the objective of this research was to study barriers of starting and expanding home based businesses in rural areas of urmia county. the research was an applied research and a descriptive research in terms of goal and method of data collection, respectively. the target population of the research consisted of all rural residents who were owners of registered and approved home based businesses in...

Zusammenfassung Spätestens seit Beginn der COVID-19-Pandemie wurde öffentlich vielfach diskutiert, welche Auswirkungen die Arbeit im Homeoffice auf Beschäftigten hat und ob Zunahme des mobilen Arbeitens neue Chancen für Geschlechtergerechtigkeit birgt. An diesen Diskurs knüpft Untersuchung an widmet sich Frage, wie das von den erlebt wird. Auf Grundlage Auswertung 28 qualitativen Interviews mit...

The introduction of the smart home has been seen as a way of allowing elderly people to lead an independent life for longer, making sure they remain safe and in touch with their social and care communities. The assistance could be in the form of helping with everyday tasks, e.g. notifying them when the milk in the fridge will be finished or institute safeguards to mitigate risks. In order to ac...

A significant amount of research has been conducted in order to make home appliances more efficient in terms of energy usage. Various techniques have been designed and implemented in order to control the power demand and supply. This paper encompasses reviews of different research works on a wide range of energy management techniques for smart homes aimed at reducing energy consumption and mini...

The departure ‘space’ for this art/architecture project is the space of memories. Memories exist eternally but only in response to the lost temporal spaces they represent. Herein lies the paradox that makes any remembered space formally elusive. Thus, our first problem was determining a language/form with which to capture our own ‘remembered spaces’. We began by drawing simple floor plans of al...