Project Panorama - vistas on validated information

Internet has become the foremost information source for a large majority of people, young and old, in the Netherlands certainly not less than in other European countries. Search is a ubiquitous functionality available at any website. General search engines like Google, Yahoo! or Bing have become the primary tool for locating information for almost everybody. What you find (discover) in Google is immediately displayed (delivered) on your screen; a mechanism very unlike classical library practice. As a result a user-expectation of "instant satisfaction" of any information need has developed. Unfortunately, often these facts also trigger the general notion that no other information exists than what can be found by these search engines

Mediating urban politics

Despite the turn to relational vocabularies in urban theory, most work on urban politics acknowledging the importance of media has tended to reproduce a centred image of ‘the media’ and a functionalist account of mediation. This essay suggests, by contrast, that media might be understood more phenomenologically, as those technologies embedded in the dispersed practices of urban life, and as assemblages of integrative practices (i.e. ‘the media’), both of which identify and subject to action a range of issues that are problematized as ‘urban’. Such a focus on media-in-practices is an important shift in perspective for research hoping to bring together the shared political concerns of urban and media studies, and to take advantage of the converging spatial imaginations and reconfigured understandings of mediation emerging across both fields

A comparative study of contextual urban design approaches in the UK and DK

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Unusual Entropy of Adsorbed Methane on Zeolite-Templated Carbon

Methane adsorption at high pressures and across a wide range of temperatures was investigated on the surface of three porous carbon adsorbents with complementary structural properties. The measured adsorption equilibria were analyzed using a method that can accurately account for nonideal fluid properties and distinguish between absolute and excess quantities of adsorption, and that also allows the direct calculation of the thermodynamic potentials relevant to adsorption. On zeolite-templated carbon (ZTC), a material that exhibits extremely high surface area with optimal pore size and homogeneous structure, methane adsorption occurs with unusual thermodynamic properties that are greatly beneficial for deliverable gas storage: an enthalpy of adsorption that increases with site occupancy, and an unusually low entropy of the adsorbed phase. The origin of these properties is elucidated by comparison of the experimental results with a statistical mechanical model. The results indicate that temperature-dependent clustering (i.e., reduced configurations) of the adsorbed phase due to enhanced lateral interactions can account for the peculiarities of methane adsorbed on ZTC