making an investigation into the traditional architecture found in iran’s kavir, one can see an architecture that has emerged by merely changing the form of the face of the earth; this [complex] architecture is nothing but an intellectual use of simple land and water which simultaneously accords with the islamic environmental principles [ieps]. in this article, following a descriptive analysis ...

Collaborative Design Future Users, Future Cities: Dweller as designer Murat Germen, Emrah Kavlak Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey (http://www.muratgermen.com), (http://www.emrahkavlak.com) [email protected], [email protected] Abstract. As technology advances, users get more detached from the way things work and are produced. Users end up being pure consumers and leave their p...

Climate is one of the many factors such as socio-cultural structure, economy, materials, and technology that influence architectural forms. The resolutions that exist as a result of the effect of climate on architecture differ according to regions, cultures, time and technology. The climate in the Eastern Black Sea region, which lies in the north of Turkey, plays an active role in the formation...

The vast majority of people don’t use a scientific geographical vocabulary, nevertheless most use a wide variety of geographical terms on a day to day basis. Identifiers like “Downtown” or “The grim area around the docks” are part of a vernacular geographical terminology which is vastly more used than the coordinate systems and scientifically defined variables so beloved of professional geograp...

A Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain (UCBPP-PA14) is infectious both in an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf infiltration model and in a mouse full-thickness skin burn model. UCBPP-PA14 exhibits ecotype specificity for Arabidopsis, causing a range of symptoms from none to severe in four different ecotypes. In the mouse model, UCBPP-PA14 is as lethal as other well-studied P. aeruginosa strains. Mutations in ...