Engineering judgement and intuition are vital characteristic of the design profession. Engineering judgement and intuition are developed through experience. This experience is gained by designing a building (working with industry disciplines and the owner); analyzing the building (calculations); being part of the construction process (constructability), and walking through the final product (en...

Using recent research, I argue that beliefs lie at the heart of personality and adaptive functioning and that they give us unique insight into how personality and functioning can be changed. I focus on two classes of beliefs—beliefs about the malleability of self-attributes and expectations of social acceptance versus rejection—and show how modest interventions have brought about important real...

This paper aims at describing the restoration project of several wooden floors, dating from XVI century, within Della Rovere Castle, located in Vinovo, Torino (Italy) (Fig. 1). Several wooden-floors typology, particularly valuable from the historical heritage point of view were found here, and, in this paper three rehabilitation projects, which represent the record of cases of the upgrading int...

Marx conceives of labor as form-giving activity. This is criticized for presupposing a “productivist” model of labor which regards work that creates a material product — craft or industrial work — as the paradigm for all work (Habermas, Benton, Arendt). Many traditional kinds of work do not seem to fit this picture, and new “immaterial” forms of labor (computer work, service work, etc.) have de...

A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article. Research on local ecological knowledge, defined as ‘a cumulative body practice and belief, evolving by adaptive processes handed down through generations cultural transmission’ (Berkes, 1999), shows that communities have a specific holistic understanding their environment which contributes to capacity ...

Using recent research, I argue that beliefs lie at the heart of personality and adaptive functioning and that they give us unique insight into how personality and functioning can be changed. I focus on two classes of beliefs—beliefs about the malleability of self-attributes and expectations of social acceptance versus rejection—and show how modest interventions have brought about important real...

The Western Mining Resource Center (WMRC) at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) received a grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to perform a study that will help reduce the amount of respirable dust generated from the cutting of coal. The study is based upon laboratory testing and field experience. This information is being used to develop a new cutterhea...

The conference abstract (CA) is an important promotional academic genre that allows scholars to introduce their research peers as a presentation if the proposal accepted by reviewing gatekeepers. However, few studies have explored CA in specific disciplines and no examined this from intercultural perspective. In paper, we present move-step framework for analysis of CAs examine comparatively rhe...

While remaining in broad agreement with the overall position developed and defended by Kiverstein, I identify and discuss what I take to be a number of problems with the details of the argument. These concern (a) the claim that a certain temporal structure to conscious experience is necessary for there to be a minimal sense of self, (b) the alleged ubiquitous presence in experience of a minimal...

This paper discusses the important support role that universities can play in the establishment and ongoing sustainability of regional information and communication technology (ICT) initiatives. Three case studies are presented to explore the uptake of ICT in a regional and rural context. A common element in each of these initiatives is the active participation of the University of Ballarat thr...