Detailing for a research centre in Antarctica: An experiment to force students to be creative instead of copying standard solutions

In order to equip architecture students with ambitious detail designing ability, related courses of the architecture programs should deal with subjects which are rather rare and unusual for real life practices in order to prevent students copying standard details. In 2015 an innovative project brief has been given to architecture students of Istanbul Technical University. The scenario given in the brief is to design a research station for the first group of Turkish scientist, to be built in one of the coldest and most arid regions on earth; the Antarctica. The performance requirements given in the brief were determined to prevent the students from copying details from any kind of resources as the total number of details generated in real life for those conditions are very limited and specific. The method used has demonstrated a great success and creative detail solutions were generated by the students. In the paper, the innovative coursework brief for bettering the detail design ability of architecture students is explained and the output of the studio is presented.

Derisory Results or Reasons to be Cheerful? Evaluating the Implantation of the European Neighbourhood Policy in Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. Natolin Research Paper 01/January 2011

This paper considers the implementation of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. The paper presents a portrait of the three neighbours in terms of their current political and socio-economic profiles, as well as the status of their relations with the European Union. Subsequently, it provides an overview of the development of ENP. A general set of conclusions are offered in relation to the key issue of good governance, where, the paper argues, ENP has delivered derisory results, with patchy effects across the region. Moreover, the paper identifies the democratic back-sliding in Ukraine and entenched authoritarianism in Belarus, which ENP has done very little to address. The EU’s willingness to provide better mobility options for ENP citizens to visit and work in the EU is a key test for the Eastern Partnership (EaP) in the coming year. This paper sees that whilst there are reasons to be cheerful here, with the EU’s recent offer of greater Visa Liberalisation for Ukraine and Moldova, there remains much to be done and in the meantime the EU remains a ‘Fortress Europe’. The paper concludes with a set of recommendations for ENP, which include the need to finally tackle corruption in the region, bring more differentiation into ENP, soften the EU’s borders through more generous Visa regimes, develop a more robust Belarus strategy and to think more creatively about the use of ENP funds for regional and cross- border activities.

To be in, or to be out: reflections on the Danish referendum. EPIN Commentary No. 29, 10 December 2015

In this EPIN Commentary, Catharina Sørensen offers her reflections on Denmark’s referendum, held on December 3rd, on whether the country should change its blanket opt-out on all justice and home affairs cooperation in the EU to the more nuanced opt-in model adopted by the UK and Ireland. In her view, the outcome reflected the two separate ‘languages’ deployed in the public debate over the referendum – the emotional discussion about sovereignty, which appealed to the heart, and the technical argument about cooperation, which appealed to reason. In using these two languages, the campaigners spoke past one another, failed to understand each other and divided Denmark into two opposing camps.

The American farrier; containing a minute account of the formation of every part of the horse, with a desription of all the diseases to which each part is liable; the best remedies to be applied, and the most approved mode of treatment for preventing disorders: acompanied with a list of medicines.

Mode of access: Internet.

"Aunt Babette's" cook book : foreign and domestic receipts for the household : a valuable collection of receipts and hints for the housewife, many of which are not to be found elsewhere /

Includes sections on servants, grocery marketing, canning; household hints; samples of menus; recipes for German, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Jewish dishes; some recipes include wine or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: Filet de bœuf au champignons, Velvet potato puffs, Rhubarb custard pie, Bergamot ice-cream.

A careful and strict inquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue and vice, reward and punishment, praise and blame.

Later edition has title: Freedom of the will.

The American system of English grammar : to which will soon be appended a key and exercise, developing the constructive principles of the English language ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

The life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; together with the lives of his Holy Apostles and Evangelists. To which is added, evidences of the truth of Christianity; by Beilby Porteous. The Golden Grove; a choice manual of what is to be believed, practised, and desired or prayed for; by Jeremy Taylor. Meditations upon the Lord's Prayer; by Sir Matthew Hale, and a Sermon of the Death of Christ; by Hugh Blair.

Mode of access: Internet.

A short review of the history of the navigation laws of England, from the earliest times; to which are added a note on the present state of the law and an account of the acts and parts of acts proposed to be repealed by the bill now before Parliament.

Mode of access: Internet.

Correspondence on the slave trade with foreign powers, parties to treaties and conventions, under which captured vessels are to be tried by tribunal of the nation to which they belong : From January 1 to December 31, 1844, inclusive.

Mode of access: Internet.

The five orders of architecture : containing the most plain and simple rules for drawing and executing them in the purest style, for the use of workmen : exhibiting the most approved modes of applying each in practice, suitably to the climate of Great Britain ; including an historical description of Gothic architecture, illustrated with specimens selected from the most celebrated structures now existing, and numerous plans, elevations, sections, and details of various buildings executed by architects of great eminence : to which are added treatises on projection, perspective, fractions, decimal arithmetic, &c. ...

Includes index.

Religio bibliopolae: or the, Religion of a bookseller: which is likewise not improper to be perus'd by those of any other calling or profession.

Mode of access: Internet.

A careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will, which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue and vice, reward and punishment, praise and blame...

Mode of access: Internet.

Medicina Britannica; or A treatise on such physical plants, as are generally to be found in the fields or gardens in Great Britain: containing a particular account of their nature, virtues and uses : Together with the observations of the most learned physicians ... communicated to the late ... Mr. Ray, and Dr. Sim. Pauli ...

Includes note by John Cruso.

Discourses on the whole Book of Esther : to which are added, sermons, on parental duties, on military courage, and on the improvement to be made of the alarm of war /

Mode of access: Internet.