Healing the liminal space: a student project on the Nicosia buffer zone

On 17th October 2008 twelve sixth year architecture students from the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering at the Queen’s University Belfast were granted unprecedented access by the United Nations to enter the buffer zone of Nicosia’s walled city. This was a unique opportunity to experience and survey the selected sites for their senior theses design proposals which targeted the liminal space contained in the buffer zone since its complete physical division in 1974 and aimed at reuniting the walled city through urban design and architecture. This paper firstly explains the context of the study and the role of the Nicosia Master Plan in reshaping Nicosia’s urban growth. It then summarizes students’ experience conducting the two the field trips to Nicosia. And finally it presents the design contributions from the 12 students, the design challenges they faced and the important topics that emerged

Dynamic Responses of Bridges under Effects of Asynchronous and Multiple Support Excitations

Nonstationary earthquakes are very complex ground motions and they vibrate structural systems in asynchronous form. Spatial variation of an earthquake mainly originates from three sources; loss of coherence effects, wave passage and local soil conditions. In this study, a longspan bridge having multi-support excitations were analyzed for the effects of spatially varying ground motions in terms of wave passage and local site response effects. Two types of dynamic analyses were performed: a) same or different soil conditions for all supports b) same ground motions but different arrival times for wave propagation. For evaluations, the results obtained by considering asynchronous ground motions were compared with those of the synchronous ground motions. From the comparisons, significant differences were observed in case of spatially varying ground motions and this case show that the assumption of synchronous ground motions and identical local site conditions are inadequate to represent the earthquake load and soil model. Therefore, earthquake motions and actual local site properties should be characterized by their inherent properties to obtain more realistic responses

İklim Değişikliği Gündemi Gerçeklerle Örtüşmelidir

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Kuruyan Göller ve Dereler

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Managers from Hell in the Hospitality Industry

The majority of employees are disaffected with their work and not engaged in their place of employment. This is a surprising but statistically validated fact revealed in a Gallup poll, and it has prompted Rosen College researchers to investigate how far it applies to hospitality. In what is thought to be the first study to look at the problem in the industry, research by Dr. Fevzi Okumus and his two former Ph.D. students reveal what hospitality employees have to say about managers from Hell, and what this means for the sector

Üretim Hatları, Eklemeli Üretim ve Seri Üretim

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