Virtual image out-the-window display system study. Volume 2 - Appendix

Virtual image out-the-window display system imaging techniques and simulation devices - appendices containing background materia

Hack: Reclaiming the Commons

Architecture is an act of agency, and a technology that can be learned by anyone for their own purpose. It evolved as a system of organization and a protective shell for our fragile bodies, a vast, complex technology that enables human survival. Yet despite its universal nature, we have artificially limited our control over it, and who has access to it; we limit its potentials, its adaptive capacities, its diversity, and our continued survival. Walled-up in universities, behind certifications and dissertations, we have removed architecture from the public’s mind so that few understand it and use it. The city, in its surging complexity, is ever more opaque; the systems, infrastructure, and regulations that govern its formation are hidden from view, behind doors, walls, and fences. Hack seeks to make the city legible and architecture accessible, by leveraging a growing tide of hacker culture, and its subcultures – makers and DIY drone enthusiasts – and their respective technologies. Since the birth of the computer, Hackers have sought to democratize information technology held by military, government, and corporate interests. In doing so they’ve provided a number of methods, that enable free sharing and collaboration between individuals, distributing problem-solving practices, open-source systems, hands-on education, and free access to tools, all applicable to the challenges and opportunities facing architecture and city building today. Hack bootstraps itself to these ideals with hands-on experiments and reflections on those experiments, reframing architecture as a basic skill, a technology to be used by anyone, democratizing architecture through online communities, and the Hacker culture, in order to define a new active role for the architect. Internalizing the Hacker Ethic, and appropriate existing technologies to build new tools – devices to survey space, architecture and the city. – Hack traces the construction of a kite, a model car, a quadrocopter, and a remote-control airplane, each capable of gathering intimate information about the local environment. Hack concludes by reexamining the role of the aerial view in making cities and exercising power, speculating on the potential to level the fields of perception through online co-operation and these small-scale cartographic technologies

Sunny-Side Solutions: a solar powered water heating and shower system

Sunny-Side Solutions is a solar water heating and shower system designed for Naretu Academy in Narok, Kenya, to provide the academy\u27s teachers a simple, reliable, and frugal method of receiving hot water for daily showers. After thorough research and testing, the final system\u27s main components are ½ diameter, 54.9 m long irrigation piping solar collector, a 100 L insulated hot water tank, and a 67 W circulation pump. These components ensure that all water that enters the system will be able to achieve a final temperature of 38 °C and maintain this temperature until the teachers shower and drain the hot water tank. With the solar collector optimally angled towards the sun, a final theoretical temperature of 43.1 °C was reached, equating to a temperature difference of 17.8 °C. Sunny-Side Solutions\u27 solar system is not only more time efficient for the teachers, as does not require constant watch like boiling water does, but it also saves Sabore\u27s Well 57.6 % compared to Kenya\u27s leading market solar solution. A hot water shower serves as a form of appreciation for all the hard work the teachers put in to supporting the Maasai community and its children\u27s education. In order to further optimize and test the Sunny-Side Solutions solar system at Naretu Academy, an instruction manual, visually outlining how to build the solar collector, and informational pamphlet, containing materials, substitutes, and suggestions to simplify the building process, was sent to Sabore\u27s Well

Sets in Order: the official magazine of square dancing.

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Pursuing Environmental Justice through Collaboration: Insights from Experience.

Although collaborative processes are already being promoted as a strategy for managing environmental justice conflicts, the factors that promote and hinder effective collaborative processes in cases of environmental justice have not yet been explored. A case study approach identified the unique characteristics of environmental justice conflicts and provides a nuanced insight into the implications of these characteristics for collaborative problem-solving in environmental justice conflict situations. Collaborative processes in New York City’s West Harlem, Washington, D.C., and Richmond, California are studied. Environmental justice conflicts have characteristics that distinguish them from other types of environmental conflicts. The issues in an environmental justice conflict have a human rights orientation and are framed to emphasize dimensions of race, class, discrimination, and injustice. Past procedural injustices and the suppression or inaccessibility of relevant information characterize the nature of the decision-making processes traditionally followed in managing environmental justice conflicts. Parties to an environmental justice conflict have traumatic histories of racial and economic discrimination, different social locations, perceived power differentials, high distrust, low network ties, and incongruent communication norms. These characteristics challenge common assumptions about the nature of collaboration in environmental justice conflict situations. When presented with opportunities to participate in a collaborative process, environmental justice participants’ incentives to participate were limited. The presence of trusted and respectful leaders who are motivated to build relationships with other groups and communities can transform the nature of the opportunity and enhance participation. Building the capacities of environmental justice participants is important in fostering effective collaborative processes, but it is equally important to build the capacities of all parties engaged in the collaborative process to recognize and address the unique attributes of the environmental justice dimension of the conflict. Finally, the unique characteristics of environmental justice conflicts create complexities in collaborative problem-solving processes that warrant attention in how processes are structured and managed in an environmental justice context.Ph.D.Natural Resources and EnvironmentUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78909/1/slashley_1.pd

A Quantitative Comparative Study of Employee Engagement Among Full-Time Seventh-day Adventist Pastors in the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists and Its Relationship to Level of Participation in Annual Pastoral Continuing Education (CE)

Problem Research was needed to determine the relationship between pastoral CE and employee engagement to guide policy implementation as well as future efforts for pastoral professional development within the Adventist organization. Method This study presents a new theoretical Adventist pastor development model integrating several theories and concepts including: the call, the Seven Core Qualities of an NAD pastor framework, andragogy, CE, SDT, and employee engagement. Employee engagement was measured using Herzberg\u27s hygiene-motivation factor employee engagement theory. Comparisons were conducted on six groups of pastors related to selfreported participation in annual CE. Results Major research findings indicate that pastors, perhaps inevitably as humans, are complex, and several factors seem to work synergistically to result in positive hygiene and motivation (employee engagement) scores including: The call, age, having adult children, ethnicity, a combination of CE and age, and a combination of children and CE. Of key importance, increased knowledge and specific life experiences work together to create a more engaged pastor. CE as a stand-alone factor did not have a statistically significant positive impact on hygiene or motivation employee engagement scores based on this data. Factors that have a negative impact on hygiene and motivation scores are family suffering, feeling like leaving ministry, doubting God’s call, ethnicity, and children at home or no children at all, and. The most popular CE activity of Adventist pastors was conventions, the least favorite was creating CE content for peers. Conclusions Recommendations for pastoral professional practice are related to five areas of focus: education, CE policy, coaching and mentoring, work environments, and pastoral family supports. Recommendations for future research are specific to four areas: pastoral CE, pastoral development factors, work environments, and family support. More scholarly research on pastors is urgently needed utilizing a factorial approach

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The Lumberjack, May 07, 1969

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/studentnewspaper/1751/thumbnail.jp