Main Door Research Articles

노인복지관의 무장애공간 설계에 관한 연구 -충북지역 소재 노인복지관을 중심으로-

This study is to understand fallible point on the step of design, construction and management, and suggest an improvement measure for the convenience of elderly through the field survey. The field survey on convenience facilities for the disabled of Senior Welfare Center in Chung-Buk Area was performed on approach to main entrance, parking lot, main entrance area, entrance door, passage, stair, elevator and toilet. It was discussed that barrier free design should be considered of main user's group and use pattern. Consequently, important points requiring circumspection at the step of design and construction was suggested.

Design and verification of the shielding around the new Neutron Standards Laboratory (LPN) at CIEMAT

The construction of the new Neutron Standards Laboratory at CIEMAT (Laboratorio de Patrones Neutrónicos) has been finalised and is ready to provide service. The facility is an ∼8 m×8 m×8 m irradiation vault, following the International Organization for Standardization 8529 recommendations. It relies on several neutron sources: a 5-GBq (5.8× 10(8) s(-1)) (252)Cf source and two (241)Am-Be neutron sources (185 and 11.1 GBq). The irradiation point is located 4 m over the ground level and in the geometrical centre of the room. Each neutron source can be moved remotely from its storage position inside a water pool to the irradiation point. Prior to this, an important task to design the neutron shielding and to choose the most appropriate materials has been developed by the Radiological Security Unit and the Ionizing Radiations Metrology Laboratory. MCNPX was chosen to simulate the irradiation facility. With this information the walls were built with a thickness of 125 cm. Special attention was put on the weak points (main door, air conditioning system, etc.) so that the ambient dose outside the facility was below the regulatory limits. Finally, the Radiation Protection Unit carried out a set of measurements in specific points around the installation with an LB6411 neutron monitor and a Reuter-Stokes high-pressure ion chamber to verify experimentally the results of the simulation.

La etapa sevillana de Alonso de Vandelvira (1588-1609): nuevas aportaciones

In the following text we analyze the sevillian stage of Alonso de Vandelvira,stonecutter and architect, between 1588 and 1609, regarding to his works in the “lonja de mercaderes” and the construction of the “Santa Isabel” convent´s main door. In addition we show an interesting set of data for his life and professional practice.

Pianos: Playing, Value, and Augmentation

Pianos: Playing, Value, and Augmentation

Træhuse fra Aalborg 1050-1600 – Planløsninger og indretninger

Træhuse fra Aalborg 1050-1600 – Planløsninger og indretninger

Repairing a Medieval Door

The main doors of medieval buildings or building complexes such as cathedrals or palaces are substantial structures, often weighing as much as one tonne per leaf. A survey of medieval English doors shows several distinct structural types whose different structural actions will be considered. All must develop some form of in plane action through the interaction of their components to transmit their weight back to their supports. However their complexity often allows several different modes of action, each of which will be differently affected by moisture movement within the timber, so that more than one mode of action will often need to be considered. The recent need to repair the early sixteenth century main doors of Trinity College, Cambridge involved the detailed analysis of one of these types whose structure comprised a dense grid of relatively slender muntins and ledges set within a much more substantial frame, carrying decorated boarding and mouldings on the outside face. The intention was that by understanding this structure we would be able to restore the original structural action of the door. In this case earlier interventions and permissions, and the extent of deterioration at the lower hinges, made this impossible. However, the exercise suggests an approach that might be valuable in the restoration of other doors of this type.

Les endocardites infectieuses chez l’enfant africain subsaharien, étude transversale à propos de 19 cas à Ouagadougou au Burkina Faso

IntroductionInfective endocarditis is a transplant of a microorganism on a most often injured endocardium. It is rare in children. This work aimed to determine the frequency of endocarditis of the child, to describe clinical presentation, data from echocardiography, microbiological profile and clinical course. Patients and methodsFrom May 1 2010 to April 30 2011, we consecutively included children received for infective endocarditis in two medical centers in the city of Ouagadougou: Saint-Camille medical center and teaching hospital Yalgado-Ouedraogo. We investigated the functional and general signs and treatment already received. The physical examination looking for an infectious syndrome, pneumonia, heart failure and entrance doors. Blood cultures, blood count, creatinine, blood chemistry, HIV status, electrocardiogram, chest radiography and cardiac Doppler ultrasound were systematic. The diagnosis of the disease was based on Duke criteria. ResultsNineteen endocarditis in children were reported, that is 1.7% of admissions. The average age was 4.7±2.6 years (extremes: 1 and 14). The sex ratio was 1.7 for girls. The clinical presentation was a common infectious syndrome. Impaired general condition and congestive heart failure were present on admission in six cases, respectively. The front door was dental in nine cases (47.4%), skin in four cases (21%) and ENT in three cases (15.8%). A peripheral vein was implicated in one case. In the two other cases, no front door had been found. HIV serology was positive in four cases. As for the blood cultures, they were positive in 13 cases. The germs found were Streptococcus in 10 cases and staphylococcus in three cases. Echocardiography had revealed vegetations in 18 cases. These vegetations were localized on the mitral in nine cases. Multiple locations were found in four cases. Underlying heart disease was dominated by rheumatic valve disease (68.4%), healthy heart forms were found in two cases. Treatment consisted of antibiotics, antipyretic treatment and that of heart failure as appropriate. The evolution was marked by five deaths (26.3%) in an array of septic shock. Death was more important in congenital heart disease. ConclusionInfective endocarditis of the child is common in our practice. The clinical syndrome is common infectious. Streptococcus and Staphylococcus are the two germs found. The main door is dental. Hence, dental care should be promoted for better prevention of infective endocarditis in our context.

Cleaning – on the way to evidence-based knowledge

Cleaning – on the way to evidence-based knowledge

Translating international gender-equality institutional/legal texts

Drafting international institutional/legal texts is one of the most delicate instances of social writing, as it affects our lives at personal, social and collective levels. In an era in which full equality between the sexes is promoted, international legislative and political bodies are especially encouraged to remove any traces of racial, ethnic or sexual discrimination. In this paper my primary aim is to analyse how international gender-equality texts – carefully worded and crafted in English – are translated into Spanish, one of the world’s leading languages and one of the main doors to (international) effective gender equality. Gender-equality institutional texts are highly sensitive, and their translation is not simply a linguistic matter, but rather a socio-cultural and ideological issue. The Spanish versions may be the result, on the one hand, of ideological negotiation and compromise, and on the other hand, of personal struggle to come to terms with the meaning of gender equality. Translating international gender-equality texts is a privileged site to test the various meanings of gender across cultures.

Research on the Air Leakage Law and the Control Technology of the Main Air Doors of the Mine

Air leakage of the main air doors in the mine deteriorates the underground working environment and threatens both the safety production and the physical and mental health of workers. Based on the complex air-leaking problems of the main air doors, this paper has worked out a method by combining SF6 tracer technique and pressure energy test together. In this way, the air leakage law of the main air doors between the intake and the return airway of SHAOYAO coal mine has been determined: the total air leakage of the 10 sets of main air doors amounts to 499. 33m3/min; the amount of air leakage has positive correlation with the differential pressure of air leakage; on the basis of the law of air leakage resistance, the windage resistance of the main air doors has been calculated. According to the air leakage features of the main air doors, this paper also puts forward the control technology, such as spraying polyurethane foam, keeping the tightness of doorframe, etc. After field application, the amount of air leakage has decreased 56.1% on average. And accordingly, the air leakage of the main air doors has been effectively controlled and the underground working environment has been greatly improved.

Bailey at the Museum (review)

Reviewed by: Bailey at the Museum Elizabeth Bush Bliss, Harry . Bailey at the Museum; written and illus. by Harry Bliss. Scholastic, 2012. [32p]. ISBN 978-0-545-23345-3 $16.99 Reviewed from galleys R 3-7 yrs. Bailey, the confident pooch whose grade-school matriculation was chronicled in Bailey, now joins his class on a field trip to the natural history museum. After ditching his designated buddy to splash in the fountain at the main door, Bailey quickly recovers his school manners and rejoins the group as they're greeted by the stodgy docent. Some displays are a little disappointing, but the T. rex bones are everything a dog could desire, and Bailey is up the display in a shot, gnawing on a tailbone. The guard who retrieves Bailey takes a shine to the pooch, and soon guard and dog are sharing lunch and even getting briefly lost together. While the youngest listeners can easily follow Bailey's Curious George-style exploits via the narration line that runs along the top of most spreads, older children and adults recruited for readaloud duty will appreciate the goofy little gems hidden in plain sight: the "Do not dance" caution label on the extension ladder; the author's name "Author" on all reading matter, the "Almost Organic Soy Stuff " on the milk carton; the Greek urn decorated with the stylized dog chasing a squirrel. Less cerebral, perhaps, than his similarly thick-snouted, flop-eared literary cousin Snoopy, Bailey boasts the same pettable charm and the same tendency to share only his thoughts, never his words. Bailey and his long-suffering cartoon classmates will have firmly secured a fan base with this outing. Copyright © 2012 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

유니버설디자인 개념에 의거한 대학내 학생편의시설 평가 및 개선방향에 대한 연구

The student hall and its convenient facilities are hot-core space for various student activities in university campus. It has been for most of the student a place of sweet memories and romance imprinted by a positive image of a cozy atmosphere of unique eating establishments or student hectic activities that used to take place. However, it is questionable whether that facilities are open for all of the students and other users including the handicapped. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate student convenient facilities and to provide an improvement guideline for the wellbeing of students and other users, based on universal design concept. For that purpose, eight universities were selected for an investigation and 81 survey items were developed based on universal design concept; supportive, adaptable, accessible, and safety-oriented design. The analysis found that accessibility to main entry areas, main entry doors, stairs, and handicapped parking were positively evaluated, while information system for handicapped, handicapped public bath, and corridors lacked some notion of supportive and accessible design. Finally the study suggested some useful planning and design guidelines for an extensive and precise application of universal design concept.

Prioritizing Method for Retrofitting Toronto’s Single-Family Housing Stock to Reduce Heating and Cooling Loads

AbstractThis study analyzes simulated secondary (site) energy consumption before and after applying a series of building envelope retrofits to inform a prioritized list of retrofit options tailored to one of four single-family dwelling styles in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Four archetype homes were developed to represent Toronto’s existing urban housing stock: (1) 2-story century home; (2) wartime bungalow; (3) 1970s Ontario Building Code 2-story home; and a (4) 2-story modern house. Base case geometry and inputs were developed from a variety of sources, including a Canadian national database and modeled using the HOT2000 software package. The prioritized retrofit strategy worked toward achieving a target secondary energy intensity of 100 kW⋅h/m2 and included increasing insulation levels in the main walls, foundation walls, slab, and ceiling, replacing windows and doors, and air sealing to various degrees. Results showed the retrofit strategies affected each archetype differently, leading to the conclusion ...

Birch pollen allergen exposure: profiles, sources and characteristics. Settled dust and aeroallergens in indoor and outdoor environments of Finnish homes

The main source for indoor birch pollen (BP) allergens is outdoor particles, which are carried indoors mainly by people or pets and less likely via open windows and doors. So far, BP allergens have been shown by ELISA in the indoor air or in the settled dust, but these techniques have not enabled a reliable analysis of the respirable-sized fraction of air particles allergic subjects are exposed to. The aims of this study were to measure the airborne personal BP allergen exposure indoors and outdoors, to study the particle size of inhaled BP allergens and to analyse the allergen concentration of settled dust in relation to personal airborne allergen load. The air samples were collected before, during and after the BP season using a nasal air sampler, and the samples of settled dust were collected by a vacuum cleaner with a special collection device. BP allergens collected by nasal samplers were detected by the HALOgen immunoassay using birch pollen specific human IgE and rabbit IgG antibodies to BP, and the results were compared to IgG-ELISA used for detecting BP allergens in indoor settled dust and outdoor air. The highest concentrations of BP antigenic activity in settled dust were in the entrance corridor (next to the main front door) decreasing substantially from outdoors to indoors. Significant personal exposure to the airborne particles containing BP allergens outdoors was shown by the HALOgen immunostaining, before, during and after the BP season. During the BP season, the large, outdoor airborne particles carrying BP allergens were composed mainly of the pollen grains (75%). However, outside the pollen season, only a few large particles with stained (allergen) halos were found, and only 50% of those were pollen grains. In the indoor air, stained large and small particles appeared mainly during the pollen season and remained detectable until the end of the 6-week follow-up period. The results of the indoor settled dust BP antigenic activity detected by IgG-ELISA showed a good correlation with those of the HALOgen immunostaining. Human IgE detected BP grains with halos containing BP allergens from indoor air during the pollen season but none after the season. Higher sensitivity of the HALOgen™ assay was obtained using rabbit IgG antiserum, which revealed both small (5–20 μm) and large (>20 μm) particles with halos both before, during, and outside the peak BP season. Therefore, it is unlikely that the birch allergy symptoms indoors, after the pollen season, would be due to intact airborne pollen grains, but rather are due to other small particles carrying airborne BP allergens. A probable source of these particles is settled dust, which has been carried indoors by people or pets.

الخط الكوفي الهندسي الشكل حلية زخرفية بجامع البرديني بالقاهرة "دراسة تحليلية مقارنة" (Geometric Kufic Script A Decorative Ornament in al-Bardini Mosque in Cairo ‘A Comparative Analysis Study’)

The Mosque of al-Khawaja Karim al-Din ibn Ahmad al-Bardini al-Shafei (1025-1038 AH/1616-1629 CE) monument no. 201, Daudi street, (previously Darb al-Fawakhir), north of Queen Safeya Mosque, Darb al-Ahmar, south of Cairo, in Mamluk style and its layout comprises a lounge perpendicular to it from the south-east is the Qibla Iwan (Mecca direction locator), with a curtain/drape on the inner left-side of its main door. It is perpendicular north- west to the lounge. The sheath is marble inlaid with mother-of-pearl in different areas, decorated with rectangular fillings including 12 star-shaped plates, and other various geometric motifs. This paper deals with the geometric kufic script in the Mosque. The author reads each inscription, carefully analyzes it, measures it, and compares it to other similar samples from previous historical periods. (Please note that this article is in Arabic)

Three Doors to Spiritual Reflection: Ethnographic Research on the Role of Emotion, Images, and Sacred Texts in Spiritual Reflection Done by Non-Chaplaincy Health Care Professionals

This is an ethnographic study exploring the role of emotion, images, and sacred texts in the spiritual reflection of non-chaplaincy health care professionals who offer spiritual care to their patients. Purposeful sampling of 20 health care professionals was employed. These non-chaplaincy professionals were interviewed and the researchers also kept field notes on the cultures in which they worked. Both interviews and field notes were transcribed and analyzed using the constant comparative method of data analysis. Findings indicate that emotion and images are the main doors that these professionals use to reflect spiritually on their practice of spiritual care. Sacred texts are the third door. Outcomes of the use of feelings and emotions in spiritual reflection are a deeper sense of peace, grounding and letting go, that is, transformation. Recommendations for collaboration with chaplains and further research are offered.

Estatismo y dinamismo de la terminología jurídica en el ámbito de los documentos de transmisión de bienes

This article argues the need to resort to categories or basic cognitive schemata from the field of law in order to frame and identify private documents for the transfer of property (documents for the transfer of property and title). The objective is to better understand their main cognitive and terminological properties, thus facilitating the interpretation of their contents. The study is grounded in a multi-faceted theory of terminology in which terms and other related concepts (such as terminological nodes and the conceptual structure of a text) are understood via the frameworks of different sciences. In our case cognitive science applied to law represents the main access door to terms and the conceptual structure of texts. However, we also study their linguistic expression within texts and do this using examples from Civil Law and Common Law. Finally, our approach allows to see how a static conceptual structure evolves towards several types of documents, new rights in-rem, new transferable rights and, generally speaking, new realities and interpretations within the field of transfer and disposition of property.

Active site gating and substrate specificity of butyrylcholinesterase and acetylcholinesterase: insights from molecular dynamics simulations.

Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) are highly homologous proteins with distinct substrate preferences. In this study we compared the active sites of monomers and tetramers of human BChE and human AChE after performing molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in water-solvated systems. By comparing the conformational dynamics of gating residues of AChE and BChE, we found that the gating mechanisms of the main door of AChE and BChE are responsible for their different substrate specificities. Our simulation of the tetramers of AChE and BChE indicates that both enzymes could have two dysfunctional active sites due to their restricted accessibility to substrates. The further study on catalytic mechanisms of multiple forms of AChE and BChE would benefit from our comparison of the active sites of the monomers and tetramers of both enzymes.

Residential energy efficiency programs, retrofit choices and greenhouse gas emissions savings: a decade of energy efficiency improvements in Waterloo Region, Canada

SUMMARY Since 1999, the Residential Energy Efficiency Project, through Green Communities Canada, has been a delivery agent for EnerGuide for Houses and ecoENERGY programs in the Waterloo Region. This research analyzed 10,208 initial and 2,383 final evaluations made by the Residential Energy Efficiency Project between May 1999 and February 2009 to understand what energy efficiency improvements homeowners have made over time. Because of changes to federal and provincial programs, the data are analyzed under four main periods: the EnerGuide program with no financial incentives (1999 to 2003), the EnerGuide program with financial incentives based on performance (2003 to April 2006), no official program (April 2006 to April 2007), and the ecoENERGY program with financial incentives by measure (April 2007 to February 2009). Participating households were divided into cohorts associated with each of these periods. For each of these cohorts, the impact of retrofit changes was assessed as the amount of energy and greenhouse gas emissions saved. It was also assessed whether homeowners treated the ‘house as a system’, that is, whether they made multiple energy efficiency changes (e.g., increasing insulation in the ceiling, foundation or main walls, upgrading windows and doors, air sealing, improving heating, ventilation, air conditioning, or domestic water heating systems) or focused on a single change associated with large energy savings, such as changing their furnace. The findings show that recommended and achieved energy and greenhouse gas emissions savings differed across cohorts, and that achieved savings were generally less than recommended. The final cohort of homeowners who achieved major energy savings was twice as likely (25%) to take the single action of replacing the furnace as during earlier periods. Changes to furnaces were associated with higher levels of energy savings, but overall, 85% of the homes which achieved the highest levels of savings made multiple changes, thereby adopting the ‘house as a system’ approach to energy efficiency improvements. Finally, homeowners were less likely to make improvements to the building envelope, and these improvements were generally less extensive than the identified technical potential for improvement. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Las migraciones de tránsito: Estrecho de Gibraltar vs Canal de Sicilia

En este artículo se analizan los flujos migratorios hacia Italia y España generados por los inmigrantes ilegales procedentes de África Mediterráneo y de África Subsahariana. La evolución de estos flujos se inicia a partir del año 1970 y ha contribuido a transformar estos dos países, actualmente, en las áreas geográficas más comprometidas en cuanto respecta la llegada de inmigrantes ilegales por vía marítima. Sin embargo, la proximidad geográfica con respecto al continente africano y un «camino histórico» similar son los factores de atracción más importantes para los inmigrantes procedentes, principalmente, de las orillas sur del Mediterráneo. En este sentido, el Estrecho de Gibraltar, para lo que se refiere a España, y el Canal de Sicilia, para lo que se refiere a Italia, representan los dos contextos geográficos por los cuales los inmigrantes realizan su proyecto migratorio hacia Europa. El presente artículo analiza los diferentes aspectos del fenómeno migratorio –como las rutas seguidas y las embarcaciones utilizadas durante el viaje, la nacionalidad de proveniencia de los ilegales y la presencia de los MENAS– focalizando atención a las Islas Canarias (caso español) y a la isla de Lampedusa (caso italiano) siendo consideradas las dos principales puertas de ingreso de los inmigrantes.