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Addresses the obstacles of construction, the impact on society, and the science of engineering of elevators.

Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s, the elevator became an urban fact of life on both sides of the Atlantic by the early twentieth century. While it may at first glance seem a modest innovation, it had wide-ranging effects, from fundamentally restructuring building design to reinforcing social class hierarchies by moving luxury apartments to upper levels, previously the domain of the lower classes. The cramped elevator cabin itself served as a reflection of life in modern growing cities, as a space of simultaneous intimacy and anonymity, constantly in motion.In this elegant and fascinating book, Andreas Bernard explores how the appearance of this new element changed notions of verticality and urban space. Transforming such landmarks as the Waldorf-Astoria and Ritz Tower in New York, he traces how the elevator quickly took hold in large American cities while gaining much slower acceptance in European cities like Paris and Berlin. Combining technological and architectural history with the literary and cinematic, Bernard opens up new ways of looking at the elevator--as a secular confessional when stalled between floors or as a recurring space in which couples fall in love. Rising upwards through modernity,Liftedtakes the reader on a compelling ride through the history of the elevator.Andreas Bernardis editor ofSuddeutsche Zeitung, Germany's largest daily newspaper. He received his Ph.D. in Cultural Sciences from the Bauhaus University Weimar, and teaches cultural studies in Berlin and Lucerne, Switzerland.

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IntroductionFor more than a decade the Advancing Quality Alliance (Aqua) has co-produced our quality improvement offers with Lived Experience Partners. We recognised the need for simultaneous structured development to both enable lived experience partners to operate in strategic influencing and leadership roles in heath and care, and to continue to enable them to collaborate and coproduce with health and care staff in a more tactical and operational space.People with Lx often feel they are unable to progress beyond volunteering or entry-level work, particularly if there are no role models.Aqua’s approach was to upskill individuals to influence service redesign from operational to strategic levels. By constructing an approach using Lx, they can go beyond a tokenistic stakeholder perspective, where people are ‘invited to speak at board’, but with no impact or integration into the agenda of the organisation.MethodWe have developed career pathways using a skills escalator to help lived experience partners move from to Foundation to Practitioner to Partner levels of practice, and in parallel help health and care staff move from Foundation to Practitioner to Advanced levels of Personalised Care practice, accredited by the Personalised Care Institute.Aqua also developed an impact survey to show the impact of lived experience involvement to organisations. It shines a light on how organisations and individuals engage with lived experience, and measures how well they were involved at different events.Aqua’s lived experience experts have co-designed the lived experience skills escalator and are integral faculty on the delivery teams, and co-deliver on Aqua’s personalised care, safety and improvement programmes for health and care staff to name but a few.ResultsAqua has developed a unique clear, integrated framework to support this approach which supports the NHS Impact improvement agenda and the National Safety agenda.Measuring the impact of Lx contribution is paramount. Sometimes, organisations are not ready for co-production and we observe little interaction between Lx partners and staff. The impact survey shines a light on how staff and organisations engage with Lx partners and raise awareness with our staff of the importance of having a Lx Partner engaged as it can shorten the distance to best outcomes.Together these approaches shift relationships between organisations, clinicians & patients by meeting the person’s needs & priorities before those of the system or professionals and engaging people in their care as fully as possible.ReferencesNHS England (2019) Universal Personalised Care NHS England » Universal Personalised Care: Implementing the Comprehensive ModelNHS England (2023) Listening Well Guidance. NHS England » Listening well guidanceWolf JA, Niederhauser V, Marshburn D, LaVela SL. Re-examining ‘Defining Patient Experience’: The human experience in healthcare. Patient Experience Journal. 2021;8(1):16–29. doi: 10.35680/2372-0247.1594.Kostal G, Shah A. Putting improvement in everyone’s hands: opening up healthcare improvement by simplifying, supporting and refocusing on core purpose. British Journal of Healthcare Management. 2021. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2020.0189International Journal for Quality in Health Care (2021) E Nelson, P Batalden, T Foster; Coproduction of Health, Vol 33(2).Kings Fund (2021) ‘Understanding Integration – How to listen to and learn from people and communities; C Thorstensen-Woll, D Wellings, H Crump, C Grahames Understanding integration: how to listen to and learn from people and communities (kingsfund.org.uk)NHS England/Department for Health & Social Care (2022) Working in Partnership with People and Communities - Statutory Guidance, NHS England » Working in partnership with people and communities: statutory guidance

The four members of the Wilson family decide to spend their holiday in one of the elevators at the San Francisco Hotel.

This article proposes a method for diagnosing the main systems of bucket elevators in order to ensure their reliable operation. This method employs diagnostic indices of vibration velocity and vibration acceleration, which were deemed useful based on tests performed on four bucket elevators operating in a research laboratory and in a power plant. This article also analyzes other indicators, such as the coefficient of variation, skewness, kurtosis, crest factor, and quantile peak factor, and demonstrates the usefulness of kurtosis for diagnostic evaluation. Additionally, it proposes using the quantile peak factor as an alternative to the crest factor. This study estimates the statistical distributions of diagnostic signals and presents the results in the form of histograms. This is followed by the detection of outliers in all measurement series. Based on the results of the performed tests and their analysis, recommendations are made for diagnosing bucket elevators.

The rapid development of urbanization has led to a continuous rise in number of elevators. This has led to elevator failures from time to time. At present, although there are some studies on elevator fault diagnosis, they are more or less limited by the lack of data to make the research more superficial. For such complex special equipment as elevator, it is difficult to obtain reliable and sufficient data to train the fault diagnosis model. To address this issue, this paper first establishes a numerical model of vertical vibration for elevators with three degrees of freedom. The obtained motion equations are then used as constraints to acquire simulated vibration data through PINNs. Next, the proposed e-RGCN is employed for elevator fault diagnosis. Finally, experimental validation shows that the fault diagnosis accuracy with the participation of digital twins exceeds 90%, and the accuracy of the proposed model reaches 96.61%, significantly higher than that of other comparative models.