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Wheeler, Bob. "Tiny houses, big lexicon." IEEE Spectrum 52, no. 10 (October 2015): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mspec.2015.7274189.
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Edelstein, Janice. "Small Houses, Big Impact." Journal of Gerontological Nursing 36, no. 4 (April 1, 2010): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/00989134-20100309-01.
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Lutz, Matthew. "BIG IDEAS IN TINY HOUSE RESEARCH AT NORWICH UNIVERSITY." Journal of Green Building 14, no. 1 (January 2019): 149–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/1943-4618.14.1.149.
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INTRODUCTION A small but notable trend that may offset energy consumption is emerging in a grassroots architectural counterculture movement focused on designing and building tiny houses. These small dwellings, ranging between 120 square feet and 400 square feet, simultaneously aim to consolidate, simplify, and minimize the energy requirements of the average size house while relieving their occupants of the burdens that come with owning a typical house. Tiny houses are entering the mainstream, showing up in unexpected places and catering to people from diverse backgrounds. Full-scale design/build prototype tiny houses developed at Norwich University serve as case-studies that may help prove, disprove and bring into question the effectiveness of the tiny house. This article will examine the second prototype house designed and built by Norwich University and will dive into some of the dynamic forces behind the tiny house movement and question how that movement might evolve and adapt to accommodate future scenarios.
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Cowart, Claire Denelle. "The Big House in Somerville and Ross." Review of Irish Studies in Europe 3, no. 1 (October 24, 2019): 17–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.32803/rise.v3i1.2209.
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The novels of Somerville and Ross revolve around the Big Houses of the Anglo-Irish gentry. This paper focuses on three of those novels as markers of the changing condition of the Anglo-Irish themselves, from the seeming stability of the late Victorian era through the changes wrought by Land Acts, war and Irish independence. The three novels form an arc in which houses and family fortunes deteriorate. The Big House of Bruff, in The Real Charlotte (1894), exists in a state of sleepy complacency which masks dangerous stagnation; the son of the house is unmarried and directionless, while members of the rising middle class take advantage of his inertia to advance their own interests. The Big House of Mount Music (1919) is in danger of being lost due to the Land Acts; for failing to recognize and prepare for this possibility, the owner is derided for his stupidity and termed a dinosaur. By 1925, when The Big House of Inver was published, the Big House and its owners are depicted in a state of hopeless ruin. The authors’ evolving views are considered in terms of their own circumstances and struggles to save their family homes.
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Abidah, Andi, and Erich Lehner. "Sauraja Pattojo." International Journal of Environment, Architecture, and Societies 1, no. 01 (February 28, 2021): 12–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.26418/ijeas.2021.1.01.12-18.
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Pattojo is a small kingdom in the past, and at this time, Pattojo was called village of Pattojo. The Kingdom of Pattojo is also called ke-datu-an Pattojo whose the king or queen was called datu. To be a king or queen, one must of the highest Nobel or Datu title. Bugis house is identical to the stilt on the house and the rectangular facet is elongated. The house's mention in the bugis tribe has a difference between the noble house and the ordinary people's house. The noble house is called saoraja (Sao=house, raja=big so that saoraja is a big house), and the people's house is called the bola. Generally, noble houses in ancient times were larger than ordinary people's houses. This research is a study on the form of Bugis noble house or king's private house (saoraja datu pattojo: local language) built before Indonesia's independence. The form of façade the arrangement of space in the house has nothing in common with the original Bugis house. It may indicate that the king's house did not follow the original form of Bugis house but has combined between the Bugis and European architecture. Some things that are very clearly undergoing a change from the original of Bugis house is the roof, position of the stairs, there is an arc shape on the underside of the house, and the arrangement of the room has also undergone changes.
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Blackwood, Evelyn. "Big houses and small houses: Doing matriliny in West Sumatra." Ethnos 64, no. 1 (January 1999): 32–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00141844.1999.9981589.
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Moody, Jessica, and Stephen Small. "Slavery and Public History at the Big House." Journal of Global Slavery 4, no. 1 (February 25, 2019): 34–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405836x-00401003.
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Abstract This article considers the public history of slavery at plantation museums in the US South and at country houses in Britain. Drawing on original research, the authors critique recent and current efforts to bring connections between these “Big Houses” and the history of slavery to the fore through different methods of interpretation. These elite residences are argued to have largely obscured such connections historically through distancing, distortion, and denial. However, some notable efforts have been made in recent years to diversify public history narratives and more fully represent histories of enslavement. Comparing these American and British house museums, this article contextualizes public history work at these sites and proposes possible lessons from this research, presenting some points to be taken forward which emerge from this transatlantic comparison.
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Reznick, David, Leonard Nunney, and Alan Tessier. "Big houses, big cars, superfleas and the costs of reproduction." Trends in Ecology & Evolution 15, no. 10 (October 2000): 421–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0169-5347(00)01941-8.
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Wattimena, Lucas. "ARSITEKTUR RUMAH TRADISIONAL DI MALUKU (STUDI ETNOARKEOLOGI)." Berkala Arkeologi 33, no. 2 (December 1, 2013): 201–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.30883/jba.v33i2.28.
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South Ceram coastal communities consist of several groups, among others: Noa nea, Simalouw, Yalatan and Rohua. Each group has a hallmark of culture, as the identity of each society. It is manifestated - among other - in the traditional architecture. The meaning of traditional architecture here is the traditional house, where the traditional house on the south coast of Ceram Island, is not merely seen as a physical building but also has the structure (roles, functions and position) in the development of the society.it could be seen in the pattern of traditional houses. The research showed that the traditional houses had different structure (roles, functions and positions), but on the other those variety of function are then adapted to their roles according to the southtern coastal communities of Ceram island (Noa Nea, Rohua, Yalatan) traditional houses can be grouped into traditional houses and big houses.
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Brophy, Kenneth. "From Big Houses to Cult Houses: Early Neolithic Timber Halls in Scotland." Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 73 (2007): 75–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x00000062.
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This paper addresses a small group of Neolithic monuments recorded as cropmarks in eastern lowland Scotland that have been termed timber halls, the best known example being the large rectangular building, Balbridie. Three such sites have now been excavated, and all have been shown to date to the early centuries of the Neolithic and to have been largely similar structures; further possible examples in the cropmark record will be assessed, through looking at the use of the term ‘timber hall’ in Scottish archaeology over the past 40 years. The paper will also address a number of sites, mostly known as cropmarks, which have similar dimensions and architectural traits to these timber halls. Excavations, however, have shown them to have a very different form (for instance, probably unroofed), and to date to the latter half of the 4th millennium cal BC, several centuries later than the first timber halls. Drawing on excavation results, cropmarks, and evidence from outwith Scotland, this paper will discuss the changing form and function of the Neolithic ‘timber hall’ tradition in Scotland, arguing that roofed ‘big houses’ were later replaced by ceremonial and mortuary ‘cult houses’, drawing on social memory and tradition.
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Hewson, Claire. "The Big Draw." Early Years Educator 23, no. 3 (October 2, 2021): S6—S7. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/eyed.2021.23.3.s6.
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The Big Draw is a festival that runs throughout October to celebrate the power of drawing. Every man-made thing we see started as a drawing, from our houses to the clothes we wear. For children, mark making is also a way of communicating, developing their ideas and also sharing their feelings, after all, mark making is a form of self-expression.
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Gorton, Gary, and Ellis W. Tallman. "Too Big to Fail Before the Fed." American Economic Review 106, no. 5 (May 1, 2016): 528–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20161043.
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“Too-big-to-fail” is consistent with policies followed by private bank clearing houses during financial crises in the U.S. National Banking Era prior to the existence of the Federal Reserve System. Private bank clearing houses provided emergency lending to member banks during financial crises. This behavior strongly suggests that “too-big-to-fail” is not the problem causing modern crises. Rather it is a reasonable response to the threat posed to large banks by the vulnerability of short-term debt to runs.
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Al-Naggar, Miged Abbas Abd, Abass Ismael Ibrahim, and Mahmood Chabuk. "Modren Patterns of Residential Units and their Impact in Deformation of the Morphoogy of the Rural Settlements in Iraq." Journal of University of Babylon for Engineering Sciences 27, no. 1 (February 11, 2019): 275–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.29196/jubes.v27i1.2003.
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Research work on finding out the role of the existence of houses of new pattern in changing and deforming the morphology of rural statement in the middle region in Iraq. The first stage was to explore the charachteristics of traditional house in Iraqi rural statement and find out the factors that made these charachteristics to make easy make a comparison of new houses with new pattern. A finding result shows up that deformation may occurs in architectural forms in case of the absence of specific beauty elements. To make sure of that , verbal and written quastionaires were done for selected rural statments houses owners and architecture experts who indicated the presence of big deformation in samples of houses tissue that include both traditional and new pattern together in rural statements.
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Xiong, Tian Yu, Xiu Zhang Fu, and Jian Dong. "Simulation Analysis of Building Energy Consumption with Different Surface-Volume-Ratio and Envelop Performance of Rural Dwellings." Advanced Materials Research 953-954 (June 2014): 1578–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.953-954.1578.
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Rural dwellings have a big difference in the appearance and envelope. Living form is changing a lot from detached house to the apartment in multi-story apartments. These changes affect building’s energy consumption consisting of heating and cooling. This paper focuses on the impact of the energy consumption affected by different surface volume ratios, simulation analysis showed a general argument of the difference. And for the same house type, this paper also compares the energy-saving effect of different envelop performances, Specific contents are the heat transfer coefficient and shading ways. Simulation results identified that SVR has influence on different types of houses, the energy consumption of row houses can be saved more than 30% compared with detached houses. Envelope performance also affects energy consumption and the national standard is recommended for the energy saving and the comfort.
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Đức, Trần Thanh. "VULNERABILITY TO FLOODING AND COPING BEHAVIOR FOUND IN HOUSING CONDITION: A CASE STUDY IN VAN QUAT DONG VILLAGE, TAM GIANG LAGOON AREA, CENTRAL VIETNAM." Hue University Journal of Science: Earth Science and Environment 126, no. 4B (June 2, 2017): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.26459/hueuni-jese.v126i4b.4294.
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<p>Vietnam is a country that is suffered from frequent natural disasters. The most common types of natural disasters experienced are typhoon and flood. From 1951 to 2010, there were 166 typhoons come to Vietnam, of which 67 % hit the central region, 25 % to the north and 8 % to the south of the country. Typhoons bring heavy rains and high tides which accelerate floods, particularly in the coastal and lagoon areas of Central Vietnam. Identification of vulnerability to flooding and coping behavior of local people is required in the efforts to strengthen local capacity related to livelihood security in the study area. This study aims at characterizing the vulnerability of housing condition to flooding and the coping behaviors of local people after experienced big floods in Tam Giang lagoon area, Central Vietnam. Measurement of house’s foundation, observation of types of housing, interview to collect information about the water level during the events of big floods, year of construction and change of people’s behavior after the 1999’s flood were conducted with 427 households in Van Quat Dong village where four big flooding occurred in 1983, 1999, 2007 and 2009 during the last 30 years. The study shows that the 1999’s flood was the biggest flood with water height reached to 148.7 ± 23.9 cmfrom house floor and 222.6 ± 15.4 cmfrom ground level. The households located in the eastern part of the village are recognized more vulnerable to flood due to the lower altitude. The temporary and semi-permanent houses, which share 77.0 % to the entire houses, are considered to be relatively vulnerable to flooding due to weak housing materials and low height of foundation. The houses which categorized to permanent and semi-permanent types constructed after the 1999’s flood have higher foundation than the other houses constructed before the 1999’s flood. The raising of foundation height of permanent and semi-permanent houses, as well as an increase in numbers of two-storey houses, are recognized to be a behavior of local people to cope with flooding. The study also shows the relationship between the poverty level and the coping behaviors of households. Some of poor households in the village are still not in good preparedness to flooding. It suggests that poverty level of household concerns to the vulnerability to flooding and, therefore, rural development assistance to improve household economy for poverty alleviation is required in the efforts to strengthen local capacity related to livelihood security.<strong></strong></p>
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Willoughby, Chelsey, Severin Mangold, and Toralf Zschau. "Small Houses, Big Community: Tiny Housers’ Desire for More Cohesive and Collaborative Communities." Social Sciences 9, no. 2 (February 13, 2020): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci9020016.
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Past research on the tiny house movement has primarily focused on understanding the individual motivations behind adopting the tiny house lifestyle. While some studies have suggested that tiny housers do entertain an interest in community, no systematic research exists that examines the actual complexities of this phenomenon. To make first inroads into this body of literature, twenty-four community-oriented tiny housers were interviewed about their ideal community. Interview questions ranged from definitions of community to specific ideas of the nature of community characteristics. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and then coded in NVivo 12.0. Four main themes and eleven subthemes emerged from the qualitative content analysis. Select themes were then subjected to a subsequent quantification analysis in order to refine and deepen the theoretical understanding. The findings of this exploratory study suggest that a majority of tiny housers desire to be part of more cohesive and collaborative communities. While stressing the importance of community, tiny housers also expressed concerns over privacy. To explain the findings, the paper offers a set of arguments situated in the broader socio-cultural texture of our time.
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Binder, Marley J., Elizabeth Barrett, and Jessica Beattie. "We Do Big Things From Very Little: The Well-being of Rural Neighbourhood House Employees and Volunteers." International Journal of Community and Social Development 3, no. 1 (March 2021): 68–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2516602621998106.
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Neighbourhood houses are under increased pressure to demonstrate their value, contributing to rising stress and potentially psychological harm. This research aims to understand what effect working within the rural neighbourhood house sector has on employee and volunteer well-being. A phenomenological methodology was employed using semi-structured interviews. The qualitative interview data were analysed thematically to elicit emergent themes. Participants described how involvement in the sector both positively and negatively influenced their well-being. The two major themes, with associated sub-themes, that emerged from the participant interviews were: (a) ‘interconnectedness and community’; and (b) ‘burnout and stress’. Rural Australians have poorer health outcomes, with these often exacerbated through increased physical-work demands, family conflict and poor mental health. Rural neighbourhood houses are important organisations that engage and connect with those that may be disadvantaged, but this often comes at a cost to those who operate these vital services. A myriad of factors, including funding, isolation, unpaid work hours and lack of support, negatively contribute to the participants’ well-being. The article suggests solutions to improve the well-being of rural neighbourhood house employees and volunteers.
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Gupta, C. D. "Globalisation, corporate legal liability and big business houses in India." Cambridge Journal of Economics 34, no. 5 (September 29, 2009): 895–913. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cje/bep056.
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Таловская, А., A. Talovskaya, Е. Язиков, E. Yazikov, Е. Филимоненко, E. Filimonenko, Н. Осипова, N. Osipova, Т. Шахова, and T. Shahova. "Trace Element Composition of Snow Cover in Vicinity of Coal- Burning and Gas-Burning Boiler Houses as Used Fuel’s Environmental Performance Indicator." Safety in Technosphere 6, no. 3 (October 17, 2017): 3–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/article_59d34e310bbb79.46733089.
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Emissions of rural villages’ boiler houses remain insufficiently studied in comparison with emissions of big urban heat power engineering objects. In this paper have been presented the results of comparative analysis for a dust pollution level and trace element composition of solid particles in vicinity of rural villages’ boiler houses distinguishing by technological parameters and the fuel’s type (coal or gas) based on the snow cover’s trace element composition study. It has been established that the dust load value relating to background in vicinity of different coal-burning boiler houses is varying and depends on fuel consumption volumes, availability of dust and gas trapping system, coal depository and vehicle park. The dust load value does not exceeded background in vicinity of gas- burning boiler houses no matter of their technological parameters. It has been demonstrated that the trace elements accumulation level in the samples from vicinity of coal-burning and gas-burning boiler houses depends on type, composition and flow rates of fuel, as well as from the fly ash composition and local emissions sources. Have been marked general tracer elements (Hg, Zn, Ni, Mo, Co, Ba, Sr) and specific ones (Cd, As, Sb, Pb, V) of man-made impact for different coal-burning boiler houses. Hg, As, Cd have been proposed as general tracer elements of man-made impact for coal-burning boiler houses. It has been stated that natural gas is the most environmental friendliness fuel in comparison with coal regardless of boiler house’s technological parameters.
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Muhammad, Fithor. "Proposed Marketing Strategy For PT. Harmony Land Group in Facing off Uncertainty Period." Eduvest - Journal Of Universal Studies 2, no. 5 (May 19, 2022): 869–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.36418/edv.v2i5.435.
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PT Harmony Land Group is property developer company for landed houses residential that founded by Fithor Muhammad and Ramadani in 2016. As a company that builds from the scratch, Harmony Land grew so fast, only 5 years, in 2021 Harmony Land already has 25 residential projects with 1004 units in five cities, Depok, Jakarta, Bogor, Sukabumi and Medan. In the fourth year of growth, an unexpected big disaster is coming, Pandemic Covid 19. The property business is greatly affected, people are afraid to leave the house, even less to buy a house. After struggling to survive for two years in a pandemic situation without firing any employees, Harmony Land started looking for the next opportunity to bring Harmony Land to the next level. One big issue that Harmony Land wants to solve is increasing the act per ask at A5 costumer journey. In 2021, the number of ask customers which have already contacted Harmony Land are 17.789, while the number of unit transactions are 105 houses. Only 0,59% act per ask and lost 17.684 potential customers. So, Harmony Land wants to increase the sales by developing a marketing strategy to increase conversion rate act per ask. This research uses the AFI framework. Analysis internal and external that will continue to Formulation strategy and be closed by the Implementation plan of that strategy. Through external analysis, there are many opportunities after pandemic covid where other competitors still wait and see, while customers start to bounce again. From the customer analysis, customers buy houses in Harmony Land because of price, location, design concept and selling service. So, for increasing act per ask, the proposed marketing strategy is to develop thematic residential in many locations with caregiver service to help more customers with many product option each target market area.
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Coleman, S. "A Tale of Two Houses: The House of Commons, the Big Brother House and the People at Home." Parliamentary Affairs 56, no. 4 (October 1, 2003): 733–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsg113.
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Nugroho, Agung Murti. "Bioclimatic Wisdom in Minangkabau Houses: Case Study of Gadang Jopang Manganti House." Local Wisdom : Jurnal Ilmiah Kajian Kearifan Lokal 14, no. 1 (January 15, 2022): 61–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.26905/lw.v14i2.6767.
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Bioclimatic architecture is an adaptive design to the equatorial tropical climate through passive cooling strategies. This paper aims to evaluate the bioclimatic wisdom of the Minangkabau houses to formulate passive design knowledge with visual observation techniques and measurement of the air temperature and relative humidity. The visual observation method is used to find the level of application of bioclimatic design. The measurement techniques are used to evaluate the thermal environmental comfort in the case study of the Gadang Jopang Manganti House, Munka, Limapuluh Kota, West Sumatra. The result of bioclimatic wisdom elements in the appropriate Gadang Jopang Manganti house is the orientation of the building mass and openings, placement and form of single dwelling space without partition and big roof space. The living room has a comfortable thermal environment performance indicated by the average comfort air temperature, decreasing air temperature, and a longer comfortable period. The development of a bioclimatic design for the Gadang Jopang Manganti House could be taken by improving naatural cooling or optimizing natural ventilation to remove building’s humidity.
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Pak, W., Inhan Kim, and Jungsik Choi. "Proposal of the energy consumption analysis process for the residential houses using big data analytics technique." Journal of Computational Design and Engineering 8, no. 6 (November 26, 2021): 1591–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcde/qwab063.
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Abstract Recently, nations around the world have been implementing various policies to reduce energy consumption by improving “building energy performance” at the governmental level. In addition, “the public data opening system” has been institutionalized so that private companies could reproduce useful information by utilizing public data. However, it is insufficient to improve the energy performance of residential houses by analysing the actual energy consumption of residential houses using public open data. This study proposes a “Big Data Analysis Process for Residential Housing Energy Consumption” by utilizing public open data. This process is organized into four stages as follows: Data Understanding, regarding exploring and collecting architectural data, meteorological data, and energy consumption data; Data Processing, regarding the transforming energy consumption data of residential housing and reference input data to make master data, which is analysis data that have been processed by filtering, refining, and type conversion of the collected data, for the big data analysis; Data Analytics, development of an analysis model for the energy consumption of residential housing applying analysis algorithm; Evaluation, data assessment and application of the analytical model.The purpose of this study is to reproduce green remodeling with useful information: analysing a variety of data open to the private sector using big data analysis techniques. It is expected that the “Big Data Analysis Process for Energy Consumption” will be used to confirm the correlation between the energy consumption of residential houses and the architectural elements, and to effectively derive the energy performance improvement factors for energy saving in buildings.
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Li, Ning, Zhechen Peng, Jian Dai, and Ziwei Li. "Performance-Oriented Passive Design Strategies for Shape and Envelope Structure of Independent Residential Buildings in Yangtze River Delta Suburbs." Sustainability 14, no. 8 (April 12, 2022): 4571. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14084571.
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The Yangtze River Delta is a relatively developed area with many detached houses in the suburbs. Such detached houses are usually 1–3 stories high, mostly self-built by local people. Due to the lack of passive design guidance in the design and construction process, these houses’ energy consumption is usually high. At present, residents in the area use air conditioners, fans, and other electrical equipment in their daily lives. This paper takes detached houses in the suburbs of Ningbo as the research objects, through performance simulation and big data mining of a large number of generated samples, and proposes a passive design strategy suitable for the local building form and envelope structure, which can guide local housing construction.
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Xu, Guan Yi, and Jin Ping Wang. "The Influence of Social Class in Human Settlements - Take Yen Hsi-Shan's Former Residence and Zhang Jiata Villages as an Example." Applied Mechanics and Materials 477-478 (December 2013): 1136–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.477-478.1136.
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The Chinese officers and the people, this two big social hierarchies have been long-term antagonistic and coexistent situation for thousand years, under the influence of which the Chinese traditional houses also seems to head to the two different roads. This article selects two typical local-style dwelling houses building communities of Shanxi Province and shows the two different residential types of features from the layout, courtyard pattern to architectural form.
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Usami, Tatsuo. "Earthquake Studies and the Earthquake Prediction System in Japan." Journal of Disaster Research 1, no. 3 (December 1, 2006): 416–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2006.p0416.
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At 11h58m of Sept. 1, 1923, the coastal area of the south Kanto District, including big cities such as Tokyo, Yokohama, Kamakura and Atami, was violently shaken by a big shock. Disastrous vibrations continued for a couple of minutes. Immediately after the earthquake, fires arose at 163 points in Tokyo and about 3,800 ha were burnt to ashes. About 316,000 houses, 70% of all the houses in Tokyo, vanished in the fires. In Yokohama, fires arose at about 60 points and burnt about 950 ha and 60,000 houses, that is, 60% were destroyed by fires. Sum of the dead and the missing was 142,807, about 80-90% of whom were killed by fires. The most tragic event took place in the Hihukusho-yard (6 ha), which is located in downtown Tokyo. Many people who escaped from fires and other injuries gathered in this place with the minimum of personal property necessary for daily life. Fire was started on this meager assemblage and finally, 44,030 persons – almost all who gathered there – were burnt to death.
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Sahibzada Jawad, Sakhawat Ur Rehman, Sadaf Naushad, Seemab Yousaf, and Zahid Yousaf. "Exploring performance of software houses." World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development 16, no. 1 (November 29, 2019): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/wjemsd-05-2019-0033.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of market orientation on firm performance of software houses and examine the mediating firm innovativeness in the relationship between market orientation and firm performance. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from the employees of software houses located in two big cities of Pakistan. Mean, SD, correlation and regression analysis were conducted to check the relationship among variables. Findings Results show that the performance of software houses largely depends on firm innovativeness and market orientation. Research limitations/implications The authors recommend that further studies are required to test the propositions in longitudinal research design for achieving in-depth insights. Practical implications Software houses need to pay more attention toward market orientation and innovativeness. Originality/value It has been observed that software houses pay less attention toward market dynamics. This research discusses an implementation approach based on solid theoretical foundations to achieve the firm performance through market orientation and firm innovativeness.
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Dobrivojević Tomić, Ivana. "PROBLEMI U NASELJAVANJU I PRILAGOĐAVANJU KOLONISTA NA ŽIVOT U VOJVODINI U PRVIM GODINAMA POSLE DRUGOG SVETSKOG RATA." Istorija 20. veka 39, no. 2/2021 (August 1, 2021): 313–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.29362/ist20veka.2021.2.dob.313-332.
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The Decision to Confiscate German-Owned Property (1944), the Law on Agrarian Reform and Colonization (August 1945) and the Decree on the Implementation of Veterans’ Settlement (1945) provided a legal framework for the colonization of Vojvodina. People from the outback regions applied for colonization in large numbers since it was believed that migration guaranteed deliverance from decades of dearth and poverty. The journey of the colonists was fraught with numerous difficulties, primarily due to poor organization and frequent changes of plans. The distribution of houses, cattle, and inventory was done by local commissions. The bias of these commissions was obvious. Thus, the division of houses and inventory was accompanied by great social injustices. Some families were housed in buildings with electrical installations, while others had to settle into houses without floors. Such actions caused indignation and revolt among the colonists. Dissatisfied with their new life, as many as 4,000 families decided to return. Those who remained needed time to adapt to the new way of life. With time, big families disintegrated, the position of women improved, new work habits were developed, and neighborly relations became better.
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Siddiq, Suwandojo. "BANGUNAN TAHAN GEMPA BERBASIS STANDAR NASIONAL INDONESIA." Jurnal Standardisasi 8, no. 2 (July 1, 2008): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.31153/js.v8i2.664.
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<p>When strong earthquake occurs, (Magnitude is larger than 6,0 SR), usually followed by earthquake damages, such as multi story buildings and non engineered structures (public houses), and big number of victims, in the area close to epicenter. If the location of hypocenter is under bottom of the sea, its depth is less than 30 km (shallow earthquake), the magnitude M is not less than 7.0, and the type of earthquake is thrust or dip-slip, the earthquake may be followed by tsunami (tsunami is Japanese words, means harbor sea-waves). Great tsunami with run up more than 2.0 meters is able to destroy every thing on the beach and kill big number of human lives.<br />Earthquake shock will generate ground acceleration, and may cause building/housing damages and collapses. The damaged buildings are caused by weakness of building/house structures, such as: bad quality of building-materials, unperfected structural configuration, utilization of unsuitable building materials and/or building structures, and the last but most important is not implemented SNI-guidance regarding aseismic (anti-seismic) structures properly. This paper will discuss the weakness of public houses (Non Engineered Structures) and Multi story Structures (Engineered Structures), and the role or the function of SNI in improving quality and safety of buildings against earthquake motion.</p>
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Japee, Gurudutta, and Ankit Joshi. "USE OF CLOUD COMPUTING AND ACCOUNTING: BUSSINESS PRESPECTIVE." GAP GYAN - A GLOBAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES 1, no. 2 (December 15, 2018): 118–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.47968/gapgyan.120017.
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Now a day’s business houses started adopting and currently are using cloud computing and accounting Because of growth possibilities or potential of cloud computing and accounting as a world scenario. Business houses developed their own big data centers, private cloud or hybrid cloud as a support for their processes within the shared virtual and configurable resource. Cloud computing and accounting technology process and store a series of sensitive and confidential data (financial statements, financial reports, A.O.A and M.O.A) of a business houses. Cloud accounting and computing technology adoption provides a rigorous analysis of data and application security. In this paper which is based on a descriptive analysis of existing literature and specialized practice in this field. We wish to synthesize the potential of cloud accounting and computing in the development of business houses.
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Yagol’nik, Evgeniya Sergeevna. "Planning organization features of blocks of low-rise buildings in the structure of a big city irkutsk." Vestnik MGSU, no. 11 (November 2015): 16–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.22227/1997-0935.2015.11.16-28.
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Low-rise residential buildings of different types occupy 48 % of residential areas of Irkutsk, which is practically a half of the housing stock of the city. That’s why the researcj of its planning structure and understanding of the features of each type formation in the city structure is quite current. In the process of investigation three main types of low-rise residential buildings were detected: private residential houses with land parcel; apartment houses; town houses. The authors investigated architectural and planning features of forming the areas of low-rise buildings of three types in the structure of a major city Irkutsk. The investigation is carried out with the aim to study the characteristic conditions of planning activity of the existing quarters of low-rise residential buildings, search for qualitative characteristics of the investigated types in the conditions of a big city.
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Balık, Deniz, and Açalya Allmer. "This is not a mountain!: simulation, imitation, and representation in the Mountain Dwellings project, Copenhagen." Architectural Research Quarterly 19, no. 1 (March 2015): 30–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135515000196.
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The Mountain Dwellings project, located in the centre of the Ørestad district of southern Copenhagen, was built in 2008 by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). Together with BIG’s other housing projects nearby, namely the VM Houses and the 8 House, the building is a part of the urban development carried out under the ‘Ørestad act’, initiated by the Danish Parliament in the 1990s. This promoted the development of a new contemporary urban quarter of dwelling, studying, and working. With an attempt to reinforce the vibrant urban fabric of the district, various buildings of residential units and public spaces have been built, in addition to the improved green areas and rainwater canals.
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Kaur, Harjyot, and Manjit Kaur. "Poverty Alleviation: A Corporate Issue." International Journal of Emerging Research in Management and Technology 6, no. 6 (June 29, 2018): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.23956/ijermt.v6i6.267.
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There is large number of societal issues which requires the attention of business houses to solve these issues. Issue of poverty is one of these issues which require the attention of corporate sector. Poverty alleviation or reduction is a big challenge now a days around the world. For some people poverty is a microeconomic issue. For others it is a issue at macro level and associated with MNC’s. In this article, it is defined that what is poverty, and what should be the role of the business houses for the alleviation of the poverty. There are various approaches which are used by the business houses towards the issue of the poverty alleviation and links are established among various aspects of issue of poverty.
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Hedberg, Andreas. "Small Actors, Important Task: Independent Publishers and their Importance for the Transmission of French and Romance Language Fiction to Sweden Since the Turn of the Millennium." Moderna Språk 110, no. 3 (December 5, 2016): 21–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.58221/mosp.v110i3.7816.
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Starting from a description of today’s Swedish book market, which has seen a steady decline of French and other Romance languages as source languages for translated literature, this article investigates the importance of independent publishers for the transmission of non-anglophone fiction. In qualitative interviews, representatives of independent presses were asked to describe their business models and their relationships with big publishing houses. They were also asked to elaborate on the role of French and other Romance language fiction in Sweden today. The article’s understanding of the book market is very much based on work done by literary sociologists, such as Pascale Casanova, Hans Hertel and Johan Svedjedal.
The results indicate that independent presses stepped in during the late 1990s, when the big publishing houses showed less and less interest in French and Romance language literature in translation. These independent publishers, with the help of clear niches, expert skills and perseverance, and in cooperation with media, showed that it was still possible to yield a profit publishing these kinds of translations. As a result, the major publishing houses once again took notice of French and other Romance language literature, engaging in competition with the smaller actors whose creation they had once brought about.
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Vasilyev, A., I. Yarmoshenko, A. Onishchenko, M. Hoffmann, G. Malinovsky, A. Marenny, and L. Karl. "RADON MEASUREMENTS IN BIG BUILDINGS: PILOT STUDY IN RUSSIA." Radiation Protection Dosimetry 191, no. 2 (September 2020): 214–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncaa150.
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Abstract Detailed analysis of indoor radon concentration distribution by floors was conducted in four children institutions, one office building and two residential houses in Russian cities to develop approaches to draw up a program of radon survey for big buildings. Higher variability of radon concentration was found in high geogenic radon potential (GRP) area when the soil is the main source of radon. No essential dependence of radon concentration on the floor in high-rise buildings was found in low GRP area. The number of required radon measurements is estimated using obtained characteristics of radon variability.
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Melikyan, Zohrab, Siranush Egnatosyan, and Naira Egnatosyan. "Developing of a ventilation system for residential houses with solar air heater." E3S Web of Conferences 97 (2019): 06017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20199706017.
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Ventilation of buildings in winter period, especially in cold climatic conditions, requires rather big quantity of heat for preheating the ventilation fresh air. Consequently, an average low-income family pays a tangible cost for ventilation of apartments. To provide low cost ventilation of houses it is becoming attractive the use of solar energy for preheating the outside fresh air, before its supplying into the house. For this purpose, cheap solar air heaters are needed. To solve this problem a simple and cheap construction of solar air heater was developed, which is the main part of the ventilation system. The system consists of air heating solar collectors, installed on the roof of the house, warm air distribution ductwork, internal air circulation ducts and air-circulating fan. In summer period, the system is used only during nighttime period for circulating outside colder air through the internal space of the house. Such operation allows cooling internal air and as well the constructions of the house. As a result, the house accumulates nighttime natural cold for using it at daytime cooling purposes. Presentation includes the scheme, explanation of operation and method for design of suggested ventilation system. Analysis proved the energy efficiency and cost effectiveness of the new system.
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Pietrzak, Janusz. "A Few Words About the Ice House of the Konsum Store in the Nineteenth-Century Priest’s Mill Factory and Residential Complex in Łódź." Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Archaeologica, no. 35 (December 30, 2020): 217–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/0208-6034.35.13.
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The issue of ice houses, both those found among manor and farm buildings and those connected with industrial plants, is a research issue frequently raised in many countries of Western Europe and in the United States. In the Polish literature, however, it does not attract much interest, which is why knowledge of it – or at least the knowledge shared – is usually limited to the awareness of the existence of ice houses and their purpose, and only occasionally do they become subjects of more extensive research. This also concerns the very material substance of such buildings.
In 2015, on the Priest’s Mill estate in Łodź, erected along with the extension of Karol Scheibler’s cotton plant at the beginning of the 1870s, rescue excavations were conducted under the supervision of archaeologists Maciej Milczarek and Zbigniew Rybacki. They concerned the remains of an ice house built for the estate general store (including a grocery) called Konsum. Its preserved form is a result of a few construction stages completed in quick succession. During the third one (between 1883/1884 and 1889) the ice house we are interested in was built. It was not big as its capacity was approximately 100 cubic metres, and its structure was rather typical of larger industrial ice houses, with the upper (aboveground) chamber used as an ice warehouse, and the lower (underground) chamber serving as the store’s cold storage. Most probably, it was not used for long, however, there is no data that would allow to determine the time of its liquidation.
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Spiekman, Marleen, Olav Vijlbrief, Haseeb Tahir, Yasin Bulut, Wouter Borsboom, T. A. J. van Goch, Dick van Ginkel, and Edwin van Kessel. "The development of an RC-network simulation model calibrated with monitoring data for use in the performance guarantee of Net-Zero houses." E3S Web of Conferences 172 (2020): 22002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202017222002.
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In order to drive forward the energy transition, construction companies and other suppliers of deep retrofitting solutions have started to give guarantees on the energy performance of very energy efficient houses. With these initiatives, a need has arisen for methods that can assess per household the actual energy performance during the use phase. An RC-network simulation model calibrated with monitoring data has been developed and tested on deep retrofitted Net-Zero houses in Emmen (the Netherlands). The results show that this has been a successful first step in order to arrive at a realistic analysis of the actual energy performance of individual houses. The big challenge will be to determine the parameters in the model with more certainty. This applies especially, but not exclusively, to the behavioural parameters.
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Farrington, Seana Vida. "Exploring the eclectic world of Richard White (1800-1868), 2nd Earl of Bantry, Lord Berehaven: collector | grand tourist | nobleman." Boolean: Snapshots of Doctoral Research at University College Cork, no. 2014 (January 1, 2014): 24–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/boolean.2014.5.
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This is how Nigel Everett describes Bantry House in his Irish Arts Review article of 2010. Overlooking Bantry Bay in West Cork the house enjoys one of the most favourable aspects of any of Ireland’s Big Houses (Figure 1). Everett’s words are a most apt description for the project of ennoblement envisioned by Richard White (1800-1868), 2nd Earl of Bantry, Lord Berehaven, and for the collection of art he amassed. As Berehaven travelled extensively he was often absent from Bantry. He visited the usual sites of the nineteenth century Grand Tour, also visiting Spain, Russia, the Baltics and Scandinavia. There were two activities he invariably participated in while travelling: sketching and collecting. The latter activity led to the creation of one of the most eclectic collections of art to grace an Irish home. Berehaven and his vision for Bantry House have not received sustained enquiry, which is a gap in ...
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Salameh, Khouloud, Mohammed Awad, Aisha Makarfi, Abdul-Halim Jallad, and Richard Chbeir. "Demand Side Management for Smart Houses: A Survey." Sustainability 13, no. 12 (June 15, 2021): 6768. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13126768.
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Continuous advancements in Information and Communication Technology and the emergence of the Big Data era have altered how traditional power systems function. Such developments have led to increased reliability and efficiency, in turn contributing to operational, economic, and environmental improvements and leading to the development of a new technique known as Demand Side Management or DSM. In essence, DSM is a management activity that encourages users to optimize their electricity consumption by controlling the operation of their electrical appliances to reduce utility bills and their use during peak times. While users may save money on electricity costs by rescheduling their power consumption, they may also experience inconvenience due to the inflexibility of getting power on demand. Hence, several challenges must be considered to achieve a successful DSM. In this work, we analyze the power scheduling techniques in Smart Houses as proposed in most cited papers. We then examine the advantages and drawbacks of such methods and compare their contributions based on operational, economic, and environmental aspects.
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Shi, Qian Fei, and Xiao Rui Zhao. "The Low Carbon and Ecological Character Research of Traditional Dwellings in Southeast of Shanxi." Advanced Materials Research 243-249 (May 2011): 6433–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.243-249.6433.
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The natural environment and traditional thoughts have very big effect on the low carbon ecological of technology of traditional dwellings in Southeast of Shanxi, while the traditional local-style dwelling houses built environment naturalness and specific circumstances residential construction energy strategy that both make the traditional dwellings adapted well to the local ecological environment, make the person, architecture, environment got harmonious unification.
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Girard, Guillaume, Michael Bishop, Philip Austen, and Liz Swain. "Increasing Cast House Throughput through “In-Spec First Time”." Materials Science Forum 693 (July 2011): 141–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.693.141.
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Achieving in-specification melt analysis first time has been the Holy Grail of many cast houses for a number of years and for a good reason. For many producers, the furnaces are the bottleneck of the value added casting process and removing that hurdle means big dollars. A six sigma project was carried out at the Bell Bay smelter aimed at reducing the time it takes to bring a furnace within chemical specification and highlighted that “in-spec first time” is more achievable than many think. This paper covers the steps having an impact on alloy recovery and suggests a “best practice” to be followed in each area. As is shown, consistently following these guidelines through robust controls can generate a significant increase in throughput of value add facilities in your cast house.
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Salomon, Frank. "Indian Women of Early Colonial Quito as Seen Through Their Testaments." Americas 44, no. 3 (January 1988): 325–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1006910.
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By the turn of the seventeenth century a generation of Andean natives, both Inca and aboriginal, had made lifelong homes within the strongholds of the European invaders. As they entered old age they inhabited an urban landscape whose “Indian” sector had become very diverse. In Quito and other colonial cities some of them dwelled in old pre-hispanic settlements whose closeness to new Hispanic centers had turned them into multiethnic “Indian” ghettos. Quito's Añaquito and Machángara are examples. Many others had settled illegally but permanently inside the Spanish nuclear city, so much so that in the 1580s Spaniards remarked on the growth of a “big shanty town” in its midst. Notarial records show, too, that center city streets housed colonies of “Indian” artisans specializing in European arts like iron working, embroidery, and tailoring. Rich enclaves of Inca and aboriginal nobles lived close to Spanish clerics and officials. Specialist traders delegated by native lords, and native entrepreneurs in the Spanish economy, rented permanent workplaces and dwellings downtown. Finally a large contingent, especially of women, lived as servants or concubines in Spanish houses or had usufruct of separate urban houses. In 1600 there were probably more different ways to be an urban Indian than there are today.
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Aliyev, Khatai, Mehin Amiraslanova, Nigar Bakirova, and Narmin Eynizada. "Determinants of housing prices in Baku: empirical analyses." International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis 12, no. 2 (April 1, 2019): 281–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhma-08-2018-0062.
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Purpose This paper aims to reveal major factors affecting housing prices (flats and houses) in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan Republic. Design/methodology/approach Based on cross-sectional data set of 497 flats and 443 houses, polynomial regression models are estimated for flats and houses separately. Regression models are estimated by using ordinary least squares. Findings Location, largeness, repair level and existence of bill of sale are major price determinants for flats. For houses, number of rooms also matters. Findings reveals that houses are land intensive (more floors, less land area) toward city center, and vice versa. Price difference due to existence of bill of sale diminishes significantly toward the surrounding areas. Research limitations/implications The data set represents view of sellers and does not take into consideration price bargaining in time of sale; probability of information asymmetries exists which not could accounted for, and urgency of sale is not considered. Practical implications Estimation results can be used for housing valuation by real estate market participants and investors. Social implications Research findings reveal importance of bill of sale as a major price determinant and expected to attract policymakers’ attention to solve such a big social problem. Additionally, models can be based for price estimations in Baku housing market. Originality/value The study contributes to the literature by empirically analyzing housing market in Baku, Azerbaijan. Research produces new practically valuable findings.
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Nabela, Siela Mara, Ema Yunita Titisari, and Sri Utami. "Socio-Cultural Context, Environment and Conservation of Vernacular Architecture Lamin Pamung Tawai." Journal of Sosial Science 3, no. 4 (July 22, 2022): 678–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.46799/jss.v3i4.367.
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Lamin Pamung Tawai is the vernacular house of the Dayak Kenyah tribe living on Samarinda City's outskirts. Along with the development of times and the flow of globalization, local or regional culture is displaced. This research was conducted so that there is documentation of Lamin Pamung Tawai. In addition, raising the values of local wisdom contained in the construction of this vernacular house can be a lesson for academics, architects, government, and society, especially in tropical mountainous areas with unique climates, where the climate is cold but in a tropical area. This study also aims to enrich the knowledge of the archipelago vernacular houses, which the nation's ancestors wisely designed. Samarinda City is one of the big cities in East Kalimantan. So, this study is expected to be able to provide input for the construction of buildings in Samarinda City. Thus, buildings that pay attention to the ecological concepts and local wisdom of the Dayak Kenyah tribe can be created.
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Alekseeva, Elena V., and Elena Y. Kazakova-Apkarimova. "People’s Houses as Answers to the Challenges of Modernity in Europe and Russia." RUDN Journal of Russian History 19, no. 4 (December 15, 2020): 952–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-8674-2020-19-4-952-964.
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The article is devoted to a pioneer comparative study of the appearance and evolution of peoples houses in Western Europe and Russia in the second half of the XIX - early XX century. The institutional approach chosen by the authors is complemented by a historical and comparative method of studying the phenomenon of peoples houses. The goals of their creation and features of the activity, due to the political, economic and sociocultural historical realities of individual countries, are analyzed. Research revealed that peoples houses in Europe and in Russia were created at the same historical period - the modern era. A historiographical comparative study using new historical sources showed that in Western European countries and in the Russian Empire, the state did not play a major role in this matter, although some of the people's houses were opened by monarchs, and state policy (opposing promotion of cultural leisure to the alcoholization of the population) could contribute to the development of civil society initiatives. The performed study proves that for both European countries and Russia, private and public initiatives in establishing people's houses (primarily the cooperative movement) played a decisive role. In Russia, it is important to point out the sociocultural policy of the zemstvos, their financial support when building people's houses. The article shows the obvious differences in the history of people's houses in Western European countries and in Russia, due to the late formation of the party system in Imperial Russia. In Europe, one can meet many examples of the creation of people's houses by political parties and generally note the high level of politicization of these institutions. In Russian reality non-political nature of people's houses is obvious, they were mostly cultural and educational public institutions that were further subjected to the process of politicization (under revolutionary conditions). In conclusion, the authors acknowledge big historical significance of people's houses as civil society institutions in Russia and abroad, taking into account such principles of their functioning as independence, voluntariness, social activism and civic consciousness.
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Brynhildsvoll, Knut. "The Ethics of Aesthetics." Interlitteraria 22, no. 2 (January 16, 2018): 227. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2017.22.2.2.
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In my article I shall deal with the role of modern literary criticism as exercised by critics working for influential newspapers, journals and public media. I will discuss the evaluating standards and the judgment criteria. I will also examine the independence and moral integrity of critics working in close cooperation with big publishing houses. An important part of my article will focus on the jeopardized balance in book business which threatens to make the critics vulnerable to compromises and loss of ethical credibility. As a consequence of the critic’s cooperation with the sales departments of the publishing houses, he might overlook good literature and promote best-sellers, thus giving priority to a category of books which seldom proves to be of lasting value.
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Robles, Eduardo. "Plantation Houses of North Florida." VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability 2, no. 1 (June 13, 2017): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/vitruvio-ijats.2017.7520.
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<p>The concept of Plantation conjures an image that identifies the North Florida / South Georgia region of the U. S. Leon County attracted many cotton planters from Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina in the 1820’s to the 1850’s. Up to the beginning of the Civil War, Leon County was the 5th largest producer of cotton counting all counties from Florida and Georgia. The Civil War brought the plantation culture to a standstill.</p><p>The plantations transformed the environment based on their need for open fields in which to cultivate different crops, or raise a variety of animals with the help of slaves. From the 1900’s many plantations abandoned their land to nature producing a deep change in the local landscape. Today plantations are not used as much for planting crops but more for hunting or as tree farms. The hunting plantations do not grow crops but provide good conditions for the hunting of animals and birds. Other plantations were torn apart, sold and now are part of the Tallahassee urban fabric. In other words, they disappeared.</p><p>The transformation of the plantations has been slow and steady, and has become the image of the area, even the region. The paper shows five plantations that represent five different evolutions of these traditional landscapes. The landscapes have evolved to accommodate the very local but fluid definition of place. It is this transformation, this evolving identity which helped preserve some of the traditional landscapes and the traditional architecture on them.</p><p>The most prominent feature of the plantation is the “Big House” or plantation house. The house embodies all aspects of the plantation life style. The construction materials and methods reflected the times, the technologies and the available resources.</p><p>The research has been done mainly in the archives of the Tallahassee Trust for Historic Preservation. The results, still pending, explain the land typology as it evolved from the golden decades of the plantation culture to the present day land use.</p>
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Urtāns, Juris. "KOKNESE FRONT FORTIFICATIONS. TOO BIG TO BE SEEN." Culture Crossroads 19 (October 11, 2022): 200–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.55877/cc.vol19.42.
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The article is focused on the history of Koknese Fortress Front fortifications which were built from September 1700 to May 1701 in order to enhance the defence power of Koknese Fortress. The total length of the defence line exceeded 4 km. The line contained 25 redoubts. After the loss of Spilve battle close to Riga, the Saxon troops retreated from Koknese, on 25 July 1701 Koknese Fortress was blown up and after that was not used for military purposes anymore. The outer defence line of Koknese Fortress never faced military attacks and after 1701 was abandoned, partially levelled by agriculture work, destroyed by activities of the First and the Second World Wars, building of houses, roads and motorway, establishing a cemetery on one of the earthworks, flooding by Pļaviņas hydroelectric power station, etc. At present the front defence system of Koknese Fortress has partially survived, but until the last years the particular system of defence line had not been clearly identified. Now it has been done comparing an image of Koknese from 1701 with the results of aerial and traditional reconnaissance. Koknese front fortification line is a unique monument under circumstances of Latvia.
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Schery, S. D., D. J. Holford, J. L. Wilson, and F. M. Phillips. "The Flow and Diffusion of Radon Isotopes in Fractured Porous Media: Part 1, Finite Slabs." Radiation Protection Dosimetry 24, no. 1-4 (August 1, 1988): 185–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a080267.
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Abstract In the conventional equations used to describe gaseous transport of radon isotopes through fractured porous media the two processes responsible for radon movement are diffusion and pressure-driven flow (advection). Fractures in a porous medium can be especially effective for pressure-driven transport but lateral diffusion can be a strong mitigating influence. The interplay of diffusion and flow is examined for a fractured concrete slab and a fractured, high-diffusivity layer between a house and an underlying radium-rich medium. For underpressures common in houses, fractures only a fraction of a millimetre wide in concrete are important and often big enough to ensure flow transport of radon with small diffusive loss. In contrast, fractures several millimetres wide through high-diffusivity layers several metres thick such as sand may be unimportant for radon transport due to large lateral diffusive losses.