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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Kitchens"”.
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The left-over food problem in institutional kitchens
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Institution Administration, Division of Home Economics, 1932
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A study of the efficiency of food production in college kitchens
This study was planned (1) to !ind out the existing condition that make tor efficiency in food production in colleges enrolling twelve hundred students or less and (2) to work out a plan that would as nearly as possible meet the description of an ideal kitchen.
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Supportive Design Features in Kitchens and Bathrooms of Age-Restricted Retirement Community Homes
… live independently in their homes longer. Use of kitchens and bathrooms may present the greatest challenge and the greatest safety hazard and in order to remain independent, an older person must be able to use these rooms fully and safely. The purpose of this study was to determine what supportive …
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The effect of thermal plumes on the performance of ventilated ceilings in commercial kitchens
The efficiency of the exhaust system is especially emphasised with a ventilated ceiling system where the exhaust is located at ceiling level. The removal efficiency of the total system must be guaranteed and the spread of impurities throughout the kitchen should be prevented. At the moment, none of …
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Nervous Kitchens: Critical Readings of Black Women's Food Practices in The Soul Food Imaginary
Nervous Kitchens intervenes in the story of soul food by treating the kitchen as a central site of instability. These kitchens reveal and critique their importance to constructions of Black womanhood. Utilizing close readings of Black women’s culinary practices in popular televisual kitchens and …
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Examination of Universal Design in Kitchens and Bathrooms of the Housing and Urban Development Demonstration Program Elderly Cottage Housing Opportunity
Appropriate housing for the aging American population is a timely topic of research in both housing and gerontology. Universal design is an innovation in housing design that is gaining interest from both industries. This research examines the effectiveness of universal design features that have …
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Designing Cognitive-Friendly Kitchens: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Visual Accessibility and Adaptive Technology for Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment
Aging in place is a priority for many older adults, yet mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a transitional stage between normal aging and dementia, increasingly impairs instrumental activities of daily living such as meal preparation. Most kitchen designs prioritize aesthetics over cognitive …
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Cooking Together: Form & Function of Community Kitchen as Urban ‘Third Place’ Promoting Community Wellbeing
… back centuries and found globally, community kitchens are places where food is prepared en masse by community members to address local food insecurity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, community kitchens (re)gained prominence, offering essential nourishment as well as solace and community amidst …
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"It's the Resources": Work, Governance, and the Institutionalization of an Emergency Food Network
… organizations such as food pantries and soup kitchens constitute the emergency food network. Organizations in this network provide a critical source of food to millions of households each year. This dissertation examines how organizations in one city-level emergency food network acquire, …
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Total Surface Area in Indoor Environments
… and material of objects in five bedrooms, four kitchens, and three offices. Averaged over all types of rooms, the ratio of surface area with contents to that without contents was 1.7 ± 0.2 (mean ± standard error), and the ratio of volume of freely moving air to volume of the entire space was …
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Para que servem hoje nossas cozinhas? :uma análise de uso das cozinhas do Plano 100 (Natal-RN)
This work investigates the using of kitchens of the apartments of PLANO 100 in Natal-RN, through one method s set of the functional and behavior evaluation. The theme was selected through of the emergence of the many questions that sought to understand what manners how individuals relates to the …
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The Heat Is On: Variations among Male and Female Chefs
… in the kitchen as well as how they managed their kitchens as a whole. Female chefs tended to manage their kitchens more collaboratively, thus creating and fostering a less emotional environment. Lack of emotionality in the kitchen is valuable in order to keep the staff performing optimally and to …
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Describing Hunger-related Outcomes in a Community Kitchen located in the Pacific Northwest, United States
… (Harper, 2014; Lee et al., 2012). Community kitchens (CK) are self-help/mutual aid groups that aim to address issues of hunger by collective participation in the obtainment, preparation, and often consumption of food (Tarasuk & Reynolds, 1999, p.13). There is a paucity of research on …
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A description of the occupational safety of large-scale food service units in the Metropole region under the management of the Provincial Administration Western Cape
… a description of the occupational safety in kitchens of hospitals located in the Metropole Region of the Western Cape under the management of the Provincial Administration Western Cape is attempted.
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Dynamics of Symplectic Piecewise Affine Elliptic Rotation Maps on Tori
… and answer conjectures by Tresser, Adler and Kitchens. We also report an example of a period tripling cascade that arises from this system.
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Sustainable food procurement in public catering – comparison of the UK with Denmark & Sweden
… 2001 in increasing organic food in its public kitchens to 88% are difficult to compare with that of local authorities in other countries which measure organic food by value. The achievements of Sweden in increasing organic food in its public kitchens from 2.5% in 2004 to 38% in 2020 are …
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Beyond Racial Categorizing: The Influence of the Spanish Bodegón on Casta Painting
… of the bodegón, still-lifes that include kitchens, taverns, food and people, had on the development of genre-syle casta painting in New Spain. In setting apart the two types of casta painting, the register type and the genre type, I offer answers to the questions "what function did the use …
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The COOP : shared space infrastructure for the creative city
… urban mainstream suffers from a lack of space. Kitchens are too small to hold a gathering of friends. Spare bedrooms, garages, basements, offices and parlors are foregone in the interest of compaction. The Rise of the Creative Class, an economic engine with its roots in the city, faces an …
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Context in object and scene perception
… appear on streets with other vehicles, not in kitchens next to refrigerators. The present studies provide evidence that the semantic consistency of an object and its setting is available in a glimpse and affects perception. Objects are perceived more accurately in typical rather than atypical …
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What! Is This the Kitchen?: Domestic Advice and the Market for a Model Kitchen, 1841-1959
… in Moscow. As a corollary to exhibition kitchens, the thesis also examines Levittown, itself an internal model of American identity. These women were engaged in defining, sharing, and shaping the habitus of the middle class as it grew and coalesced into the largest bloc of the American …
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