Improving communities through knowledge intensive regeneration - Mediacity Iconic Project : 1st deliverable as a project report about diagnosis

MediaCityUK is a purpose-built creative and media development in Salford Quays, Manchester. It aims to bring together companies from across the sector and establish an international centre for excellence in the digital media and creative industries. It is expected to create more than 15000 jobs and provide workspace for 1100 creative and related businesses.The overall research aim is to assess and appraise the MediaCityUK project to what extents it will contribute to the sustainable communities vision put forward by the UK government. Therefore, the focus in the research is on the social sustainability to appraise the project and explore how MediaCityUK will support the local community and to investigate how that could be simulated via adopting BIM and GIS concepts.The objective of this report is to elaborate the Mediacity project including its vision and programme in regard to its contribution to sustainable communities through the use of a range of research methods as detailed below.The report has four main parts. Part 1 is an introduction to MediaCityUK project and in this part physical properties of MediaCity, the role of public organizations in the project and sustainability issues related to sustainable communities are covered. Part 2 is about New Century City (NCC) and Ideopolis concepts. In this part, the given concepts are defined, NCCs around the world are briefly introduced and Manchester City Region is evaluated as an Ideopolis. This part also expresses the importance of university engagement with NCC and Ideopolis concepts.Part 3 is the analysis section of the report. In this part, the data collected via literature review, interviews and focus group meetings are analyzed systemically. Initially, interviews are analyzed and interpreted with concept mapping techniques which helped to recognize various evidences from Mediacity project in terms of environmental, social and economical sustainability. It is then followed by the evaluation of the MediaCity project with NCC and Ideopolis projects by benchmarking the recognized evidences of the MediaCity against the features and characteristics of those NCCs and Ideopolis in order to understand to what extent Mediacity is an NCC and contributing to Ideopolis vision for Manchester. This analysis helped to measure how well MediaCity can help for sustainable communities through knowledge intensive regeneration. As a result of these evaluations from concept mapping and benchmarking, SWOT analysis has been carried out to clearly identify Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of MediaCityUK project in regard to sustainable communities. Finally, Part 4 describes a vision based on the findings and concludes the report accordingly.The target group of this report is the stakeholders involved in the MediaCityUK project as well as the members of the consortium in the research

Improving communities through knowledge intensive regeneration - Mediacity Iconic Project : 2nd deliverable about vision for BIM&GIS integration for sustainable communities

This study is about to measure and project the impact of regeneration projects on the surrounding communities via the expansion of BIM with GIS from building scale to urban scale in order to be able to consider social sustainability indicators as well as the physical and environmental sustainability indicators through the case study research using MediaCityUK regeneration project. In this regard, research team investigates the influence between environmental sustainability themes such as energy and physical sustainability themes such as retrofit and social sustainability themes such as health primarily, education and employability.Lately, the further concentration has been given on Health Impact Assessment (HIA) experiences as it has been carried out in a qualitative and subjective manner, which has high risk of inaccurate evaluation. Further, there is no formal quantitative method of HIA at the masterplanning phase to envision the impact of a regeneration project on the health of the surrounding communities. Thirdly, it provides a way forward to identify the bilateral association between energy performance of a building and health and well being of dwellers living or working in that building. Finally, there are more data available regarding to health for the MediaCityUK project. The research team is also forming a wider consortium for futher research by involving practioners in ordsal area such as people in the public services and the city council such as Fiona Reynold from Salford NHS, Alistair Fisher from public health Service and David McKelvey from Ordsal, local GP. To be able to obtain tangible results that are linked to interaction of social and environmental sustainability issues, research team proposes a conceptual system to be developed in a follow up research. This conceptual system is integrated use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Building Information Modelling (BIM). In this system, BIM is used for enabling physical data (materials, energy etc.) and GIS is used for spatial classification and processing of social and physical data. At this stage, research team prepared a system architecture diagram for the integration strategy. As soon as a feedback from the health professionals from NHS, Salford City Council and Salford University is obtained, ontology is going to be formed for “HIA via GIS-BIM integrated assessment tool”. Research team currently issued the second deliverable and circulated it to all potential stakeholders and currently works on the demonstration of this implementation and as soon as the ontology is formed, a demo would be available. In addition, the third documentation will be a journal paper for publishing.This conceptual system will have capability for the interactive assessment between health (soft issues), energy and retrofit (hard issues). However, this scope can be expanded in follow-up projects as long as correlations are specified through ontology development. At the same time, BIM is investigated for project management of relocation of some departments of the university to the Mediacity and the facilities management purposes. This will give an opportunity i) to recommend a quick win solution of how BIM can help the university for relocation, ii) to better understand the use of BIM for retrofit, iii) explore the philosophies in facilities management about soft issues between building and the users of the building are defined at an individual building level, which can then help for the development of the ontology between buildings and the users at a wider context such a regeneration

<記録II>ハミル館一〇〇年の歩み : 1918～2018

Renewable energy systems are of importance as being modular, nature-friendly and domestic. Among the renewable energy systems, a great deal of research has been conducted especially on photovoltaic, wind energy and fuel cell in the recent years. One of the hybrid renewable energy systems consisting of 5 kWp photovoltaic panels, 800 Wp wind turbines and 2.4 kWp fuel cell modules was installed at Clean Energy House (CEH), Pamukkale University in Denizli, Turkey. To protect this laboratory, a "Lightning Protection System" was installed at the CEH. In this study, design and installation processes of a lightning protection system for the hybrid renewable energy system at the CEH are considered. III. 7, bibl. 15 (in English; abstracts in English and Lithuanian)

Some fixed point theorems for generalized contractive mappings in complete metric spaces

We introduce new concepts of generalized contractive and generalized alpha-Suzuki type contractive mappings. Then, we obtain sufficient conditions for the existence of a fixed point of these classes of mappings on complete metric spaces and b-complete b-metric spaces. Our results extend the theorems of Ciric, Chatterjea, Kannan and Reich

Lack of Effect of Sleep Apnea on Oxidative Stress in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS) Patients

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to evaluate markers of systemic oxidative stress and antioxidant capacity in subjects with and without OSAS in order to investigate the most important factors that determine the oxidant-antioxidant status. METHODS: A total of 66 subjects referred to our Sleep laboratory were examined by full polysomnography. Oxidative stress and antioxidant activity were assessed by measurement of the derivatives of reactive oxygen metabolites (d-ROMs) and the biological antioxidant capacity (BAP) in blood samples taken in the morning after the sleep study. Known risk factors for oxidative stress, such as age, sex, obesity, smoking, hypelipidemia, and hypertension, were investigated as possible confounding factors. RESULTS: 42 patients with OSAS (Apnea-Hypopnea index >15 events/hour) were compared with 24 controls (AHI<5). The levels of d-ROMS were significantly higher (p = 0.005) in the control group but the levels of antioxidant capacity were significantly lower (p = 0.004) in OSAS patients. The most important factors predicting the variance of oxidative stress were obesity, smoking habit, and sex. Parameters of sleep apnea severity were not associated with oxidative stress. Minimal oxygen desaturation and smoking habit were the most important predicting factors of BAP levels. CONCLUSION: Obesity, smoking, and sex are the most important determinants of oxidative stress in OSAS subjects. Sleep apnea might enhance oxidative stress by the reduction of antioxidant capacity of blood due to nocturnal hypoxia

Performance of CMS muon reconstruction in pp collision events at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

The performance of muon reconstruction, identification, and triggering in CMS has been studied using 40 inverse picobarns of data collected in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV at the LHC in 2010. A few benchmark sets of selection criteria covering a wide range of physics analysis needs have been examined. For all considered selections, the efficiency to reconstruct and identify a muon with a transverse momentum pT larger than a few GeV is above 95% over the whole region of pseudorapidity covered by the CMS muon system, abs(eta) < 2.4, while the probability to misidentify a hadron as a muon is well below 1%. The efficiency to trigger on single muons with pT above a few GeV is higher than 90% over the full eta range, and typically substantially better. The overall momentum scale is measured to a precision of 0.2% with muons from Z decays. The transverse momentum resolution varies from 1% to 6% depending on pseudorapidity for muons with pT below 100 GeV and, using cosmic rays, it is shown to be better than 10% in the central region up to pT = 1 TeV. Observed distributions of all quantities are well reproduced by the Monte Carlo simulation.Comment: Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DO

Performance of CMS muon reconstruction in pp collision events at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

The performance of muon reconstruction, identification, and triggering in CMS has been studied using 40 inverse picobarns of data collected in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV at the LHC in 2010. A few benchmark sets of selection criteria covering a wide range of physics analysis needs have been examined. For all considered selections, the efficiency to reconstruct and identify a muon with a transverse momentum pT larger than a few GeV is above 95% over the whole region of pseudorapidity covered by the CMS muon system, abs(eta) < 2.4, while the probability to misidentify a hadron as a muon is well below 1%. The efficiency to trigger on single muons with pT above a few GeV is higher than 90% over the full eta range, and typically substantially better. The overall momentum scale is measured to a precision of 0.2% with muons from Z decays. The transverse momentum resolution varies from 1% to 6% depending on pseudorapidity for muons with pT below 100 GeV and, using cosmic rays, it is shown to be better than 10% in the central region up to pT = 1 TeV. Observed distributions of all quantities are well reproduced by the Monte Carlo simulation.Comment: Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DO

Jet energy measurement with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV

The jet energy scale and its systematic uncertainty are determined for jets measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 38 pb-1. Jets are reconstructed with the anti-kt algorithm with distance parameters R=0. 4 or R=0. 6. Jet energy and angle corrections are determined from Monte Carlo simulations to calibrate jets with transverse momenta pT≥20 GeV and pseudorapidities {pipe}η{pipe}<4. 5. The jet energy systematic uncertainty is estimated using the single isolated hadron response measured in situ and in test-beams, exploiting the transverse momentum balance between central and forward jets in events with dijet topologies and studying systematic variations in Monte Carlo simulations. The jet energy uncertainty is less than 2. 5 % in the central calorimeter region ({pipe}η{pipe}<0. 8) for jets with 60≤pT<800 GeV, and is maximally 14 % for pT<30 GeV in the most forward region 3. 2≤{pipe}η{pipe}<4. 5. The jet energy is validated for jet transverse momenta up to 1 TeV to the level of a few percent using several in situ techniques by comparing a well-known reference such as the recoiling photon pT, the sum of the transverse momenta of tracks associated to the jet, or a system of low-pT jets recoiling against a high-pT jet. More sophisticated jet calibration schemes are presented based on calorimeter cell energy density weighting or hadronic properties of jets, aiming for an improved jet energy resolution and a reduced flavour dependence of the jet response. The systematic uncertainty of the jet energy determined from a combination of in situ techniques is consistent with the one derived from single hadron response measurements over a wide kinematic range. The nominal corrections and uncertainties are derived for isolated jets in an inclusive sample of high-pT jets. Special cases such as event topologies with close-by jets, or selections of samples with an enhanced content of jets originating from light quarks, heavy quarks or gluons are also discussed and the corresponding uncertainties are determined. © 2013 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration