An architectural assessment method for new exterior additions to historic buildings     

Hülya Yüceer  Başak İpekoğlu 《Journal of Cultural Heritage》2012,13(4):419-425

The design approaches of new exterior additions to historic buildings have been among the ongoing debates in the field of architectural conservation. The aim of this study is to develop an assessment method, which can be used to determine the compatibility in architectural expression of the new addition in relation to the characteristics of a historic building. This method is based on the architectural analysis, which includes environmental relations, building-lot relations, mass relations and the facade composition of the historic building both before and after the new addition in relation to the value of a historical building. In this study, a selected group of historic buildings in ?zmir, Turkey with new exterior additions was analysed with regard to their exterior architectural characteristics in order to evaluate the compatibility of the new addition, by employing the use of contemporary conservation principles. The importance of this study is to guide architects to form the basis of a decision for developing an integrated approach in designing new additions in the course of the actual design process. On the other hand, the proposed method can be evaluated as a contribution to the emerging field of heritage impact assessments as well as scientific assistance to local governments to criticize specific projects of cultural heritage assets submitted for appraisal. Analysis results showed that the value of the historic building should first clearly be identified and a new addition should bear the identity of its own period. However, instead of altering the scale or form of the historic building, a new addition should complement and contribute to the sense of proportion, disposition and historical pattern.  相似文献   

Understandings of current environmental issues: Turkish case study in six teacher education colleges     

Mustafa Çakır  Serhat İrez  Özgür Kıvılcan Doğan 《Educational studies》2010,36(1):21-33

The purpose of this study is to profile future science teachers’ understandings of current environmental issues in the context of an education reform in Turkey. Knowledge base and understandings of elementary and secondary prospective science teachers about biodiversity, carbon cycle, global warming and ozone layer depletion were targeted in the study. Questionnaire surveys developed for this purpose were adapted and used in this investigation. The questionnaires were administered to 360 participants in six universities. Analysis involved frequencies, percentages and comparing means for students majoring in elementary and secondary science teaching. Analysis of variance for differences among majors and responses to different issues are also included. Findings are compared and contrasted with the previous research in other countries. The study has implications for the prospective preparation of teachers and the future of environmental literacy movement in Turkey.  相似文献   

The Yale Report of 1828: A New Reading and New Implications   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Michael S. Pak 《History of education quarterly》2008,48(1):30-57

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Adoption of Agri-Environmental Measures by Organic Farmers: The Role of Interpersonal Communication     

İlkay Unay Gailhard  Miroslava Bavorová  Frauke Pirscher 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2015,21(2):127-148

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of interpersonal communication on the adoption of agri-environmental measures (AEM) by organic farmers in Germany.

Methodology: The study used the logit model to predict the probability of adoption behaviour, and Social Network Analysis (SNA) was conducted to analyse the question of whether validating information about organic farming provided by interpersonal information sources is associated with communication frequency.

Findings: Our findings demonstrate that being an early adopter of organic farming practices and frequent contact with young and highly educated farmers increases the probability of adoption of other AEM. However, contact frequency in interpersonal networks was found not to be a significant determinant for explaining adoption decisions. Frequently communicating farmers in the network are more likely to attribute higher levels of importance to organic farming information received from formal actors than to information received from informal actors.

Practical Implications: If young and highly educated farmers, who can be considered as informal opinion leaders, are approached by the extension services, then an effective diffusion of information on AEM can be expected. To support the AEM adoption, a platform should be provided by state agencies that would enable organic farmers to understand the environmental benefits achieved over the time.

Originality/value: This study contributes to the scientific discussion on the role of interpersonal communication on AEM adoption. A new aspect is our consideration of organic farmers adopting additional AEM. Moreover, we highlight organic farmers' validation of the importance of formal and informal information sources on organic farming.  相似文献   

A nonparametric term weighting method for information retrieval based on measuring the divergence from independence     

İlker Kocabaş  Bekir Taner Dinçer  Bahar Karaoğlan 《Information Retrieval》2014,17(2):153-176

In this article, we introduce an out-of-the-box automatic term weighting method for information retrieval. The method is based on measuring the degree of divergence from independence of terms from documents in terms of their frequency of occurrence. Divergence from independence has a well-establish underling statistical theory. It provides a plain, mathematically tractable, and nonparametric way of term weighting, and even more it requires no term frequency normalization. Besides its sound theoretical background, the results of the experiments performed on TREC test collections show that its performance is comparable to that of the state-of-the-art term weighting methods in general. It is a simple but powerful baseline alternative to the state-of-the-art methods with its theoretical and practical aspects.  相似文献   

Note from the Executive Editor     

Pak Tee Ng 《Educational Research for Policy and Practice》2014,13(1):1-1

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Book Review     

Ng Pak Tee 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2004,24(2):225-227

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Cultivating revolutionary successors in the Chinese communes through open‐door education     

Pedro Pak‐Tao Ng 《Cambridge Journal of Education》1979,9(1):23-35

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Digital games pre-schoolers play: parental mediation and examination of educational content     

Gözüm  Ali İbrahim Can  Kandır  Adalet 《Education and Information Technologies》2021,26(3):3293-3326

Education and Information Technologies - The aim of this study is to examine mediations of parents who make digital games played by 60–72 months old children accessible, and the...  相似文献   

Which One Is More Effective in Teaching the Phases of the Moon and Eclipses: Hands-On or Computer Simulation?     

Kiroğlu  Kasım  Türk  Cumhur  Erdoğan  İbrahim 《Research in Science Education》2021,51(3):733-760

Research in Science Education - The aim of this study is to comparatively investigate the effects of hands-on models (HMs) and computer simulations (CSs) on teaching the phases and eclipses of the...  相似文献