Design methodsDesign methods are procedures, techniques, aids, or tools for designing. They offer a number of different kinds of activities that a designer might use within an overall design process. Conventional procedures of design, such as drawing, can be regarded as design methods, but since the 1950s new procedures have been developed that are more usually grouped together under the name of "design methods". What design methods have in common is that they "are attempts to make public the hitherto private thinking of designers; to externalise the design process".
Random effects modelIn statistics, a random effects model, also called a variance components model, is a statistical model where the model parameters are random variables. It is a kind of hierarchical linear model, which assumes that the data being analysed are drawn from a hierarchy of different populations whose differences relate to that hierarchy. A random effects model is a special case of a mixed model.
Vis d'ArchimèdeLa vis d'Archimède, aussi appelée escargot, pompe à vis, ou encore vis sans fin, est un dispositif qu'Archimède aurait mis au point lors d'un voyage en Égypte, permettant aux habitants du bord du Nil d'arroser leurs terrains. Certains auteurs ont suggéré qu'il était déjà en usage en Assyrie plus tôt, notamment pour alimenter en eau les jardins suspendus de Babylone. Léonard de Vinci s'en est inspiré pour sa vis aérienne. Bien que proche des vis de fixation par le nom et l'apparence, son mode de fonctionnement la classe dans la famille des hélices.
