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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"woodworking"”.
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An Evaluation of an Experiment in Instruction in Junior High School Beginning Woodworking
… measure the effectiveness, based on fundamental woodworking knowledge gained, of a method of teaching junior high school woodworking through teacher-controlled projects.
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Two laboratory approaches for teaching basic woodworking technology to students in agricultural mechanics
… two laboratory approaches for teaching basic woodworking technology to students in agricultural mechanics. 2. To compare student performances of the two laboratory approaches both on the college level and on the high school level. PROCEDURES: The development phase of this study involved the …
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Issues in microenterprise employment, production and coping strategies in post-devaluation Dakar : the case of garment-making and woodworking firms
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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.infiltrate.destroy.rebuild
… is an infiltration into the world of craft, woodworking and joinery. The destruction of presupposed form and tectonics, and a rebuilding through the mind's eye and an obscured lens.
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Industrial Arts Education in North Dakota as Compared to National Recommendations for Secondary Industrial Arts Education
… in both the junior and senior high schools were woodworking and drafting, while the courses taught most infrequently were graphic arts, power mechanics, and electricity-electronics; the major teaching strengths of the majority of teachers were in the areas of woodworking and drafting. It was also …
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Comparative Case Study Analysis of Combustible Dust Explosions: Determining the Need for an OSHA Combustible Dust Standard
… exempt from the standard. An example would be a woodworking facility that is covered by NFPA 664, Standard for the Prevention of Fires and Explosions in Wood Processing and Woodworking Facilities. Special care would have to be taken by OSHA with regard to how combustible dust is defined, if the …
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Making Space for Daydreams
… and handcrafted approaches, including: woodworking, hand-cut paper, laser-cut illustration, motion capture, projection mapping and pencil drawings. The exhibition explores themes related to daydreaming, and the value of recognizing and building spaces that help make daydreaming possible. …
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Lean Manufacturing: Setup Time Reduction in Secondary Wood Manufacturing Facilities in North America
… wood products manufacturing facilities on four woodworking machines (moulder, shaper, table saw, and band saw) based on firm size. The first objective of this research is to explore the results of the implementation of set-up time reduction efforts on selected woodworking machines in enterprises …
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An Open Education Kindergarten Curriculum Guide
… block building, dramatic play, sand and water, woodworking, cooking and sewing, and movement. Successful implementation of learning centers in kindergarten appears to be a result of the implementing teacher's attitude toward open education. The attitude of openness is vital in order to …
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Ross Caudill MFA Sculpture 2006
… and epoxy resin, paint, the found object, woodworking, and mold making. This work is also conceptually based in showing the hand worked qualities of the materials, the transfer of meaning through casting, and my emotional relationship with the various parts of the sculptures. The three …
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The history of industrial arts in three selected Virginia public school divisions
… 1901, the classes were almost exclusively hand woodworking, and were taught at the secondary school level. In 1903, Richmond began offering manual training in its elementary schools. This program was first called industrial arts in 1921. Danville added industrial arts to its program of studies …
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Small-scale and Amenity Focused Forestry: Filling a Market Niche
… logging, arboriculture, landscaping, and woodworking. In addition, about 20 public-forest professionals were interviewed to determine how they and their programs are changing in response to emerging conditions. Successful service providers generally charge by some measure of time and …
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From Direct Carving to Récupération: The Art of Moustapha Dimé in Post-Independence Senegal 1974-1997
… Centre de Formation Artisanale in Dakar to study woodworking. He subsequently attended the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Senegal. By the time he reached middle age, Dimé was working in a style known in Senegal as récupération - in which found and acquired objects are assembled into a finished …
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An application of the flexible specialisation methodology to the furniture industry in the Western Cape
… a survey of FS case studies of the furniture/woodworking sector is presented. The next phase is a detailed perspective on the South African furniture industry given as a background to the empirical study which follows.
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Do-it-yourself devices : personal fabrication of custom electronic products
… DIY (do-it-yourself) activity, like knitting and woodworking, offer two kinds of value: the making process itself and using the resulting products in one's life. With electronics, the sophistication of modern devices makes it difficult to combine these values. Instead, when people make electronics …
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Alutiiq Engineering: The Mechanics and Design of Skeletal Technologies in Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago
… sea mammal harpoons, fishing harpoon tips, woodworking wedges, and awls. By employing multiple analytical scales, the study points to multiple design pathways toward a generalized goal of maximizing tool longevity, or circulation time. Tool fracture potential can be reduced through raw …
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An empirical test of the assumptions of processing invariance in laboratory studies of performance appraisal
… carpentry students performing four different woodworking tasks, and three teaching assistants giving brief lectures. Appraisal purpose was manipulated orthogonally by telling half of the subjects to form a general impression of the ratees’ performances (impression-set) and telling the other …
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The role of competing tasks, level of knowledge, and personal prototypes in performance appraisal
… of three carpenters performing four different woodworking tasks (sanding, sawing, hammering and staining) and completed a recognition and performance appraisal measure after observation. It was expected that subjects, regardless of their level of knowledge, with a competing task to perform …
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