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Demonstratoren sind äußerst hilfreiche Werkzeuge, welche der Veranschaulichung neuer Technologien dienen. Besonders im Kontext von Living Labs, in denen es um Bildung, Forschung, gemeinsame Entwicklung und Experimente geht, können sie von großer Bedeutung sein. Sie unterliegen in ihrer Umsetzung besonderen Anforderungen, die sich stark von denen an Produkte für den Markt unterscheiden. Diese Arbeit stellt das Konzept und die Umsetzung eines Smart Mirror Demonstrators vor, der für das Living Lab des KI-Kompetenzzentrums ScaDS.AI in Leipzig entwickelt wurde. Der Demonstrator veranschaulicht einen Anwendungsfall von Objekt- und Ähnlichkeitserkennung, die auf künstlichen neuronalen Netzen basieren. Er besteht aus einem Smart Mirror, der Kleidungsstücke erkennen und visuell ähnliche Kleidungsstücke vorschlagen kann. Ein Nutzer kann mit dem Demonstrator ein Foto von sich aufnehmen, auf dem die erkannten Kleidungsstücke mit sogenannten Bounding Boxes markiert werden. Anschließend werden visuell ähnliche Kleidungsstücke aus einer Datenbank herausgefiltert und angezeigt. In der Arbeit geht es zum einen um die verwendeten Technologien, als auch um die Architektur des Demonstrators selbst. Die Softwarearchitektur des Demonstrators orientiert sich an dem Aufbau von Webanwendungen und besteht aus einem Backend und einem Frontend. Das Backend wurde als REST-API umgesetzt, die in Python unter Verwendung des Frameworks Flask geschrieben wurde. Das Frontend besteht aus einer Single Page Application, umgesetzt mit dem Javascript Framework Vue. Beide Anwendungen wurden mit Hilfe der Software Docker in Containern umgesetzt, um die Laufzeitumgebung zu virtualisieren und die Ausführung auf verschiedenen Rechnern zu erleichtern. Der Technologie-Stack bestehend aus Flask, Vue und Docker und die Umsetzung unter Beachtung der REST Prinzipien sind positiv zu bewerten und wurden im ScaDS.AI in Anlehnung an den be- schriebenen Demonstrator zum Standard für die Entwicklung weiterer Demonstratoren.:1. Einleitung 1.1. Projektrahmen 1.2. Hintergrund und Idee 1.3. Aufbau der Arbeit 2. Anforderungen 2.1. Funktionale Anforderungen 2.1.1. Objekterkennung 2.1.2. Kleidungsvorschläge 2.1.3. Visualisierung und Benutzung 2.1.4. Hardware 2.2. Projektrahmen und nicht-funktionale Anforderungen 2.2.1. Das ScaDS.AI und Living Lab in Leipzig 2.2.2. Demonstratoren 2.3. Zusammenfassung 3. Technische Grundlagen 3.1. Objekterkennung 3.1.1. Convolutional Neural Networks 3.1.2. Single Shot Multibox Detector 3.2. Architektur und Technologie-Stack 3.2.1. REST Paradigma 3.2.2. Python Webframework Flask 3.2.3. Single Page Applications mit Vue 3.2.4. Virtualisierung mit Docker 3.3. Zusammenfassung 4. Implementierung 4.1. Architekturentwurf 4.2. Backend Programmierung 4.2.1. Umsetzung als Flask App 4.2.2. Detection 4.2.3. Matching 4.2.4. Umsetzung der REST API 4.3. Frontend Programmierung 4.3.1. Darstellungsschicht 4.3.2. Serviceschicht 4.3.3. Speicherschicht 4.3.4. Datenfluss 4.3.5. Online-Version 4.4. Containerisierung 4.5. Hardware 4.5.1. Samsung Flip 4.5.2. Kamera 4.5.3. Rechner 4.6. Zusammenfassung 5. Projektauswertung 5.1. Erfüllung der Anforderungen 5.2. Schwierigkeiten 5.3. Zusammenfassung 6. Ausblick 7. Literaturverzeichnis 8. Abbildungsverzeichnis 9. Quelltextverzeichnis 10. Anhang

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Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is the number one infectious disease killer in the world. TB is both preventable, and curable. Since 1997, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global TB (GTB) Programme has released evidence-informed publications to guide member states. In their EndTB strategy, the WHO set a mandate to eradicate TB by 2035, in part by intensifying TB research and innovation. As an effort towards this goal, this project applies evidence mapping methodologies to published WHO TB recommendations, in an innovative process called “recommendation mapping” (RM). Objectives: The prime objective of RM is to allow guideline developers and key stakeholders to identify gaps and clusters of recommendations across publications, serve as an instrumental tool in the sequence of guideline development (from intelligent priority setting, to the assembly of final recommendations) and increase the accessibility of key guideline components. The secondary objective of this work is to poise guideline components for live update and refinement in a rapidly learning health system. Methods: In this mixed methods study, a methodological framework for mapping guideline components is proposed, with both a quantitative and narrative assessment of raw data and final map outputs. A qualitative analysis from the perspective of key stakeholders, policy-makers, researchers and WHO-GTB liaisons working in guideline development is also included. For the methodological piece, all publications containing WHO TB recommendations were eligible for the mapping exercise. Each recommendation was extracted according to all subdomains of their PICO backbone. Subsections of recommendations are coded using existing ontologies (SNOMED-CT, ATC, ICD-11). A centralized database containing extracted and coded recommendations was then presented in an online and interactive schematic. For the qualitative assessment of palatability of this approach within the organization, semi-structured interviews and a survey was delivered to eligible participants at two Guideline Development Group meetings for WHO tuberculosis treatment and screening guidelines. Results: The notable result of this work is the development, refinement and application of recommendation mapping methodologies. 20 WHO-GTB guidelines underwent an application of the novel recommendation methodologies proposed in this thesis to create an interactive map, and a searchable database. In-depth interviews and survey results with 21 participants (WHO GTB staff, WHO TB- guideline development group members and technical experts) pointed to concerns in the current accessibility and organization of WHO-GTB guidelines. Conclusions: Recommendation mapping may have utility in charting the terrain of recommendations, inform priority setting, and provide a scaffold for the future transition to living guidelines. / Thesis / Master of Public Health (MPH) / The World Health Organization (WHO) issues guidelines to help clinicians, policy-makers, and researchers make informed decisions in their work. Guidelines contain recommendations that can be thought of as bottom-line answers to the questions we ask the scientific literature (based on the evidence available to us today). The WHO’s Tuberculosis (TB) Department is partaking in a novel digital reorganization of their guideline recommendations using the evidence-mapping methods proposed in this thesis. This thesis uses the principles of evidence mapping to create recommendation maps that, like any map, chart the landscape in a given domain (in this case, TB recommendations). The recommendation map will help guide the WHO in setting priorities for future research and guideline development.

yes / Interpretations of living apart together (LAT) have typically counter-posed 'new family form' versus 'continuist' perspectives. Recent surveys, however, construct LAT as a heterogeneous category that supports a 'qualified continuist' position - most people live apart as a response to practical circumstances or as a modern version of 'boy/girlfriend', although a minority represents something new in preferring to live apart more permanently. This article interrogates this conclusion by examining in depth why people live apart together, using a nationally representative survey from Britain and interview accounts from 2011. Our analysis shows that LAT as a category contains different sorts of relationship, with different needs and desires. While overall coupledom remains pivotal and cohabitation remains the goal for most, LAT allows people flexibility and room to manoeuvre in adapting couple intimacy to the demands of contemporary life. Hence, we suggest, LAT is both 'new' and a 'continuation'. / ESRC / The full text of the published article is open access. Full text of the author's final draft was released to the Repository 09/10/2014 at the end of the publisher's embargo period.

As the cities grow, our lives get busier and we live further away from our families than we ever have before, have we thought about what life is like for our parents and grandparents at home? Can architecture help improve the mental and physical health of the occupiers? Design like a problem solver does not only mean solving pre-existed problems, but also thinking preemptively. Although technology can solve part of the problem, if we explore the role of design in our society and know how to apply good architecture to promote connection between generations, we can help elders feel active. We can even help prevent depression amongst seniors. In the near future, the population 65 or older will continue being the majority of the entire demography. And inclusive living will be an inseparable part of every future design project. Biophilic design would contribute to part of the solution as well. The elderly have lots to offer that the younger generations would need: experience, education, wisdom and most importantly, freetime; we can't leave all these resources aside. By encouraging interactions between different age groups, our children could benefit from all of this in one way or another that is going to be useful for their learning, and elders would feel they can also create value in the society. This thesis originates from a simple desire to make a safe and fun environment for my grandparents to spend their time in. And to make people be aware of their surrounding physical and also the psychological world. This design is site-specific, where the nearby park/trails and existing neighboring buildings become an integral part of the work. The beauty of the natural world always strikes me, thereby I try to work in response to that beauty. Protect the wetland park nearby and use it as an educational resource for people who come across my project. But whether socially or aesthetically based, in this work I seek to create a strong bond with the residents and visitors, to allow a place of lively interactions. I think architecture is not just physical walls and roofs enclosing a space, but a passage, a journey, a reflection of time. / Master of Architecture / As the cities grow, our lives get busier and we live further away from our families than we ever have before, have we thought about what life is like for our parents and grandparents at home? Although technology can solve part of the problem, if we explore the role of design in our society and know how to apply good architecture to promote connection between generations, we can help seniors feel active. We can even help prevent depression amongst them. The seniors have lots to offer that the younger generations would need: experience, education, wisdom and most importantly, freetime; we can't leave all these aside. By encouraging interactions between the two age groups, our children could benefit from all of this in one way or another that is going to be useful for their learning, and elders would feel they can also create value in the society. This thesis originates from a simple desire to make a safe and fun environment for my grandparents to spend their time in. And to make people be aware of their surrounding physical and also the psychological world. This design is site-specific, where the nearby park and existing neighboring buildings becomes an integral part of the work. The beauty of the natural world always strikes me, thereby I try to work in response to that beauty. Protect the wetland park nearby and use it as an educational resource for people who come across my project. But whether socially or aesthetically based, in this work I seek to create a strong bond with the residents and visitors, to allow a place of lively interactions. I think architecture is not just physical walls and roofs enclosing a space, but a passage, a journey, a reflection of time.

'Cosmo House' is a new idea of living. The people are leaving their home for different life purpose and setting up a temporary home in a new place in a new city. The world has already many cosmopolitan cities. What if there is a new housing type named 'Cosmo House'. It is not a permanent house to live, not so temporary living as like hotel and dorms. It is something in between, it must have some certain design considerations which serve the purpose of those new nomads. 'Cosmo House' is an experience of living where people come to live for few years and can engage with other people, events and experiences and such way they feel it is their new home away from home. The site is in Newark downtown in New Jersey which is a perfect location for international students who study in nearby universities and for international professionals who commute to work in Manhattan and nearby areas. The thesis seeks for an experiential living system in 50000 square feet of a lot where a complex housing mass generates from a concept. It has many grounds, roofs, and neighborhood blocks within the 28-story building. 'Cosmo House' has many small, medium and large social spaces for its many users' group to carefully generate engagements among them and experiences of home. It also connects the tenants to the neighboring people with shared experiences and thus makes the building an integral part of the city too. The experiences of 'Cosmo House' can be universal and adjustable depending on the context where it is built. A new nomad will search for a 'Cosmo House' when he moves from Newark to another city in this world and will always live at home. The concept of home is not restricted to a place where he thinks he belongs but he can carry his home from one place to another place and will always feel at home. / Master of Architecture / Imagine, one is moving to a new country leaving his home behind. Once lands in a new country, he has to adapt himself in a new living condition. Very soon he gets homesick. What if, he could just live in a similar home as like he used to live in his country. Practically, it is not possible to live in the exact same house in a completely different contextual condition. One can not live a house like Saudi Arabia in cold weather like New York City. But maybe he can expect a house which can make himself feel home. Human should not adjust himself, rather home should adapt to the need for Human. A cosmo-house is the concept of new housing typology which accommodates the needs of this neo-nomad in a new city. Their scale can be changed depending on the contexts of different cosmo-cities. But the idea is same the cosmo-house is for the cosmo-people where certain programs of a building are present. It is diversified living by diversified demographic who start to live here for a temporary period but can engage in many interactions and experiences. When there are interactions, experiences, memories are created there. The new memory should help the neo-nomad people to feel the cosmo-house as their home away from home. Who once lives in a cosmo-house carries the concept of home. If he moves to a new cosmo-house to a new city, he actually carries his home with him. He will be always in his home any part of the world in a cosmo-house.