Empty Places Research Articles

Sınıf Öğretmenlerinin Sınıflarında Bulunan Geçici Koruma Altındaki Sığınmacı Öğrencilere İlişkin Metafor Algılarının Araştırma Bulgularının Değerlendirilmesi

In this study, it was aimed to explain the perceptions of classroom teachers with different experiences towards foreign students under temporary protection in their classrooms using a metaphor, and the study was conducted in order to evaluate the research findings. As it is known, the increasing number of people seeking refuge in Turkey by fleeing the unfavorable conditions experienced in their countries and the process of including children who come with this migration movement into the Turkish education system has caused us to bring many issues to the agenda. The aim of this research is to examine the perceptions of classroom teachers towards foreign students who are in their classrooms and are under temporary protection through metaphors. In line with this purpose, ‘Which metaphor explains the classroom teachers' perceptions of students under temporary protection?' the question has been determined as a research question. Qualitative research approach and phenomenology design were used in the research. The study group of the study was selected according to the easily accessible case sampling method from the sampling methods. The study group of the research consists of 5 female and 5 male volunteer teachers working as classroom teachers in a public school in Başakşehir district of Istanbul province in the 2023-2024 academic year. A questionnaire consisting of 2 parts was given to the classroom teachers participating in the study. In the first part of the survey, demographic information of the participants is requested, while in the second part they are like ‘My foreign student who is in my class (...). Because (...) he was asked to fill in the empty places left in his statement and express the foreign student who was in his class through metaphor. It was stated to the participants that the phrase foreign student found in the survey refers to asylum-seeking foreign students who are under temporary protection in their classrooms. During the study process, contributions were made to the process by all participants. The necessary works have been completed on time in order to avoid any disruptions. The content analysis method was used in the analysis of the collected data. 10 Different metaphors were obtained from a total of 10 classroom teachers, 5 women and 5 men, volunteers participating in the research. The metaphors used by classroom teachers and their explanations were examined and these metaphors were grouped under 4 categories as ‘damaged’, ’the result of which will be determined over time,’ ‘in need of support’, ‘incompatible/challenging/not belonging.’ When the categories created are examined, it is seen that the most metaphors are collected under the category of “incompatible / challenging / not belonging.” Key Words: Classroom Teacher, Foreign Student, Temporary Protection, Asylum Seeker, Research Findings

Sınıf Öğretmenlerinin Sınıflarında Bulunan Geçici Koruma Altındaki Sığınmacı Öğrencilere İlişkin Metafor Algılarının Araştırma Bulgularının Değerlendirilmesi

In this study, it was aimed to explain the perceptions of classroom teachers with different experiences towards foreign students under temporary protection in their classrooms using a metaphor, and the study was conducted in order to evaluate the research findings. As it is known, the increasing number of people seeking refuge in Turkey by fleeing the unfavorable conditions experienced in their countries and the process of including children who come with this migration movement into the Turkish education system has caused us to bring many issues to the agenda. The aim of this research is to examine the perceptions of classroom teachers towards foreign students who are in their classrooms and are under temporary protection through metaphors. In line with this purpose, ‘Which metaphor explains the classroom teachers' perceptions of students under temporary protection?' the question has been determined as a research question. Qualitative research approach and phenomenology design were used in the research. The study group of the study was selected according to the easily accessible case sampling method from the sampling methods. The study group of the research consists of 5 female and 5 male volunteer teachers working as classroom teachers in a public school in Başakşehir district of Istanbul province in the 2023-2024 academic year. A questionnaire consisting of 2 parts was given to the classroom teachers participating in the study. In the first part of the survey, demographic information of the participants is requested, while in the second part they are like ‘My foreign student who is in my class (...). Because (...) he was asked to fill in the empty places left in his statement and express the foreign student who was in his class through metaphor. It was stated to the participants that the phrase foreign student found in the survey refers to asylum-seeking foreign students who are under temporary protection in their classrooms. During the study process, contributions were made to the process by all participants. The necessary works have been completed on time in order to avoid any disruptions. The content analysis method was used in the analysis of the collected data. 10 Different metaphors were obtained from a total of 10 classroom teachers, 5 women and 5 men, volunteers participating in the research. The metaphors used by classroom teachers and their explanations were examined and these metaphors were grouped under 4 categories as ‘damaged’, ’the result of which will be determined over time,’ ‘in need of support’, ‘incompatible/challenging/not belonging.’ When the categories created are examined, it is seen that the most metaphors are collected under the category of “incompatible / challenging / not belonging.” Key Words: Classroom Teacher, Foreign Student, Temporary Protection, Asylum Seeker, Research Findings

Life Cycle Assessment of Perishable Wastes from Koyambedu Market

India is the second largest country having highest population which leads to generation of large sum of wastes. Municipal solid waste generally consists of household and commercial waste. Most of the wastes are collected and dumped in the landfill sites but in certain cases these wastes are dumped in nearby empty places which causes environmental pollution and also leads to spreading of various diseases. Koyambedu Market situated in Chennai, Tamil Nadu is one of the largest markets in Asia having a total area of 295 acres with different shops selling vegetables, fruits, flowers and meats. Around 300 tons of wastes are generated in a day from the entire market. The collected data are analyzed using Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) to know the impact caused by the wastes that are disposed from Koyambedu. The methodology of LCA makes modelling simpler, gives more clearly defined system boundaries, and reduces the amount of data that is required in comparison to the conventional method of independently comparing two different criteria. The use of LCA is more feasible in order to find the life cycle of the wastes and to find which waste produces more harm to the environment. With the analyzes it was found the emission of methane is more in vegetable waste than in other wastes that are collected from the market. The electricity consumed by landfill is less compared to the biogas plant. It is suggested that small biogas plants can be built near the markets to extract the gases that are produced from the wastes.

IoT based smart parking model using Arduino UNO with FCFS priority scheduling

Develop a suitable method to handle parking problem in the crowded big city, as per the demand and number of parking slots available, by giving priority to the users with help of smart parking system. This study proposed Internet of Things-(IoT) based smart parking model using the Arduino UNO model in implementation. This proposed model helps users to allocate booking users vehicles parking free available slot as per time to time availability in college campuses during technical fest in different parking slots and locations. In this working model, Passive Infrared, with ultrasonic Sensors are used which helps to deducting the available parking location and allow us to find out for giving priority based First Come First Serve based-(FCFS) scheduling of parking allotments as per slot is vacant count. This model examine the way of the proposed system with utilizing scenarios of various possible ways with FCFS which show the significance of the parking model using IoT platform. The parking availability detection is capable to find solutions for an empty vehicle parking area for monitoring and reduces users search time as per an automated smart parking model using the internet of things, sensing devices and Arduino UNO(“Uno” means one in Italian languages) in giving priority to users with scheduling model is actual findings with Smart systems. This study proposed an automated parking system to function on a real-time basis to detect all empty parking places based on the internet of things platform, with help of sensors. Arduino UNO platform brings automation to this system on per priority basis to all the users with scheduling techniques. The priority given to users with an automation system is a novelty compared with an existing system. This smart parking is working on real-time basis inputs based on that user demands priority is varying to book parking slots with first come first serve preference.

Green Path Project Develops Using Image Processing

Abstract: The Green Path project develops Image Processing which includes changing the nature of an image in the order to improve its pictorial information for human interpretation, for autonomous machine perception. In digital image processing, image is converted to an array of small integers, called pixels, representing a physical quantity such as scene radiance, stored in a digital memory, and processed by computer. Interest in digital image processing methods is in two principal applications areas: first one is improvement of pictorial information for human interpretation; and second one is processing of image data for storage, transmission, and representation for image or machine. Edge detection is one of the most difficult tasks in image processing hence it is a problem of fundamental importance in image processing method. In this paper we find out different steps of digital image processing. Like, a high-speed filter implementation is presented. Then Filter solves the purpose of removing the impulse noise from the image and reducing distortion in the image. The Image Processing is very important in the project. Then indicate a specific spot required for pointing to show the main spot for empty places. So, we required to divide the image pixelization points and coloring into different parts. And last one spotted the spot which is very important for project. Image processing is a method to perform operations on an image to extract information from it or enhance it. Digital image processing has a broad range of applications such as image restoration, medical imaging, remote sensing, image segmentation, etc. Every process requires a different technique. Keywords: Image Processing, scene radiance

Full vs. Empty

Full vs. Empty

The city as a palimpsest: the phenomenon of “empty places” in the urban environment

The article attempts to analyze, within phenomenological optics, the phenomenon of "empty places" in the city, which, in turn, is understood as a specifically organized space of human life. In an interdisciplinary way, at the intersection of theoretical urban studies, memory studies and political philosophy, the relationship between space, place and emptiness in the urban environment, is considered. Based on the concepts of Simmel, Heidegger, Bachelard and others, the author comes to the conclusion that the city is a kind of "palimpsest", the memory of which arises under the influence of not only those elements of the environment that exist in the actual visual experience of everyday life, but also remain only in the format of “ruins” or “spectres”, which at the same time have significant symbolic content in the context of the everyday urban landscape, including the landscape of a post-socialist city.

Evaluation of the Influence of Lightning Overvoltage Propagation on Wind Turbine and “Mix” Overhead-Cable Lines

Due to the growing demand for new and renewable energies and a favorable geographical position, Vietnam is constructing many wind farms. Besides the advantages of being environmentally friendly and the primary endless source of materials, wind farms have disadvantages, for example, high-structured wind towers are usually built in high, empty places and the resistivity of large soil is vulnerable to lightning damage. In this research, we investigate the effects of overvoltage due to lightning strikes on the wings of wind turbines and propagation causing overvoltage on the insulation of cable in the control cable and mixed-lines. The paper also considers the overvoltage protection measures propagated into the insulation equipment and cable insulation using EMTP-RV simulation software

Transition and Transformation of a Rural Landscape: Abandonment and Rewilding

The concepts of slow environmental change through evolutionary processes associated with ordinary artefacts from Central European rural life as part of biogeographical morphology was studied in Goričko Landscape Park, northeastern Slovenia. The research was based on field observations, including the recording of a former aristocratic dwelling and two small rural farmsteads, all abandoned. An analysis of the extant residual artefacts, their in situ placement and their former utility was undertaken. The value of residual items in ascertaining local perceptions, occupations and utilizations of landscape resources, from various viewpoints, was discussed in relationship to the surrounding landscape. The authors found that the abandoned rural buildings are now utilised as a faunal habitat, and the ruins were reincorporated into the wider landscape. The study sites represent empty places in the process of returning to nature after the retreat of human activities. The research examined the transition and transformation of biodegradable/non-biodegradable components within a rural landscape.

Latin squares from multiplication tables

AbstractConsider the usual multiplication table in which all entries strictly greater than were deleted. Can we fill in the empty places so that the resulting table will become a multiplication table of a group? This intriguing question arose in connection to the famous Graham's Greatest Common Divisor Problem. We prove here a weaker statement, namely, that one may always complete such a partial multiplication table to a Latin square. Our result is more general, as it guarantees the possibility of completion of any partial Latin square, provided that the shape of the empty part satisfies certain conditions. We also point on connections of our result to a far‐reaching extension of Graham's problem involving graphs and homogeneous arithmetic progressions.

SPACE SYNTAX AS AN EVALUATIVE AND PREDICTIVE TOOL TO EXPLORE URBANITY LEVELS IN NEW DAMIETTA CITY

In New Damietta city, many residential neighborhoods have the appearance of empty, dull, and monotonous places. These neighborhoods have low levels of urbanity in terms of vital and flourishing street life. Some researchers attribute the low levels of urbanity in new cities to the urban planning approaches undertaken (the neighborhood unit). To conduct this research, we used space syntax analysis as a key method to study urbanity in New Damietta city. In addition to other methods such as direct field observations through which we observed land use patterns and activities occurred in the study area. Observed land use patterns and activities were mapped in Geographical Information System (GIS). This study finds out how space syntax is an effective tool that can evaluate the current situation of urbanity and how it can be used as a predictive tool in the planning processes in the forthcoming generations of new cities.

The linguistic lacunicon: cognitive mapping in schemes and terms

The new linguistic science lacunology has come into prominence recently. The lacunae studies embrace sociolinguistics, nonverbal semiotics and applied linguistics studies. The re-search of terms of lacunology (lacunicon) is devoted to empty places in the structure of the contrasting languages and the ways of zero verbalization in the written and oral discourse. The empty category of the category “lacunarity” has been studied by the Canadian transla-tors Jean Paul Vinay (1910-1999) and Jean Darbelnet (1904-1990), the Russian pioneers of lacu-nology Yuriy Sorokin (1936-2009) and Gulchera Bikova and their followers. The research has resulted in the cognitive mind mapping. It turned out that lacunarity has several vectors, e.g. lacunae of language (i), lacunae of speech (ii), lacunae of cognition (iii) to be further discussed in the article. The basic terms of lacunicon are described. These are a pause in syntagmatics, a linguistic gap in paradigmatics, a lacuna in both diachronic and synchronic regimes.

Puste miejsca w przestrzeni, puste miejsca w języku. Wokół Miejsca Andrzeja Stasiuka i dwóch opowiadań Zygmunta Haupta

Przedmiotem zainteresowania autorów są literackie przekształcenia miejsc południowo-wschodniej Polski międzywojennej (w dwóch opowiadaniach Zygmunta Haupta) oraz z czasów ustrojowego przełomu pod koniec XX wieku (jedna z „opowieści galicyjskich” Andrzeja Stasiuka). Punktem wyjścia uczyniono dwa doświadczenia dydaktyczne z utworem drugiego z pisarzy. Obaj pisarze ewokują w swoich utworach fenomen miejsc pustych, ogołoconych wskutek zawirowań historycznych, ale także wydanych na działanie „ślepej” natury. W toku analizy (wykorzystującej metodologię geografii kulturowej i geopoetyki) przestudiowane zostały językowe próby uchwycenia tekstury miejsc oraz problematyki czasu, wynikającej z doświadczania konkretnej przestrzeni. Istotnym elementem omawianych opowiadań jest żywioł pracy wyobraźni, za pomocą której artyści usiłują wypełnić terytoria dotknięte pustką. Jeszcze inna ważna kwestia to rozporządzalność miejsca w stosunku do znajdującego się w nim podmiotu.

DESIGN AND STUDY OF A SMART PARK SYSTEM: UNIVERSITY OF KUFA AS A CASE STUDY

Finding a vacant parking space nowadays is time and fuel consuming. This problem may cause drivers to get frustrated and eventually improper parking will appear. The universities, in particular, are one of these places, which needs more attention for providing parking services. Therefore, this study has focused on finding the parking required for such facilities and the benefit of applying smart parking services there. The main campus of the University of Kufa has been evaluated by collecting parking data for both on-street and off-street parking. The results of field data show a clear lack of parking space for most of the faculties in the main campus. The required additional parking spaces are 260.This study has suggested using the smart parks. The model of smart park system has been introduced by this study as a solution to the parking problem, especially in the university and generally in other places. Arduino and ultrasonic sensors were used to detect the empty places in a park and display this status to the screen. The model has been applied at the park of College of Engineering with encouraging results.

Structural and individualistic theories of poverty

AbstractThis paper clarifies and contrasts the explanatory mechanisms in individualistic and structural accounts of poverty. I argue that individualistic approaches obscure a great deal of the theoretical substance in the causal explanation of poverty, as they lack a macro‐level appraisal of the subject. Such arguments can explain why one person has a higher risk of poverty than another, but ignore the fact that a full account of poverty is not furnished by a simple adding up of all the separate individual‐level accounts. I also argue that there are in fact two separate macro‐level explanations of poverty: where macro‐structural explanations attempt to provide accounts of the “empty places” of poverty into which individuals get slotted, situational accounts attempt to explain the circumstances under which specific “poverty‐generating” behaviors arise. I conclude by providing a synthesis of individual and structural accounts of poverty, showing that while the two approaches need not be viewed as entirely antagonistic, the former should be accorded a far more modest role and indeed subsumed into broader structural accounts.

The Inverse Honeycomb Structures in Numerical Modeling and Experiment

Based on previous research, we proposed changes in the classic honeycomb structure. We have changed the approach to modeling. In a classic structure, cells are modeled using the walls that form them. In the modified structure, the main modeled element is the hexagon-shaped void. The distribution of cells was proposed as in a truss. In full places the spaces were smaller and in empty places the cells were larger. We changed the size of cells and the transition between cells in different layers. In comparison to previous research, it was necessary to enlarge the models. This was due to the limitations of incremental technology, which was used to fabricate samples – FDM. This technology introduced limitations of changes that the structure underwent. We selected several types of models as a result of the numerical simulation and produced. Then, experimental tests were carried out on them – the same as in numerical simulation. In the final stage, we compared the obtained results. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.mech.24.3.21066

Дистанционный анализ сельских населенных пунктов без населения Тверской области

The article presents the results of the remote analysis of the rural settlements without population in the Tver region using the Google Earth and Yandex.Maps cartographic Internet resources. It is shown that such places are at the different stages of degradation. Depending on the presence of houses, buildings and roads on the space snapshots, four types of the settlements “without population” were identified – seasonally inhabited, abandoned, disappeared and empty places. The municipal districts of the Tver region differ in the structure of the settlements without population. Comparison of the field and remote data for Olenino district showed the effectiveness of the approach that is used

What She Fears More Than Death.

What She Fears More Than Death.

SUPPORTING MANAGEMENT OF EUROPEAN REFUGEE STREAMS BY EARTH OBSERVATION AND GEOINFORMATION

Abstract. The sharp increase in refugee numbers arriving in the European Union has recently caused major and manifold challenges for the member states and their administrative services. Location based situation reports and maps may support the refugee management from local to European level. The first support is mapping of the geographical distribution of migrating people which needs more or less real time data. The actual data sources are location related observations along the routes of refugees, actual satellite observations and data mining results. These tools and data are used to monitor spatial distributions as well as extrapolate the arrival of refugees for the subsequent weeks. The second support is the short term update of the location of initial registration facilities and first reception facilities, their capacities, and their occupancy. The third management level is the systematic inquiry for unoccupied housing facilities and for empty places within build-up areas. Geo-coded data sets of house numbers have to be cross-referenced with city maps and communal inhabitants address data. The legal aspects of data mining and secured access to personal data are strictly controlled by the administration allowing only limited access and distribution of data and results. However, the paper will not disclose scientific progress in Earth Observation and GIS, but will actually demonstrate an urgently needed new combination of existing methods to support actual needs. The societal benefits of EO/GIS are no longer just potential possibilities, but actual results in real political, administrative and humanitarian day to day reality.

SUPPORTING MANAGEMENT OF EUROPEAN REFUGEE STREAMS BY EARTH OBSERVATION AND GEOINFORMATION

The sharp increase in refugee numbers arriving in the European Union has recently caused major and manifold challenges for the member states and their administrative services. Location based situation reports and maps may support the refugee management from local to European level. The first support is mapping of the geographical distribution of migrating people which needs more or less real time data. The actual data sources are location related observations along the routes of refugees, actual satellite observations and data mining results. These tools and data are used to monitor spatial distributions as well as extrapolate the arrival of refugees for the subsequent weeks. The second support is the short term update of the location of initial registration facilities and first reception facilities, their capacities, and their occupancy. The third management level is the systematic inquiry for unoccupied housing facilities and for empty places within build-up areas. Geo-coded data sets of house numbers have to be cross-referenced with city maps and communal inhabitants address data. The legal aspects of data mining and secured access to personal data are strictly controlled by the administration allowing only limited access and distribution of data and results. However, the paper will not disclose scientific progress in Earth Observation and GIS, but will actually demonstrate an urgently needed new combination of existing methods to support actual needs. The societal benefits of EO/GIS are no longer just potential possibilities, but actual results in real political, administrative and humanitarian day to day reality.