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- New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components": Final Booklet_05-02-12
- Creator
- Quinn, Aidan
- Date
- 2012-05-02, 2012-05
- Description
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This project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create...
Show moreThis project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create space that is defined by the user.
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- New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components: IMG_7337_EDIT_Crop"
- Creator
- Quinn, Aidan
- Date
- 2012-05-02, 2012-05
- Description
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This project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create...
Show moreThis project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create space that is defined by the user.
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- Relationships Among Twitter Conversation Networks, Language Use, and Congressional Voting
- Creator
- Hemphill, Libby, Otterbacher, Jahna, Shapiro, Matthew A.
- Date
- 2012-12-20, 2012
- Description
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As Twitter becomes a more common means for officials to communicate with their constituents, it becomes more important that we understand just...
Show moreAs Twitter becomes a more common means for officials to communicate with their constituents, it becomes more important that we understand just how that communication relates to other political activities. Using data from 411 members of Congress' Twitter activity during the summer of 2011, we examine relationships among the resulting conversation networks, language use, and political behavior. The social networks that result from their communications have surprisingly low density and high diameter, indicating a level of independence that is surprising for a group so tightly connected offline. Our findings also indicate that officials frequently use Twitter to advertise their political positions and to provide information but rarely to request political action from their constituents or to recognize the good work of others. Our analysis suggests strong relationships between anti-social behaviors indicated by the loosely connected network and low incidence of pro-social conversations and polarized or extreme Congressional voting records.
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- Korea's Environmental Sustainability Leadership in East Asia and Beyond
- Creator
- Shapiro, Matthew A.
- Date
- 2013, 2009
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- Performance Addendum: Filing the Void: FINAL STUDIO BOARDS
- Creator
- Edwards, David
- Date
- 2012-04-24, 2012-05
- Description
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This project was done as a response to the thriving public performance community at the northern side of Grant park in Chicago, IL. As a...
Show moreThis project was done as a response to the thriving public performance community at the northern side of Grant park in Chicago, IL. As a former resident of the South Loop a rift was readily perceived between the North and South ends of the park in both venues for entertainment as well as general amenities. This project looked to fill a void on the south end of the park to create both a more welcoming outdoor space for the public but also to create a performance venue that could help bring business and pedestrian traffic to the southern end of the loop.
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- Title
- Jobsite Characteristics that Influence Improvised Decision-making on Construction Sites
- Creator
- Kleps, Stephen M., Menches, Cindy
- Date
- 2013-10-07, 2013-10-07
- Description
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This article examines the relationship between specific construction project characteristics and the degree and speed that the foremen are...
Show moreThis article examines the relationship between specific construction project characteristics and the degree and speed that the foremen are able to improvise in response to disruptive events on the jobsite. Specifically, characteristics such as the number of crew members working under the supervision of a foreman, the occupancy status of the project (i.e., occupied or unoccupied) during construction, the stage of completion of the project, and the levels of turbulence, time pressure, cooperation, collaboration, and organization, were examined. Using a multilevel regression modeling approach, an analysis of 244 disruptions reported by 50 foremen was conducted to determine whether the construction project characteristics could predict more or less improvisation and faster or slower improvisation by the foreman. The findings indicate that on construction projects that are rated by the foremen as more organized, the foremen can make more modest improvised decisions to resolve a disruption, but that on construction projects that were rated by the foremen as more collaborative (i.e., involved joint decision-making), a greater degree of improvisation was deployed. In addition, it was found that on sites that were rated by the foremen as more cooperative (i.e., involved greater willingness to help each other), the foremen required more time to improvise their decisions.
Sponsorship: National Science Foundation
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- Remixed: Reuse, Recycles, Mixed Use, Mixed Income: REMIXED FINAL BOOK
- Creator
- Hamburg, Michael
- Date
- 2012-05-04, 2012-05
- Description
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A mixed use, mixed income proposal for the Chicago south side, adaptively reusing shipping containers to keep construction costs low
- Title
- Performance Addendum: Filing the Void
- Creator
- Edwards, David
- Date
- 2012-04-24, 2012-05
- Description
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This project was done as a response to the thriving public performance community at the northern side of Grant park in Chicago, IL. As a...
Show moreThis project was done as a response to the thriving public performance community at the northern side of Grant park in Chicago, IL. As a former resident of the South Loop a rift was readily perceived between the North and South ends of the park in both venues for entertainment as well as general amenities. This project looked to fill a void on the south end of the park to create both a more welcoming outdoor space for the public but also to create a performance venue that could help bring business and pedestrian traffic to the southern end of the loop.
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- Title
- New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components:IMG_7336_EDIT_Crop"
- Creator
- Quinn, Aidan
- Date
- 2012-05-02, 2012-05
- Description
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This project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create...
Show moreThis project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create space that is defined by the user.
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- Challenge to the Pollution Haven Hypothesis: A Study of Northeast Asia and China
- Creator
- Shapiro, Matthew A.
- Date
- 2013, 2013
- Description
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This paper explores the phenomena of environmental coordination within Northeast Asia. I initially frame the discussion around claims that...
Show moreThis paper explores the phenomena of environmental coordination within Northeast Asia. I initially frame the discussion around claims that China is a pollution haven for its neighboring countries, and I look for evidence in the domestic and regional environmental institutions which challenge China’s pollution haven status. I find that that there is a science and technology-based epistemic community in Northeast Asia which provides an important theoretical response to counter the pollution haven hypothesis. As well, given its strong science and technological output, Japan is poised to assume leadership of the Northeast Asian environmental regime for at least the short- to medium-term.
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- Emotional reactions to variations in contract language
- Creator
- Menches, Cindy L., Dorn, Lawrence
- Date
- 2012-07-20, 2012-07-25
- Description
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This article introduces a theory of emotion-driven behavior in construction contracting and provides support for this theory by presenting the...
Show moreThis article introduces a theory of emotion-driven behavior in construction contracting and provides support for this theory by presenting the quantitative results of a study on the emotional reaction of individuals to the language in contract clauses. Four different versions of the standard Delay Clause found in most construction contracts were extracted from four different contracts and were presented to a group of 27 individuals. Participants rank ordered the clause versions from 1 (most negative) to 4 (most positive). Overall, Clause Version 2 was ranked as having the most negative contract language, with nearly 75% of the participants ranking it as most negative. In contrast, Clause Version 4 was ranked as having the most positive contract language, with over 50% of the participants ranking it as most positive. Participants likewise selected negative emotion words to describe their reaction to Clause Version 2 and positive emotion words to describe their reaction to Clause Version 4. The findings suggest that contract clauses that contain negative language do tend to generate negative emotional reactions while positive contract language do tend to generate positive emotional reactions.
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- Tweet Acts: How Constituents Lobby Congress via Twitter
- Creator
- Hemphill, Libby, Roback, Andrew
- Date
- 2014, 2014
- Description
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Twitter is increasingly becoming a medium through which constituents can lobby their elected representatives in Congress about issues that...
Show moreTwitter is increasingly becoming a medium through which constituents can lobby their elected representatives in Congress about issues that matter to them. Past research has focused on how citizens communicate with each other or how members of Congress (MOCs) use social media in general; our research examines how citizens communicate with MOCs. We contribute to existing literature through the careful examination of hundreds of citizen-authored tweets and the development of a categorization scheme to describe common strategies of lobbying on Twitter. Our findings show that contrary to past research that assumed citizens used Twitter to merely shout out their opinions on issues, citizens utilize a variety of sophisticated techniques to impact political outcomes.
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- IPRO 325: Bison Books
- Creator
- Chinzorig, Unubold, Johnson, Ashleigh, Kim, Hangyoung, Raymond, Lam, Lynch, Ryan, Popa, Ana, Rabindranath, Anjuli, Tejero, Carlos, Wade, Richard, Wagner, Zachery
- Date
- 2012-07-20, 2012-07-20
- Description
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Sponsorship: Bison Gear and Engineering
- Title
- Performance Addendum: Filing the Void: Upload to website
- Creator
- Edwards, David
- Date
- 2012-04-24, 2012-05
- Description
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This project was done as a response to the thriving public performance community at the northern side of Grant park in Chicago, IL. As a...
Show moreThis project was done as a response to the thriving public performance community at the northern side of Grant park in Chicago, IL. As a former resident of the South Loop a rift was readily perceived between the North and South ends of the park in both venues for entertainment as well as general amenities. This project looked to fill a void on the south end of the park to create both a more welcoming outdoor space for the public but also to create a performance venue that could help bring business and pedestrian traffic to the southern end of the loop.
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- Title
- New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components:IMG_7332_EDIT_Crop "
- Creator
- Quinn, Aidan
- Date
- 2012-05-02, 2012-05
- Description
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This project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create...
Show moreThis project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create space that is defined by the user.
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- Title
- New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components:IMG_7334_EDIT_Crop"
- Creator
- Quinn, Aidan
- Date
- 2012-05-02, 2012-05
- Description
-
This project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create...
Show moreThis project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create space that is defined by the user.
Show less
- Title
- Remixed: Reuse, Recycles, Mixed Use, Mixed Income
- Creator
- Hamburg, Michael
- Date
- 2012-05-04, 2012-05
- Description
-
A mixed use, mixed income proposal for the Chicago south side, adaptively reusing shipping containers to keep construction costs low
- Title
- Remixed: Reuse, Recycles, Mixed Use, Mixed Income: REMIXED FINAL BOARD
- Creator
- Hamburg, Michael
- Date
- 2012-05-04, 2012-05
- Description
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A mixed use, mixed income proposal for the Chicago south side, adaptively reusing shipping containers to keep construction costs low
- Title
- Doing What Others Do: Norms, Science, and Collective Action on Global Warming
- Creator
- Shapiro, Matthew A.
- Date
- 2013, 2013
- Description
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Does rhetoric highlighting social norms or mentioning science in a communication affect individuals’ beliefs about global warming and / or...
Show moreDoes rhetoric highlighting social norms or mentioning science in a communication affect individuals’ beliefs about global warming and / or willingness to take action? We draw from framing theory and collective-interest models of action to motivate hypotheses that are tested in two large web-based survey-experiments using convenience samples. Our results show that attitudes about global warming, support for policies that would reduce carbon emissions, and behavioral intentions to take voluntary action are strongly affected by norm-based and science-based interventions. This has implications for information campaigns targeting voluntary efforts to promote lifestyle changes that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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- New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components": Boards_4_A_4-25-12
- Creator
- Quinn, Aidan
- Date
- 2012-05-02, 2012-05
- Description
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This project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create...
Show moreThis project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create space that is defined by the user.
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