My project is a cohousing community in Berlin. Cohousing is an intentional community of private homes clustered around a shared space. In my project, I divided the shared place into two parts, indoor communal and outdoor communal. For indoor communal, I focus on creating communal halls for people living in community. For outdoor communal, I focus on creating multiple courtyards with different characteristics.

Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA1) is the only viral product needed for replication of the latent Epstein-Barr virus genome. The latent origin of replication, oriP, consists of two cis-acting elements, the family of repeats (FR) containing twenty EBNA1 recognition sites, and the dyad symmetry element (DS) containing four recognition sites. Bidirectional DNA replication is known to occur within or near the DS. Previous studies have suggested that EBAN1 binds cooperatively to its recognition sites in the DS and have shown that EBNA1 binding induces DNA distortion within site 1 and site 4 of the DS. I have used EBNA1 mutants in electrophoretic mobility shift assays, methylation protection footprinting, and potassium permanganate reactivity analysis to examine EBAN1 assembly on the DS and the requirements for DNA distortion. I have found that: 1) EBNA1 has a 10-11 fold higher affinity for the outer two sites of the DS than the inner two sites due to DNA sequence variation, 2) the minimum region of EBNA1 necessary for site specific binding is contained within amino acids (a. A.) 470-607 but a.a. 459-470 greatly affect binding affinity, 3) EBNA1 dimers bind cooperatively on adjacent binding sites and the region responsible for this interaction is also contained between a.a. 470-607. I have also shown that EBNA1 binding to a single DS site 1 recognition site is sufficient to induce DNA distortion within that site and this distortion can be caused by a truncation mutant spanning a.a. 463-607 but not a.a. 468-607. Finally, although wild type spacing between recognition sites of the DS is critical for replication it is not crucial for EBNA1 binding or EBNA1 induced DNA distortion. / Thesis / Master of Science (MS)

This thesis investigates the design objectives for a collaborative workspace based on Sun Microsystems' Java programming language and JavaBeans component architecture. The feasibility of a collaborative component workspace based on these objectives is demonstrated by Sieve, a Javabased framework for collaborative applications. Sieve allows multiple users to collaboratively add, edit, and connect components on a shared two-dimensional workspace. Sieve introduces a technique that leverages standard JavaBeans mechanisms to support use of \collaboration-unaware" software components. With this technique, components need only conform to basic JavaBeans conventions in order to be shared across collaborating sessions { they need not be programmed specifically for collaboration. Sieve also allows component developers to provide custom mechanisms for sharing components. Sieve is extensible in other ways, allowing developers to introduce new mechanisms for creating, displaying, editing, and connecting components. Three collaborative applications built on this framework are presented: a visualization environment, a circuit simulation, and a set of tools for composing arbitrary software components. The visualization environment allows construction of dataflow networks from an extensible set of modules. Modules may read data from a variety of sources, filter and transform the data in various ways, and generate visualizations. The circuit simulation allows users to collaboratively construct and analyze simple direct-current circuits. Finally, the \BeanBox Emulation" application reproduces the basic component-linking functionality of Sun's BeanBox builder tool. With this application, users may collaboratively edit and link objects that conform to standard JavaBeans conventions. / Master of Science

With the rapid development of wireless technologies, the demand for positioning services has grown dramatically over the past three decades. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is widely used in wireless devices for positioning purposes. However, in addition to having bulky and expensive equipment, GPS receivers do not operate properly in dense and indoor environments. Difficulties in using GPS lead us to use sensor localization in which the position information is obtained from the measurements collected within the network without the aid of external resources. Sensor localization has been a great topic of interest during past decades. Although many positioning algorithms have been developed previously in the literature, positioning is still a challenging task. There are many factors that can affect the positioning performance if they are neglected or not treated properly. These factors introduce many nuisance parameters which need to be either estimated or considered when the location is estimated. In this work, we exploit cooperative localization as a recent and trending technology and semidefinite programming (SDP) as a powerful tool in our research. Cooperative localization has several advantages over the traditional noncooperative localization in terms of positioning accuracy and localizability. Cooperation is also highly beneficial for networks with few anchor nodes and low communication range. On the other hand, SDP provides an alternative solution to the optimal maximum-likelihood (ML) estimation. Unlike in the ML estimator, convergence to the global minimum is guaranteed in SDP. It also has significantly lower complexity especially for cooperative networks in exchange for small performance degradation. Using these two concepts, four open problems within the area of cooperative localization and tracking in the presence of nuisance parameters are addressed. In particular, we focus on cooperative received signal strength-based localization when the propagation parameters including path-loss exponent and transmit powers are unknown. Cooperative time-of-arrival-based localization in harsh environments in the presence of severe non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation is also investigated. Cooperative localization in asynchronous networks is studied where the clock parameters are considered as nuisance parameters and the focus is on a joint synchronization and localization approach. Lastly, source tracking in NLOS environments is studied where source nodes are mobile and their status changes rapidly from LOS to NLOS and vice versa. / Ph. D.

Tactile and visual sound:Experiencing the aural through the use of material and form to direct, create and control sound. / Master of Architecture

Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 1978. / INLEIDING: Die doel van hierdie tesis is om die invloed van belastingpligtigheid op die finansiële beplanning van graankoöperasies in Wes-Kaapland te ontleed en die bevindings te publiseer voordat die eerste landboukoöperasie belastingpligtig word. Teoreties is hierdie vroegste datum 31 Maart 1978 wat dus na die publikasie van hierdie tesis sal plaasvind.

The main purpose of the study is to describe the developmental story of one of the larger university cooperative education programs in the United States to provide the evidence of outcomes and to utilize selected elements of the program in other colleges and universities. The study utilizes historical methodology with a descriptive approach to investigate and analyze the program's establishment, its development of staffing, organization, students, employers, funding, and its evaluation by using primary and secondary sources, annual reports, federal grant request proposals, evaluation reports, and the on-campus newspaper. The information for this study was also gathered through personal interviews with previous and present staff members of the program. The study shows that the program was established in the dean of students' office, but in order to get more support from the faculty, the program was moved to the academic affairs office. As a result of the academic support by the faculty, the program expanded. The findings show that the federal grant, Title VIII, contributed significantly to the initiation and growth of the program. The investigator observes that the director's leadership and the staff members' commitment to the program were two of the most important factors in the continued growth of the program. Strong commitment by the chief executive officer of the institution has also been a strong factor in the continuous growth of the program. The study indicates that close affiliation with professional organizations has benefited the program by influencing the development of quality and effective, diverse employers. The results show that the cooperative program significantly aided the students, institutions, and employers annually by placing approximately 1,200 students in their major-related working places.

CREATION AND TERMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP IN COOPERATIVE Summary The theme of the thesis is Creation and termination of membership in cooperative. Cooperative as a legal entity is one type of an association of people for some specific purpose which is characterized by them. Any cooperative cannot be without its members. Therefore the legal amendment of membership's creation and termination in cooperative creates very important legal amendment part in cooperatives. The thesis, which has introductory and closing chapter too, is divided into five chapters which are arranged by way, whose goal is to give a systematic explanation of creation and termination of membership in cooperative in the Czech Republic. The thesis includes relevant decisions of the Czech courts and opinions from books and articles. The introductory chapter contains the main purposes of the thesis. The first and second chapters are a common introduction to the law of cooperatives. The first chapter provides a brief historical law sources explanation of cooperatives and valid legal amendment of cooperatives. It pays attention on a bill which includes a new legal amendment of cooperatives. The comparison between Czech and German legal cooperatives amendments is a part of this chapter too. The second chapter explains basic terms which are...

By-laws of a cooperative Abstract My Master's degree thesis contents of seven chapters, each of them dealing with the by-laws of a cooperative, but each of them different preview. Reason, why I decided wrote this thesis, is that this area of law allows many different modifications. These modification are important for existence a cooperative, member of a cooperative and other people, which act with a cooperative. Other reason, why I decide wrote this thesis, is that a cooperatives are different from other companies. The aim of first chapter of my thesis is introducing a cooperative such as the term - a cooperative is company business entity, where usually member's personal liability is limited by amount of contribution, his history and principles, which are bases of a cooperative. The second chapter explaines that by-laws are contract concluded between members of cooperative and this concludation is process "sui generis". They have nature such as "constitution" for the cooperative and as Memorandum of Association for other companies. The chapter number three describes basic characters of by-laws of a cooperative. These characters consist especially on subchapter. Special subchapters deal with the force by- laws, invalidity by-laws, establishing or change by-laws. Following two chapters compares provisions...

The goal of my diploma thesis is to describe the problems of financing housing in flats owned by housing cooperatives, impact of economic on the price of flats or influence of the cooperative ownership on the selling price of the flat. In this work there are examined other factors which might motivate or demotivate new team members to join the cooperative in order to ensure their own housing.