scholarly journals Atmospheric dimensions of architecture

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-192
Author(s):  
Anđela Karabašević
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Computational Simulation ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Architectural Research ◽  
Research And Design ◽  
The Invisible

This paper proposes four methodological tools for investigating architectural atmospheres: objective experience, holistic measure, computational simulation and atmospheric visualization. These tools have emerged from a broader PhD research agenda based on the hypothesis that ephemeral effects of light, heat, sound, odor, carried on or in the air, present a scientific basis for precise construction of atmospheres in architecture. By describing my own atmospheric methodology over a series of individual case studies, I will argue that architectural atmospheres can be scientifically investigated and precisely constructed, and that atmospheric approach to architectural research and design offers new invaluable knowledge about the invisible aerial behaviors that determine basic human experience of space.

Worlding and provincialising smart cities: From individual case studies to a global comparative research agenda

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 655-673
Author(s):  
Byron Miller ◽  
Kevin Ward ◽  
Ryan Burns ◽  
Victoria Fast ◽  
Anthony Levenda
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Complex Power ◽  
Global North ◽  
America South

The diversity of smart city case studies presented in this special issue demonstrates the need for provincialised understandings of smart cities that account for cities’ worlding strategies. Case studies drawn from North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia show that ‘the smart city’ takes very diverse forms, serves very diverse objectives, and is embedded in complex power geometries that vary from city to city. Case studies are a critical strategy for understanding phenomena in context, yet they present their own epistemological and ontological limitations. We argue for a more-than-Global-North smart city research agenda focused on the comparative analysis of smart cities, an agenda that foregrounds the conjunctural geographies of relationships and processes shaping these cities.

scholarly journals Design, Materials, and Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing in Circular Economy Contexts: From Waste to New Products

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7269
Author(s):  
Alessia Romani ◽  
Valentina Rognoli ◽  
Marinella Levi
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Application Fields ◽  
Research And Design ◽  
Specific Contribution ◽  
New Strategies

The transition toward circular economy models has been progressively promoted in the last few years. Different disciplines and strategies may significantly support this change. Although the specific contribution derived from design, material science, and additive manufacturing is well-established, their interdisciplinary relationship in circular economy contexts is relatively unexplored. This paper aims to review the main case studies related to new circular economy models for waste valorization through extrusion-based additive manufacturing, circular materials, and new design strategies. The general patterns were investigated through a comprehensive analysis of 74 case studies from academic research and design practice in the last six-year period (2015–2021), focusing on the application fields, the 3D printing technologies, and the materials. Further considerations and future trends were then included by looking at the relevant funded projects and case studies of 2021. A broader number of applications, circular materials, and technologies were explored by the academic context, concerning the practice-based scenario linked to more consolidated fields. Thanks to the development of new strategies and experiential tools, academic research and practice can be linked to foster new opportunities to implement circular economy models.

Transatlantic Radicalism

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Organizational Ties ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South ◽  
Political Radicalism

The Atlantic Ocean not only connected North and South America with Europe through trade but also provided the means for an exchange of knowledge and ideas, including political radicalism. Socialists and anarchists would use this “radical ocean” to escape state prosecution in their home countries and establish radical milieus abroad. However, this was often a rather unorganized development and therefore the connections that existed were quite diverse. The movement of individuals led to the establishment of organizational ties and the import and exchange of political publications between Europe and the Americas. The main aim of this book is to show how the transatlantic networks of political radicalism evolved with regard to socialist and anarchist milieus and in particular to look at the actors within the relevant processes—topics that have so far been neglected in the major histories of transnational political radicalism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Individual case studies are examined within a wider context to show how networks were actually created, how they functioned and their impact on the broader history of the radical Atlantic.

scholarly journals Investigating deaf children’s plural and diverse use of sign and spoken languages in a super diverse context

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Swanwick ◽  
Sue Wright ◽  
Jackie Salter
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Deaf Education ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Unique Type ◽  
The North ◽  
Context Data ◽  
Language Exposure ◽  
Diverse Context

AbstractThis paper examines the meaning of plurality and diversity with respect to deaf children’s sign and spoken language exposure and repertoire within a super diverse context. Data is drawn from a small-scale project that took place in the North of England in a Local Authority (LA) site for deaf education. The project documented the language landscape of this site and gathered five individual case studies of deaf children to examine their plural and diverse language practices at home and at school. Analysis of the language landscape and case studies from this context is undertaken in order to define and exemplify deaf children’s language plurality and diversity in terms of context and individual experience. Concepts of repertoire are explored with particular reference to the unique type of translanguaging that the plural use of sign and spoken languages affords. Implications of these preliminary insights are discussed in terms of the development of methodologies that are sensitive to the particular translanguaging practices of deaf children, and approaches to pedagogy that are appropriately nuanced and responsive to deaf children’s language plurality and diversity.

The Overtraining Syndrome: A Multicontextual Assessment

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi L. Meehan ◽  
Stephen J. Bull ◽  
Dan M. Wood ◽  
David V.B. James
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Medical Examination ◽  
Endurance Athletes ◽  
Semistructured Interview ◽  
Coping Response ◽  
Daily Hassle ◽  
Overtraining Syndrome ◽  
Cross Case Analysis

The present study explored the experiences of five competitive endurance athletes (1 female, 4 male) diagnosed with the overtraining syndrome (OTS). A multicontextual method of inquiry was used, which first involved a medical examination whereby OTS was diagnosed according to established criteria. In addition, 2 questionnaires were administered: the Athlete Daily Hassle Scale (Albinson & Pearce, 1998) and the Coping Response Inventory (Moos, 1992), and a semistructured interview was conducted. Individual case studies were then developed and cross-case analysis carried out. Findings from the present study illustrate that together with sport stress, nonsport stress appears to make an important contribution to the experience of those athletes diagnosed with the OTS. This finding provides evidence to support anecdotes in previous reports.

scholarly journals Investigating the humor of gelotophobes: Does feeling ridiculous equal being humorless?

2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Willibald Ruch ◽  
Ursula Beermann ◽  
René T. Proyer
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Humor Style ◽  
Humor Appreciation ◽  
Three Samples ◽  
Health Journal

AbstractTitze (Humor and Health Journal 5:1–11, 1996) concluded from individual case studies that gelotophobes do not experience humor and laughter as a shared enjoyment but rather as a threat. Two studies examined whether gelotophobes are less humorous in general or whether this is true only for certain components of humor. In study I, three samples (N = 120 and 70 students; N = 169 adults) filled in the GELOPH〈46〉 along with several humor instruments (i.e., 3 WD, CHS, HBQD, HSQ, HUWO, STCI-T〈60〉). Results showed that gelotophobes are less cheerful and characterize their humor style as inept, socially cold, and mean-spirited. They report less frequent use of humor as a means for coping and indulge less often in self-enhancing and social humor. Appreciation of incongruity-resolution humor and nonsense humor (but not sexual humor) was lower than for non-gelotophobes. Study II (N = 131 adults) focused on the relation between gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism and the ability to create humor (i.e., the CPPT). The ability to create humor is unrelated to gelotophobia, and tends to be positively correlated with gelotophilia and katagelasticism. Future studies should investigate why gelotophobes see their humor style as inept despite not lacking wit, and how their beliefs can be made more consistent with their abilities.

scholarly journals The voluntary control of piloerection

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e5292 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A.J. Heathers ◽  
Kirill Fayn ◽  
Paul J. Silvia ◽  
Niko Tiliopoulos ◽  
Matthew S. Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Voluntary Control ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Autonomic Nervous ◽  
Conscious Control

Autonomic nervous systems in the human body are named for their operation outside of conscious control. One rare exception is voluntarily generated piloerection (VGP)—the conscious ability to induce goosebumps—whose physiological study, to our knowledge, is confined to three single-individual case studies. Very little is known about the physiological nature and emotional correlates of this ability. The current manuscript assesses physiological, emotional, and personality phenomena associated with VGP in a sample of thirty-two individuals. Physiological descriptions obtained from the sample are consistent with previous reports, including stereotypical patterns of sensation and action. Most participants also reported that their VGP accompanies psychological states associated with affective states (e.g., awe) and experience (e.g., listening to music), and higher than typical openness to new experiences. These preliminary findings suggest that this rare and unusual physiological ability interacts with emotional and personality factors, and thus merits further study.

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC EXPENSES: AN INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW AND FUTURE RESEARCH AGENDA

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
LARISSA MARCHIORI PACHECO ◽  
MARINA KOLLAND DANTAS ◽  
CLÁUDIA SOUZA PASSADOR ◽  
LARA BARTOCCI LIBONI-AMUI
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Future Research Agenda

Abstract Several studies analysed the environmental public expenditures, its allocation and role as an instrument for public action. However, there is still a gap in the literature, since there are no works that integrate and systematize the existing knowledge. Therefore, we conducted an integrative literature review, and selected thirty articles for synthesis, classification and coding based on a system proposed by the authors. We identified that researches on this field are still recent and publications are concentrated in Europe and Latin America. Regarding the research methods, the qualitative approach based on case studies was used to develop the majority of the studies. Also, the studies in general combined different spheres of analysis, discussing topics on performance and description of expenses. The results showed that there is a need for studies that promote themes such as transparency, accounting organization and the creation of indicators, enabling deeper analysis. An agenda with eight research suggestions was proposed based on observed theoretical limitations.

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