My Place, Your Place, or a Safer Place

Finding my place.

On the first day of my internship, at about 8:00 in the morning, I was paged to the CCU. There a patient who was assigned to my service was undergoing resuscitation after cardiac arrest. Running after my resident, we arrived at the bedside of an 89-year-old man with end-stage congestive heart failure. The bed was surrounded by cardiology fellows, nurses, residents, a ventilator, crash cart, and...

“Take as your place of worship the place where Abraham stood (to pray).”

In the verse “Take as your place of worship the place where Abraham stood (to pray)” Abraham’s position is an intense discussion among Fariqain commentators. Commentary of this verse as Mosalla of Tawaf prayer and Tawaf area has a practical and jurisprudential role during Hajj and Umrah. On commentary of Abraham’s position and his status, more than six exegetic viewpoints have been proposed fro...

Counterterrorism. Making the world a safer place.

Welcome to MY Virtual Place

This paper briefly describes our proposal for storytelling in virtual environments from a virtual guide perspective. In our model the guide begins at a particular location and starts to navigate the world telling the user stories related to the places she visits. Our guide tries to emulate a real guide’s behaviour in such a situation. In particular, she behaves as a spontaneous real guide who k...

Sense of Place” and “Place Attachment

Today, concepts such as place attachment, sense of place, meaning of place, place identity, has devoted many studies In literature of architecture and urban design particularly in the field of environmental psychology. It is obvious that in all these concepts, various aspects of interaction between human and place and the impact that places have on people has been presented. This paper defines ...