ABSTRACT RESTORATION PROJECT OF IBRAHIM SAHIN HOUSE IN SOGUKPINAR DISTRICT, BEYHAMAM STREET, NO 41, TOKAT &Ouml / nal, Ilgin M.S. in Restoration, Department of Architecture Supervisor: Prof. Dr. N. G&uuml / l Asatekin July 2010, 329 pages The subject of thesis is to prepare the restoration project of a traditional Anatolian dwelling in Tokat. As being a representative of traditional historic background of Tokat, Ibrahim Sahin Dwelling is aimed to be rehabilitated at first and revitalized then by refunctioning. Within the context of the study, existing situation of the dwelling and its nearby environment is documented in detail. Graphical presentation of the dwelling is supported by verbal descriptions and analysis of the existing situation. The dwelling is then compared with other examples found at nearby site within its historical background. This information provided a basis for restitution stage and evaluated in restoration chapter then. The study is ended up with a restoration project including intervention decisions aiming both conservation of physical existence, revealing out of the authentic features of the dwelling and the sustainability of it within traditional historic framework by an assigned function.

The subject of this thesis study is &Ccedil / ukur Hamam, one of the remarkable edifices in Birgi town in &Ouml / demis district of Izmir. The aim of the study is to create a restoration project for &Ccedil / ukur Hamam to provide its survival by integrating its neighbourhood to the social life of the city. During the study the edifice and its periphery was documented carefully by using 3D Laser Scanner. In the historical and comparative study the original status of the edifice was researched. With respect to the data gathered from the studies, a restoration project which includes the intervention decisions for the conservation of the physical condition and authentic elements of the edifice.

The distribution system containing numerous protective facilities and switch equipment ranges over a wide boundary . The most urgent problem the dispatcher has to tackle right after the breakdown of distribution system in how to resume as soon as possible power supply for the none-faulted out-of-service area. Therefore, distribution system service restoration is an important and practical subject. During the process of maintaining and operation ,the distribution district collected a lot of data. These data includes substation-related automatic operating data , switch section of doing a feeder , load data of high and low tension customers, and historical distribution system planning information concerning load transfer while operation, etc. The useful resource could help the dispatcher to get the best load transfer on distribution system service restoration. Datum-oriented researcher refers to the exploration of the concealing regulations and knowledge and the techniques regarding comprehensible model. This thesis manages to collect the maintaining and operation data of the distribution district ; it makes use of the information exploration techniques and ID3 decision tree and fuzzy theory to get the load transfer rule and knowledge , and to establish the load transfer model. After the fault occurred, it would help the dispatcher to get the best tactics for the load transfer on distribution system service restoration under the constraint condition. This thesis chooses the underground distribution system in sijhih of the Keeling District Offices of Taiwan Power Company as a sample. That underground distribution system comprising 8 distribution feeder ,73 distribution spaces,16 high tension customers, 28 feeder section, 4 feeder-tie-switch and 19 lateral-tie-switch will be simulated on computers to verify the proposed method for the distribution system service restoration.

In current distribution automations design, fault flags generated by overcurrent relays are used to detect the feeder fault section. With the integration of distributed generations (DG), fault currents could be contributed from different directions and jeopardize the fault detection function. A large fault current contributed by a DG flows from downstream of a feeder could be detected by the overcurrent relay and lead to the confusion in fault detection function. In this thesis, adjunction current measurements and fault flags are utilized to minimize the possibility of mis-identification of fault section. The structure and data flow of a Java agent development framework (JADE) is adopted for feeder fault detection, identification and service restoration (FDIR). Based on information from local measurements and other agents, the FDIR function can be better conducted by local agents. Test results indicate that multi-agent systems can be used to improve system reliability and reduce service interruption time.

Penghu which is located south-west off Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait has a clean marine environment and is well qualified for developing fishing resources. The tidal flats are enriched in fish, shellfish and shrimps, thus serving as an excellent breeding ground for larval and important fish, Recently, offshore fishing industry is seriously threatened by pollution and over-fishing, which lead to the destruction of offshore fishing resources. Addressing the problem of fishing resources in terms of human activities and how to make the best use of these resources are concerned by the government, local community and scholars. Besides, the habitat will be destructed because of the greed of human and the used up of natural resources. The balance between ¡§resource protection¡¨and¡§resources exploitation¡¨should be enforced. On January, 2008, a rare winter weather kill resulted in the mass death of fish. This occurrence urged the industries, the government and the academic scholars to propose the new idea of learning case from Mainland China in the hope that the crisis caused by the winter weather kill may become a turning point to restore the habitat. It is proposed that two islands, Fujia and Tonpang, are designed into the conservation areas of sea cucumbers, sea urchin, abalone, and various shellfish such as crabs. The government, and local residents have worked together to promote the conservation and restoration project. The whole project is conducted by local communities to build cage farming in inshore areas. This will not only help Penghu fishing industry with regard to the functions of conservation and restoration, but it also brings in income by tourism. By following the management mold of Zhangzidao Island Fishery Group Corporation, each island works as a unit to sustain the development of Penghu marine fishing industry. Besides the support of the government and aquaculture farmers, the development of fishing industry should also focus on research. The collaboration between industries, the government and academic scholars shall lead the marine fishing industry of Penghu to the development of fishing resource. With the cooperative education between the academic institutions and industries, as well as the support and assistance of the government authorities, fishermen and local communities will be beneficial from the program to achieving the sustainable development.

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2010. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-142). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-106). Also available via World Wide Web.

Internet traffic has surpassed voice traffic and is dominating in transmission networks. The Internet Protocol (IP) is now being used to encapsulate various kinds of services. The new services have different requirements than the initial type of traffic that was carried by the Internet network and IP. Interactive services such as voice and video require paths than can guarantee some bandwidth level, minimum delay and jitter. In addition service providers need to be able to improve the performance of their networks by having an ability to steer the traffic along the less congested links or paths, thus balancing the load in a uniform way as a mechanism to provide differentiated service quality. This needs to be provided not only within their domains but also along paths that might traverse more than one domain. For this to be possible changes have been proposed and some are being applied to provide quality of service (QoS) and traffic engineering (TE) within and between domains. Because data networks now carry critical data and there are new technologies that enable providers to carry huge amount of traffic, it is important to have mechanisms to safeguard against failures that can render the network unavailable. In this thesis we propose and develop mechanisms to enable interdomain traffic engineering as well as to speed up the restoration time in optical transport networks. We propose a mechanism, called abstracted path information, that enable peering entities to exchange just enough information to engage in QoS and TE operations without divulging all the information about the internal design of the network. We also extend BGP to carry the abstracted information. Our simulations show that BGP could still deliver the same performance with the abstracted information. In this thesis we also develop a method of classifying failures of links or paths. To improve the restoration time we propose that common failures be classified and assigned error type numbers and we develop a mechanism for interlayer communication and faster processing of signalling messages that are used to carry notification signals. Additionally we develop a mechanism of exchanging the failure information between layers through the use of service primitives; that way we can speed up the restoration process. Finally we simulate the developed mechanism for a 24 node Pan American optical transport network. / <p>QC 20100913</p>

Progress in multimedia technologies has resulted in a plethora of services and devices that capture, compress, transmit and display audiovisual stimuli. Humans -- the ultimate receivers of such stimuli -- now have access to visual entertainment at their homes, their workplaces as well as on mobile devices. With increasing visual signals being received by human observers, in the face of degradations that occur to due the capture, compression and transmission processes, an important aspect of the quality of experience of such stimuli is the \emph{perceived visual quality}. This dissertation focuses on algorithm development for assessing such visual quality of natural images, without need for the `pristine' reference image, i.e., we develop computational models for no-reference image quality assessment (NR IQA). Our NR IQA model stems from the theory that natural images have certain statistical properties that are violated in the presence of degradations, and quantifying such deviations from \emph{naturalness} leads to a blind estimate of quality. The proposed modular and easily extensible framework is distortion-agnostic, in that it does not need to have knowledge of the distortion afflicting the image (contrary to most present-day NR IQA algorithms) and is not only capable of quality assessment with high correlation with human perception, but also is capable of identifying the distortion afflicting the image. This additional distortion-identification, coupled with blind quality assessment leads to a framework that allows for blind general-purpose image repair, which is the second major contribution of this dissertation. The blind general-purpose image repair framework, and its exemplar algorithm described here stem from a revolutionary perspective on image repair, where the framework does not simply attempt to ameliorate the distortion in the image, but to ameliorate the distortion, so that visual quality at the output is maximized. Lastly, this dissertation describes a large-scale human subjective study that was conducted at UT to assess human behavior and opinion on visual quality of videos when viewed on mobile devices. The study lead to a database of 200 distorted videos, which incorporates previously studied distortions such as compression and wireless packet-loss, and also dynamically varying distortions that change as a function of time, such as frame-freezes and temporally varying compression rates. This study -- the first of its kind -- involved over 50 human subjects and resulted in 5,300 summary subjective scores and time-sampled subjective traces of quality for multiple displays. The last part of this dissertation analyzes human behavior and opinion on time-varying video quality, opening up an extremely interesting and relevant field for future research in the area of quality assessment and human behavior. / text

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