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Designated Hitters, Pinch Hitters, and Bat Boys: Judges Dealing with Judgment and Inexperience, Career Clerks or Term Clerks
Urbanisation is an increasing phenomenon especially the last years, which is of major concern due to the damage that can cause on environmental components such as climate, biosphere, land and water resources. A prevalent way to control this damage and mitigate the negative impacts of urban areas, lately, is considered the use of international tools like BREEAM Communities. BREEAM Communities is a third party assessment and certification standard that assesses, rates and certifies international processes, addressing environmental, social and economic sustainability objectives that can have an impact on large-scale development projects. A prevailing aspect of an urban development process is the urban design part which demands a lot of effort during the whole process. This study, focuses on how BREEAM Communities incorporates and influences the urban design of a large-scale development. By analysis of case studies regarding development projects in Sweden that either used BREEAM Communities or rejected it, qualitative interviews with relevant actors and quantitative analysis of the tool with charts and diagrams, the benefits and the drawbacks of the tool in relation to urban design are being explored. The main methods used for collecting and analysing the data are a theoretical approach, case studies analysis and interviews. Based on the overall qualitative and quantitative results of this study, the tool proved to be urban design sensitive since it includes a wide range of issues related to urban design and in particular, it has the potential to provide inspiration and support to the urban design team from an early stage throughout the process. Finally, a set of certain guidelines for architects and urban designers were prepared in order to optimise their job by setting priorities and to make their work more time and cost efficient.Urbanisering har ökat kraftigt de senaste Ären, vilket gör urbaniseringens negativa effekter pÄ miljömÀssiga bestÄndsdelar som klimat, biosfÀr samt mark- och vattenresurser angelÀgna att utreda. Ett sÀtt att kontrollera och motverka de negativa miljöeffekterna frÄn stÀder har varit genom att anvÀnda internationella verktyg som BREEAM Communities. BREEAM Communities Àr en tredjeparts utvÀrderings- och certifieringsverktyg vilket utvÀrderar, klassificerar och certifierar internationella processer genom att vÀrdera miljömÀssigt, socialt och ekonomiskt hÄllbara mÄl vilka kan pÄverka storskaliga utvecklingsprojekt. En stor bestÄndsdel i ett stadsutvecklingsprojekt Àr designdelen, vilken krÀver mycket fokus under hela processen. Den hÀr uppsatsen fokuserar pÄ hur BREEAM Communities involverar och influerar stadsutvecklingen i ett storskaligt projekt. Genom att analysera utvecklingsprojekt i Sverige som antingen anvÀnde BREEAM Communities eller förkastade detta, genom kvalitativa intervjuer med relevanta aktörer och kvantitativa analyser av verktygen genom tabeller och diagram har fördelar och nackdelar med verktygen i relation till stadsutveckling och design utforskats. En teoretisk ansats har anvÀnts som huvudmetod för att samla in relevant data. Baserat pÄ de kvalitativa och kvantitativa resultaten framtrÀdde ett resultat som visar att verktygen var anvÀndbara vid stadsutveckling eftersom de inkluderar en lÄng rad olika frÄgor och har potential att tillhandahÄlla inspiration och support för stadsutvecklingsteamet redan frÄn ett tidigt stadie i processen. Dessutom var en del hjÀlpmedel förberedda för arkitekter och urbana designers för att optimera deras arbete genom att sÀtta upp en prioriteringslista och genom att göra deras arbete mer tids- och kostnadseffektivt.Research project at the Division of Environmental Strategies Analysis, KT
One in mission - a compassionate church
Historical series, 1. Delivered at the 1st biennial convention, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, Ottawa, Jl 8 1987
Redescription of \u3ci\u3eMicropsectra Polita\u3c/i\u3e (Diptera: Chironomidae) with the Female and Immature Stages
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Malloch (1915) described Micropsectra polita (as Tanytarsus politus) from males collected along the banks of Central Dredge Ditch at Easton, Mason County, llIinois. Females of this species were not collected at that time. On 12 February 1974, males, females, and larvae were collected from a small spring-fed seep (Fig. 1) running into Muncie Pond, in Vermilion County, llIinois
Conditions for a Schunck class to be a formation
A Schunck class H is determined by the class X of primitives contained in H.
We give necessary and sufficient conditions on X for H to be a saturated
formation.Comment: 6 pages. Version 2 clarifies solubility conditions assumed in section
Designated Hitters, Pinch Hitters, and Bat Boys: Judges Dealing with Judgment and Inexperience, Career Clerks or Term Clerks
Character clusters for Lie algebra modules over a field of non-zero characteristic
For a Lie algebra L over an algebraically closed field of non-zero
characteristic, every finite-dimensional L-module can be decomposed into a
direct sum of submodules such that all composition factors of a summand have
the same character. Using the concept of a character cluster, this result is
generalised to fields which are not algebraically closed. Clusters are used to
generalise the construction of induced modules.Comment: 8 page
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