Design concepts in architecture: the porosity paradigm Sotirios D. Kotsopoulos 129 Franklin Street‚ # 203‚ Cambridge‚ Massachusetts 02139‚ USA; e-mail: skots@alum.mit.edu Abstract: Presented is a paradigm of how a design concept can be converted into a system of production rules to generate designs. The rules are expressed by the means of shape grammar formalism. The paradigm demonstrates how porosity a concept transferred from biology‚ medicine and organic chemistry was implemented by architect
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Laura Balmer “Politics is a many sided concept only to be understood if viewed from various angles”. Discuss. Every day we will experience the activities and ideas of politics around us‚ despite not knowing its definition. When the majority consider politics they instantly think of government‚ laws‚ debates and scandal. However‚ the real question of what politics is has been pondered for thousands of years by many profound names‚ one of the many reasons why Aristotle referred to
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Explain Plato’s concept of the forms and the particular importance of the form of good. (25) Plato originally thought of the forms because of the concept of beauty. Although we see objects and think that they are beautiful‚ we never ‘beauty’. Also many different things can be beautiful‚ but in different ways but they all still have one thing in common‚ beauty. This leads to Plato concluding that there must be something which is ‘beauty’ that all of these things get it from. This idea of a universal
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A Discussion and Critical Evaluation on How Person-centred Theorists View Concepts of the Self Introduction As children grow they start to learn about themselves through their relationships with others and psychologists have evidenced how their ideas of themselves are significantly influenced by other people’s ideas and reactions to them. Dowling (2008) suggests that a child’s level of confidence is affected by their early experiences‚ successes and failures and it is recognised that a child’s
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A Microeconomic Study of the Indian Stock Market A brief overview of the Indian stock market 3 Purpose of the stock exchange 3 PRIMARY MARKET 3 SECONDARY MARKET 4 Role of ‘Supply and demand’ on the stock price movement 4 EVOLUTION OF MARKET STRUCTURE AND THE SELF REGULATORY APPROACH 5 Traditional structure of the stock exchanges: 5 Changes in the market structure and demutualization: 5 Stock Markets as Perfectly Competitive markets: 6 Transaction
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Scenario Concept JOSE E ORTIZ ANDINO ADELAIDA TORRES-DILAN ECO/561PR - ECONOMICS Scenario Concept The purpose of this paper is to explain the market equilibrating process in relation to my personal experience supported by academic research. The following factors will be included in my explanation: law of demand and the determinants of demand‚ law of supply and the determinants of supply efficient markets theory and surplus and shortage. Market Equilibrating Process Not since the
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Eco 225 – Intermediate Microeconomics Assignment 6 Question 1. (20 points) Explain the concept of Pareto efficiency. Question 2. (40 points) The Larry Summers Memo Explain the Economic Logic Summers is referring to in the following memo. DATE: December 12‚ 1991 TO: Distribution FR: Lawrence H. Summers Subject: GEP ’Dirty’ Industries: Just between you and me‚ shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]? I can
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Concepts of Leadership | | Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. Program directors and managers can use this resource to inspire staff to higher levels of teamwork. This article defines concepts of leadership in terms of what a leader must be‚ know‚ and do. Reprinted with permission from Donald Clark. | Good leaders are made not born. If you have the desire and
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law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction. Crimes violate the law and order of a society and it negatively affects the social structure and the society’s fundamental values‚ morale and belief system. The concept of Crime can vary from society to Society The crimes are events and actions that are proscribed by the criminal law of a particular country (Wilkins 1968) In general‚ the society and its existing laws define crime. Sometimes crime in one society
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University of Phoenix Material Understanding Business Research Terms and Concepts: Part 2 Which type of research design— exploratory‚ descriptive‚ or causal—is appropriate for the following examples? Explain why. • The goal of this research is to discover the real nature of the problem and to suggest new possible solutions or new ideas. - Exploratory because the problem is not known. • A food manufacturer wants to know the demographics of people who purchase organic foods.
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