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America's oddest buildings
Architecture is a very special kind of art, and sometimes it veers into the oddest places of our imaginations. Buildings both inspired by the past and looking ahead to the future are common sights, but America is full of goofy buildings in weird places, from a building shaped like a picnic basket in Ohio to man-made dinosaurs standing guard in California. This book takes an exciting look at some of the strangest places in the United States with colorful photographs and engaging stories about the how and why of these oftentimes massive construction projects. Detailed Table of Contents, Full-Color Photographs, Further Information Section, Glossary, Graphic Organizers, Index, Sidebars.
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Maintenance architecture
Maintenance plays a crucial role in the production and endurance of architecture, yet architects for the most part treat maintenance with indifference. The discipline of architecture values the image of the new over the lived-in, the photogenic empty and stark building over a messy and labored one. But the fact is: homes need to be cleaned and buildings and cities need to be maintained, and architecture no matter its form cannot escape from such realities. In Maintenance Architecture, Hilary Sample offers an inventive examination of the architectural significance of maintenance through a series of short texts and images about specific buildings, materials, and projects. Although architects have seldom choose to represent maintenance -- imagining their work only from conception to realization -- artists have long explored subjects of endurance and permanence in iconic architecture. Sample explores a range of art projects -- by artists including Gordon Matta-Clark, Jeff Wall, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles -- to recast the problem of maintenance for architecture. How might architectural design and discourse change as a building cycle expands to include \"post-occupancy\"?Sample looks particularly at the private home, exhibition pavilion, and high-rise urban building, giving special attention to buildings constructed with novel and developing materials, technologies, and precise detailing in relation to endurance. These include Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House (1929), the Lever House (1952), the U.S. Steel Building (1971), and the O-14 (2010). She considers the iconography of skyscrapers; maintenance workforces, both public and private; labor-saving technology and devices; and contemporary architectural projects and preservation techniques that encompass the afterlife of buildings. A selection of artworks make the usually invisible aspects of maintenance visible, from Martha Rosler's Cleaning the Drapes to Inigo Manglano-Ovalle's The Kiss.
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Magical House Protection
Belief in magic and particularly the power of witchcraft
was once a deep and enduring presence in popular
culture.
\"Diving into Brian Hoggard's Magical House Protection is a
remarkable experience… [It] provides an immersive and fascinating
read.\"- Fortean Times
People created and concealed many objects to protect themselves
from harmful magic. Detailed are the principal forms of magical
house protection in Britain and beyond from the fourteenth century
to the present day. Witch-bottles, dried cats, horse skulls,
written charms, protection marks and concealed shoes were all used
widely as methods of repelling, diverting or trapping negative
energies. Many of these practices and symbols can be found around
the globe, demonstrating the universal nature of efforts by people
to protect themselves from witchcraft.
From the introduction: The most popular locations to conceal
objects within buildings are usually at portals such as the hearth,
the threshold and also voids or dead spaces. This suggests that
people believed it was possible for dark forces to travel through
the landscape and attack them in their homes. Whether these forces
were emanations from a witch in the form of a spell, a witch's
familiar pestering their property, an actual witch flying in spirit
or a combination of all of those is difficult to tell. Additional
sources of danger could be ghosts, fairies and demons. People went
to great lengths to ensure their homes and property were protected,
highlighting the fact that these beliefs and fears were visceral
and, as far as they were concerned, literally terrifying.
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Curious about the White House
Describes the history and inhabitants of the presidential White House in Washington, D.C.
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Mississippi Archaeology Q & A
How old is this arrowhead? Is there really gold in that Indian mound? What tribe left all these artifacts behind? Can the government take my artifact collection away?
For more than twenty years, Evan Peacock, an archaeologist at Mississippi State University, has been fielding and answering questions such as these from the public. InMississippi Archaeology Q & A, he gathers those answers in one place to give landowners, history buffs, arrowhead hunters, and students new to archaeology an invaluable handbook of dos and don'ts. Peacock writes for the lay reader, supplies humorous anecdotes from his years in the field, and never scolds. Instead he respectfully introduces the neophyte to the wonders of the remarkable prehistoric and historic remains throughout the Magnolia State.
Rather than pursuing a hobby in a destructive manner, in-formed artifact collectors can and do contribute to the field. This book offers solid suggestions on how enthusiasts can play a helpful role.Mississippi Archaeology Q & Aexplains the basic methods that archaeologists use to find, explore, and interpret ancient sites. In a clear and straightforward manner, Peacock divulges what he has learned about landowners' rights and other legal issues. The guide describes many important archaeological sites in Mississippi and adjacent states and the different kinds of artifacts commonly found in the region. For people who wish to protect a site or for those who would like to sell a site or obtain a tax break for its preservation, this guide contains critical information. While the book focuses closely on Native American artifacts, it also thoroughly treats the full range of Mississippi's historical treasures from the remnants of pioneer settlers to Civil War curios.
Evan Peacock, Starkville, Mississippi, associate professor of anthropology and senior research associate at the Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State University, is the editor ofBlackland Prairies of the Gulf Coastal Plain: Nature, Culture, and Sustainability.
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Totally strange buildings
Young learners will love reading about the unique and groundbreaking structures that can be found across America. They'll learn about the basket building, the space needle, one World Trade Center, and more all in the pages of this fun and fascinating book.
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How to use facial phenotyping technology and machine learning to help identify clinical genetic syndromes
Telemedicine has developed significantly over the last few decades. It was initially used for dermatology and genetic clinics and has been used to support medicine in remote settings from central units. The pandemic of COVID-19 has forced development of this method of clinic delivery in many specialties. The combination of machine learning and improved technology has been revisited in the genetics clinic by Porras AR et al (The Lancet Digital Health 2021;3:e635-e643) who have developed and evaluation of a machine learning-based point-of-care screening tool for helping the diagnosis of genetic syndromes in children. They have developed a facial deep phenotyping technology based on deep neural networks and facial statistical shape models to screen children for genetic syndromes. They trained the machine learning models on facial photographs from children (aged <21 years) with a clinical or molecular diagnosis of a genetic syndrome and controls without a genetic syndrome matched for age, sex, and race or ethnicity. Images were obtained from three publicly available databases (the Atlas of Human Malformations in Diverse Populations of the National Human Genome Research Institute, Face2Gene, and the dataset available from Ferry and colleagues) and the archives of the Children’s National Hospital (Washington, DC, USA), in addition to photographs taken on a standard smartphone at the Children’s National Hospital. Data were divided randomly into 40 groups for cross validation, and the performance of the model was evaluated in terms of accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity in both the total population and stratified by race or ethnicity, age, and sex. They looked at 2800 facial photographs of children (1318 [47%] female and 1482 [53%] male; 1576 [56%] White, 432 [15%] African, 430 [15%] Hispanic, and 362 [13%] Asian). 1400 children with 128 genetic conditions were included (the most prevalent being Williams-Beuren syndrome [19%], Cornelia de Lange syndrome [17%], Down syndrome [16%], 22q11.2 deletion [13%], and Noonan syndrome [12%] syndrome) in addition to 1400 photographs of matched controls. In the total population, our deep learning-based model had an accuracy of 88% (95% CI 87 to 89) for the detection of a genetic syndrome, with 90% sensitivity (95% CI 88 to 92) and 86% specificity (95% CI 84 to 88). Accuracy was greater in White (90%, 89–91) and Hispanic populations (91%, 88–94) than in African (84%, 81–87) and Asian populations (82%, 78–86). Accuracy was also similar in male (89%, 87–91) and female children (87%, 85–89), and similar in children younger than 2 years (86%, 84–88) and children aged 2 years or older (eg, 89% [87–91] for those aged 2 years to <5 years).
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Cleveland's Cultural Gardens
Honoring and embodying the cultural heritages of a region through the beauty of shared outdoor spaces From their beginnings as private farmland to their current form as monuments to cultural and ethnic diversity, the unique collection of landscaped, themed gardens that compose Cleveland's Cultural Gardens holds a rich history.John J.
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Construction Contracts
This fully revised and updated edition of Construction Contracts: Questions and Answers includes 300 questions and incorporates 42 new judicial decisions, the JCT 2016 updates and the RIBA Building Contracts and Professional Services Contracts 2018 updates.
Construction professionals of all kinds frequently need legal advice that is straightforward as well as authoritative and legally rigorous. Building on the success of previous editions, David Chappell continues to provide answers to real-world questions from his experience as consultant and Specialist Advisor to the RIBA. Questions range in content from extensions of time, liquidated damages and loss and/or expense to issues of practical completion, defects, valuation, certificates and payment, architects’ instructions, adjudication and fees.
Every question included has been asked of David Chappell during his career and his answers are authoritative but written as briefly and simply as possible. Legal language is avoided but legal cases are given to enable anyone interested to read more deeply into the reasoning behind the answers. This is not only a useful reference for architects, project managers, quantity surveyors and lawyers, but also a useful student resource to stimulate interesting discussions about real-world construction contract issues.
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