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This thesis has been based on a detailed examination of the ten thousand two hundred letters which form the extant 17th century correspondence in His Grace the Duke of Hamilton's archives, and of approximately ten thousand household, building and estate accounts in the same Collection. A Calendar of the letters forms the appendix to the thesis; a Calendar of the accounts is in preparation. The exact period under consideration is 1625-1712, from the succession of the 1st duke to the family titles until the death of his grandson the 4th duke. It has often been assumed that in the society of seventeenth century Scotland there was a great gulf between the anglicised peerage and the rest of the population, that the leading members of the Scottish aristocracy enjoyed a high standard of living in England while their fellow-countrymen remained at home in comparatively primitive conditions. The present survey suggests that this view is inaccurate. The dukes of Hamilton were Scotland's premier peers, and the 1st and 2nd dukes did spend a large part of their adult lives in London. Nevertheless, they retained strong links with their own estates which they visited frequently. After the Civil War, the family became once more firmly based at Hamilton. They had their children educated locally, married their daughters into the Scottish peerage, and formed the focal point of the local community. Their houses were large, their furniture fine and their gardens well laid-out, but in this they were no different from their contemporaries of a similar status. A comparison with the family papers of other Scottish peers shows that they shared a common standard of living and indeed a common outlook. It would therefore seem probable that throughout the seventeenth century the Scottish peerage remained an integral part of Scottish society, living at home in a manner similar to that of the gentry and richer merchants, and relying to a large extent on local loyalties. Only towards the end of the period, with the coming of union with England and the emergence of a party political system, did the situation begin to change.

The following is a report based on an internship during the Summer and Fall of 1997 in fulfillment of the requirements for the Masters of Arts Administration degree. The internship took place at the Dufour-Baldwin House Historic Museum & Gardens, Inc. and was in response to a request submitted to Director Elizabeth Williams by this intern to establish an annual or bi-annual special event/fundraiser for the home. The outcome was a festival that would be called Arthemise's Pantry, the namesake being Arthemise Bouligny, the wife of Albert Baldwin, one of the owners of the home.

The following is a record of the activities which were undertaken during an internship at the Dufour Baldwin House Historic Museum & Gardens, Inc. during the summer of 1996. The intern will describe what was implemented and accomplished during this process and will conclude with recommendations for the museum to use in it's future development undertakings.

Esplanade Ridge is the largest downtown historic district in New Orleans, a place that is known as the home of the "last Creole aristocrats" and described as the French Creole version of St. Charles Avenue during the 1800's (Jensen A-I). This historically significant neighborhood is suffering much like other metropolitan areas in New Orleans. Amidst the urban neighborhoods ofNew Orleans often exists rampant property deterioration, crime, litter and population loss. Typical problems in any city, these frightening realities often make imagining the future of Esplanade Ridge a depressing experience. However, alongside the problems endures a rich cultural history and offering. New Orleans architectural treasures are among the finest in the nation; Esplanade Ridge boasts Greek Revival, Classic, Italianate, and High Victorian architectural styles built by such noted architects as Henry Howard, James Freret and James Gallier(Jensen A-I). Rich with history, Esplanade Ridge and all New Orleans neighborhoods must fight to maintain and improve their current condition, in order to ensure a positive cultural future for all New Orleans residents.

Trata da ciência da ergonomia aplicada aos espaços da habitação. Pretende fazer um reconhecimento dos trabalhos de vários pesquisadores que procuram uma metodologia de apoio para a elaboração ou a avaliação de projetos dos espaços da habitação, onde as atividades dos seres humanos ? usuários da habitação ? são o principal ponto de referência. Dentro da premissa apresentada, pretende-se conhecer as implicações das atividades humanas nas decisões para as soluções espaciais adotadas para os ambientes da habitação. Pretende-se identificar os aspectos ergonômicos dos espaços destinados ao uso do homemcomo moradia, apontando os requisitos básicos para o desenvolvimento das atividades diárias dos usuários. A pesquisa se inicia associando os conceitos ergonômicos aos espaços da habitação, através de uma visão geral dos estudos que influenciaram o aprimoramento das técnicas de análise ergonômica para o espaço construído. Apresenta conceitos e requisitos para a análise das tarefas e investiga uma metodologia para identificar as atividades de um determinado grupo de usuários. Apresenta como parâmetros as soluções apontadas pelas pesquisas dos conceitos do Projeto Universal, e de estudos específicos para o usuário idoso. Para uma referência de aplicação dessa metodologia, esta pesquisa enfoca o usuário enfermo no espaço da habitação. Este processo consiste em elaborar uma caracterização ergonômica que parte do reconhecimento e da análise do usuário, das funções de uso e das atividades, dos ambientes e dos espaços funcionais da habitação, do uso de mobiliário e equipamentos necessários. / It starts from the premise of recognizing the works of various researchers who search for supporting methodology in order to elaborate or evaluate the projects of habitation spaces, where the activities of human beings - users of the space - are the main points of reference. From the presented premise, its intention is to recognize the implications of human activities in the decisions for the spacial solutions adopted for those spaces. It is also intended to identify the ergonomic aspects of the spaces destined to be used as housing, pointing the basic space requirements for the development of the daily activities of the users. The research starts by associating the ergonomic concepts to the living spaces, through a general point of view of studies which influenced the improvement of ergonomic analysis techniques for built spaces. It presents concepts and requirements for the analysis of the tasks and activities of the man and investigates a methodology to identify the activities of one definitive group of users. It presents as parameters the solutions pointed by the research on the concepts of the Universal Project and of specific studies for elderly users and, as an application\'s reference of this methodology, this research focuses on medical attendance (patient) in the living spaces of the habitation. This process consists in elaborating an ergonomic characterization which stems from the recognition and analysis of the user, of the functions of use and of the activities, the environments and functional spaces of the habitation and of the use of the furniture and necessary equipment.

Fung Chi Tim. / Thesis (M.Sc.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53). / Abstract / Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- Objective --- p.4 / Chapter III. --- Methodology / Decision Methodology --- p.6 / Sensitivity Analysis and Re-iteration --- p.14 / Ease of use of the system --- p.22 / Chapter IV. --- Test Result --- p.26 / Chapter V. --- Future Research Direction --- p.28 / Chapter VI. --- Conclusion --- p.32 / Chapter VII. --- Appendix A Description of System --- p.35 / Chapter VIII. --- Appendix B User's Guide --- p.44 / Figures --- p.50 / References --- p.53

Trata da ciência da ergonomia aplicada aos espaços da habitação. Pretende fazer um reconhecimento dos trabalhos de vários pesquisadores que procuram uma metodologia de apoio para a elaboração ou a avaliação de projetos dos espaços da habitação, onde as atividades dos seres humanos ? usuários da habitação ? são o principal ponto de referência. Dentro da premissa apresentada, pretende-se conhecer as implicações das atividades humanas nas decisões para as soluções espaciais adotadas para os ambientes da habitação. Pretende-se identificar os aspectos ergonômicos dos espaços destinados ao uso do homemcomo moradia, apontando os requisitos básicos para o desenvolvimento das atividades diárias dos usuários. A pesquisa se inicia associando os conceitos ergonômicos aos espaços da habitação, através de uma visão geral dos estudos que influenciaram o aprimoramento das técnicas de análise ergonômica para o espaço construído. Apresenta conceitos e requisitos para a análise das tarefas e investiga uma metodologia para identificar as atividades de um determinado grupo de usuários. Apresenta como parâmetros as soluções apontadas pelas pesquisas dos conceitos do Projeto Universal, e de estudos específicos para o usuário idoso. Para uma referência de aplicação dessa metodologia, esta pesquisa enfoca o usuário enfermo no espaço da habitação. Este processo consiste em elaborar uma caracterização ergonômica que parte do reconhecimento e da análise do usuário, das funções de uso e das atividades, dos ambientes e dos espaços funcionais da habitação, do uso de mobiliário e equipamentos necessários. / It starts from the premise of recognizing the works of various researchers who search for supporting methodology in order to elaborate or evaluate the projects of habitation spaces, where the activities of human beings - users of the space - are the main points of reference. From the presented premise, its intention is to recognize the implications of human activities in the decisions for the spacial solutions adopted for those spaces. It is also intended to identify the ergonomic aspects of the spaces destined to be used as housing, pointing the basic space requirements for the development of the daily activities of the users. The research starts by associating the ergonomic concepts to the living spaces, through a general point of view of studies which influenced the improvement of ergonomic analysis techniques for built spaces. It presents concepts and requirements for the analysis of the tasks and activities of the man and investigates a methodology to identify the activities of one definitive group of users. It presents as parameters the solutions pointed by the research on the concepts of the Universal Project and of specific studies for elderly users and, as an application\'s reference of this methodology, this research focuses on medical attendance (patient) in the living spaces of the habitation. This process consists in elaborating an ergonomic characterization which stems from the recognition and analysis of the user, of the functions of use and of the activities, the environments and functional spaces of the habitation and of the use of the furniture and necessary equipment.

This research is an effort to revive the use of courtyard housing clusters in a modern context, which were traditionally known for their distinctive passive cooling performance. The goal is to promote energy efficient design in hot-arid climates and temperate climates by reviving the use of courtyard housing clusters. The objective is to introduce a simplified thermal model that simulates the courtyard microclimate, which has been tested with actual field data from a case study house. The case study house was an indigenous courtyard house in Cairo, Egypt that was built around 1400 AD, having an area of about 5000 sq. ft. (i.e., comparable to the size of a single-family house) with heavy thermal mass. To accomplish this, a finite difference thermal network model was created for simulating the case study courtyard microclimate. The finite difference (FD) model showed validity as it calibrated very well against field data. This model allowed running parametric sensitivity studies on the courtyard thermal simulation factors: air change rates, thermal mass, solar absorption, wall and floor emissivity, ground temperature, cloud cover, and ambient air temperature. The results of the parametric analysis showed that the model was sensitive to variations in the air change rates, solar absorptivity, and ambient air (rooftop) temperatures. The courtyard microclimate model was then used in combination with thermal simulation software (DOE-2) to analyze the thermal performance of the case study house, which was also validated with measured field data. The DOE-2 program showed limitations when applied to the case study, non-conditioned building, and showed a convergence deficiency when simulating high thermal mass buildings. The DOE-2 program did not perform well in simulating the impact of changes in thermal mass as compared to previous published field measurements. The proposed combinations of the FD microclimate/DOE-2 simulation did not perform as well as the FD microclimate simulation. The FD courtyard microclimate simulation model with onsite data for calibration is advantageous in introducing for the first time the ability to perform computer simulations on any number of proposed courtyard design alternatives for reaching optimum thermal performance.

House Price in Taiwan is very volatile during the past few decades. As Taiwan go into enormous boom, more and more amount of money invest in the house market. Although house investment is considered as a good investment tool with low risk and inflation hedge properties, its risk can not be underestimated. Therefore, by using the GARCH model, this paper tries to analyze volatilities of investment return in the Taipei housing market from 1973 to 2002. For existing housing, we are not able to use GARCH to model investment volatility because of uncorrelated term risks. On the contrary, pre-sale housing contains correlated term risk. We adopt ARMA(4,4)-GARCH(1,1) to model the investment volatility of pre-sale housing. The investment risk of pre-sale housing is not constant but is time-varying. When an unexpected event happened, the shock will persist but decay from 86 percent in the next term to 40 percent in the sixth term. And we can observe volatility cluster phenomenon from the graph of conditional variance. During 1973 to 1975¡B1979 to 1983 and 1987 to 1990, the risks are higher than other period. Because previous studies commonly suggest some structural changes in the Taiwan housing market, we also control the risk premium affected by the structural changes in our model. We found ARMA(4,4)-GARCH(1,1) can still model the investment volatility process of pre-sale housing, but there is no evidence of risk premium caused by structural changes.