Mixed Style Research Articles

두 우종관 주택(1928년, 1931년)의 건축적 특성과 의미에 관한 연구

The purpose of this study is to identify architectural characteristics and meanings of western-style houses that were popular in Korean peninsular during the Japanese colonial period with Jong-gwan Woo's houses. From the exterior, they had western style but in the interior, they had Korean-style ondol rooms and Japanese-style plan. We are able to notice that Korean, Japanese and western style coexisted uncomfortably in a so-called western-style house even if Korean high-class wanted to live in western style at that time. In the end, mixed style houses built by Japanese architects were regarded as western-style houses in Korea and western-style house Korean owners had to live triple lives in Korean peninsular during Japanese colonial period.

Thermal and rheological controls on the formation of mafic enclaves or banded pumice

Magma mixing can occur in a fluid manner to produce banded pumice or in a brittle manner to form enclaves. We propose that the critical control on mixing style is a competition between developing networks of crystals in the intruding magma that impart a strength to the magma and melting and disrupting those networks in the host. X-ray computed tomography analysis demonstrates that banded pumice from the 1915 Mt. Lassen eruption lacks crystal networks. In contrast, rhyodacite hosts with mafic enclaves from Chaos Crags contain well-developed networks of large crystals. We present a one-dimensional conductive cooling model that predicts mixing style, either ductile or brittle, as a function of magma compositions, temperatures, and the size of the intruding dike. Our model relies on three assumptions: (1) Mixing is initiated by the injection of a hot dike into a cooler magma body with a yield strength; (2) when magma crystallinity exceeds a critical value, 13 vol% plagioclase, the magma develops a yield strength; and (3) when total crystallinity exceeds 40 vol%, the magma has a penetrative crystal network and is effectively solid. Importantly, because the two magmas are of different compositions, their crystallinities and viscosities do not have the same variations with temperature. As the intruding magma cools, it crystallizes from the outside in, while simultaneously, host magma temperature near the intruder rises. Mixing of the two magmas begins when the host magma is heated sufficiently to (1) disrupt the crystal network and (2) initiate convection. If the shear stress exerted by the convecting host magma on the dike is greater than the yield strength of the dike margin (and dike crystallinity does not exceed 40 %), then fluid mixing occurs, otherwise enclaves form by brittle deformation of the dike. Application of the model to magma compositions representative of Lassen and Chaos Crags shows that emplacement of dikes <1 m thick should produce enclaves, whereas thicker dikes should generate fluid mixing and form banded pumice within days to weeks of emplacement. Similar relationships apply to other modeled magmatic systems, including Pinatubo, Unzen, and Ksudach/Shtuybel’ volcanoes. For all studied systems, the absolute size of the intruding dike, not just its proportion relative to the host, influences mixing style.

The features of technocracy in the “Chinese model” of governance

The article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of technocratic management in the “Chinese model” of governance. It is argued that China, as an authoritarian political regime, is traditionally incorporated into the technocratic style of governance and hence into the mixed (technocratic, corporate and political) style of inter-institutional relations, which largely deter- mines the growth of the efficiency of capitalist industrial production and management. At the same time, it was found that in China there is a significant technocratic-oriented modernization of the authoritarian political regime, although the authoritarianism itself is not a modernization one. It has been recorded that there is implemented the version of “capitalist authoritarianism” in China today, but it “rationalizes tyranny” under the guise of local traditions and culture. The author determined that friendship and particularism are the decisive factors in the tech-nocraticization of the authoritarian political regime and governance in China. Therefore, the technocratic nature of power in China is partially denied.

The Role of Community Mixing Styles in Shaping Epidemic Behaviors in Weighted Networks

The dynamics of infectious diseases that are spread through direct contact have been proven to depend on the strength of community structure or modularity within the underlying network. It has been recently shown that weighted networks with similar modularity values may exhibit different mixing styles regarding the number of connections among communities and their respective weights. However, the effect of mixing style on epidemic behavior was still unclear. In this paper, we simulate the spread of disease within networks with different mixing styles: a dense-weak style (i.e., many edges among the communities with small weights) and a sparse-strong style (i.e., a few edges among the communities with large weights). Simulation results show that, with the same modularity: 1) the mixing style significantly influences the epidemic size, speed, pattern and immunization strategy; 2) the increase of the number of communities amplifies the effect of the mixing style; 3) when the mixing style changes from sparse-strong to dense-weak, there is a ‘saturation point’, after which the epidemic size and pattern become stable. We also provide a mean-field solution of the epidemic threshold and size on weighted community networks with arbitrary external and internal degree distribution. The solution explains the effect of the second moment of the degree distribution, and a symmetric effect of internal and external connections (incl. degree distribution and weight). Our study has both potential significance for designing more accurate metrics for the community structure and exploring diffusion dynamics on metapopulation networks.

On-chip fast mixing by a rotary peristaltic micropump with a single structural layer

In this work, a rotary pump based micromixer for on-chip rapid mixing and liquid transportation is demonstrated and characterized. Both pumping and mixing are realized using a microfluidic chip with a single structural polydimethylsiloxane layer and a portable electric control system. The rotary pump consists of an annular channel and is driven by a motor and magnets. The flow field caused by the peristaltic movement of the channel membrane of the rotary pump is simulated and analyzed. By statistically calculating and comparing the normalized standard deviations of the flow velocity components in a microchannel, it is revealed that up-and-down mixing is the fastest, followed by segment mixing and parallel mixing. Two mixing styles, segment mixing and parallel mixing, were experimentally demonstrated using the chip. The pump achieved 90% of the mixing index in 1 s for the segment mixing type. As for the parallel mixing type, the mixing index was up to 90% after 5 s, which is more than 100-fold improvement compared to conventional mixing by interfacial diffusion. The mixing speeds in both directions were improved prominently by increasing the rotational speed of the pump.

Dynamic Comparison of Physicians' Interaction Style with Electronic Health Records in Primary Care Settings.

Researchers have been increasingly interested in the influence of computers on physician-patient communication in consultation rooms because of the substantial growth in the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in the U.S. Previous research showed that physicians have different ways of interacting with patients and EHRs; and these styles may relate to different patterns of nonverbal interaction between the physicians and patients and influence the outcomes of the clinical visit. The purpose of this study was to identify the differences of eye gaze patterns in three EHR interaction styles: the technology-centered style, the human-centered style, and the mixed interaction style. 100 primary care visits with different interaction styles were videotaped. Eye gaze behaviors were coded and described as frequencies and durations of gaze. The dynamic eye gaze patterns of the physicians and patients, in terms of how their gaze behaviors were sequentially associated, were analyzed using lag-sequential analysis. The results indicated that technology-centered group had significantly shorter amount of mutual gaze than other two groups (p=0.032; p=0.015, respectively). In addition, in technology centered style, the physicians were more likely to shift their gaze to the computer when the patients gazed at them; and when the physicians gazed at the computers, the patients were more likely to gaze somewhere else which might be an indicator of disengagement. The study implied that EHRs should be designed in a way that facilitates a positive interaction between the physicians and patients, such as maintaining mutual gaze. Training should also be provided to the physicians for establishing effective and positive interaction styles.

Learning style and teaching method preferences of Saudi students of physical therapy

Context:To the researchers’ knowledge, there are no published studies that have investigated the learning styles and preferred teaching methods of physical therapy students in Saudi Arabia.Aim:The study was conducted to determine the learning styles and preferred teaching methods of Saudi physical therapy students.Settings and Design:A cross-sectional study design.Materials and Methods:Fifty-three Saudis studying physical therapy (21 males and 32 females) participated in the study. The principal researcher gave an introductory lecture to explain the different learning styles and common teaching methods. Upon completion of the lecture, questionnaires were distributed, and were collected on completion.Statistical Analysis Used:Percentages were calculated for the learning styles and teaching methods. Pearson’s correlations were performed to investigate the relationship between them.Results:More than 45 (85%) of the students rated hands-on training as the most preferred teaching method. Approximately 30 (57%) students rated the following teaching methods as the most preferred methods: “Advanced organizers,” “demonstrations,” and “multimedia activities.” Although 31 (59%) students rated the concrete-sequential learning style the most preferred, these students demonstrated mixed styles on the other style dimensions: -sequential, abstract-random, and concrete-random.Conclusions:The predominant concrete-sequential learning style is consistent with the most preferred teaching method (hands-on training). The high percentage of physical therapy students whose responses were indicative of mixed learning styles suggests that they can accommodate multiple teaching methods. It is recommended that educators consider the diverse learning styles of the students and utilize a variety of teaching methods in order to promote an optimal learning environment for the students.

Physician interactions with electronic health records in primary care

Objective: It is essential to design technologies and systems that promote appropriate interactions between physicians and patients. This study explored how physicians interact with Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to understand the qualities of the interaction between the physician and the EHR that may contribute to positive physician–patient interactions. Study Design: Video-taped observations of 100 medical consultations were used to evaluate interaction patterns between physicians and EHRs. Quantified observational methods were used to contribute to ecological validity. Methods: Ten primary care physicians and 100 patients from five clinics participated in the study. Clinical encounters were recorded with video cameras and coded using a validated coding methodology in order to examine how physicians interact with EHRs. Results: Three distinct styles were identified that characterize physician interactions with the EHR: technology-centered, human-centered, and mixed. Physicians who used a technology-centered style spent more time typing and gazing at the computer during the visit. Physicians who used a mixed style shifted their attention and body language between their patients and the technology throughout the visit. Physicians who used the human-centered style spent the least amount of time typing and focused more on the patient. Conclusion: A variety of EHR interaction styles may be effective in facilitating patient-centered care. However, potential drawbacks of each style exist and are discussed. Future research on this topic and design strategies for effective health information technology in primary care are also discussed.

Editorial: Your leadership style – how are you working to achieve a preferred future?

Editorial: Your leadership style – how are you working to achieve a preferred future?

Formation of mixed configuration cell based on product demand prediction

Product demand is a main factor influencing formation and reconfiguration of manufacturing cell (MC) especially when lifespan of the formed MCs is considered. It is also the most important factor for formation of mixed style of manufacturing cell (MSMC) in mixed style of production line (MPL) where developing and developed products coexist. Against the problem of MPL formation and its adjustment, the concept of MSMC is advanced. Then, a uniform formation frame covering rules, constraints, and objectives of different styles of MC is constructed and a heuristic algorithm for resource capacity allocation is used for solution. Next, an inheritable reconfiguration method of MC is analyzed for actual application of periodic task adjustment. At last, above formation and reconfiguration algorithm of MSMC under product prediction is validated by computational study.

Identifying Teaching Style: The Case of Saudi College English Language and Literature Teachers

The purpose of this paper is twofold. The first objective is to give an account of why I set out to study teaching styles, how I carried out and analyzed a questionnaire survey, what results I got, and what the implications of these results are. The intent is to provide teachers with enough information to help them think about how these findings play out in their own classrooms, thus putting them on track to adapt their teaching style to their students' learning style. The second objective is to see if there is any statistically significant correlation between teaching styles and a number of factors, such as age, years of experience, specialty, and student level. Data analysis showed that literature teachers preferred the all-round flexible style, the mixed style, and the official curriculum and big conference styles successively, whereas linguistics teachers preferred the mixed style, the all-round flexible and straight facts styles, and the student-centered and big conference styles consecutively. No statistically significant correlation was found between teaching styles and age, years of experience, and specialty variables. Whereas statistically significant differences were found between level three and the official curriculum teaching style, and between level four and the student-centered teaching style (p< 0.05).

Clinical investigation of cognitive styles in patients with acquired brain damage

This study aims to investigate relationships between the preference in use of visual–verbal cognitive representation and strategies and lesion site in patients with acquired brain injury. The Visualiser-Verbaliser Questionnaire (VVQ) and the Questionnaire on Visual and Verbal Strategies (QSVV) were administered to 48 patients by an examiner in an ambulatory setting. Data showed that the preference for verbalisation decreased in patients with a parietal focal lesion, who tended to use a mixed cognitive style. Patients with subcortical bilateral lesions verbalised more than patients with no lesion or right focal lesions. In general, damage in a specific area associated to a type of cognitive strategy may compromise its use, but does not lead to its extinction. From a neurorehabilitation perspective, findings suggest that patients can learn to use cognitive strategies to compensate for their deficits.

A Framework for Interactive Art in Narrative Forms

The aim of this study is to create a framework for interactive art in narrative forms. This study presents the categorization of interactive art into three elements. We establish a conceptual framework for the development of narrative, and we use this framework as the basis for the creation of the prototype of interactive art in narrative form. Interactive art is a form digital installation based art that involves the audience in a way that allows the art to achieve its purpose. Due to technological limitations, interactive art is not yet advanced enough to allow audiences create the narrative. According to the progress of digital technologies, the audience can interact with a character on the screen that has an autonomous role by digital devices. Compared with previous interactive art, interactive art in narrative form provides a flow of experience to the audience and involves the audience in a way that allows the art to achieve its purpose. In order to create a framework of interactive art in narrative forms, first, we must categorize interactive art from the viewpoint of narrative. Interactive art can be divided into three categories based on the style of narrative - poetic style, mixed style and narrative style. Within these three categories, to develop the narrative, we revise previous methodologies of the narrative using interactive storytelling. Based on this framework, the author produces interactive art in narrative forms.

Synergistic hydrogen generation from AlLi alloy and solid-state NaBH4 activated by CoCl2 in water for portable fuel cell

Solid-state AlLi/NaBH4 mixture activated by CoCl2 salt is fabricated for hydrogen generation via a milling process, providing uniform dispersion of AlLi alloy and CoCl2 salt among pulverized NaBH4 particles in order to improve NaBH4 hydrolysis through the contact of NaBH4 with active catalytic sites. The active catalytic sites come from Co2B loaded in Al(OH)3 (Bayerite) or LiAl2(OH)7 hydrate, generated from the reaction of CoCl2, AlLi alloy, and NaBH4 in water. The results show that the gravimetric hydrogen storage capacity is as high as 6.4 wt.% and an efficiency of above 90% in 30-min hydrolysis at 323 K could be achieved using the limited amount of water. The hydrogen generation amount and rate could be regulated by changing the composition, mixing style, mixture/water weight ratio, and hydrolysis temperature. The relative mechanism is explored.

Carol I Park in Bucharest at the Beginning of the 20th Century

The first stage of the evolution of Carol I park is important for the history of Romanian landscape architecture and also stands as an example for the design of parks nowadays. Carol I park was conceived at the beginning of the 20thcentury, as a national park, to host the “General Romanian Exhibition”, a jubilee exhibition celebrating 40 years since Carol the II became king of Romania, 25 years since the proclamation of the Kingdom and 1,800 years since Trajan‟s conquest of Dacia. The authorities invited the French landscape architect Edouard Redont to design this park - inaugurated in 1906. Redont worked in a mixed style, with an important part of romantic style, French landscape style, and a geometrical part in the entrance zone. These styles compounded a belle epoque park, with a lot of pavilions for the exhibition. The composition of the park was centred on an important, large axis cadenced by lots of pavilions and geometrical vegetation and water elements with a hill over a lake as its perspective end. On this hill, the Palace of the Arts, and below it, an elegant romantic cascade and grotto decorated with a sculptural ensemble. The alleys and the vegetation near the lake and on the hill were designed in the French landscape style, in contrast with the geometry of the axis zone and the alleys on its side, with alignments of trees, pruned shrubs and flower platbands.

Layered convection and the impacts of the perovskite‐postperovskite phase transition on mantle dynamics under isochemical conditions

The issue of the style of the mantle convection process remains important to the understanding of Earth's deep interior and surface processes. While results from structural seismology may be interpreted to support the existence of a whole mantle convection regime, in several geographic regions high‐resolution reconstructions of Benioff zone body wave heterogeneity demonstrate that the downgoing slab appears to be “trapped” in the transition zone rather than continuing to penetrate unimpeded into the lower mantle. The presence of the recently discovered exothermic perovskite‐postperovskite (Pv‐pPv) phase transition that appears to define the top of the D″ layer adjacent to the core‐mantle boundary may be expected to exert considerable impact on the mixing process. On the basis of the use of the most recent mantle parameters derived on the basis of mineral physics and a viscosity model inferred from glacial isostatic adjustment and Earth rotation observables, we reinvestigate the impact of the Pv‐pPv transition on mantle mixing. Our analyses are based on a newly constructed axisymmetric control volume model, which is described in detail. Analyses with this model demonstrate that the action of the Pv‐pPv transitions slightly decreases the tendency to layered flow due to the endothermic transitions that occur at 660 km depth and enhances the absolute radial mass flux especially in the lower mantle. However, the results also demonstrate that the episodically layered style of mantle mixing persists in models in which the strength of the Pv‐pPv transition is significant.

The development of criminal style in adolescence and young adulthood: separating the lemmings from the loners.

Despite broad consensus that most juvenile crimes are committed with peers, many questions regarding developmental and individual differences in criminal style (i.e., co-offending vs. solo offending) remain unanswered. Using prospective 3-year longitudinal data from 937 14- to 17-year-old serious male offenders, the present study investigates whether youths tend to offend alone, in groups, or a combination of the two; whether these patterns change with age; and whether youths who engage in a particular style share distinguishing characteristics. Trajectory analyses examining criminal styles over age revealed that, while most youth evinced both types of offending, two distinct groups emerged: an increasingly solo offender trajectory (83%); and a mixed style offender trajectory (17%). Alternate analyses revealed (5.5%) exclusively solo offenders (i.e., only committed solo offenses over 3 years). There were no significant differences between groups in individuals’ reported number of friends, quality of friendships, or extraversion. However, the increasingly solo and exclusively solo offenders reported more psychosocial maturity, lower rates of anxiety, fewer psychopathic traits, less gang involvement and less self reported offending than mixed style offenders. Findings suggest that increasingly and exclusively solo offenders are not loners, as they are sometimes portrayed, and that exclusively solo offending during adolescence, while rare and previously misunderstood, may not be a risk factor in and of itself.

An Optimization Approach for Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Scheduling Problem

Due to the increasing scale of scheduling problems, the study is to explore an effective optimize scheduling approach for the semiconductor wafer fab. Semiconductor manufacturing is widely regarded as one of the most complex manufacturing processes in the world. The particular complexity, characterized by reentrant flows, uncertainties, mixed processing styles, etc., leads to a great challenge in its scheduling. Without powerful scheduling techniques it becomes practically impossible to design a manufacturing system. So, by means of a new coding method, and the adaptive mechanism of crossover and mutation, an improved immune algorithm (IA) is presented to solve the scheduling problem. The algorithm is based on clonal selection and affinity maturation for finding optimal solutions. To demonstrate the efficiency of the IA, some numerical experiments are carried out. The results show that the IA will yield a more efficient solution than several other scheduler.

Effects of Age on the Temporal Organization of Working Memory in Deaf Signers

ABSTRACT Deaf native signers have a general working memory (WM) capacity similar to that of hearing non-signers but are less sensitive to the temporal order of stored items at retrieval. General WM capacity declines with age, but little is known of how cognitive aging affects WM function in deaf signers. We investigated WM function in elderly deaf signers (EDS) and an age-matched comparison group of hearing non-signers (EHN) using a paradigm designed to highlight differences in temporal and spatial processing of item and order information. EDS performed worse than EHN on both item and order recognition using a temporal style of presentation. Reanalysis together with earlier data showed that with the temporal style of presentation, order recognition performance for EDS was also lower than for young adult deaf signers. Older participants responded more slowly than younger participants. These findings suggest that apart from age-related slowing irrespective of sensory and language status, there is an age-related difference specific to deaf signers in the ability to retain order information in WM when temporal processing demands are high. This may be due to neural reorganisation arising from sign language use. Concurrent spatial information with the Mixed style of presentation resulted in enhanced order processing for all groups, suggesting that concurrent temporal and spatial cues may enhance learning for both deaf and hearing groups. These findings support and extend the WM model for Ease of Language Understanding.

Rousseau and Favart at Fontainebleau, Pergolesi at Versailles

AbstractThe French court, far from being caught off guard by the arrival of the Bouffons in 1752, had in fact been pursuing an independent policy which favoured the performance of operas since 1745. In 1749, it was its taste for spectacle that prompted the court to purchase buildings at Fontainebleau which would make it possible to house the staffs of the Royal Entertainments Department (les Menus‐Plaisirs), the workshops and stage properties departments, and to install a small rehearsal room. Three years later, Louis Bays de Cury, who was in overall charge of the Royal Entertainments Department, seized the opportunity of putting on Rousseau's Le devin du village. Two documents preserved in the French National Archives (O1 2991 and O1 2992) reveal the details not only of the extraordinary expenses incurred in the journeys to Fontainebleau, but also the particularly mixed styles of programming. They also give details of the costumes made for Le devin and other performances, which in some instances enhance our understanding of the stage practice of the Italian actors. In 1752, the passion for opera spread from Fontainebleau to Versailles, where the stage of the Salle de Comédie, located in the south wing of the palace, was subsequently enlarged in order to house not only the Bouffons, but also to permit the staging of Zélindor, roi des Silphes, a ballet by Moncrif, Rebel and Francœur. Zélindor was also staged at Versailles in 1745, but that was on a stage erected in the Grande Ecurie, which was destroyed by fire in 1751.