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Aim: To highlight oversimplified quality‐adjusted life year (QALY) calculations and incremental cost‐effectiveness ratios (ICERs) regarding lifestyle metformin and placebo as flaws in the trial‐based (Diabetes Prevention Program) cost‐effectiveness analysis. Materials and Methods: We revised the QALY calculations to conform to convention and calculated appropriate ICERs using both original and revised QALYs results. We used several additional health economics tools to present results, showing the consistency of each method and the added value of each. We presented net monetary benefits, assessed decision uncertainty and calculated net losses. We also used graphics, making correct interpretation clearer and allowing illustration and calculation of technical and economic inefficiencies of treatments that were not cost‐effective. Results: ICERs with either QALY calculation indicated that metformin was technically and economically inefficient and not cost‐effective. There was virtually no decision uncertainty. All methods employed pointed to an identical conclusion. Conclusions: In contrast to original claims, although lifestyle was cost‐effective in diabetes prevention, metformin was not, and acting otherwise imposes significant monetary and health costs. Various available tools of economic evaluation would probably have prevented the original misinterpretation by the authors had they been used. The varied tools implemented here illustrate with a common example their consistency and value to the field, showing how to depict the results in various ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Conventional powder bed fusion systems, with their high costs, proprietary nature and restrictive fees, limit research opportunities. This study aims to unveil an affordable, open-source hardware, open-source software laser-based metal powder bed fusion system. Recognizing the distinction between DIY and open-source hardware is crucial for widespread acceptance. Design/methodology/approach: The authors present a comprehensive system architecture using object process methodology for functions and architecture, a design structure matrix to model system dependencies and classical technical drawing exploded views for select subsystems. Modularization enables high adaptability, fostering potential adoption. Findings: The fully open system enables unrestricted research, mirroring common industrial metal laser-based powder bed fusion (L-PBF) systems. While "open" systems are available for purchase, they remain closed-source, lacking source code and technical drawings sharing, hindering contribution and co-development. The authors' is the pioneering and sole open-source metal L-PBF system, boasting 1,500+ print hours. A series of industrial and academic adopters are currently implementing the system. Originality/value: The open system, slicer software and controller offer unique process control, supporting multimaterial printing. The authors shared the design on the OpenAM GitHub page under the CERN-OHL-P v2 Open Source Hardware license. While it is functional for additive manufacturing (e.g. aluminum, tool steel, titanium and stainless steel), the entire process chain is actively evolving, ideal for co-development with the additive manufacturing community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the structural similarities between STEM education and architectural education, it is thought that architectural education, which has a deep-rooted history, may be useful for improving STEM education. This research was planned to gain useful inferences for STEM education by trying to get to know architectural education. In this study, ethnographic field research method was used. During the four-week observations, students made presentations with projects, models and plan drawings. In this process, teachers' criticisms and students' defenses were analyzed through the data table. By discussing the identified elements of architectural education, at least six innovations and/or meaningful results were revealed in the context of STEM education. These are: i-Students should be given the opportunity to solve open-ended problems on their own and should be encouraged to learn through trial and error in this process. ii-Students should be highly motivated when dealing with open-ended problems, for example, STEM project courses should be turned into graduation qualifications. iii-The importance of real-life context in STEM education should be emphasized and problems should be a part of life; In this context, sustainability and economic value dimensions should be highlighted. iv- At secondary and primary school levels, children should be encouraged to learn by experiencing and manipulating materials in the context of problems. v- Courses that will improve technical drawing skills should be added to STEM education programs. vi- In STEM disciplines, teachers should ensure theory/practice balance at the undergraduate level, and evaluations in applied projects should be made by a jury system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractThe ucetek entari, üç etek or three-skirt robe, was the main element of traditional Turkish women’s clothing, worn with a chemise and shalwar. The features of this special garment extend to the clothing culture of the ancestors of the Turks who lived in Eurasia. The structure of the ucetek entari is typical Ottoman attire, with a small standup collar, long sleeves open up to the elbows, high slits on each side of the skirt, and triangular pieces added for fullness. This research was conducted in the Izmir Ethnography Museum to analyze the fabrics, embroidery, and pattern-making techniques of the ucetek entari, along with their zero waste and multifunctional design approach. The main fabrics, linings, facings, their yarn count in the warp and weft directions, pattern dimensions, embroidery properties, other surface decorations, and technical drawings of the robes were photographed and examined in detail. The results revealed that ucetek entaris were daily or special occasion wear which were designed using mostly silk and cotton fabrics. The focus of this research is to analyze in depth the ucetek entaris in the Izmir Ethnography Museum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the role of mouse eosinophil-associated ribonuclease-2 (mEAR2) in allergic asthma. The study found that mEAR2 is not necessary for the development and function of eosinophils at rest, but it plays a crucial role in allergic airway inflammation (AAI). The absence of mEAR2 in mice resulted in decreased lung inflammation, reduced eosinophil recruitment, and diminished airway hyperresponsiveness. Additionally, mEAR2 was found to enhance the production of type 2 cytokines and IgE, contributing to the allergic response. The findings suggest that mEAR2 could serve as a potential biomarker for asthma management and a therapeutic target. [Extracted from the article]

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Short, anonymous poems were a common feature in the popular magazines and literary journals of photography's first two decades, the 1840s and 1850s. Yet despite its wide readership, periodical poetry has been largely neglected in histories of photography. Through close readings of periodical poems, this essay addresses this gap and adds a fresh perspective to the complex history of photography's reception. It argues that whereas Victorian journalism often concentrated on photographic realism and focal clarity, periodical poets were more interested in photography's ability (or inability) to convey the emotional and psychological qualities of visual experience. By drawing on the technical process and language of photography but concentrating instead on affective qualities, the poems discussed here repositioned familiar debates about photography's status and made their own claims for the values of both arts as interpreters of the real. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Meeting the needs of today's industry plays a prominent role in the progress and competitive strength of any country. Therefore, it is necessary to align the curriculum of engineering courses with them. In this research, the focus has been on the mechanical engineering curriculum, especially in the universities of Iran. For this purpose, first by surveying the industry owners and reviewing the literature, these expectations have been identified and prioritized. Accordingly, the most important of these needs are creativity, visualization ability, familiarity with manufacturing processes, and agility in learning new concepts. Then, using a two-stage quality function deployment method (QFD), these expectations are translated into curriculum specifications. The results show that the most effective groups of courses in this field are elective courses, skill courses such as engineering graphics (including technical drawing and drawing courses), design of machine components, and practical workshops. In the existing programs, compared to courses in specialized theory and basic courses, some of them have received less considerable attention in quantity and quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The work aims to analyze, determine and highlight the positive aspects of the experience gained during the 2020 pandemic in the teaching of Descriptive Geometry and Technical Drawing and Infographics at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Technical University "Gh. Asachi" from Iasi. We will present the premises and the statistically processed results of a survey conducted over a group of 300 students from year 1, 2, 3 and 4 regarding their opinions on the face-to-face, online and hybrid teaching. The conclusions refer to suggestions for improving the teaching methods currently chosen for the efficiency of the students' accumulation of skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents aspects connected with the application of the principles of the experiential learning theory in engineering education, in teaching graphical subjects. The experiential learning theory presents the process of learning as being cyclical, with four stages - experience, reflection, abstract conceptualization and experimentation, each stage being related to a certain learning style. The paper intends to outline aspects on ways that would help students to develop appropriate learning styles and also, would help to improve student learning, by gaining experience continuously and transforming it into knowledge. The applications presented are focused on applying the experiential learning theory in engineering education, in teaching technical drawing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Descriptive Geometry is a fundamental aspect of technical drawing, critical in engineering, architecture, and design disciplines. This article explores the application of TikZ Euclide, a versatile tool for LaTeX writing language, in simplifying the understanding and implementation of Descriptive Geometry. Through simple examples, this article aims to demonstrate the potential and power of TikZ Euclide in visualizing and constructing geometric figures, fostering a clearer comprehension of Descriptive Geometry principles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Crambe (Crambe abyssinica Hochst.) is an oilseed crop domesticated in the Mediterranean region that is becoming increasingly important worldwide. Crambe is now considered as an alternative to bioenergy crops and oleochemicals, because of its ability to acclimatise under inhospitable conditions. Despite the interest in the agronomic characteristics and applications of this crop, research on crambe is still scarce and has focused only on production, taking into account the phenological stages of this species. Therefore, a single criterion for quantifying the phenology of the species can be a useful tool for both researchers and growers. In the present study, a proposed scale of the phenological growth stages of crambe was applied according to the BBCH (Biologische Bundesanstalt, Bundessortenamt und Chemische Industrie) coding system. The phenological stages were described using the one‐ and two‐digit decimal coding of the BBCH system and corresponded to stage 0: germination; stage 1: leaf development; stage 2: lateral sprout formation; stage 5: inflorescence emergence; stage 6: flowering; stage 8: fruit ripening and stage 9: senescence. Growth stages 3 and 4 (main stem elongation and development of collectable vegetative parts, respectively) have been omitted. Figures have been included to illustrate the main stages, and plant growth has been represented by a technical botanical illustration. The BBCH system has been effective in providing phenological data on crambe, allowing for better growing management of the crop under varying climatic conditions, as well as contributing to the standardisation of research methods on the species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The National strategy for the development of higher education (period 2021 – 2030) places the technical fields among the priority areas and in the list of protected specialties. In this regard, engineering disciplines should also be protected and developed as educational priority subjects. The focus of the present publication is precisely such a discipline - "Engineering Graphics", as a universal fundamental technical subject studied in the vocational secondary school as "machine drawing" and as a specialized discipline "Marine Engineering Graphics" for students in naval specialities. Essentially, “Engineering Graphics” or “Machine Drawing” (in the past) is the universal international engineering language in which all engineers around the world need to be able to communicate. The aim of this publication is to trace the historical and content developments of the programs and teaching on "Machine Drawing", the transition to "Engineering Graphics" in the context of the Bulgarian secondary and higher education. The research and analysis are carried out through the prism of continuity between generations, presenting the work of the two authors, teachers of different generations and educational levels, but with the same mission - to pass on their experience, developing in students the technical literacy to read drawings. The main message of the research presented here is that the training related to reading and making technical drawings should not be neglected and overshadowed by the new disciplines related to artificial intelligence and computer technologies. Classical knowledge and skills, professional and functional intelligence must be developed to provide a solid foundation on which to build innovations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of e-learning, it is challenging to incorporate emerging technologies, such as alternate reality games or Virtual Reality (VR), within current learning trends. Microlearning is such a current trend. It divides large and complex chunks of content into small and elementary learning nuggets. These single self-contained nuggets are then composed to overarching lessons or courses. The concept of VR nuggets dovetails this educational trend. VR nuggets are standalone, self-contained, and rather short VR experiences that can be combined with other learning nuggets. By using initial implementations of VR nuggets, they can be used to let authors create VR earning content, for example, to let learners experience alternate realities. In this paper, we further investigate the VR nugget authoring concept and extent it. We introduce two novel authoring toolkits that rely on VR nuggets – one based on context-related module interaction (CoNMoD) and one based on visual scripting (ViNS Tiles). In two separate user studies, we examine the acceptance of the toolkits and compare them to existing authoring environments that also rely on VR nuggets but utilize different interface techniques. These studies' results emphasize the importance of exchanging content between different established tools and indicate the acceptance of our tools regarding their hedonic and pragmatic qualities, also compared to existing tools from related work. As a conclusion, we propose an exchange format for VR nuggets that supports their reusability. It enables authors that use different toolkits to work together. They can utilize VR nuggets created with other toolkits and still use their own preferred toolkit. By means of an expert survey, we draw conclusions on technical aspects and a suitable platform to make VR nuggets available to the community. This survey indicates that potential authors would use such an exchange-approach for creating and presenting VR content and that they are willing to share their work and to contribute in a VR nugget authoring community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In solving descriptive geometry (DG) problems, board (i.e., hand drawing) methods are frequently used, despite this discipline is still very important to enhance spatial vision. These methods are very different from CAD tools which are used in the field of design. CAD facilitates the realization of geometric constructions and transformations (i.e., rotation, translation, copying, scaling, alignment, and symmetry, among others) are performed analytically. For this reason, a 3D DG problem-solving methodology using CAD and orthographic projection (CADOP) is introduced. Once the principles of DG, orthographic projection, and CAD fundamentals and tools are described, CADOP is applied to obtain (i) orthogonal views; (ii) principal lines of a plane; (iii) true-size view of a plane; (iv) parallelism, perpendicularity, and distance, and (v) angles. Considering the user coordinate system in CADOP allows one to place the horizontal plane in the suitable position to solve DG problems directly in one step. In the traditional methods, the use of auxiliary views must be carried out in several steps instead. The dynamic management of the 3D view of the scene is facilitated in CADOP, improving its understanding, and achieving the precision inherent in analytical calculations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Rebecca Whiteley's book, "Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and The Pregnant Body," explores the history and significance of birth figures in early modern Europe. These images, which depicted different foetal presentations, were used by healers, midwives, surgeons, and physicians to assist with childbirth. Whiteley argues that birth figures reflected cultural ideas about generation, gender, medicine, religion, and the body. The book also examines the changing nature of birth figures over time and their impact on early modern lay viewers. Overall, "Birth Figures" provides a comprehensive resource for students and teachers interested in the intersection of medicine, gender, and art in early modern Europe. [Extracted from the article]

Nowadays, English is no longer a competitive advantage in the workplace, but a real prerequisite. In addition to helping people improve their communication skills and advance in their careers, being able to speak English effectively and productively contributes largely to their personal growth. Engineering used to be seen as a technical field for which analytical and excellent problem-solving skills were the main requirements. Strong communication skills in engineering have become imperative since industries continue to evolve. Engineering students’ and engineers’ communicative skills are usually restricted to their preparedness and promptness in drafting technical documents. Yet, their ability to successfully communicate their evaluation, analysis, recommendations and to take measures through verbal and nonverbal presentation of ideas is equally important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the work is to create a computer program in the 3D CAD system T Flex CAD allowing the creation of parametric models for the design and construction of a modular hob cutter for the selected gearing. The thesis includes the analysis of the problem of hob cutters for the production of spur gearing with an involute profile, the analysis of the initial surface and the shape of the tool cutting edge for the involute surface, the determination of the basic profile of the cutting edge of the hob cutter (geometry of the basic worm, geometry of the cutting edge) and the calculation of the design parameters of the tool. The individual calculations will be programmed in the 3D CAD system T Flex CAD, which will allow to generate a specific 3D model of the hob cutter based on the change of input requirements for the production of a given spur gear (module, engagement angle, tooth inclination angle), with the possibility of displaying the required tool in a 2D view in its base, normal and side planes, which will be in the form of a standard technical drawing. This paper presents the preparation (unification calculations, introduction) before the final version of the computer program for the creation of the parametric tool models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Descriptive Geometry is a fundamental aspect of technical drawing, critical in engineering, architecture, and design disciplines. This article explores the application of TikZ Euclide, a versatile tool for LaTeX writing language, in simplifying the understanding and implementation of Descriptive Geometry. Through simple examples, this article aims to demonstrate the potential and power of TikZ Euclide in visualizing and constructing geometric figures, fostering a clearer comprehension of Descriptive Geometry principles.

The article discusses significant amendments to the Slovak Public Procurement Act, which came into effect in June and August 2024. The changes include an increase in contract thresholds, limitations on objections, and modifications to fine imposition. While intended to simplify and expedite procurement, some changes have sparked debate, particularly regarding transparency and competition. The amendments also impact the review procedure by abolishing the request for redress and increasing financial thresholds for objections, potentially affecting bidders' ability to challenge discriminatory conditions. [Extracted from the article]

The construction of Gothic church towers with carved stone spires and often with significant height required the most advanced technology and financial support of their age, and the application of advanced machines was also inevitable for it. This article is an attempt to virtually reconstruct and visualise the process of a 15th-century tower construction, including the main auxiliary structures: scaffolding and machinery. A series of 3D models is created for that purpose, using the contemporary plans of the partly realised north tower of St. Stephen's church in Vienna, the contemporary machine drawings of the Strasbourg-based master builder Hans Hammer, and contemporary and neo-Gothic drawings of scaffoldings together with survived exemplars as sources. An important question was whether medieval technical drawings contain enough data to model the structures or devices that they depict and if the construction process could be represented using them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the surgical anatomy of the superior orbital fissure (SOF) and its implications in open and endoscopic skull base surgery. The SOF is an important area for surgical intervention in cases involving tumors in the cavernous sinus, anterior clinoid process, sphenoid wing, or orbital apex. The article presents various surgical approaches, including transcranial, transorbital, and endonasal endoscopic approaches, and provides detailed descriptions of the techniques and anatomical landmarks involved. The authors emphasize the importance of understanding the complex anatomy of the region and tailoring the surgical approach to the specific tumor and location. The article also highlights the effectiveness and minimally invasive nature of endoscopic endonasal surgery in decompressing neural structures and achieving diagnosis. [Extracted from the article]

Purpose: This article investigates why workplace lactation law, guidance, and policy may fail to support women. It examines the epistemological and ethical bases of technical communication governing Virginia K--12 teachers and considers complex material conditions and opportunities for social justice intervention. Method: I employed a qualitative critical discourse analysis of three Virginia codes governing workplace lactation and one state human resources guidance document, examining their interaction with the Federal Labor Standards Act and 10 local school district policies. I drew on Technical and Professional Communication (TPC) social justice scholarship, disability studies, and apparent feminism scholarship to interpret my findings. Results: Documents governing workplace lactation are based on an ableist mindset that marginalizes women's bodies. They prioritize an ethic of expediency, draw on medical knowledge while ignoring women's knowledge and material conditions, and perpetuate systemic inequities. Conclusion: To promote social justice, technical communicators should continue questioning the epistemological and ethical bases of laws, policies, and guidance since documents informed by knowledge and ideologies that devalue the people they purport to protect will fail in implementation. Local policymakers need not wait for institutional changes but can look for opportunities to reimagine design approaches and intervene to create supportive, inclusive workplaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the framework of 'city drafting' used in this Special Feature to highlight the inscriptive and documentary processes underpinning property making in South Asia. It considers two senses of drafting: as provisional and iterative writing process that sees texts as objects in motion, and as the technical art of drawing, notation, and inscriptional verification. It argues that the papers in this Special Feature, through their focus on city drafting, demonstrate the continuity of what Raman [2012. Document Raj: Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press] calls 'document raj,' or a colonial bureaucratic system that grounds the logic of property in documentary possession and that administers property through specific dispositions to writing. How property is known and hence possessed rests on a certain grammatology of the state, which can be understood through three ethnographic objects: scripts, or the historically specific orthographic and inscriptive rules for how property is written; scribes, or the bureaucrats and associated technical experts whose graphical and grammatalogical knowledges shape how property is made and unmade; and scribbles, or the notations, jottings, and markings that indexically draw land and documents into different relations. This Special Feature's ethnographic focus on these three objects reveals the embeddedness of contemporary property and city making mechanisms in colonial documentary practices, thereby showing the epistemological limits of private property both in global metropolitan theory and as fungible economic form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally, drawing products created from 3D surveying activities have been the universal medium of communication used by architects. This has resulted in a vast repository of graphic documentation that serves as a testament of the architectural heritage. The embedded information found in elevations, plans and sections holds considerable value, and it can be seamlessly integrated into the intricate graphics produced during large-scale data acquisition processes. The core objective of this research is to investigate how the information coming from the large amount of existing architectural technical drawings can support 3D heritage classification processes and avoid time-consuming annotation of materials and construction techniques of historical building facades. Starting from available sets of drawings, AI-based methodologies are applied for the annotation of orthoimages and point clouds in order to obtain a predictive model that can recognize classes of materials and construction techniques in a large amount of data. The predicted classes also allow the automatic creation of vector drawing representing the facades of new buildings, providing a novel tool to facilitate the processes of analysis and conservation of architectural heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Engineering Drawing is a crucial and mandatory course for first-year engineering students. This subject plays a vital role in enhancing students' ability to visualize, imagine, and effectively illustrate concepts. It aids them in expressing their ideas clearly and swiftly, comprehending drawings produced by others, and devising effective designs. The curriculum covers essential topics like projection, sectioning, and the development of solids such as prism, pyramid, cylinder, cone, cube, and tetrahedron. These topics help students develop the ability to conceptualize, visualize, and create drawings according to specific requirements. The achievement of learning outcomes related to these subjects is hindered by the challenges faced by first-year engineering students, including their lack of fundamental knowledge in technical drawing and limited abilities in imagination and visualization. As a result, their performance in these areas tends to be subpar. To address this issue, a practical "learning by doing" approach is introduced alongside traditional classroom instruction. This strategy aims to boost the visualization, imagination, and technical drawing proficiency of first-year engineering students. This article outlines the author's endeavors to enhance students' visualization, imagination, and drawing skills. The focus is on involving students actively in both classroom and extracurricular learning. By methodically incorporating a "learning by doing" approach, there has been a notable enhancement in student engagement, achievement of course objectives, and overall performance in the course assessments. The topic of development of solids was completely taught with this method. This activity resulted increase in the CO attainment, active participation and engagement of the students in the class room as well as outside of the classroom. Following the implementation of this activity, there was a substantial rise of 17.30% in the accomplishment of course outcome, coupled with a notable increase of 25.34% in the students' learning index. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Third- and fourth-generation synchrotron light sources with high fluxes and beam energies enable the use of innovative X-ray translucent experimental apparatus. These experimental devices access geologically relevant conditions whilst enabling in situ characterization using the spatial and temporal resolutions accessible at imaging beamlines. Here, Heitt Mjölnir is introduced, a heated miniature triaxial rig based on the design of Mjölnir, but covering a wider temperature range and larger sample volume at similar pressure capacities. This device is designed to investigate coupled thermal, chemical, hydraulic and mechanical processes from grain to centimetre scales using cylindrical samples of 10 mm × 20 mm (diameter × length). Heitt Mjölnir can simultaneously reach confining (hydraulic) pressures of 30 MPa and 500 MPa of axial stress with independently controlled sample pore fluid pressure < 30 MPa. This internally heated apparatus operates to temperatures up to 573 K with a minimal vertical thermal gradient in the sample of <0.3 K mm-1. This new apparatus has been deployed in operando studies at the TOMCAT (Swiss Light Source), I12 JEEP (Diamond Light Source) and PSICHE' (Synchrotron SOLEIL) beamlines for 4D X-ray microtomography with scan intervals of a few minutes. Heitt Mjölnir is portable and modular, allowing a wide range of 4D characterizations of low-grade metamorphism and deformational processes. It enables spatially and temporally resolved fluid-rock interaction studies at conditions of crustal reservoirs and is suitable for characterization of material properties in geothermal, carbonation or subsurface gas storage applications. Technical drawings and an operation guide are included in this publication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cultural geography has a long and fruitful tradition of working at the intersections between geography and performance art: in this piece we build upon this by considering how artistic practice can shed light on the housing crisis via a focus on quotidian practices of housing design. Here, we focus on Anne Tallentire's exhibition Material Distance, which took place in 2022–23 at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK. A conceptual artist working with moving image, installation, performance and photography, Tallentire's work has frequently addressed issues of spatial cognition, homemaking and transience. Material Distance extends this interest by foregrounding issues of housing size, adopting the abstract forms of representation – floorplans, measurements, technical drawings – which professionals use for determining the material and physical requirements of domestic inhabitation. Contrasting abstract and lived experiences of home, and comparing housing constructed on post-war council estates with some of the smaller homes recently converted from industrial or retail premises, Tallentire's work invites us to develop a critical awareness of dimensionality through an embodied encounter with art that is relational, performative and experiential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim. In the paper the authors briefly describe a methodology they proposed to innovate engineering education at secondary vocational schools in the field of CAD/CAE systems, and subsequently in a more detail they analyse teachers' experiences and opinions on the use of the proposed methodology, and to it designed teaching materials, in their teaching practice. Methods. The proposed innovative way of the CAD/CAE system teaching is based on inverting the ratio of the time allowance between teaching technical drawing, and teaching modelling and simulation from 2:1 to 1:2. The stated inverting enables on the one hand to reduce by half the number of teaching lessons allocated to creation of technical documentation, and on the other hand to double the number of teaching lessons devoted to modelling and simulations. Results. As a main output of the proposed innovative approach of the CAD/CAE system teaching two textbooks were created which can be used in teaching the subjects focused on technical drawing knowledge and skills acquisition at secondary vocational schools according to the newly proposed alternative way of teaching methodology of CAD/CAE systems. Conclusion. The created teaching materials supporting the teaching of CAD/CAE systems according to the proposed methodology undergone through an experimental implementation process at a selected sample of vocational schools in conditions of real pedagogical practice. Evaluation of the obtained experiences was done in a frame of a panel discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As additive manufacturing is getting more and more widespread, the need for a system regarding the technical documentation is getting more required. The tremendous amount of manufacturing parameters makes the performance of the part hard to assess. Same parameters are used with different names and there is no common knowledge of how these parameters affect the part precisely. We can find a serious amount of research data and results, but only a small portion of them is able to be compared because of the different measuring techniques or similar investigation of parameters. To be more effective with the data gathering, a systematic way of recording these aspects is needed. In this article we propose a robust way of recording information on technical drawings of additively manufactured parts. We also discuss the difficulties and future opportunities implemented by this method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The recent corruption scandal in Brussels has put the spotlight back on integrity measures for public officials. The obligation of public officials to publicly disclose their finances and interests is one important cornerstone in this regard. This disclosure obligation exists in most European Union Member States and also on the level of the European Union itself. A new decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union of August 2022 props up financial disclosure with legal certainty. At the same time, it draws some technical limits on the outer borders of particularly far-reaching disclosure systems. This case note explores answers to the following three questions: What are the ramifications of this decision? Will the decision affect the effectiveness of financial disclosure? What reform steps will countries have to put in place to comply with this decision? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]