scholarly journals Increasing Life Span of Government Housings of Chandigarh – A Need-Based Approach to Retrofit Through Prototype Study of E-Type Housing

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-86
Author(s):  
PREETI PAHWA ◽  
ANISH SHARMA
Keyword(s):  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Visual Comfort ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Simulation Tools ◽  
Current State ◽  
Political Background ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
The Given

This paper describes a project undertaken by the authors during their post-graduate studies at the University of Shefield. The intent of the project was to identify building(s) that need up-gradation/retroit, establish why retroit is required, what kind of retroit is needed and which techniques to employ, using a case-sensitive approach. However, the scope of this paper is limited to the irst two objectives of the project and the recognition of retroit techniques is left open-ended  so as to leave room for future debates and deliberations.The city of Chandigarh has always been highlight prominently on India’s architectural heritage map. Various buildings designed by Le Corbusier and his team (comprising Pierre Jeanerette, Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry) are like jewels (to be treasured) on this map. Still, ever since these buildings, especially the government housings, came into existence, no systematic procedures have been undertaken to analyse and assess their deterioration with time and usage. Passing down the streets of Chandigarh, one would observe how drastically the housings have been modiied, and in some cases, have lost their original appeal.The paper is essentially drafted in three parts. The irst part illustrates the conditions and political background in which these buildings were designed, so as to better understand the essence of this architecture. The second part tries to comprehend the current state of one of the many types of the Government Housings present in Chandigarh – the ‘House Type E1’ in Panjab University. Lastly, the authors use various scales, like present seismic byelaws and Computer Aided simulation tools, to evaluate how the given housing now fares in terms of structural stability and thermal & visual comfort.

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 219-232
Author(s):  
Jim Host ◽  
Eric A. Moyen
Keyword(s):  
Research University ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
University Of Kentucky ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Current State ◽  
Ncaa Athletics ◽  
Current Events ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

The epilogue turns its attention to Host’s perception of current events and issues about which he is passionate. He addresses problems that are keeping Kentucky from making greater progress, as well as his role in Shaping Our Appalachian Region (SOAR), Kentucky Wired, and the Lexington Urban League. Host expresses his desire for the commonwealth to provide greater support to the University of Kentucky, with a view to making it an elite research university. He also shares his opinions on the current state of NCAA athletics and its governance structure and voices his support for student athletes’ right to control their own likenesses and promote commercial products. Host argues that this would encourage student athletes to stay in school rather than leaving college to become professional athletes. Host concludes the epilogue by thanking the many individuals who have played an important role in his life and professional career.

Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
Celeste Fraser Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Social Dance ◽  
Saturday Night ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

It appears to be a ritual among salsa dance scholars to open by sharing a personal salsa experience. I will follow their lead: My introduction to Los Angeles–style salsa came on a Saturday night in the spring of 1999, when I had the pleasure of taking a tour of the city's salsa scene with dance scholar Juliet McMains. Already an established professional ballroom dancer, McMains was just beginning her graduate studies at the University of California–Riverside where I was visiting faculty, having recently co-edited a collection on Latin/o American social dance. Lucky for me, McMains was among the many brilliant students who enrolled in my class on race and dance. The night of our tour, she invited a handsome friend and fellow ballroom dancer to partner first one of us, then the other, throughout the night. He drove us around the city as we stopped at a cramped restaurant-turned-nightclub in a strip mall, at a glamorous ballroom in Beverly Hills, then ended the night downtown at a massive disco in a former movie palace, the Mayan nightclub.

scholarly journals Prospects and Challenges In Developing 'Japanese Studies' Program in Bangladesh: Lessons From the University of Dhaka

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-57
Author(s):  
Md. Saifullah Akon ◽  
Dilruba Sharmin
Keyword(s):  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
Current State ◽  
Development Experience ◽  
Japanese Studies ◽  
Japanese Companies ◽  
The University ◽  
The Given

Japanese Studies has entered a booming period in Bangladesh where the growing demand for knowledge on Japan, particularly Japanese development experience, society, and culture, has intensified. Besides, the increasing number of Japanese companies and opportunities to work in Japan so far is conducive to the increasing number of students in the Japanese language. Considering the given facts, academic institutions of Bangladesh need to initiate 'Japanese Studies' programs to produce 'Japanologists’-contextual and transitional expertise. The larger goal of this study is to identify the major prospects and challenges and consider the future directions for the Japanese Studies program. The paper intends to think alternatively beyond the 'ivory tower' mindset of a large number of Bangladeshi students as well as academicians and show the prospects of Japanese Studies with sustainable employment opportunities through industry-academia collaboration. The methods and equipping tools employed in this paper include lexical scrutiny and contextual analysis under the qualitative research method to analyse the current state of knowledge and pedagogical development. Presenting the number of stumbling blocks of the Japanese Studies program in Bangladesh, the paper finally demonstrates the program's future as an academic discipline. It ends with possible suggestions towards success in producing Japanologists to strengthen Bangladesh-Japan bilateral relations.

scholarly journals Reminiscing the PIDE (Honouring Prof. A. R. Khan)

2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (4I) ◽  
pp. 365-372
Author(s):  
A. R. Khani
Keyword(s):  
Development Economics ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Alternative Employment ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Teaching Position ◽  
Formal Employment ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Research Officer

I first arrived at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, then simply the Institute of Development Economics, at the beginning of October 1960. It was located on the top floor of the Old Sindh Assembly Building on Bunder Road in Karachi. At the time the Joint Director, the resident head of the Institute, was Irving Brecher, a Canadian economist. The Director of the Institute was Emile Despres, the ex-officio head of Ford Foundation’s Pakistan Project administered from Williams College, later from Stanford University, who spent only a few weeks each year at the Institute. The Institute had a number of foreign research advisers funded by the Ford Foundation Project and a handful of Pakistani staff members, very few of them at senior levels. For me the Institute was a refuge. Since my graduation from the Dhaka University at the end of 1959 I had been teaching in the Department of Economics. I had also been selected for graduate studies in England starting the fall of 1960 under an award of the newly-instituted Commonwealth Scholarship programme. In July 1960 I was dismissed from my teaching position at the University due to alleged undesirable political antecedents during my student days. A few weeks later my scholarship for study abroad was also withdrawn by the Government of Pakistan whose approval was a prerequisite for the finalisation of the award. The prospect of alternative employment was bleak with little private sector demand for economics graduates at the time. I had been interviewed by Emile Despres and his colleagues who were on a recruitment mission the previous winter in Dhaka. The teaching appointment at the University, coming on the heels of the interview, had preempted a possible offer from them. A few weeks after I lost my scholarship, I received a telegram from the Institute offering me the position of a Research Officer (later named Staff Economist). This rescued me from what appeared to be virtual banishment from all possibility of a meaningful career. This was the beginning of the series of many kind acts by the Institute and its members which over time made me accustomed to treating it as a home even after my formal employment in it ended.

scholarly journals Review of spectral lighting simulation tools for non-image- forming effects of light

2021 ◽  
Vol 2042 (1) ◽  
pp. 012122
Author(s):  
M Gkaintatzi-Masouti ◽  
J van Duijnhoven ◽  
M P J Aarts
Keyword(s):  
Building Design ◽  
Lighting Design ◽  
Light Sources ◽  
Visual Comfort ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Simulation Tools ◽  
Current State ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Lighting Simulation ◽  
User Friendly

Abstract Light via our eyes influences visual performance, visual comfort and visual experience, but also affects several health related, non-image-forming (NIF) responses. New metrics have been developed to quantify the NIF effects of light. In order to incorporate these in lighting design practice, simulation tools are required that are able to process information about the spectral distribution of light sources and materials. However, most of the tools currently used for daylight and electric light simulations simplify the spectrum into RGB (Red, Green, Blue) colour values. This paper presents an overview of the currently used programs for simulating the NIF effects of light in building design and discusses the possibility of using existing spectral rendering software as an alternative. A review of literature shows that mostly Radiance or Radiance-based programs have been used so far, but new user-friendly tools could employ existing spectral rendering tools. As the NIF effects of light gain greater importance in lighting design, new simulation workflows are needed. This paper aims to support the development of future workflows by presenting the current state-of-the-art.

scholarly journals On intravascular coagulation in albinoes and pigmented animals, and on the behaviour of the nucleo-proteids of testes in solution in the production of intravascular coagulation

1907 ◽  
Vol 79 (530) ◽  
pp. 103-129
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Intravascular Coagulation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University

The experiments described in this paper have been performed in the physiological laboratories of the University of London, and my best thanks are due to Dr. Augustus Waller, the Director, and to Mr. E. Legge Symes, the Demonstrator in Physiology, for the many facilities that were kindly placed at my service. Especially would I like to add my testimony to the value of the Dubois chloroform apparatus as a means of easily and safely administering chloroform to animals. The cost of these experiments has been defrayed from a grant of the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society.

scholarly journals Combating pandemics in India – A comparison study between the 1918, 2009 and 2019-2020 pandemics

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 1762-1767
Author(s):  
Srinidhi Chandramoulie ◽  
Balaji Ramraj ◽  
Aarthy Marimuthu
Keyword(s):  
Influenza Pandemic ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Current State ◽  
Laboratory Services ◽  
2009 H1n1 ◽  
The Government ◽  
1918 Influenza ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Many

Out of the many pandemics and epidemics that India has gone through in the last two centuries, two pandemics have been chosen-the 1918 Influenza pandemic and the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, to be compared with the current state of affairs with the Covid-19 pandemic. Critical review and analysis of pandemic preparedness and India’s response to the three pandemics was made through PubMed cited articles, exclusive reports from the Government in 1918, and authentic news coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic in line of healthcare, logistics and communication. Increase in healthcare facilities, laboratory services and research capacities noted through the three pandemics. Better surveillance methods and improved awareness of the public observed over the years. The readiness of the country for emergency measures with some inequalities discussed. Three different pandemics have been compared with an adequate interval between them barring the factor of healthcare inequity and virulence of the respective organism. It should be noted that there is no single solution for combating pandemics. Combined measures put together can help towards facing them with ease the next time around.

The Legal Control of Personal Data in the Private Sectors of Quebec and Canada.

1988 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 247-256
Author(s):  
René Laperrière ◽  
Jean-Pierre Lemasson ◽  
Pierrôt Péladeau ◽  
Robert D. Bureau ◽  
Jean Martin
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Data Bases ◽  
Natural Justice ◽  
Current State ◽  
Legal Control ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
Data Banks

From 1984 to 1986, the Computer Science and Law Research Group at The University of Quebec at Montreal conducted a socio-legal survey for the Government of Quebec on personal data banks in the private sector of Quebec's economy. The study flowed from a concern for the defence and promotion of individual rights and freedoms, which appeared to be threatened by the growth of relatively unregulated data banks. By furnishing an often confidential computerized double, sophisticated data bases can often give a better picture of individuals than they themselves could provide. Ultimately, decisions affecting individuals and social choices could be taken without any control over their conformity to rules of natural justice and democracy. With these concerns in mind, we studied both the current state of development of such data banks and the state of the law regulating them.

Some aspects of the idea of unity V. Solovyov and the present

2000 ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
O. O. Romanovsky
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
Temporary Closure

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the nature of the national policy of Russia is significantly changing. After the events of 1863 in Poland (the Second Polish uprising), the government of Alexander II gradually abandoned the dominant idea of ​​anathematizing, whose essence is expressed in the domination of the principle of serving the state, the greatness of the empire. The tsar-reformer deliberately changes the policy of etatamism into the policy of state ethnocentrism. The manifestation of such a change is a ban on teaching in Polish (1869) and the temporary closure of the University of Warsaw. At the end of the 60s, the state's policy towards a five million Russian Jewry was radically revised. The process of abolition of restrictions on travel, education, place of residence initiated by Nicholas I, was provided reverse.

MAKING IT GREEN: THE FOOD PACKAGING PERCEPTIONS AND PRACTICES OF YOUNG CONSUMERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Norsyamira Shahrin ◽  
Rabiatul Adawiyah Abd Rahman ◽  
Noorliza Zainol ◽  
Noor Saliza Salmi ◽  
Mohd Faisal Abdul Wahab
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Food Handler ◽  
Polystyrene Foam ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Young Consumers ◽  
Plastic Bag ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University

Food handler still fails to play their part even when the government imposes “No Plastic Bag” campaign and a ban on polystyrene foam to pack foods. This research focuses on eco-friendly food packaging based on the perception and practice of young consumers, especially the undergraduates of Mara University of Technology Penang Campus (UiTMPP). Questionnaire was constructed and distributed to 315 respondents.  The collected data were analyzed with simple descriptive statistic of frequency, mean and standard deviation. Most of the respondents are aware on eco-friendlyfood packaging. They agreed that the university should propose some alternative to control and reduce non-biodegradable foods packaging. 

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