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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Fireplace"”.
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A cold fireplace
… living and absent presence of my Dad. In A Cold Fireplace, I dream of a version of this house, one of broken chronology, where it is impossible to distinguish one year from another and time no longer separates the living from the dead. The show and writing titled A Cold Fireplace is centered …
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Analytical and experimental analysis of fireplace performance
A preliminary fireplace design to reduce particulate, carbon monoxide, and unburned hydrocarbon emissions has been fabricated and tested. Using a damper and glass pane, the design solves the problem of uncontrolled air entering the firebox. The pane reduces the inlet area and directs the flow of …
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Fireplace analysis for efficient fuel conversion as an auxiliary system for space heating
Existing fireplaces are extremely inefficient in fuel conversion and space heating capabilities. Simple modifications can be performed to improve the combustion efficiency of fireplaces to equal, if not exceed, those of existing fuel conversion devices. This study investigates ways in which the …
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Hotel and Conference Center for Foreign Dignitaries
… including entry, wall, stair, column, and fireplace is designed to comply with the collective composition. The circulation is situated along the building\'s edge, thus guiding people from center to edge across diagonals and through corridors naturally lit from adjacent windows. Drawing …
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A House For A River Rat
… is subdivided into nine squares, with a fireplace and chimney occupying the center and habitable spaces surrounding the periphery. Its foundation is of a concrete two way flat slab supported by concrete caissons, its walls are of reinforced concrete masonry units, and its floors and …
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Natural language and spatial reasoning
… commands such as "Go down the hall towards the fireplace in the living room." Understanding spatial language expressions is a challenging problem because linguistic expressions, themselves complex and ambiguous, must be connected to real-world objects and events. The system bridges the gap …
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Fairfax County Park Authority sports and recreational facility
… tall room and the low room, the room with the fireplace and the room without, all become great events in your mind. You begin to think, not what are the requirements, but rather what are the elements of architecture that you can employ to make an environment in which it is good to learn, good …
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The effectiveness of interpretation in reducing depreciative behavior in modern campgrounds
… in reducing the amount of litter left in the fireplace, the number of tree burns due to lanterns, and the number of incidents of inappropriate noise. There was some evidence also, that type of camping equipment, party type, and previous camping experience at the park were characteristics which …
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Rotary kiln incineration of hazardous wastes: pilot-scale studies at Louisiana State University
… Audubon Sugar Institute; burning of synthetic fireplace logs; study of incinerator stack gases; and determination of rates of fugitive emissions from flanges and valves. Economics of operation and maintenance of the facility are calculated, tabulated, and related to contract charges for …
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Integrating knowledge seeking into knowledge management models, frameworks, and strategies
… by means of sharing stories around the fireplace, passing down recipe books, teaching trade crafts to children and showing young adults how to hunt. This primitive version of KM was not described as an area of development or expertise within organisations until 1995 when Nonaka and …
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An Elemental Study in Conservation: A Ceramic Artists' Retreat on Virginia's Rappahannock River
… in the city of Richmond, VA has had at least one fireplace, and they are all bricked up. My current apartment has two chimneys, one in the living room and one in the bedroom, both of which have been long forgotten when the building was hooked up to gas heat. I look around the skyline of my …
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An Architecture of Belonging
As the placeless globalization is accelerating around the world and especially in China, places that have strong ties to the particularities of a locale are desirable destinations to escape the generic monotony of placeless urbanization. The thesis here stipulates that even in a placeless …