Browsing by Subject "Planning"

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    Acute psychosocial stress enhances visuospatial in healthy males
    (SAGE Publications, 2013) Human, Robyn; Thomas, Kevin G F; Dreyer, Anna; Amod, Alysaa R; Wolf, Pedro S A; Jacobs, W Jake
    Previous research demonstrates that stress can disrupt a number of different cognitive systems, including verbal memory, working memory, and decision-making. Few previous studies have investigated relations between stress and visuospatial information processing, however, and none have examined relations among stress, visuospatial memory performance, and planning/ organisation of visuospatial information simultaneously. In total, 38 undergraduate males completed the copy trial of the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test. Those assigned randomly to the Stress group (n = 19) were then exposed to a laboratory-based psychosocial stressor; the others were exposed to an equivalent control condition. All then completed the delayed recall trial of the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test. Physiological and self-report measures of stress indicated that the induction manipulation was effective. Our predictions that control participants, relative to stressor-exposed participants, (a) take less time to complete the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test recall trial, (b) reproduce the figure more accurately on that trial, and (c) show better planning and more gestalt-based organisational strategies in creating that reproduction were disconfirmed. At recall, those with higher circulating cortisol levels (measured post-stress-induction) completed the drawing more accurately than those with lower circulating cortisol levels. Otherwise stated, the present data indicated that exposure to an acute psychosocial stressor enhanced visuospatial memory performance in healthy males. This data pattern is consistent with a previously proposed inverted U-shaped relationship between cortisol and cognition: Under this proposal, moderate levels of the hormone (as induced by the current manipulation) support optimal performance, whereas extremely high and extremely low levels impair performance.
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    An investigation of the traffic affecting the retail structure of the Claremont business centre
    (1968) Wood, Sydney Passmore
    Decentralisation of the cities throughout the world linked with the added mobility of the community due to the automobile has resulted in the phenomenal growth of the old satellite villages which were normally located at transportation nodes. To these new growth points must be added the true regional shopping centre set in the country and surrounded by its sea of parked vehicles. The regional centre has, as yet, not developed in South Africa but the phenomenon of decentralisation has stimulated the growth in certain of the old established local shopping areas surrounding the larger cities.
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    Land-use planning in the Liesbeeck-Black River confluence area: management recommendations and land-use alternatives
    (1994) Wesemann, Harald; Meadows, Mike
    This dissertation is the individual analysis and evaluation of the baseline information on the Liesbeeck-Black River Confluence Area (hereinafter referred to as Confluence Area) gathered by the 1993-1994 Environmental and Geographical Science (EN GEO) Master of Philosophy (MPhil) class (see Appendix A). This dissertation is submitted to the examiners for evaluation as a partial requirement for the MPhil degree in Environmental Science. The baseline report (hereinafter BLR) is titled "Environmental Baseline Study for Land-Use Decision-Making in the Liesbeeck and Black River Confluence Area" (ENGEO Master's Class, 1994). It contains a comprehensive description, as well as preliminary analysis, of all the environmental components (socioeconomic and biophysical) that could be of relevance to land-use planning in the area. The overall need for this study, which comprises the group BLR and the individual dissertations, arises out of the fact that the Confluence Area with its river systems, is part of a "green, open space corridor" that is under pressure from development in a city needing to densify and contain urban sprawl. There is thus potential conflict between development and other environmental considerations including that of open space retention for conservation and recreation purposes. The Cape Town City Council (CCC) suggested this study but is not a "client". The study on the Confluence Area is intended to be of use to the CCC to enhance their ability to make sound land-use decisions for the area in the best interests of society at large. The CCC is also involved in numerous planning studies for the proposed redevelopment of a large tract of land adjacent to the study area, called the Culemborg-Black River area (hereinafter C-BR), and this study can feed into the overall planning process. This individual dissertation provides the CCC planning process with recommendations and land-use alternatives for the Confluence Area. Since the BLR forms the basis of this dissertation, they should be read in conjunction with each other.
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    The LIFE TRIAD of emergency general surgery
    (2022-07-25) Coccolini, Federico; Sartelli, Massimo; Kluger, Yoram; Osipov, Aleksei; Cui, Yunfeng; Beka, Solomon G; Kirkpatrick, Andrew; Sall, Ibrahima; Moore, Ernest E; Biffl, Walter L; Litvin, Andrey; Pisano, Michele; Magnone, Stefano; Picetti, Edoardo; de Angelis, Nicola; Stahel, Philip; Ansaloni, Luca; Tan, Edward; Abu-Zidan, Fikri; Ceresoli, Marco; Hecker, Andreas; Chiara, Osvaldo; Sganga, Gabriele; Khokha, Vladimir; di Saverio, Salomone; Sakakushev, Boris; Campanelli, Giampiero; Fraga, Gustavo; Wani, Imtiaz; Broek, Richard t.; Cicuttin, Enrico; Cremonini, Camilla; Tartaglia, Dario; Soreide, Kjetil; Galante, Joseph; de Moya, Marc; Koike, Kaoru; De Simone, Belinda; Balogh, Zsolt; Amico, Francesco; Shelat, Vishal; Pikoulis, Emmanouil; Di Carlo, Isidoro; Bonavina, Luigi; Leppaniemi, Ari; Marzi, Ingo; Ivatury, Rao; Khan, Jim; Maier, Ronald V.; Hardcastle, Timothy C.; Isik, Arda; Podda, Mauro; Tolonen, Matti; Rasa, Kemal; Navsaria, Pradeep H.; Demetrashvili, Zaza; Tarasconi, Antonio; Carcoforo, Paolo; Sibilla, Maria G.; Baiocchi, Gian L.; Pararas, Nikolaos; Weber, Dieter; Chiarugi, Massimo; Catena, Fausto
    Emergency General Surgery (EGS) was identified as multidisciplinary surgery performed for traumatic and non-traumatic acute conditions during the same admission in the hospital by general emergency surgeons and other specialists. It is the most diffused surgical discipline in the world. To live and grow strong EGS necessitates three fundamental parts: emergency and elective continuous surgical practice, evidence generation through clinical registries and data accrual, and indications and guidelines production: the LIFE TRIAD.
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    Necropolis: burial & afterlives in Cape Town
    (2023) Maggs, Alexander; Papanicolaou, Stella
    Necropolis is a proposal for a public burial and memorial park in Cape Town for obliterated (cremated, aquamated etc) and bone remains. It explores an architecture for the final farewell to the body and spirit of the deceased, and for personal and collective remembrance. In contrast to other South African Cities, Cape Town is unique for the popularity of cremation, which accounted for 40% of recorded burials in 2019. Architectural responses however are often piecemeal. Burial places were once part of cities' symbolic centres, and mortality understood as an inevitable spiritual journey. During modernisation however, they were exiled to cities' peripheries, far from people's everyday lives. The chosen site is in Deer Park, at the edge of the City Bowl, through which runs a perennial stream linked to the city's historical centre. The Park has a varied heritage landscape which the design situates itself beside, together constituting a landscape of remembrance. The programme explores a secular spiritual and sacred response to burial, grief and memory. The architectural language explores a stereotomics of brick, stone and rubble in dialogue with the ground and Earth. The primary methodology is speculative design, through hand sketching, photographing, mapping, collaging, modelling, digital modelling and rendering. Design thinking is supported by a varied literature review: firstly a collection of Cape Town and colonial European burial histories and practices. Secondly, a phenomenology of the ground, geology, and stone and rubble building. Thirdly, precedent studies of sacred and burial architecture, supported by analysis through drawing.
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    The conservation worthiness of the environment of the Black and Liesbeeck River confluence area
    (1994) Tilanus, Edward Frank; Campbell; Heather
    This dissertation aims to interpret the environmental factors which will inform land use planning for the Liesbeek-Black River Confluence Area. It is in partial fulfilment of the academic requirements for a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) in Environmental Science through the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science (ENGEO) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). This document follows on from the Baseline Information Document (BID) produced by the 1994 Masters students and should be read in combination with that document. This dissertation uses the information provided in that document, and with the support of other materials and insights, draws conclusions for the most appropriate land use for the study area. A Statement of the Problem, the Aim, Approach and Philosophy adopted towards the Study Area in this Dissertation. The problem is perceived to be the substantial public objection to recent proposed developments in the study area. These objections have revolved around the method of disposal of State land, the fragmentation of public open space and the apparent disregard of the authorities for the natural historical legacy of the Cape Peninsula. The aim of the study is to demonstrate that the study area holds potential as a public amenity. This could be self-supporting and of benefit to future generations in the region and is therefore worthy of conservation. The approach adopted in this dissertation is that the study area is unsuitable for any use other than as a conservation and recreational reserve. This could prove its value in a substantially more populated and informed future Cape Town. Urban open space, which constitutes wildlife habitat, is required locally to meet increased human population habitation needs. This need is perceived to be global phenomenon. There is concern that the accumulated consequence of these local demands, will result in a profound negative effect on the Biosphere.