“This is for the Children,the Grandchildren …”: Houses of Moroccan Immigrants in Metropolitan Tel Aviv

The meaning of migrant housing materiality has not been adequately researched, especially when compared to the meaning of the home for immigrants, a matter of extensive discussion in the past two decades. This paper focuses on the meaning of housing materiality for 12 immigrants who migrated from Morocco to Israel some 60?years ago. Drawing on qualitative data gathered in 2007 and 2008, the paper develops a theoretical framework considering “house as community” and “house materiality” as two interrelating explanations for the migrant housing materiality. Through this framework, and with the concepts of performance and performativity, the paper first explores former houses of participants in Morocco and then presents current houses in Tel Aviv, Israel, to establish links between the two housing forms and reveal the meanings of objects in the homes. It is argued that as a reaction to the dominant Israeli society, housing materiality enables participants to educate successive generations and Israeli society at large about the rich cultural life of Moroccan-Jews that existed before their migration to Israel.     

Moving Out of Home Ownership in Later Life: The Influence of the Family and Housing Careers

Home ownership is often regarded as the preferred housing tenure; however, situations in parallel life-course careers might make moving to a rental home necessary or attractive to home owners. Retrospective data from the SHARELIFE survey were used to study the short- and long-term impact of situations and disruptions in the family and housing careers on leaving home ownership at middle (45–64) and older ages (65–80) in Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. We found that directly after separation and widowhood, the likelihood of leaving home ownership was the greatest. However, more than 10 years after separation and widowhood, individuals were still significantly more likely to leave ownership than those in their first marriage. Furthermore, late first childbirth and early first-time home ownership were associated with lower chances of leaving home ownership. We conclude that situations and changes in family and housing careers have both a short-term and a long-term impact on the likelihood of moving out of home ownership.     

电梯直接入户与应急救援的问题及建议

对目前房地产市场上常见的“电梯直接入户”户型,提出电梯应急救援时碰到的问题．给出问题的解决方法及对未来该类户型设计的建议。     

试论公共娱乐场所消防安全现状及防火对策

我国经济的不断发展为各个行业均带来了机遇,尤其是第三产业,随着社会经济的发展和人民消费需求的提高,娱乐业发展迅速,公共娱乐场所不断增多,遍布城市每个角落,规模也在不断扩大,满足了人们的精神生活需求。然而随之带来的安全隐患,尤其是火灾隐患,使其成为消防部门重点监管对象。公共娱乐场所内人员较多和装修材料复杂,其中一些营业面积较大,一旦发生火灾,难以在第一时间通知到场所内的所有人员并进行快速疏散,在火灾威胁下,极易造成群死群伤等重大事故。     

公共娱乐场所存在的火灾隐患及防火对策

随着我国市场经济的不断发展以及人们物质生活水平的提高,公共娱乐场所逐渐成为人们休闲娱乐的地方。文章重点阐述了公共娱乐场所注重防火的意义以及发生火灾的特点,并对其存在的火灾隐患及防火对策做出了分析,旨在倡导大家关注公共消防安全,营造美好幸福生活。     

智能家居发展现状解析

本文介绍了国内外智能家居市场两类主流的应用模式,分析了国内智能家居发展中存在的问题并提供了相应的解决思路,最后指明了我国智能家居行业的技术发展趋势。     

A low-cost real time virtual system for postural stability assessment at home

Background and objective

The degeneration of the balance control system in the elderly and in many pathologies requires measuring the equilibrium conditions very often. In clinical practice, equilibrium control is commonly evaluated by using a force platform (stabilometric platform) in a clinical environment.In this paper, we demonstrate how a simple movement analysis system, based on a 3D video camera and a 3D real time model reconstruction of the human body, can be used to collect information usually recorded by a physical stabilometric platform.

Methods

The algorithm used to reconstruct the human body model as a set of spheres is described and discussed. Moreover, experimental measurements and comparisons with data collected by a physical stabilometric platform are also reported. The measurements were collected on a set of 6 healthy subjects to whom a change in equilibrium condition was stimulated by performing an equilibrium task.

Results

The experimental results showed that more than 95% of data collected by the proposed method were not significantly different from those collected by the classic platform, thus confirming the usefulness of the proposed system.

Conclusions

The proposed virtual balance assessment system can be implemented at low cost (about 500$) and, for this reason, can be considered a home use medical device. On the contrary, astabilometric platform has a cost of about 10,000$ and requires periodical calibration. The proposed system does not require periodical calibration, as is necessary for stabilometric force platforms, and it is easy to use. In future, the proposed system with little integration can be used, besides being an emulator of a stabilometric platform, also to recognize and track, in real time, head, legs, arms and trunk, that is to collect information actually obtained by sophisticated optoelectronic systems.     

以美国郊区-自维持生态住宅为例探讨小城镇住宅的能源策略

这是美国郊区的一座无耗能的自维持住宅。在住宅的整个建造过程中,建筑师对建筑的基地环境、材料、平面布置、节水、散热等问题进行了全面细致的设计。基于目前中国小城镇住宅市政设施普遍不完善的现状,笔者希望能够以这座脱离市政设施的建筑为例,对中国小城镇的住宅建造过程和使用过程中的能源进行最大限度的集约。     

家纺布艺店面室内展示设计探析

本文结合家纺布艺产品的特征,从视觉,听觉,嗅觉,触觉四个方面论述了家纺布艺店面展示设计的一般规律和方法。其中视觉从空间,色彩,照明,道具和陈列几个方面进行了主要阐述。     

互动式打地鼠机的创新性设计

打地鼠机,是一种锻炼反应能力和活动身体的娱乐机器。论文在对市场上的打地鼠机进行研究的基础上,运用机械系统学的方法,提出一种基于机械式结构和实现互动式功能的新型打地鼠机。在机器运动的实现上采取杠杆、滚子和导轨机构;在机器的娱乐性上优化了计数功能,创新性的增加了互动式的功能,增加了游戏过程的多样性。经实地测试,互动式打地鼠机有较大的实用性,降低了成本,能够满足不同游戏者的需求。