Landmark Project Research Articles

The LANDMARK project: providing summaries of key papers that have shaped urological practice.

The LANDMARK project: providing summaries of key papers that have shaped urological practice.

Flood Mitigation in Indonesia

A landmark project to provide flood mitigation for Jakarta receives the Environmental Contribution of the Year accolade at the 2024 Pump Industry Awards

Advancing Digital Architecture in the Metaverse: A Case Study of Pini Group’s Helmallery

This paper provides a comprehensive exploration of the collaboration between Pini Group and Helm in creating the "Helmallery" within Decentraland, a landmark project that marks a significant advancement in the integration of virtual and physical architectural practices. This study analyzes the technical and architectural challenges, solutions, and innovations involved in constructing a multi-storey virtual environment tailored for cultural, artistic, and corporate engagements. By focusing on the advanced deployment of blockchain technology for secure digital asset management and interactive solutions, the paper outlines how these technologies have been harnessed to enhance user experience and engagement within the metaverse. Furthermore, it discusses the broader implications of such integrations, illustrating the potential for virtual environments to revolutionize traditional concepts of space, interaction, and community in digital ecosystems. The Helmallery project serves as a pivotal case study for future developments in virtual architecture for Pini Group, providing valuable insights into the complexities of designing and implementing functional and immersive virtual spaces that align with modern technological capabilities and user expectations.

The Dissemination and Development of Chinese Medicine in Pakistan

Abstract The article focuses on the dissemination and development of Chinese medicine in Pakistan. Religious records show that Chinese medicine was introduced to Pakistan as early as 1,400 years ago, while Hijama (Chinese cupping) was used by Prophet Hazrat Muhammad to cure different types of diseases. Exchanges and cooperations between China and Pakistan continue to the present day. Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy, cupping therapy and herbal medicine are practiced with significant merits in today’s Pakistan. In the future, with the proposal of the Belt and Road Initiative and the landmark project of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, Chinese medicine can be strengthened through cooperations at the herbal medicine trade level, the research and development level, the educational level, and the social association level.

Fat in Four Cultures: A Global Ethnography of Weight By CindiStrutz Sreetharan, AlexandraBrewis, JessicaHardin, SarahTrainer, and AmberWutich. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press. 2021. pp. 222.

Medical Anthropology QuarterlyEarly View BOOK REVIEW Fat in Four Cultures: A Global Ethnography of Weight By Cindi Strutz Sreetharan, Alexandra Brewis, Jessica Hardin, Sarah Trainer, and Amber Wutich. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press. 2021. pp. 222. Arianna Huhn, Corresponding Author Arianna Huhn [email protected] orcid.org/0009-0000-7647-4788 California State University, San Bernardino Arianna Huhn, California State University, Department of Anthropology, San Bernardino, California, USA. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Arianna Huhn, Corresponding Author Arianna Huhn [email protected] orcid.org/0009-0000-7647-4788 California State University, San Bernardino Arianna Huhn, California State University, Department of Anthropology, San Bernardino, California, USA. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 19 June 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12775Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. REFERENCES About the Series. Nd. University of Toronto Press. http://www.utpteachingculture.com/about-the-series/. Accessed 5/11/2023. Jordan, Brigitte. 1978. Birth in Four Cultures: A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States. Montreal: Eden Press Women's Publications. LeVine, Robert A. 2010. “The Six Cultures Study: Prologue to a History of a Landmark Project” in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 41(4): 513– 521. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue ReferencesRelatedInformation

Central Asia-West Asia-South Asia Connectivity Building an Upgraded Version of the CPEC

The world is undergoing profound changes unprecedented in a century, jointly building the Belt and Road is an important guarantee for maintaining global stability and development in response to profound changes, and building a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other is a strategic choice to respond to the changes in the complex situations. With the in-depth advancement of the BRI, Xinjiang has actively served and integrated into the new development pattern, becoming a hub node to build a domestic and international dual cycle facing Eurasia. As the flagship project of the BRI and the landmark project of the rise of land power in the post-global era, the CPEC is of great strategic significance in responding to profound changes and building a new development pattern. With the stability of Central Asia, West Asia, and South Asia, we have taken the initiative to accelerate regional connectivity and it is both necessary and feasible to build an upgraded version of the CPEC.

The Big Rainbow Knit: Revisiting Craftivist Practices through Place-Based Making

The Big Rainbow Knit is a project informed and influenced by craftivist practices and culminated in the yarn bombing of Huddersfield train station by local, national and international communities of knitters in June 2021. As a landmark project within the WOVEN in Kirklees bi-annual festival, it became an important force for social cohesion in a Covid-19 context. This article introduces The Big Rainbow Knit as a specific case study within the wider context of Kirklees Council’s approach to place-based making. 1 As a textile festival WOVEN in Kirklees is made with, by and for local communities. We firstly address place-based making approaches in the contexts of craftivism and community practice with the aim of secondly, considering how The Big Rainbow Knit is a manifestation of co-creative participation in the spirit of social cohesion. Thirdly, we consider how the concept of the “glocal” is a means through which to reflect on the links between online and offline platforms. We argue that the hybrid between near and far in a “glocal” milieu allows for a range of voices (active knitters, audiences as recipients of yarn bombing activities and community group engagements with The Big Rainbow Knit) to become more visible as key agents in a place-based process. Collectively, these voices, gathered through a range of feedback mechanisms, have helped to change perceptions and attitudes toward knitting in a local authority context and to offer new insights into the ways in which the making-agency of knit can acquire value through place-based cultural development.

Curtain of Glass – Textured by Stone

The new World Trade Center site was rebuilt after 9/11 comprising seven mayor skyscrapers around the memorial site and the 9/11 museum. Between WTC 2 and WTC 3, Santiago Calatrava’s Oculus Station spans its wings in the NY air while finally, the complex is completed by the “The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center”. This building sets a one-in-a-kind visual appearance to the area. Its four-sided, 42 m tall, even facade is made from 4736 equal-sized insulated glass panes. More specifically, the architectural vision is to create a marble stone front covered with glass which results in a stone-glass laminate as a part of an insulated glass unit. The marble shows a distinguished white face with crisp black veining. Each of the four elevations of the building impresses with a perfect symmetry and veins touching at the vertical center line. So, the design team at Josef Gartner was challenged to set-up a logistics chain from quarry in Portugal where the stone panels were cut and catalogued to glass production of laminated glass in France and IGUs in Germany and assembly of curtain wall mega-panels at Gartner in Germany up to the site in Lower Manhattan. Our in-house logistics concept, customized for this project, guarantees that each individual piece of stone finds its correct and unique spot defined by the architect on the 7,000 m2 surface – a large-scale game of “Matching Pairs”. The steel base building provides a cantilevering roof that holds 128 hot-rolled steel mullions. Each 36 m in length with one intermediate lateral support only. This allows the visitor to experience a clear and unobstructed view along the transom-free facade elements that carry the translucent stone-wall. During the day, it appears white from the outside and shines with an amber-glow during the night when the interior space is illuminated. We show the use of a novel stone-glass product that is exposed to a variety of requirements. The logistics chain is described from quarry to site making sure that the architectural and economical demand is met along the whole process. Finally, the team connects all branches in facade design using stone, aluminum, glass and architectural exposed structural steel assembled in one landmark project.

A Self-Localization Method Using a Genetic Algorithm Considered Kidnapped Problem

The landmark project RoboCup is a well-known international robotics challenge that aims to advance robotics and AI research, with the end goal of developing robots capable of playing a game of soccer autonomously. Self-localization is one of the important elements for an autonomous soccer playing robot because the position information of the robot becomes a determinant of strategic behavior and cooperative operation. Although local searching is accurate, the lack of global searching results in the kidnapped robot problem. Thus, we propose a self-localization method that generates the searching space based on model-based matching using information regarding the white lines on the soccer field. The robot’s position is recognized by optimizing the fitness function using a genetic algorithm (GA). In this report, we adjust the parameter set of the GA on the basis of preliminary experiments and evaluate the accuracy of the proposed self-localization method. We verified that the proposed method enables real-time reversion to correct the position from the kidnapped position using the global/local searching ability of the GA.

BRI-Analysis of the East-Coast Rail Line (ECRL) in Malaysia

In recent years, China has put forward the Belt and Road Initiative and conducted cooperation with neighboring countries in various aspects. This paper will focus on the analysis of ECRL in which China participates in cooperative construction. Due to financing difficulties and political problems in Malaysia, the project took a long time to negotiate. At the same time, the Malaysian media and people have maintained a positive attitude towards the project because it will bring long-term benefits to both China and Malaysia's political and economic environment. There are also some difficulties in the implementation of this project, which are similar to other projects that China has cooperated with. However, these difficulties can be solved by putting forward countermeasures. Therefore, it reveals that Malaysia must strive to solve internal problems such as inefficiency, low productivity, and corruption. Two countries should unite their minds and strengthen their confidence to build the ECRL into a landmark project of China-Overseas railways. Only in this way can the two countries take the opportunity of the Belt and Road Initiative to promote their cooperative relations and further strengthen economic exchanges between countries.

Educating hypocrisy: private–public partnerships and management of multicultural projects in Taiwan

ABSTRACT The years following the end of martial law and the democratization of Taiwan have been marked by sizable political and social reform. In the interests of increasing social participation and decreasing direct state control of economic and social development programs, public–private partnerships (PPP) have been emphasized as the primary means to provide public services. Through an investigation into the functioning of a landmark project in the newest wave of educational reform orientated toward the localization and indigenization of elementary school educational materials, this paper will investigate the role that private entities have taken in the provision of education services. The extent that the privatization of education services serves to meet the goals and standards of Indigenous education will be discussed using a theoretical framework developed through the application of Tribal Critical Race Theory and Culturally Responsive Schooling. Semi-structured interviews with administrators, teachers, artists, and editors tasked with developing Indigenous centered learning materials problematize and question the procedural norms, conflicts of interest, and structural bias exacerbated by the increased presence of private entities. Through the experiences and counter narratives of participants, the issues of local alienation, limited consultation, and restricted Indigenous participation are revealed to be core issues in promoting Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, tackling racism, and engaging with Indigenous epistemologies. This rare evaluation of the means by which multicultural education projects are realized by market-based forces acts to highlight the obstacles and practical limitations of PPP in the provision of essential public services in Indigenous areas.

General Scheme and Key Technology of Long March 5 Launch Vehicle

Long March 5 (LM-5) is a new generation of heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by China. It has successfully completed the first Mars exploration of China and the 3rd phase of China lunar exploration program of Chang’E 5 (CE-5). LM-5 experienced 30 years of key technology research and engineering development. During this period, a lot of engineering technical problems were conquered, rich experience in the development of large cryogenic launch vehicle was accumulated, and the development of the new generation launch vehicle system was constructed. The research capability and foundation of carrier rockets have been greatly improved. This paper describes the development background of LM-5. Based on the overall rocket technical scheme and technical innovation, this paper discusses the development thinking of the rocket, the modular configuration scheme, the overall optimization design technology of the whole rocket and the structure technology of the large diameter and large concentrated load rocket body, and probes into the key technical problems of the LM-5 for the deep space exploration mission, specifically, the orbit design and optimization technology for deep space exploration mission, and narrow window multi-orbit launch technology. LM-5 is a landmark project of China’s new generation of launch vehicle, representing the highest level of launch vehicle technology of China, and is a significant symbol for China’s transformation from a major player in space to major power in space.

Analysis on the Trading Path of Carbon Emission Rights of Village-level Photovoltaic Poverty Alleviation Power Stations in China

Photovoltaic poverty alleviation is a pioneering initiative in the organic combination of China’s poverty alleviation and new energy development. As a landmark project of China’s targeted poverty alleviation, it is characterized with rapid effects, steady profits, precise poverty alleviation and environmental-friendliness. Developing the photovoltaic poverty alleviation power station project into a greenhouse gas emission reduction project that meets the national requirements is not only an innovative measure to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, and continuously promote rural revitalization, but also an effective way to practice green and low-carbon development and promote “Carbon Peak•Carbon Neutrality”. Based on the summaries and analysis of the development of China’s photovoltaic poverty alleviation and carbon trading market and the situation of carbon emission trading pilot, this paper sorts out the relevant policies of poverty alleviation’s participation in carbon trading, studies the participation mode and trading process of village-level photovoltaic poverty alleviation power station, scientifically calculates the additional economic benefits brought by Chinese Certified Emission Reduction (CCER) trading for village-level photovoltaic poverty alleviation power station, and puts forward some policy recommendations on rationally optimizing carbon trading procedures and improving work efficiency. Keywords: Photovoltaic poverty alleviation, Carbon market, Carbon trading, Implementation path DOI: 10.7176/PPAR/11-5-01 Publication date: June 30 th 2021

Life Course Effects of the Lanham Preschools: What the First Government Preschool Effort Can Tell Us About Universal Early Care and Education Today

We examine the effects WWII Lanham Act Nursery Schools (LNS) on high school and young adult educational and labor outcomes of participants in the landmark Project Talent (PT) study. All PT places that received funding for LNS schools and all PT places that did not were identified by examining program records and contemporaneous newspaper accounts. Focusing on students who in 1960 attended high school in the same city or town where they were born, we estimate intent to treat effects of access to LNS preschool on high school academic and social emotional outcomes and on educational attainment and labor outcomes at five and eleven years following high school graduation. Preschool boosts high school academic outcomes for men and (in at least one specification) income 11 years after high school graduation. For women, preschool exposure had a negative effect on some social emotional outcomes in high school. We found no or inconsistent effects for other outcomes. The Lanham experience demonstrates that even with the less sophisticated understanding of child development of the early 1940s, the first universal, government-funded preschool program had positive impacts on boys’ outcomes at least through high school. Given today’s expanded understanding of child development and focus on the quality of early care and education programming, these findings provide some optimism as communities, states, and the federal government contemplate expanding funding for today’s early learning environments.

Becoming the North Karelia Project: The Shaping of an Iconic Community Health Intervention in Finland (1970–1977)

Summary The article describes the shaping of an iconic public health intervention, the North Karelia Project (NKP) in Finland in the 1970s. NKP is widely hailed as a landmark project, contributing significantly to the development of the community approach to chronic disease prevention. This approach targets comprehensively a specified health problem in a circumscribed area among the whole population, not only high-risk individuals. Based on published and archival material as well as interviews with a few key actors, the article shows how two interlinked tensions shaped the project: the first between rigorous scientific inquiry and politically motivated practical healthcare development in a disadvantaged area and the second between a broad community approach and a focus on individualised health behaviour. These tensions played out in the planning, funding and administrative structure of NKP, were the key source of criticism of it and have affected the possibilities to evaluate its results.

Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Registry: A landmark project for citizen science

Since its foundation in 1959, the Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Society (Swiss MS Society) has been supporting people living with multiple sclerosis (MS) in their daily lives. The organisation also provides funding for scientific research and serves as an independent platform for information related to MS. The quest to better understand MS and ultimately find its cure has always been a driver for innovation. Seizing the opportunities created by the emergence of data-driven medicine, the Swiss MS Society created the Swiss MS Registry – the first health registry in Switzerland owned exclusively by a patient organisation.

The China-Saudi Arabia (Jizan) Industrial Park under the Belt and Road Initiative

Saudi Arabia is the largest economy in West Asia and North Africa which plays an important role in politics, economy and other fields in the Middle East and the whole world. Since 2016, high-level visits between China and Saudi Arabia are more frequent. China and Saudi Arabia have established a comprehensive strategic partnership and established a comprehensive, high-level and institutional cooperation platform – the China Saudi high-level joint committee. Under the overall coordination of this mechanism, the economic and trade cooperation between China and Saudi Arabia, which focuses on energy sources, industrial cooperation, trade and investment is in an unprecedented period of strategic opportunities. The China-Saudi Arabia (Jizan) Industrial Park is a major investment project to deepen production capacity cooperation between China and Saudi Arabia. At present, it has made positive progress in communication and coordination mechanisms, infrastructure construction and introduction of enterprises into the park. Therefore, this paper argues that under the guidance of the Belt and Road Initiative, China and Saudi Arabia should accelerate the docking of development strategies, facilitate the construction of overseas industrial parks such as the Jizan Industrial Park, attract more investment of manufacturing enterprises from China and third market countries, endeavour to build the Jizan Industrial Park as a landmark project of practical cooperation between China and Saudi Arabia, boost the implementation of Saudi Arabia’s ‘Vision 2030’, and promote the industrialization process of Arab countries.

Assessing multifunctionality of agricultural soils: Reducing the biodiversity trade‐off

AbstractSoils are indispensable for the provision of several functions. Agricultural intensification and its focus on increasing primary productivity (PP) poses a threat to soil quality, due to increases in nutrient loads, greenhouse gas emissions and declining biodiversity. The EU Horizon 2020 Landmark project has developed multi‐criteria decision models to assess five soil functions: PP, nutrient cycling (NC), soil biodiversity and habitat provision (B‐HP), climate mitigation and water regulation, simultaneously in agricultural fields. Using these algorithms, we evaluated the supply of PP, NC and B‐HP of 31 grasslands and 21 croplands as low, medium or high. The multi‐criteria decision models showed that 38% of the farms had a medium to high supply of all three soil functions, whereas only one cropland had a high supply for all three. Forty‐eight per cent of the farms were characterized by a high supply of PP and NC. We observed a clear trade‐off between these two functions and B‐HP. Multivariate statistical analyses indicated that higher organic inputs combined with a lower mineral fertilization concur with higher biodiversity scores while maintaining a medium delivery of PP and NC. Additionally, we compared the outputs of the model predictions to independent variables that served as proxies for the soil functions and found: (a) croplands (but not grasslands) with high PP had a higher standardized yield than those with medium PP; (b) grasslands (but not croplands) with high NC had a significantly lower fungal to bacterial biomass ratio, suggesting faster decomposition channels; and (c) a positive though non‐significant trend between B‐HP score and rank according to soil invertebrate biodiversity. These comparisons suggest a successful upscaling of the models from field to farm level. Our study highlights the need for systematic collection of management‐related data for the assessment of soil functions. Multifunctionality can be achieved in agricultural soils; however, without specifically managing for it, biodiversity might come at a loss.Highlights We study how well soils can provide primary productivity, nutrient cycling and biodiversity. We study trade‐offs and synergies among soil functions, as well as the drivers of these relationships. Soil biodiversity is largely sacrificed for primary productivity and nutrient cycling Changes in pesticide and fertilizer management can increase soil multifunctionality.

THE PROBLEMS OF DESIGNING: A PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL DISCOURSE

The article analyses theoretically the modern psychological and pedagogical researches on designing. The scientific research on this problem in psychology and pedagogy were systematized and put into the chronological order; the stages of dissemination of the ideas on designing, formation and development of psychological designing / self- designing and pedagogical designing were characterized. The general and specific ideas about these phenomena in each subject area are analyzed; the content and functional attributes of designing and self-designing, the features of psychological and pedagogical designing are defined. The pedagogical designing is specific because of: its focus on the development of innovative pedagogical systems of different scales, the development of educational environment and an educational space, on processes (educational, pedagogical, educational), the content of education and its forms; it basing on the principles of human priorities, self-development of the designed systems, characterized by dynamism, completeness, constructive integrity, and the possibility to be assessed; corresponding documenting with description of the history of creation and operations of designated objects; its research, analytical, prognostic, transformative, constructive functions; its representation with structural and dynamic components - forecasting, modeling, development, implementation, generalization of results. The psychological designing is characterized by the dialectical unity of designing with the aim to create a project for the development of another person (them) and to self-designing, focused on ideal modeling of oneself and one’s own development. Psychological designing is embodied not only in the projects of personality development, but also in narratives, myths, legends about oneself, in personal self-concepts and self-projects. The structural and dynamic components / stages of self-designing are: a proto-project, a landmark project, an event project, a life project, a project to change personal characteristics. The trends in the development of ideas about the content and dynamic patterns of designing as a special human activity are identified. There is a whole range of “measurements” of this phenomenon and its psychological modes in time and space: “individual – social”, “functional – intentional”, “unconscious – conscious” as a basis for multidimensional modeling. The prospects for the further development of designing and designing culture in psychology and education are determined in the direction of designing, reflecting meta-modern trends with the synthesis of designing and self-designing on the psychological and pedagogical planes. &nbsp

A Master of Public Health with a Concentration in Mass Gatherings Health.

IntroductionThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is in a unique position and different from other nations that periodically host an event, such as the World Cup or the Olympics. The KSA is faced annually with millions of pilgrims coming from around the world to participate in the Hajj, Umrah, and Ziarah rituals. Continuously hosting such huge mass gatherings poses overwhelming challenges to the Saudi healthcare system. Consequently, an additional specialized cadre of qualified public health personnel is needed. The purpose of this article is to describe the establishment of an academic public health program that addresses this need.Materials & MethodsIn response to the dire need for public health specialists, a landmark project was launched in 2013 at Alfaisal University (AU). The project aimed to establish a Master of Public Health (MPH) program with a concentration in the health aspects of mass gatherings. The MPH program was created in collaboration with the United States-based Partners HealthCare International (PHI), the Saudi Global Center for Mass Gatherings Medicine (GCMGM) at the Ministry of Health (MOH), the Ministry of Education (MOE), and the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah (MOHU). A needs assessment was conducted to help in the program development. The needs assessment drew on the unpublished findings of an institutional review board (IRB)-approved anonymous market survey that was administered to prospective students of the MPH program.ResultsThe needs assessment study revealed the need for an MPH program with concentrations in mass gatherings health, health policy and management, and biostatistics and epidemiology. Consequently, we designed an MPH program to include these three concentrations. In particular, the mass gatherings health concentration aimed at preparing qualified public health specialists to help manage risks to the Saudi public health system, to analyze health data, and to recommend policies associated with the continuous mass gatherings events. Challenges to program development included working with multiple governmental agencies, absence of a frame of reference to develop a program curriculum, a lack of qualified faculty, lengthy and tedious government approval procedures, and inadequate funding. After obtaining the required approvals, the MPH program with a concentration in mass gatherings health was inaugurated in the fall of 2016. This program is accredited by the Saudi government to prepare public health specialists trained and locally certified in mass gatherings health issues.ConclusionsThe public health experts of the AU have established what may be the first MPH program with a concentration in mass gatherings health. The main challenges to program development were identified, and appropriate actions to meet these challenges were taken. This innovative MPH produces certified specialists equipped with the analytical and policy-making tools necessary to continuously monitor and improve the public health aspects of mass gatherings. Besides, the program provides a frame of reference for the development of unique public health programs, not only in the KSA but worldwide.