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Adams, Annmarie, and Mary Anne Poutanen. "Architecture, Religion, and Tuberculosis in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec1." Scientia Canadensis 32, no. 1 (July 7, 2009): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/037627ar.

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Abstract This paper explores the architecture of the Mount Sinai Sanatorium in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts (Qc) to disentangle the role of religion in the treatment of tuberculosis. In particular, we analyze the design of Mount Sinai, the jewel in the crown of Jewish philanthropy in Montreal, in relation to that of the nearby Laurentian Sanatorium. While Mount Sinai offered free treatment to the poor in a stunning, Art Deco building of 1930, the Protestant hospital had by then served paying patients for more than two decades in a purposefully home-like, Tudor-revival setting. Using architectural historian Bernard Herman's concept of embedded landscapes, we show how the two hospitals differed in terms of their relationship to site, access, and, most importantly, to city, knowledge, and community. Architects Scopes & Feustmann, who designed the Laurentian hospital, operated an office at Saranac Lake, New York, America's premier destination for consumptives. The qualifications of Mount Sinai architects Spence & Goodman, however, derived from their experience with Jewish institutions in Montreal. Following Herman's approach to architecture through movement and context, how did notions of medical therapy and Judaism intersect in the plans of Mount Sinai?
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Chand, Anumitra Mirti, and Martin Loosemore. "Hospital disaster management’s understanding of built environment impacts on healthcare services during extreme weather events." Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management 23, no. 3 (May 16, 2016): 385–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ecam-05-2015-0082.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which hospital disaster planners and managers understand the role of built infrastructure in delivering effective healthcare services during extreme weather events (EWEs). There is substantial evidence to indicate that many hospitals are vulnerable to EWEs. This is alarming given community reliance on hospitals during times of natural disaster and the predicted increase in the frequency and intensity of EWEs. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, resilience and learning theories are combined to produce a new conceptual model which illustrates how hospital disaster managers learn about the relationship between health outcomes and built infrastructure during EWEs to build future hospital resilience. In this paper, the first part of the conceptual model, concerning the development of disaster management plans is explored and refined using a thematic content analysis of 14 Australian hospitals’ disaster plans and supplementary plans. Findings – The findings indicate high variability of understanding about the role of built facilities in health outcomes during an EWE. There appears to be a widespread and highly questionable assumption in the health disaster planning community that hospital built infrastructure is highly resilient to EWEs. This means that many hospitals will not be unaware of the risks that their buildings pose in the delivery of healthcare services to the community during an EWE and how to manage those risks effectively. Research limitations/implications – The theoretical framework presented in this paper provides new insights which will enable hospital infrastructure resilience to be better integrated into health service disaster risk planning and preparedness. The findings can help hospital disaster managers learn about and adapt their built environment to changing healthcare needs during EWEs. Originality/value – By integrating learning and resilience theories in a built environment context, this paper provides new insights, both theoretical and practical, into the important role of hospital infrastructure in planning for EWEs.
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Singleton, Rebecca. "Architecture and intellectual property." Architectural Research Quarterly 15, no. 3 (September 2011): 294–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135511000893.

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For architects, intellectual property (IP) law is vital. Without it plans, building designs and models would have no value as others could copy them without payment. But what are an architect's rights and how are those rights retained in order to avoid commercial exploitation?The legislation for this area of law comes from the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA), the Registered Designs Act 1949, the Trade Marks Act 1994 and the Patents Act 1977. IP itself is divided into those rights that are registrable at the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and those that are not. Rights that must be registered before the work is protected include trademarks, patents and registered designs; IP rights that cannot be registered include copyright and unregistered design rights.
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Agirbas, Asli, and Emel Ardaman. "Macro-scale designs through topological deformations in the built environment." International Journal of Architectural Computing 15, no. 2 (June 2017): 134–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478077117714915.

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Design studies are being done on contemporary master-plans which may be applied in many locations worldwide. Advances in information technology are becoming the base model of design studies, and these may be more effective than the efforts of humans in the field of architecture and urban design. However, urban morphology variables and constants must be considered while designing contemporary master-plans in the existing built environment. The aims of this study were to extend the use of computer software for different applications and to make a topological work in the regional context. Accordingly, a case study was made using the nCloth simulation tools to create non-Euclidean forms while protecting the road system, which is one of the constant parameters of urban morphology in the built environment.
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Ghosh, Nabaparna. "MODERN DESIGNS: HISTORY AND MEMORY IN LE CORBUSIER’S CHANDIGARH." Journal of Architecture and Urbanism 40, no. 3 (September 25, 2016): 220–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/20297955.2016.1210048.

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Located at the foothills of the Sivalik Mountains, Chandigarh was the dream city of independent India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1952, Nehru commissioned the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier to design Chandigarh. Scholars often locate in Corbusier’s plans an urban modernity that required a break with the past. Moving away from such scholarship, this article will argue that Chandigarh marked a climactic moment in Le Corbusier’s career when he tried to weave together modern architecture with tradition, and through it, human beings with nature. A careful study of the cosmic iconography of Chandigarh clearly reveals that nature for Le Corbusier was more than a vast expanse of greenery: it was organized in symbolic ways, as a cosmic form emblematic of Hindu mythologies. I will argue that in addition to local conditions – economic and cultural – that impacted the actual execution of Le Corbusier’s plans, cosmic iconography shaped a modernism profoundly reliant on Hindu traditions. This iconography also inspired a new generation of Indian architects like Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi (1927 – present). Doshi played a key role in authoring the postcolonial architectural discourse in India. Following Le Corbusier, he advocated an architectural modernism anchored in sacred Hindu traditions.
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WU, MENG-CHIOU, and RUNG-BIN LIN. "FINDING DICING PLANS FOR MULTIPLE PROJECT WAFERS FABRICATED WITH SHUTTLE MASK." Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers 17, no. 01 (February 2008): 15–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218126608004186.

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Multiple project wafers (MPWs) containing different chip designs from many customers serves as an important vehicle for gaining access to advanced semiconductor process technology for prototyping innovative designs or low-volume production. In this paper, a comprehensive study on the methods for determining dicing plans for MPW was carried out. Dicing plans can be used to determine the number of MPWs needed to be fabricated before chip fabrication and employed to saw the wafers after fabrication. Several methods based on integer linear programming formulation and a heuristic based on simulated annealing was proposed. Through conducting experiments with industrial test cases, these proposed methods can achieve up to 50% wafer reduction in some cases and on average 18% and 38% reduction for low- and high-volume production, respectively. This study makes a contribution to MPW dicing and is also instrumental in developing better reticle floorplanning methods.
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Peng, Kuan-Li, and Chin-Yu Huang. "Reliability Evaluation of Service-Oriented Architecture Systems Considering Fault-Tolerance Designs." Journal of Applied Mathematics 2014 (2014): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/160608.

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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides an elastic and automatic way to discover, publish, and compose individual services. SOA enables faster integration of existing software components from different parties, makes fault tolerance (FT) feasible, and is also one of the fundamentals of cloud computing. However, the unpredictable nature of SOA systems introduces new challenges for reliability evaluation, while reliability and dependability have become the basic requirements of enterprise systems. This paper proposes an SOA system reliability model which incorporates three common fault-tolerance strategies. Sensitivity analysis of SOA at both coarse and fine grain levels is also studied, which can be used to efficiently identify the critical parts within the system. Two SOA system scenarios based on real industrial practices are studied. Experimental results show that the proposed SOA model can be used to accurately depict the behavior of SOA systems. Additionally, a sensitivity analysis that quantizes the effects of system structure as well as fault tolerance on the overall reliability is also studied. On the whole, the proposed reliability modeling and analysis framework may help the SOA system service provider to evaluate the overall system reliability effectively and also make smarter improvement plans by focusing resources on enhancing reliability-sensitive parts within the system.
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Friesen, Hans. "Architektur und Ethik." Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 66, no. 6 (January 21, 2019): 805–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2018-0058.

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Abstract The architect who plans and designs our living environment in town and country can neither think exclusively technologically nor act completely independently. Rather, his designs and actions are always in moral relation to the environment, i. e. to nature and landscape as well as to the city/town or the people who live daily with and within the built space and thus have a kind of effective group affiliation. But to what extent does architecture – in the sense of Hegel’s phrase the “sensuous in the meaningful” – already possess ethical implications?
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Hitter, Timea, Maria Cantor, and Erzsebet Buta. "Specific horticulture therapy guidelines in the landscaping of Cluj-Napoca hospital facilities – improving mental and behavioural healthcare." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Agriculture and Environment 9, no. 1 (December 1, 2017): 55–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ausae-2017-0005.

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Abstract In the beginning, nature was an irreplaceable environment for humans. The concept of horticulture therapy (HT) denotes the use of ornamental plants to improve people’s health based on the connection between landscape architecture principles, design elements, and guidelines in healthcare facility gardens. In HT, people can improve and maintain health; so, gardens must provide only beneficial effects for users (patient, family, staff), testing design elements, which can be a scroll direction in garden, point of interest, connection with nature. This paper presents a case study analysis of the current landscape architecture standpoint: one of the Cluj-Napoca clinics, where HT can improve patients’ well-being.
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Zhao, Jin. "The Guiding System Design of Medical Architectural Interior Space Take the Third People's Hospital of Nantong for Instance." Advanced Materials Research 724-725 (August 2013): 1575–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.724-725.1575.

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taking comprehensive medical building in the third people's hospital of Nantong as an example, the paper mainly discusses the role of the guiding system design of interior design in hospital construction. Comprehensive medical building puts different relevant medical works together in the same building, makes its volume bigger and its streamline complex. By taking intelligentized recognition guiding system, light guiding system, color guiding system, graphics guiding system and other measures, the building reasonable plans streamline to guide patients and create a comfortable, convenient medical space.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Hospital architecture – Designs and plans"

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Chalfant, Cheryl Lynn. "Design guidelines for therapeutic gardens serving cancer patients." Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1231344.

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A growing body of research suggests that certain environmental conditions may positively contribute to the healing process. Consequently, the medical and design professions are now exploring how the medical environment - both indoors and out - can better support the health and well being of its patients and their caregivers. Landscape architects and environmental psychologists are contributing to the growing interest in healing environments by exploring the relationship between nature, therapeutic gardens, and patient healing.One result of this interest has been the formulation of design recommendations for therapeutic gardens serving specific populations such as those with Alzheimer's Disease, AIDS or psychiatric illnesses. However, little attention has been given to therapeutic gardens designed to meet the needs of cancer patients even though a number of such gardens already exist. The purpose of this project is to identify design guidelines for therapeutic gardens that support the health and well being of cancer patients and to use these guidelines to design a model garden.The research for this project focused on two areas. First, literature review and interviews with employees of Ball Memorial Hospital were used to establish a base knowledge of cancer, including the emotional, physical and psychological characteristics associated with it. Next, characteristics of healing environments for cancer patients were determined through literature review, review of case studies and interviews with Ball Memorial Hospital employees. Based upon this research, design guidelines were established for therapeutic gardens serving cancer patients and applied in a design for Ball Memorial Hospital's soon to be completed CancerCenter.
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Stegenga, Paul William. "Postsurgical recovery care : spatial organization and social relationships." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22979.

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Leung, Hiu-sum, and 梁曉心. "Healing environment in hospitals: improving and redesigning the outdoor areas in the Haven of Hope Hospital." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45009648.

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Li, Po-ling, and 李寶玲. "Castle Peak Hospital redevelopment." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31983509.

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Markussen, Erika L. "Objects of architecture." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53353.

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Architecture has meaning and purpose when it is seen not as something that firmly must exist, but as the possibilities that a situation creates. I have not yet found that which is concretely architecture, but I can say that which is concretely architecture, but I can say that which could exist as beauty in this world. The design of everyday objects becomes architecture to me, whether it be of a building, a piece of jewelry, or a piece of pottery. My undergraduate thesis was a study of the interaction of a curved wall and a straight wall, as autonomous elements. I proposed not only the spacial design but also how it is affected and changed by the site; namely the repetition and orientation. In my graduate work, I undertook an investigation of the connection between old and new. My thesis suggests, in the form of three schemes or plans, what that connection could be and how it creates and affects architecture.
Master of Architecture
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Long, Richard C. "Resort architecture : the architecture of leisure." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22355.

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De, Moya Francisco Vicente. "Architecture: as a matter of fact." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52063.

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As reality continues to shift from the made fact to the idea: We conclude that creativity is a state of mind; measured by what is made. It is only when extended beyond oneself that an idea can become real to more than one. We Extend thru our talents and skills. The significance of that made is its Presence measured in time
Master of Architecture
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Stodghill, Kathleen. "Architecture as narrative." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52105.

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Betadam, Joburt. "Geometry of pre-revolutionary Virginia architecture." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53092.

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Virginia architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the American Revolution has distinctive geometries which determine proportion. The square, root-two rectangle and equilateral triangle are the figures which establish most proportions. Plans and elevations underwent a development based on a rational method of incorporating the figures into a coherent building. This investigation establishes the use of geometry as a starting point for the culmination of many elements which together composed a building.
Master of Architecture
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Lettieri, Lisa A. "The architecture of masts." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53263.

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The origin of this project came from careful consideration for a threshold between the fabric of Old Town for its historic presence and the Potomac River for its freedom to sail. The order for the threshold came from recognition of the historic grid of the city and its brick construction. A sailing school was chosen as the activity to draw the community to the river. The inspiration for the design was derived from the nature of boats and their delicate rigging. The architecture was generated from the principles of material economy of the masts and ties to create a tensile structure. Although the project fulfills the basic needs of a sailing school, its form came from the desire to express the spirit of sailing at the edge between land and water.
Master of Architecture
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Books on the topic "Hospital architecture – Designs and plans"

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Fermand, Catherine. Les hôpitaux et les cliniques: Architectures de la santé. Paris: Le Moniteur, 2000.

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Bekaert, Geert. Charles Vandenhove: Art and architecture. Tournai: Renaissance du Livre, 1998.

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Bizalion, Marie-Amal. Dessine-moi un hôpital, Cannes. Marseille: Images en manoeuvres, 2011.

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Hospital and asylum architecture in England, 1840-1914: Building for health care. London: Mansell, 1991.

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Bekaert, Geert. Charles Vandenhove: Centre hospitalier universitaire du Sart Tilman, Liège : à la recherche de l'unité. Antwerpen: Standaard/Malherbe, 1988.

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Detlev, Hoffmeister, and Hübener Kristina, eds. Medizin trifft Geschichte: Werner Forssmann Symposium 2010. Berlin: Be.Bra Wissenschaft, 2011.

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Peter, Walser, ed. Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart. Stuttgart: Edition Axel Menges, 2010.

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Sack, Manfred. Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart. Stuttgart: Edition Axel Menges, 2010.

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Casper, Dale E. Domestic architecture: Designs and plans, 1983-1987. Monticello, Ill., USA: Vance Bibliographies, 1987.

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Home plans. 5th ed. London: Dent, 1992.

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Book chapters on the topic "Hospital architecture – Designs and plans"

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Stangl, Paul. "City Plans." In Risen from Ruins. Stanford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503603202.003.0003.

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Between 1945 and 1949 a series of modernist plans were developed for Berlin. In this time of political turmoil, planners and politicians projected a broad range of meanings onto the plans. After the founding of the East German state, Lothar Bolz orchestrated the adoption of socialist realism as state policy, requiring a return to traditional urban design. This theory included a range of tenets guiding planning, but Walter Ulbricht intervened to assure that planning would be dominated by a concern for parade routes leading to an immense square in the city center. In response to West Berlin’s international building exhibition, the German Democratic Republic held their own design competition for a “socialist” city center in 1958. The recent introduction of industrialized building, along with uncertainty and debate over the nature of “socialist” architecture, was evident in designs with a range of influences, including international modernism, midcentury modernism, and socialist realism.
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Chen, Yenming J. "GIS, Grid Computing and RFID in Healthcare Information Supply Chain." In Geographic Information Systems, 81–90. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2038-4.ch008.

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Several healthcare disasters have occurred in the past decade, and their occurrence has become more frequent recently due to one natural catastrophe after another. The medical application requirement for such a disaster management system includes effective, reliable, and coordinated responses to disease and injury, accurate surveillance of area hospitals, and efficient management of clinical and research information. Based on the application requirements, this case study describes a grid-based system in a health information supply chain that monitors and detects national infectious events using geographical information system (GIS), radio-frequency identification (RFID), and grid computing technology. This system is fault-tolerant, highly secure, flexible, and extensible, thus making it capable of operation in case of a national catastrophe. It has a low cost of deployment and is designed for large-scale and quick responses. Owing to the grid-based nature of the network, no central server or data centre needs to be built. To reinforce the responsiveness of the national health information supply chain, this case study proposes a practical, tracking-based, spatially-aware, steady, and flexible architecture, based on GIS and RFID, for developing successful infectious disaster management plans to tackle technical issues. The architecture achieves a common understanding of spatial data and processes. Therefore, the system can efficiently and effectively share, compare, and federate—yet integrate—most local health information providers and results in more informed planning and better outcome.
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Chen, Yenming J. "GIS, Grid Computing and RFID in Healthcare Information Supply Chain." In Cases on Supply Chain and Distribution Management, 256–68. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0065-2.ch012.

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Several healthcare disasters have occurred in the past decade, and their occurrence has become more frequent recently due to one natural catastrophe after another. The medical application requirement for such a disaster management system includes effective, reliable, and coordinated responses to disease and injury, accurate surveillance of area hospitals, and efficient management of clinical and research information. Based on the application requirements, this case study describes a grid-based system in a health information supply chain that monitors and detects national infectious events using geographical information system (GIS), radio-frequency identification (RFID), and grid computing technology. This system is fault-tolerant, highly secure, flexible, and extensible, thus making it capable of operation in case of a national catastrophe. It has a low cost of deployment and is designed for large-scale and quick responses. Owing to the grid-based nature of the network, no central server or data centre needs to be built. To reinforce the responsiveness of the national health information supply chain, this case study proposes a practical, tracking-based, spatially-aware, steady, and flexible architecture, based on GIS and RFID, for developing successful infectious disaster management plans to tackle technical issues. The architecture achieves a common understanding of spatial data and processes. Therefore, the system can efficiently and effectively share, compare, and federate—yet integrate—most local health information providers and results in more informed planning and better outcome.
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Lesselroth, Blake, Hannah Park, Helen Monkman, Ashten Duncan, Gabriel Thompson, and Ryan Yarnall. "Designing Shift Handoff Software: Clinical Learners and Design Students Collaborate Using the “Design Thinking” Process." In Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. IOS Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/shti210323.

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Handoffs in patient care responsibilities between practitioners are common in the hospital setting. Because inadequate communication can lead to patient harm, professional organizations have published recommendations and practical guides to support standardized workflow. However, currently available electronic medical record (EMR) tools rarely provide the requisite functionality to support work and often suffer from major usability flaws. Our internal medicine residency program sponsored a quality improvement initiative to improve the design of handoff tools. To support this initiative, our medical informatics program collaborated with a school of architecture and design to identify requirements and ideate interface prototypes. In this article, we describe how we used Design Thinking principles and methods to inform our product design lifecycle, create novel designs, and teach inter-professional students health systems science concepts.
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Yarrow, Thomas. "Everyday Possibilities." In Architects, 239–40. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0054.

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I have attempted to describe what happens in an architectural practice as faithfully as possible. Focusing on the transformations that take place from an idea, to a design, to a set of plans, and then to a building, my aim has been to show the complexity, difficulty, and interest of this endeavor. I hope these descriptions suggest parallels and differences: with other people, other places, other processes. I do not offer any ultimate answer to the question of how designs, ideas, inspiration, buildings, or for that matter architects are produced. There is no proposal for how architecture might be done better or differently. I want instead to highlight that even as these architects’ themselves acknowledge the problems inherent in the professional contexts they face, there are also possibilities. Focusing on these everyday practical entanglements makes this evident in ways that are less obvious in generalized accounts of the profession and discipline....
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Conference papers on the topic "Hospital architecture – Designs and plans"

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Calamanti, Chiara, Annalisa Cenci, Michele Bernardini, Emanuele Frontoni, and Primo Zingaretti. "A Clinical Decision Support System for Chronic Venous Insufficiency." In ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2017-68016.

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Earlier diagnosis plays a pivotal role in clinical applications, since it can strongly reduce the incidence and impact of many diseases and, consequently, the reduction of health care costs. This last aspect depends strongly from right therapy prescriptions, especially when there are various opportunities. Within this context, Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) could bring several benefits. In this paper, we propose a CDSS with the aim of improving the clinician practice based on recommendations, assessment of the patient and screening of patients with risk factors to prevent chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) complications. The proposed CDSS is implemented in the Nu.Sa. cloud system, which involves thousands of italian General Practitioners (GPs) collecting data (EHR data, personal data, patient’s medical history) from millions of patients. The proposed architecture is designed to collect data from a distributed scenario where GPs are collecting clinical history and pharmacy or second level hospitals gather data from medical devices connected to the cloud over a standard data architecture. We show that exploiting the integration of the medical device VenoScreen Plus with the patient EHR, this CDSS is capable to improve preventive care, to enhance clinical performance, to influence clinical decision making and to significantly improve the decision quality levering on data driven approach.
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Liu, Rui. "A Novel Edge Computing Based Architecture for Intelligent Tool Condition Monitoring." In ASME 2020 15th International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/msec2020-8499.

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Abstract Edge computing has been recognized as a potential solution to enable intelligent manufacturing in the machining industry, especially for the small and medium-sized manufacturers. However, while various research studies have proposed their edge-based architectures for intelligent systems, there still exists a lack of practical and affordable technological plans that can be applied to complex machining process designs in actual production scenario. The objective of this research is to realize the tool condition monitoring (TCM) in machining by the edge computing based architecture for actual mass production. This study creatively proposes a calibration-based TCM system to monitor the cutting tool conditions in repetitive machining operations by comparing the characteristic signals generated by the reference cutting tools in the calibration procedure with the signal generated by the cutting tool in production through a concise similarity analysis, which can be easily integrated into typical cyber-psychical systems to realize the edge computing in a very efficient and flexible way. To validate the performance of the proposed architecture, a case study is demonstrated for tool wear monitoring of repetitive milling operations with a complex machining process design. Experimental validation has shown that the proposed edge-based TCM system can effectively monitor the tool wear progression which is in good agreement with actual wear measurements.
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Benvenuti, Erio, and Marco Sargenti. "The PGT2, a New 2-MW Class Efficient Gas Turbine: Applications and Operating Experience in Cogeneration." In ASME 1996 Turbo Asia Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/96-ta-028.

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The PGT2 is a single-shaft gas turbine with a 2 MW ISO electric output that, after an extensive factory development program has been launched into industrial service with a number of cogeneration applications in small-medium size industries. The two-stage high pressure ratio compressor combined with the single-can combustor and the two-stage air-cooled transonic turbine provides a compact and rugged architecture. The turbine inlet temperature in the 1050–1100 °C class and the 12.5:1 pressure ratio provide a 25% electrical efficiency and a high exhaust temperature that make this machine attractive for a variety of both civil and industrial applications like hospitals and pulp and paper mills, textile, tiles, cement, glass and food production. The exhaust heat recovery boiler can be either a commercial unit or compact once-through type of proprietary design that is housed in a vertical exhaust duct to substantially reduce powerplant footprint area when space is limited. The first application that has provided the most extensive operating experience so far is cogeneration in a paper mill in central Italy. Detailed studies on the potential energy saving and on the return of investment cycle were made in collaboration with the client, and provided a valuable basis for further studies that led to additional orders for paper mills, textile and tile industries. The first installed unit is a package comprising a once-through-flow boiler that was full-load tested at the factory before shipping. Commissioning of the cogeneration plant was started in 30 days after shipment and the plant was taken over by the client in less than three months. A dedicated telephone line allows the power plant to be monitored directly from Florence, thus making it possible to gather operational data in real time and to provide this first customer with prompt assistance during the 4-year service and maintenance contract period. This paper describes the PGT2 design and performance features, the technical and economic evaluations made for the first application, the cogeneration plant layout and a summary of the most significant operational data collected in the initial months or regular service in the paper mill.
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Goldsmith, Matthew James. "Advancing Effective Response Technology to Manage Containment of High Pressure, High Temperature Well." In Offshore Technology Conference. OTC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4043/31125-ms.

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Abstract Deepwater well containment capabilities were born out of necessity – over the last 10 years the industry has innovated and improved upon capabilities and is currently focused on developing the systems required for, new high pressure, high temperature (HPHT) wells scheduled to be drilled in the 2021 timeframe. As industry plans for drilling at deeper depths and higher temperatures – an organization's ability to keep pace with ever-changing needs is critical. That means continuing to enhance capabilities and technology to ensure well containment resources for the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico are available. MWCC is the first in industry to add High Pressure (20k psi) and High Temperature (400°F) technology to its portfolio. The development of this advanced technology presented many challenges both technical and non-technical. A shift from ram-based capping stack designs for well pressures up to 15K psi and temperatures up to 350F to valve-based designs rated for up to 20K and 400°F was necessary but presented technical challenges. An extended flowback response to a HPHT well may requires additional supportive equipment to assure successful containment of well fluids. MWCC delivered novel technology in 2020 designed to cool well temperatures in order to continue use of conventional subsea architecture and systems. Regulatory approval for HPHT source control technology is different from conventional technology. The approval of standard containment technologies is straightforward and well understood in industry; HPHT technology requires additional verification and approval. MWCC will address the process of obtaining approval for the use of HPHT containment equipment in an incident response.
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Dumont d'Ayot, Catherine. "Machines à exposer." In LC2015 - Le Corbusier, 50 years later. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/lc2015.2015.1025.

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Résumé: Ateliers d’artistes, appartements et villas de collectionneurs, pavillons, scénographies et musées : l’exposition est un fil rouge de l’œuvre de Le Corbusier. Le rapport que l’homme entretient à l’œuvre d’art et les modalités de ce rapport sont des éléments fondateurs de son architecture et occupent une position primordiale dans sa vision de la ville. De la ziggourat du Musée mondial en 1929, jusqu’aux projets des années 1960 comme le Centre d’Art international à Erlenbach ou le Musée du XXe siècle pour Nanterre, les musées sont des pièces incontournables des ses grands plans d’urbanisme. Les projets de musées et de pavillons d’exposition entre 1929 et 1965 et les concepts des différentes expositions qu’il organise évoluent en parallèle de sa manière d’envisager le rapport à l’œuvre, que ce soit celui de l’artiste, du spectateur initié ou du novice. Les esquisses préparatoires des différents projets de musées et de pavillons retracent cette évolution. La critique du projet du Mundaneum par Karel Teige assume un rôle clé dans la transformation décisive du concept du musée qui a lieu entre le Musée Mondial en 1929 et le projet de Le Corbusier pour le Musée à croissance illimitée en 1930. C’est un changement séminal qui est décisif pour les projets futurs. L’architecture et la relation à l’œuvre d’art ne sont plus déterminées par le recours à une forme, mais par un mécanisme fonctionnel et organique: la croissance, à la fois image et symbole de l’évolution positiviste de l’humanité. Abstract: Exhibitions, museums, pavilions, artist ateliers, apartments and collectors’ villas: exposition runs like a red thread through Le Corbusier’s work. Man’s relationship to art is a fundamental element of architectural dispositifs. Art influences his vision of society as a whole, and museums are central to his major urban plans, from the ziggurat of the Musée Mondial in Geneva, to the museums in Ahmadabad, Tokyo or Chandigarh, to projects he realized in the late 1960s, such as the Museum of the 20th Century in Nanterre. The evolution of museum design between 1929 and 1965 and of the concepts Le Corbusier developed for the different exhibitions of his own œuvre are in keeping with his way of understanding the relationship to works of art, whether by the artist, a knowledgeable public or those encountering art for the first time. The sketches for the different museums and pavilions retrace this evolution. Karel Teige’s critique of the Mundaneum project assumes a key role in the transformation of the museum concept that occurred between the Musée Mondial of 1929 and Le Corbusier’s first designs for a Museum with Unlimited Growth in 1930. The architecture and the place for art in society are no longer determined by the use of a form but through a functional mechanism. Growth is understood as an image of the positive evolution of mankind. This seminal change is a key to the later projects.Mots clés: musée, exposition, fonctionnalisme. Keywords: museum, exhibition, functionalism. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.1025
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Iribarne, Jorge. "The essential purpose of any Urban Project is to define Public Space." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.6233.

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In that aspect, buildings role, no matter their architectural qualities, is to shape that void and give it character. If one asks people about their remembrances of cities they have visited, they usually mention places and the activities that took place there. Architecture, great or bad is the referente of Architects. Only some monuments –Eiffel Tower or Sidney´s Opera- which act as the city´s image are worth recalling. The failure of CIAM´s urbanism was not its lack of quality, even vition, as some of Le Corbusier designs clearly demostrate, but its disregard of public space, merely a left over spread between isolated building blocks and highways. A good instrument to understand this fact are the Figure/ Ground plans, in which the basic shape of buildings and voids are drawn in black and white. In the tradicional city renders, the public spaces have a clear definition, a presence of its own. In any CIAM project –mostly- or construction, the public realm is the shapless space left over by buildings, with no hint about use or limits. A clear demonstration is the no-space around the Philarmonic, the National Library and the Art Gallery in Berlin. This knowlege is sufficiently incorporated into the practice of most Western Designers, but two perverse conditions are part of the everyday´s life of entire populations in the World: In poor Countries there is an urgent need to incorporate slums to the city structure, culture and services.In Asian Cities, mainly in China, inmense areas are demolished overnight and its tradicional fabric replaced by endless rows of anonymous high rise blocks amid a maze of transport elevated structures, with no place left for pedestrians. An old text advices not to let the urgent erase the important. In today´culture both conditions are unfortunately simultaneous.
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