Grandparenting Center: Connecting the Generations

Site: Hong Kong Grandparenting Center: Connecting the Generations This building represents a Grandparenting Center, a place with a variety of activities where grandparents or older guardians can take children for the day. One in three older adults in Hong Kong are caretakers for children at least one day a week, and in most cases much longer. This center is a space where grandparents can connect with their grandchildren while also building a community of peers with similar responsibilities and demands. A chief complaint of older adults caring for children is the physical demands of keeping up with a child. In order to foster positive interactions within the center, this building strives to take the burden off of the bodies of older adults and children by providing manageable circulation as well as places for rest within the building. Circulation consists of ramps, stairs with lower rises and deeper runs, and half-levels or less between spaces. Different types of built-in seating throughout the complex provide spaces to rest, ideally promoting activity in the more flexible spaces of the complex. In promoting both activity and pause within the project, proprioception and light became important considerations. Intergenerational connections are promoted by taking the different scales of a child and an older adult into consideration and proving areas of level changes. These level changes allow older adults to connect with younger children face-to-face. Two main components that allow for these connections include built-ins and ramping of the floor within a space. The plane of the floor becomes important in creating gradual shifts to allow for the two individuals to connect. Some spaces are oriented towards one-on-one interactions between an adult and child while other areas are designed for community interactions. The complex itself is broken up into four forms with distinct heights which create a series of terraces that look out towards the street and bay area. Hong Kong has a humid subtropical climate where the coldest months see average temperatures in the low 50s and the warmest months see average temperatures in the high 80s. During the hot summer days, large overhangs on the southern side of the building protect the complex from solar heat gain and provide areas of shade on the terraces. Since weather in the spring and fall is quite comfortable, the terraces should be able to be used for the majority of the year.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/spring2019_greer/1002/thumbnail.jp

Pevonedistat (MLN4924), a First‐in‐Class NEDD8‐activating enzyme inhibitor, in patients with acute myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndromes: a phase 1 study

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Engaging Undergraduates in Science Research: Not Just About Faculty Willingness.

Despite the many benefits of involving undergraduates in research and the growing number of undergraduate research programs, few scholars have investigated the factors that affect faculty members' decisions to involve undergraduates in their research projects. We investigated the individual factors and institutional contexts that predict faculty members' likelihood of engaging undergraduates in their research project(s). Using data from the Higher Education Research Institute's 2007-2008 Faculty Survey, we employ hierarchical generalized linear modeling to analyze data from 4,832 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty across 194 institutions to examine how organizational citizenship behavior theory and social exchange theory relate to mentoring students in research. Key findings show that faculty who work in the life sciences and those who receive government funding for their research are more likely to involve undergraduates in their research project(s). In addition, faculty at liberal arts or historically Black colleges are significantly more likely to involve undergraduate students in research. Implications for advancing undergraduate research opportunities are discussed

DIY Methods 2022 Conference Proceedings

As the past years have proven, the methods for conducting and distributing research that we’ve inherited from our disciplinary traditions can be remarkably brittle in the face of rapidly changing social and mobility norms. The ways we work and the ways we meet are questions newly opened for practical and theoretical inquiry; we both need to solve real problems in our daily lives and account for the constitutive effects of these solutions on the character of the knowledge we produce. Methods are not neutral tools, and nor are they fixed ones. As such, the work of inventing, repairing, and hacking methods is a necessary, if often underexplored, part of the wider research process. This conference aims to better interrogate and celebrate such experiments with method. Borrowing from the spirit and circuits of exchange in earlier DIY cultures, it takes the form of a zine ring distributed via postal mail. Participants will craft zines describing methodological experiments and/or how-to guides, which the conference organisers will subsequently mail out to all participants. Feedback on conference proceedings will also proceed through the mail, as well as via an optional Twitter hashtag. The conference itself is thus an experiment with different temporalities and medialities of research exchange. As a practical benefit, this format guarantees that the experience will be free of Zoom fatigue, timezone difficulties, travel expenses, and visa headaches. More generatively, it may also afford slower thinking, richer aesthetic possibilities, more diverse forms of circulation, and perhaps even some amount of delight. The conference format itself is part of the DIY experiment