Search results for "Design"

Conception basée sur les origamis pour l'impression 4D de structures déployables

2020

Deployable structures can be deformed between the different configurations through predetermined mechanisms, showing the great potential in many engineering applications. However, their exquisite and intricate mechanisms also bring a great difficulty to the design of its structure. With the growing 4D printing efforts, its self-transforming characteristics under external stimuli provide new possibilities for deploying complex and challenging driving structures. Furthermore, origami-based engineering has provided tremendous technical support for structural conversion, especially from 2D to 3D states, leading to many design studies based on origami-inspired deployable structures. However, the…

Innovazione e/o modernizzazione nell'abitare . Il ruolo del design

2008

University-wide, top-down curriculum reform at a Finnish university: perceptions of the academic staff

2021

This study examines academic staff’s perceptions of a university-wide, top-down curriculum reform in terms of the management of the reform, the support provided by the university’s administration, and the utilisation of the university’s guidelines. Differences between faculties are also scrutinised. The study was conducted at a multidisciplinary public research university in Finland using the survey method. The data (n = 394) consisted of academic staff’s responses to multiple-choice and open-ended questions. Correlation coefficients, exploratory factor analyses, and a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were utilised to analyse the quantitative data. Responses to the open-ended questions …

Rational backbone redesign of a fructosyl peptide oxidase to widen its active site access tunnel

2020

Fructosyl peptide oxidases (FPOXs) are enzymes currently used in enzymatic assays to measure the concentration of glycated hemoglobin and albumin in blood samples, which serve as biomarkers of diabetes. However, since FPOX are unable to work directly on glycated proteins, current enzymatic assays are based on a preliminary proteolytic digestion of the target proteins. Herein, to improve the speed and costs of the enzymatic assays for diabetes testing, we applied a rational design approach to engineer a novel enzyme with a wider access tunnel to the catalytic site, using a combination of Rosetta design and molecular dynamics simulations. Our final design, L3_35A, shows a significantly wider …

Designing a Simple Folder Structure for a Complex Domain

2011

In this paper I explore a case of designing a simple folder structure for a new e-learning software program for a university study program. The aim is to contribute to the theoretical base for human work interaction design (HWID) by identifying the type of relations connecting design artifacts with work analysis and interaction design processes. The action research method was used, with the author in a double role as university researcher and project manager of a developer group within the university. Analysis was conducted through grounded theory, inspired by the HWID framework. The findings support the use of a holistic framework with asymmetrical relations between work analysis and desig…

Grafiskās identitātes miega aksesuāriem ceļošanai vizuāli stilistiskie aspekti

2018

Darba mērķis ir izstrādāt grafisko identitāti miega komplektam ceļošanai. Darba teorētiskajā daļā tika apskatīta literatūra par grafisko identitāti un logotipu izveidi, produktu iepakojumu veidiem, acs un augu motīviem, dažāda auduma apdrukas tehnikām. Darba empīriskajā daļā tika veikta salīdzinošā dizaina paraugu analīze, kur izvēlējās 30 uzņēmumu logo. Analīzei izvirzīja kritērijus, kā logotipa stilistiskai veids, burtveidola izvēle, krāsu izmantojums, simbolu pielietojums. Pēc teorētiskās un empīriskās daļas izstrādes var secināt, ka grafiskā identitāte ir grafisko elementu un simbolu kopums, kas rada priekšstatu par uzņēmumu. Organizācijas logotips raksturo tā būtību, izpaužoties ar bur…

A Robust Multi Stage Technique for Image Binarization of Degraded Historical Documents

2017

International audience; Document image binarization is a central problem in many document analysis systems. Indeed, it represents one of the basic challenges, especially in case of historical documents analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel robust multi stage framework that combines different existing document image thresholding methods for the purpose of getting a better binarization result. CLAHE technique is introduced to significantly enhance contrast in some poor images. The proposed method then uses a hybrid algorithm to partition image into foreground and background. A special procedure is finally applied in order to remove small noise and correct characters morphology. Experime…

Addiopizzo benvenuta legalità

2009

All’inizio era il silenzio assoluto, quello che tutti abbiamo imparato a chiamare omertà, che come una macchia infamante ha bollato un intero popolo, quello siciliano come omertoso. Poi lo stesso silenzio è diventato assordante e si è tinto di bianco, il colore dell’assenza, come quello dei lenzuoli che stesi ai balconi riflette vano la luce e diventa vano stendardi coraggiosi di denuncia. Denuncia di quegli orrori che Letizia Battaglia e Franco Zecchin riprende vano spietatamente facendo sentire l’odore del sangue rappreso sulla carta fotografica.

Aesthetic engagement in museum exhibitions

2014

"Co-development of a decision support model for integrated weed management. Metamodelling and sensitivity analysis of a complex mechanistic model (FL…

2018

In order to reduce our use ofherbicides, we need a tool to design weedmanagement strategies relying on fewerherbicides. Weed management is complicatedand, together with necessity of schedulingoperations at long-term and the multiplicity ofcropping system impacts, it explains whymodels are so useful for designing innovativecropping systems. The aim of this thesis is todevelop a decision support system, intended forcrop advisors, reconciling crop protection andecosystem services Our approach consisted inidentifying the structure of the DSS ininteraction with future users while using anexisting research model, FLORSYS, for thebiophysical content of the tool. FLORSYS is a“virtual field” simulat…