Bringing Partnership Home: A Model of Family Transformation

Bringing Partnership Home: A Model of Family Transformation

Eisler’s cultural transformation theory suggests that the global crises we face can be addressed only through movement to a partnership model of social organization. Drawing on cultural transformation theory and systems theory, a partnership model of family organization (PMFO) is outlined as a practical framework to guide families toward partnership relations. Eight components of PMFO are prese...

Towards a Family of Model Transformation Languages

Many model transformation languages of different nature have been proposed during the last years, each one of them suitable for a certain kind of transformation task. However, a complex transformation problem may not fall into a single transformation category, making the solution written in the chosen transformation language suboptimal, as some concerns cannot be handled naturally. To tackle th...

Bringing the Benefits Home

If you read enough regional reports on international tech development, you start to suspect that somewhere someone has built a successful career on the power of search-and-replace. These reports are strikingly similar. They all have a uniform goal and identify the same elements of a global technology cluster: access to capital, an educated workforce, good infrastructure, a strong local market, ...

Bringing it home.

investigating the feasibility of a proposed model for geometric design of deployable arch structures

deployable scissor type structures are composed of the so-called scissor-like elements (sles), which are connected to each other at an intermediate point through a pivotal connection and allow them to be folded into a compact bundle for storage or transport. several sles are connected to each other in order to form units with regular polygonal plan views. the sides and radii of the polygons are...