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¿tHe mEmOrY maChiNe¿ is a studio based project and is conceived on a subject matter which is universal to mankind. It is a combination of several different perceptions of human memory like the personal, scientific, psychological and above all the spiritual aspect. All of these components are handled in a very simplified and playful manner and using art, design and creativity as the base for most interactions. The main aim of this document is to provide a context for the studio based interactive web application and to record the evolution of work. It will include translating all ideas, critiques, planning, investigation, research, analysis and decision-making written in this document intelligently, creatively and aesthetically in to an interactive web application. I imagine that the readers will enjoy reading this document and the users will take pleasure in browsing through this application and interacting with it. It will bring a smile on their face as they write their poem and the feeling of pride as they show off their painting! Moreover when they finish reading and/or interacting they will take joyful mEmOries with them.

Current literature review on the cost of sustainable retrofitting in the South African Building Industry regarding a misconceptions amongst stakeholders with regard to the cost of energy retrofitting; the circle of blame; cost of energy versus conventional retrofitting; the Government¿s role in development frameworks and incentives as well as findings and recommendations made. Practical Relevance: The built environment¿s large carbon footprint requires existing buildings to be part of future green strategies. Stakeholders¿ misconceptions on cost of energy retrofitting may hamper progress and should be addressed. Methodology: A thorough review of approximately 56 sources, consisting out of journals, books, articles, reports and internet articles was researched over a period of 10 months. Findings: Through research done it was clear that there is lack of information resulting in misconceptions on cost of energy retrofitting, the ¿Circle of blame¿ is strengthening such misconceptions, energy retrofitting is costlier than conventional but acceptable returns on investment is often possible, lack of Government prescriptions, funding and incentives do not stimulate energy retrofitting.

This study investigates the relationship between the practice of Kundalini yoga and the development of interpersonal and intrapersonal awareness in Middle Years students. Secondary aims were to provide reflection time for students in their school day and to find out whether the participants were better able to cope with stress. A qualitative method was applied. Two consent forms were sent to the participants¿ parents. One granted permission to participate in the yoga sessions, the other requested permission to use the students¿ journals as data. There were 16 yoga sessions over three weeks. After each session, the participants and the instructor/researcher wrote reflective journal entries. Twenty-nine students participated in the yoga sessions, but only 15 student journals were used for data collection. Results included growth in interpersonal and intrapersonal awareness, growth in physical flexibility and awareness, and a desire to have relaxation during the regular school day. Results revealed student appreciation for a greater number of physical opportunities throughout the school day.

Colleges of Education in different universities of the world strive to provide student teachers with opportunities to succeed in challenging educational programmes. To support this aim, EPEETSEM Model (Mahwari¿s Model) was designed to evaluate teacher education programmes using four domains. Recent work highlights the potential utility of four domains for evaluating teacher education programmes effectiveness: (1) Educational purposes domain, (2) educational experience domain, (3) teaching strategies domain, and (4) evaluation methods domain. This book also highlights the utility and limitations of each of these domains for evaluating teacher education programmes and provides a set of recommendations for their optimal use by teacher education programmes and other stakeholders in teacher preparation. This model can be used by institutions or colleges of education to improve their teacher education programmes. I hope that this model that focuses on components of the curriculum of teacher education programmes to be useful for improving these programmes.

What can be defined as the unpredictable, the random event? How do we face fortune, what is our stand and belief towards serendipity, or fate? These are just a few of the questions I will be examining through the introduction of this paper, in order to receive a finer perception of how fortune, serendipity, or the element of the unpredictable has been interpreted throughout humanity. How were the views in Greek mythology, ancient and modern philosophy, religion, science, society, and nature? After opening all these doors of the perception of fortune, I begin to focus on the ¿now¿ and the ¿afterwards¿ of the element of randomness, specifically within the field of design and design management. Where does everything start and at which point is it worth discussing about? Where can it be integrated; is it at all possible?

The present essay aims to clarify the form and the value of the object in order to contribute particularly to its understanding as entity that can be created and altered in all categories of our everyday life. Its reading is expected to be an effective tool for anyone who wants to create the objects of our future by designing their forms and connoting their value, so that the human welfare gets an innovative configuration and a sense of remarkable approval. Each object constitutes a fundamental category of the human praxis and therefore is an issue that needs to be clarified and obvious to its recipients. In particular, any object¿s form and feasibility has been and continues to be an actual epistemological problem, whose solution lies on human praxis and the means by which we can understand it.

This book attempts to investigate the notion of re-Orientalism in the Moroccan immigrants' literary writings. For this objective to be acheived, the book lays a convenient theoretical background to approach these literary manifestations as discourses rooted in energizing sets of epistemes that affect the diasporic experience of the diasporic writers beyond home. It argues that this search for a homeland is a politically motivated process influenced by the dominant forces in the host cultures which disseminate designations for ¿outsiders¿ founded on their biographical referentialities. This politics of exclusion pushes various writers to throw behind their nationalistic nostalgias for home and zealously inscribe in the pre-existing essentialist preconditions prevailing in the host cultures for the sake of becoming accepted in the Western literary canons. These diasporic discursive articulations stand as reactions to the rhetorics of blame woven by political structures in the West as is the case in Dutch multiculturalism.

This book provides a comprehensive information about the use of construction planning T&Ts. In the UK construction industry there are a variety of planning T&Ts available to plan and program the construction projects, and the 15 most common were identified in this study. In addition, this book presents an empirical comparison of different T&Ts used in the construction industry. The research found that the statement made by Bigelow in 1998 on ¿why we do not do more planning¿, summarized some factors such as, it takes time, the plan will change anyway and the cost is fairly expensive. This is still an issue in the UK construction industry. Hence, the aim of this paper is to investigate planning T&Ts, establishing the factors and constraints affecting their choice, mainly focusing on small to medium sized construction companies (SMEs). The research shows that significant large numbers of construction companies rely heavily on the application of ¿Bar chart techniques¿, ¿Critical path method¿ and ¿Work breakdown structure¿ for planning projects, while other potential planning techniques such as ¿Line of balance¿, ¿Time-chainage diagram¿, ¿Network techniques¿ exist.

This book is a study which was conducted at Cavehill Campus in Barbados at the University of the West Indies on teachers¿ knowledge and their use of thematic teaching at Amazing Grace Nursery School. It emphasizes the importance of thematic teaching as the most effective approach and strategy to utilize teaching and learning at the early childhood education level. It clearly indicates the integration of all subject areas and learning experiences under a theme or topic. Throughout the book, the teachers interviews, observations and document analysis authentically represents the reality and the uniqueness of the teaching and learning process in Early Childhood education in Barbados.

The fashion industry is one of today¿s most unsustainable global businesses. This book asks the question of how fashion designers can contribute to change the current paradigm. To answer this question the author studied the research on sustainable fashion design, business and education. In addition, the author interviewed a broad range of successful sustainable fashion practitioners in order to get their perspectives on the trends, their potential for contributing to radical change, and their views for the future. The author first concluded that small design-driven practices are insufficient for the radical change that the literature says must occur. She also concluded the basis for a more extensive transformation to take place starts with fashion design education and consciousness. In sum, the research shows that society must shift radically and collectively, with educators, fashion designers and business leaders working in unison to become part of the solution and not continue to be part of the problem.

Rudraksha is formed by the combination of two words ¿Rudrä& ¿Akshä that refers to the tears that rolled down eyes of great Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva went into deep meditation for the purpose of welfare of all the living beings. After his several years of deep contemplation when he opened his eyes, he saw all the pain & suffering everyone¿s facing around, looking at same tears rolled down his eyes, those tear drops when fell on the ground turned into trees later down the years which acquired blue colored fruits whose coating when removed the inside layer found was the holy seed- The Rudraksha. Rudrakha thus are sacred beads with very high spiritual and medicinal values. Rudraksha trees are commonly found in the areas between the Foothills of Himalayas & Ganges plains and in Indonesia. The divine qualities of this sacred holy bead were first found in ancient scriptures of Hindus. They are popular traditional healing beads extensively used to treat a several diseases and also purify the wearer (spiritually as well as mentally). They bless one with peace of mind; protect against evil doers and spirits; and bless with peace and prosperity.

Advertisements, especially in TV have become increasingly important in our nowadays society, and developed into a major indicator for a society at a given time. This book will examine how changing values and gender roles mirror in advertisements and for that it will take TV advertisements from 1954 until 2016 into consideration. All the evidence will be from the German company Dr Oetker which has a long tradition in the German society that started during the end of the 19th century. The company mainly sells three different types of products: baking ingredients, puddings and refrigerator pizzäs. These products will be presented in the following analysis. It is interesting and relevant to look at the topic, because the German society has built itself from rags to riches after the second World War and is now one of the most powerful players in the world economy. With this background, it is important to look at the way the society and its values have changed since the post-war period. Because the role of women in the society has changed most in the last six decades it is important to not only consider value changes in a society.

For eclecticism in explication to unknot a state of sophistication comes to fore as pivotal and requisite in a text persistent to be explored, many masterpieces linger unexplicated to the moment, some derail from their real and true targets, some depend mainly upon the creator; it is tacit that man fluctuates between different passions and circumstances, that is why such explication is to be prone to controversiality and altercation. A critic is to search and prospect for any vent or crack in a text to penetrate into the ores in question, sometimes a reader with depth and a critical eye could remove the boulder and observe the unobservable; usually there are two targets for the critical eye, the first is how to ponder over and over the text as it pertains to him, second is to dovetail all the four elements in one atmosphere: creator, text, milieu and the critical eye.

¿The Portrait of Women Characters in The Major Short Stories of Kate Chopin and Flannery O¿Connor¿ centers on how women writers portray women¿s experience via literary production. Kate Chopin¿s ¿The Story of an Hour¿ and ¿Athénaïse¿ and Flannery O¿Connor¿s ¿Good Country People¿ and ¿A Stroke of Good Fortune¿ are a study case of this portrayal. Relying on the approach of Images of women, I tended to exhibit how Chopin and O¿Connor display their female protagonists¿ (Mrs. Mallard, Athénaïse, in ¿The Story of an Hour¿ and ¿Athénaïse¿ and Hulga, and Ruby Hill, in ¿Good Country People¿ and ¿A Stroke of Good Fortune¿) experience in their social milieu during the twentieth century. At the beginning of the aforementioned short stories the women writers limn the female protagonists as alive entities as they appear to be active, to have dreams and enjoy certain self-expression, self-confidence,and self-reliance. Hence, by the end of the short stories the writers depict how the social mores and standards hold sway on them to end up as voiceless women with deactivated souls and evaporated dreams.