Main Venue Research Articles

Retrofit Design and Analysis of Air Conditioning System in the Main Venue of Dushu Lake Gymnasium

Retrofit Design and Analysis of Air Conditioning System in the Main Venue of Dushu Lake Gymnasium

Kompiuteriniai žaidimai ir istorinės atminties politika: karo atmintis JAV ir Rusijos žaidimuose

[only abstract in English; full article and abstract in Lithuanian]
 The video game industry has been growing rapidly in the recent years, reaching almost 2 billion players worldwide and sometimes even exceeding profits and other numbers put up by such entertainment juggernauts as the Hollywood. It is safe to say that video-games have become an integral part of contemporary popculture, contributing to the formation of attitudes, especially among younger audiences (18–35 years old). This is especially poignant in the case of historical games, which have always been popular and have been representing one or another version of historical narration for years.
 Nevertheless, despite the immense popularity of videogames and their growing presence within contemporary culture, historians, political and social scientists have been often neglecting video game studies primarily because of its infancy and inadequacy to provide space for political reflection and argumentation. According to the skeptics, video games can only reflect the current tendencies within the order of neoliberalism prevailing in the world. However, the article contradicts this by proposing to treat this situation as an opportunity instead of an excuse – the fact that video games can reflect the injustices of today’s world without providing criticism should act as a catalyst for further studies of political argumentation within the medium of video games, which in turn would contribute to further theorizations on the critical potential of video games in connection to politics. This is deemed especially important in the case of reconstructing historical narratives in the most popular video games, the majority of which focus on various historical instances of war. As a result, the first part of the article presents an analysis on both the potential and limitations of videogames to act as spaces for the commemoration of historical memory. The second part aims to ground the theoretical implications by considering to examples of video game industries – the United States and Russia – and techniques as well as directions that they employ in reconstructing the popular prosthetic memory related to wars in which these countries had participated.
 The article concludes with the idea that historical games can indeed act as a space for producing specific historical narratives oriented toward the popular memory. When it comes to American games, they mostly focus on presenting more personal stories regarding the heroic and virtuous American soldiers during a given War. This, supplemented by a diminished or exaggerated account of actions taken by other allies (as well as enemies) aims at whitewashing the American historical memory. Among the Russian games, however, personal identification through emotional storybuilding is much less pronounced. Its place is taken by focusing on the technological domination and de-personalized stories of bravery employed by the Russians and Soviets.
 To conclude, the article once again calls for more engagement with the medium of videogames from the side of social and political science as well as history. Video games have quickly become one of the main venues for younger demographic groups to get their first pieces of knowledge regarding history, politics, gender and other topics. The importance of this is understood not only by American but by Russian officials as well, which demands more research on the power of games and their critical potential. This engagement would allow for less political manipulation (especially in the case of historical games) and for a better understanding and fulfillment of the potential of video games.

Turkish Bath Culture in Hungary

Abstract Just like at the Romans, the bath was the main venue of everyday life for the Turkish people as well. Besides exchanging recipes, women gave advice to each other, the men disputed important issues and often kept pre arranged marriages here. You were only allowed to pray, when you were sufficiently cleaned. Of course, it is not insignificant that the construction of baths was in many cases intended to promote material well-being, as they were usually built by senior executives who influenced the satisfaction of their followers in a very positive direction. Generally speaking, these baths were free for the reasons mentioned above, indicating to everyone that the builder was a wealthy man.

The impact of different obstacles on crowd dynamics

Modification of space through the installation of obstacles is one way to control the flow of human crowds. Carefully placed obstacles coupled with existing architectural structures can be used to improve crowd safety at mass gatherings. Although this concept is well understood in the field of crowd dynamics, a systematic approach geared towards understanding how different types and shapes of obstacles affect pedestrian movement remains lacking in literature. In this study, we introduce obstacles that are built from different combinations of columns and barriers and show how they influence pedestrian movement. We compare pedestrian dynamics on four base scenarios of crowd interactions namely: unidirectional, bidirectional, merging, and intersecting, and three shape areas: straight corridor, T-junction and an intersection. In order to make sense of these base cases in the context of real-world spaces, we examine the base cases in the context of the Mahakal Temple, the main venue where a huge number of pilgrims gather annually for the Kumbh Mela Festival in India. We look at how the presence of different obstacles affect pedestrian dynamics. Using the PULSE simulation environment, we show that it is possible to enhance pedestrian flow by using a line of barriers, a column, and sometimes even by narrowing the space of movement in corridors, corners, intersections, and t-junctions, while zigzag obstacles, on the other hand, reduces pedestrian velocity. Therefore, installing obstacles should be done with careful considerations and may only work in specific cases. Our results provide ways to better understand pedestrian dynamics in the presence of obstacles and based on this it may be possible to design better layouts to improve safety and flow at mass gatherings.

The (ab)normal-social-personality catena: Exploring The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology during the interwar years.

This article is a cocitation network analysis of The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology (JASP) from 1925 to 1942. The analysis was conducted to help shed light on the historical roots of the intellectual and institutional relationships among social, personality, and abnormal psychology. JASP was a main venue for the boundary work of early- to mid-twentieth-century American psychologists. One of the main goals of these various research communities was to appropriate psychoanalytic and sociological concepts into preferred methods and approaches that favored an individualistic, quantifiable, and ultimately normal subject. Five major research communities are identified using the citations, and historically contextualized: Community #1, Measuring Social Aspects; Community #2, Psychometrics; Community #3, Operationalizing Psychoanalysis; Community #4, Introversion Studies; and Community #5, Experimental Social Psychology. This analysis demonstrates how disciplinary psychologists, at least within JASP, were united by the work of delimiting their research from closely aligned fields studying the same concepts-even while psychologists' methodological commitments to experimentalism or psychological testing might have ostensibly divided them. Possible future research incorporating post-World War II research and dynamic networking approaches is recommended. (PsycINFO Database Record

Prevalence and correlates of HIV infection among men who inject drugs in a remote area of Vietnam

BackgroundLack of information on the HIV epidemic among men who inject drugs (MWID) in northwestern Vietnam, a remote area, may hamper national efforts to control the disease. We examined HIV prevalence, needle–syringe sharing behaviors, and associated factors among MWID in three areas of northwestern Vietnam.MethodsWe used descriptive analysis to report the characteristics, frequency of risk behaviors, and of access to healthcare services among the MWID. Univariable logistic regression was used to assess the associations between the HIV infection, needle–syringe sharing behaviors, and their independent variables. We further explored these associations in multivariable analyses where we included independent variables based on a priori knowledge and their associations with the dependent variables determined in univariable analyses (p < 0.25).ResultsThe HIV prevalence was 37.9, 16.9, and 18.5% for Tuan Giao, Bat Xat, and Lao Cai City, respectively, and 25.4% overall. MWID of Thai minority ethnicity were more likely to be HIV-positive (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 3.55; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.84–6.87). The rate of needle–syringe sharing in the previous 6 months was approximately 9% among the MWID in Tuan Giao and Lao Cai City, and 27.8% in Bat Xat. Two thirds of the participants never underwent HIV testing before this study. Ever having been tested for HIV before this study was not associated with any needle–syringe sharing behaviors. Among the HIV-positive MWID, those who received free clean needles and syringes were less likely to give used needles and syringes to peers (AOR 0.21; 95% CI 0.06–0.79). Going to a “hotspot” in the previous week was associated with increased odds of needle–syringe sharing in multiple subgroups.ConclusionOur findings on HIV prevalence and testing participation among a subset of MWID in the northwestern Vietnam were corroborated with trend analysis results from the most recent HIV/STI Integrated Biological and Behavioral Surveillance report (data last collected in 2013.) We provided important insights into these MWID’s risky injection behaviors. We suggest heightened emphasis on HIV testing and needle and syringe provision for this population. Also, policymakers and program implementers should target hotspots as a main venue to tackle HIV epidemics.

The S + 5Ds: Spatial access to pedestrian environments and walking in Seoul, Korea

Previous studies have confirmed that pedestrian environments affect walkers' behaviors in terms of density, diversity, design, destination accessibility, and distance to transit. However, street configuration connects walkers with other built environments. Few studies have yet determined the effects on walking volume by measuring street configurations combined with other walking environments. Thus, by capturing spatial accessibility and centrality to pedestrian environments, this study determines how street configuration, combined with pedestrian environments, affects pedestrian mobility. Our multilevel regression models verify the positive effects of higher access to primary destinations, such as neighborhood retail stores, schools, cultural facilities, and available public transit along the local street network on walking volume. Furthermore, while areas with a higher volume of pedestrian accidents and nonresidential land use are the main venues for walkers, access to residential density and parks has negative or no effects on pedestrian mobility. Finally, the effects of spatial access to pedestrian environments varies with multiple neighborhood scales. The key findings imply the significance of spatial access to pedestrian environments on walking volume. Thus, policies to create pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods should consider the relationship between spatial access to pedestrian environments and walking behaviors.

Awareness of Prevention Strategies and Willingness to Use Preexposure Prophylaxis in Brazilian Men Who Have Sex With Men Using Apps for Sexual Encounters: Online Cross-Sectional Study.

BackgroundGeosocial networking (GSN) smartphone apps are becoming the main venue for sexual encounters among Brazilian men who have sex with men (MSM). To address the increased HIV incidence in this population, preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was recently implemented in the Brazilian public health system in the context of combined HIV prevention.ObjectiveThis study aimed to describe the characteristics of MSM using GSN apps for sexual encounters, their awareness of prevention strategies, and willingness to use PrEP.MethodsThis study was an online cross-sectional study conducted in 10 Brazilian state capitals from July 1 to July 31, 2016. The questionnaire was programmed on SurveyGizmo and advertised in two GSN apps used by MSM to find sexual partners (Hornet and Grindr). Inclusion criteria were >18 years of age, cisgender men, with an HIV-negative status. Eligible individuals answered questions on: demographics; behavior; and knowledge, preferences, and willingness to use PrEP, nonoccupational postexposure prophylaxis (nPEP), HIV self-testing (HIVST), and condoms. Logistic regression modeling was performed to assess the factors associated with daily oral PrEP willingness.ResultsDuring the study period, 8885 individuals provided consent and started the questionnaire. Of these, 23.05% (2048/8885) were ineligible, 6837 (6837/8885, 76.94%) initiated, and 5065 (5065/8885, 57.00%) completed the entire questionnaire and were included in the present analysis. Median age was 30 years (interquartile range: 25-36), most self-declared as MSM (4991/5065, 98.54%), white (3194/5065, 63.06%), middle income (2148/5065, 42.41%), and had 12 or more years of schooling (3106/5062, 61.36%). The majority of MSM (3363/5064, 66.41%) scored >10 points (high risk) on The HIV Incidence Risk for MSM Scale, but only 21.39% (1083/5064) had a low perceived likelihood of getting HIV in the next year. Daily use of apps for sex was reported by 35.58% (1798/5054). Most MSM (4327/5065, 85.43%) reported testing for HIV at least once in their lifetime and 9.16% (464/5065) used nPEP in the previous year. PrEP, nPEP, and HIVST awareness was reported by 57.89% (2932/5065), 57.39% (2907/5065), and 26.57% (1346/5065) of participants, respectively. Half of all respondents (2653/5065, 52.38%) were willing to use daily oral PrEP, and this finding was associated with higher numbers of male sexual partners (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 1.26, 95% CI 1.09-1.47), condomless receptive anal intercourse (AOR 1.27, 95% CI 1.12-1.44), sex with HIV-positive partner versus no HIV-positive partner (one HIV-positive partner: AOR 1.36, 95% CI 1.11-1.67), daily use of apps for sexual encounters (AOR 1.48, 95% CI 1.17-1.87), high and unknown perceived likelihood of getting HIV in the next year (AOR 1.72, 95% CI 1.47-2.02 and AOR 1.39, 95% CI 1.13-1.70), sexually transmitted infection diagnosis (AOR 1.25, 95% CI 1.03-1.51), stimulant use (AOR 1.24, 95% CI 1.07-1.43), PrEP awareness (AOR 1.48, 95% CI 1.30-1.70), and unwillingness to use condoms (AOR 1.16, 95% CI 1.00-1.33).ConclusionsOur results evidenced high-risk scores in the studied population, suggesting the importance of PrEP use. Those individuals presenting risky sexual behaviors were more willing to use PrEP. Nonetheless, only 58% (2932/5065) of individuals had heard about this prevention strategy. Efforts to increase awareness of new prevention strategies are needed, and mobile health tools are a promising strategy to reach MSM.

Rome's Holy Mountain: The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity by Jason Moralee

Reviewed by: Rome's Holy Mountain: The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity by Jason Moralee Hendrik Dey Rome's Holy Mountain: The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity Jason Moralee Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxv + 304. ISBN: 978-0-19-049227-4 Jason Moralee's book is a kaleidoscopic, non-linear, allusive, often speculative meditation on the Capitoline Hill and its crowning Capitol as topos: a real place, a literary construct, a figment of the collective imagination of local Romans and denizens of Rome's extended cultural sphere alike. It is erudite, delightfully readable, fascinating—and frustrating. There is something here for people of every disciplinary stripe and methodological proclivity to object to. Admirers of Andrea Augenti's stone-by-stone approach to the topographical evolution of the Palatine in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages will lament the impressionistic treatment of archaeological evidence and the illegibly tiny, outdated maps and plans of the Hill itself. Fans of Lisa Mignone's closely argued social history of the Republican-era Aventine will grasp in vain for ramified networks of identifiable actors who animated and experienced the Capitoline at any given moment. But there is also something here—much, in fact—to delight and enlighten anyone with even a passing interest in the city of Rome and its post-classical legacies. Although he ranges from the dawn of the Republic in 509 bc to the present, Moralee concentrates roughly on the third through the seventh centuries ad, when the Capitoline ceased to be the premier locus of Roman state cult and imperial ceremony, while Rome shrank [End Page 434] from imperial megalopolis to provincial Christian town on the Byzantine periphery. Moralee first approaches the Hill as a physical and topographical presence, a neighborhood deeply implicated in the living fabric of the city and the political and ceremonial agendas of its rulers (Part 1, "Lived-In Realities"), and then as a mental construct, an enduring symbol of the might of the pagan Roman Empire and, from a Christian perspective, the impiety of that Empire and the inevitable triumph of the true faith over ancient superstition (Part 2, "Dreamed-Of Realities"). Part 1 opens with a chapter on (emperors) "Climbing the Capitoline Hill." Moralee sides with those who, contra Eunapius of Sardis and Zosimus, think that Constantine never ascended the Capitoline to sacrifice before the Capitol, thus rupturing the age-old tradition whereby ceremonies of triumph, adventus, and coronation concluded at the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus. In either case (it makes less difference than many seem to think), what matters is that by Constantine's day, the Capitoline and its crowning temple were increasingly marginal, peripheral in cultic and ceremonial terms. Moralee assembles a wide range of ancient perspectives on the place of the Capitol (the temple) and the capitolium (the Hill) in state ceremonial to show that the "decentralization of Rome's symbolic topography" (42) was a long and gradual process with roots stretching back at least to Augustus, who created alternative ritual and ceremonial poles (his temple of Apollo on the Palatine, his forum) and made the triumph the exclusive appurtenance of emperorship. Moralee sensibly maintains that the third-century migration of emperors/imperial ceremony to the provinces, the ongoing proliferation of imperial showpieces in Rome (Caracalla's temple of Isis and Serapis, the Eliogabalium, Aurelian's temple of Sol), and the growing prominence of the Forum Romanum itself as Rome's main venue for imperial display, especially in the form it took after the fire of 283, all made imperial adventus, triumphs, and accessions conceivable without a culminating sacrifice in front of Rome's Capitol. Thereafter, Christian emperors naturally avoided it, preferring instead to appear in the Forum or at St. Peter's. In the next two chapters, Moralee wonders what did happen on, and to, the Hill when emperors stopped ascending it. Chapter 2 seeks to show that the Capitoline, always a central place where Romans lived, worked, and worshipped, continued to function as such throughout Late Antiquity, albeit in evolving ways. Moralee reasonably presumes that people kept living on and around the Hill, and he stresses that officials and administrators probably continued to work...

The Management System Innovation, Organizational Reform and Organizational culture of colleges and Universities' Adult Trainings

The idea of lifelong education has aroused great concern of domestic researchers for adult non-academic training. Colleges and universities, as the main venue for adult training, provide the basic guarantee for the training of talents in our country. This also makes the social service function of colleges and universities become increasingly prominent under the current social background. However, in the aspects of the management system and organizational reform, the college adult training shall be differentiated from normal talent cultivation and construct an organizational structure with features such as networking and diversification. Only that would lay a good foundation for the development of colleges' adult training industry. Based on this, this study analyzes the management system innovation, organizational change and organizational culture and characteristics of adult training in colleges and hopes to improve the management of adult training in colleges and universities.

Ninety never sounded so good: Guiding an historical auditorium into the 21st century

The Sacramento War Memorial Auditorium opened in 1927 with a screening of the silent film, “Old Ironsides.” Over its ninety-year career, the 3500-seat auditorium has hosted everything from Shriners conventions to Shinedown concerts, Ringling Brothers to Rolling Stones, and many more. In its current state, the room is excessively reverberant for amplified music. Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems were upgraded during the 1990s, albeit without apparent acoustical input. Street traffic noise is clearly transmitted via acoustically weak windows and stage house doors. McKay Conant Hoover is currently engaged in an acoustical, audiovisual, and theatrical renovation of this historic venue. Importantly, the Auditorium must temporarily accommodate Sacramento's touring Broadway shows, Philharmonic, choral, and ballet performances while their main venue, The Community Center Theater, undergoes a several year-long renovation. This paper will discuss acoustical challenges faced, current findings, and how factors such as ill-conceived pit lifts, historical finishes, limited storage, and lead paint influenced our recommendations.

PENDEKATAN HUMANISTIK DALAM PENGEMBANGAN KURIKULUM PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM

Curriculum is a tool to achieve educational goals as well as guidance in the implementation of teaching in all types and levels of education. The development (developers) have discovered several approaches in curriculum development that is intended approach with how the strategy and the correct method by following these steps systematic development in order to obtain a better curriculum. One approach developed by the developer is a humanistic approach. Humanistic curriculum developed by education experts humanistic. The curriculum is based on the concept of the flow of private education (personalized education). This stream is more giving to the students the main venue. They proceed from the assumption that a child or student is first and foremost in education. He is a subject that became the center of education. They believe that students have potential, have the ability and strength to thrive. Humanistic education is expected to restore the role and function of man is to restore man to his nature as the best of creatures (khairu ummah). The purpose of emphasizing the humanistic curriculum in terms of personal development, integration and autonomy of the individual. This objective can be seen as a means of asserting themselves.

Determinants of eating at local and western fast-food venues in an urban Asian population: a mixed methods approach

BackgroundLike several Southeast Asian countries, Singapore has a complex eating-out environment and a rising eating-out prevalence. However the determinants and drivers of eating-out in urban Asian environments are poorly understood.MethodsWe examined the socio-demographic characteristics of persons who frequently ate away from home in local eateries called hawker centres and Western fast-food restaurants, using data from 1647 Singaporean adults participating in the National Nutrition Survey (NNS) 2010. We also assessed the underlying drivers of eating out and evaluated if these were different for eating at local eateries compared to Western fast-food restaurants using 18 focus group discussions of women (130 women).ResultsParticipants reported a high eating-out frequency with 77.3% usually eating either breakfast, lunch or dinner at eateries. Main venues for eating-out included hawker centres (61.1% usually ate at least 1 of 3 daily meals at this venue) and school/workplace canteens (20.4%). A minority of participants (1.9%) reported usually eating at Western fast-food restaurants. Younger participants and those of Chinese and Malay ethnicity compared to Indians were more likely to eat at Western fast-food restaurants. Chinese and employed persons were more likely to eat at hawker centres. The ready availability of a large variety of affordable and appealing foods appeared to be a primary driver of eating out, particularly at hawker centres.ConclusionsOur findings highlight the growing importance of eating-out in an urban Asian population where local eating venues play a more dominant role compared with Western fast-food chains. Interventions focusing on improving the food quality at venues for eating out are important to improve the diet of urban Asian populations.

What might have been and could still be: the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s potential to encourage an open internet and digital rights

ABSTRACTHerein I asses the implications for the Internet, digital rights, and digital trade of US abandonment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP. I focus on how the agreement attempts to regulate issues at the intersection of cross-border information flows and human rights. I focus on four chapters of the TPP. I show that these chapters may help internet users and policy-makers advance internet openness and make it harder for officials to restrict information flows but only in those cases where doing so would have a trade impact. TPP also contains transparency requirements that could bring much needed sunshine, due process, and increased political participation to trade (and internet related) policy-making in TPP countries such as Malaysia.However, TPP’s ability to limit censorship and filtering is limited. First, not all information flows are cross-border and hence subject to trade rules. Second, these agreements provide clear exceptions that allow governments to restrict information flows when they deem necessary to achieve important domestic policy goals. Third, many internet activists do not take kindly to the idea that trade agreements should become the main venue to regulate cross-border information flows.Meanwhile, TPP proponents have not developed compelling arguments as to how these agreements will benefit internet users and enhance human welfare. Until they do, internet users are unlikely to support efforts to regulate the global internet with trade agreements such as TPP.

INTERNET E RELIGIÃO: O CANDOMBLÉ DE YOUTUBE

Objetivo: Este texto defende que a internet democratizou a dinâmica das relações humanas e, mais especificamente, da cultura religiosa. O canal Youtube é um modo de consagração e radicalização do modelo democrático virtual, na medida em que as religiões, inclusive a Umbanda e o Candomblé, participam, promovem-se e se potencializam através da exposição de vídeos. Métodos: Os vídeos de entrevistas, testemunhos, festas religiosas, músicas e ritos no site Youtube são analisados sob enfoque filosófico e sócio-político de teóricos da comunicação como Pierry Levy, Muniz Sodré, J. Burguess, os quais contribuem nas reflexões sobre virtualização, mídia, informação, cultura e sociedade; autores como Altair T`Ogun, José Beniste, Márcio de Jagun, V. Betancourt reforçam esta escrita através de materiais e textos sobre tradição e dinâmica religiosa. Discussão: Por isso, em um segundo momento das reflexões, este texto mostra o quanto a perda e a debilidade física são produtoras de cultura. Ao contrário do que se pensa, a internet conserva e fortalece as tradições e a identidade religiosa; aumenta a possibilidade de aprendizagem e acesso a saberes antes escondidos. Os relatos no Youtube sobre vivência e trajetória dos indivíduos revelam que a cultura também provém da dor e da doença - consequentemente, apresentam outra abordagem sobre tradição, ancestralidade e oralidade. Enfim, este artigo focaliza a interação entre tecnologias da informação e religião, entre condicionamento corporal e cultura.

Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made

Between 1900 and 1925 Chicago's Union Stock Yard—Dominic A. Pacyga has intentionally used the original name—was arguably the most important industrial district in the United States, if not in the world. Pacyga's book emphasizes the wonderment that this vast complex of people and animals inspired and its economic significance in provisioning much of the nation's meat supply from the stockyard's opening in 1865 to its closing in 1971. The book has broad appeal because it conveys information accessible to general readers and skillfully encapsulates academic literature. In addition to drawing upon the vast array of literature that has been written about the Chicago stockyard, Pacyga also provides analytical perspectives that benefit from his experiences and his significant scholarship. Chicago's stockyard resulted from the city's emergence as the nation's agro-industrial center. As William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis (1991) illuminated, Chicago grew because its factories transformed the West's natural resources and agricultural abundance into products that its railroad networks shipped nationwide. While Pacyga conveys insights into stockyard and meat-packing workers' conditions and union efforts, the most captivating portions of the book highlight how the so-called Square Mile drew thousands of visitors. Today tourists from around the globe flock to places such as the Gettysburg battlefield and the Lincoln Memorial. In the years immediately before and after 1900, about half a million people—including foreign dignitaries—were drawn each year to the “spectacle” of the stockyard and toured its meat-packing plants. Stereopticon cards, postcards, trading cards, and advertisements were distributed among the visitors, and the book includes a representative sampling of such images—many from Pacyga's personal collection. Public access to the stockyard and packing plants is all the more remarkable given the virtual impossibility of touring a slaughtering facility today. The book's description of the Dexter Park International Amphitheater, where the International Livestock Exposition first took place in 1900, is valuable in highlighting the stockyard's role in promoting livestock science and marketing. The amphitheater was also Chicago's main venue for exhibitions, shows, and conventions, including the dramatic 1968 Democratic National Convention, before McCormick Place assumed this role.

Public Pedagogy and the City

This paper seeks to contribute to the interdisciplinary discussion of the all-too-often- contested concept of multicultural education and, specifically, the way it is conceptualized and put into practice in city libraries, museums, cultural centers, and other emerging sites of public education. As the formal education system has so far been seen as the main venue for research on multicultural education, to date there is relatively little empirical inquiry exploring how the ideas of multicultural education play out outside the school settings. The study aims to address this gap and explore the educators’ perspective, the views of those who set the agenda for educational programs. Based on 10 in-depth interviews with the educators in Oslo and Moscow, two cities with extensive networks of public education, the study sheds light on how multicultural education is interpreted in this often-overlooked context. Drawing on the transformative approaches in multicultural education on the one hand and the concept of public pedagogy on the other, the discussion uncovers some of the potentials and limitations intrinsic to the practices of multicultural education in the settings of public education.

How Connected are the ACM SIG Communities?

Currently, computer scientists publish more in conferences than journals and several conferences are the main venue in many computer science subareas. There has been considerable debate about the role of conferences for computer science research and one of the main arguments in favor of them is that conferences bring researchers together, allowing them to enhance collaborations and establish research communities in a young and fast-evolving discipline. In this work, we investigate if computer science conferences are really able to create collaborative research communities by analyzing the structure of the communities formed by the flagship conferences of several ACM SIGs. Our findings show that most of these flagship conferences are able to connect their main authors in large and well-structured communities. However, we have noted that in a few ACM SIG flagship conferences authors do not collaborate over the years, creating a structure with several small disconnected components.

FROM ”SAPIENZA” TO “SAPIENZA, STATE ARCHIVES IN ROME”. A LOOPING EFFECT BRINGING BACK TO THE ORIGINAL SOURCE COMUNICATION AND CULTURE BY INNOVATIVE AND LOW COST 3D SURVEYING, IMAGING SYSTEMS AND GIS APPLICATIONS

Abstract. High Quality survey models, realized by multiple Low Cost methods and technologies, as a container to sharing Cultural and Archival Heritage, this is the aim guiding our research, here described in its primary applications. The SAPIENZA building, a XVI century masterpiece that represented the first unified headquarters of University in Rome, plays since year 1936, when the University moved to its newly edified campus, the role of the main venue for the State Archives. By the collaboration of a group of students of the Architecture Faculty, some integrated survey methods were applied on the monument with success. The beginning was the topographic survey, creating a reference on ground and along the monument for the upcoming applications, a GNNS RTK survey followed georeferencing points on the internal courtyard. Dense stereo matching photogrammetry is nowadays an accepted method for generating 3D survey models, accurate and scalable; it often substitutes 3D laser scanning for its low cost, so that it became our choice. Some 360° shots were planned for creating panoramic views of the double portico from the courtyard, plus additional single shots of some lateral spans and of pillars facing the court, as a single operation with a double finality: to create linked panotours with hotspots to web-linked databases, and 3D textured and georeferenced surface models, allowing to study the harmonic proportions of the classical architectural order. The use of free web Gis platforms, to load the work in Google Earth and the realization of low cost 3D prototypes of some representative parts, has been even performed.

지역문화축제의 수요결정요인 변화에 관한 연구

This study is to estimate the determinants of demand of the Busan International Film Festival. The number of the festival’s official audience was seriously increased after the Busan Cinema Center, which is a main venue for BIFF, was opened in 2011. In this study, two demand functions of the years 2007 and 2014 were deducted to compare the determinants of demands. For this study, the Negative Binomial model was derived through the results of a Cameron &amp; Trevedi test, which is the optimal method for investigating the over-dispersion in the count data model. An LR-test, a coefficient of determination and a scales of information criterion were considered for the suitability of the model. The consequences of this research are presented as follows: some variables were found significantly in common between the two demand models, such as the response of press, word of mouth effect, experience of the audience, the participation experience in other film festivals, film society membership and interest in film, as the determinants of demand. Facility, accessibility and accommodation were newly deducted as determinants in 2014’s model.