St. Michaels association for special education new facility and master plan: final report

St. Michael's Association for Special Education, located near Window Rock, AZ, is an institution that has been established for the schooling and therapy of approximately 100 mentally and physically challenged Navajo children and adults. The existing school buildings are located on a 20 acre site are structurally unsound, crowded and poorly equipped to handle the daily functions of the school. FBM has outlined criteria by which the ideal solution to the problems at St. Michael's maybe resolved. The selected design alternative is a single, one story, 70,600 square foot multipurpose building that addresses site, structural, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, and other concerns of the students, faculty, and staff of St. Michael's. The building is located on the previously developed portion of St. Michael's site. The site is regraded in order to accommodate the building materials and methods chosen and to add to the long term stability of the structure. Architectural features of the building fall in line with the client's preferences. Masonry bearing walls and steel KCS joists make up the superstructure of the building and are supported by continuous footings. Pilasters are employed for lateral support. A ground source heat pump is employed for HVAC. Solar power supplements 509,000 kWh per year of electricity supplied to the building. Our design brings about a safe, efficient building that promotes a healing and nurturing school environment at a cost of about $7 million

St. Michaels association for special education new facility and master plan: final report

St. Michael's Association for Special Education, located near Window Rock, AZ, is an institution that has been established for the schooling and therapy of approximately 100 mentally and physically challenged Navajo children and adults. The existing school buildings are located on a 20 acre site are structurally unsound, crowded and poorly equipped to handle the daily functions of the school. FBM has outlined criteria by which the ideal solution to the problems at St. Michael's maybe resolved. The selected design alternative is a single, one story, 70,600 square foot multipurpose building that addresses site, structural, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, and other concerns of the students, faculty, and staff of St. Michael's. The building is located on the previously developed portion of St. Michael's site. The site is regraded in order to accommodate the building materials and methods chosen and to add to the long term stability of the structure. Architectural features of the building fall in line with the client's preferences. Masonry bearing walls and steel KCS joists make up the superstructure of the building and are supported by continuous footings. Pilasters are employed for lateral support. A ground source heat pump is employed for HVAC. Solar power supplements 509,000 kWh per year of electricity supplied to the building. Our design brings about a safe, efficient building that promotes a healing and nurturing school environment at a cost of about $7 million

Sharing scientific and academic outputs from Cuban universities through a network of digital libraries.

Ponencia presentada en IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 83th IFLA General Conference and Assembly. Polonia.In 2015 libraries from five Cuban universities supported by an international project sponsored by the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR), started the development of digital libraries using Dspace to manage all the scientific and academic outputs stored in their collections with the aim to socialize, preserve and increase the visibility of the scientific and academic production at national and international level. This paper presents the main features of the first Cuban Digital Library Network, the characteristics of each repository and other platforms, their interoperability and the development of a national harvester system to allow the information’s search and retrieval through a single interface. At this moment all five digital libraries are full operating allowing the visibility and socialization of more than nine thousands thesis produced by students and postgraduate's programs from five Cuban universities. During 2017 academic and research’s staff will add their scientific production (journal articles, books and book’s chapter, and other scientific documents) making possible to duplicate the amount early cited. A librarian team defined a metadata set from the Dublin Core Qualified to homogenize the documents description, according to the type of documents that these digital libraries will store and with the Metadata Export Guidelines released by OpenAIRE. Cuban Ministry of High Education, following the experience of the five universities included in the consortial environment it decide to lead a national project to expand this experience to the rest of Cuban universities (more than 21). The interoperability of more than 20 digital libraries will allow the genesis and management in 2018 of the bigger digital collection available in Cuba, including scientific and academic and also other digital collections stored in our libraries. Also a national catalog will be available with the information about all printed collection stored in Cuban universities.International project: Network of University Cooperation "Strengthening the role of ICT in Cuban universities for the development of society". Sponsored by the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR)

Enantioselective Synthesis of Carbo- and Heterocycles through a CuH-Catalyzed Hydroalkylation Approach

The enantioselective, intramolecular hydroalkylation of halide-tethered styrenes has been achieved through a copper hydride-catalyzed process. This approach allowed for the synthesis of enantioenriched cyclobutanes, cyclopentanes, indanes, and six-membered N- and O-heterocycles. This protocol was applied to the synthesis of the commercial serotonin reuptake inhibitor (-)-paroxetine.National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Award GM46059)National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Award GM112218