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Showing 1 to 20 of 342 for “"Crafts"”.
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Designer crafts practice in context
This research attempts to identify patterns of successful independent practice among contemporary visual arts practitioners for the purpose of increasing understanding of the structures of and activity within the visual arts in England. The intention is to draw conclusions regarding how such …
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Hydrodynamic behaviour of gliding hydrofoil crafts
… Unlike conventional planing hulls and hydrofoil crafts, the study of hydrodynamics of GHC has been overlooked. The present work aims to advance our understanding on hydrodynamics of GHC, both model tests and numerical investigations are presented. To study its hydrodynamic characteristics, model …
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Narrative structures in body related crafts objects
In a largely under-theorised subject area as the crafts, this practice-based research contributes to the knowledge and understanding of the body related crafts object at PhD level. It conceptualises the narrative methodology necessary to make the creative work and theoretically examines its …
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Integrated design of semi-displacement patrol crafts
Early stage ship design and assessment continues to be a challenge for naval architects and ocean engineers. The complex and multifaceted interactions between the different components of the ship and the broad spectrum of disciplines required in ship design make it difficult to fully realize the …
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A center for arts and crafts: Georgetown
… of art that we call poetry” Lois Sullivan Crafts are the integration of art and life. They bring together nature and man in the form of a usable object. Architecture may be named the ultimate craft endeavour for through building we create a work of art which is used by man. In the thesis …
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Mexican arts and crafts since the conquest of Cortes
… should familiarize himself with its arts and crafts, for it has been truly said that "art is the expression of life,"<sup>1</sup> and the whole Mexican civilization is inextricably interwoven with its arts.</p>It is the purpose of this thesis, not to exhaust the subject treated, but rather to …
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The meaning and use of arts and crafts activities
… of purposeful activity (specifically, arts and crafts) in their treatment. Sixty psychiatric patients from Belle Park Hospital, ranging in age from 12 to 75, were asked to complete a survey questionnaire concerning their attitudes about the arts and crafts groups they attended. This author …
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HANDMADE | CHINESE VILLAGE CULTURE AND CRAFTS IN DAKOU, CHINA
… but ignores the value of tradition and crafts. To protect and promote village traditions and financially benefit local people, architecture can establish a theme where people learn about craft-making and celebrate craft-related tradition. A craft-focused cultural center can be a first …
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A Suggested Crafts Program for Wenatchee Senior High School
… teaching methods and procedures in a sequential crafts program specifically designed to utilize analysis of student background and needs and to promote individual creativeness and aesthetic awareness.
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An Investigation of the Friedel-Crafts Condensation With Homoterpenyl Methyl Ketone.
In recent years many naturally occurring substances have acquired a great deal of attention, due primarily to their biological or synthetic values. -Pinene is the well known naturally occurring substance which is the main component in longleaf or slash pine tree oleoresin. a-Pinene and some of its …
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Brynmawr experiment 1928-1940 : Quaker values and arts and crafts principles
… aesthetic values of Quakerism and the Arts and Crafts Movement and explores the extent to which the guiding principles of the social witness project and the furniture making enterprise resemble those of the Arts and Crafts Movement of the inter-war years, 1919-1939. All aspects of the Quaker …
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Friedel-crafts acylation reactions using heterogeneous catalysts stimulated by microwave radiation
Ion exchanged zeolites, ion exchanged clays, sulphated zirconia and silica supported phosphotungstic acid were prepared. Characterisation of the catalysts using pyridine adsorption revealed the catalysts contained both Brønsted and Lewis acid sites. When the catalytic activities for the acylation …
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A report on a center of architectural crafts for Metropolitan Boston
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1935.
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The Green Dining Room: The Experience of an Arts and Crafts Interior
… artists who helped to inspire Britain’s Arts and Crafts movement through their products and their principles of art manufacture. It is adjoined by two other refreshment areas: one designed by James Gamble (a salaried employee of the museum) and the other by Edward Poynter (a promising young …
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ARTS and CRAFTS: Predictive Scaling for Request-Based Services in the Cloud
… manual task. To solve this problem, we present CRAFTS (Cloud Resource Anticipation For Timing Scaling), a system for automatically identifying application throughput and predictive scaling of cloud computing resources based on historical data. We also present ARTS (Automated Request Trace …
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The Arts and Crafts movement: exchanges between Greece and Britain (1876-1930)
… Britain and Greece as part of the Arts and Crafts Movement which took shape in England in the 1880s. It had an impact throughout Europe; its influence was especially significant on newly emergent nation states. Two important elements were the use of the past as inspiration for the creation …
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