Exemplary Project Research Articles

An iterative model for the development of an urban development strategy – a case study of Polanica-Zdrój (Poland)

Motives: The current approach to the design of public space in cities is changing due to the global situation, i.e., the climate and health crisis, as manifested by the COVID 2019 pandemic. There is a need to develop and apply new, innovative research methods and techniques that allow both an in-depth knowledge of a given area and the monitoring of the changes that occur in this area. One of the proposals for such a framework is an iterative model based on the results of the analyses carried out during the research and design work using the research through design (RtD) method.Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the applicability of the iterative process model for the development of urban strategy, particularly in terms of designing more resilient urban public spaces.Results: The iterative process model was tested during consultation meetings on the development strategy for the municipality of Polanica-Zdrój. The design concepts developed during the research were an excellent support for illustrating the goals of the spatial policy of the municipality of Polanica-Zdrój as specified in the draft of its development strategy. They became the starting point for the future design process. A project with blue-green infrastructure (BGI) elements was included in the draft development strategy as an exemplary project for the development and modernization of tourism and tourism-related infrastructure of a supra-local, infrastructural and linear nature. A study using the RtD method supported the identification of opportunities and limitations associated with the implementation of BGI in the protected urban areas.

“Japan Heritage”: An exemplary project promoting local development trough Japanese cultural property

“Japan Heritage”: An exemplary project promoting local development trough Japanese cultural property

Военные храмы в Российской империи начала ХХ в.: деятельность комиссии для удовлетворения религиозно-нравственных нужд войск и образцовый проект Ф. М. Вержбицкого

The beginning of the 20th century is characterized by an unprecedented intensification of the construction of regimental churches: from 1900 to 1917 more than 100 military churches were erected. First of all, this was due to the creation of a special commission on the religious and moral needs of the troops which was instructed to develop the type of military churches and to ensure that each regiment had its own stone church. An energetic protopresbyter of the military and naval clergy, Fr. Alexander Zhelobovsky and General of Infantry I.D. Tatishchev. The development of an exemplary project of a church for military officials was entrusted to a civil engineer F.M. Verzhbitsky. On April 13, 1901, the project was approved by Emperor Nicholas II. The exemplary temple was a one-nave red-brick basilica with a high hipped bell tower above the narthex, crowned with one dome and richly decorated in the spirit of uzoroch'e — architectural style of the 17th century. In total, about 69 churches were built.However, the office work of this commission has not yet been included in scientific circulation. We have found and analyzed the documents of the above-mentioned Commission, which includes extensive correspondence with the Military Ministry, the Main Engineering Directorate and the headquarters of military districts and garrison units. In addition to the petitions of priests and regiment commanders for financing construction, cover letters from protopresbyter A.A. Zhelobovsky and I.D. Tatishchev to the Engineering Department, the files contain cost estimates and construction plans from 1901 to 1908.

Analysis of Strategies and Implementation Methods for Time and Cost Efficiency in Multi-Story Building Construction Projects

The construction of multi-story buildings is increasingly rapid, with difficulty in managing and implementing multi-story buildings increasingly high. The longer the duration of time required will affect the costs to complete the project. Therefore, an implementation method is needed to support and consider the costs incurred in carrying out the work. In addition, by sharpening priorities, it is hoped that project management efficiency and activities will increase. All of this is to achieve the goals of a multi-story building project that meets the client’s needs. Different implementation methods in a building must be followed by exemplary project implementation and following the plan. Good technical management and implementation can reduce the risks of multi-story building construction projects and delays. It will reduce the development of project costs and will ultimately provide benefits for contractors. The method of implementing this multi-story building uses zoning and bottom-up methods. This method is expected to obtain time efficiency values. The implementation process is fast and obtains optimal costs.

Evaluation of energy efficient building envelope alternatives for sustainable cities

This study is aimed to create an exemplary project to present the contribution of the new buildings to energy savings when the residential buildings are transformed into green buildings. To create a sustainable built environment in residences, this study emphasizes that low-energy building strategies be combined with efficient and high-performance natural-sourced materials. Our findings show that using a natural-sourced material as the building envelope material has an impact on the use of primary energy and energy costs of the alternatives studied. In this study; In the case of replacing the building external wall components of an existing construction designed with internal insulation in the climatic conditions of Ankara, the change in energy performance has been investigated. The analysis was done with the help of BIM-based Revit Program and “Green buildings studio” where energy simulations were created. In the study, 54 different wall combinations were created by modeling combinations of different construction (porous, gas concrete, and pumice bricks), insulation (glass wool, rock wool, sheep wool, PUR, XPS, and EPS) and, roof (tile, asphalt shingle, and green roof) materials. When the outputs obtained from the analyzes were evaluated, the lowest energy consumption values were observed in the combination of pumice brick wall, green roof, and polyurethane insulation materials. In this scenario, the annual fuel consumption per square meter is determined as 30000.6 MJ/m2. On the other hand, the highest energy consumption values were observed in the combination of porous brick wall, tile roof and sheep wool insulation materials. In this scenario, the annual energy consumption per square meter is determined as 30026.6 MJ/m2. Although there are not high numerical differences between the findings, it has been observed that the results give consistent results with the thermal conductivity coefficients of the materials used in the combinations.

New approach to undergraduate quality improvement.

While quality improvement (QI) is an essential component to modern day clinical practice, some foundation doctors fail to engage. This is compounded by a lack of formalised undergraduate QI teaching. We trial an undergraduate active learning workshop and evaluate it using a concurrent triangulation mixed methods design. We constructed a 2-hour interactive QI workshop utilising near-peer educators for third year undergraduate medical students. Our workshop demonstrated an exemplary project and a template featuring evidenced-based QI tools to grasp key concepts. Informal support was provided for student QI projects, undertaken in small peer groups. Utility was assessed using linked pre-and-post event questionnaires with Likert scales, free text thematic analysis and project completion rates. We recruited 74 students to attend our workshops delivered over 3 months. We achieved high event satisfaction and significant improvements on baseline confidence. Free text comments suggested students perceive QI as an important part of the undergraduate curriculum, described barriers to engagement and the value they place on project autonomy. The workshop eased student feelings of anxiety and intimidation regarding change ideas. Nine projects were completed with one winning a poster prize at a regional conference. We demonstrate a popular resource light model that can be scaled up to a variety of centres. Targeting QI teaching at the undergraduate level may be instrumental in developing QI culture in health care systems and address barriers to postgraduate involvement. Our study furthers the understanding of undergraduate students' perspectives of QI and demand for further sessions.

John Trevisa’s Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400

John Trevisa’s Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400

Breaking down barriers - Englische Lektüre in einfacher Sprache

Texts in simple or simplified language have the power to enrich the EFL literary classroom. Since there is a vast number of graded readers or simple originals out there, we should benefit from them and use them to enhance reading in heterogeneous secondary classrooms. This article first outlines the ongoing discussion on the value of graded readers, especially in connection with learners’ perspectives and the aims of reading. The article then explores in detail the category of simplicity and how it manifests in young adult literature. To illustrate the practical use of simple texts, the results of selected extensive reading projects are briefly presented, along with the analysis of an exemplary literature project on Robinson Crusoe. Excerpts from guided interviews with three teachers who all carried out reading projects with graded readers are woven into the article to add experience-based knowledge.

In Praise of Paradox Persistence: Evidence from the Sydney Opera House Project

Organizational paradoxes persist. In their persistence, they resist closure; we demonstrate how, by using an exemplary project, that of the construction of the Sydney Opera House. By analyzing paradoxes encountered in the construction of a notable contemporary architectural project, we discuss how dialogical interactions enable options to emerge in the form of responses that were not previously evident. Engaging paradoxes dialogically requires accepting rather than denying contradictions, meaning that rather than resolving them in favor of one pole or the other, the contradictions remain in play. Monologic interactions—favoring dominant and singular voices, rather than producing consensus—repress dissent, leading to conflict, through suppressing paradox.

Unlearning History: Mark Teh and the Spectres of Baling

Held in December 1955, the Baling talks represented a unique attempt to end the Malayan emergency through a negotiated peace between the British colonial government and the Malayan Communist Party, but it also marked the beginning of the Cold War in Asia. This paper focuses on Mark Teh's long-term investigations, as a researcher and theatre director for the Five Arts Centre in Kuala Lumpur, into this historically significant Cold War event and its representation. Teh's performance Baling is examined as an exemplary collaborative project that expands Western definitions of the documentary theatre, while highlighting the continuing efforts of South East Asian artists to contest cultural regionalism and colonial knowledge systems. Drawing on Brechtian aesthetics and postcolonial theory, Teh appropriates diverse forms of politically engaged art in order to question the role of history and the archive in the solidification of nationalist ideologies and identity binaries in the post-war era.

Cobots in Industry 4.0: A Roadmap for Future Practice Studies on Human–Robot Collaboration

With the vision of Industry 4.0 and cobots, working conditions in industrial settings are starting to change. We review related literature from the fields of human-robot interaction, work and organizational psychology, and sociology of work, as well as an exemplary project case study, and identify research gaps regarding the implications of cobots for work environments. We argue that we are in a transition phase from automation to actual collaboration with robots in manufacturing, and that this will open up a new problem space for investigations, in which a practice lens will be crucial. Based on this, we propose a research agenda for social practice and workplace studies to explore the sociotechnical environment of Industry 4.0 involving cobots at the individual, team, and organizational levels.

Toward an Interdisciplinary Learning Approach to Foster Students’ Outlook of Universally Connected World: Starting from Music and Beyond

Music never exists for its own sake. On the contrary, it connects to the universe including Nature, society, and human beings. Music originated from people’s labor and life and has always reflected human conditions related to temporal and spatial elements. It is our belief that music can function as an educatively meaningful window through which the students explore the world with wider views and deeper thoughts. Based on these beliefs, we postulate an interdisciplinary approach starting from music and beyond it to foster students’ outlook of universally connected world. A conceptual model is conceived by the authors which describes the students’ hierarchical progress possibly gained from purposefully designed learning in an interdisciplinary manner. To further rationalize the feasibility for such a learning approach, we propose a down-to-earth way of thinking that music relates to language in lyrics of songs, bears geo-historical footprints because it originates temporally and spatially. From these clues, a common attribute can be found to thread the whole learning process involving several subjects integrated as a whole, rather than the school subjects learned separately. Given an exemplary project for the students to explore two types of folk songs in the North and the South of China, they are led to find a common attribute focusing on isomorphic direction of move between dialect tones of lyrics and tunes of folk songs, discover the inner connections hidden beneath the surface of present phenomena, and dwell on the significant insights which enable them to act like a thinker. The interdisciplinary learning illustrated as a case project here purports to prompt our colleagues that the educative values of music are far from fully recognized and these values should function to a full degree for the young generation to emancipate the constraints of thinking and develop creative minds.

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: A Flagship and Exemplary Project of the Belt and Road Initiative

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: A Flagship and Exemplary Project of the Belt and Road Initiative

Demonstration Research on the Combined Technology of Aeration and Biofilm in the In Situ Treatment of Black Smelly Water

AbstractThis test represents a water quality improvement exemplary project in relation to a tributary section of the Maozhou River located within the Bao’an District, Shenzhen, China. It uses in si...

Energy Efficiency of a Wooden House

An exemplary construction project developed in a commune close to Constanta, Romania, aims to build wooden houses for families with low income. The study focuses on their energy performance, aiming to determine simple technical solutions for the improvement of energy efficiency. The original house is a duplex ground floor building. The energy assessment was performed in accordance with the Romanian methodology for the original house, for the reference one and for a variant of the original house whose ground floor is insulated. The study showed that appropriate insulation of the ground floor which covers 30% of the thermal envelope area results in a heating energy saving of 17%. Furthermore, the original horizontal duplex was compared to its similar vertical version (ground floor and one storey) which is more compact, at the same heated volume and the same heated area. The reference vertical version saves 3% of heating energy.

Identified themes of interactive visualizations overlayed onto EHR data: an example of improving birth center operating room efficiency.

While electronic health record (EHR) systems store copious amounts of patient data, aggregating those data across patients can be challenging. Visual analytic tools that integrate with EHR systems allow clinicians to gain better insight and understanding into clinical care and management. We report on our experience building Tableau-based visualizations and integrating them into our EHR system. Visual analytic tools were created as part of 12 clinician-initiated quality improvement projects. We built the visual analytic tools in Tableau and linked it within our EPIC environment. We identified 5 visual themes that spanned the various projects. To illustrate these themes, we choose 1 exemplary project which aimed to improve obstetric operating room efficiency. Across our 12 projects, we identified 5 visual themes that are integral to project success: scheduling & optimization (in 11/12 projects); provider assessment (10/12); executive assessment (8/12); patient outcomes (7/12); and control and goal charts (2/12). Many visualizations share common themes. Identification of these themes has allowed our internal team to be more efficient and directed in developing visualizations for future projects. Organizing visual analytics into themes can allow informatics teams to more efficiently provide visual products to clinical collaborators.

Towards a Tangible Philosophy through Design

The combined philosophy and design approach called Philosophy-through-Design (PtD) is proposed using an exemplary project about being-in-the-world in the digital age. PtD is a practical way to do philosophy through designing interventions, and involves various people in the exploration of philosophical concepts. It stems from the overlapping questions found in philosophy and design regarding human-technology interaction. By intertwining both, they benefit from describing, understanding and proposing human-technology interactions to unfold new questions and perspectives. In the exemplary project, being-in-the-world refers to a way of being that is embodied, active, open-ended and situational, based on the phenomenological and embodied theories of Tim Ingold. This concept questions what it means to be human in the digital age and how our lives with technology are built. The first results show the process of weaving together observation, creation and reflection, which presents Philosophy-through-Design as a promising method for designers to practice a tangible philosophy.

Thermoelectric district supply concept including e-mobility

The main objective of the environmental protection is the sustainable energy supply of residential areas. This is made possible by networking several buildings in the same district in order to produce a sustainable, efficient and self-sufficient supply of electrical and thermal energy. The second elementary topic is the conversion from combustion engines to electric mobility, i.e. from thermal to electrical energy. A novel concept of networking different storage facilities, energy producers and consumers will enable a sustainable, self-sufficient energy supply for districts. A special feature of this energy management design is networking of electrical and thermal systems with subsequent integration of electro-mobility into the districts plant system. Energy consumption and energy generation were simulated in an exemplary project of a district containing three new low-energy buildings. The results show that a self-sufficient supply of this district is possible with intelligent control of charging cycles and charging capacity and with the use of a new storage facility for electrical energy - a Compressed Air Energy Storage system. This model concept makes not only a considerable contribution to the electro-mobility conversion, but also enables an energy-efficient and sustainable electrical and thermal supply of the district.

RADAR-Base: Open Source Mobile Health Platform for Collecting, Monitoring, and Analyzing Data Using Sensors, Wearables, and Mobile Devices.

BackgroundWith a wide range of use cases in both research and clinical domains, collecting continuous mobile health (mHealth) streaming data from multiple sources in a secure, highly scalable, and extensible platform is of high interest to the open source mHealth community. The European Union Innovative Medicines Initiative Remote Assessment of Disease and Relapse-Central Nervous System (RADAR-CNS) program is an exemplary project with the requirements to support the collection of high-resolution data at scale; as such, the Remote Assessment of Disease and Relapse (RADAR)-base platform is designed to meet these needs and additionally facilitate a new generation of mHealth projects in this nascent field.ObjectiveWide-bandwidth networks, smartphone penetrance, and wearable sensors offer new possibilities for collecting near-real-time high-resolution datasets from large numbers of participants. The aim of this study was to build a platform that would cater for large-scale data collection for remote monitoring initiatives. Key criteria are around scalability, extensibility, security, and privacy.MethodsRADAR-base is developed as a modular application; the backend is built on a backbone of the highly successful Confluent/Apache Kafka framework for streaming data. To facilitate scaling and ease of deployment, we use Docker containers to package the components of the platform. RADAR-base provides 2 main mobile apps for data collection, a Passive App and an Active App. Other third-Party Apps and sensors are easily integrated into the platform. Management user interfaces to support data collection and enrolment are also provided.ResultsGeneral principles of the platform components and design of RADAR-base are presented here, with examples of the types of data currently being collected from devices used in RADAR-CNS projects: Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy, and Depression cohorts.ConclusionsRADAR-base is a fully functional, remote data collection platform built around Confluent/Apache Kafka and provides off-the-shelf components for projects interested in collecting mHealth datasets at scale.

TECHNIQUES OF GENERATING SCHEDULES FOR THE PROBLEM OF FINANCIAL OPTIMIZATION OF MULTI-STAGE PROJECT

The article presents the problem of scheduling a resource-constrained project with discounted cash flow maximization from the perspective of a contractor. The contractor's expenses (cash outflows for the contractor) are associated with the execution of activities. The client's payments (cash inflows for the contractor) are performed after fulfilling the agreed project stages. The following techniques are suggested for solving the problem: the activity right-shift procedure, the backward scheduling with the optimization of completion dates for the agreed project stages and the modified triple justification technique. The effect of these techniques of generating schedules is illustrated for an exemplary project. Finally, an experimental analysis of the proposed procedures is presented.