The rise in interest in wellbeing, heightened during the COVID pandemic, challenged the way we think about what it means to be healthy. While many people in recent years have researched well-being as the intersection of physical and mental health, few have explored the role of architecture in spaces with these programs. Like any service profession, architects have a duty to contribute to the health and wellbeing of the users of these buildings. This thesis aims to question the typical building type of fitness and wellness centers and propose a more integrated architectural model, enhanced with elements of the natural environment which play a role in the user's quest for total wellbeing.The final proposal is sited at an all-girls school in Bethesda, Maryland - the Holton-Arms School. / Master of Architecture / The rise in interest in wellbeing, heightened during the COVID pandemic, challenged the way we think about what it means to be healthy. While many people in recent years have researched well-being as the intersection of physical and mental health, few have explored the role of architecture in spaces with these programs. Like any service profession, architects have a duty to contribute to the health and wellbeing of the users of these buildings. This thesis aims to question the typical building type of fitness and wellness centers and propose a more integrated architectural model, enhanced with elements of the natural environment which play a role in the user's quest for total wellbeing.The final proposal is sited at an all-girls school in Bethesda, Maryland - the Holton-Arms School.

The effect of chloroethylclonidine on nodrenaline-induced contractions of the rat aorta was studied. Chloroethylclonidine (1.5 × 10-5 M) shifted noradrenaline dose-response curve to the right approximately 5000-fold without depressing the maximum. The response to noradrenaline after chloroethylclonidine was not antagonized by phenoxybenzamine (10-7 M), prazosin (10-7 M), WB 4101 (10-7 M) nor yohimbine (10-5 M) and is therefore not mediated via α1-adrenoceptors. These results would suggest that there is a homogenous population of chloroethylclonidine-sensitive α1-adrenoceptors in the rat aorta and that chloroethylclonidine treatment reveals a non-α-adrenoceptor noradrenaline binding site in this tissue.

Enligt undersökningar som har gjorts konstateras att digitala verktyg används mindre inom byggsektorn i jämförelse med andra branscher. Den digitala utvecklingen är viktig för hur byggbranschen kommer att se ut i framtiden. I nuläget finns ett intresse för att öka användningen av digitala verktyg från byggföretaget Skanska. En mobil version av tidplaneringsprogrammet Asta Powerproject finns på marknaden, nämligen Site Progress. Site Progress används för att stämma av projektets aktiviteter via mobila enheter. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur en digital avstämning av tidplan går till genom att använda Site Progress. Vidare analyseras applikationens användarvänlighet och målet är att komma fram till om Site Progress skulle kunna implementeras i kommande projekt. I studien genomförs en undersökning på projekt Kvarteret Trollhättan 31, som är en om- och tillbyggnation av kontor. I början av undersökningen observerades hur avstämningen går till i nuläget på projektet. Därefter genomfördes samma avstämning med det digitala verktyget Site Progress. Undersökningen avslutades med kvalitativa intervjuer i syfte att ta del av produktionsledarnas tankar om det nuvarande arbetssättet samt deras inställning till införande av Site Progress. Studien resulterar i att Site Progress medför att avstämning sker direkt på plats och att all dokumentation hamnar på en enhet. I nuläget går det ej att tilldela fler personer på en och samma summa i Site Progress Manager, detta kan försvåra arbetet med avstämning. För att Site Progress ska implementeras i arbetet med avstämning av tidplan krävs justeringar för att åtgärda verktygets brister. / Compared to other industries, digital tools are seldomly used in construction, for which digital development is vital for the growth of that industry. Skanska, a Swedish construction company, has a growing interest in the use of such tools. A mobile version of Asta Powerproject, called Site Progress, is currently available on the market and enables mobile users to record the task progress from a remote location. The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to analyse how Site Progress works. This thesis also examines the usage of the mobile application, in order to achieve the goal to determine if Site Progress can be implemented in progress reporting for future projects. During the bachelor thesis a study has been performed on the project Kvarteret Trollhättan 31, which is a rebuilding and extension of an office building. In order to gain a better understanding of how the reporting process is today, an observation was made. Production managers were interviewed in order to take their thoughts about the product into consideration in the thesis work. They also shared their thoughts about progress reporting today and the process behind it. The study showed that the progress update through Site Progress can be made at any time and from any location. Also, all of the project data ends up on the same device. One of the difficulties with Site Progress Managers today is that it is not possible to assign more than one person to one task. Some adjustments and improvements needs to be done in order to implement Site Progress in the work with project progress reporting.

Sedan år 1907 har det i Sverige varit möjligt att upplåta en fastighet med tomträtt. Tomträtten är en nyttjanderätt som innebär att tomträttshavaren har rätt att nyttja en fastighet mot av årlig avgäld. Endast det allmänna får upplåta tomträtt vilket oftast är kommun men även stat får upplåta tomträtt. Villkoren är liknande äganderätten och avsikten med införandet var för att ge privatpersoner möjligheten att få tillgång till mark för bostadsändamål utan att staten eller kommunen förlorade äganderätten till marken.Frågan som ställts i detta arbetet är om tomträtten har en framtid och då speciellt i Huddinge kommun. Huddinge kommun är en kommun med ett fåtal tomträtter i dagsläget och frågan är om de ska antingen behålla, sälja av eller utveckla sitt arbete med fler tomträtter.Eftersom det är en äldre lagstiftning har det framkommit i arbetet att flera av de kommuner som arbetar med tomträtt anser det vara gammalmodig och stel lagstiftning. Det stora problemet med tomträtten är att avgälden inte kan omförhandlas innan avgäldsperioden är över och att den inte får följa en indexuppräkning. Det har lett till stora höjningar för den nya avgäldsperioden, vilket media varit snabba med att kritisera. Höjningen kommer ifrån att markvärdet ofta har stigit kraftigt. Dock har kritiken främst berört tomträtt för bostadsändamål.I arbetet har det framkommit att tomträtter för bostadsändamål har troligtvis inte en framtid i Huddinge kommun eller i andra liknande kommuner om inte fullt marknadsvärde tas ut. Problemen som kan uppstå vid omförhandlingar av tomträttsavgälden gör att de intäkter som tomträtter ger inte täcker de kostnader som kan uppstå. Avgälden för ändamålet rabatterats av de flesta kommuner och likaså friköpspriset. Bland annat därför gör att tomträtten för bostadsändamål bör Huddinge kommun vara försiktiga med att upplåta tomträtter för bostadsändamål. Tomträtter för annat ändamål än bostad har en framtid i Huddinge kommun men även i andra kommuner. Fördelarna är många med tomträtt där bland annat markägandet behålls. Är avgälden marknadsanpassad tillkommer stabil inkomst över avgäldsperioden. Speciellt i kommuner med en markvärdesutveckling som Huddinge kommun har haft är det med stor fördel att markägandet behålls. Tomträtten innebär för kommunen en ökad administrativt arbete vid omförhandlingar av avgälden och vid upplåtelse jämfört med arrende och markförsäljning. Däremot ger markförsäljning ingen återkommande inkomst och förlorad äganderätt till marken. / Since 1907, it has been possible in Sweden to lease a property with leasehold rights. The site leasehold right is a right of use that means that the site leaseholder has the right to use a property against of annual ground rent. Only the public may grant leasehold rights, which is usually the municipality but also state may grant a site leasehold. The conditions are similar to the right of ownership and the intention of the introduction was to give private individuals the opportunity to gain access to land for housing purposes without the state or the municipality losing ownership of the land.The question posed in this work is whether the site leasehold has a future and especially in Huddinge municipality. Huddinge municipality is a municipality with a few site leaseholds at present and the question is whether they should either keep, sell off or develop and work furthermore with site leaseholds.Since it is an older legislation, it has emerged in the work that several of the municipalities that work with site leasehold consider it old-fashioned and rigid legislation. The major problem with the site leasehold is that the termination cannot be renegotiated before the termination period is over and that it must not follow an index count. This has led to major increases of the ground rent, which the media has been quick to criticize. The increase comes from the fact that land value has often risen sharply. However, the criticism has primarily concerned site leasehold for residential purposes.In the work it has emerged that leaseholds for residential purposes probably do not have a future in Huddinge municipality or in other similar municipalities unless the entire market value is charged in the ground rent. The problems that can arise when renegotiating ground rent mean that the revenue that the site leaseholds brings does not cover the costs that can arise. The rent and the purchase price for the purpose was discounted by most municipalities. Among other things, this means that the site leasehold for housing purposes, Huddinge municipality should be cautious about granting leaseholds for residential purposes. Site leasehold for purposes other than housing have a future in Huddinge municipality but also in other municipalities. The advantages are many with leasehold rights where, among other things, land ownership is retained. If the debt is market-adjusted, stable income will be added over the term of the debt. Especially in municipalities with a land value development that Huddinge municipality has had, it is with great advantage that land ownership is retained. The leasehold means for the municipality an increased administrative work in the case of renegotiation of the debt and in connection with leasing compared with lease and land sales. On the other hand, land sales do not provide recurring income and lost ownership of the land.

The ancient Maya had strong ties to the sea. The trade, transportation and use of marine resources were important not only to coastal Maya communities, but also to the heavily populated cities that lay many miles inland. A review of zooarchaeological evidence recovered from excavations at the inland site of Caracol, Belize suggests that the inhabitants imported marine fish for food, marine shell for working into trade items, and sharks teeth and stingray spines for ritual use. This thesis examines the manner in which fish and other marine resources were used, procured and transported from the coast to the site of Caracol. The possibility that certain marine fish might have been transported alive to the site is explored. An examination of present day fishing and animal husbandry practices suggests that many species could have survived an inland trip in ancient times if transported under conditions that allowed for water exchanges and minimized stress. Marine resources had important economic and ritual significance to the people of Caracol. Understanding the methods by which these valuable items were transported and traded ultimately facilitates a greater understanding of the economic and socio-political relationships among these ancient polities.

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<P> Solving the electronic Schrodinger equation for the molecular wavefunction is the central problem in theoretical chemistry. From these wavefunctions (possibly with relativistic corrections), one may completely characterise the chemical reactivity and physical properties of atoms, molecules, and materials. Unfortunately, there are very few systematic approaches for obtaining highly-accurate molecular wavefunctions. The approaches that do exist suffer from the so-called curse of dimensionality: their computational cost grows exponentially as the number of particles increases. Furthermore, even after obtaining an accurate wavefunction, partitioning the molecule into atoms is not straightforward. This is because the kinetic energy operator is a differential operator in spatial coordinates. This is a source of ambiguity in the definition of an atom-in-a-molecule and the associated atomic properties. Even after selecting an appropriate definition of an atom and obtaining the atoms from the wavefunction, the atom's intrinsic reactivity cannot be completely characterised without considering every possible reaction partner. This is because each set of two molecules produces a new wavefunction that is more complicated than the products of the wavefunctions of the separate molecules. </p> <P> This thesis presents methods for addressing the three challenges raised in the previous paragraph: computing atomic properties (e.g. chemical reactivity), partitioning molecules into atoms, and computing accurate molecular wavefunctions. The first challenge is addressed by developing a general-purpose reactivity indicator to quantify the reactivity of an atom within a molecule. This indicator quantifies the reactivity of any point of the molecule using only the electrostatic potential and Fukui potential at that point. The key idea is to include only a vague description of an incoming molecule and compute an approximate interaction with the incoming object; this ensures that the general-purpose reactivity indicator is simple enough to be useful. Practically, this indicator is most useful when it is used to compute the reactivity of the atomic sites in the molecule of interest. </p> <P> Partitioning a molecule into atoms is not straightforward because of the inherent nonlocality of quantum mechanics. In the context of molecular electronic structure, this nonlocality arises from the nature of the kinetic energy operator. The quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) is a popular method that partitions molecules into atoms. QT AIM resolves the problem of ambiguity for all permissible forms of the kinetic energy operator. In this thesis the characterisation of an atom provided by QT AIM is extended to include relativistic contributions in the zero-order regular approximation (ZORA). The intrinsic ambiguity arising from the kinetic energy operator is also examined in detail. </p> <P> Computing atomic or molecular properties (including computing the general-purpose reactivity indicator) almost always requires a wavefunction. For this reason, obtaining accurate wavefunctions is the central hurdle of quantum chemistry. This thesis proposes algorithms for finding high-accuracy molecular wavefunctions without exponentially exploding computational cost. To do this, tools for exploiting the smoothness of electronic wavefunctions are crafted. Computational methods that use these tools can break the curse of exponential scaling without sacrificing accuracy. Specifically, the computation cost of these new methods grows only as some polynomial of the electron number. The wavefunctions obtained from these methods are much simpler than those from conventional approaches of similar accuracy, and are therefore ideal for computing the electron density and atomic properties. </p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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<p> The paper outlines the various criteria that companies might use in the process of searching for a site. Criteria are examined in terms of how they relate to the varied characteristics of a company. No single criteria was found to be universal to all companies in terms of the emphasis placed on them. Communities, when attracting a company, should match up the positive aspects of the community with companies that have characteristics matching these points. From findings made in this paper, recommendations concerning some of the policies or programs that a community might develop is put forward. </p> / Thesis / Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Thesis advisor: John E. Ebel / Degradation within an earth embankment structure is often unobservable from the surface. In order to evaluate the structural integrity of earth embankment dams and levees and identify subsurface zones of weakness that may result in future failures, various geophysical methods have been proposed as effective subsurface imaging tools. This study presents the results of using the horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR), seismic refraction analysis, and multi-channel analysis of surface waves (MASW) methods to estimate subsurface seismic structures for two earth embankment dams located in Chestnut Hill, MA, and Franklin Falls, NH. The estimated seismic velocity structures from the seismic refraction analysis and MASW performed in this study confirm the HVSR method is able to effectively estimate depth to bedrock at sites atop earth embankments using estimated fundamental frequencies. The MASW was found to resolve a low-velocity zone in the subsurface at the Chestnut Hill reservoir embankment that the seismic refraction method was unable to image, and this low-velocity zone is required to best fit a theoretical HVSR to an observed spectrum. Furthermore, the variation and uncertainty in fundamental frequency estimation were investigated by making repeated HVSR measurements at the Chestnut Hill embankment. / Thesis (BS) — Boston College, 2023. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences.. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: Earth and Environmental Sciences.