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El incendio de Notre-Dame
Authors: Heyman Jacques
Published: January 2022

El artículo reflexiona, al hilo del incendio de Notre-Dame, sobre la acción simbiótica que asumen los elementos del sistema de doble cubierta de la gran iglesia gótica típica, en el que las bóvedas de piedra se coronan por una techumbre de madera, y la valiosa función que adquiere cada uno de estos elementos dentro del conjunto. Así mismo, cita otros ejemplos de actuaciones restauradoras promovidas tras siniestros análogos para incitar a la reflexión sobre las alternativas que se abren para el diseño de las nuevas cubiertas de Notre-Dame.
The New Urban Aesthetic
Authors: Montserrat Degen Mónica , Rose Gillian
Published: January 2022

Cities are key sites for the reproduction of global capitalism, and urban branding is central to this transformative dynamic. In the 21st century, cities are also being profoundly reconfigured by the deployment of many kinds of digital technologies. Both of these shifts entrain sensory bodily experiences. This digitally mediated reconfiguration of what cities feel like is what this book terms the new urban aesthetic.

The book focuses on three examples of urban change in which digital technologies of different kinds were central: a large scale urban redevelopment in Doha, the retrofitting of Milton Keynes to become a smart city, and the cultural regeneration of Smithfield Market into the Culture Mile in London. Each case study focusses on a different kind of digital mediation, including the computer-generated images created to sell new urban developments, smart city phone apps, and Instagram posts about particular urban places. The book identifies three versions of the new urban aesthetic: glamorous, flowing, and dramatic. It shows how each of these organize sensory experiences through particular distributions of temporality and spatiality. As well as exploring the importance of sensory constellations in our digitally mediated cities, the book also offers ways to investigate their fragility and potential for subversion.

The New Urban Aesthetic is essential reading for researchers and students in urban studies, architecture, digital studies, sociology, and human geography.
A Guide to the Psychology of Eating
Authors: Chaffee Leighann , da Silva Stephanie
Published: January 2022

Why are spicy cuisines characteristic of hot climates? Does our stomach or our brain tell us when it is time to eat? And how do we decide if bugs are food? Employing a learner-centered approach, this introduction to the psychological mechanisms of consumption engages readers with questions and cross-cultural examples to promote critical analysis and evidence-based comprehension.

The discipline of psychology provides an important perspective to the study of eating, given the remarkable complexity of our food environments (including society and culture), eating habits, and relationships with food. As everything psychological is simultaneously biological, the role of evolutionary pressures and biopsychological forces are bases to explore complex processes within the book, such as sensation and perception, learning and cognition, and human development. The authors illuminate contemporary eating topics, including the scope and consequences of overnutrition, the aetiology of eating disorders, societal focus on dieting and body image, controversies in food policy, and culture-inspired cuisine. Supplemental resources and exercises are provided in a pedagogically-focused companion website.
Cinematic Style
Authors: Berry Jess
Published: January 2022

From cinema’s silent beginnings, fashion and interior design have been vital to character development and narrative structure. Despite spectacular technological advancements on screen, stunning silhouettes and striking spaces still have the ability to dazzle to dramatic effect. This book is the first to consider the significant interplay between fashion and interiors and their combined contribution to cinematic style from early film to the digital age.

With examples from Frank Lloyd Wright inspired architecture in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, to Coco Chanel’s costumes for Gloria Swanson and a Great Gatsby film-set turned Ralph Lauren flagship, Cinematic Style describes the reciprocal relationship between these cultural forms. Exposing the bleeding lines between fashion and interiors in cinematic and real-life contexts, Berry presents case studies of cinematic styles adopted as brand identities and design movements promoted through filmic fantasy.

Shedding light on consumer culture, social history and gender politics as well as on fashion, film and interior design theory, Cinematic Style considers the leading roles domestic spaces, quaint cafes, little black dresses and sharp suits have played in 20th and 21st-century film.
Modernists and the Theatre
Authors: Moran James
Published: January 2022

Modernists and the Theatre is the first study to examine how theories of modernism intersect with those of the theatre within the works, philosophies and literary lives of six key modernist writers. Drawing on a wealth of unfamiliar archive material and fresh readings of neglected documents, James Moran reveals how these literary figures interacted with the theatre through playwriting, by engaging in philosophical debates and participating in theatrical performances. Chapters assess W.B. Yeats’s very earliest playwriting, Ezra Pound’s onstage acting, the interconnections between James Joyce’s and D.H. Lawrence’s sense of drama, Eliot’s thinking about theatre in Dublin, and the feminist politics of Virginia Woolf’s small-scale theatrical experiments.

While these writers valued coterie production and often made hostile comments about drama, this volume highlights the paradoxical fact that, despite their harsh words, the theatrically ‘large-scale’ also attracted each of these writers. The theatre event of ‘restricted production’ offered modernists a satisfying mode of sharing their work amongst the like-minded, and the book discloses a set of unfamiliar events of this sort that allowed these writers to act as agents of legitimation in granting cultural value.

The book explores their engagements with popular drama, as well as the long-forgotten acting performances in which each of these writers personally participated. Moran uncovers how the playhouse became a key geographical space where the high-modernists could explore a tension that fascinated them, and which motivated much of their wider thinking and literary work.
Shakespeare on Prejudice
Authors: Sokol B. J.
Published: January 2022

How are various forms of prejudice portrayed in the works of Shakespeare and to what extent does Shakespeare differ from his contemporaries in their portrayal? What can we learn about Shakespeare's times and our own through a close reading of prejudice depicted in his plays?

In this study, B. J. Sokol examines what King Edward in Henry VI Part III calls 'your scorns and mislike' (4.1.23) – the unfounded prejudices depicted in Shakespeare's works and targeted at five distinct areas: education, the arts, peace, 'strangers' or outsiders and sexual love. Through a close reading of his plays, comparison with the works of other Elizabethan writers and a consideration of Shakespeare's social environment, this study provides a detailed appreciation of Shakespeare's dramatic method and his insights into the psychological motivations behind the prejudices portrayed.

Presenting Shakespeare's prejudice against education, Sokol examines Shakespeare's numerous representations of pupils, teachers and schooling, focusing on anti-educational prejudices in The Merry Wives of Windsor and in King Henry VI Part 2. The  distaste of characters for art is considered alongside Shakespeare's repeated depiction of the destructive downgrading of the arts that erupts during political upheavals, while prejudice against peaceful living is traced in Shakespeare's various portrayals of ‘honour’-driven feuding, such as in Romeo and Juliet, and in warrior characters such as Coriolanus. Prejudice against strangers as depicted in plays including Titus Andronicus, Othello and The Merchant of Venice is contrasted with that of plays by his contemporaries, including Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, while a final chapter examines prejudice against sex and the representation of many male and female characters who evade the erotic, subordinate the erotic to power seeking, or regard their own or others’ erotic attachments with revulsion.
International Perspectives on Knowledge and Quality
Authors: Hudson Brian , Olin-Scheller Christina , Stolare Martin , Gericke Niklas
Published: January 2022

Drawing together an international author team from Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden and the UK, this book examines how we might democratize and open up access to ‘knowledge of the powerful’ for all. This book moves beyond the narrow knowledge vs skills debate of the 20th century to interrogate the epistemic quality of education in schools, and is a valuable resource for reflecting on the design and implementation of teacher education. Based on a range of national studies by the Knowledge and Quality across School Subjects and Teacher Education network (KOSS), funded by the Swedish Research Council (2019-22), the chapters explore teachers’ powerful professional knowledge and the implications this has for innovation in teacher education, policy and practice in educational settings
Adapting Macbeth
Authors: Carroll William C.
Published: January 2022

In this study, William C. Carroll analyses a wide range of adaptations and appropriations of Macbeth across different media to consider what it is about the play that compels our desire to reshape it. Arguing that many of these adaptations attempt to ‘improve’ or ‘correct’ the play’s perceived political or aesthetic flaws, Carroll traces how Macbeth’s popularity and adaptability stems from several of its formal features: its openly political nature; its inclusion of supernatural elements; its parable of the dangers of ambition; its violence; its brevity; and its domestic focus on a husband and wife.

The study examines a wide-array of adaptations, ranging across elite and popular culture divides: Sir William Davenant’s adaptation for the Restoration stage (1663–4), an early 18th-century novel, The Secret History of Mackbeth and Verdi's Macbeth, through to 20th- and 21st-century adaptations for stage and screen, besides contemporary novelizations, comic books, young adult literature, and commercial appropriations that testify to the play's absorption into contemporary culture.
Periodization
Authors: Wyon Matthew , Allard Gaby
Published: January 2022

The training of elite dancers has not changed in the last 60 years; it is often only those that have survived the training that go on to have a career, not necessarily the most talented. It is time to challenge and change how we train tomorrow’s professional dancers. This book brings you the reasons why and all tools to implement change.

10 years ago, Matthew Wyon and Gaby Allard introduced a new pedagogical approach to training vocational dancers: Periodization. This ground-breaking new methodology provides an adaptable framework to optimise training - it’s goal-focused, fits to performance schedules, and is highly sustainable for the dancer. It is the future.

For the first time, Wyon and Allard have put their discoveries to paper. Periodization provides clear context to why change is needed, and explores the theoretical underpinnings of this new approach and how it can be effectively applied to a dance environment.
Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship
Authors: Evans Tanya
Published: January 2022

Family history is one of the most widely practiced forms of public history around the globe, especially in settler migrant nations like Australia and Canada. It empowers millions of researchers, linking the past to the present in powerful ways, transforming individuals’ understandings of themselves and the world. This book examines the practice, meanings and impact of undertaking family history research for individuals and society more broadly.

In this ground-breaking new book, Tanya Evans shows how family history fosters inter-generational and cross-cultural, religious and ethnic knowledge, how it shapes historical empathy and consciousness and combats social exclusion, producing active citizens. Evans draws on her extensive research on family history, including survey data, oral history interviews and focus groups undertaken with family historians in Australia, England and Canada collected since 2016.

Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship reveals that family historians collect and analyse varied historical sources, including oral testimony, archival documents, pictures and objects of material culture. This book reveals how people are thinking historically outside academia, what historical skills they are using to produce historical knowledge, what knowledge is being produced and what impact that can have on them, their communities and scholars.

The result is a necessary revival of the current perceptions of family history.
The Dramaturgy of Space
Authors: Griffero Ramón
Published: January 2022

In Ramón Griffero’s seminal work, The Dramaturgy of Space, the playwright and director describes his aesthetic philosophy and theoretical approach to theatrical creation, illustrating his theory through practical application in a series of exercises.

As well as touching upon some of Griffero’s own work, like Cinema Utoppia (1985), Tus deseos en fragmentos (2003), Fin del eclipse (2007) and El azar de la fiesta (1992), this book also reinforces the practicality of Griffero’s concepts through a series of online videos, breaking down each exercise and allowing readers to engage with the effects of his celebrated approach.

Published here in English for the first time, in a translation by the leading expert on Griffero, The Dramaturgy of Space reveals the internationally renowned Chilean artist’s thought process, and how his practice has influenced the theatrical, political, and social context, from the Pinochet dictatorship to the present day.
Following Norberg-Schulz
Authors: Andersen Anna Ulrikke
Published: January 2022

This book examines the ‘window’ in the life and work of the seminal architectural thinker Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926 – 2000). It draws new attention to his architectural designs and re-examines his acclaimed theoretical work on the phenomenology of architecture and place within the context of a biography of his life, linking him with other historical figures such as Helen Keller and Rainer Maria Rilke, and framing him within the modernist tradition of the latter.

Taking a novel, experimental approach, the book also explores the potential of the essay-film as an innovative new approach to producing architectural history. Bridging archival research and artistic exploration, its ten chapters, written by an architectural historian who is also a film-maker, are each accompanied by a short documentary film, hosted online and linked from within the chapter, which use the medium of film to creatively explore and delve deeper into little-known aspects of Norberg-Schulz’s theory of genius loci and the phenomenology of architecture. The book questions what it means to ‘follow’ those who came before, exploring the positionality of the architectural historian/filmmaker.

Offering an insightful account of the life, work, and theory of a key thinker, Following Norberg-Schulz is also essential reading for those interested in practice-led research methodologies, particularly in the practice of film-making and the essay film, providing a highly innovative example of scholarly research which bridges the text-film gap.
The Color of Modernism
Authors: Barnstone Deborah Ascher
Published: January 2022

One of the most enduring and pervasive myths about modernist architecture is that it was white–pure white walls both inside and out. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. The Color of Modernism explodes this myth of whiteness by offering a riot of color in modern architectural treatises, polemics, and buildings.

Focusing on Germany in the early 20th century, one of modernism’s most foundational and influential periods, it examines the different scientific and artistic color theories which were advanced by members of the German avant-garde, from Bruno Taut to Walter Gropius to Hans Scharoun. German color theory went on to have a profound influence on the modern movement, and Germany serves as the key case study for an international phenomenon which encompassed modern architects worldwide from le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto to Berthold Lubetkin and Lina Bo Bardi.

Supported by accessible introductions to the development of color theory in philosophy, science and the arts, the book uses the German case to explore the new ways in which color was used in architecture and urban design, turning attention to an important yet overlooked aspect of the period. Much more than a mere correction to the historical record, the book leads the reader on an adventure into the color-filled worlds of psychology, the paranormal, theories of sensory perception, and pleasure, showing how each in turn influenced the modern movement. The Color of Modernism will fundamentally change the way the early modernist period is seen and discussed.
Human Beings and their Images
Authors: Wulf Christoph
Published: January 2022

Bringing the image into dialogue with the imagination, mimesis and performativity, Christoph Wulf illuminates the historical, cultural and philosophical aspects of the relationship between images and human beings, looking both at its conceptual and physical manifestations.

Wulf explores the cultural power of the image. He shows that images take root in our personal and collective imaginaries to determine how we feel, how we perceive the arts and culture, and how our bodies respond with physical actions, in games and dance to rituals and gesture. By showing how imagination occupies an essential place in our daily conduct, Wulf makes a significant contribution to how we think about the role of images in culture, the arts and society.
On Political Impasse
Authors: Calcagno Antonio
Published: January 2022

Power is classically understood as the playing out of relations between the ruler and the ruled. Political impasse is often viewed as a moment in which no clear-cut delineation of power exists, resulting in an overwhelming sense of frustration or feeling stuck in a no-win situation. The new globalised world has produced a real shift in how power works: not only has power been concentrated in the hands of very few while many millions become more oppressed by radical shortages and growing costs, but we also have a new category of political subjectivity in which many find themselves neither rulers nor radically oppressed. Those who live the neither/nor of contemporary power live the new global impasse.

For those of us who are stuck and compelled to wait for dominant power to break, this book uncovers possibilities in thought, imagination, and self-appropriation through oikeiosis, that is, making oneself at home in oneself, and constancy.
Mario Bava
Authors: Hunt Leon
Published: January 2022

How do we approach a figure like Mario Bava, a once obscure figure promoted to cult status? This book takes a new look at Italy’s ‘maestro of horror’ but also uses his films to address a broader set of concerns. What issues do his films raise for film authorship, given that several of them were released in different versions and his contributions to others were not always credited? How might he be understood in relation to genre, one of which he is sometimes credited with having pioneered?

This volume addresses these questions through a thorough analysis of Bava’s shifting reputation as a stylist and genre pioneer and also discusses the formal and narrative properties of a filmography marked by an emphasis on spectacle and atmosphere over narrative coherence and the ways in which his lauded cinematic style intersects with different production contexts. Featuring new analysis of cult classics like Kill, Baby … Kill (1966) and Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970), Mario Bava: The Artisan as Italian Horror Auteur sheds light on a body of films that were designed to be ephemeral but continue to fascinate us today.
The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music
Authors: Çamcı Anıl
Published: January 2022

The electronic medium allows any audible sound to be contextualized as music. This brings about unique structural possibilities as spectrum, dynamics, space, and time become continuous dimensions of musical articulation. What we hear in electronic music ventures beyond what we traditionally characterize as musical sound and challenge our auditory perception on the one hand and our imagination on the other. Based on an extensive listening study conducted over four years, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the cognitive processes involved in the experience of electronic music. It pairs artistic practice with theories from a range of disciplines to communicate how this music operates on perceptual, conceptual, and affective levels. Looking at the common and the divergent ways in which our minds respond to electronic sound, the book investigates how we build narratives from of our experience of electronic music and how we situate ourselves in them.
The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Fashion
Authors: Keiser Sandra , Tortora Phyllis G.
Published: January 2022

This seminal text demystifies the terminology of working in the fashion industry today, providing definitions of processes, techniques, features, and even some historical terms that you need to know. The dictionary now includes coverage of sustainability, smart materials, new technologies and processes. This book has been reorganized in a purely alphabetical order for easy reference. Lavishly illustrated with over 800 illustrations capturing the styles and details of fashion, this reference work is a must have for students, designers, fashion merchandisers, historians, and fashion enthusiasts.
Sync or Swarm, Revised Edition
Authors: Borgo David
Published: January 2022

The revised edition of Sync or Swarm promotes an ecological view of musicking, moving us from a subject-centered to a system-centered view of improvisation. It explores cycles of organismic self-regulation, cycles of sensorimotor coupling between organism and environment, and cycles of intersubjective interaction mediated via socio-technological networks. Chapters funnel outward, from the solo improviser (Evan Parker), to nonlinear group dynamics (Sam Rivers trio), to networks that comprise improvisational communities, to pedagogical dynamics that affect how individuals learn, completing the hermeneutic circle. Winner of the Society for Ethnomusicology's Alan Merriam prize in its first edition, the revised edition features new sections that highlight electro-acoustic and transcultural improvisation, and concomitant issues of human-machine interaction and postcolonial studies.
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
Authors: Afolayan Adeshina , Falola Toyin
Published: January 2022

Fela Anikulapo Kuti was the Afrobeat music maestro whose life and time provide the lens through which we can outline the postcolonial trajectory of the Nigerian state as well as the dynamics of most other African states. Through the Afrobeat music, Fela did not only challenge consecutive governments in Nigeria, but his rebellious Afrobeat lyrics facilitate a philosophical subtext that enriches the more intellectual Afrocentric discourses. Afrobeat and the philosophy of blackism that Fela enunciated place him right beside Malcolm X, Kwame Nkrumah, Marcus Garvey, and all the others who champion a black and African mode of being in the world. This book traces the emergence of Fela on the music scene, the cultural and political backgrounds that made Afrobeat possible, and the philosophical elements that not only contributed to the formation of Fela’s blackism, but what constitutes Fela’s philosophical sensibility too.
Video Game Level Design
Authors: Salmond Michael
Published: January 2022

Level design connects the player to the game through challenges, experiences, and emotions. This book is an invaluable introduction to the evolving practices of level designers across the games industry. The increasingly complex role of the level designer requires technical and creative skill as it brings together architecture, art, player psychology, interaction design, usability, and experience design. This book explores in detail the principles designers employ when planning levels and building engaging spaces for the player. As well as practical approaches to level design, the book delves into the theoretical underpinnings of the processes and charts a path towards thinking like a level designer.

Throughout the book you will be guided through the fundamentals of level design: each chapter builds on the types of research, ideation, best practices, and methodologies level designers employ when creating prototypes and shipped games. A series of interviews with designers and case studies from game studios examine the application of industry-wide expertise used to create triple-A and indie game titles. By the end of this book you will have gained valuable insight into the role of a level designer and be able to devise, plan, and build your own engaging and entertaining game levels.
Color It True
Authors: Pomerance Murray
Published: January 2022

This often-startlingly original book introduces a new way of thinking about color in film as distinct from existing approaches which tend to emphasize either technical processes and/or histories of film coloration, or the meaning(s) of color as metaphor or symbol, or else part of a broader signifying system. Murray Pomerance’s latest meditation on cinema has the author embed himself in various ways of thinking about color; not ways of framing it as a production trick or a symbolic language but ways of wondering how the color effect onscreen can work in the act of viewing.

Pomerance examines many issues, including acuity, dreaming, interrelationships, saturations, color contrasts, color and performance (color as a performance aid or even performance substitute), and more. The lavender of the photographer’s seamless in Antonioni’s Blow-Up taken in itself as an explosion of color worked into form, and then considered both as part of the story and part of our experience.

The 14 chapters of this book each discuss a single primary color as regards to our experience of cinema. After opening the idea of such an exploration in terms of the history of our apperception and the variation in our experience that color germinates, Color It True takes form.
The Godfather
Authors: Lewis Jon
Published: January 2022

Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American film-making, and its success – as a work of art, as a creative ‘property’ exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures; and as a model for aspiring auteurist film-makers – changed Hollywood forever.

Jon Lewis's study of The Godfather begins with a close look at the film's audacious visual style (the long, theatrical set pieces; the chiaroscuro lighting, the climactic montage paralleling a family baptism with a series of brutal murders). The analysis of visual style is paired with a discussion of the movie's principal themes: Vito and Michael's attempt to balance the obligations of business and family, their struggle with assimilation, the temptations and pitfalls of capitalist accumulation, and the larger drama of succession from father to son, from one generation to the next.

The textual analysis precedes a production history that views The Godfather as a singularly important film in Hollywood's dramatic box-office turnaround in the early 1970s. And then, finally, the book takes a long hard look at the gangster himself both on screen and off. Hollywood publicity attending the gangster film from its inception in the silent era to the present has endeavoured to dull the distinction between the real and movie gangster, insisting that each film has been culled from the day's sordid headlines. Looking at the drama on screen and the production history behind the scenes, Lewis uncovers a series of real gangster backstories, revealing, finally, how millions of dollars of mob money may well have funded the film in the first place, and how, as things played out, The Godfather saved Paramount Studios and the rest of Hollywood as well.
The Searchers
Authors: Buscombe Edward
Published: January 2022

John Ford's masterpiece The Searchers (1956) was voted the seventh greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound's most recent poll of critics. Its influence on many of America's most distinguished contemporary filmmakers, among them Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, and John Milius, is enormous. John Wayne's portrait of the vengeful Confederate Ethan Edwards gives the film a truly epic dimension, as does his long and lonely journey into the dark heart of America. Edward Buscombe's insightful study provides a detailed commentary on all aspects of the film, drawing on material in the John Ford archive at Indiana University, including Ford's own memos and the original script, which differs in vital respects from the film he made, to offer new insights into the film's production history.
Energieeffiziente Wohngebäude.
Authors: Schulze Darup Burkhard
Published: January 2022

Jeder Neubau schafft in puncto Wärmebedarf Fakten für Generationen. In der Bauphase können mit überschaubarem Mehraufwand beträchtliche Energieeinsparungen in der Zukunft gesichert werden. Diese Investitionen sorgen für hohen Wohnkomfort bei geringen Betriebskosten.

Das BINE-Fachbuch stellt das Passivhauskonzept und verschiedene Konzepte für Konstruktion und Gebäudetechnik in den Mittelpunkt. Erfahrungen aus Beispielgebäuden und die sehr anschauliche Darstellung machen das Buch zu einer inspirierenden Fundgrube für Planer, Investoren und Bauherren.

Schwerpunkte:

Wohnkomfort

Raumklima und Lüftung

Wirtschaftlichkeit
Schäden an polymeren Beschichtungen.
Authors: Engelfried Robert , Eisenkrein Helena
Published: January 2022

Mit den heutigen Erfordernissen, Bauwerke gegen Witterungseinflüsse und Nutzungsbeanspruchungen zu schützen, sind die Anforderungen an Anstriche und Beschichtungen bei Planung, Werkstoffherstellung und Anwendung deutlich größer geworden. Dieses Buch, jetzt in vollständig aktualisierter und erweiterter 2. Auflage, gibt einen Überblick über die wichtigsten Beschichtungsstoffe, ihre Zusammensetzung und Eigenschaften, die wichtigsten Anwendungsregeln sowie ihre Verhaltensweisen unter praktischen Beanspruchungsbedingungen. Anhand von Schadensbeispielen werden Ursachen und Mechanismen des Versagens von Anstrichen und Beschichtungen erläutert und daraus diejenigen Planungs- und Verarbeitungsfehler abgeleitet, die es zu vermeiden gilt. Einen besonderen Raum nehmen visuell nicht erkennbare Mängel ein, die nur auf analytischem bzw. technologischem Weg feststellbar sind.

Der Titel ist Teil der Fachbuchreihe Schadenfreies Bauen, in welcher das gesamte Gebiet der Bauschäden dargestellt wird. Erfahrene Bausachverständige beschreiben die häufigsten Bauschäden, ihre Ursachen und Sanierungsmöglichkeiten sowie den Stand der Technik. Die Bände behandeln jeweils ein einzelnes Bauwerksteil, ein Konstruktionselement, ein spezielles Bauwerk oder eine besondere Schadensart.
Betonbau. Band 2.
Authors: Röhling Stefan
Published: January 2022

Der Betonbau wurde in den letzten Jahrzehnten durch eine Reihe von bedeutsamen Veränderungen und innovativen Entwicklungen geprägt. Diese Änderungen rücken vor allem die Qualitätssicherung immer weiter in den Mittelpunkt und fordern von allen Beteiligten ein umfassendes Wissen, das die insgesamt drei Bände bieten. Die Inhalte wurden nicht nur für den Gebrauch in der Bauvorbereitung und Bauleitung ausgewählt, sondern sind auch für die Ausbildung im Bauingenieurwesen der Hochschulen und Universitäten geeignet.

Alle Eigenschaften des Betons haben ihre Ursache in der Entstehung und der Struktur des Zementsteins. Aus diesem Grund widmet sich Band zwei den Hydratationsvorgängen und den Strukturentwicklungen im Beton. Auch das Thema der Erhärtung und Entwicklung der Betoneigenschaften behandelt der Autor ausführlich. Beanspruchungen aus Zwang, Schwinden und Kriechen sowie die verschiedenen Maßnahmen zur Verminderung und Vermeidung von Rissen runden die Thematik ab. Ergänzend werden wichtige Vorschriften auszugsweise wiedergegeben.
Leitfaden barrierefreier Wohnungsbau.
Authors: König Roland
Published: January 2022

Durch die demografischen Veränderungen in unserer Gesellschaft nehmen insbesondere die Wohnformen des betreuten bzw. seniorengerechten Wohnens erheblich zu. Das Gebiet "Barrierefreies Bauen" hat sich ebenfalls weiterentwickelt, sodass dieser Leitfaden nun überarbeitet in der dritten Auflage vorliegt.

Der Autor konzentriert sich auf die fünf Eckpunkte des barrierefreien Planens und Bauens: Stufenlose Erschließung, niveaugleiche Türschwellen, barrierefreies Badezimmer, flexible Möblierung und taktile und akustische Orientierung. Unter Berücksichtigung der grundlegenden Neuerung der Norm erläutert er diese Eckpunkte anhand zahlreicher Bilder und Beispiele in drei ausführlichen Teilen. Der erste Teil des Leitfadens widmet sich den aktuellen theoretischen Planungsgrundlagen, Regeln und Vorschriften. Im zweiten Teil werden in beispielhaften Ausschreibungen praxisorientierte Lösungen für die bauliche Ausführung an die Hand gegeben. Wie die Nutzung und Gestaltung barrierefreier Wohnungen einschließlich klar erkennbarer Wegeführungen zum Gebäude ganz konkret aussehen können, wird im letzten Teil an gebauten Projektbeispielen aufgezeigt.
Management groß angelegter Grundstücksentwässerungsanlagen.
Authors: Scheffler Michael
Published: January 2022

Das Betreiben und Instandhalten von groß angelegten Grundstücksentwässerungsanlagen erfordert über die Regelaufgaben hinaus besonderes Augenmerk. Dabei müssen wirtschaftliche und technische Ziele vor dem Hintergrund rechtlicher Vorgaben miteinander vereinbar sein. Dies ist nur dann möglich, wenn der Zuständige über fundiertes und hilfreiches Grundlagenwissen verfügt. Ziel des Buches ist es, genau dieses Wissen zu vermitteln.

Es behandelt erstmalig in der Literatur die Themenfelder Organisation, Management und Technik. Leicht verständlich formuliert und auf der Höhe der Fachdiskussionen beschreibt der Autor, wie man technische und personelle Ressourcen plant und anfallende Aufgaben koordiniert. Er bietet damit eine wertvolle Unterstützung im Hinblick auf die Kosten-Nutzen-Verhältnisse und erleichtert den Betriebsalltag zum Zweck eines ordnungsgemäßen und ökonomischen Anlagenbetriebs. Individualisierbare Dateien auf CD-ROM liefern konkret nutzbare Arbeitshilfen für den täglichen Gebrauch.
Der gestörte Bauablauf.
Authors: Rohr-Suchalla Katrin
Published: January 2022

"(...) Das Phänomen des gestörten Bauablaufs (...) wird hier praxisgerecht auf den Punkt gebracht. (...)" In: report (2014), Nr. 152, Seite 21
Raumakustik im Alltag.
Authors: Nocke Christian
Published: January 2022

Wie gelingt es, gutes Hören für alle Menschen an jedem Ort zu ermöglichen? Welche Faktoren beeinflussen die Akustik eines Raumes? Der Autor gibt Antwort auf diese und viele weitere Fragen und vermittelt das Verständnis für die Zusammenhänge der Raumakustik. Er beschreibt die raumakustischen Grundlagen und Anforderungen und veranschaulicht, wie im Planungsprozess die oft vernachlässigten raumakustischen Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten Berücksichtigung finden. Dabei geht es insbesondere um Räume des Alltags, wie Schulen, Büros, Restaurants oder Mehrzweckhallen, in denen durch wirksame Maßnahmen die akustischen Bedingungen optimiert werden können. Eine Zusammenstellung von Materialdaten rundet das Buch ab.

Die überarbeitete Neuauflage wurde an die aktuellen Regelwerke (DIN 18041, VDI 2569, ASR A3.7) angepasst und durch weitere Projektbeispiele aus der Praxis ergänzt. Ein neues Kapitel widmet sich der Simulation von Schallausbreitung in Räumen zur Prognose raumakustischer Parameter.
Fotovis: user-centered development of a tool for visually browsing photographic collections
Authors: Rabetti Giannella Júlia
Published: January 2022

Fotovis is a tool for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing photographic collections. It is a partial result of a PhD thesis that investigated alternative, visual, and more generous browsing strategies — based on Digital Humanities — for digital tools. This paper discusses how Fotovis was conceived, developed (at the prototype level), and evaluated (at the interface level), through a user-centered approach and using a sample of photographs from the Moreira Salles Institute, an important Brazilian cultural entity. The goal is to highlight the definition of the users of Fotovis, and the design decisions that meet their exploratory and analytical needs.
Storytelling in data visualization: information bias
Authors: Vasconcelos Braga Jaqueline , Barros Pontes e Silva Tiago
Published: January 2022

Storytelling is shown as an effective approach to humanize information perception. However, its potential to build a biased view of the information contents is often neglected. Moreover, narrative understanding and emotion may interfere with data visualization comprehension. In this research, we evaluated how users perceived the information in two different configurations: One with a report with graphs and narrative side notes texts, and the second with a redesigned fully annotated content. The test compared the two groups in both qualitative and quantitative methods. The quantitative results were obtained by a survey and statistically analyzed with a T-Test. This indicated that the condescending storytelling approach augmented the perception of the effect signaled by the presented narrative. Also, the qualitative results collected afterward by interview and focus group have shown that, as the readers of narrative models perceived a higher intensity of the effect, they have also expected an even higher result from the selected data. The final analysis of the experiment helped to indicate that ordering, highlights, and semantics have a strong role in how the narrative influences the perception of the reader.
An evaluation of the use of the human immuno-deficiency virus portion of the integrated management of childhood illness algorithm by nurses in selected primary health care clinics in KwaZulu-Natal
Authors:   , Haskins Joan Lynette Mary
Published: January 2022

The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is an approach that aims to reduce the mortality and morbidity in children under the age of five years. When this programme was initiated, the conditions targeted were acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea, fevers associated with malaria and measles and malnutrition. As a result of the HIV pandemic in South Africa, the identification of children who are symptomatic of HIV infection was included. This study evaluates the use of the HIV portion of the IMCI algorithm by nurses in selected, public sector, primary health clinics in KwaZulu Natal. IMCI nurses were observed as they used the IMCI approach while consulting with sick children. Data was collected in relation to the accuracy with which the nurses used the algorithm and the extent to which the HIV portion of the algorithm was used to guide their management decisions when consulting with the children. Seventy-two observations were undertaken. In-depth interview were conducted with 13 IMCI nurses to establish factors that influenced the use of the HIV portion of the algorithm. The study showed a poor level of accuracy when using the HIV portion of the algorithm. In addition, as a result of poor accuracy when using the algorithm to assess and classify for symptomatic HIV infection, it appeared that nurses were not using the HIV portion of the algorithm to guide management decisions regarding children who were possibly symptomatic of HIV infection. I A general poor level of knowledge about HIV infection was identified which the researcher felt could be one of the factors influencing the use of the HIV portion of the algorithm. Death anxiety, low level of counselling skills and burnout also seemed to play some role in the use of the HIV portion of the algorithm.Recommendations were made to adapt future training of IMCI nurses and include an HIV training course and a course on growth monitoring of children in this age group. Further recommendations to continually evaluate the practice of nurses were made. Future areas for research were suggested.
Fine structure and motion of the bow shock, and particle energisation mechanisms inferred from MMS observations
Authors: Stasiewicz Krzysztof , Kłos Zbigniew
Published: January 2022

Abstract. This study presents new observations of fine structure and motion of the bow shock formed in the solar wind, upstream of the Earth's magnetosphere. The NASA's MMS mission has recorded during 2 hours eleven encounters with an oscillatory shock, which moves with the speed of 4–17 km/s and has thickness of 130 km, or an ion gyroradius. The shock is formed by steepening of 1 mHz magnetosonic wave, creating compressional magnetic field and plasma density structures, which initiate a chain of cross-field current-driven instabilities that heat solar wind ions by the stochastic ExB wave energisation mechanism. The theoretical ion energisation limits are confirmed by observations. We have identified the ion acceleration mechanism operating at shocks and explained double beam structures in the velocity space. The nature of this mechanism has been revealed as a stochastic resonant acceleration (SRA). The results provide for the first time a consistent picture of a chain of plasma processes that generate collisionless shocks and are responsible for particles energisation.
Monitoring Vegetation Condition using Microwave Remote Sensing: The Standardized Vegetation Optical Depth Index SVODI
Authors: Moesinger Leander , Zotta Ruxandra-Maria , van der Schalie Robin , Scanlon Tracy , de Jeu Richard , Dorigo Wouter
Published: January 2022

Abstract. Vegetation conditions can be monitored on a global scale using remote sensing observations in various wavelength domains. In the microwave domain, data from various spaceborne microwave missions are available from the late 1970s on- wards. From these observations, vegetation optical depth (VOD) can be estimated, which is an indicator of the total canopy wa- ter content and hence of above-ground biomass and its moisture state. Observations of VOD anomalies would thus complement indicators based on visible and near-infrared observations, which are primarily an indicator of an ecosystem’s photosynthetic activity. Reliable long-term vegetation state monitoring needs to account for the varying number of available observations over time caused by changes in the satellite constellation. To overcome this, we introduce the Standardized Vegetation Optical Depth Index (SVODI), which is created by combining VOD estimates from multiple passive microwave sensors and frequencies. Different frequencies are sensitive to different parts of the vegetation canopy. Thus, by combining them into a single index makes this index sensitive to deviations in any of the vegetation parts represented. SSM/I, TMI, AMSR-E, WindSat and AMSR2-derived C-, X- and Ku-band VOD are merged in a probabilistic manner resulting in a vegetation condition index spanning from 1987 to the present. SVODI shows similar temporal patterns as the well-established optical vegetation health index (VHI) derived from optical and thermal data. In regions where water availability is the main control of vegetation growth, SVODI also shows similar temporal patterns as the meteorological drought index scPDSI and soil moisture anomalies from ERA-land. Temporal SVODI patterns relate to the climate oscillation indices SOI and DMI in the relevant regions. It is further shown that anomalies occur in VHI and soil moisture anomalies before they occur in SVODI. The results demonstrate both the potential of VOD to monitor the vegetation condition supplementing existing optical indices. It comes with the advantages and disadvantages inherent to passive microwave remote sensing, such as being less susceptible to cloud coverage and solar illumination but at the cost of a lower spatial resolution. The index generation is not specific to VOD and could therefore find applications in other fields. SVODI is open-access and available at xy [once the paper is through review] .
A comprehensive dataset of microbial abundance, dissolved organic carbon, and nitrogen in Tibetan Plateau glaciers
Authors: Liu Yongqin , Fang Pengcheng , Guo Bixi , Ji Mukan , Liu Pengfei , Mao Guannan , Xu Baiqing , Kang Shichang , Liu Junzhi
Published: January 2022

Abstract. Glaciers are recognized as a biome dominated by microorganisms and a reservoir of organic carbon and nutrients. Global warming remarkably increases glacier melting and runoff, which has a significant impact on the carbon and nitrogen cycle of downstream ecosystems. The Tibetan Plateau (TP), dubbed “the water tower of Asia”, owns the largest mountain glacial area at mid- and low-latitudes. However, limited data of microbial abundance, organic carbon, and nitrogen in TP glaciers have been reported, which severely hinders our understanding of the regional carbon and nitrogen cycle. This work constructed a new dataset on microbial abundance, dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and total nitrogen (TN) for TP glaciers. In this dataset, there are 5,409 records from 12 glaciers for microbial abundance of ice cores and snow pits, and there are 2,556 records from 40 glaciers for DOC and TN of five habitats, including ice core, snow pit, surface ice, surface snow, and proglacial runoff. These glaciers cover diverse geographic and climatic regions, where the multiyear average temperature range from −13.4 °C to 2.9 °C and the multiyear average precipitation range from 76.9 mm to 927.8 mm. This makes the constructed dataset qualified for large-scale researches across the TP. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first dataset of microbial abundance and TN in TP glaciers and also the first dataset of DOC in ice cores on the TP. This new dataset provides important information for the studies on carbon and nitrogen cycle in glacial ecosystems, especially for the assessment of potential impacts of glacier retreat on downstream ecosystems under global warming. The datasets are available from the National Tibetan Plateau/Third Pole Environment Data Center (https://doi.org/10.11888/Cryos.tpdc.271841, Liu, 2021).
Water Ecosystems Tool (WET) 0.1.0 – a new generation of flexible aquatic ecosystem model
Authors: Schnedler-Meyer Nicolas Azaña , Andersen Tobias Kuhlmann , Hu Fenjuan Rose Schmidt , Bolding Karsten , Nielsen Anders , Trolle Dennis
Published: January 2022

Abstract. We present the Water Ecosystems Tool (WET) – a new generation of an open source, highly customizable aquatic ecosystem model. WET is a completely modularized aquatic ecosystem model, developed in the syntax of the Framework for Aquatic Biogeochemical Models (FABM), which enables coupling to multiple physical models ranging from zero to three dimensions, and is based on the FABM-PCLake model. The WET model has been extensively modularized, empowering users with flexibility of food web configurations, and also incorporates model features from other state-of-the-art models, with new options for nitrogen fixation and vertical migration. With the new structure, features and flexible customization options, WET is suitable in a wide range of aquatic ecosystem applications. We demonstrate these new features and their impacts on model behavior for a temperate lake for which a model calibration of the FABM-PCLake model was previously published, and discuss the benefits of the new model.