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DIBS*: Crafting a Treasured Niche

In January 2022, Siddharth Pande, the founder and owner of DIBS*, a new creative branding studio providing design solutions based in Delhi, was trying to identify an appropriate strategic position for his business in an overcrowded market. Digital spaces have turned business outcomes significantly, especially after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant mobility restrictions. Digital agencies experienced plenty of new opportunities as all traditional and new-age businesses were competing to improve their online presence and humanize their brands to connect with their customers. This also gave birth to a plethora of digital brand consulting agencies which offered differentiated services at varying price points. In the design industry that relied on a star system where agencies struggled to make any headway, how could DIBS* craft a treasured niche?

Impact of buildings’ configuration in an urban context on the spread pattern of NO2 and indoor air quality: A CFD simulation

The influence of the building’s configuration on the air flow pattern and the amount of pollutant entering the buildings was investigated. Six common forms of low-rise buildings in Shiraz City were evaluated as investigated patterns. Each of these forms were placed in four rotation modes (24 case studies in total) in an urban regular pavilion-shaped context, placed in the vicinity of an urban highway (as a source of pollutant production) and were simulated using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). In this research, air velocity and NO2 concentration were considered as the air quality parameters. Steady 3-dimensional flow was used to simulate these cases using the SST k-[Formula: see text] turbulence model, which was numerically solved based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) equations. The CFD software used in this research was validated in comparison with wind tunnel tests and acceptable results were found. The TOPSIS multi-criteria decision-making method was used to choose the best case based on increasing the air velocity and decreasing amount of pollutant inside the building. The results show that the best and worst building forms are related to the step-shaped and the L-shaped form, respectively. The results of this research provide design solutions for architects and urban designers to improve the ventilation quality of buildings.

Study on the fuel/air mixing process in a compact combustor with uneven flame stabilizer wall

Close-coupled injection is an important fuel injection method for future compact design combustors, and improving the mixing of fuel and gas is an important challenge for a wide operating range of the engine. By arranging uneven flame stabilizer walls behind the injection nozzles, the fuel penetration depth and fuel/air mixing of the close-coupled injection can be effectively improved at a low thrust state. In this paper, two kinds of uneven flame stabilizer wall structures were proposed, namely, the forked tail type and the lug-shaped type. The flow characteristics of different uneven flame stabilizer wall structures were investigated by combining numerical simulation and atomization experiments, and the differences in fuel distribution, jet trajectory, and combustion performance between the strut with uneven flame stabilizer wall structures and the U-shaped strut were qualitatively assessed. The results show that both proposed strut structures had a larger low-speed flame stabilization region, a greater jet penetration depth, and better combustion performance than did the common U-shaped strut, but with a greater flow resistance loss. The strut with a forked tail caused the airflow to deflect at the trailing edge of the strut, which in turn deflected the fuel, resulting in a larger recirculation zone and greater jet penetration depth. The lug-shaped strut produced a small recirculation zone behind the lug-shaped structure, and the fuel with a low fuel/air jet momentum flux ratio collided with the lug-shaped structure, thereby increasing the fuel jet penetration depth. The gap lug-shaped structure enhanced fuel diffusion and fuel/air mixing in the radial direction. Numerical studies under real operating conditions showed that the two types of uneven flame stabilizer wall structures were promising for improving the compactness of the combustor. Overall, two types of uneven flame stabilizer wall structures can promote fuel/air mixing during low engine operating states, which is conducive to widening the engine operating range and providing design solutions for the next generation of engine combustor designs with wide operating ranges.

Sustainable Development of Landscape Architecture from the Perspective of Energy and Environment Management

A major concern in the field of landscape architecture is sustainable development. The goal of this strategy is to provide design solutions that satisfy current demands without jeopardizing the capacity of future generations to satisfy their own. The viewpoint of energy and environmental management is crucial for achieving sustainable development in landscape architecture. Energy management is essential to landscape architecture because it involves resource efficiency, reducing energy usage, and integrating renewable energy sources. It includes incorporating strategies like passive solar design, proper material selection, and the use of green infrastructure systems. These practices not only promote eco-friendly designs but also reduce the cost of maintenance and operation in the long term. Environmental management focuses on preserving and enhancing the natural environment through sustainable land use practices.

The The Effectiveness Of The Pedestrian Path And Ramp On Jl. Imam Bonjol Corridor Semarang

Pedestrian paths and ramps are public facilities that are used by pedestrians and people with disabilities in accessing a place, moving from one place to another, connecting to a destination or carrying out other activities in urban space. Provision of pedestrian paths and ramps must be accessible, effective, and keep activities in urban spaces running well. One of the pedestrian and ramp lanes in Jl. Imam Bonjol corridor Semarang is interesting to study in which the existence of pedestrian paths and ramps can be said is still limited to providing public facilities without regard to quality, continuity of function of facilities and respect for users, both pedestrians and people with disabilities. However, the condition of the pedestrian paths and ramps in Jl. Imam Bonjol corridor is good enough, but there are some significant things that can hinder the user's circulation. Several sections of pedestrian paths and ramps are used as parking lots for vehicles, rickshaws and cars. The guiding line for the blind is cut off in several places and sometimes even leads to an open exhaust channel. In some sections it turns out to be difficult for the disabled to use it. This fact is very unfortunate because pedestrians and people with disabilities have the same rights in the use of pedestrian paths and ramps. This study aims to provide design solutions to the problem of designing pedestrian paths and ramps on Imam Bonjol Semarang street corridor to connect urban activity centers so as to provide an ease and convenience access and improve the quality of urban space. A qualitative descriptive method is used in this research, namely by describing the problem to be studied in more depth in order to find solutions and develop the findings of previous studies.

An AI-driven model for predicting and optimizing energy-efficient building envelopes

Unlike many previous studies that often focus on optimizing energy efficiency for buildings when detailed design drawings are available, this paper introduces a newly integrated model for energy-efficient building envelope design in the early stages (when detailed design drawings are not yet available). The newly developed model includes three main components: a simulation model, a predictive model, and an optimization model. The simulation model simulates the building's energy performance, considering different values for various envelope parameters. The predictive model employs machine learning algorithms, including RF, ANN, DNN, SVM, GENLIN, and GB (in which GB has been identified as the most suitable algorithm), boasting a very high R2(0.994) to assess energy consumption. The optimization model which uses AI optimization algorithms (such as NSGA II, DSE, and MOPSO) integrates the machine learning predictive model into the evaluation function during the evolutionary process, efficiently searching for Pareto-optimal building envelope solutions. Results show simultaneous savings in cost and energy, with savings of 7.52 % in cost and 8.48 % in energy, or 21.17 % in cost and 0.4 % in energy, for a case study in Vietnam. This model establishes a foundation by providing design solutions for stakeholders to assess, and can incorporate additional objectives at later stages.

Virtual home for college couple in long-distance romantic relationships

College students form a significant portion of all couples that are engaging in long-distance romantic relationships. The physical separation has made maintaining Long-Distance Romantic Relationships especially difficult for college couples. In order to provide design solutions to help college couples in Long-Distance Romantic Relationships better overcome challenges in their relationships, this paper concludes through surveys that the most pressing issue facing Long-Distance Romantic Relationships is feeling and understanding their significant other's emotions. Based on the unique offerings of Virtual Reality (VR) technologies and the limitations of existing social VR technologies, the author proposes the design solution of a virtual HOME that emphasizes co-presence, empathy promotion, and collaborative activities.

Techno-economic evaluation of a Brayton battery configuration with power-to-heat extension

The development of cost-efficient, environmentally friendly, and reliable technologies for utility-scale electricity storage is a key element for future flexible power systems. Brayton cycle-based Pumped Thermal Energy Storage (PTES) offers the potential of making a substantial progress to reach this goal. For further improvements in cost efficiency and flexibility we investigate the additional integration of Power-to-Heat (PtH) into the heat pump cycle. This integration allows a reduction in component size due to higher energy density; however, it also leads to efficiency losses. The objective of this paper is to quantify this tradeoff between round-trip efficiency and cost efficiency for closed-cycle Joule-Brayton PTES configurations and to provide design solutions for the novel PtH component. To this end, a wide-range design study with variable electric heating power and component efficiencies is conducted. In addition to the thermodynamic analysis, an economic assessment is presented, which clarifies the benefits of PtH extension. The results demonstrate a significant reduction of capital expenditures by up to 23 % along with higher system flexibility and a loss in round-trip efficiency of up to 5 %.

Pengembangan Desain Produk Berkonsep Silang Dua Budaya

Global market competition is increasingly becoming more and more competitive, demanding that product designers continue to enhance their creativity by exploring new design ideas. The global consumer audience highly appreciates the cultural meaning of a product. Nowadays, several brands use local culture as the basic concept, but sadly, they all look alike using materials, traditional styles mixed with more conventional fabrics and shapes. As a result, this paper seeks to study the process of cultural cross-concept for product design and develop a cross between the two cultures using the morphological chart method. A systematic method of developing ideas by matching features that can provide design solutions. The special regional cultures of Yogyakarta and Egypt have been identified as case studies. The two cultures are identified, and the cultural artifacts are identified by their cultural elements, which can be used as a design inspiration. The results of this study were the framework of the cross-cultural design process and the example on how to apply the framework to product design. It is apparent from this process that the relevance of the meaning of the relationship between the two cultures should be formed, so that the assimilation of culture is not wrong and without meaning. Through cultural identification at the outer, middle, and inner levels, the relevance of intercultural relations is becoming apparent. This is important because, in a product with a cross-cultural concept, the story and historical factors influence the customer's perceived value of the cross-cultural product.

Evaluation and Redesign of Telkom University’s Open Library Website Interface Using the Goal Directed Design (GDD) Method

As a university with World Class University quality, Telkom University provides information services with a website as the main source of libraries for its students. The website is called Open Library which provides information on all library collections owned by Telkom University which are open and can be loaned. One of the missions of this website is "To play an active role in increasing interest in reading and writing in the community". Because, a good digital library website is a library website that can increase the reading interest of users. Interface design is one of the most important elements to support the quality of digital libraries. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the design and provide design solutions for the interface of the Open Library website. . The final evaluation used in this study used the System Usability Scale method. The System Usability Scale (SUS) is a measure of the usability of a product using a 10-question questionnaire developed by John Brooke. Of the 20 respondents who had filled out the questionnaire in the final evaluation, the result was 74.45. Where 74.45 is a score that has passed the average standard value of SUS

Examining and Enhancing the Available Khadi Products with the Reference to Consumers Perception

Khadi, known as “Khaddar,” was a fabric important for both masses and classes. Khadi was considered the spirit of life where the people and communities united together and participated in the Swadeshi Movement that contributed to the social, environmental, and economic sustainability of India. Since the production process is manual, it makes it a source of being self-reliant and economically empowered. It remained as one of the favorite and purest form of handmade hand-woven fabric of India until various brands emerged as a result of industrialization and globalization. Due to this today, this fabric is considered as a low-quality fabric, outdated, and has an old-fashioned image. This paper deals with collection of primary data by means of an interview schedule and observation techniques of the Khadi stores at Pune and data analysis through consumer experience to find out the awareness, causes, and expectations behind why Khadi is being neglected and is an attempt to provide design solutions that the younger generation will take up readily.

Digital Tourism Security System for Nepal

Nepal is a sensitive and disaster-prone country where safety and security risk are of high concern for travelers. Digital technologies can play a vital role in addressing safety and security issues in the country. This research work proposes a Digital tourism security system design for addressing the safety and security issues in tourism industry of Nepal. The study uses Design science research methodology to identify artifacts, interactions, information flow and dependencies between them which are then mapped with existing prevalent technology to provide design solutions. Data is obtained from interview of tourist and experts as a primary source and technical documents/draft, software documentations, surveys as secondary source. Generalized information model, Use cases model, Network architecture model, Layered taxonomy model and Digital tourism technology reference model are the outcomes of the study. The work is very important as it talks specifically about implementation and integration of digital technologies in tourism security governance at federal, provincial, municipal and rural level. The research supplements as a knowledge document for design and implementation of digital tourism security system in practice. As there is very less work on digital systems in tourism security of Nepal, this work is a pioneer and first of its kind.

Dynamic Friction Performance of Hierarchical Biomimetic Surface Pattern Inspired by Frog Toe‐Pad

AbstractIn this study, the dynamic friction performance of frog toe‐pad inspired surface patterns is investigated in three folds. First, frog toe‐pad morphology is mimicked, designed, and fabricated using 3D printing technology. Friction coefficients of the models are measured experimentally over a wet medium, with varying velocity, load, and sliding direction. Furthermore, time is recorded to reach a 5 mm height by the water flow through a steady model in another experimental set‐up. Second, numerical simulation is employed to study the contact area, sliding displacement, and frictional stress of the model tread patterns. Surfaces with different low frictional coefficients are considered to simulate the presence of wet medium and surface roughness. Third, an analytical model is utilized to calculate the water squeeze‐out time, as well as the height difference of drained water during wet surface conditions. Among three different bioinspired models, built to compare with a sample tire design, the double‐layered studded hexagonal pattern shows the best wet traction performance. This study demonstrates that the bioinspired hierarchical studded hexagonal model can provide design solutions for future tire treads with enhanced wet friction performances, as well as applications in products requiring surface wet traction enhancement, including boot soles, roller surfaces, and surgical grippers.

Методические подходы к управлению проектами развития территории на основе комплексной жилой застройки

The article focuses on the problem of creating the comfortable urbanized environment by means of complex housing development of districts acting as an effective management tool that ensures a balanced spatial development of the economy of municipalities. The conditions of investment attractiveness of the projects of territorial integrated development are defined on the basis of their modeling. A brief description is given and the results of modeling (morphological, economic) are presented. Measures for investment management in the complex residential development and logical sequence of their implementation are established. The content is disclosed and the algorithm of choosing the optimal variant of complex residential development is proposed. The selection scheme of the housing development project includes summarizing information about the construction site, morphological modeling of design decisions for integrated housing development, determining the correspondence of design decisions to urban planning regulations, building codes and rules, economic modeling of design decisions, determining the compliance of commercial performance indicators with the owner’s expectations, providing design solutions to municipal authorities for approval, determining the compliance of the project results with the municipality expectations, approval of the project development and involving the project into the municipal investment program. It has been stated that assessment of the effectiveness of investment projects financed with budgetary resources does not take into account the environmental and social efficiency of investments in the non-productive sphere, the Rules of Land Use and Development for the territories of municipal entities do not establish full, comprehensive requirements for evaluating the effectiveness of decisions on the development of municipal territories in the long-term run. There has been substantiated the necessity to differentiate the residential real estate objects according to the degree of comfort, which is an effective indicator of the assessment of the quality of housing construction and the need for municipal authorities to take into account additional indicators when choosing a project of complex residential development in order to meet the expectations of all parties involved.

Organization Structure Design of Greenization Transformation of Old Districts—Taking the Elevator Installation Project as an Example

Taking the “village collective” in the old suburbs of Tianjin’ s suburbs as an example to upgrade existing residential elevators, using organizational design theory and business process theory, and using traditional organizational design methods, the village collectively funded elevators are retrofitted. Conduct organizational structure design and process design to form the project organization task-resource allocation relationship and the cooperation relationship between the subjects. From the operational level, we provide design solutions for the implementation of specific projects, making them more targeted and operable. Enriched the research field and content of organizational structure design issues.

Indigenous Bali on Augmented Reality as a Creative Solution in Industrial Revolution 4.0

Packaging creative media in augmented reality technology has become a new media in the face of the industrial revolution 4.0. The rapid development of the latest technology has caused problems for traditional Balinese culture - the phenomenon of colliding traditional culture towards the industrial revolution 4.0, motivating the development of culture-based technology. Bali has a variety of storytelling cultures, one of which is the traditional story of Cupak and Grantang. Story designation based on traditional fairy tale literacy will collaborate with augmented reality technology to add value to local content. The use of technological developments in traditional stories increases opportunities for cultural preservation in the form of creative and commercial media, while at the same time providing design solutions for Balinese native folk media in the field of augmented reality technology with traditional stories so that they can exist in the industrial era based on the industrial revolution 4.0 with native Balinese elements.

Incorporating Patent Analysis in Axiomatic Design for New Product Development

Axiomatic design theory is widely used in new product development by providing design solutions through mapping between functional requirements and design parameters. However, the theory does not provide a method to help designer obtain and select design parameters. To this end, this paper introduces patent analysis to overcome the deficiency. Firstly, functional requirements are transformed into patent search terms, and design parameters are obtained from patents. Secondly, morphological matrix is used to represent the relationships between target function and multiple design parameters. Thirdly, design parameters with higher patent frequency are chose and combined into a new scheme. Finally, the scheme is evaluated by the independent axiom of Axiomatic Design theory. The methodology is demonstrated and validated with a case study of spa shower.

Solar energy harvesting wireless sensor network nodes: A survey

Solar energy harvesting that provides an alternative power source for an energy-constrained wireless sensor network (WSN) node is completely a new idea. Several developed countries like Finland, Mexico, China, and the USA are making research efforts to provide design solutions for challenges in renewable energy harvesting applications. The small size solar panels suitably connected to low-power energy harvester circuits and rechargeable batteries provide a loom to make the WSN nodes completely self-powered with an infinite network lifetime. Recent advancements in renewable energy harvesting technologies have led the researchers and companies to design and innovate novel energy harvesting circuits for traditional battery powered WSNs, such as Texas Instruments Ultra Low Energy Harvester and Power Management IC bq25505 [see https://store.ti.com/BQ25505 for Texas Instruments (TI) Ultra Low Power Boost Charger IC bq25505 with Battery Management and Autonomous Power Multiplexor for Primary Battery in Energy Harvester Applications datasheets (2015).]. In modern days, the increasing demand of smart autonomous sensor nodes in the Internet of Things applications (like temperature monitoring of an industrial plant over the internet, smart home automation, and smart cities) requires a detailed literature survey of state of the art in solar energy harvesting WSN (SEH-WSN) for researchers and design engineers. Therefore, we present an in-depth literature review of Solar cell efficiency, DC-DC power converters, Maximum Power Point Tracking algorithms, solar energy prediction algorithms, microcontrollers, energy storage (battery/supercapacitor), and various design costs for SEH-WSNs. As per our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive literature survey of SEH-WSNs.

ANALISIS DESAIN FORMULIR RESUME MEDIS DI RSUD KOTA SALATIGA

Medical records aimed at the orderly administration in an effort to improve health services in the hospital. One of the forms used in the inpatient medical record service is a medical resume . The medical resume form in hospitals Salatiga still did not agree with the theory, from the aspect of anatomy, physical and contents. This study aimed to analyze the design of medical resume form in Salatiga City Hospital from the aspect of anatomy, physical and contents. And also provide design solutions design medical resume form accordingly. This type of research is descriptive qualitative research. This research was conducted in Salatiga City Hospital on May 19 to May 26 in 2016, using the method of observation, interviews, documentary studies and FGD (Focus Group Discussion). Data processing techniques used in this study is reduction, display, conclusion drawing and verification. Observations based design medical resume form in Salatiga City Hospital that aspect has not been included heading anatomy complete form and lack of instruction. From the physical aspect is not well seen from the still opaque paper with a weight of 60 grams. While aspects of the content has been effective because it has provided to record the necessary data to the back of the form, but there has been no cause of death certificates .

Detection of J2EE Patterns based on Customizable Features

Design patterns support extraction of design information for better program understanding, reusability and reengineering. With the advent of contemporary applications, the extraction of design information has become quite complex and challenging. These applications are multilingual in nature i.e. their design information is spread across various language components that are interlinked with each other. At present, no approach is available that is capable to extract design information of multilingual applications by using design patterns. This paper lays foundation for the analysis of multilingual source code for the detection of J2EE Patterns. J2EE Patterns provide design solutions for effective enterprise applications. A novel approach is presented for the detection of J2EE Patterns from multilingual source code of J2EE applications. For this purpose, customizable and reusable feature types are presented as definitions of J2EE Patterns catalogue. A prototype implementation is evaluated on a corpus that contains the repository of multilingual source code of J2EE Patterns. Additionally, the tool is tested on open source applications. The accuracy of the tool is validated by successfully recognizing J2EE Patterns from the multilingual source code. The results demonstrate the significance of customizable definitions of J2EE Pattern’s catalogue and capability of prototype.