Daylighting design : planning strategies and best practice solutions / / by Mohamed Boubekri ; with an introduction by Christian Bartenbach and Mohamed Boubekri

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465036403321
• Autore: Boubekri Mohamed <1959->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel : , : Birkhäuser, , [2014]; ©2014
• ISBN: 3-03821-478-7; 9783038214786
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Classificazione: ZH 8900; 68.24
• Disciplina: 729/.28
• Soggetti: Daylighting; Light in architecture; lighting; building; architecture; solar architecture; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Economics of daylighting -- Daylighting and health -- Daylighting metrics -- Daylighting performance of side-wall windows -- Strategies and systems performance -- Case studies.
• Sommario/riassunto: For thousands of years people have aligned their homes with the sun. This tendency decreased with the availability of artificial light. Yet, due to the health effects of artificial light as well as rising energy costs, the issue of designing with daylight is of great importance again today. The primary objective of daylight systems is to make maximum use of daylight for certain building types and climates. The book documents the various dimensions of the optimum use of daylight with particular reference to window orientation, light distribution, and prism technology, and discusses the health and economic related aspects. In ; the final chapter, existing design concepts are documented in detail, including the expansion of the Art Institute of Chicago Museum in the United States by Renzo Piano Building Workshop,Terminal 3 of the Changi Airport in Singapore by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and the Clever House in Germany by Behnisch Architekten.; Über Jahrtausende hinweg haben Menschen ihre Häuser nach der Sonne ausgerichtet. Mit der Verfügbarkeit von künstlichem Licht geriet dies zunehmend aus dem Blick. Angesichts der gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen des Kunstlichts einerseits, steigender Energiekosten andererseits ist das Thema der Tageslichtplanung heute jedoch wieder von großer Bedeutung. Das vorrangige Ziel von Tageslichtsystemen besteht darin, für bestimmte Gebäudetypen und Klimaverhältnisse Tageslicht maximal zu nutzen. Das Buch dokumentiert mit besonderem Bezug auf Fensterorientierung, Lichtverteilung und Prismentechnik die verschiedenen Dimensionen der optimalen Tageslichtnutzung und geht dabei auch auf die gesundheitlichen und ökonomischen Aspekte ein. In einem abschließenden Kapitel werden konkrete Gestaltungskonzepte detailliert dokumentiert, u.a. die Erweiterung des Art Institute of Chicago Museum, USA, von Renzo Piano Building Workshop und der Terminal 3 des Changi Airport, Singapore, von Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

Science, Technology and Culture [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910667720403321
• Autore: Bell David <1965 February 12->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Maidenhead, : McGraw-Hill Education, 2007
• ISBN: 1-280-95071-4; 0-335-22419-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (170 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.483; 306.45
• Soggetti: Science
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Issues; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 01; Chapter 02; Chapter 03; Chapter 04; Chapter 05; Chapter 06; Chapter 07; Glossary of Key Terms; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book introduces students to cultural studies of science and technology. It equips students with an understanding of science and technology as aspects of culture, and an appreciation of the importance of thinking about science and technology from a cultural studies perspective. Individual chapters focus on topics including popular representations of science and scientists, the place of science and technology in everyday life, and the contests over amateur, fringe and pseudo-science. Each chapter includes case studies ranging from the MMR vaccine to UFOs, and from nuclear war to microwave o

Basiskomponenten der persönlichkeit / / Suitbert Ertel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910141152203321
• Autore: Ertel Suitbert
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2011; Göttingen : , : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, , 2011
• ISBN: 9783863950392
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrations
• Soggetti: Social Sciences; Psychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: Thurstone's principle of simple structure is rejected and replaced by its converse, the principle of complex structure. Varimax, the popular simple structure rotation of factors, is replaced by varimin, a novel procedure taking account of the complexity of investigated variables (s. Ertel, 2011). An exploratory factor analysis of a similarity matrix of 16 kinship terms showed that expected semantic features (sex, generation, nuclear family, lineality) manifest themselves by varimin rotation,while distorted clusters of kinship terms are obtained by varimax rotation. Varimin rotation was also applied to five PCA-factors obtained from 30 facet variables of NEO-PI-R (Ostendorf & Angleitner, 2004). As expected, variminrotated factors do not replicate the Big-Five factors neuroticism, extraversion, etc., they rather reveal basic componential features (usually called „dimensions‟): activation level (high-low), activation slope (ascending-descending), source of regulation (endodynamic- exodynamic), phenomenal quality (endomodal-exomodal), and functionality (eufunctional vs. dysfunctional). The well-known Big-Five factors represent clusters of those features rather than simple dimensions. Sensation seeking, internalexternal control, i. e. further constructs of simple structure- oriented research, are likewise conceivable as patterns of functioning based on those five componential features. The validity of the five ; features obtained by varimin has largely been confirmed by rankings of the 30 NEO-PI-R facets using the features as judgmental criteria. Replacing Thurstonian simple structure by procedures aiming at complex structure might help to generate a systemic architecture in the personality and individual differences domains. More psychological functioning might be made transparent by modelling patterns of basic features.; Seit über 70 Jahren kursieren in der Psychologie faktorenanalytische Modelle der Persönlichkeit. Methodologische Kontroversen, die jahrzehntelang die Szene beherrschten, wurden seit etwa zwei Jahrzehnten von einem zunehmenden Konsens abgelöst. Das Fünf-Faktoren-Modell (FFM) hat die Vorherrschaft gewonnen. Das FFM ist indessen mit schwerwiegenden Mängeln behaftet, was die theoretische Deutung der fünf Dimensionen betrifft. Der Verfasser hat dafür einen bislang unerkannten Fehler in den Grundauffassungen der Psychometrie verantwortlich machen können (Ertel, 2011). In seiner vorliegenden Schrift wird die Szene der methodisch und theoretisch mangelhaften Persönlichkeitsforschung aufgerollt. Ein neues Verfahren der Faktorenrotation (Varimin) wird eingesetzt, das im Unterschied zur bisherigen Modellierung, das sich dem Prinzip der Einfachstruktur verschrieben hatte, der Komplexität der analysierten Variablen Rechnung trägt. Das Verfahren, das für die faktorenanalytische Forschung ein neues Paradigma eröffnet, ermittelt Varianzquellen der Persönlichkeit, die als Basiskomponenten eines psychophysischen Ganzen eine funktionale Einheit erkennen lassen. Damit werden die Hindernisse überwunden, die einem theoretischen Verständnis der Ergebnisse faktorenanalytischer Persönlichkeitsforschung bisher im Wege standen.

Xenoi : immagine e parola tra razzismi antichi e moderni : atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Cagliari, 3-6 febbraio 2010 / / a cura di Andrea Cannas, Tatiana Cossu, Marco Giuman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910135633603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Liguori Editore
• Edizione: [1. ed. italiana.]
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 406 p. : ill. ; ; 24 cm
• Collana: Scienze storiche ; ; 24; Domini
• Altri autori (Persone): CannasAndrea; CossuTatiana; GiumanMarco <1967->
• Soggetti: Racism - History; Racism in literature; Racism and the arts
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Quali sono le premesse ideologiche dei razzismi moderni e contemporanei? Come immagini e parole sono stati utilizzati dai poteri di ieri, anche del lontano passato, e di oggi per costruire discorsi e visioni del mondo razziste, che legittimassero politiche e pratiche di emarginazione, di esclusione, di discriminazione di gruppi umani? Come i media contribuiscono a diffondere stereotipi culturali e processi di naturalizzazione delle differenze? Tutte questioni che archeologi, storici, letterati e antropologi culturali trattano nelle cinque sezioni tematiche di questo libro in cui sono analizzati il mito "del sangue e del suolo", l'invenzione della razza e il nazifascismo, la costruzione dello straniero e del nemico nei media e nelle opere letterarie, il razzismo e i nazionalismi, e infine uno sguardo particolare è dedicato alla Sardegna.