La Marseillaise\u27 and French Nationalism

Paul R. Hanson\u27s entry for July 30 in the Book of Days 1987

Communities of Co-presence and Surveillance: how public open space shapes awareness and behaviour in residential developments

12-15 June 200

Configuration and design in caring environments: syntax and quality of life in a sample of residential care homes for older people

Space syntax techniques for the analysis of spatial layouts were the first to demonstrate, in a numerical way, clear and systematic relations between spatial design and observedfunctioning across a range of building and urban types. In this project, the techniques have been applied for the first time to the problem of layout design in care homes for older people as part of a wider study of care home performance, Design in Caring Environments (DICE), carried out by Sheffeld University.We were able to do this because the DICE dataincluded both building plans and quantitative measures of the quality of life of residents and staff. The aim of the work that is reported here was to add the syntactic dimension and to test to see if this related to the DICE quality of life variables.Complex, multi-level regression methods (Gorard, 2003) had been used by the DICE team to plot relationships between the main physical features of each building and quality of life data for residents and staff. An identical approach was used to explore the relationship between a range of syntactic variables and the residents' quality of life scores for eachbuilding. In the final event, only two syntactic variables showed significant associations with quality of life outcomes, but these turned out to be the two most important configu-rational measures - axial global and local integration of the building. These measures are known to work well in predicting space occupancy, use and interaction in buildings thatembed a weak organisational programme, where unplanned movement and activity are likely to make a positive contribution to community formation, but prior to this study we were unsure of the extent to which building layout would be able to overcome the effects of a strong organisational programme of the kind that exists in the care home sector andwhich is usually backed up by rules restricting access to different parts of the building. The results from multi-level modelling revealed clear and positive correlations betweenspatial design variables and three critical performance variables: the proportion of the residents' active time, frequency of the residents' enjoyable activity and the extent of the residents' choice and control over environment. The research thus shows unambiguously that, as many designers and care home managers suspect, design is indeed a criticalvariable in care home management and performance. Space syntax techniques for the analysis of spatial layouts were the first to demonstrate, in a numerical way, clear and systematic relations between spatial design and observedfunctioning across a range of building and urban types. In this project, the techniques have been applied for the first time to the problem of layout design in care homes for older people as part of a wider study of care home performance, Design in Caring Environments (DICE), carried out by Sheffeld University.We were able to do this because the DICE dataincluded both building plans and quantitative measures of the quality of life of residents and staff. The aim of the work that is reported here was to add the syntactic dimension and to test to see if this related to the DICE quality of life variables.Complex, multi-level regression methods (Gorard, 2003) had been used by the DICE team to plot relationships between the main physical features of each building and quality of life data for residents and staff. An identical approach was used to explore the relationship between a range of syntactic variables and the residents' quality of life scores for eachbuilding. In the final event, only two syntactic variables showed significant associations with quality of life outcomes, but these turned out to be the two most important configu-rational measures - axial global and local integration of the building. These measures are known to work well in predicting space occupancy, use and interaction in buildings thatembed a weak organisational programme, where unplanned movement and activity are likely to make a positive contribution to community formation, but prior to this study we were unsure of the extent to which building layout would be able to overcome the effects of a strong organisational programme of the kind that exists in the care home sector andwhich is usually backed up by rules restricting access to different parts of the building. The results from multi-level modelling revealed clear and positive correlations betweenspatial design variables and three critical performance variables: the proportion of the residents' active time, frequency of the residents' enjoyable activity and the extent of the residents' choice and control over environment. The research thus shows unambiguously that, as many designers and care home managers suspect, design is indeed a criticalvariable in care home management and performance

Helium compressors for closed-cycle, 4.5-Kelvin refrigerators

An improved helium compressor for traveling-wave maser and closed-cycle refrigerator systems was developed and is currently being supplied to the DSN. This new 5-hp compressor package is designed to replace the current 3-hp DSN compressors. The new compressor package was designed to retrofit into the existing 3-hp compressor frame and reuse many of the same components, therefore saving the cost of documenting and fabricating these components when implementing a new 5-hp compressor

Corporate Income Taxes and Labor: An Investigation of Empirical Evidence

With the highest top marginal corporate tax rate among OECD nations and the third-highest in the world at 35 percent, it is not surprising that policymakers have long evinced a desire to lower the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate. Reducing the corporate income tax rate has implications for a wide-range of outcomes – from federal revenues to foreign direct investment, but the effects of such a change on workers is less understood. This paper examines the empirical literature on the effect of corporate income taxes on labor, specifically on employment and worker incomes. In general, empirical work with the most robust results and controlling for factors of influence outside of corporate income taxes generally have an elasticity of employment with respect to the corporate income tax rate of between -0.2 and -0.4, with a wage/income elasticity near -0.5. In the context of recent tax reform discussions that propose a rate reduction between 30% to 57%, that would imply employment gains between 6% to 22% and wage increases between 15% to 28%

Study of hot wire techniques in low density flows with high turbulence levels

Prediction of heat, mass, species, and momentum fluxes in a space vehicle and aerodynamic noise production by supersonic jet and rocket exhausts requires a predictability of the associated turbulence fields. The hot wire is a technique that will allow an experimental determination of turbulent properties

Hydroforming techniques using epoxy molds Patent

Cold metal hydroforming techniques using epoxy molds for counteracting creep or stretc

Reflection of a shock wave into a density gradient

Linear density variation from nonuniform flow behind shock wav

Study of Evacuation Behavior of Coastal Gulf of Mexico Residents

In this study, we investigate the link between hurricane characteristics, demographics of the Coastal Gulf of Mexico residents, including their household location, and their respective evacuation behavior. Our study is significantly different from the previously made studies on hurricane evacuation behavior in two ways. At first, the research data is collected through recording responses to a series of hypothetical situations which are quite identical to the set of information that people are used to see during the hurricane season. Secondly, this study addresses and includes response heterogeneity while analyzing sample behavior, an issue which has not been addressed in previous research on hurricane evacuation behavior in spite of its importance.Evacuation Behavior, Hurricane, Response Heterogeneity, Environmental Economics and Policy, Research Methods/ Statistical Methods, Risk and Uncertainty, C35, Q54,