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Abells, Diana. "My Room." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429809510.
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Rybak, Charles A. "Human Rooms." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=ucin1052328743.
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Cassidy, Oliver. "Common Rooms." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-276824.
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Sweden is the most individual society in Europe: more than half its population live alone and In Stockholm this figure is as high as 60%. As people increasingly live alone in typical apartments, the spatial requirements per person rises. Spaces such as kitchens, bathrooms and living spaces are required separately for each resident; appliances such as fridges, washing machines and hobs are owned individually. Not only is this a spatial strain, it is also an economic and environmental issue. The upkeep and production of both the spaces and their furnishings carries an ecological and financial load. In addition, each individual is burdened with the maintenance of these spaces and objects; it is an unnecessary personal labour. Common Rooms proposes to re-imagine the historically prevalent and varied typology of the residential hotel, as a solution to the spatially greedy and exclusive residences currently on offer. Many small, individual dwelling spaces with shared facilities create an economy of scale that in turn allow for common luxuries. Economic burdens are shared, time is freed, and ecological damage is limited.
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Andreianu, Ioana Lucia. "Urban Rooms." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32834.
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This thesis started as an exploration of spaces created with subtle light changes in atmosphere, spaces created for the sole purpose of lingering in, of relaxing in, during a hot summer day, winter or in a busy day, when all you want to do is get away from it all in a soul-comforting place.
Soon after, I realized that these spaces should have no other purpose than their simple existence, thus the idea of pavilions seemed to be the best fit for such a description.
After locating the pavilions in Ramnicu-Valcea, Romania, through the exploration of the place memory, the present conditions and materials, the project started to take shape.
The final project became a room within an urban setting. The pavilions, a series of five rooms connected by shape and materiality into two buildings, created in between a new plaza, a new urban space, a sixth room.Master of Architecture
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Maurer, Christie. "Open Rooms." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4217.
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Bond, Easom J. "House of many rooms." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53367.
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This thesis participates in the architectural construct of INSIDE and OUTSIDE. By means of a house with many rooms, the extremes of an inner, personal architecture contrast the extremes of an outer, public architecture.
Each room is an inner architecture of closure and definition. While an outer architecture of openness and expanse surrounds them.
One room is a bathroom of concentric cylinders. Another is a rectangular box with an upstairs bed, while another is a large cube with a smaller cube for a bed. Each room presents an inner architecture of almost crystalline purity. And each closes themself off from the others.
Despite their particularity, these rooms gather, while black and white steel panels unite and define the outer architecture of house, barely. A ring of stairways angles across the steel matrix on its way to a rooftop patio, allowing the surrounding forest to creep in. The outer architecture of house begins to dissolve into the forest, leaving only the inner architecture of room in tact. Only the closed, inner architecture, so personal that we do not share, resists the diffusion. Only the inner architecture of identity maintains its integrity. Only an inner architecture can contrast the outer architecture.
The lines drawn between an inner and outer architecture parallels those between public / private and individual / community. This thesis project draws the line between room and house, choosing to allow house to dissolve into the outer architecture of the surrounding forest while room assumes the role of an inner architecture. One conclusion of this thesis is that house deserves closure as well.
Architecture is responsible for both the inner and outer extremes of the inhabited world. The inner architecture demands closure and definition. The outer architecture demands openness and expanse.Master of Architecture
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Hopper, Hugh. "Reverberation enhancement for small rooms." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2012. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/348944/.
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Reverberation enhancement is a technology which allows the reverberation time of a room to be increased through the use of an electronic system. These systems have traditionally been applied to improve the acoustics of large concert halls but the technology can also be used in smaller spaces with several possible applications. Previous uses of reverberation enhancement in small rooms have largely consisted of direct transplants of systems designed for large concert halls. This work investigates the complications which arise when using reverberation enhancement in a small room due to the differences in the acoustic properties of the space and also the restriction on the channel count of the system due to physical constraints. The first part of this work deals with increasing the resultant reverberation time of the room without requiring additional system channels. This is achieved through the use of processing within the system. Two methods have been investigated. The first extends the resultant reverberation time without changing the feedback gain. The processing used for this purpose is either electronic reverberation or simple delay, both of which have been shown to allow significant increases in resultant reverberation time. These changes can be predicted accurately using diffuse field theory. The other method uses time-varying processing to increase the maximum stable feedback gain. This has been shown to allow increases in resultant reverberation time but also causes undesirable artefacts which limit the usability of this technique. The second part of this work focuses on the differences in the acoustic properties of small rooms and especially the ways in which these rooms differ from a diffuse field. This includes the consideration of the modal properties of the room at low frequency which are insignificant in a large room. It has been shown that the spatial and frequency variations of the room at low frequency can be reduced through numerical optimisation of the processing within the reverberation enhancement system. Finally, the diffusion of the sound field and the early energy in the impulse response have been considered. It is shown that restrictions on the resultant reverberation time may be required in order to create a subjectively acceptable acoustic response. Overall, this work has shown that by accounting for the properties of the room, excellent performance of the system can be achieved.
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Russell, Pamela J. "Special education administrators' perceptions of mandatory comparability of special education rooms to regular education rooms /." Search for this dissertation online, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ksu/main.
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Mowlabocus, Sharif. "Chat rooms and back rooms : same-sex desire, cyberspace, and contemporary British gay male sub-culture." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429874.
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Hillert, Freja. "What Changes with Features in Rooms?" Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-146293.
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In this project the aim was to see if there was a way to approach features and qualities which seemed detached of the function, in order to let such features and qualities be used in a variety of programs and functions in design. I wanted to see if this might be possible to achieve and in that case how this would affect the design. I tried to fulfill the intention of the project by making an attempt to lower the influence of the program on the design. In the project the rooms of the design were shown in different states, how the rooms changed and how they were altered when programs were applied to them. I also tried to reflect on how that affected the suggested features and qualities that were assumed to be outside the function. The project was not made for a specific site but Stockholm has been the place that the project was intended to relate to.Intentionen med det här projektet var att försöka hitta ett sätt att relatera till egenskaper och kvalitéer vilka tycktes vara fristående från funktionen, som gjorde att sådana egenskaper och kvalitéer kunde användas för olika program och funktioner i design. Jag ville försöka se om det fanns ett sätt att göra detta och i så fall hur det skulle påverka designen. Jag försökte uppnå intentionen av projektet genom att minska programmets inflytande på de rum som ritades i projektet. I projektet visas de olika rummen från projektet i olika stadier samt hur rummen förändrades och anpassades till programmen som applicerades i dem. Jag försökte också reflektera över hur de förändringar som gjordes påverkade det som antogs vara egenskaper och kvalitéer utanför funktionen. Projektets design och rum planerades inte för en specifik plats men jag har försökt att relatera projektet till Stockholm som stad.
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Svensson, Mattias. "Simulating Low Frequency Reverberation in Rooms." Thesis, KTH, Marcus Wallenberg Laboratoriet MWL, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-290038.
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The aim of this thesis was to make a practical tool for low frequency analysis in room acoustics.The need arises from Acad’s experience that their results from simulations using raytracing software deviate in the lower frequencies when compared to field measurements inrooms. The tool was programmed in Matlab and utilizes the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method, which is a form of rapid finite element analysis in the time domain.A number of tests have been made to investigate the practical limitations of the FDTD method, such as numerical errors caused by sound sources, discretization and simulation time. Boundary conditions, with and without frequency dependence, have been analysed bycomparing results from simulations of a virtual impedance tube and reverberation room to analytical solutions. These tests show that the use of the FDTD method appears well suited for the purpose of the tool.A field test was made to verify that the tool enables easy and relatively quick simulations of real rooms, with results well in line with measured acoustic parameters. Comparisons of the results from using the FDTD method, ray-tracing and finite elements (FEM) showed goodcorrelation. This indicates that the deviations Acad experience between simulated results and field measurements are most likely caused by uncertainties in the sound absorption data used for low frequencies rather than by limitations in the ray-tracing software. The FDTDtool might still come in handy for more complex models, where edge diffraction is a more important factor, or simply as a means for a “second opinion” to ray-tracing - in general FEM is too time consuming a method to be used on a daily basis.Auxiliary tools made for importing models, providing output data in the of room acoustic parameters, graphs and audio files are not covered in detail here, as these lay outside the scope of this thesis.Målet för detta examensarbete var att undersöka möjligheten att programmera ett praktisktanvändbart verktyg för lågfrekvensanalys inom rumsakustik. Behovet uppstår från Acadserfarenhet att resultat från simuleringar med hjälp av strålgångsmjukvara avviker i lågfrekvensområdeti jämförelse med fältmätningar i färdigställda rum. Verktyget är programmerati Matlab och använder Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) metoden, vilket är en typav snabb finita elementanalys i tidsdomänen.En rad tester har genomförts för att se metodens praktiska begräsningar orsakade av numeriskafel vid val av ljudkälla, diskretisering och simuleringstid. Randvillkor, med och utanfrekvensberoende, har analyserats genom jämförelser av simulerade resultat i virtuella impedansröroch efterklangsrum mot analytiska beräkningar. Testerna visar att FDTD-metodentycks fungerar väl för verktygets tilltänkta användningsområde.Ett fälttest genomfördes för att verifiera att det med verktyget är möjligt att enkelt och relativtsnabbt simulera resultat som väl matcher uppmätta rumsakustiska parametrar. Jämförelsermellan FDTD-metoden och resultat beräknade med strålgångsanalys och finita elementmetoden(FEM) visade även på god korrelation. Detta indikerar att de avvikelser Acaderfar mellan simulerade resultat och fältmätningar troligen orsakas av osäkerheter i den ingåendeljudabsorptionsdata som används för låga frekvenser, snarare än av begränsningar istrålgångsmjukvaran. Verktyget kan fortfarande komma till användning för mer komplexamodeller, där kantdiffraktion är en viktigare faktor, eller helt enkelt som ett sätt att få ett”andra utlåtande” till resultaten från strålgångsmjukvaran då FEM-analys generellt är en förtidskrävande metod för att användas på daglig basis.Kringverktyg skapade för t.ex. import av modeller, utdata i form av rumsakustiska parametrar,grafer och ljudfiler redovisas inte i detalj i denna rapport eftersom dessa ligger utanförexamensarbetet.
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Kizilkan, Nurhayat. "Spaces Of Masculinities: Bachelor Rooms In Suleymaniye." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610652/index.pdf.
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This study attempts to understand the relational formation of masculine identites and masculine spaces in the construction and production of masculinities by looking at the notion of &ldquobachelor&rdquo
and the socio-spatial reflections of &ldquo
bachelorship&rdquo
, a particular case of manliness in Turkish context, in the case of &ldquo
bachelor rooms&rdquo
in Sü
leymaniye district in Eminö
nü
, Istanbul from the perspective of feminist geography. Neighborhoods gendered with bachelor rooms situated near the commercial heart of the big cities as a sociological and historical phenomenon in Turkish urban context have been christalized reflections of segregated heterosexual gender structure of the society being these neighborhoods the performative spaces of masculinities for centuries. This study also tries to relate the bachelor rooms with traditional single male migration from rural to urban. These neighborhoods provide space for the performance of different masculinities and they function for young provincial men as a kind of &ldquo
rite of passage&rdquo
for various kinds of social transitions. The knowledge of migration, of masculinities, and of space related to these transitions is accumulated in the homo-social spaces of the district and constantly recirculated through migrant bachelors among the local traditional masculinities. Masculinities of not only the immigrants from rural, but of urban space, including space bounded masculinities specific to the district have been categorized from the perspective of hegemonic masculinity concept and concluded that the construction of hegemonic type of masculinity with contestations and discourses through performances, representations and the power relations influences the transformation of space and are influenced by these spaces of masculinities.
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Cubí, Montanyà Eduard. "Energy efficient ventilation strategies for surgery rooms." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/284903.
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Surgery rooms are a space type with particularly stringent indoor environmental quality (IEQ) requirements, which translate into high energy use. Due to the unclear IEQ and infection control requirements for surgery rooms in Spain, these spaces are often designed and operated 24 hours per day and 7 days per week, to meet the most stringent recommendations (not only the requirements) in the available guidelines. While health and safety must remain top priority in hospitals, the high energy use of HVAC systems in surgery rooms makes these a clear energy efficiency target. The objective of this thesis is to identify and evaluate energy efficient ventilation strategies in surgery rooms that maintain acceptable indoor environmental quality and cleanliness while reducing the associated energy use.
A comprehensive and critical review of the indoor environmental quality and infection control requirements in surgery rooms identifies the key performance goals of the requirements in the available standards, and sets the boundaries for the definition of energy efficiency improvements in surgery room systems. The intrinsic performance motivations for the requirements for total supply airflow, outdoor airflow, temperature, and relative humidity are different, which brings the opportunity to improve energy performance by individually controlling the different setpoints. A general method to adjust system operation (outdoor airflow rate, total supply air, indoor air temperature, and indoor air relative humidity) to meet IEQ performance goals while reducing energy use is developed.
A calibrated computer-based energy model of a standard surgery room system is used to assess the potential benefits of control strategies. A careful control of a standard surgery room air handling unit can reduce primary energy use and associated CO2 emissions and energy costs by up to 83% while meeting all the indoor environmental quality and infection control requirements in the standards. In view of the magnitude of the potential energy savings, control measures for surgery rooms should be strongly encouraged for their wide application. Further savings are possible by controlling supply airflow based on real time measurement of particle concentration. However, the potential benefits of this strategy are constrained by the current unavailability of particle count targets during surgery room operation as a function of surgery type. Real performance-based infection control will not be possible until real-time sensors are capable of counting and identifying microorganisms.
A calibrated energy model is also used to assess the potential energy use and thermal comfort benefits of controls in old and non-standard systems. Results show that customized control strategies can also be successfully implemented as a retrofit solution.
The large volumes of outdoor air supply in surgery rooms make these particularly suitable for energy recovery systems. An evaluation of the thermal energy use required for ventilation air conditioning across Catalonia is provided. This is meant as a tool to assess the potential benefits of different types of heat recovery units. Ventilation air conditioning energy use is dominated by heating thermal energy over cooling thermal energy even in the warmest regions in Catalonia.
Energy efficiency in surgery rooms could be largely improved with control and heat recovery strategies that fall within the limits of the current indoor environmental quality standards. Future research should study appropriate technologies to monitor surgery room occupancy for air handling unit control purposes, and work towards defining infection control performance targets and monitoring tools.Els requeriments de qualitat ambiental en quiròfans son particularment estrictes, fet que deriva en un alt us energètic. Degut a que els requeriments son poc clars a la normativa espanyola, aquests espais son sovint dissenyats i usats 24 hores al dia i 7 dies a la setmana segons les recomanacions mes exigents en les guies disponibles. Si be la salut i seguretat son la principal prioritat als hospitals, l’elevat ús energètic dels sistemes de climatització en quiròfans fa que aquests siguin un objectiu evident per a mesures d’eficiència energètica. L’objectiu d’aquesta tesi es identificar i avaluar estratègies de ventilació energèticament eficients que siguin capaces de mantenir una qualitat ambiental i higiènica acceptable. Una revisió bibliogràfica dels requeriments de qualitat ambiental i control d’infecció en quiròfans identifica els objectius dels requeriments en els estàndards disponibles, que s’utilitzen com a base per posar els límits en la definició de les propostes de millora energètica. Les motivacions pels requeriments de cabal d’aire d’impulsió, cabal d’aire exterior, temperatura, i humitat relativa son diferents, fet que aporta l’oportunitat de millorar l’eficiència energètica del sistema controlant independentment les consignes dels diferents paràmetres. Aquesta tesi desenvolupa un mètode general per ajustar el funcionament del sistema (cabal d’aire exterior, cabal d’aire d’impulsió, temperatura i humitat relativa) que permet complir amb els objectius de qualitat ambiental tot reduint us energètic. Es desenvolupa i es calibra un model energètic d’un sistema de climatització estàndard de quiròfan per avaluar els beneficis potencials d’estratègies de control. Els resultats indiquen que amb un control precís es pot reduir l’ús d’energia primària, les emissions de CO2, i els costos energètics en un 83% tot complint amb els requeriments de qualitat ambiental i control d’infecció que indiquen els estàndards. Es recomana que aquestes mesures de control siguin promogudes per la seva aplicació general. Els resultats també indiquen la possibilitat d’obtenir estalvis energètics addicionals quan es controla el cabal d’impulsió en base a lectures en temps real de la concentració de partícules a la sala. Els beneficis d’aquesta estratègia estan actualment limitats pel fet que no hi ha estàndards que defineixin límits de concentració de partícules durant operació. En tot cas, el control de ventilació estrictament basat en risc d’infecció no serà possible fins que hi hagi sensors que siguin capaços d’identificar els tipus de microorganismes. S’utilitza també un model energètic calibrat per avaluar els beneficis potencials en us energètic i confort tèrmic quan s’apliquen estratègies de control en una climatitzadora antiga i no estàndard. Els resultats indiquen que estratègies de control fetes a mida també poden ser implementades amb èxit com a mesura de rehabilitació. Els elevats cabals d’aire exterior requerits en quiròfans fan que en aquests sistemes sigui especialment oportú l’ús de equips de recuperació de calor. Es desenvolupa una avaluació de l’energia tèrmica requerida per la climatització de l’aire de ventilació en la geografia catalana amb l’objectiu d’aportar una eina per quantificar els potencials beneficis de diferents tipus de sistemes de recuperació de calor. Els resultats indiquen que el principal us energètic en climatització de l’aire de ventilació es en forma de calefacció, fins i tot en les regions mes càlides de Catalunya. L’eficiència energètica de quiròfans pot millorar substancialment fent us de mesures de control i recuperació de calor que estan permeses dins els límits dels estàndards actuals. Futures línies de recerca haurien d’estudiar tecnologies adequades per avaluar l’ocupació dels quiròfans per tal de possibilitar-ne el control en base a ocupació. Així mateix, cal definir llindars acceptables de risc d’infecció durant operació i desenvolupar els equips de mesura que ho facin possible.
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Heil, Robert. "Optimization of anesthetic processes in operating rooms /." Aachen : Shaker, 2009. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=017612725&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Sjøvoll, Håvard. "Virtual control rooms assisted by 3D sound." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-9231.
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A high amount of complex and urgent information needs timely attention in an operational environment. This requires specialized systems. These systems should provide immediate access to accurate and pertinent information when troubleshooting or controlling abnormal situations. This study is a collaboration between NTNU and Statoil Research Center. It aims at designing and developing a prototype to improve the operator's awareness of alarms, by means of a multi-modal virtual environment. This will be achieved by creating an extension to the virtual model SnøhvitSIM, using a spatial auditory display in addition to visual elements. The auditory display will provide (1) spatial information about new alarms and (2) information about the overall state of the facility. The system also offers (3) beacons to aid navigation within the virtual environment. To reach these goals, a comprehensive literature study was carried out, investigating similar concepts and various techniques for developing such systems. The development was prioritized in the following order, according to the main objectives: (1) design, (2) functionality and (3) architecture. Within the design-process, the main focus has been on the spatial auditory display. The development of the prototype proved successful. The feedback on the prototype reflects its value as a showcase for future development, containing new and potentially very effective solutions for tomorrow's alarm management systems.
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Kidd, Catherine. "Bestial rooms : a work of prose fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0001/MQ39923.pdf.
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Myhren, Jonn Are. "Low temperature heating in exhaust ventilated rooms." Licentiate thesis, Stockholm : Teknik och hälsa, Technology and Health, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4694.
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Jouvray, Alexandre. "Computation and measurements of flows in rooms." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/50472/.
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This thesis contributes to the numerical modelling of flows in ventilated rooms. A range of advanced turbulence models (non-linear low Reynolds number Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS), Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and hybrid LES/RANS models) are used to model the flow in four ventilated rooms. These describe the flow in a more physically consistent manner than the commonly used linear RANS models. The performances of Explicit Algebraic Stress Model (EASM) and, cubic eddyviscosity RANS model are first analysed on four benchmark flow configurations. They show significant accuracy improvements when compared to their linear equivalents. Flows in ventilated rooms are complex. Their numerical modelling required an accurate definition of the various boundary conditions. This is often lacking in the literature and hence, as part of this work, measurements in a controlled ventilated office (optimised for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling) have been done. The measurements comprise airflow velocities, temperatures, concentration decay and, a careful description of the room's boundary conditions under six ventilation settings. This room data is thus seen as ideal for validating of CFD codes when applied to room ventilation problems. The numerical investigations show that the predictions with zero- or, one-equation (k - 1) RANS models (commonly used in room ventilation modelling) are less accurate than those using two-equation k-e models. The study shows that the accuracy improvements of the EASM and cubic models are of lesser magnitude when applied to room ventilation modelling than when applied to the benchmark flow configurations. The cubic model in particular, besides being more numerically unstable than the other RANS models, does not always improve flow predictions when compared with its linear equivalent. The EASM, about 20 to 30% more computationally demanding than its linear equivalent, improves solution accuracy for most flow considered in this work. LES predictions have highest level of agreement with measurements. LES is however too computationally expensive to be used for practical engineering applications. The novel hybrid RANS/LES model presented appears promising. It has similar accuracy to LES at lower computational costs.
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Graca, Guilherme C. C. Carrilho da. "Simplified models for heat transfer in rooms /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3112829.
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Heil, Robert. "Optimization of anesthetic processes in operating rooms." Aachen Shaker, 2008. http://d-nb.info/993876064/04.
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Solala, Arvidsson Anna-Vera, and Hanna-Thea Björö. "Experiencing Rooms : - tale of two pathos(es)." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-229475.
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Experiences, narratives and architecture are seemingly connected; therefor this thesis project attempts to explore the transformation of emotions and impressions from an ‘artwork’ into architectural components and sequences of spaces. Our “artwork” and generator for this thesis has been the film The Square by Ruben Östlund. It is not a “complete/regular” suggestion on a certain site with a solved program; we have instead chosen to see this project as an investigation and a sketching process, a fundamental research. Our starting point has been based in our common interest for the perception and we wanted to explore how we as architects could bring out rooms through intuitive feelings and methods. The interest around how architecture just like anything else is interpreted different between persons and how many variations it can create, how we as architects work with creating for other people and how our intention rarely ends up being the final result. -How can the understanding and translation of experiences be made with architectural elements when only having the experience to generate from? -How can the narrative be transformed from one tale to another? -How can interpretations from two architects meet/unite in a creation for people to experience something new in? This thesis started with 10 methods where different subjects as for example: “direction, dramaturgy or spatiality” where analyzed and represented. These methods was for us a way to test what we could find in this movie to continue build something upon. These methods where made week after week and we had not set them out from the start, they came as the process begun. The building or series of rooms we now have created is what we would like to call the 12th method, also a test and part of the process of searching for translation. What we have chosen to work with in terms of film is the cutting. We have interpreted and translated the director Ruben Östlunds way of cutting into architectural means. We have assembled theses 14 rooms with: straight cuts, association cuts and juxta positioning. This project is two interpretations interwoven into one building, a monument of our so to say mental rooms generated from the same starting point/generator. The different scenes have evoked different feelings and impacts on us and have been translated into 14 rooms.Upplevelser, berättelser och arkitektur är märkbart kopplade till varandra. Därför försöker detta examensarbete att omvandla känslor och intryck från ett ”konstverk” till arkitektoniska komponenter och rumsligheter. Vårt ”konstverk” och generator i detta examensarbete har varit filmen The Square av Ruben Östlund. Vi har valt att se detta projekt som en undersökande skissprocess. Vår utgångspunkt har varit baserat i vårt gemensamma intresse för tolkning och varseblivning och vi ville undersöka hur vi som arkitekter kunde ta fram rum genom intuitiva känslor och metoder. Intresset kring hur arkitektur precis som allt annat tolkas olika mellan personer och hur många variationer det kan skapa, hur vi som arkitekter arbetar med att skapa för andra människor och hur sällan vår första intuition blir slutresultatet. - Hur kan förståelsen och översättningen av erfarenheter göras med arkitektoniska element när man endast har upplevelsen att generera från? - Hur kan ett narrativ bli transformerad från en berättelse till en annan? - Hur kan tolkningar från två arkitekter mötas rumsligt i något för andra människor att uppleva i? Detta examensarbete började med 10 metoder där olika ämnen som t.ex. riktning, dramaturgi och rumslighet analyserades och representerades. Dessa metoder var för oss ett sätt att testa vad vi kunde hitta i den valda filmen och fortsätta bygga något på. De valda metoderna, som genererades vecka efter vecka var inte förutbestämda från start utan de formades intuitivt när processen påbörjats. Den byggnad eller serie av rum som vi skapat är vad vi valt att kalla den 12:e metoden, även detta ett test och en del av processen där vi sökt efter översättning. Det vi har valt att arbeta med när det kommer till film generellt är klippningen. Vi har analyserat och omtolkat regissören Ruben Östlunds sätt att klippa till arkitektoniska medel. De scener från filmen som påverkat oss främst har vi översatt till 14 rum, där dessa rum fogats samman genom: raka klipp, associations klipp och juxtapositionering. Detta projekt är två tolkningar sammanvävda till en byggnad, ett monument av våra så kallade mentala rum, genererade från samma utgångspunkt/generator.
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Vale, Sam. "Collecting rooms : objects, identities and domestic spaces." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2014. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/7782/.
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This practice-based enquiry into United Kingdom based collecting rooms reveals five participants’ motivations, frustrations and satisfactions manifested in the creation of their spaces. Through the examination of theorists and commentators in the distinct but related fields of cultural theory, sociology and art, the thesis proposes that a collector’s past can be witnessed through memories generated by and within the space. The thesis also advances the idea that part of the experience of the space takes place in the present but simultaneously imagines the future. I have constructed spatial portraits using semi-structured interviews, photography and video, which explore the environment of each collector thus gaining insights into individual circumstances and personal situations. Narrative within this enquiry takes three intersecting forms: firstly the account of the construction of each collecting room, which divests objects of their historical origins, replacing these with personal associations or meanings devised by each collector. Secondly, each participants’ re-telling of their narratives and thirdly through the re-presentation of the collectors’ narratives to an audience. The latter brings my agency as an artist into focus. Uniting all three narrative forms, the creative practice intends to produce a metanarrative of each collecting room that further investigates the temporality of the space through the combined use of still photography, video and sound. Constructed from a symbiotic relationship between theory and practice, the research uses a methodology that combines Sensory Ethnography with Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. This methodology explores the idiosyncrasies of each collector, engendering an extensive investigation of the individual collecting spaces. This detailed approach formed and eventually determined the number of participants, resulting in the production of a developmental case study and four original re-presentations that respond to ideas and debates on collecting, material culture and domestic space. These artworks that have been informed by combining existing research methods and constitute my contribution to new knowledge, disclosing ideas and observations which combine narrative and experience not necessarily discernable from theoretical arguments alone.
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Meyer, Sarah. "Children's preferences for color schematics of hospital rooms." Connect to resource, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/28522.
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Thesis (Honors)--Ohio State University, 2007.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages: contains 29 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-29). Available online via Ohio State University's Knowledge Bank.
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Xiang, Xiaoxing (Primo). "Predicting Evacuation Time from Lecture Theatre Type Rooms." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Civil Engineering, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1160.
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The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationships between the movement time, travel speed and occupant density during trial evacuations, particularly for theatre-type rooms. The study mainly focuses on crowd movement behaviour within a restricted space and covers aspects of human behaviour and issues needed to be considered in terms of the characteristics of lecture theatres. A set of experiments were carried out in three building blocks at the University of Canterbury in order to obtain the actual data for analysis. The number of students evacuating from each exit and the evacuation time were recorded, and their movement behaviour was monitored by video camera. Based on the experimental data, a numerical analysis was undertaken to formulate an equation for the prediction of evacuation time applying to lecture theatres. The developed equation was compared with other available relationships from the literature. An evacuation model under development, named EvacuatioNZ, was applied to simulate the experiments and the results were compared with the experimental data. The comparison showed that the developed equation showed a better performance in predicting evacuation time of lecture theatres than other available methods however, had some limitations. The EvauctioNZ model was able to be improved by using an alternative geometry input but was still not as accurate as the developed method. A recommended modification of the model was presented for improvement.
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Davila, Marbelly Paola. "A Methodology for Scheduling Operating Rooms Under Uncertainty." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4463.
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An operating room (OR) is considered to be one of the most costly functional areas within hospitals as well as its major profit center. It is known that managing an OR department is a challenging task, which requires the integration of many actors (e.g., patients, surgeons, nurses, technicians) who may have conflicting interests and priorities.
Considering these aspects, this dissertation focuses on developing a simulation based methodology for scheduling operating rooms under uncertainty, which reflects the complexity, uncertainty and variability associated with surgery.
We split the process of scheduling ORs under uncertainty into two main components. First, we designed a research roadmap for modeling surgical procedure duration (from incision to wound closure) based on the surgery volume and time variability. Then, using a real surgical dataset we modeled the procedure duration using parametric and distribution-free predictive methods. We found that Support Vector Regression performs better that Generalized Linear Models increasing the prediction accuracy on unseen data by at least 5.5%.
Next, we developed a simulation based methodology for scheduling ORs through a case study. For that purpose, we initially built one day feasible schedules using the 60th, 70th, 80th, and 90th percentiles to allocate surgical procedures to ORs using four different allocation policies. We then used a discrete event simulation model to evaluate the robustness of these initial feasible schedules considering the stochastic duration of all the OR activities and the arrival of surgical emergency cases. We found that on average elective waiting almost doubled the time for the emergency cases. In addition, we observed that there is not a clear effect of how being more conservative in scheduling within each scheduling policy impacts the elective waiting times. By contrast, there is a clear effect of how the scheduling policy and scheduling percentile impact the emergency waiting times. Thus, as we increase the percentile, the waiting times for emergency cases remarkably increases under half of the scheduling policies but reflects a lesser impact under scheduling the other half. OR utilization and OR overtime in a "virtual" eight operating room hospital fluctuate between 67% and 88% and 97 and 111 minutes respectively. Moreover, we noticed that both performance metrics depend not only on the levels of the scheduling policy and scheduling percentile but also are strongly affected by the increase of the emergency arrival rate.
Finally, we fit a multivariate-multiple-regression model using the output of the simulation model to assess the robustness of the model and the extent to which these results can be generalized to a single, aggregate hospital goal. Further research should include a true stochastic optimization model to integrate optimization techniques into simulation analysis.
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Inan, Dilek. "The city and landscapes beyond Harold Pinter's rooms." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4373/.
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Pinter's dramas have been labelled as 'absurd', 'mysterious', 'enigmatic', 'taciturn'. There has been a constant tendency to reduce the idea of the 'Pinteresque' to language when Pinter is preoccupied with the tensions between reality and the world of the imagination. He has, actually and accurately, used theatre as a 'critical act' to denote the abstracted realities, and he has applied his language to embody his world-view - his concerns in the contemporary capitalist world. Pinter has journeyed from the room to the outside world, from the private to the public social space, and has identified an inescapable sense of pessimism and alienation, and investigated an alarming world of atrocities. There are cities and landscapes beyond Pinter's rooms, cities peopled by wandering, displaced figures surveying the self-estranged city that is modern consciousness, and landscapes where his people retreat into the private realms of memory and fantasy. This thesis explores the virtual geographies beyond Pinter's rooms through the vocabulary of some modernist theoreticians and social scientists, as there are significant parallels between their analytical observations and the poetic perceptions of Pinter, a practising artist, and the phantom images of his characters. Pinter's plays and film adaptations tend to portray the city as a colonial present, and the country as a mythological past. The 1970s' plays portray a community of isolation, urban decay, dispossession and suffering, through the figure of the 'flâneur' - his characters' subjective experiences, memories and fantasies in the metropolis. In these memory plays, men and women have different mental landscapes and desires. To some extent the city is both a male-constructed world and an image of the twentieth century; in both senses it is anti-human and in decline. In his 1980s mature plays, Pinter's lyrical interiors and serene landscapes are colonised by the metropolis. Here Pinter investigates a universally oppressive space filled with misery and social dislocation. The city destroys humanity in a decaying modem world. These plays identify the global city as the locus of existential alienation and as the centre of political power and oppression - a world of brute masculine power. The last two plays, in this study explore other wastelands of human isolation and suffering, and criticise the British suspicion of the 'intelligentsia'. Using scenes that are ingrained in the contemporary audience's physical memory, Pinter makes the distinction between being an active participant and being a witness, a 'spectator' in this alarming world. And thus, he criticises the tradition of mockery of the artistic and the intellectually curious in Britain, and urges a need for a 'politically curious', at politically questioning theatre-going society.
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Gilford, Christopher Leonard Sidney. "The acoustics of small rooms at low frequencies." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1994. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-acoustics-of-small-rooms-at-low-frequencies(7995c2f8-77c0-4a99-ba94-d77a5a0892c0).html.
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Morley, Tim. "Reading rooms in fictions of the modern city." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426274.
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Pereira, Leonardo Tortoro. "Procedural Generation of Dungeon Maps, Missions and Rooms." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/55/55134/tde-25032019-144917/.
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The present research proposes two procedural content generation approaches for missions and play space in a game with dungeons, and a game prototype developed as a proof of concept for the feasibility of the algorithm and as a test framework for user-based experiments. The first approach will define missions by generating dungeon maps together with locked doors and keys through the use of an evolutionary algorithm. The second approach will populate the generated dungeon space by filling the content of dungeon rooms using space-filling curves and cellular automata algorithms. The evolutionary algorithm evolves tree structures encoding information about the dungeon. The goal is to converge the generated dungeons as close as possible to satisfy the set of parameter inputs provided by a game designer. The dungeon holds information about the amount of rooms, the connections between them and their position in a 2D map. There are also relevant semantic information in the content for the generation of narrative, which presents itself by the placement of unique pairs of keys and locks throughout it. Thus, a feasible way to finish the dungeon can be procedurally generated. The content of rooms are generated using space-filling curves algorithms such as Hilbert and Moore curves as well as Conways Game of Life Cellular Automata. Computational results report that the evolutionary algorithm provides dungeons with up to a 100 rooms very close to the desired ones for a range of different parameter inputs. The early validation tests with humans show no statistical difference between levels procedurally generated and those made by humans. Further user-centred validation tests with the game prototype show the algorithm-generated levels are perceived as equally or even more human-made than their human-authored counterparts, as well as funnier and more difficult. Thus, the research aims to generate gameplay elements combining different algorithms for a single solution, which could be easily adapted to a range of different games.O projeto propõe duas abordagens de geração de conteúdo para missões e mapas em um jogo com calabouços, e um protótipo de jogo desenvolvido como prova de conceito da factibilidade do algoritmo e também como plataforma de testes para experimentos com usuários. A primeira abordagem define missões ao gerar mapas de calabouço em conjunto com chaves e portas trancadas através do uso de um algoritmo evolutivo. Já a segunda abordagem irá popular o espaço do calabouço criado ao preencher o conteúdo de suas salas usando algoritmos de curvas de preenchimento de espaço e autômatos celulares. O algoritmo evolutivo evolui uma estrutura em árvore que codifica informações sobre o calabouço. O objetivo é convergir os calabouços gerados para se aproximar ao máximo da configuração de entrada fornecida por um designer de jogos. O calabouço possui informação sobre as salas, como a quantidade das mesmas, as conexões entre elas e suas posições em um mapa 2D. Também contam com informações semânticas relevantes para a geração de narrativa no calabouço, que são o posicionamento de pares únicos de chaves e fechaduras através do calabouço. Portanto, uma maneira factível para o término do mesmo pode ser gerada proceduralmente. O conteúdo das salas é gerado usando curvas de preenchiment de espaço como as de Hilbert e Moore, além do autômato celular do Jogo da Vida de Conway. Resultados computacionais demonstram que o algoritmo evolutivo é capaz de criar calabouços com propriedades muito próximas às desejadas para uma grande variedade de entradas para calabouços com até 100 salas. Resultados preliminares de validação com humanos mostraram não haver diferença estatística entre os níveis gerados proceduralmente daqueles feitos por humanos. Testes posteriores de validação centrados em humanos com o protótipo de jogo mostram que os níveis gerados pelo algoritmo são percebidos como feitos por humanos de maneira semelhante ou até em maior grau do que suas contrapartidas geradas de fato por humanos, assim como são percebidos como mais divertidos e difíceis do que estas. Portanto, esta pesquisa objetiva gerar elementos de jogabilidade combinando diferentes algoritmos em uma única solução, que pode ser facilmente adaptada para uma variedade de jogos diferentes.
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Perdue, Stephen Andrew. "Mega shed : regional rooms for the Orgman's City." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43845.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. [78]).
The recent legitimization of Landscape Urbanism as a theory for architectural design may signal a growing cultural shift toward environmental custodianship. Design strategies that blur buildings and landscape have become architecture's new orthodox response to this trend, promising continuity between architecture and landscape on the new "green" urban surface. However, the infrastructural and organizational demands of this blurring of city and country may actually require an architecture that is more flexible over its lifespan -more appropriately accommodating the on-going bureaucratic alterations required to manage this utopian complexity. This thesis offers a modest proposal for big-box architecture, one capable of delivering continuity and flexibility for the city, even for programs that require functional separation. An exploration of this super-sized typology, the Mega-Shed demonstrates the timeless desire to manage the environment, while resisting the urge to re-create picturesque landscape. Whereas modern cities banished their support systems to the periphery, the Mega-Shed is a passive machine for the current age, an organizational strategy capable of bringing these support systems back into view, producing a sublime utility in the heart of the city.
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CHEN, ZHENQIANG. "The City Hall of Katrineholm : Rooms as intervention." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-169522.
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Katrineholm is a locality and the seat of Katrineholm Municipality,Södermanland County,Sweden,which used to have a strong industrial sector,with several multinational corporations, but in the 1990s some of these companies reduced their workforce in Katrineholm.Today,many residents work elsewhere,as the train connection between Katrineholm and other major cities is fast and comfortable. The main characteristic Katrineholm is “Provinciality”. It is in a condition that is between one historical identity and another identity. This is a good opportunity for Katrineholm to build a new City Hall, forming a new identity for the city. In the process of designing the City Hall, I hope to use rooms as intervention to create both the indoor and outdoor rooms for the citizen and authorities. With these public rooms, the city hall of Katrineholm can be a collection of different characters of rooms, and provide a gathering space for the citizens.
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Beato, Arribas Blanca Maria. "Effectiveness of isolation rooms in controlling airborne infection." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.713475.
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This research has arisen from the need to understand the air patterns within isolation rooms and how they can affect the transmission of airborne diseases to staff or visitors who are inside the room with an infectious patient. Similarly, when it is the patient who needs protection from airborne infection, the ventilation patterns inside the room need to be understood in order to protect the patient. At times staff are very close to a patient and the risk of infection during these activities needs to be quantified. This study analyses the risk of infection in these cases, with different ventilation regimes. Differential pressures between an isolation room and adjacent spaces and airtightness levels also aid in preventing the transmission of infectious diseases, The existence of many different international guidelines with regards to ventilation flow rates, air changes per hour and differential pressures between rooms make the selection complicated for designers. This study investigates the effect that pressure differentials and airtightness have in infection control and how higher differential pressures, which are more difficult to achieve and maintain, impact on the protection. With the recent Ebola infection breakouts and fear of biological attacks, a new model for an isolation room for this type of pathogens (category 4) has been studied. The design intended to remove a patient's containment Trexler tent, in order to provide better access and care to the patient. Several changes to the original design have been studied in order to improve the ventilation in the isolation room. The risk of infection to staff in all variations of the design has been studied. Finally, engineering methods quantify airborne infection using tracer gas techniques, such as carbon dioxide or nitrous oxide, however little research has been done to compare the gas tracer techniques with the behavior of real bacteria
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Zink, Gabriella Suzana. "Virginia Woolf's rooms and the spaces of modernity." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2013. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/virginia-woolfs-rooms-and-the-spaces-of-modernity(60d8f225-d2e4-40d9-8c75-df3f93fde7dd).html.
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The present study aims to expand recent scholarship on modernism’s engagement with space by uncovering the centrality of “the room” in Woolf’s writings. Although the iconic “room of one’s own” has long been considered the cornerstone of Woolf’s feminist politics, criticism has been slow to recognise the significance of the multitude of rooms in her œuvre, from rooms evocative of domestic, national and colonial space in the works of fiction to rooms as loci of memory in “A Sketch of the Past.” This thesis argues that Woolf’s writings not only foreground such spatial representations but also model ways of reading and understanding space which anticipate current theoretical observations. The spatial formation of rooms sits at the heart of Woolf’s interweaving of the political and the aesthetic, yielding an understanding of space itself as dynamic, layered and relational. Previously unexplored “common readers’” responses to A Room of One’s Own preface the discussion. This allows new reader stories to emerge and offers a fresh perspective on the impact of the 1929 polemical essay on its historical readers. The focus then shifts to Woolf’s debut novel, where the room trope configures a symbolic space of ideological constraints bound up with patriarchal ideas of women, empire and the nation. Night and Day overlaps the material and the textual to critique memorialization practices and negotiate Victorian legacies, a negotiation also thematised in The Years, where rooms chart a family’s progress through modernity. The chapter on Jacob’s Room tells the story of an absence, reading the novel’s university rooms in conjunction with women’s struggle for education at Cambridge. Finally, rooms are shown to map out a geo-history of the self in “A Sketch of the Past,” weaving personal history and wartime trauma.
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LaVelle, John Matthew. "Patient expectations and attitudes about waiting time in the waiting room at rural hospital an assessment and potential intervention /." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2004. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2004/2004lavellej.pdf.
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Hatlevik, Espen. "Are Musicians Affected by Room Acoustics in Rehearsal Rooms?" Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for elektronikk og telekommunikasjon, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-18839.
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This study has investigated to what extent musicians adjust their source levels to different music rehearsal rooms. In the experiment, six amateur musicians were to perform the same song i four different rehearsal rooms, by first singing, then by playing guitar and last by combining singing with guitar playing. All sound sources were recorded and analyzed. The results shows that the average musician adjusts his source levels to the rehearsal room and that most of the adjustments are made in the guitar playing. Looking at the individual musician there are some that do not show any signs as to being affected by the rooms, and there are some that shows clear signs of being affected by the rehearsal room. The result also shows that the musicians are affected differently by different acoustic parameters, whereas the strength shows the least correlation and reverberation time shows the most correlation to the adjustment made by the average musician.
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Trapnes, Siri Hofstad. "Optimal Temperature Control of Rooms for Minimum Energy Cost." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for kjemisk prosessteknologi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-22416.
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In this thesis was a room with direct heating in the floor and room modelled. The aim has been to minimize the energy cost of the room, assuming that the future energy price and weather forecast is known. The constrained optimization problem turned out to be linear, and the solution of the problem will always be on the upper or lower bounds of the inputs or states. The idea is to store heat when the energy price is low, and use it when the energy price is high. A switching time that ensures that the model starts the heating of the system at an optimal time in order to save energy costs is thus of importance to find.The problem was solved by using the matlab function fminsearch, and by assuming constant outdoor temperature. Two scenarios were analysed; 1) where only the floor heat is used to storage of heat, and 2) where both heaters are used to heat the system. In each scenario the length and starting point of the interval where the energy price is high was varied. This thesis show that storage of heat in the floor is preferred, apart from in the case where there is no time to heat before the peak interval begins, where both heaters in the floor and room should be used. For comparison, the optimization problem was also solved by using PI controllers, where the two inputs control the temperature in the floor and room respectively. It turned out that the result of the control problem when using PI will resemble the solution of the optimal control problem when using fminsearch.A couple of switching rules was derived in order to find the optimal switching time. This thesis show that the switching rules gives a good estimate of the switching time, apart from in the case where there is no time to heat. The switching rules was used in both methods (when using PI and fminsearch) and it was found that the obtained switching time is not far from the optimal solution in any of the methods. The optimization problem when using fminsearch was tested with varying outdoor temperature. It was seen that the solution from the optimal control problem will take the disturbance into consideration if it is varied before the peak period. On the other hand, the model do not allow for a variation in the outdoor temperature after the peak period.At last, the thesis show that the switching rule handle a variation in the disturbance before the peak period as good as the optimal control problem, but when the outdoor temperature becomes too cold will the result be poor.
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Heil, Robert [Verfasser]. "Optimization of Anesthetic Processes in Operating Rooms / Robert Heil." Aachen : Shaker, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1156517400/34.
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Koperski, Jeffrey David. "Frames, brains, and chinese rooms problems in artificial intelligence /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 1991. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
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Mahindroo, Amrita. "Edens islands rooms : the project of the urban interior." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65742.
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The privately owned public interior, defined here as an enclosed urban space owned by a private entity, has been a recurrent character of many 20th century liberal cities. It has today found an epitome in the mega-structural urban enclaves of the developing world. The thesis seeks to challenge the idea of future within these forms. Developed as technologically deterministic, aesthetic totalities for a precise public in their present, they do little to anticipate the potential publics they may have to absorb as and when the fleeting conditions, which necessitate these forms have subsided into history. Herein, they reveal the comic tragedy of instating architecture with the design of the city, that most desired scope of work. The city, which by its liberal democratic definition is a creator of possibility, is thus reduced to a handful of variables in light of architecture's hegemony, and points once again to a recurrent disciplinary malaise for death by total design. This totality comes all too clearly at the expense of excluding a generous swath of a present and future public and the potential it offers. Whilst the radical manifesto has become a thing of the past, the best means of contemporary attack is elective participation. By this I mean to acknowledge one's constraints within the market, and to deliberate over the potential agency of architecture through more operative means. Herein, a self-conscious sense of humor about the discipline's megalomania is paired with the sincere ideals for creating urban possibilities through architectural form within the structure of neo-liberal economics. This coupling is explored through the design of an enclave for financial services in Mumbai, India. As the breadth of what constitutes the Indian middle class encroaches monumentality, the possibilities for an inclusive, privately owned public interior are interrogated through a manifesto for its ideal spatial tool, the room. A product of both architecture and urbanism, the room mediates between both disciplines by standing as a definitive form through its enclavic walls and simultaneously creating urban possibility in its void.
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Anderson, Tiffany S. "Becoming Ellen Van Oss in Lee Blessing's Two Rooms." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2122.
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This thesis documents the process implemented in creating the character of Ellen Van Oss in Lee Blessing’s Two Rooms. It includes research, character analysis, script analysis and an evaluation of my performance. Two Rooms was produced by the UNO Department of Film and Theatre and directed by Erick Wolfe. The play was performed at the Robert E. Nims Theatre in the UNO Performing Arts Center November 7, 12, 13, 21, 2015 at 7:30pm and November 8 and 22, 2015 at 2:30pm.
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Palm, Adam, and Veera Kokko. "Visual comfort in nursing rooms, from a patient’s perspective." Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, JTH, Byggnadsteknik och belysningsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-40696.
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The awareness regarding important aspects of how to plan and design healthcare environments is something that is constantly progressing. Even though these environments can be seen as complex, the knowledge and understanding of its many different users is often taken into consideration in today’s planning. Several studies have shown positive effects on the visual performance among the hospital staff but also positive effects regarding visual comfort that facilitates recovery and well-being among patients. However, when planning lighting in healthcare environments today, the focus often lies on providing good lighting qualities regarding the visual performance of the hospital staff and the patients are, by that, not taken in consideration to the same level of extent. Therefore this study was focused on analyzing if certain demands could be set on lighting in a nursing room, to improve the experience of visual comfort, from a patient perspective, while using two different lighting scenarios. The thesis has been conducted using an already approved and widely used method Evidence based design (EBD) through a literature study, a pre-study, and an experiment. This to evaluate and develop an innovative design to facilitate visual comfort from a patient's perspective. The visual parameters that the experiment has been focusing on are glare, luminance, contrasts, shadows, lighting principles, and the perception of objects. These parameters have been evaluated from a sitting, standing and lying position in two different lighting scenarios, developed from the hypothesis, without access to daylight. A healthcare environment has a number of different users, that all use the facilities in different ways. Therefore it was important that the innovative design, constructed for the experiment, did not compromise the visual comfort or need of light for the other users. A questionnaire was created, based on the visual parameters, to help answer the research questions. The experiment had a total of 30 participants, where each participant answered the questionnaire six times, one for each position and a total of three times in each lighting scenario. The results were compiled and the mean values were analyzed to evaluate differences and similarities between the two lighting scenarios and between the positions. The results of the experiment show that there are certain demands that can be set on the artificial lighting in a nursing room, and it also shows that it is of great importance to plan for a various lighting environment since it can enhance the experience of visual comfort. Despite this, it is important for a lighting designer to carefully analyze and evaluate the patient's need for light in the specific ward that is being designed. To achieve a sustainable lighting solution it is important to remember that all the sustainability factors, such as the social, economic and environmental factors, are equally important to create a sustainable development.Medvetenheten gällande viktiga aspekter av hur man planerar och utformar vårdmiljöer är något som ständigt ökar. Trots att dessa miljöer kan ses som komplexa, tas ofta kunskap och förståelse i beaktning för miljöernas många olika användare vid dagens planering. Flera studier har visat positiva effekter på visuell prestanda hos sjukhuspersonalen, men även positiva effekter gällande visuell komfort som påskyndar återhämtning och ökar välbefinnande bland patienter. När belysningsplanering idag utförs i vårdmiljöer ligger fokuset ofta på att tillgodose ljuskvaliteter med avseende för sjukhuspersonalens visuella prestanda och patienterna beaktas därmed inte i samma omfattning. Därför har denna studie fokuserats på att analysera om vissa krav kan ställas på artificiell belysning i ett vårdrum, för att förbättra upplevelsen av visuell komfort utifrån en patients perspektiv, vid utvärdering av två olika belysningsscenarion. Studien har genomförts med hjälp av en redan beprövad och allmänt använd metod Evidensbaserad design (EBD), genom en litteraturstudie, en förstudie och ett experiment. Detta för att utvärdera och utveckla en innovativ design med fokus på att underlätta visuell komfort från patientens perspektiv. De visuella parametrar som experimentet har fokuserat på är bländning, luminans, kontraster, skuggor, olika belysningsprinciper samt uppfattningen av objekt. Dessa parametrar har utvärderats från en sittande, stående och liggande position, vid två olika belysningsscenarion med enbart artificiell belysning, utvecklad utifrån hypotesen. I en vårdmiljö vistas ett antal olika användare som alla använder anläggningarna på olika sätt. Det ansågs därför viktigt att den innovativa designen, som konstruerats för experimentet, inte påverkade den visuella komfort eller behovet av ljus för övriga användare. Ett frågeformulär skapades, baserat på de visuella parametrarna, för att besvara frågeställningen. Experimentet hade totalt 30 deltagare, där varje deltagare besvarade frågeformuläret sex gånger, ett formulär per position och totalt tre gånger vid varje ljusscenario. Resultaten sammanställdes och medelvärden analyserades för att utvärdera skillnader och likheter mellan de två belysningsscenarierna samt mellan positionerna. Resultaten av experimentet visar att det finns särskilda krav att ställa på den artificiella belysningen i ett vårdrum. Resultatet visar även att det är av stor betydelse att planera in en varierad ljusmiljö då det kan förbättra upplevelsen av den visuella komforten. Utöver detta är det även viktigt för en ljusdesigner att noggrant analysera och utvärdera patientens behov av ljuset i den specifika avdelningen som utformas. För att uppnå en hållbar belysningslösning är det viktigt att ha i åtanke att alla hållbarhetsfaktorer, såsom de sociala, ekonomiska och ekologiska, är lika viktiga att ta hänsyn till för att skapa en hållbar utveckling.
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Waltz, Margaret. "(Im)Patient Patients: An Ethnography of Medical Waiting Rooms." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1457030358.
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Avery, Steven. "Noncommutative Geometry." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2005. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmc_theses/167.
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We develop noncommutative field theory, starting from a very basic background and explore recent and important results in classical noncommutative field theory. The background section is of interest because it presents mathematical and physical interpretations of differential geometry together in a coherent way, not seen in most of the literature. We present several interesting examples that resulted from recent research in the field.
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Yepes, Nicolás Jesús. "Desigualdades de tipo Brunn-Minkowski y raíces de polinomios geométricos= From Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities to roots of geometric polynomials." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Murcia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/284792.
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La Tesis Doctoral está dedicada, por un lado, al estudio de desigualdades de tipo Brunn-Minkowski, especialmente cuando se trabaja con hipótesis sobre proyecciones/secciones, y, por otro lado, al estudio de las raíces de polinomios geométricos que surgen de una generalización del denominado funcional de Wills. En medio, nos encontraríamos las salchichas, las cuales resultan ser, salvo cuerpos convexos degenerados, la familia de los ‘conjuntos extremales’ en relación a algunas mejoras lineales de desigualdades tales como la desigualdad de Brunn-Minkowski o la primera desigualdad de Minkowski (y por tanto también de las desigualdades isoperimétrica y de Uryshon). Además esta familia de cuerpos convexos está ampliamente relacionada con algunos problemas relativos al polinomio de Steiner. Comenzamos estableciendo las nociones básicas que se necesitarán en un desarrollo posterior. A continuación, estudiamos mejoras de la desigualdad de Brunn-Minkowski, en el sentido de ‘refinar’ el exponente 1/n, cuando se asume que los cuerpos comparten una proyección común sobre un (n-k)-plano, por un lado, y para familias de cuerpos particulares, por el otro. En el tercer capítulo, abordamos el caso de igualdad en la versión lineal de la desigualdad de Brunn-Minkowski; nuestro enfoque subyace en (el estudio de) una posible caracterización de la linealidad del volumen a través de salchichas. En el último capítulo, investigamos las raíces de una familia de polinomios geométricos de cuerpos convexos asociados a una medida dada en la semirrecta real no-negativa, que surgen de una generalización natural del funcional de Wills.The Doctoral Dissertation is devoted, on the one hand, to the study of Brunn-Minkowski's type inequalities, especially when working with projections/sections assumptions, and, on the other hand, to the study of the roots of geometric polynomials which arise from a generalization of the so-called Wills functional. In the middle, we would find sausages, which turn out to be, up to degenerated convex bodies, the family of ‘extremal sets’ in relation to some linear improvements of inequalities such as Brunn-Minkowski's inequality or Minkowski's first inequality (and thus also the isoperimetric and Urysohn's inequalities). Furthermore, this family of convex bodies is strongly connected to some problems relative to the Steiner polynomial. We start establishing the basic notions that will be needed further on. Next, we study refinements of the Brunn-Minkowski inequality, in the sense of ‘enhancing’ the exponent 1/n, when assuming that the bodies share a common projection onto an (n-k)-plane on the one hand, and for particular families of bodies on the other hand. In the third chapter, we deal with the equality case in the linear version of Brunn-Minkowski’s inequality; our approach relies on (the study of) a possible characterization of the linearity of the volume through sausages. In the last chapter, we investigate the roots of a family of geometric polynomials of convex bodies associated to a given measure on the non-negative real line, which arise from a natural generalization of the Wills functional.
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Redd, Mark Bass. "Equipping adults for interactive biblical advisement in Internet chat rooms." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Evans, Roger. "Secret rooms : the life and work of Charles Tennyson Turner." Thesis, University of Hull, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440211.
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Moore, A. D. "The cult rooms from the 'Citadel House' excavations at Mycenae." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234474.
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Vázquez, Maribel 1971. "The effects of altering air velocities in operational clean rooms." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38145.
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Domínguez, Espinosa Francisco Alonso. "Determining thermal stratification in rooms under mixing and displacement ventilation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104255.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of a typical office under both mixing and displacement ventilation were performed to study the effects of room geometry (height and area of the supply), ventilation parameters (supply momentum and heat gain intensity) and radiation heat transfer on the thermal stratification of the air and the temperatures of the surfaces in the space. The air stratification and the temperatures of the surfaces are two important parameters when determining thermal comfort conditions in the room. Different room configurations were characterized in terms of their Archimedes number, which compares the effects of buoyancy and supply momentum, and dimensionless geometric variables. A high Archimedes space was found to be divided into a warm region of uniform temperature above the occupants and a zone where the temperature increases approximately linearly with height. In a low Archimedes space the air is mixed by the supply jet in the lower part of the room, especially near the outlet, resulting in this area having uniform temperature. However, the supply jet was found to be less efficient at mixing the air near the ceiling, resulting in higher temperatures in this zone than with higher Archimedes numbers. For a given Archimedes number, as the supply area increased, the air temperature was found to decrease in the lower part of the room but increase near the ceiling. The supply height was found to increase the vertical mixing in the room. Correlations were proposed to establish the temperature profile within 5% of the temperature rise of the room, which include the effects of the Archimedes number and room geometry. Correlations were developed to estimate the temperatures of the surfaces in a room, based on a dimensionless parameter that characterizes the amount of free area to convect heat to the air. The temperatures of the surfaces were found to be a function of this convective area, regardless of the view factors and convective heat transfer coefficients of the surfaces. A larger amount of convective area was found to result in lower surfaces temperatures but higher air temperatures. A simple methodology to estimate all of the radiative view factors in an occupied office for use in multizone models was proposed. It was shown that the commonly ignored view factor among occupants can be of importance, not only because occupants exchange radiation among themselves, but also because they block radiation that would otherwise reach other surfaces in the room. In addition, techniques to estimate the view factors between other surfaces, such as partitions and furniture, were also developed. Estimated view factors between surfaces encountered in practical situations were found to be within 10% of the results from ray tracing software. The estimated view factors were then incorporated into a thermal resistor network akin to the thermal circuits used to model heat transfer in multizone software. Results from the resistor network showed good agreement with CFD results, although the accuracy depends on the convective heat transfer coefficients used. Finally, it was demonstrated that scale models that use water as the working fluid are not capable of replicating the air thermal stratification, the temperatures of the surfaces or the mass flow rate of a full-sized space, because they neglect the effects of thermal radiation transfer.
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Menchaca, Brandan María Alejandra. "Study of airflow and thermal stratification in naturally ventilated rooms." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74907.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Natural ventilation (NV) can considerably contribute to reducing the cooling energy consumption of a building and increase occupant productivity, if correctly implemented. Such energy savings depend on the number of hours that NV can maintain the indoor air temperature within comfort levels. CoolVent, currently the only simple multizone simulation tool that can adequately model the physics of NV in buildings, assumes a uniform temperature distribution in each room or zone. This temperature corresponds to the exhaust air temperature of each room using an energy balance. In reality, however, the air in a room is often thermally stratified, and the air temperature at occupant level can be significantly lower than the exhaust temperature. The final goal of this thesis was to develop a set of criteria to predict the vertical temperature profile in naturally ventilated rooms by comparing the strength of buoyant to inertial forces in the space, based on a few critical room airflow and physical parameters. Developing such criteria required conducting a thorough study of the physics of turbulent jets and plumes, their development in room-sized enclosures, and their effect on the airflow and heat transfer dynamics in a room. Additionally, it was necessary to investigate, using Computational Fluid Dynamics, the effect of certain parameters -such as radiative heat transfer, heat source distribution and room geometry, among others- on the physics of room airflow simulations. Results shed light on the complexity of modeling room airflow and thermal physics analytically, particularly when the air is thermally stratified. Thermal stratification predictions indicate that multi-zone models overestimate the air temperature at occupant height by up to 40% of the total room air temperature change. This work enhances the physical understanding of modeling critical elements of room airflow and improves the predictive accuracy of the natural ventilation potential in buildings. These contributions promote a wider use of passive cooling strategies, thereby increasing the energy efficiency of the built environment.
by Maria Alejandra Menchaca Brandan.
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