the xxi century, the low carbon automatic people-mover Minimetrò broadened that application from the city's historical centre to the outskirts, promoting the enhancement of several urban environments. This paper is the outcome of an investigation of original sources, field surveys and direct interviews, which addresses the Minimetrò as the backbone of a wide regeneration process which has had a considerable impact on the economic development of a peripheral area of the city which was previously devoid of any clear urban sense. The conclusion proposes some solutions to improve the nature of the Minimetrò as an experimental alternative means of transport.

A Tracer Study of ICT Graduate Students at Mzuzu University, Malawi

Mousaion ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chimango Nyasulu ◽  
Winner Chawinga ◽  
George Chipeta
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
First Century ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Job Requirements ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Quantitative Design ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University

Governments the world over are increasingly challenging universities to produce human resources with the right skills sets and knowledge required to drive their economies in this twenty-first century. It therefore becomes important for universities to produce graduates that bring tangible and meaningful contributions to the economies. Graduate tracer studies are hailed to be one of the ways in which universities can respond and reposition themselves to the actual needs of the industry. It is against this background that this study was conducted to establish the relevance of the Department of Information and Communication Technology at Mzuzu University to the Malawian economy by systematically investigating occupations of its former students after graduating from the University. The study adopted a quantitative design by distributing an online-based questionnaire with predominantly closed-ended questions. The study focused on three key objectives: to identify key employing sectors of ICT graduates, to gauge the relevance of the ICT programme to its former students’ jobs and businesses, and to establish the level of satisfaction of the ICT curriculum from the perspectives of former ICT graduates. The key findings from the study are that the ICT programme is relevant to the industry. However, some respondents were of the view that the curriculum should be strengthened by revising it through an addition of courses such as Mobile Application Development, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, and LINUX Administration to keep abreast with the ever-changing ICT trends and job requirements. The study strongly recommends the need for regular reviews of the curriculum so that it is continually responding to and matches the needs of the industry.

Humanist Engagements

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howell A. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Educational Provision ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Composition ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
Editorial Work ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Bodin arrived in Toulouse c.1550, a brief account of the economy, social composition, and governmental institutions of which opens the chapter. There follow comments on its cultural life and identification of its leading citizenry, with remarks on the treatment of alleged religious dissidents by the city itself, and especially on discordant intellectual influences at work in the University, most notably the Law Faculty and the modes of teaching there. The chapter’s second part reviews Bodin’s translation and edition of the Greek poem Cynegetica by Oppian ‘of Cilicia’, assessing the quality of his editorial work, the extent to which allegations of plagiarism levelled against him were valid, and the nature and merits of his translation. The third section recounts contemporary wrangling over educational provision in Toulouse and examines the Oratio in which Bodin argued the case for humanist-style educational provision by means of a reconstituted college there.

scholarly journals Facilitating fine-grained intra-urban dengue forecasting by integrating urban environments measured from street-view images

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kang Liu ◽  
Ling Yin ◽  
Meng Zhang ◽  
Min Kang ◽  
Ai-Ping Deng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Feature Vector ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Environmental Feature ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Environmental Features ◽  
Street View ◽  
The City ◽  
Dengue Epidemic

Abstract Background Dengue fever (DF) is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that has threatened tropical and subtropical regions in recent decades. An early and targeted warning of a dengue epidemic is important for vector control. Current studies have primarily determined weather conditions to be the main factor for dengue forecasting, thereby neglecting that environmental suitability for mosquito breeding is also an important factor, especially in fine-grained intra-urban settings. Considering that street-view images are promising for depicting physical environments, this study proposes a framework for facilitating fine-grained intra-urban dengue forecasting by integrating the urban environments measured from street-view images. Methods The dengue epidemic that occurred in 167 townships of Guangzhou City, China, between 2015 and 2019 was taken as a study case. First, feature vectors of street-view images acquired inside each township were extracted by a pre-trained convolutional neural network, and then aggregated as an environmental feature vector of the township. Thus, townships with similar physical settings would exhibit similar environmental features. Second, the environmental feature vector is combined with commonly used features (e.g., temperature, rainfall, and past case count) as inputs to machine-learning models for weekly dengue forecasting. Results The performance of machine-learning forecasting models (i.e., MLP and SVM) integrated with and without environmental features were compared. This indicates that models integrating environmental features can identify high-risk urban units across the city more precisely than those using common features alone. In addition, the top 30% of high-risk townships predicted by our proposed methods can capture approximately 50–60% of dengue cases across the city. Conclusions Incorporating local environments measured from street view images is effective in facilitating fine-grained intra-urban dengue forecasting, which is beneficial for conducting spatially precise dengue prevention and control.

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