Onward from the cradle

Exploring the Feasibility of Cradle to Cradle (Product) Design: Perspectives from New Zealand Scientists

This research project explores the feasibility of a Cradle to Cradle approach to sustainable product design in New Zealand. A framework for sustainable design was proposed by environmental chemist Michael Braungart and architect William McDonough who suggest that the current paradigm of “cradle to grave” product development is unable to provide a solution to the world’s current ecological crisi...

A Fair Accord: Cradle to Cradle as a Design Theory Measured against John Rawls’ Theory of Justice and Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative

This essay explores a specific aspect of the role of attitude in design. The design of the built environment requires us constantly to make aesthetic and ethical judgments; every design decision has to be satisfactorily justified. Surprisingly perhaps, this requires a clear concept of justice against which a design can be grounded. Aesthetic concerns about quality spill into ethical concerns ab...

A study of commentators' interpretive views on verses related to the Jesus' speech in infancy

The Holy Quran in several verses has dealt with the different aspects of the life of Jesus (PBUH) particularly when he spoke in the cradle. This case study that how an infant in the cradle could speak is the main point of discrepancy among commentators. It is well known that the Jesus (PBUH) talked [to the people] during his infancy, and it has always been considered as a divine miracle that re...

Cradle to Grave : The Environmental Impacts from Coal Cradle to Grave : The Environmental Impacts from Coal Clean Air Task

Auditory screening of special care neonates using the auditory response cradle.

The Linco-Bennett auditory response cradle is a microprocessor controlled device for screening the hearing of neonates. A total of 396 neonates admitted to a special care unit were tested on the cradle and later followed up in a comprehensive test programme between the ages of 3 months and 8 months. Altogether 374 (94%) were available for follow up. The use of the cradle resulted in the detecti...