Domestic Cooking and Food Skills: A Review

Domestic cooking skills (CS) and food skills (FS) encompass multiple components, yet there is a lack of consensus on their constituent parts, inter-relatedness or measurement, leading to limited empirical support for their role in influencing dietary quality. This review assessed the measurement of CS and FS in adults (>16 years); critically examining study designs, psychometric properties of measures, theoretical basis and associations of CS/FS with diet. Electronic databases (PsychInfo), published reports and systematic reviews on cooking and home food preparation interventions (Rees et al. 2012 ; Reicks et al. 2014 ) provided 834 articles of which 26 met the inclusion criteria. Multiple CS/FS measures were identified across three study designs: qualitative; cross-sectional; and dietary interventions; conducted from 1998-2013. Most measures were not theory-based, limited psychometric data was available, with little consistency of items or scales used for CS/FS measurements. Some positive associations between CS/FS and FV intake were reported; though lasting dietary changes were uncommon. The role of psycho-social (e.g., gender, attitudes) and external factors (e.g. food availability) on CS/FS is discussed. A conceptual framework of CS/FS components is presented for future measurement facilitation, which highlights the role for CS/FS on food-related behaviour and dietary quality. This will aid future dietary intervention design.

Evolution of architectural floor plans

Layout planning is a process of sizing and placing rooms (e.g. in a house) while a t t empt ing to optimize various criteria. Often the r e are conflicting c r i t e r i a such as construction cost, minimizing the distance between r e l a t ed activities, and meeting the area requirements for these activities. The process of layout planning ha s mostly been done by hand, wi th a handful of a t t empt s to automa t e the process. Thi s thesis explores some of these pa s t a t t empt s and describes several new techniques for automa t ing the layout planning process using evolutionary computation. These techniques a r e inspired by the existing methods, while adding some of the i r own innovations. Additional experimenLs are done to t e s t the possibility of allowing polygonal exteriors wi th rectilinear interior walls. Several multi-objective approaches are used to evaluate and compare fitness. The evolutionary r epr e s ent a t ion and requirements specification used provide great flexibility in problem scope and depth and is worthy of considering in future layout and design a t t empt s . The system outlined in thi s thesis is capable of evolving a variety of floor plans conforming to functional and geometric specifications. Many of the resulting plans look reasonable even when compared to a professional floor plan. Additionally polygonal and multi-floor buildings were also generated.

ROAD: Domestic Assistant and Rehabilitation Robot

This study introduces the concept design and analysis of a robotic system for the assistance and rehabilitation of disabled people. Based on the statistical data of the most common types of disabilities in Spain and other industrialized countries, the different tasks that the device must be able to perform have been determined. In this study, different robots for rehabilitation and assistance previously introduced have been reviewed. This survey is focused on those robots that assist with gait, balance and standing up. The structure of the ROAD robot presents various advantages over these robots, we discuss some of them. The performance of the proposed architecture is analyzed when it performs the sit to stand activity.

Modern architectural designs and details : a monthly publication, giving details of exterior and interior woodwork drawn to scale, gelatine plates of late work by prominent architects, and such other designs and details as are likely to prove useful in the practical work of an architect or builder.

Mode of access: Internet.

Bardha Residence , Birmingham, Michigan, 1984-1989

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Blue ink sketch on tracing paper, 16 1/4 x 18 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Bardha Residence , Birmingham, Michigan, 1984-1989

[Conceptual Sketch of Roof], untitled. Ink sketch on tracing paper, 12 x 24 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Bardha Residence , Birmingham, Michigan, 1984-1989

[Conceptual Sketch of Roof], untitled. Blue ink sketch on tracing paper with purple and green marker coloring, 18x34 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Weinstein Residence, San Francisco, California, 1986 (unbuilt project)

[Early Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Blue ink sketch with marker coloring on tracing paper, 12 x 21 1/2 iinches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Weinstein Residence, San Francisco, California, 1986 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Blue ink sketch with yellow marker coloring on tracing paper, 12 x 24 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Weinstein Residence, San Francisco, California, 1986 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Blue ink sketch with blue marker coloring on tracing paper, 12 x 19 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Domino's Pizza, Inc., Special Designs, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1985-1986

[Conceptual Sketch of Chairman's Suite], untitled. Ink sketch on tracing paper with orange, blue and gray marker coloring, 12 x 24 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Domino's Pizza, Inc., Special Designs, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1985-1986

[Schematic Design Drawing of Chairman's Suite Section], untitled. Red pencil drawing on black-line print, 19 x 34 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Metropolitan Federal Savings and Loan Bank, Southfield, Michigan, 1969 (unbuilt project)

[Early Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Ink sketch on tracing paper, 12x15 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Papal Altar and Furniture, Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan, 1987

[Early Conceptual Sketches of Throne], untitled. Brown ink sketches on tracing paper, 12 x 23 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]