Square Meters Of Space Research Articles

Research on Optimized Allocation and Use Effect of Music Education Resources Based on MOOC Platform

Abstract The equitable distribution of educational resources epitomizes the essence of establishing a robust educational nation. Yet, the issue of unequal allocation of music education resources has largely been overlooked. This study addresses this gap by examining the current status of music resource distribution across colleges and universities in Province C. An objective function was formulated based on four key indicators reflective of music education resources. The Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II), a multi-objective optimization algorithm, was employed to optimize this function and develop a novel resource allocation strategy. Upon implementation of this strategy, the optimized resource quantities at the sampled institutions were observed as follows: 1,131 square meters of space, 809 books, 72 musical instruments, and 7 personnel. Subsequent evaluation of the changes in students’ musical performance, pre-and post-implementation, revealed significant improvements. Specifically, the average music performance score in the experimental group increased by 7.32 points, compared to a 6.63-point increase in the control group, with both enhancements statistically significant as per the t-test results. Further, a survey assessing the perceptions of teachers and students towards the newly implemented program indicated that 66.8% of respondents endorsed the revised allocation. Collectively, these findings suggest that the optimized allocation strategy not only facilitated the music education resource distribution but also garnered a positive reception and improved student outcomes in music, thereby contributing constructively to the overarching goal of strengthening the educational infrastructure.

Air Temperature Analysis of a Residential House Using Soliworks Flow Simulation

The model house under study is a typical house with a G.I. roofing but it was retrofitted by adding a green-material (bamboo) into, thereby forming a parallel plate air passage. The air, in passing this channel (airgap), undergoes a natural or free convection process of cooling. Buoyant forces cause this downward flow of cooled air through the airgap. The roofing airgap designed to direct this cooled air to the room to be ventilated. The flow through the airgap is laminar because of the low air velocity caused by the free-convection process of cooling. This study evaluated the performance of a house with roofing that was retrofitted with a type of green-material called bamboo. An evaluation applied to 88 square meters of space through air-temperature analysis. The tool used in this analysis was the FloEFD simulation software. The inputs required in setting up the FloEFD model are initial boundary conditions, ambient pressure and temperature, the estimated space heat load (assumed to be constant), and the roof module. Based on the results obtained, the indoor temperature depends on the boundary conditions or the outside environmental temperature. The indoor air temperature decreased an average of 2 ℃ from outdoor temperature with the initial conditions of 31 ℃ and room heat flux of 300 Watts/m2 with a resultant air movement inside the room ranging from 0.217 m/s to 0.651 m/s. The insulating property of green-material utilized in the roofing system was instrumental in lowering the airgap exit temperature by an average of 4 ℃.

Smart Cameras in Embedded Systems

A smart camera performs real-time analysis to recognize scenic elements. Smart cameras are useful in a variety of scenarios: surveillance, medicine, etc. We have built a real-time system for recognizing gestures. Our smart camera uses novel algorithms to recognize gestures based on low-level analysis of body parts as well as hidden Markov models for the moves that comprise the gestures. These algorithms run on a Tri media processor. Our system cans recognize gestures at the rate of 20 frames /second. The camera can also fuse the results of multiple cameras. The smart camera – a whole vision system contained in one neat housing can be used anywhere, in any industry where image processing can be applied. Companies no longer need a cabinet in which to keep all their computing equipment: the computer is housed within the smart camera. In the pharmaceutical industry and in clean rooms – when not even dust is allowed – this can be a big advantage. A single square meter of space can be comparatively very expensive if there is no need for a component rack or cabinet, simply a smart camera, and then this could save a lot of money.

Housing Upgrading in Urban Redevelopment

This paper studies the impact of adding space to existing housing units on housing price and the probability that owners will sell their unit afterwards. This space adding is part of a large scale urban renewal and upgrading program in Singapore, and is carried out if sufficient residents vote in favour of space adding. Using administrative data on unit transactions, we exploit time and cross-sectional variation in implementing the program and identify its causal impact after restricting sample to narrow margins around the voting threshold. We find that adding 6 square meters of space to a unit increases its resale price by 7.68% and slightly reduces the probability that the unit will be sold. Using a distributed lag model, we find that the resale price starts rising about 40 months after residents vote to proceed with space adding.

The New Museo dell’Opera del Duomo

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe New Museo dell’Opera del DuomoTimothy VerdonTimothy VerdonMuseo dell’Opera del Duomo Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance Volume 18, Number 2Fall 2015 Published for Villa I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/683191 Views: 998Total views on this site © 2015 by Villa I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

CPS/SEG 2014 Beijing International Geophysical Conference and Exposition draws 1150 participants

The CPS/SEG 2014 Beijing International Geophysical Conference and Exposition, “Advancing Geophysical Innovation,” coorganized by the Chinese Petroleum Society (CPS) and SEG, was held successfully at the Beijing International Convention Center on 21–24 April 2014. More than 1150 people from 14 countries attended, including conference delegates, exhibition delegates, students, and VIPs. The exposition covered 6000 square meters of space and accommodated 59 companies, including 18 exhibitors from overseas in addition to local registrants. The technical session consisted of 334 papers (238 oral presentations and 96 e-posters).

Biomedical Technology in Franconia

Medical instrumentation and biotechnology business is developing rapidly in Franconia. The universities of Bayreuth, Erlangen-Nürnberg, and Würzburg hold upper ranks in biomedical extramural funding research. They have a high competence in biomedical research, medical instrumentation, and biotechnology. The association "BioMedTec Franken e.V" has been founded at the beginning of 1999 both to foster the information exchange between universities, industry and politics and to facilitate the establishment of biomedical companies by means of science parks. In the IGZ (Innovation and Foundation Center Nürnberg-Fürth-Erlangen) 4,500 square meters of space are currently shared by 19 novel companies. Since 1985 60 companies in the IGZ had a total turnover of about 74 Mio Euro. The TGZ (Technologie- und Gründerzentrum) in Würzburg provides space for 11 companies. For the specific needs of biomedical technology companies further science parks will be set up in the near future. A science park for medical instrumentation will be founded in Erlangen (IZMP, Innovations- und Gründerzentrum für Medizintechnik und Pharma in der Region Nürnberg, Fürch, Erlangen). Furthermore, a Biomedical Technology Center and a Research Center for Bicompatible Materials are to be founded in Würzburg and Bayreuth, respectively. Several communication platforms (Bayern Innovativ, FORWISS, FTT, KIM, N-TEC-VISIT, TBU, WETTI etc.) allow the transfer of local academic research activities to industrial utilization and open new co-operation possibilities. International pharmaceutical companies (Novartis, Nürnberg; Pharmacia Upjohn, Erlangen) are located in Franconia. Central Franconia represents a national focus for medical instrumentation. The Erlangen settlement of the Medical Engineering Section of Siemens employs 4,500 people including approximately 1,000 employees in the Siemens research center.

57th Berlinale 2007

EUROPEAN Film MarketNow in his sixth year as director of the Berlin International Film Festival, Dieter Kosslick takes particular pride in changing the image of the festival each time around. This year, for the 57th Berlinale (8-18 February 2007), he expanded the European Film Market (EFM) beyond the environs of the roomy Martin Gropius Bau, a short three-minute walk from festival headquarters on the Potsdamer Platz. "Last year, we offered buyers and sellers 5000 square metres of space in the Gropius Bau," he said in an interview, "but this year every nook and cranny of the building couldn't accommodate all of the market professionals who requested stands." So, to handle the overflow, the fifth floor of the Berlinale Service Center in the Debis atrium was reserved for latecomers. Altogether, more than 5000 market professionals were accredited for the Berlinale, while over 250 films from 51 countries were programmed...

Official opening of Europe's largest diabetes centre

The OCDEM building, of which the architect was the late Gordon Kirkley, is revolutionary in concept in that it places patients literally at the centre of the design. The sense of space, lightness and airiness in all parts of the building are another novel and attractive feature. OCDEM is situated on the Churchill Hospital campus in Headington, Oxford, and houses over 150 staff, formerly dispersed over several different sites in Oxford. They include scientists, clinicians, nurses, podiatrists, dietitians and secretarial and administrative personnel. There are facilities for 24 inpatients as well as the usual outpatient population for the catchment area. David Matthews, the Chairman of OCDEM, described in a brief speech at the opening ceremony the genesis of the idea in a conversation between himself and Stig Pramming, a senior executive of Novo Nordisk, five years ago. The project reflected Oxford's position in having the largest diabetes research programme in Europe – a tribute to the late and great Robert Turner. The present building, providing over 5000 square metres of space, represents Phase 1 of the development. Phase 2 will provide a further 1000 square metres of space and there are already plans to develop an islet transplant programme in the lower level of the building which is not at present used. A substantial amount of the funding for the Centre has been provided by Novo Nordisk. Lars Sorensen, the Chief Executive Officer of the company, said there were no secret clauses or special favours for Novo Nordisk in the partnership agreement. The company's support reflected its commitment not only to ameliorating diabetes but seeking a way of preventing and curing the condition. Novo Nordisk considered it to be a sensible strategy for the future to get involved in developing whole health care systems in addition to manufacturing drugs. What better way to do this than to build partnerships with world-renowned institutions such as Oxford University and the NHS? The Danes were back in Britain, said Mr Sorensen, and this time for good! Professor Matthews also paid tribute to Takeda, Servier, Merck and Sainsburys which had all supported diabetes research at Oxford in different ways and were now additional partners in the OCDEM adventure. Finally, Professor Matthews thanked all his colleagues who had made the OCDEM idea come alive and in particular Stig Pramming whose drive and stalwart support had been crucial throughout. He said people fell into two groups, those who wanted to put up fences and those who wanted to build paths. The OCDEM people wanted to build paths – and it was interesting that the word ‘stig’ meant ‘path’ in Danish. Report by James Wroe, Consultant Publisher; Practical Diabetes International

Pedagogy, Aesthetics, and Humanism: The Three Muses of Italian Children's Literature Theory

Pedagogy, Aesthetics, and Humanism: The Three Muses of Italian Children’s Literature Theory* Terri Frongia (bio) E se la Musa del De Amicis non è una delle divine Pieridi, e nemmeno quella dell’alta filosofia, è pur sempre una signora rispettabile: èla bonaria Musa della Pedagogia. —Benedetto Croce In April 1993 a proposal titled “Eclipsed by a Wooden Boy’s Shadow: Is There Any Other Italian Children’s Literature besides Pinocchio?” was awarded a Children’s Literature Association (ChLA) Research Fellowship. One of the objectives of the proposed research was to attend the Bologna Book Fair, the largest book fair in the world dedicated exclusively to children’s literature, in order to collect information on the current state of the literature, both primary and secondary, in Italy. The experience of attending the 30th annual Bologna Book Fair was, in a word, extraordinary. The principal reason for this extraordinariness resides in the Fair’s dazzling size and scope: some 1,336 exhibitors were in attendance, their displays occupying over 21,300 square meters of space in 11 separate buildings. Of these 1,336 exhibitors, 212 were Italian; the balance—over 1,150—represented over 60 different countries. Other Fair participants represent equally diverse groups, as the following statistics on 1992 attendees reveal: over 21,000 children’s book professionals from all over the world attended, including 2,140 publishers, 940 [End Page 50] librarians, 1,130 authors, 3,209 illustrators, and 6,971 educators, scholars, and critics. It would be difficult to imagine an atmosphere more conducive to international dialogue on the present state of children’s literature than that offered by the Bologna Book Fair. There, one can discern firsthand the present lineaments of national literature production and the give-and-take (or lack thereof) of international exchange. Furthermore, one can also participate in many of the roundtable discussions, conferences, and seminars that serve to chart, analyze, and guide the realm of literary theory as well. My own participation in the Fair and the subsequent research that grew out of that experience provides the basis of this article, which focuses on the major lines of development in Italian children’s literature theory over the last few decades. Preliminary Observations: The Role of Institutions As in so many other countries, the formation of Italian children’s literature and its theory was heavily influenced by two principal social and educational institutions, the Church and the State. Both perceived a literature for children in the Horatian light of utile et dulce, with the emphasis usually—quite naturally and unsurprisingly—on the utile. While Christian virtues abound in pre-eighteenth-century works such as Andrea da Barberino’s Il romanzo di Guerrino detto il Meschino (early fifteenth century), Giulio Cesare Croce’s Le avventure di Bertoldo (late sixteenth century), and Giambattista Basile’s Il pentamerone (1634), it was only toward the dawn of the nineteenth century that religious-minded authors such as Father Francesco Soave and Giuseppe Taverna (both of whom penned volumes of Novelle morali in 1782 and 1803 respectively), became increasingly involved with the production of children’s literature. During the mid-nineteenth century the formal and stylistic scope of such “educational books” was enlarged by authors such as Luigi Alessandro Parravicini, Pietro Thouar and the two priests, Don Giulio Tarra and Don Giovanni Bosco. In the hands of men such as these, the moral and social formation of Italian children was pursued with systematic diligence by means of both word and image. And, as Antonio Faeti points out in Letteratura per l’infanzia, this phenomenon continues to this day, as the extensive editorial campaigns of the publishing houses of the Antonian and Pauline orders reveal. 1 While the moral, social, and educational values of the Roman Catholic Church may be said to have pervaded Italian children’s literature and its theory from its inception, the role of the State in its formation is a much [End Page 51] more recent phenomenon. One explanation for this may be the fact that Italy became a united nation only a little over 120 years ago. The institution of the Italian state made its mark on children’s literature very early on, however. For example, as contemporary...

CeBIT brings forward tomorrow:

Convergence is a buzzword increasingly used to describe the development trends seen in the various sectors that make up the information technology industry. Participants in this industry are seen as new age architects of an epoch‐making era where not only telecommunications but also entertainment technologies converge into computer products. In turn, these seem destined to impact on every sphere of life: commerce, education, communication, medicine and consumer electronics. Martin Bangemann, the European Union's Industrial Affairs, IT and Telecommunications Commissioner, believes that ‘the new information society is reshaping most of the basic aspects of our economy and society. Several technologies have now reached the state where their applications will deeply affect our lives.’ Hannover's vast annual CeBIT show displays solutions to just about every task that can be supported by a computer. There are other major IT events in Europe, such as SMAU, which is held in Milan in September, but CeBIT's scale is unmatched. This year some 6000 companies from 57 countries exhibited in 21 halls covering 314 000 square metres of space. CeBIT's success reflects the size of Europe's markets for IT products which were valued at $95 billion in 1994.

The Influence of Floor Space on Growth, Egg Production, Fertility and Hatchability of the Coturnix coturnix japonica

RECENT interest has been shown in the use of the Coturnix as a pilot animal for poultry research (Wilson et al., 1961; Padgett and Ivey, 1959). Very little has been published concerning the amount of floor space required by Coturnix for optimum growth and reproduction. It has been recommended by Stanford (1957) that quail raised in outdoor community cages, in Missouri, be allowed 0.186 to 0.242 square meters of space per bird. Padgett and Ivey (1959) have suggested approximately 0.130 square meters of space per bird under similar conditions in Alabama. Wilson et al. (1961) reported that in a relatively crowded pen (132 square centimeters per quail) maturity was delayed about one week when quail in this crowded pen were compared with quail in pens under optimum management conditions.This study was undertaken in an attempt to determine the effects of floor space on the growth, egg production, fertility and …