The article presents an analysis of the historical and contemporary context of girls’ plays with dolls and doll-houses. The anthropological materials about children's plays with dolls and doll-houses help to recreate the doll context as a cultural represent of evolutional development. The archaic functions of the doll used in rituals and traditional ceremonies objectivize the historically inher...

Vernacular architecture has been an inspiration for innovations in environmental and socio-economically sustainable design and planning. Especially in traditional housing, the intended climatic and environmental solutions within sustainable design have already been achieved by local implementations. In this sense, as the important examples on vernacular architecture, traditional Erzurum houses ...

This paper describes the development of a scale, the Community-Oriented Programs Environment Scale (COPES), which attempts to systematically assess the psychosocial environments of transitional community-oriented psychiatric treatment programs such as halfway houses, rehabilitation centers, day care centers, and community care homes. The psychometric characteristics of the scale are given, samp...

JANE CHRISTIE DAQUIN Vicarious Victimization: Examining the Effects of Witnessing Victimization While Incarcerated on Offender Reentry (Under the direction of DR. LEAH DAIGLE) Witnessing victimization in prison is a relatively new area of research. Prison victimization research focuses on direct experiences of victimization and its attending consequences; however, studies have not focused on th...

Abstract Energy efficient building is one of the alternative solutions to overcome rapidly increasing use energy consumption by sector. Traditional or vernacular houses rarely mechanical means create a comfortable living environment. Thus, electrical consumed traditional was relatively low. It believed that features can be found in houses. Thence, this study explores houses, with case hilly are...

BACKGROUND There is increasing emphasis on promoting "homelike" residential care models enabling care-dependent people to continue living in a self-determined manner. Yet, little is known about the outcomes of homelike residential care models. PURPOSE We aimed to (1) identify homelike residential care models for older care-dependent people with and without dementia, and (2) explore the impact...

The article examines the solar energy-based heat supply system of individual rural houses as object research. Currently, volume construction standard in areas Republic Uzbekistan is growing, which turn leads to problem saving traditional energy resources and uninterrupted their heating system. author proposed a scheme combined with flat collector water boiler order save fuel energy-efficient ho...

Based on the analysis results of seismic diagnosis design traditional houses in Kyoto, it has been considered that surface soil amplification factor indicated guidelines may be overestimated. In this paper, we have analyzed model used calculation and earthquake damage estimation Kyoto. As a result, former is not adequate for Kyoto city area. addition, lower limit 1.23 sufficient houses.