Where We Grow up does Really Matter: Best Practices for Child-Friendly Cities Applied in Tarlabasi(Istanbul)

The article innovative aim is to introduce a research made to suggest some simple ways to improve the planning and design strategies for ensuring the highest sustainability level in child-friendly cities. The environments surrounding us strongly affect our perception of belonging to a place, and our social, mental, physical health. Therefore, designing and planning friendly environments for people of all ages should be perceived as one of the most important responsibilities for planners and politicians. At this point, in order to make cities friendlier for its inhabitants, it is considered useful to focus on the most vulnerable classes of people living in urban environments, such as children, because a city that is friendly for its kids will be welcoming also for anyone else. As a matter of facts, a child-friendly city is usually a urban environment that is suitable for most of its inhabitants and this is even more important in the most critical situations, such as the poorest slums of a developing city, like Istanbul, and its most fragile neighborhoods, like Tarlabasi. The research results highlighted thatTarlabasi has unique spatial child-friendly characteristics, despite its physical, social, and economic disadvantages, and these conditions can be dramatically improved with some very simple and affordable projects

COEVOLUTION THROUGH METROPOLITAN CARTOGRAPHY. AN EPISTEMOLOGY APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND THE METROPOLITAN COMPLEXITY

The image of the city, its morphology, territories, and biography, concerning spatial, social, and economic dimensions, have radically changed in recent years, determining a new idea of urbanity spaces. Today, metropolitan areas have an incommensurable dimension compared to human measures. New rules and paths of knowledge are needed to manage the impact of human development on regions and landscapes and to create new relationships with the natural world. For the authors, the culture/nature linkage is a cultural change. ‘Natural’ is opposed to ‘artificial’, ‘conventional’: what do they mean for mass phenomena? It is a matter of how interpreting the city image changes in its dichotomous and interdependent relations with new technologies, throwing a new light on landscape and its values. Through ‘Metropolitan Cartography’, the construction of information spatialisation competences for transitioning metropolitan systems can be envisaged, to provide a multidisciplinary and vivid knowledge synthesis of the physical space. In this framework, coevolution becomes a cultural factor, involving territorial transformations and the ability to evolve traditional tools to analyse, understand and design the complexity of metropoles in the second modernity. The result is a new informational ecology to produce ‘sensible’ images that activate landscape knowledge in the interweaving of different scales

Training Interior Designers To Project Feasibility Studies

The proactive economic and financial sustainability estimation for the Interior design has to be centered on an organized structure of knowledge in the project planning and development. This need arises, on one side, in the light of the consciousness that the Project assessment science works in the hard field of the ex-ante calculation of prices. On the other hand, it is linked to the necessity for a shift to a practical estimation approach, that should be effectively integrated even in the teaching activities, to be better prepared to the challenges they will meet in their future professional field. The paper will revolve around the need of introducing a structured system of principles in this field, as the valuation process is a key element for the risk management and it is important to apply internationally recognized valuation standards

Doing Something Scenario: Teaching Students an Incremental Approach to Design Strategies for Developing Countries

The 90% of the global population growth in the next 30 years will happen in developing countries, where the urban population rise will create increasing issues related to informal settlements and growing inequality. Improving the health conditions of the built environment and reducing the related risks will be a crucial challenge for future urban professionals. This paper is aimed at describing a learning experience built as a workshop for students, in which they designed a social facility modular system for developing countries, inspired by the organic and hypogeum architecture principles. The result is a list of guidelines for the design of similar functions, that should help a conscious construction process to reach some fundamental sustainability goals

Optimasi Portofolio Resiko Menggunakan Model Markowitz MVO Dikaitkan dengan Keterbatasan Manusia dalam Memprediksi Masa Depan dalam Perspektif Al-Qur`an

Risk portfolio on modern finance has become increasingly technical, requiring the use of sophisticated mathematical tools in both research and practice. Since companies cannot insure themselves completely against risk, as human incompetence in predicting the future precisely that written in Al-Quran surah Luqman verse 34, they have to manage it to yield an optimal portfolio. The objective here is to minimize the variance among all portfolios, or alternatively, to maximize expected return among all portfolios that has at least a certain expected return. Furthermore, this study focuses on optimizing risk portfolio so called Markowitz MVO (Mean-Variance Optimization). Some theoretical frameworks for analysis are arithmetic mean, geometric mean, variance, covariance, linear programming, and quadratic programming. Moreover, finding a minimum variance portfolio produces a convex quadratic programming, that is minimizing the objective function ðð¥with constraintsð ð 𥠥 ðandð´ð¥ = ð. The outcome of this research is the solution of optimal risk portofolio in some investments that could be finished smoothly using MATLAB R2007b software together with its graphic analysis

Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pT) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MadGraph + pythia and sherpa, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BlackHat + sherpa. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pT distributions of the leading jets at high pT values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.United States. Dept. of EnergyNational Science Foundation (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio

Search for stop and higgsino production using diphoton Higgs boson decays

Results are presented of a search for a "natural" supersymmetry scenario with gauge mediated symmetry breaking. It is assumed that only the supersymmetric partners of the top-quark (stop) and the Higgs boson (higgsino) are accessible. Events are examined in which there are two photons forming a Higgs boson candidate, and at least two b-quark jets. In 19.7 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV, recorded in the CMS experiment, no evidence of a signal is found and lower limits at the 95% confidence level are set, excluding the stop mass below 360 to 410 GeV, depending on the higgsino mass

Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

Juxtaposing BTE and ATE – on the role of the European insurance industry in funding civil litigation

One of the ways in which legal services are financed, and indeed shaped, is through private insurance arrangement. Two contrasting types of legal expenses insurance contracts (LEI) seem to dominate in Europe: before the event (BTE) and after the event (ATE) legal expenses insurance. Notwithstanding institutional differences between different legal systems, BTE and ATE insurance arrangements may be instrumental if government policy is geared towards strengthening a market-oriented system of financing access to justice for individuals and business. At the same time, emphasizing the role of a private industry as a keeper of the gates to justice raises issues of accountability and transparency, not readily reconcilable with demands of competition. Moreover, multiple actors (clients, lawyers, courts, insurers) are involved, causing behavioural dynamics which are not easily predicted or influenced. Against this background, this paper looks into BTE and ATE arrangements by analysing the particularities of BTE and ATE arrangements currently available in some European jurisdictions and by painting a picture of their respective markets and legal contexts. This allows for some reflection on the performance of BTE and ATE providers as both financiers and keepers. Two issues emerge from the analysis that are worthy of some further reflection. Firstly, there is the problematic long-term sustainability of some ATE products. Secondly, the challenges faced by policymakers that would like to nudge consumers into voluntarily taking out BTE LEI