PURPOSE The barriers to patients' successful medication intake behavior could be reduced through tailored communication about these barriers. The aim of this study is therefore (1) to develop a new communication typology to address these barriers to successful medication intake behavior, and (2) to examine the relationship between the use of the typology and the reduction of the barriers to suc...

Vernacular houses treasure the knowledge and traditions of nations. They express cultural heritage different generations, including local materials non-professional designs evolved by resident communities. In South America, vernacular often are designed in rural areas. These influenced customs indigenous people who inhabited this region for centuries before colonization. coastal area Ecuador, p...

A typology of inmates and pretrial detainees admitted to a secure forensic psychiatric hospital was developed using the referral or adjustment problem at the correctional setting as the classifying variable. An eight-group typology was derived along with a description of each type's demographic, criminal, psychiatric, and institutional characteristics. Although the typology appears to be center...

The article considers the typology of housing stock mass building series on example city Belgorod. Data its classifications are presented: according to form ownership, purpose use, planning structure, design features. Analyzed historical archival data relating development in main stages residential territories Belgorod singled out: from 1945 1964. - period restoration after hostilities and begi...

This paper presents, as a 'sustainable world typology', the findings of a current research project that is concerned with what it means for there to be a sustainable world and how humanity might go about achieving this. The typology is framed around key sustainable world dimensions and displays, for each of these dimensions, how Reformist and Transformational approaches are conceived in terms o...

This research develops a shape grammar to generate solutions for the adaptive reuse of historic buildings. More precisely, it proposes transformation sobrado buildings, typology present in center São Luís, Brazil. The methodology defines workflow adapting once characterized single-families, into multi-family apartments considering spatial and structural requirements. specifies framework repurpo...

Traditional towns in Portugal and Brazil have evolved a finely tuned coordination between, on the one hand, modular dimensions for street widths lot sizes, other, typology of room shapes layouts within houses. Despite being well documented urban history, this was last century often interpreted as contingent, result limited material means pre-industrial societies. But continued application gradu...

This paper describes how a typology was developed and used between 2008 and 2010 to investigate three different open educational resources (OER) initiatives in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). The typology was first developed by careful scrutiny of the many OER and OER-related initiatives both globally and in Sub Saharan Africa. The typology was then both tested and further developed and refined by ap...

This paper describes how a typology was developed and used between 2008 and 2010 to investigate three different open educational resources (OER) initiatives in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). The typology was first developed by careful scrutiny of the many OER and OER-related initiatives both globally and in Sub Saharan Africa. The typology was then both tested and further developed and refined by ap...

Urban density is central to pressing questions concerning low-carbon lifestyles, affordable housing and global land use patterns. However, for many densifying cities, problems of inequality, climate emissions social sustainability often remain unsolved or exaggerated. Adopting a relational perspective, this paper explores the politics urban densification in Oslo, Norway. Arguing that assembled ...