Introduction: Building Hope

A Simple Model’s Best Hope: A Brief Introduction to Universality

For certain classes of systems operating at a critical point, the concept of universality can offer a way out of the reductive dilemma of modeling systems with many interacting parts. In these cases, simple models can be used to classify the large scale behavior of an entire universality class. This paper provides a brief introduction to the idea of universality and the renormalization group id...

An introduction to building agency capacity.

Introduction – Building Entrepreneurial Capacity in Wales

The University of Glamorgan has been allocated European Union monies to assist in increasing the entrepreneurial capacity of the region through a programme of work entitled Enterprise College Wales (ECW). The programme currently consists of an on-line web based degree in Enterprise, aimed at creating business start-ups, new business ideas and business development and growth in areas where typic...

Hope against Hope

In the penultimate chapter of the Bible, in the opening statement of the very last speech God makes in the whole of the Christian Scriptures, God says: "Behold I am making all things new" (Rev 21:5). The prophet sees the old heavens and the old earth the universe as it now is passing away, and new heavens and a new earth, God's new creation of all things, coming into being. It is not that God r...

Introduction to innovation in Architectural Characteristics of urban building from Bionic Design Approach

Biology has been a brilliant teacher and a precious textbook to man-made construction for thousands of years, because it allows one to learn and be inspired by nature’s remarkable and efficient structural systems. Concepts unfortunately have this in common that in general use often specifies incorrectly some phenomena. There was a turning point in each period of time which human has discovered ...