Interdependent energy relationships between buildings at the street scale

Oppgaven tar for seg en analyse av etterforsyning av flytende oksygen(LOX) til C-130J i internasjonale operasjoner og er gjennomført som en case-studie av NORTAD2. Hensikten med undersøkelsen er å anbefale det etterforsyningskonseptet som vil sikre tilgang på LOX til NORTAD3 og som i fremtiden vil kunne benyttes i liknende operasjonsområder. Studien drøfter tre konseptuelt ulike løsninger for etterforsyning: obtain in the battlefield, ship to the forces og carry with the troops, avgrenset til responssyklusen fra siste leverandør til sluttbruker. Først gjøres det en analyse av dagens løsning obtain in the battlefield med lokal leveranse fra leverandøren Air Liquid. Analysen er gjennomført med utgangspunkt i teori fra fagområdet logistikk. I teorien identifiseres det tre hovedutfordringer: usikkerhet knyttet til kvalitet, ledetid og sikkerhet, spesialtilpasning av responssyklusen for et heterogent produkt og organisering av kjeden. Drøftingen tar utgangspunkt i de identifiserte problemene og søker å finne løsninger som kan redusere disse. Den første løsningen som drøftes er ship to the forces ved etterforsyning fra Las Palmas eller nærmeste tilgjengelige flyplass med godkjent LOX. Løsningen vil redusere usikkerhet knyttet til de nevnte faktorene, men imidlertid forlenge ledetiden til to dager. Samtidig reduseres behovet for LOX-spesifikt materiell og personell, og således reduserer ressursbruken. I tillegg vil arbeidet i forkant av bidraget minskes, men tvert imot øke det administrative arbeidet underveis. Løsningen vil by på en prioritering av operativ tilgjengelighet på flymaskinen og redusert usikkerhet. Løsningen anbefales ikke som det primære etterforsyningskonseptet da operativ tilgjengelighet vil være en prioritet. Videre drøftes en rotasjonsordning som et carry with the troops-konsept. Løsningen vil kunne redusere ledetiden ved rotasjon i Mali, men redusere Forsvarets totale fleksibilitet med tanke på transportflykapasitet. Her vil også behov for LOX-spesifikt materiell og personell reduseres. På den andre siden identifiseres det at løsningen vil skape god fleksibilitet for bidraget i forbindelse med LOG-flights og kan således styrke bidraget. Det antas at løsningens totale ressursbruk vil overstige dagens, men det anbefales å gjøre en grundig kost-nytte analyse av denne løsningen. Avslutningsvis drøftes forbedringer ved nåværende løsning. Her foreslås det å sikre operativ tilgjengelighet på lagertanken med en vedlikeholdsplan og utdanning på denne. Samtidig anbefales det investering i egen transportkapasitet for frakt av LOX for å redusere usikkerheten knyttet til leveransen og sikkerhet. Sist bør forståelsen for LOX økes i hele organisasjonen gjennom utdanning slik at å sikre etterforsyning prioriteres. Oppgavens konklusjon og anbefaling er å videreføre dagens løsning med noen utbedringer. Løsning ship to the forces anbefales som plan B. Samtidig bør det gjennomføres en kost-nytte analyse av carry with the troops

Creating sustainable cities one building at a time: towards an integrated urban design framework

One of the tenets of urban sustainability is that more compact urban forms that are more densely occupied are more efficient in their overall use of space and of energy. In many designs this has been translates into high-rise buildings with a focus on energy management at their outer envelopes. However, pursuing this building focused approach alone means that buildings are treated as stand-alone entities with minimal consideration to their impact on the surrounding urban landscape and vice versa. Where urban density is high, individual buildings interact with each other, reducing access to sunshine and daylight, obstructing airflow and raising outdoor air temperature. If/when each building pursues its own sustainability agenda without regard to its urban context, the result will diminish the natural energy resources available to nearby buildings and worsen the outdoor environment generally. This paper examines some of these urban impacts using examples from the City of London where rapid transformation is taking place as very tall buildings with exceptional energy credentials are being inserted into a low-rise city without a plan for the overall impact of urban form. The focus of the paper is on access to sunshine and wind and the wider implications of sustainable strategies that that focuses on individual buildings to the exclusion of the surrounding urban landscape. The work highlights the need for a framework that accounts for the synergistic outcomes that result from the mutual interactions of buildings in urban spaces

The development of a school psychology relevant parent survey

The special education process typically involves the school psychologist, parents, and other members of the school staff. Prior to the first meeting, school psychologists know very little about the parents coming to the table. In order to better understand the style in which parents operate, a brief survey tool was created. Using Baumrind’s three parenting style prototypes and input from school psychologists, 55 items were created and 3 new groups of parent behavior were proposed: warmth, flexibility, and involvement. Nine school psychologists from a school district in Central Virginia vetted the questions based on their usefulness and group they related to. Out of the initial 55 items, 6 items were chosen for the final survey form, two items for each group. Parents were then asked to fill out the final survey form before a meeting with a school psychologist. The school psychologist was then instructed to provide open-ended responses of their perceptions of the parent after the meeting. The parent self-reported ratings were compared to the school psychologists’ responses using a thematic analysis process. Themes between responses were identified, but no validity was established for any of the three groups. Specifically, the survey form was not able to accurately identify high, moderate, or low levels of warmth, flexibility, and involvement within a parent

A study of discrete and integral transforms with 3 logarithmic separable kernels

In this thesis, we will be examining different classes of discrete and integral transforms. We start with a general class of integral transforms which include those logarithmic separable kernels. Transforms with logarithmic separable kernels include the Fourier transform, the Laplace transform and the Mellin transform. The shifting and convolution properties for this class of transforms are examined, and sufficient conditions which guarantee the existence of the convolution formula will be given. It will be shown that a subclass of these integral operators are injective and an inversion formula will be presented on some class of continuously differentiable functions. We will apply these results to second-order differential equations to obtain new analytical solutions to these equations and compare these to a numerical solution

Competitive advantage during industry 4.0: the case for South African manufacturing SMEs

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, Uni- versity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fullfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Engineering. Johannesburg, May 2018With the expected disruption of industry 4.0 and the current challenges that SMEs face in South Africa, there is an increasing threat that SMEs will lose any competitive advantage they currently have. This exploratory study investigates how South African manufacturing SMEs can remain competitive during the fourth industrial revolution. Data, in the form of current literature, was analysed using thematic content analysis. From the analysis process, 8 emergent themes were used to organise the results of the study. Notable findings towards generating competitive advantage included: The location of SMEs within clusters, collaboration with disruption leaders, the sharing of outcomes across the value chain, the shift of business models towards a service and software orientation, the use of data driven insights to find and capture high margin markets and the increased effectiveness of labour through technology use. The study also found that the use of the IoT and cloud computing can significantly reduce infrastructure requirements and promote a competitive advantage.MT 201

TO CLOTHE A FOOL : A Study of the Apparel Appropriate for the European Court Fool 1300 - 1700

In order to design a costume for a period show, a costumer must unify the personality of the character in the appropriate historical style with the director\u27s concept for the production. My study endeavors to aid the costumer in search of the historical clothes of the Medieval and Renaissance court Fool. Lack of time to do extensive research often imposes limitations on a designer\u27s creativity. Through extensive research. into Medieval and Renaissance art, with the aid of Robert Armin\u27s jest book, and descriptions of the household accounts of the period, I have compiled a document that will save a harried designer time and leg work. There are several books available on the personality of the court Fool as presented in drama, and studies are available about the history of the court Fool. However, no one, to my knowledge, has collected and presented a study solely dedicated to the clothes of the court Fool. Costume book authors either ignore the Fool or present only one illustration. Many of the most interesting illustrations are in books printed in the 1800\u27s; and, therefore, they are not available to most researchers. Als·o several of the books are written in French; and, therefore, they must be translated before the text can become valuable to most American designers. Some writers have concentrated on various special characters such. as servants or royalty; other writers have specialized in costume piece.s or special periods of clothing. The plan followed in this study was first to carefully view the art of the Medieval and Renaissance courts. I studied paintings and etchings and searched for the court Fool in the background. Then I would sketch or xerox the Fool and isolate him from the rest of the picture. His clothing was analyzed by breaking it down into four categories: hood, bauble, coat, shoes. Note was taken of any other accessories such as swords or jewelry. The Fool\u27s wardrobe is distinguished by several recurring traits. To be included in this study, traditional Fool\u27s clothing must have ass\u27s ears, bells, cockscomb, or some type of a tail. The Fool may carry one of several types of baubles or marottes. The basic garment may be either a tunic of varying length or a body suit. The shoes may be long and pointed, or they may reflect the contemporary fashion. My second approach was to read source books containing documents pertaining to the household accounts of the period and literature providing references to the court Fools. From these. I gleaned such. information as money allotted for the Fool\u27s clothes, descriptions of the clothing, insights into the social position of the Fool, and the function of the court Fool in the noble household. In order to provide a study encompassing all the design possibilities, my third approach. was to scour costume books, assembling a series of costumes that prominent costume writers advocated for the court Fool. I included secondary sources because my purpose was to compile a document containing all the costume possibilities available for a designer. The secondary sources provided adaptations of the historical garments and stylized designs based on the writer\u27s historical research. Since there are. numerous fool characters in the plays of Shakespeare, children\u27s· drama, and musicals like Once Upon A Mattress, my goal is to fill a void by providing a fingertip reference for a costume designer. My hope is that with the aid of the study a costume designer can quickly scan the various costume possibilities. Therefore, a designer could create designs for the court Fool of greater variety that would combine the personality of the character and the director\u27s vision

The G(1) cyclin Cln3 promotes cell cycle entry via the transcription factor Swi6

In Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), commitment to cell division in late G1 is promoted by the G1 cyclin Cln3 and its associated cyclin-dependent kinase, Cdc28. We show here that all known aspects of the function of Cln3 in G1 phase, including control of cell size, pheromone sensitivity, cell cycle progress, and transcription, require the protein Swi6. Swi6 is a component of two related transcription factors, SBF and MBF, which are known to regulate many genes at the G1-S transition. The Cln3-Cdc28 complex somehow activates SBF and MBF, but there was no evidence for direct phosphorylation of SBF/MBF by Cln3-Cdc28 or for a stable complex between SBF/MBF and Cln3-Cdc28. The activation also does not depend on the ability of Cln3 to activate transcription when artificially recruited directly to a promoter. The amino terminus and the leucine zipper of Swi6 are important for the ability of Swi6 to respond to Cln3 but are not essential for the basal transcriptional activity of Swi6. Cln3-Cdc28 may activate SBF and MBF indirectly, perhaps by phosphorylating some intermediary protein