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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13. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY IV) ALKYNES SYNOPSIS Alkynes are commonly known as acetylenes. Acetylene is the simplest and important member of the alkyne series. • Alkynes contain – C ≡ C – • General molecular formula of alkynes is CnH2n–2 • Triple bonded carbons are ‘sp’ hybridized and greater s – character is associated with it. • Alkynes will exhibit chain‚ position and functional isomerism. • Their functional isomers are alkadienes and cyclo alkenes. • The minimum number of carbons required to exhibit
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CAREER EPISODE 1 "Designing of the Side Arm Charger" During the time I have worked at XXXXX since February 2001 for approximately 5 continuous years as a full time mechanical engineering expert I have been assigned several engineering design projects. One of the projects I have been assigned at October 2005 to work on was to design the side arm charger of a wagon un-loader system. XXXXX was selected as the designer and execution supervisor of this project. The wagon un-loader system
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intro- The average mechanical pencil can draw a line 87.5 miles long (According to 20 Things You Didn’t Know About... Pencils By Dean Christopher 2007 in Discover‚ a published magazine) a chapter‚ “A Few Words about Mechanical Pencils”‚ in the book‚ “How to Sharpen Pencils”‚ David Rees‚ the author wrote four words‚ “Mechanical pencils are bullshit.” I disagree. thesis-Wood-cased pencils cost significantly more‚ kill trees‚ leading to a lower amount of oxygen and higher CO2‚ and also affects
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Organic Food I have a question for you at the beginning of this speech. Who just eat organic food everyday? Obviously! According my research‚ which I gave the question to my friends. Most of them know about organic food‚ but only few of them just eat organic food which including the vegetable‚ meat and eggs and other people don’t take it seriously and eat fast food always. What is organic food? The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) states that animals raised on an organic operation
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Contents 1. Introduction 2 1.1 Why this industry was chosen for analysis 2 1.2 Aim 2 1.3 Brief Background of the organic food producing industry 2 1.4 Competitive environment? 3 2. PESTEL analysis 5 2.1 Political factors 5 2.2 Economic factors 6 2.3 Socio-cultural factors 7 2.4 Technological factors 8 2.5 Environmental factors 9 2.6 Legal factors 10 3. Porter’s Five Forces analysis 12 3.1 Threat of new entrants 12 3.2 Threat of substitute products 14 3.3 Threat of established
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not only certified organic fertilizers‚ but also fresh organic produce‚ organic rice‚ organic coffee‚ organic free range chickens that are all also certified organic by NICERT. Other addition to Fresh Start’s product lines are the Healthy Pantries and Natural personal care products. Fresh Start Organics continues to expand while maintaining the company vision of being a vibrant eco-enterprise that implements ecologically‚ socially and economically sound practices in organic agriculture. As a staunch
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Mechanical engineers are connected with the production and processing of energy and with providing the means of production‚ the tools of transportation‚ and the techniques of automation. The skill and knowledge base are extensive. Among the disciplinary bases are mechanics of solids and fluids‚ mass and momentum transport‚ manufacturing processes‚ and electrical and information theory. Mechanical engineering design involves all the trainings in mechanical engineering. Real problems resist compartmentalization
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Organic Growth at Walmart The latest trend or “craze” per say of the twenty first century has been that of organic foods. The U.S market for organic food at one time was growing at a pace of 20% per year‚ which is significantly greater as compared to the 3-4% of the food sector as a whole. This undeniable growing demand in organic foods caught the attention of Douglas Degn‚ an executive vice president of the wildly popular organization‚ Wal-Mart. With the demand of organic products often outstripping
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Network Design page 8-9. 6. Layout and Flow page 10. 7. Process Technology page 11 8. Job Design page 12. 9. The nature of planning and Control page 13-14. 1. DESCRIPTION OF THE OPERATION Mitsides‚ Samuel and Associates is offering Mechanical and Electrical Consultancy Services for a variety of projects since 1977 and its main ability is to carry out with Design and Building of important projects. This includes Larnaca and Paphos Airport terminal building‚ undertaken in association with
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