deep plan - die Architektur der tiefen Geschossbauten

Die Arbeit untersucht ein Format der modernen Architektur: Tiefe Geschossbauten. Diese werden definiert als kompakte Gebäude mit mindestens vier Geschossebenen von mindestens 25 Metern Seitenlänge in beiden Richtungen ("tiefe Grundrisse", "deep plans") ohne zentralen Kern oder zentrales Atrium. Anstelle der Nutzung wird die Gebäudetiefe als entscheidender typologischer Parameter herausgearbeitet. Der einheitlich durchgehende Abbildungsmaßstab von 1:1000 für Grundrisse und Schnitte erlaubt den unmittelbaren visuellen Vergleich innerhalb der vorgestellten Gebäudereferenzen. Von den drei Teilen der Arbeit betrachtet Teil I die Referenzen der Zeit zwischen 1890 und 1990. Teil II untersucht die Referenzen seit 1990. Während für den ersten Teil eine chronologische Gliederung gewählt wurde, werden die Referenzen des zweiten Teils unter morphologischem Blickwinkel gruppiert. Dieser Wechsel der Perspektive signalisiert, wie in Teil III weiter ausgeführt wird, dass die neueren Referenzen als Entfaltung von Möglichkeiten, die in früheren Phasen der architektonischen Moderne angelegt waren, interpretiert werden können. Die Arbeit liegt somit in der Schnittmenge von Architekturgeschichte, Gebäudekunde und Entwurfstheorie.

Double burden malnutrition of preschool children and its association with brain development and milk consumption

Protecting the quality of children growth and development becomes a supreme qualification for the betterment of a nation. Double burden child malnutrition is emerging worldwide which might have a strong influence to the quality of child brain development and could not be paid-off on later life. Milk places a notable portion during the infancy and childhood. Thus, the deep insight on milk consumption pattern might explain the phenomenon of double burden child malnutrition correlated to the cognitive impairments. Objective: Current study is intended (1) to examine the current face of Indonesian double burden child malnutrition: a case study in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, (2) to investigate the association of this phenomenon with child brain development, and (3) to examine the contribution of socioeconomic status and milk consumption on this phenomenon so that able to formulate some possible solutions to encounter this problem. Design: A cross-sectional study using a structured coded questionnaire was conducted among 387 children age 5-6 years old and their parents from 8 areas in Bogor, West-Java, Indonesia on November 2012 to December 2013, to record some socioeconomic status, anthropometric measurements, and history of breast feeding. Diet and probability of milk intake was assessed by two 24 h dietary recalls and food frequency questionnaire (FFQ). Usual daily milk intake was calculated using Multiple Source Method (MSM). Some brain development indicators (IQ, EQ, learning, and memory ability) using Projective Multi-phase Orientation method was also executed to learn the correlation between double burden child malnutrition and some brain development indicator. Results and conclusions: A small picture of child double burden malnutrition is shown in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, where prevalence of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) is 27.1%, Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) is 24.9%, and overnutrition is 7.7%. This phenomenon proves to impair the child brain development. The malnourished children, both under- and over- nourished children have significantly (P-value<0.05) lower memory ability compared to the normal children (memory score, N; SAM = 45.2, 60; MAM = 48.5, 61; overweight = 48.4, 43; obesity = 47.9, 60; normal = 52.4, 163). The plausible reasons behind these evidences are the lack of nutrient intake during the sprout growth period on undernourished children or increasing adiposity on overnourished children might influence the growth of hippocampus area which responsible to the memory ability. Either undernutrition or overnutrition, the preventive action on this problem is preferable to avoid ongoing cognitive performance loss of the next generation. Some possible solutions for this phenomenon are promoting breast feeding initiation and exclusive breast feeding practices for infants, supporting the consumption of a normal portion of milk (250 to 500 ml per day) for children, and breaking the chain of poverty by socioeconomic improvement. And, the national food security becomes the fundamental point for the betterment of the next. In the global context, the causes of under- and over- nutrition have to be opposed through integrated and systemic approaches for a better quality of the next generation of human beings.

From First Contact to Close Encounters: A Developmentally Deep Perceptual System for a Humanoid Robot

This thesis presents a perceptual system for a humanoid robot that integrates abilities such as object localization and recognition with the deeper developmental machinery required to forge those competences out of raw physical experiences. It shows that a robotic platform can build up and maintain a system for object localization, segmentation, and recognition, starting from very little. What the robot starts with is a direct solution to achieving figure/ground separation: it simply 'pokes around' in a region of visual ambiguity and watches what happens. If the arm passes through an area, that area is recognized as free space. If the arm collides with an object, causing it to move, the robot can use that motion to segment the object from the background. Once the robot can acquire reliable segmented views of objects, it learns from them, and from then on recognizes and segments those objects without further contact. Both low-level and high-level visual features can also be learned in this way, and examples are presented for both: orientation detection and affordance recognition, respectively. The motivation for this work is simple. Training on large corpora of annotated real-world data has proven crucial for creating robust solutions to perceptual problems such as speech recognition and face detection. But the powerful tools used during training of such systems are typically stripped away at deployment. Ideally they should remain, particularly for unstable tasks such as object detection, where the set of objects needed in a task tomorrow might be different from the set of objects needed today. The key limiting factor is access to training data, but as this thesis shows, that need not be a problem on a robotic platform that can actively probe its environment, and carry out experiments to resolve ambiguity. This work is an instance of a general approach to learning a new perceptual judgment: find special situations in which the perceptual judgment is easy and study these situations to find correlated features that can be observed more generally.

A Two-level Prediction Model for Deep Reactive Ion Etch (DRIE)

We contribute a quantitative and systematic model to capture etch non-uniformity in deep reactive ion etch of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices. Deep reactive ion etch is commonly used in MEMS fabrication where high-aspect ratio features are to be produced in silicon. It is typical for many supposedly identical devices, perhaps of diameter 10 mm, to be etched simultaneously into one silicon wafer of diameter 150 mm. Etch non-uniformity depends on uneven distributions of ion and neutral species at the wafer level, and on local consumption of those species at the device, or die, level. An ion–neutral synergism model is constructed from data obtained from etching several layouts of differing pattern opening densities. Such a model is used to predict wafer-level variation with an r.m.s. error below 3%. This model is combined with a die-level model, which we have reported previously, on a MEMS layout. The two-level model is shown to enable prediction of both within-die and wafer-scale etch rate variation for arbitrary wafer loadings.

Engineering Foundation Year - Sustaining Success - Lecture 1 - slides

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De la morbilidad a la perdurabilidad empresarial Club Campestre de Bucaramanga S.A.

El presente documento de carácter informativo recoge una serie de entrevistas, análisis y elementos teóricos encaminados al desarrollo de un estudio de caso sobre morbilidad empresarial. El propósito del estudio aquí planteado es analizar las estrategias gerenciales trazadas y ejecutadas por la dirección del Club Campestre de Bucaramanga S.A. ante la crisis que experimentó esta organización a finales de los años noventa, en el contexto de los malogrados acercamientos de paz entre el gobierno y las FARC que lo único que dejaron fue un ambiente de desconfianza e incertidumbre entre empresarios, trabajadores y público consumidor en general. El análisis de las estrategias aplicadas por el Club contribuirán a la compilación de una serie de lecciones empresariales que estarán enriquecidas por la experiencia de los dirigentes que colaboraron en la misión de sacar a la empresa de esa profunda crisis, y por los análisis de tipo cuantitativo y cualitativo que se hagan de los instrumentos aplicados (entrevistas, estadísticas, análisis financieros, etc.). La meta es consolidar una serie de pautas que tanto empresarios como profesionales de la administración o emprendedores puedan consultar para ejecutar acciones que los lleven a un alto desempeño empresarial y puedan evitar la morbilidad de sus empresas, o en caso extremo, sepan como rescatarlas de la quiebra. Finalmente se verá cómo esta empresa se enfrenta a la toma desesperada e imprudente de decisiones que le generarán un exorbitante desfalco financiero además del ya generado por la crisis, y a su vez como con una gestión empresarial inteligente y hábil, la empresa resurge rápidamente apegada a auxilios gubernamentales (Ley 550 de 1999) y a una serie de jugadas que determinaron su reflotamiento, a través de la creación y el mejoramiento de productos y servicios, su diferenciación, la creación de divisiones especializadas dentro de la compañía, la disminución de gastos, etc., para convertirse en los últimos años, en una de las empresas más representativas del oriente colombiano tanto por su reflotamiento financiero y administrativo como por su responsabilidad social para con sus socios y trabajadores, que se ve reflejada en la inauguración de su propia fundación con miras a erradicar el analfabetismo, por lo pronto, entre su personal.

Engineering Foundation Year - Sustaining Success Portfolio Template

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Engineering Foundation Year Sustaining Success Lecture 2

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