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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Potters"”.
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A multilateral design methodology for development contexts : a framework for the Dharavi potters
… and sustainable architecture. The Khumbar Wada potters' community in Dharavi, Mumbai will be utilized to illustrate the potential for multi lateral approaches to go beyond the rhetoric that has compromised the discussion of architecture and its relationship to development work. The design will …
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Income and harvest effects of alternative management policies on commercial crab potters in Virginia
In recent years, the blue crab fishery has become the main source of income for Virginia's watermen. This fact, along with growing concerns of overharvesting and uncertainty about the amount of effort in the fishery, has led to calls for more complete data on the fishery. This study examined the …
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The potters of Espiritu Santo : A socio-historical study of survival and loss of tradition
This dissertation looks at the traditional pottery of the Cumberland Peninsula on the island of Espiritu Santo in the context of its relationships with its makers, their history, traditional institutions and contact experiences, and also with other pottery in Vanuatu, in particular, the different …
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Technical choice in pottery production : a west Mexican example
… engineering techniques of ancient Mexican potters from the site of La Queseria in the Balsas depression of Guerrero. I used data from petrography, geologic maps, clays from the area, x-ray diffraction and mechanical testing to determine whether these potters were using different clays for …
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Pottery engineering in ancient Guerrero, Mexico : the site of Las Fundiciones
… Thus, this thesis seeks to show that potters at Las Fundiciones were engineering their pottery in their choices of materials and design processes. A selection of pottery sherds (representing different functional vessel types) from the site were petrographically analyzed, and nine clays …
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Sourcing the clay: Iron Age pottery production around Poole Harbour and the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, UK.
… with a specific focus on the clays selected by potters working between 700 BC and 100 BC. A typology of Iron Age Poole Harbour wares has been compiled, drawing together the range of forms found on sites across Dorset. A programme of fieldwork revealed that the landscape of Poole Harbour and the …
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Ancient engineering : selective ceramic processing in the Middle Balsas Region of Guerrero, Mexico
… into ancient pottery production has proven that potters can produce vessels with varying materials properties, such as thermal shock resistance and permeability. These properties are differentially useful for certain tasks, such as cooking or water-cooling. In certain cases, such as the use of …
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Variation in decorated Tusayan Gray Ware pottery at the Yamashita-3 site
… that mirror decisions made by individual potters. Evaluation of these characteristics will aid future researchers in identifying the degree to which manufacture of decorated Tusayan Gray Ware pottery was standardized in the Virgin region. The results of this analysis indicate that most …
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Situating the Pot and Potter: Ceramic Production and Use at the Silvercreek Sites, Two Early-Late Woodland Sites in Elgin County, Ontario
… as overlapping communities of practice, in which potters may have moved across the landscape and continued their craft traditions in new communities.
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Women, Art, and Community: A Proposal for a Non-Profit Pottery Program in Appalachia.
… impacts of pottery in the lives of women potters in the United States to make the case for a non-profit pottery program in Appalachia. The research covers the time period from the early 1900s to 2008 and employs scholarly journal articles, books, Web sites, and interviews to support the …
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Design of fuel efficient brick kiln for ceramic water filter firing in Ghana
… with the name Kosim filter by originating from Potters for Peace-Nicaragua, are heated using a generic kiln that is not attuned to the filters' current characteristics. The need for water filters is currently greatest in Northern Ghana, where more than one million people do not have access to …
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Safe water storage in Kenya's modified clay pot : standardization, tap design, and cost recovery
… working in conjunction with local women potters and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, modified these clay pots so that they fit the definition of designated safe storage water containers, which contain the following three characteristics: a narrow mouth, a lid, and a tap to …
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Health and water quality monitoring of Pure Home Water's ceramic filter dissemination in the northern region of Ghana
… Currently their main product is a pot-shaped Potters for Peace-type ceramic water filter, locally known as the Kosim filter. This study used household surveys and water quality testing to monitor the success of their filter program. This work builds upon the household surveys and water quality …
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The Political Economy of Ceramic Production in Barbados: From plantation industry to craft production
… open market relying on either free or enslaved potters. The third type involves the production by free potters of domestic and craft items for the local and tourist markets.</p>
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In the shade of coal: A micro-history of resettlement and the mining industry in Tete province, Mozambique, 2009-2018
… a range of issues, such as the group of potters displaced by the Vale mining company to initiate its mining activities, the cemetery constructed by the mining company in Cateme and the conflict around the exhumation of the bodies from the old cemetery. However, besides the resettled …
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Exploring the wireless sensor node tradespace within Structural Health Monitoring
… replace it. For example, as early as 6,500 BC, potters were known to listen for audible sounds during the cooling of their ceramics, signifying structural failure. In 1864 the UK parliament legislated for dam monitoring after a dam failure lead to the deaths of 254 people. The Golden Gate and …
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Additive manufacturing of non plastic porcelain material by direct writing and freeze casting.
… general. This new system will provide designers, potters, artists, craft makers and manufacturers with a flexible and automated way of manufacturing porcelain objects. One of the major challenges to be overcome to exploit the DWFC process is the development of suitable slurry material …
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The Emergence of Ceramic Roof Tiles in Archaic Greek Architecture
… modern ethnographic studies of tile makers and potters. Combining ethnographic and experimental data, the labor for fabricating a complete temple roof is estimated. In conclusion, the Protocorinthian tiles, though ostensibly complex, were produced with simple techniques that indicate no special …
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A comparative study of the writing and reading achievement of children, ages nine and ten, in Great Britain and the United States
… Mixed and Infants) School in Hertfordshire, Potters Bar, England. The American subjects consisted of 119 students from the Fayette County School System in Connersville, Indiana.The results of this study indicated: (1) a relationship was found between reading achievement when measured by the …
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