13 research outputs found
Concepts of Personhood and Mothers of Children with Disabilities
Produced by Hawai'i University Affiliated Program on Disabilities, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Frank Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts, and School of Social Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas for The Society for Disability Studies
āA Massive Long Wayā: Interconnecting Histories, a āSpecial Child,ā ADHD, and Everyday Family Life
Focusing on one family from a study of dual-earner middle-class families carried out in Los Angeles, California, this article draws on interview and video-recorded data of everyday interactions to explore illness and healing as embedded in the microcultural context of the Morris family. For this family, an important aspect of what is at stake for them in their daily lives is best understood by focusing on 9-year-old Mark, who has been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In this article, we grapple with the complexity of conveying some sense of how Markās condition is experienced and relationally enacted in everyday contexts. Through illuminating connections between lives as lived and lives as told, we explore the narrative structuring of healing in relation to Markās local moral world with the family at its center. We examine how his parents understand the moral consequences of the childās past for his present and future, and work to encourage others to give due weight to his troubled beginnings before this child joined the Morris family. At the same time, we see how the Morris parents act to structure Markās moral experience and orient to a desired future in which Markās āsuccessā includes an appreciation of how he is accountable to others for his actions. Through our analyses, we also seek to contribute to discussions on what is at stake in everyday life contexts for children with ADHD and their families, through illuminating aspects of the cultural, moral and relational terrain that U.S. families navigate in contending with a childās diagnosis of ADHD. Further, given that ADHD is often construed as a ādisorder of volition,ā we seek to advance anthropological theorizing about the will in situations where volitional control over behavior is seen to be disordered
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Performance, prediction, and optimization of night ventilation across different climates: an assessment of mechanical and natural night ventilation
This paper describes the performance, in terms of indoor environmental conditions, of three buildings from both the U.S. and India that use night ventilation as their primary cooling method. The first building, located in Oakland, California, uses forced ventilation at night to increase the airflow.Ā The second building, located in Sunnyvale, California, uses automated natural ventilation at night.Ā The third building, in Auroville, India, uses natural ventilation by means of occupant-controlled windows.Ā The analysis is based on three months, two months, and a full year of monitored data collected from each building, respectively, of indoor and outdoor conditions. The indoor conditions of each building were first tested for compliance with comfort standards in the US and India.Ā A hybrid model was then developed, using both first principle equations and the collected data, to predict the instantaneous air and mass temperatures within each building.Ā The cooling strategy effectiveness was then assessed by comparing indoor conditions from days that did and did not use night ventilation, comparing performance across the different climates and types of night flushing.Ā Finally, the ventilation controls for each building were optimized using the hybrid model
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Performance, prediction, and optimization of night ventilation across different climates: an assessment of mechanical and natural night ventilation
This paper describes the performance, in terms of indoor environmental conditions, of three buildings from both the U.S. and India that use night ventilation as their primary cooling method. The first building, located in Oakland, California, uses forced ventilation at night to increase the airflow.Ā The second building, located in Sunnyvale, California, uses automated natural ventilation at night.Ā The third building, in Auroville, India, uses natural ventilation by means of occupant-controlled windows.Ā The analysis is based on three months, two months, and a full year of monitored data collected from each building, respectively, of indoor and outdoor conditions. The indoor conditions of each building were first tested for compliance with comfort standards in the US and India.Ā A hybrid model was then developed, using both first principle equations and the collected data, to predict the instantaneous air and mass temperatures within each building.Ā The cooling strategy effectiveness was then assessed by comparing indoor conditions from days that did and did not use night ventilation, comparing performance across the different climates and types of night flushing.Ā Finally, the ventilation controls for each building were optimized using the hybrid model
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Performance, prediction, optimization, and user behavior of night ventilation
Previous studies have demonstrated a potential reduction in cooling load and improvement in comfort from the implementation of night ventilation. This paper describes the performance, in terms of indoor environmental conditions, of three buildings from both the U.S. and India that use night ventilation as their primary cooling method. The research methods used the following approach: (1) Assess the cooling strategy in relation to the adaptive comfort model; (2) Develop a hybrid model, using both first principle equations and the collected data, to predict the instantaneous air and mass temperatures within each building and use the model to assess performance of the cooling strategy; (3) Determine an optimized ventilation control strategy for each building to minimize energy and maintain comfortable temperatures. (4) Develop a statistical model using collected data to predict the window opening pattern for occupants of a building using natural night ventilation. The study yielded the following results: (1) The buildings in the mild climate are successfully keeping the indoor temperature low, but also tend to be overcooling; (2) The night ventilation strategy has very little impact on indoor conditions of the buildings in the mild climate; (3) The impact of night ventilation is less significant when there is low internal loads and heavy mass; (4) The building in the hot and humid climate is keeping the indoor temperature within the comfort bounds for 88% of the year; (5) The night ventilation strategy has advantageous impact on indoor conditons of the building in the hot and humid climate, but not enough to cool the space on its own; (6) Model predictive control has the potential to further improve the performance of night ventilation. (7) Window opening behavior for the building using natural night ventilation is most heavily dependent on indoor air temperature and mass temperature