Home within Reach: Designing a New Prefabricated House

Prefabricated housing has a brighter possibility for providing a custom, modern home construction that is faster, safer, more flexible, predictable and healthier than the average new home construction. It also has greater potential to produce well designed mass-production housing. With this method homebuyers can build (or purchase) a quality home at a traditional price or possibly at a lower cost, with an exceptional energy efficient and environmentally friendly design. Today, American homebuyers are looking for more flexible and affordable housing, and are ready for the change from the traditional speculative housing modeled using the “Levittown” concept which was developed nearly 60 years ago and the McMansion which became popular in the 1980’s. There were numerous groundbreaking proposals for prefabricated housing in the late thirties, the forties after World War II, and the sixties, from architects including Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Buckminster Fuller, Albert Frey, Jean Prouve, Charles and Ray Eames, and Richard Rogers. However, those ideas were difficult to adapt to common residential design, and were too advanced and modern for the average homebuyers. Also, today the construction technology for prefabricated houses has advanced. Prefabricated housing will benefit not only architects by providing a bigger opportunity to practice their skills to a wider housing market, but will also benefit the homebuyers who are looking for housing styles which fit their life styles; a home within reach. In this project I would like to propose a housing plan by using one of the notable methods of vi construction; the Structural Install Panel System. The project site is located in Novi, Michigan, one of the most recent fastest-growing suburbs of Detroit, Michigan where tract housing, especially McMansions, are built. The city is approximately 25 miles northwest of the center of Detroit, and 100 miles south of Bay City, Michigan where the first company, Aladdin Readi-Cut Houses, offered a true “kit” house 100 years ago

Application of Hectorite-Coated Silica Gel Particles as a Packing Material for Chromatographic Resolution

A new type of clay column particles was prepared, in which a hectorite layer (similar to 0.1 mu m thickness) covered uniformly the surface of amorphous silica particles with an average radius of 5 mu m (ref. Okada et al., The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116, 21864-21869 (2012)). The hectorite layer was fully ion-exchanged with Delta-[Ru(phen)(3)](2+) (phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) ions by being immersed in a methanol solution of Delta-[Ru(phen)(3)](ClO4)(2) (1 mM). The modified silica gel particles thus prepared were packed into a stainless steel tube (4 mm (i.d.) x 25 cm) as a high-performance liquid chromatography column. Optical resolution was achieved when the racemic mixtures of several metal complexes or organic molecules were eluted with methanol. In the case of tris(acetylacetonato) ruthenium(III) ([Ru(acac)(3)]), for example, the Lambda- and Delta-enantiomers gave an elution volume of 2.6 and 3.0 mL, respectively, with the separation factor of 1.2. The total elution volume (5 mL) was nearly one-tenth for the previously reported column of the same size (RU-1 (Shiseido Co., Ltd.)) packed with the spray-dried particles of synthetic hectorite (average radius 5 mu m) ion-exchanged by the same Ru(II) complexes.ArticleJOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHIC SCIENCE. 54(7): 1238-1243 (2016)journal articl

社会科教育の反省と課題 ―問題解決学習をめぐって―

　There are a lot of students who do not have experiences of investigating, finding and solving problems in their social lives. There are also many students who are not concerned with the relation between learning and their lives. Social studies train understanding social life. Therefore, education in social studies have to guarantee the chance to grow to be helpful to get a scientific recognition of the world. 　But present social studies are going to be wrong, to be memory works, because of preparing for entrance examinations. Social studies have an own shorter history than other courses in school. True social studies are fumbled. It is obvious that we must think from the viewpoint of students, not but teachers in order to create the social studies that could mould each character of students. 　The course of study in 1947, when social studies began, said that social studies aim to increase students\u27 social experiences and to deepen them by problem-solving of realistic students\u27 lives, not by a system of social sciences. This was founded on the educational theory of Pragmatism. Of course, social studies in those days of 1947-51 can\u27t be realized once more. 　Problem-solving education in social studies will be meaningful at the times when educational efforts are wasted and human nature of each student is not developed fully. This paper surveys the possibility of problem-solving education. I think the future task of social studies is to value a significance of students\u27 experiences in social lives and to introduce problem-solving education

社会主義革命後の中国ミッション系大学 : 新体制への適応から消滅まで

　Being protected under the extraterritorial rights of the native countries, the Christian colleges in modern China flourished greatly before the Communist Revolution in 1949. But in strong nationalistic movement to restore her sovereignty, Chinese people eagerly wanted to be liberated from the semi-colonialism. As a result, the Chinese Christian colleges had to be registered not as foreign schools but as Chinese private schools. They were obliged to make changes in many aspects such as religious education or the legal status of the western teachers. In spite of their efforts of transformation, they must cease to exist after the Communist Revolution in 1949. 　The extinction of the colleges proceeded roughly in three stages. The first stage occurred from 1948 to 1949. In this period the government\u27s guidelines were vaguely expressed as protecting all private schools as well as the lives and properties of the foreigners. But the students and the laborers were powerfully against the administration of the Christian colleges. 　The next stage occurred when the new government of the People\u27s Republic of China was formed in October 1949. In accordance to the establishment of the new government, the administrative power of the colleges shifted from the westerners to the Chinese. Then the room for religion on campus was steadily eroded. The range of religious activities was also restricted. Besides, the texts, scientific theories and pedagogical techniques from U.S.S.R. began to replace the western means. 　The final stage began with the Resist America Aid Korean Campaign in November 1950, when China and the United States were at war in Korean peninsula. The United States government froze all Chinese communist assets in the United States and made it unlawful to remit funds to mainland China without special license; within two weeks the People\u27s Republic had replied in kind. 　With no meaningful private support from within China, the colleges were now at the mercy of the government. They agreed to become state colleges. Approximately a year was to pass before most Christian colleges disappeared as part of a drastic reorganization of the institutional structure of higher education in China. Not only the Christian colleges but also other existing colleges except several main universities vanished from the scene until 1952. 　Although China modernized without Christianity, the process of her modernization was closely associated with the Chinese Christian colleges. They participated in the process positively as well as negatively

A microscopic model for helical twisting power by the optical isomers of an octahedral metal complex

A computational approach to the evaluation of helical twisting powers (HTP) of chiral metal complexes of [Ru(blade) 2 (backbone)] type is presented. The dopant contains helically attached ''blade'' ligands and an elongated ''backbone'' ligand, and some remarkably powerful examples have been reported. In this work, the observed HTP is interpreted in terms of a microscopic interaction of a dopant and host molecules with atomistic details. For this purpose, the stable structure of a triad system comprising a dopant and two host molecules was obtained by geometry optimization using Gaussian03. As a result, the host molecules interacted attractively with the dopant, being twisted in the same direction as observed experimentally. Interaction energy was assessed as a function of the dihedral angle between the two host molecules, leading to a quadratic dependence with a minimum at the equilibrium twisting angle of À32 . Based on this, the expression was derived, in which helical twisting power was given in terms of the equilibrium twisting angle of a pair of strongly interacting host molecules

Primary Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of the Pancreas : an immunohistochemical study

A case of malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) which arose in the pan-creas head is presented. Only 4 cases have been documented in the world litera-ture(1-4). An 86-year-old woman who had chronic congestive heart failure showed signs of anemia and an occasional tarry stool. Computed tomography and ultrasonography indicated the existence of a tumor which was located around the pancreas and suggested invasion to the duodenum. Postmortem examinations revealed a pancreas head tumor which had a cen-tral cystic area containing a muddy-like material and blood. Invasion of the tumor to the duodenal wall was observed and the connection between the duodenal cavity and the central cystic area of the tumor was also demonstrated. The histological appearance was that of a fine fibrous tissue showing a stor-iform pattern. Immunohistochemical features also supported the histiocytic cell origin

フクブ ショクドウ チョウフクショウ ニ タイシ フククウキョウカ テキシュツジュツ オ シコウ シタ １レイ

A 9-year-old boy was admitted to the hospital for close exploration of cystic tumor of the esophagus ventral detected in the abdominal contrast CT scan during the investigation of hematuria. Upper gastrointestinal fluoroscopic and endoscopic examination with ultrasonography showed a cystic tumor with the diameter of 2cm and smooth surface in the abdominal esophagus. Laparoscopic surgery was performed under the diagnosis of abdominal esophageal duplication cyst. At surgery, the soft and well-defined mass was present in the abdominal esophagus ventral and continuous with the esophagus wall. Histopathological study showed the cystic wall was lined with the pseudostratified ciliated epithelium and subepithelial muscle layer. These findings indicated abdominal esophageal duplication cyst. He was discharged on postoperative day 8 with good postoperative course. Abdominal esophageal duplication cyst is a rare disease. Laparoscopic surgery, which has not seen attempted before this case, seems to be a useful treatment of abdominal esophageal duplication cyst