Urban Stitch: A Game In Section

A city begins as a small, centralized community where everybody knows each other. Social events take place in the city square, or even on sidewalks, creating a street culture. As a city grows, so does the demand for larger roads, and eventually highways. In the late 1940’s President Eisenhower initiated the interstate system, capable of handling large amounts of traffic, creating connections to larger cities with economic centers. Over the next forty years, the interstates were installed across the United States, either bypassing, or crossing through cities. Although necessary, at what point does the interstate, if taken through a major city, become a barrier to those on the streets, diminishing street life? It was when Robert Moses failed to take a super highway through lower Manhattan Island that Jane Jacobs wrote about the importance of street life, itself necessary to accentuate sidewalks, buildings, and the people. This thesis is about how to restructure a fragmented city through stitching, incorporating a design typology to activate dead zones and empty lots resulting from interstates to reinvigorate street life. The site: Midtown Atlanta, where in the 1950’s the initial construction of the Downtown Connector, I 75/85, rearranged Techwood Drive and Williams Street, and tore 15th and 16th streets in half. Documented site conditions show the remaining historical buildings, slowly being built over by new, contemporary development. Abandoned open lots are either crumbling or becoming overgrown. Around the site is a high heat island effect, contributing to respiratory problems amongst children. Pedestrian activity is scarce along the east side of the site, even on weekends. I will show a series of sections of Midtown Atlanta before, during, and after the installation of the connector, and its affects. The result: a morphological typology for Atlanta, allowing Midtown to reach out into other fragmented neighborhoods

Blockchain Storage – Drive Configurations and Performance Analysis

This project will analyze the results of trials implementing various storage methods on Geth nodes to synchronize and maintain a full-archive state of the Ethereum blockchain. The purpose of these trials is to gain deeper insight to the process of lowering cost and increasing efficiency of blockchain storage using available technologies, analyzing results of various storage drives under similar conditions. It provides performance analysis and describes performance of each trial in relation to the others

Moving Community Through Dance

The presentation of original screen dances and research-based projects, encompasses how the moving body can be a vehicle for poetry and commentary, exploring topics such as racism, community, remembrance, anatomy, physics, the natural world, physical and mental states of being, and formal abstraction

Lesson learned from early and long-term results of 327 cases of coexisting surgical abdominal diseases and aortic aneurysms treated in open and endovascular surgery

Patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) frequently have other abdominal pathologies of surgical interest (other diseases, OD). Out of 1,375 elective open aortic replacements for AAA, 315 cases with OD were subdivided in Group 1 (82 patients with “clean wound” OD) and Group 2 (233 patients with “clean-contaminated wound” OD). The results of the sub-groups in which OD was treated at the same time as AAA were analysed (1a, 66 cases and 2a, 86 cases) and compared with OD not treated at the same time as AAA (1b, 16 cases and 2b, 147 cases). EVAR was done in 12 patients with a infrarenal AAA and concomitant abdominal disease. In this group post-operative complications occured in two patients (endoleaks) and no sign of endograft infection was developed. Mean follow-up was 36 months. Mortality was 0% in Group 1a, 1b, 2b and 5.8% in Group 2a. In Group 1a there were one haemoperitoneum, one ischaemic colitis and one graft infection. In Group 1b there were 4 nefrectomies for renal carcinoma and three emergency hernia repairs within 18 months from AAA operation. In Group 2a the follow-up was uneventful. In Group 2b there was no acute complication of OD and 57.2% of patients were subsequently operated for OD. In the EVAR group the 30-day and late mortality rates were 0 and 25%, respectively and all deaths were cancer-related. Contemporary correction of OD in open surgery for AAA should be performed in clean wound cases, while clean-contaminated operations can be done only in selected cases. EVAR is a valid alternative technique to open vascular surgery for the concomitant treatment of aortic aneurysms and abdominal pathologies

WSES guidelines for management of Clostridium difficile infection in surgical patients

In the last two decades there have been dramatic changes in the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), with increases in incidence and severity of disease in many countries worldwide. The incidence of CDI has also increased in surgical patients. Optimization of management of C difficile, has therefore become increasingly urgent. An international multidisciplinary panel of experts prepared evidenced-based World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) guidelines for management of CDI in surgical patients.Peer reviewe

Get rich quick: Investing carefully to build wealth over time

Simple web searches for stocks to buy will be full of “hot stocks of the week” posts which don’t provide any insight and may be poor investment decisions for an individual. This makes building wealth through equity a confusing and daunting task for individuals without any financial education. To find investing strategies that have been successful for individuals, we reached out to a subject matter expert in the wealth management field to understand how best to provide personalized investment research to our users, and consulted with professors from the Eberhardt School of Business. We collect the following information from users: risk tolerance, financial knowledge, and company or industry interests. This information is implemented into our service solution that auto generates investment research that is tailored to a user’s personal investing needs and provides insight as to why they should invest into a specific security. The language is also appropriate for the knowledge level of the future. Audience members should be expecting to see the future of financial management and education

Get rich quick: Investing carefully to build wealth over time

Simple web searches for stocks to buy will be full of “hot stocks of the week” posts which don’t provide any insight and may be poor investment decisions for an individual. This makes building wealth through equity a confusing and daunting task for individuals without any financial education. To find investing strategies that have been successful for individuals, we reached out to a subject matter expert in the wealth management field to understand how best to provide personalized investment research to our users, and consulted with professors from the Eberhardt School of Business. We collect the following information from users: risk tolerance, financial knowledge, and company or industry interests. This information is implemented into our service solution that auto generates investment research that is tailored to a user’s personal investing needs and provides insight as to why they should invest into a specific security. The language is also appropriate for the knowledge level of the future. Audience members should be expecting to see the future of financial management and education

Video Bench - Final Report

this report is structured as follows. Chapter 2 provides background information on video editing systems and related research topics. Chapter 3 introduces the fundamental concepts of the Video Bench and illustrates the primitive operations made available to the users. Chapter 4 discusses implementation issues, and Chapter 5 describes the results of an informal system evaluation. Chapter 6 concludes with a list of achievements and ideas for future wor

Effective number of breeders from sibship reconstruction: empirical evaluations using hatchery steelhead

aerial view, runway with taxi markings, October 26, 200