Embracing Today’s Economic And Technological Reality What It Means For Design Professionals

History has shown that technological advancements alter the way we produce, exchange, protect, consume and save all kinds of goods. The First Industrial Revolution, for example, has been named as such since it indeed revolutionized everything related to daily living including art, culture, economy and politics. History has also shown that most cultural actors are reluctant to embrace advanced technology at first as they might see it as taking away something at the core of humanity. Arts and Crafts movement, for example, grew out of a concern for the effects of industrialization on design, on traditional skills and on the lives of ordinary people. Today, economists, scientists and policymakers in developing countries are talking about the coming of the fourth industrial revolution and the Second Machine Age, that not only will redefine the way humans live their daily life but also the very definition of human beings. The aim of this study is to discuss the effects of these changes on theoretical and practical issues related to design professionals and education, including advanced technologies available and social and cultural implications of their use. The paper will argue that today’s economic and technological reality will alter the design profession from its education to its implementation

Prediction of Flexural Properties of Wood Material Reinforced with Various FRP Fabrics by Artificial Neural Networks

Recently, fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) applications have started to be used in the reinforcement of wooden structures, such as in the reinforcement of steel and reinforced concrete structures. It is necessary to strengthen the wooden structures for reasons such as removing the damages caused by external factors and earthquakes in time, increasing the load-bearing capacity of the structure by restoration, preventing early fatigue and breakages that may occur as a result of mistakes made in the design. The necessity to improve the repair and strengthening methods of the structures damaged as a result of the earthquake over time arises. In this study, the maximum load, displacement, flexural strength and modulus of elasticity of the wood material of Iroko and Ash tree species reinforced with 4 different FRP fabrics, namely carbon, glass, aramid and basalt, were determined by bending test. As a result of the experimental study, the maximum load, displacement, flexure strength and elasticity modulus values of the reinforced samples were estimated by artificial neural network (ANN). As a result, it was determined that the flexural properties of a wood material strengthened with FRP by using ANN can be predicted

Construction and Evaluation of The Wind Tunnel Technique for Estimating Ammonia Volatilization from Land

Agriculture is mainly responsible for ammonia (NH3) volatilization. Among all agricultural activities, livestock and especially animal manures are the most important sources of NH3 emissions. Manure application which not only exacerbate greenhouse gas emissions, but also leads to eutrophication of water bodies. Many studies have shown that surface application of manure can lead to large ammonia losses and run off, on the other hand that tillage can substantially reduce these losses. It is necessary to determine ammonia flux from manure-amended soils to improve management manure handling practices for minimizing agriculture’s impact on the environment. From this point of view, one of the direct measured method was used to determine this volatilization. The objections of this work were: i) The design, construction, physical calibration, and operation of the little wind tunnels. ii) Recover ammonia loss from bovine slurry by little wind tunnel method. iii) Determine the effect of slurry application depth on ammonia emission. The little wind tunnel system consisted of plastic canopy covering the treatment area (2 m long by 0.5 m wide). By was using a fan, it was imitated the natural wind speed in the test area (1-1.5 m/s). Nitrogen losses were measured with this method in surface application, 50 mm and 100 mm subsurface. In the surface application, the highest ammonia emission was observed. It was approximately 68% higher in compared to another methods. There is significantly (P=0.05) different in the ammonia emission, between the surface apply method and injection manure in soil methods. But There isn’t any significantly different between ammonia emission amount in injection subsurface methods (100 mm and 50 mm deep)

Data mining methods for the prediction of different forms of asthma

The article examines the diagnosis of bronchial asthma, cites the classification of the disease, proves the relevance of this research, and represents the result of primary data analysis by using a powerful tool for data analysis - Rapid Miner

Appropriated 'a la Franga': An examination of Turkish modernization through the lens of domestic culture.

The scholarship on modernization of non-western states can be enhanced with the help of recent formal approaches to architecture such as space syntax methodology that examines the spatial morphology of the built environment. This research explores the complex dynamisms involved in the Turkish modernization process and demonstrates the schism that exists between the historical periods representing social changes and the spatial periods representing the transformation of Ankara house genotype. Based on the interpretative examination of selected sources, the continuity and change in domestic life is examined within five sub-categories: namely, the relation between public and private realms within domestic space, the relationship between inhabitants and visitors, the social role of women, the upbringing and significance of children, and the impact of material culture on daily life. Using space syntax methodology, the formal syntactic aspects of 108 exemplary house plans, all designed by Turkish architects for upper-middle class citizens, are examined to uncover the Ankara house genotype. These houses are digitized and syntactic analyses conducted to examine the permeability and visibility properties of domestic spaces. It is suggested that spatial transformation of apartment designs reflect three distinct genotypes in terms of sector differentiation and relation to the exterior: (a) no sector differentiation one entrance; (b) different sectors, multiple entrances; and (c) different sectors, one entrance. To present the socio-spatial transformation of Turkish domestic culture, a conceptual framework with three categories is proposed. The first category, the definition of boundaries, involves a diachronic examination of houses focusing on functional spaces and service areas. The second, flexibility of definitions, involves a synchronic examination looking at the changes in activity patterns based on time and occupancy, and discussing fluidity of what is considered public and private. The last category, the in-between, examines the significance of the transition spaces in the house, between inside and outside, and between rooms. Through this framework, both social as well as spatial transformations are considered in understanding of the complex dynamisms that reflect cultural change. This change, i.e. modernization, is defined as an evolutionary process that involves a cultural synthesis as two different ways of living encounter each other.Ph.D.ArchitectureCommunication and the ArtsCultural anthropologySocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/125091/2/3186640.pd

An Ex Ample Model In The Protection And Development Of Childr En’S Rights: Childr En Ombudsman Of Norway

Ombudsman, kötü yönetimden korunmak, hak ihlallerini önlemek, ve idareninhukuk sınırları içinde işlemesini sağlamak gibi amaçlar doğrultusunda pek çokülkede ve çok çeşitli alanlarda uygulanan bağımsız bir denetim mekanizma-sıdır. Bu kapsamda bu çalışmada bir tür ombudsmanlık çeşidi olan ÇocukOmbudsmanlığı’nın ilk örneği olan Norveç’teki uygulaması, özellikleri vebaşarısı ortaya konulmuş ardından da Türkiye için bir değerlendirme yapıl-mıştır. Çalışma, literatüre dayalı araştırmalar bağlamında tarihsel ve betimselaraştırma yöntemleri kullanılarak yürütülmüştür. Araştırma sonunda bu modelinTürkiye’de çocuk haklarının korunması ve geliştirilmesi açısından önemli birrol oynayabileceği sonucuna varılmıştır.The Ombudsman is an independent regulatory mechanism that is implementedin many countries and in a variety of fields in order to protect against misman-agement, to prevent violations of rights, and to ensure that the application iscarried out within the limits of law. In this context, in this study, the application,characteristics and success of the first example of the Child Ombudsman, whichis a kind of ombudsman, were put forward and then an evaluation was madefor Turkey. The study was conducted using historical and descriptive researchmethods in the context of literature based research. At the end of the research,this model has played an important role in the protection and development ofchildren’s rights in Turkey

The evolving design of 20th-century apartments in Ankara

This study analyzes a longitudinal series of Ankara apartment houses using space syntax methodology to uncover the underlying genotype and its transformation over time. The results indicate that transition-space-centred organization is the underlying spatial structure for 20th-century Ankara apartments. Diachronic examination of the sample in terms of sectoral differentiation—that is, clustering of spaces based on functional and social requirements, and in relation to the exterior—has identified three groups: (a) the houses from the 1920s with no sector differentiation and one entrance; (b) the houses from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s with different sectors and multiple entrances; (c) the houses from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s with different sectors and one entrance. Viewing these results in relation to an analysis of the history of domestic culture demonstrates that there exists a schism between the historical periods representing social changes and the spatial periods representing the transformation of the Ankara house genotype.

EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT ROUGHAGE HARVESTING SYSTEMS ON YIELD AND DRY MATTER LOSSES

WOS: 000454345800015The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of different roughage harvesting systems in terms of yield and dry matter (DM) losses. Also, some quality parameters such as pH, acid detergent fiber (ADF), neutral detergent fiber (ADP) and relative feed value (RFV) were evaluated. To this aim, four harvesting systems (S1: mower + round baler, S2: disc mower with conditioner + round baler, S3: mower + round baler + wrapping machine, S4: disc mower with conditioner + round baler + wrapping machine) were tested according to randomized block design with three replications. As plant material, vetch + triticale (Vicia saliva L. + Triticasecale wittmack) mixture was used.It was found that the bale silages have lower pH content comparing with dried forage. Also the best harvesting systems was S4 in terms of RFV. While the highest DM losses occurred in SI system, S4 system gave the highest yield These results indicate that the choice of method and machine is very important in the roughage harvest