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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"hearth"”.
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Toxic urbanism : hearth, heimatlosigkeit, home
… toxins had been part of our environment. The hearth, originally acted as both an object of environment and an object of culture. As we followed the flames into modernism we found ourselves in a state of homelessness explicated by the dichotomy between our technological culture and its toxic …
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Hawthorne's isolate and the holy hearth
One of the major themes throughout the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays an image of men and women who are physically and morally isolated from the world. So extensive was Hawthorne's interest in this problem that it emerges as a distinct concern in his philosophy. This thesis will discuss the …
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Constructing the Soviet Hearth: Home, Citizenship and Socialism in Russia, 1956--1964
This dissertation draws upon unpublished archival documents, newspapers and magazines, propaganda brochures and official handbooks, fiction, and memoirs. Many of the sources relate specifically to the city of Leningrad to provide a distinct local perspective.
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An instrument for the measurement of heat flux in the open hearth furnace
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1958.
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A treatise upon the Siemens Martin process of making steel upon the open hearth
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, 1872
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Martyrs at the Hearth: The Social-Religious Roles of Resistance Women During Nazi Germany
German resistance to Nazi oppression existed within the ranks of academe, the military, the working classes, and the established churches. The Catholic Church, under the leadership of Pope Pius XI, entered into a non-interference agreement with Hitler, but the Evangelical Church experienced a …
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Numerical model to simulate the Ti(C,N) protection layer in the blast furnace hearth
It is well understood that the erosion of the hearth refractories is by part a major limitation of the longevity of the blast furnace. Addition of titania via burdening or tuyere injection increases the titanium content in the molten pig iron and is believed to promote the so-called titanium-rich …
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Their feet grimed from the hearth : visual motifs in Aschenputtel, Catskin and Cap o’ Rushes
This study is based on the hypothesis that the concept of literary motifs logically includes the three subsets of textual motifs, visual motifs and oral motifs. This study has established the viability - the validity, practicality and usefulness - of a model of visual motifs for the analysis of …
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Establishing isokinetic flow for a plasma torch exhaust gas diagnostic for a plasma hearth furnace
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1996, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1996.
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Preliminary study of basic open-hearth slag characteristics and the correlation between them and the corresponding baths, A
Includes bibliographical references.
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Beginnings
… stone walls. It is the chimney that rises from a hearth. It is central to what was once home. It remains standing, a sight reaching across time to speak of home as a shelter, as a place for family, and hearth as a place to gather.Second is the idea of the core - the core as the life, the center, …
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House of Woven Space
… the original elements of architecture being the hearth, roof, mound and woven enclosure. Specific focus is given to the woven aspect of this theory, which is expounded upon in the wood structure and partitions of the house. The house exhibits the characteristic syntax of weaving with orthogonal …
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Processing factors contributing to growth and decline in the steel industry
… arc furnaces as compared to the basic open hearth. Additionally, continuous casting began to replace ingot casting. Iron ore price, scrap steel price and electricity price were examined as predictor variables for these technological shifts. For the furnace shift, iron ore price and scrap …
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The three hearths: Custom, church and state as colliding orders of time and space in Asmat, Indonesian Papua
… the Indonesian state, conceptualised as three ‘hearths’ around which people gather. In Asmat people’s heritage political order, people made their livelihoods from autonomous hunting, fishing, and sago processing in spatially dispersed kin groups. Inter-clan cooperation was highly prized but …
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Isolated Architecture: Finding Solidarity In Isolation
… include a main communal building, called the hearth, and a set of smaller individual structures, called shelters. These shelters will be located at different points throughout the site and provide an isolated, natural experience for self-reflection. The hearth will be the area for communal …
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A Study of the flow Performance of a Sodium Silicate Furnace
… of neutral sodium silicate glass in an open hearth regenerative furnace have been studied using a one tenth scale physical model. The constraints of similarity have been investigated and discussed, and the use of sodium liquor as a cold modelling solution has been developed. Methylene Blue …
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In the human past, is the perennial consumption of starch a deep or shallow phenomenon?
… remains and mixed plant food ‘recipes’ from two hearths (85 kya and 81 kya) at Blombos Cave represent a consistent subsistence strategy through climatic change, one hearth dating to a warm interglacial cycle and the other to a very cold glacial cycle; thirdly, that cooking and processing roots …
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Excavation and interpretation: 42Ws126, the Watchman Site, Zion National Park, Utah
… of aboveground and subsurface storage units and hearth features; no evidence for habitation was encountered. The architecture, ceramic, lithic, and ground stone assemblages indicate small-scale, short-term use of the site. Radiocarbon dates from charred material, the presence of both early and …
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Some Like It Hot: The Effect of Serving Temperature on Perceived Caloric Content and Intent to Purchase Complementary Food
… semantic associations regarding home and hearth - concepts captured by the phrase “homelike.” Specifically, hot foods and beverages are perceived to be labor of love and reminder of home (homelike) and thus hedonically pleasing. The reported studies replicate the serving temperature bias …
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A Series of Questions, a Joining of Parts
… natural ones, forming place focused around the hearth. This thesis traces the formal relationship between the elements of architecture stemming from the German thinker Gottfried Semper's treatise on architecture, but diverges from Semper's fixation with materiality and delves into questions of …
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