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Amebode, Adetoun Adedotun. "Strategies for economically sustainable resist dyeing industries in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/162155/.
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Nigerian textile and clothing industries is face with crisis under the pressure of influx of smuggled second-hand clothing and cheap and poor quality of Chinese textiles. The situation has resulted to closure of many textile industries and massive unemployment with inability of the few existing industries to compete favourably base on price. The study was carried out in Abeokuta among tie-dye/batik practitioners and consumers of tie-dye/batik products with the aim to examine the challenges facing the resist dyeing industries. The research method is divided into three: Theoretical- this involves using secondary data from books, journal, newspaper, and the web to gather background information; Statistical- this involves the use of questionnaire to gather primary data. The data collected was analysed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Scientist); and Visual- this entails the use of images to establish facts and make judgement on the basis of the facts discovered. The findings revealed that the challenges facing the practitioners are multi-facet ranging from poor educational status, lack of adequate training/re-training programmes, poor financial status, low customers’ patronage, poor management and marketing skill, lack of adequate and functional social amenities, low purchasing power of consumers who often buy on credit and pay on instalment (some don’t bother to pay their debt), increased competition from smugglers of second-hand clothing and imported Chinese textiles, poor/ no knowledge of information technology, low access to international/ overseas markets and minimal willingness to take risk. Consumers of tie-dye/batik are pertinent to the study. The findings from the consumers shows that about half of the consumers interviewed cannot afford to buy clothes monthly while slightly more than half buy clothes on credit and pay on instalment. The industry has being affected with change in taste of consumers, consequently one third of the consumers do not patronise tie-dye/batik fabrics. Consumers pointed out that tie-dye/batik fabrics are not colourfast and the designs are too common (frequently seen). Consumers also complained of poor customers services of the practitioners. Base on the findings, the study proposes holistic approach to the challenges. A sustainable model of five major pillars (Continuous innovation, Customer Relationship Management, Government Policy Support, Networking and Practitioners Personal Capacity Development) is proposed. Absence of any of the pillar will result to sustainability collapse of tie-dye/batik industry. Other model being proposed include establishment of an Export Centre with an effective and efficient two way communication model; EVIPI an acronym of English words to stimulate innovative entrepreneurial drive in niche marketing, a model for internal secondhand clothing to revisit the pass me down clothing culture among the Yoruba and a networking model to complement each other for development.
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Sisman, Osman. "Ethics For Industrial Design: An Ethico-political Critique Of Sustainability In Industrial Design." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606800/index.pdf.
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This thesis analyses the concept of sustainability as applied and reflected in industrial design practice in a theoretical way. The discourses on sustainability in general are explored in terms of ecology, economics and politics. The underlying motives resulting in unsustainable ways of production and consumption practices are attempted to be located in contemporary society.
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Kaygan, Harun. "Evaluation Of Products Through The Concept Of National Design: A Case Study On Art Decor Magazine." Thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607552/index.pdf.
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This study examines the ways in which the concept of 'national design'
informs evaluation of products and their designers, through the example of the field of industrial design in Turkey and the recently influential design magazine Art+Decor. For this purpose, first of all, '
evaluation'
is analyzed as a means in which meanings are imposed on products, and as a tool in struggles for positions and status within the field of industrial design. Then, the role of '
nationality'
in such a function of evaluation is investigated. Finally, a case study is provided, in which the employment of the concept of '
Turkish design'
in evaluation of products and designers is analyzed within the texts published in Art+Decor magazine between 2003 and 2005.
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Orsel, Imir Isik. "Progressive Obsolescence And Product Non-use In Electrical Kitchen Appliances." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611850/index.pdf.
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The aim of this study is to find out the reasons of progressive obsolescence and product non-use in small kitchen appliances and to examine the relation between the consumer&rsquos pre-purchase expectations and post-purchase experiences with these products to understand the deficiencies of kitchen appliances which cause consumer to stop using them. The reasons of progressive obsolescence and product non-use might be informative for further studies on this subject. Throughout the study, the general issues of need, want, purchase motivations, pre-purchase consumer expectations and post-purchase experience, satisfaction/dissatisfaction were discussed through the literature survey. Progressive obsolescence and product non-use were analysed both through literature survey and a field study which was conducted as in-depth-interviews among kitchen appliance users. It has been seen that progressive obsolescence and product non-use is mostly affected by usability of products, by the changing needs and changing life style and by the emerging of new technologies.
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Ergun, Selcen. "An Inquiry Into Product Design And Advertising As Mediators Of Consumer Identity." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606052/index.pdf.
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This study mainly investigates the roles of product design and advertising in conferring identity related meanings upon products and associating them with certain consumer identities. For this purpose, firstly, the concept of identity and increasing centrality of objects in its construction and expression are explored. Secondly, the nature and dynamics of the relationship between people and objects are discussed with a specific emphasis on the identity related aspects of this relationship. Then, a more detailed discussion is held on the roles played by product design and advertising in the process of identity construction through designed products. Finally, a case study on a selected product group is presented in order to illustrate the theoretical discussions in previous chapters.
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Santos, Ana Paula Silva dos. "O mapeamento da indústria criativa sergipana : sua relação com a propriedade intelectual." Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 2015. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/3405.
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Intellectual property is an instrument that ensures rights involving essential factors to protection of copyright, inventor, artist, patent, trademarks, etc. The World Intellectual Property Organization - WIPO (1975) defines as Intellectual Property, the sum of the rights to all creation to literary, artistic and scientific works. Adding to this information is a creative industry that involves the sectors related to creativity this fundamental factor to leverage the advancement of craft creation. The objective of this study was to map the Creative Industries Sergipana focusing on the craft and its relationship to intellectual property. Visits were carried out in some institutions such as the Brazilian Service of Support for Micro and Small Enterprises in Sergipe - SEBRAE, San Francisco of the Valleys Development Company and Parnaíba - CODEVASF, National Confederation of Artisans - CONSTRIART and Sergipe Program Handicraft Development - PROARTE, to obtain information about the groups of artisans in the state and acquiring contacts, and finally , there was the applicability of the questionnaire with the artisans of Aracaju and the interior of the Sergipe State. There was a significant potential of Sergipe artisans , especially in relation to creativity , however , these professionals do not have the knowledge about the Intellectual Property or on your copyright in favor to protect , enhance and stimulate craft productivity.A Propriedade Intelectual é um instrumento que garante direitos que envolvem fatores imprescindíveis à proteção dos direitos do autor, inventor, artistas, patente, marcas etc. A Organização Mundial da Propriedade Intelectual - OMPI (1975) -, define como Propriedade Intelectual a soma dos direitos relativos a toda criação de obras literárias, artísticas e científicas. Somando a estas informações, encontra-se a indústria criativa que envolve os setores relacionados à criatividade, fator este fundamental para alavancar o avanço da criação do artesanato. O objetivo deste estudo foi mapear a Indústria Criativa Sergipana enfocando o artesanato e sua relação com a Propriedade Intelectual. Foram realizadas visitas em algumas instituições como: Serviço de Apoio ás Micro e Pequenas Empresas Sergipe - SEBRAE, Companhia de Desenvolvimento dos Vales do São Francisco e do Parnaíba - CODEVASF, Confederação Nacional dos Artesãos - CONSTRIART e Programa Sergipano de Desenvolvimento do Artesanato - PROARTE, para obtenção de informações sobre os grupos de artesãos no Estado e aquisição de contatos, e por último, ocorreu à aplicabilidade do questionário com os artesãos de Aracaju e do interior do Estado sergipano. Observou-se um potencial significativo dos artesãos sergipanos, principalmente em relação à criatividade, entretanto, esses profissionais não contam com o conhecimento em relação à Propriedade Intelectual nem sobre os seus direitos autorais em prol de proteger, valorizar e estimular a produtividade do artesanato.
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Akin, Atif Ahmet. "An Examination Of Possible Contributions Of New Media Terms And Concepts To The Field Of Product Design." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606663/index.pdf.
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New media offer new ways for communication and production. This study aims to explore possible outcomes of the review of the new media literature for a contribution to the field of product design. Examining new media in a descriptive manner, the study presents its basic principles and characteristics. Relevant parts of new media and product design literature are reviewed in order to locate possible connections and/or exchanges between major concepts used in these fields. The two focal points of the study are the transformations that have taken place in (1) userproduct communication and (2) design and production media, resulting from the emergence of new media technologies.
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Summerton, Janet. "Designer crafts practice in context." Thesis, City University London, 1990. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7724/.
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This research attempts to identify patterns of successful independent practice among contemporary visual arts practitioners for the purpose of increasing understanding of the structures of and activity within the visual arts in England. The intention is to draw conclusions regarding how such practice can be facilitated and supported. It looks at a particular kind of practice in the area of design craft, and at the organisations charged with the responsibility for state provision, setting this critique in a context of a historical and social perspective. Much of recent conventional practice in the visual arts is considered to have a narrow view of what constitutes acceptable practice and is based on the gallery-based fine arts model. This model is a dubious base line from which to encourage a healthy range of independentpractice, and is of little use to the practitioners in this study, and others of similar intent. The practitioners encountered in this research might beconsidered applied artists, as they have a need to engage with a public during the processes of conception, creation and selling of their work. The patterns have been documented with the assistance of concepts regarding small business, particularly a subsector called micro business. Micro business has recently been identified to describe a pattern of activity which is not conducted for profit or with goals of expansion. The motivation behind micro business is to maintain self determination.
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Kane, Faith. "Designing nonwovens : craft and industrial perspectives." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2007. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/8073.
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Nonwovens form a significant and rapidly growing sector of the textiles industry. The nonwovens sector originally set out to provide economical alternatives to traditional textiles for functional product components such as interlinings and carpet backings. Through constant growth and development nonwovens are now considered as sophisticated engineered fabrics that economically meet specific functional needs. Since the 1970's, however, the potential to use nonwoven fabrics and technologies within design has been under consideration by textile researchers, textile artists and fashion and textile designers and makers. The resulting fabrics have found application in mass marketable products such as gift and flower wrap and as one-off designer products such as scarves. In comparison to traditional sectors of the textile industry such as woven textiles, however, in regard to design there seems to be little middle ground between these two production contexts. Further to this, the range of nonwoven technologies that have been explored by textile designers, makers and artists is relatively limited and focuses predominantly on the needle-punching method of manufacture to produce felt-like fabrics. This situation presents a potentially missed opportunity within the nonwovens sector of textile manufacture. The research presented in this thesis aims to identify and explore the undeveloped opportunities to design nonwoven materials from an aesthetic perspective using a specific range of production processes and materials. The work is set within the context of designer maker practice and as such considers both industrial and craft perspectives on the design and manufacture of nonwovens. In doing so the relationship between craft and industry within the sphere of nonwovens is brought into question and the opportunities and limitations of working as a designer maker within this sphere are explored. The development of textile products for niche, high-end markets is of growing importance within the European textiles industry. This research explores the potential to develop design-led nonwovens for high-end markets. The work was conducted using a practice led research approach which revolved around the development of innovative new fabrics suitable for high-end markets. The work focuses on the use of carding, needle-punching and thermal bonding technologies that utilize heat and pressure and subsequent decorative finishing processes including devore, embossing and laser cutting. The ability to design nonwoven fabric structures specifically for use in these processes formed a central part of the contribution to knowledge made within the work. In particular, the development of devore and laser techniques for nonwovens made from contrasting fibre layers or with decorative materials embedded within them. The fabrics produced evidence new design concepts within the sphere of nonwovens. The suitability of the designs for production within different manufacturing contexts was assessed through a series of interviews with nonwoven manufacturers and their suitability for the high-end markets was evaluated through a series of focus groups and interviews with textile and product designers. The qualitative nature of the analysis made provides a new perspective on the design value of nonwovens. The results of the research confirmed the aesthetic appeal of certain fabrics within the collections produced and their suitability for high-end markets. The findings identified key factors in regard to how value is attributed to nonwovens within this market and suggested that further research into developing high-value nonwovens is required. The work identified key issues that designers working with nonwoven technologies need to be aware of to enable designs that are relevant for commercialization to be developed.
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Evely, R. D. G. "Minoan crafts tools and techniques, an introduction /." Göteborg : P. Aström, 1993. http://books.google.com/books?id=7zJoAAAAMAAJ.
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Garci, Siham. "Culture matérielle et techniques artisanales, au Levant nord, au Bronze moyen (2000-1600 avant notre ère) : contacts et interactions entre différentes aires culturelles." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO20054.
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A travers notre étude, nous avons voulu mieux comprendre la nature, ainsi que l'impact, des contacts culturels entre le Levant nord (région comprise entre la côte syro-libanaise et la vallée de l’Oronte) et ses voisins au Bronze moyen. L'analyse d'une partie du mobilier céramique, métallique, rocheux, osseux et vitreux - issu d'une trentaine de sites archéologiques du Levant nord - a permis de mettre en évidence diverses influences iconographiques mais également technologiques provenant essentiellement de la région méditerranéenne (d'Egypte, d'Anatolie et du Monde égéen) et de Mésopotamie. La multiplication des échanges diplomatiques et commerciaux a rendu possible la circulation des biens et des personnes ainsi que la transmission de savoir-faire et de procédés techniques méconnus jusqu'alors des artisans levantins nord. Nous assistons à cette période à un véritable essor des artisanats tels que la métallurgie, la faïencerie et l'ivoirerieThis study aims to understand contacts, and their impacts, between North Levant (area situated between the syro-lebanese coast and the Oronte valley) and his neighbors during the Middle Bronze Age. The analysis of the ceramics, metallic productions, stone, bony and vitreous items - coming from thirty archaeological tells of North Levant - revealed various stylistic and technological cultural influences from Mediterranean's area (from Egypt, Anatolia and Aegean world) and Mesopotamia. The multiplication of diplomatic and commercial relationship promotes people and good's movement but also permits transmission of expertise and manufacturing process unknown by North Levantine craftsmen. This period is characterized by a real progress of metallurgy, faiences and ivory crafts
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Evely, R. D. G. "Minoan crafts tools and techniques : an introduction /." Jonsered : Paul Åström, 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/47104663.html.
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Telford, N. J. M. "Making stories : an investigation of personal brand narratives in the Scottish craft microenterprise sector." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21910.
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This thesis examines the marketing and branding behaviours of a sample of microbusinesses that operate in Scotland’s diverse craft sector by examining brand narratives they create. Context of the sector is first given and demonstrates that this particular topic has received little specific attention in academic literature even though it has been recommended (Fillis 2003a; Fillis 2003b). Such an investigation also offers implications for SME marketing/ entrepreneurship in general, the creative industries in particular and craft brands’ contribution to the overall place branding of Scotland. An empirical methodology is proposed which takes a narrative phenomenological approach, generating narrative texts from depth interviews with creative producers which is subjected to a Grounded Theory approach and narrative analysis in view of craft producer typologies (Fillis 1999; Fillis 2010). The stories of makers are used to generate meaning and outputs to contribute to theory, practice and recommendations for policy. Care is taken to ensure that the testimony of participants is co-created and not entirely the result of the researcher’s interpretation even though this study is interpretive in nature (Rae & Carswell 2000; McAdams 2008; MacLean et al. 2011). Similar to other entrepreneurs or producers in the creative industries, the craft worker in the current era is typified as an individual sole trader who operates in a wider culture, society and economy of increasing complexity and competition (Fraser 2013). This thesis selects those owner/ managers whose businesses rely upon craft practice and are operating in Scotland as its focus, but aims its findings at a wider reach to establish themes for future research to understand how its participants build value into their market offerings by creating personal narratives within larger narratives of craft sector and creative industries discourse. A range of participants from new starts to well-established craft practitioners is featured in the text in order to give depth and breadth to the understanding of current practice in a diverse sector which increasingly interacts with other creative industry sectors (Yair & Schwarz 2011). This thesis posits that creative producers build value through their unique ‘auratic’ persona through their personal brand narrative. This is what differentiates their work and outputs from large corporatized mass-manufacturing systems. The products of individuals’ hand skill may be categorised and classified in many ways – from fine contemporary craft to the vernacular, the utile and that which pays homage to others’ designs. What remains constant, however, is that it emanates from personal identity and the identity of the maker mixing self with story (Leslie 1998). The thesis contributes to the gap in academic marketing literature on microenterprise brand development using the topics of personal narrative, business development, product development, marketing competency/ orientation, and technology use in production and marketing. Additional emergent themes of Microenterprise Social Responsibility, the role of life-work balance of makers parenthood which further ideas of career management in the creative industries are also revealed in the course of this research (see also Summerton 1990; Burroughs 2002; Neilson & Rossiter 2008; McDowell & Christopherson 2009; Banks & Hesmondhalgh 2009). Methodologically, this thesis is hybrid but crucially uses the equipment of story and narrative analysis to offer both insights into practice for the academy and a method that practitioners can use to further marketing development and their brand identity. Through the careful gathering and presentation of various stories – of biography, making and marketing, this thesis presents a current view of craft as created, communicated and exchanged by those working in the field in Scotland today. These case stories act as both informative examples that demonstrate how individual producers create value in their work. The findings are consistent with - but also develop - a maker typology offered by Fillis (1999; 2010) and Burns et al. (2012) thus contributing a methodological and conceptual approach and framework to understand the marketing and branding behaviours of Scottish craft microenterprises (McAuley 1999; Creative and Cultural Skills 2009) but which may also be applied to other types of microenterprise.
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Hawkins, David James. "The trade manufacture and design of English blacksmithing in the post-War period." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2303.
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Blacksmithing has undergone a dramatic transformation in the last twenty five years. This study examines the changes and the context within which they have taken place. The effects upon the products of the blacksmith are considered through empirical research and practical work. The working methods and philosophies of blacksmiths representative of a continuity of traditions and innovatory practice are investigated through interviews and other approaches. From its origins as a rural and industrial craft, blacksmithing has emerged in the form of art-blacksmithing. Institutional and government intervention, new technologies and markets provide the context in which the ideologies and practices are examined. It is argued that these new blacksmiths are selfconscious designer-makers who are technically innovative, and commercially aware, operating successfully between and within the cultural and commercial arenas. In combining practical and decorative functionalism, and producing site-specific art work at a competitive price, artist blacksmiths successfully inhabit the worlds of art, industry, trade and craft, often simultaneously.
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Kornhauser, Daniel 1973. "Designing a craft computing environment for non-industrial settings." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62121.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-84).
This thesis studies the design and introduction of relevant computer-based design tools for non-industrial locations in developing settings. To this end, a programmable environment for combining motifs into patterns was developed named Estampa (Environment for Stamping Patterns). Estampa was developed for the community of Santa Clara del Cobre, a copper craft artisan town located Mexico, where they already used Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools for their craftwork. Estampa is a visual programming language environment for applying transformations to primitive motifs to create ornamental patterns. Estampa seeks to recreate the motifs and patterns in the Best Maugard drawing method, a drawing technique for creating authentic Mexican drawings. The design and implementation of Estampa seeks to fulfill the economic, cultural and artisanal requirements of this specific location. The evaluation of Estampa, through initial user trials in the community, presents other possible approaches for introducing programming in a relevant way to non-industrial locations in developing countries. Drawing from this example, a series of guidelines are presented for designing and introducing relevant computer-based applications for these communities.
by Daniel Kornhauser.
S.M.
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Borello, José Antonio. "From craft to flexibility: linkages and industrial governance systems in the development of a capital-goods industry in Mendoza, Argentina, 1895-1990." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37890.
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This thesis examines the development of a capital goods industry in Mendoza Argentina through an analysis of linkages and industrial governance systems. Linkages are material, informational, and financial flows among firms. Industrial governance systems are the social practices that cement linkages. Hence, linkages are understood as socially embedded and not as market transactions governed solely by price considerations.
The study has two major arguments. First, it claims that contrary to conventional industrial location theory firms do not locate in view of the previous existence of certain favorable factors, but rather construct these factors as they grow. This argument is operationalized by asking how firms generate in time their own linkages. Examples taken from the 1895-1990 period include labor and subcontractors, clientele, services, and the emergence of economic groups. Second, this study argues that the capital-goods industry in Mendoza is undergoing a Substantial (and unprecedented) transition in the way production is organized. The transition is part of the larger shift taking place at both the national and global scales. The analysis focuses on the historical pattern of linkages and governance systems in the industry, and contrasts that pattern with that of the recent decade.
Implicit in the previous two arguments are two territorial dimensions. First, the development of “industry produces regions" (Storper and Walker 1989). Second, at the intra-city level this means that the evolution of the industry (and specifically its linkage structure and governance systems) has a direct bearing on the direction and nature of the city’s growth.
These two arguments are illustrated through empirical work in Mendoza, a city of close to a million people in western Argentina. Over 100 interviews gathered over ten months reveal the origins, evolution, and current form of linkages in the capital-goods industry. These interviews are complemented by data from a variety of sources.
The main conclusions of the study are three. First, the study illustrates the richness and depth that emerges from a project based on substantial fieldwork. Second, it shows the advantages of conceiving industrialization not as the location of plants in response to favorable conditions, but as a process initiated by the firms themselves. Third, the dissertation shows that the capital-goods industry of Mendoza iS in a transitional phase towards new ways of organizing production. The transition is expressed in new linkage structures, new governance systems, and the emergence of new types of firms and institutional arrangements.Ph. D.
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Oh, Wonsun. "Craft versus industrial unions : union organization within the work place." Connect to resource, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1262877143.
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Connellan, Kathleen. "New craft in a Western Cape design identity." Thesis, Cape Technikon, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1309.
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Thesis (MTech (Interior Design))--Cape Technikon, Cape Town,1996This research project has endeavoured to analyse the extent to which craft ideas and techniques are combining with technological skills in order to formulate an identity for Western Cape furniture design. This identity has been shown to be strongly linked to the determinants of style". which include the national striving for a South African zeitgeist. a sense of unified spirit. The problems of eclecticism are discussed in the light of superficial ethnic cooption. The new craft of the Western Cape (and more specifically Cape Town) of South Africa. is represented against the background of the old craft of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain at the turn of the century. Those old methods and ideas influenced the Cape Colony especially when it was under British rule. This dissertation shows that the new craft ideas and methods are synonymous with the new ideology of South Africa. a new craft for a new South Africa. The designers and practical work selected to be part of this research all share a common approach in their positive attitude towards experimenting with new techniques and using available resources to produce quality furniture which is accessible to most consumers. The work of four design groups: Greenspace. Metropolis. Flying Cow and the Montebel70 Smithy are discussed in terms of the objectives of this research which are essentially linked to the unravelling of the determinants of style and their relation to the concept identity in the South Africa which has succeeded the first free and fair general elections of April 1994.
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Herrera, Alex J. "Craft Beer Expansion in the United States." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1279.
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For centuries the world’s biggest breweries, including Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors, have been producing America’s favorite beers like Budweiser and Coors Light. However, more recently smaller, craft breweries have seen significant expansion as a growing number of Americans are drinking craft beers. How has this recent trend affected the beer market in the United States? More specifically, how has the recent success of craft breweries affected Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors? I examine the economic factors that have led to craft beer’s success in a highly competitive market, and further, how this success has impacted Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors. My study reveals that the premier quality of craft beer has distinctively separated itself from the traditional American lagers, like Coors and Bud Light. Furthermore, as the United States has experienced economic growth, more and more Americans are choosing craft beers over these American lagers. In final, I examine and explain Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors’ recent multi-billion dollar investments into the craft beer industry.
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Thomason, Carmel Marie. "The artisan sector in English economic development : networks of provision in deadstock processing crafts, c.1600-1850." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/7f89d633-7865-430a-8ba0-fc1a562469a9.
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Demircan, Deger. "Craft Culture As The Source Of Inspiration For Industrial Design In Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606698/index.pdf.
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It is widely known that Turkey has a great amount of data of traditions and cultures
on its broad land. By the effects of different dynamics in the 20th century, many
craftsmanship and mastery as parts of traditional culture have been transforming
day by day. Throughout that transformation period, some traditional craft products
could find alternative methods to survive although some others did not.
Craft products have been searched by social anthropology since they are members
of material culture of humankind for a long time. It can be said that most
contemporary objects are transformed versions of older ones in the history.
However, all the products today are continuously transforming by the effects of
different factors. There still are craft objects and craftsmanship in the market.
Traditional craft products, in Turkey, have been transforming by the effects of
technology, change in social conditions and marketing issues and designer&rsquos initiative as well. Industrialization directly has effected craft production to weaken but some alternative methods are found to provide revival of these professions and objects. This study examined transformation in craft objects focusing on the existing scene of traditional products in Turkish market. Data about craft culture is collected through observations and interviews with craftsmen considering existing craft products in the market. Examples of craft objects and objects designed by getting inspired from craft culture are classified in the chart constituting a schema for the methods for transformation of craft objects. Dynamic factors affecting the transformation process of craft objects are discussed. The need for the revival of traditional culture via design and reasons to do so are explained. In the thesis, it is claimed that one of the agents of traditional product&rsquo
s transformation is the designer&rsquo
s attitude. Designer can determine the method for the transformation of traditional products. So, for the revival of craft culture in the next generations, the essence of traditional culture behind the traditional products can be re-used in industrial design. While searching for the convenient methods of transformation of traditional products, designers&rsquo
opinions about craft culture and reusing information of culture and tradition in design are searched through a questionnaire. Possible methods for the revival of craft culture through design are examined.
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Barringer, Michelle L. K. "An analysis of the need for product development training in cultural craft micro-enterprise projects." Online access for everyone, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Summer2008/M_Barringer_070808.pdf.
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Martello, Robert 1968. "Paul Revere's metallurgical ride : craft and proto-industry in early America." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109637.
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Stirk, Jean Valrie. "Industrial relations in a craft trade : the original society of papermakers 1800-1948." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299827.
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PARODI, LUCA. "Design & Crafts in Italia: l'altra origine degli oggetti. Gli scenari futuri dell'handmade. Tra artigianato, industria e Made in Italy." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Genova, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11567/1091898.
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La ricerca, un viaggio tutto italiano intorno alla relazione contemporanea tra design e handmade, vuole essere il risultato di una condivisione di intenti e contributi incrociati che ha permesso di costruire attorno ad un ambito importante quale la disciplina del design, una linea di pensiero trasmissibile e aperta ad ulteriori sviluppi, con l’obiettivo di proporre una possibile analisi del panorama attuale mettendo a sistema una selezione ragionata di autori e progetti che, negli ultimi dieci anni, hanno lasciato una traccia significativa anche a livello internazionale, riconducibili ad un fenomeno-movimento identificato come Design & Crafts. Un lavoro coinvolgente, che ha avuto come premessa alcune considerazioni circa il sistema del design italiano, la relazione tra artigianato e industria del secolo scorso, il ruolo della cultura manifatturiera e lo sconfinamento che sta segnando la diffusione di una tendenza pronta a tracciare traiettorie alternative del design Made in Italy. Tali valutazioni sono basate sull’esistenza di un nuovo tipo di percorso, parallelo all’industrial design, che appare assolutamente contemporaneo e frutto di trasformazioni concettuali e formali in sintonia con la cultura internazionale.
La ricognizione prende il via da una indagine attorno all’allargamento di campo di cui è stato protagonista negli ultimi dieci anni il mondo del progetto, e alla conseguente evoluzione della figura del designer, nel tentativo di capire come è cambiato, e sta cambiando, l’approccio alla progettazione degli oggetti.
Il fenomeno è ancora in fieri, e anche se provare a sintetizzare lo svolgersi di un’operazione che si ha ancora sotto gli occhi può risultare un’impresa rischiosa, o peggio presuntuosa, il volume intende offrire un aggiornamento del significato e del ruolo dell’artigianato italiano e individua il filo rosso che lo lega al sistema del design contemporaneo. Lo scenario preso in considerazione viene descritto attraverso un’interessante operazione di mappatura che coinvolge la generazione dei progettisti under 40. I protagonisti vengono individuati con l’obiettivo di mettere a sistema i lavori e le opere che si sono riappropriati di quel settore tecnico e pratico fondato sull’uso colto dei materiali, sullo sviluppo delle relazioni tattili e sulla valorizzazione delle abilità manuali che rappresentano il fiore all’occhiello dell’eccellenza italiana. La campionatura prende forma grazie al contributo di alcuni curatori ed esperti di design, abili osservatori e interpreti dei cambiamenti in atto.The research, an all-Italian journey around the contemporary relationship between design and handmade, is intended to be the result of a sharing of intents and cross-contributions that has made it possible to build around an important field such as the discipline of design, a line of thought that is transmissible and open to further development, with the aim of proposing a possible analysis of the current panorama by systematizing a reasoned selection of authors and projects that, in the last ten years, have left a significant trace also at the international level, traceable to a phenomenon-movement identified as Design & Crafts. An engaging work, whose premise was some considerations about the Italian design system, the relationship between craftsmanship and industry in the last century, the role of manufacturing culture and the encroachment that is marking the spread of a trend ready to trace alternative trajectories of Made in Italy design. These assessments are based on the existence of a new type of path, parallel to industrial design, which appears to be absolutely contemporary and the result of conceptual and formal transformations in tune with international culture. The reconnaissance begins with an investigation around the widening of the field in which the design world has been protagonist in the last decade, and the consequent evolution of the figure of the designer, in an attempt to understand how the approach to the design of objects has changed, and is changing. The phenomenon is still a work in progress, and although trying to summarize the unfolding of an operation that is still in front of one's eyes may be a risky undertaking, or worse presumptuous, the volume intends to offer an update of the meaning and role of Italian craftsmanship and identifies the red thread that binds it to the contemporary design system. The scenario considered is described through an interesting mapping operation involving the generation of designers under 40. The protagonists are identified with the aim of systemizing the works and works that have reappropriated that technical and practical field founded on the cultured use of materials, the development of tactile relations and the enhancement of manual skills that represent the flagship of Italian excellence. The sampling takes shape thanks to the contributions of a number of curators and design experts, skilled observers and interpreters of the changes taking place.
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Canonico, Laura. "Mixed fermentations, yeast interactions and metabolites production in industrial fermentations." Doctoral thesis, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11566/243078.
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae è il lievito principalmente utilizzato nella produzione di bevande fermentate come vino e birra. È in questo contesto che si sono sviluppate colture starter selezionate di ceppi di S. cerevisiae da impiegare in questi settori.
Negli ultimi anni però la ricerca, soprattutto in campo enologico, si è concentrata sull’utilizzo di fermentazioni multistarter controllate di lieviti non-Saccharomyces e ceppi di S.cerevisiae, con l’obiettivo di ottenere prodotti caratterizzati da maggiore complessità e caratteristiche sensoriali peculiari. Per tale motivo, la presente ricerca si è incentrata sullo studio di fermentazioni miste e di interazioni tra diverse specie di lievito non-Saccharomyces e S. cerevisiae in due diverse bevande alcoliche: birra artigianale e vino.
Nella prima parte della tesi è stata effettuata una caratterizzazione molecolare di 28 ceppi di Torulaspora delbrueckii, isolati da matrici naturali provenienti da diverse aree geografiche (Italia e Camerun), utilizzando differenti metodi molecolari: RAPD-PCR (Random Amplification of Polymorphic DNA), la PCR-fingerprinting con i minisatellites SED1, AGA1, DAN4 e nuovi primers per T. delbrueckii (Td)PIR disegnati in questo laboratorio, e i microsatelliti (GAC)5 and (GTG)5. L’obiettivo del lavoro è quello di utilizzare una nuova coppia di primers (Td)PIR disegnati su sequenze geniche codificanti per proteine di parete (CWPs) per effettuare una tipizzazione di ceppi di T. delbrueckii. L’utilizzo della PCR fingerprinting con il primer TdPIR3 proposto in questo lavoro ha mostrato un’alta efficienza e un alto potere discriminatorio se confrontati con il metodo RAPD e i microsatelliti, il che li rende particolarmente utili per la tipizzazione molecolare di T. delbrueckii.
La seconda parte della ricerca è volta a migliorare la qualità della birra artigianale. In particolar modo si sono studiate la dominanza e l’influenza di ceppi selezionati di S. cerevisiae sul profilo analitico di birra artigianale dopo rifermentazione in bottiglia e l’impiego di ceppi di T. delbrueckii in fermentazioni miste per conferire un particolare “bioflavour” al prodotto finito. I risultati ottenuti hanno mostrato come l’impiego di ceppi selezionati di S. cerevisiae nel processo di rifermentazione e le fermentazioni miste (S. cerevisiae / non- Saccharomyces) abbiano effetto sul profilo aromatico della birra e possano quindi essere impiegati per produrre caratteristici bioflavours.
Nella terza parte sono stati valutati il comportamento fermentativo di diversi ceppi non-Saccharomyces appartenenti ai generi (Candida, Metschnikowia, Torulaspora, Starmerella), e ceppi di S. cerevisiae in condizioni aerobiche e anaerobiche e differenti modalità fermentative con lo scopo di ridurre il contenuto alcolico nei vini. Fermentazioni condotte con lieviti non-Saccharomyces in condizioni aerobiche ed anaerobiche hanno mostrato differenze nella cinetica fermentativa, produzione di biomassa ed etanolo e rendimento. Inoltre, sono state condotte fermentazioni sequenziali, utilizzando cellule di lievito non-Saccharomyces appartenenti al genere Starmerella, Hanseniaspora, Candida, Metschnikowia in forma immobilizzata e un ceppo starter di S. cerevisiae su mosto sintetico e naturale. I risultati hanno mostrato che l’obiettivo di ridurre il contenuto di etanolo di circa 2% è raggiungibile, e che differenti condizioni fermentative hanno influenza sul comportamento di differenti lieviti.
La quarta e ultima parte è stata rivolta allo studio delle fermentazioni multistarter vinarie, andando a studiare la cinetica di crescita, il profilo analitico e aromatico dei vini. Sono state quindi selezionate diverse coppie di ceppi di S.cerevisiae e non-Saccharomyces e si è studiata la loro interazione sia su mosto Verdicchio che su Montepulciano. I risultati ottenuti hanno mostrato prodotti con differenti caratteristiche analitiche e sensoriali da quelli ottenuti in fermentazioni pure con l’utilizzo di ceppi di S. cereviaiae del commercio.The Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast is widely used in the production of fermented beverages such as wine and beer. In this context, selected cultures of S. cerevisiae have developed to be used in these fermentation industries. However, in recent years, the research in winemaking was focused on use of controlled multistarter fermentations by selected cultures of non-Saccharomyces and S. cerevisiae strains, with the aim to obtain products characterized by a more complexity and peculiar sensory characteristics. In this context the present research focused on mixed fermentation and yeast interactions of different non-Saccharomyces yeasts species and S. cerevisiae strains in two different alcoholic beverages: craft beer and wine. In the first part of the thesis has been carried out a molecular characterization of 28 Torulaspora delbrueckii strains, isolated from various natural matrices coming from different environments (Italy and Cameroon), using different PCR-fingerprinting molecular methods: random amplified polymorphic DNA with polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR), minisatellites SED1, AGA1, DAN4 and the newly designed T. delbrueckii (Td)PIR, and microsatellites (GAC)5 and (GTG)5. In this work we found new specific primers pairs (Td)PIR, designed on gene sequence of PIR coding for cell-wall proteins (CWPs), for T. delbrueckii typing. TdPIR3 minisatellite fingerprinting approach proposed in this work, showed high efficacy and discrimination power when compared with RAPD and microsatellites methods, making it particularly useful to T. delbrueckii molecular typing. The second part of the research was focused on the improvement of quality of craft beer. In particular, we have investigated on the dominance and influence of selected S. cerevisiae strains on the analytical profile of craft beer after bottle refermentation and the use of T. delbrueckii selected strains in mixed fermentations to give a peculiar "bioflavour" to the final product. The results showed that selected S. cerevisiae in the refermention process and mixed fermentation (S. cerevisiae / non-Saccharomyces) affected the aromatic composition of beer and could be used to generate distinctive bioflavour. In the third part, we evaluated the behavior of different non-Saccharomyces genera (Candida, Metschnikowia, Torulaspora, Starmerella), and several strains of S. cerevisiae in aerobic and anaerobic condition and different fermentation modalities with the aim to reduce the alcohol content in wine. Non-Saccharomyces yeasts fermentation trials carried out in aerobic and anaerobic condition showed differences in fermentation kinetic, biomass and ethanol production and ethanol yield. Moreover, sequential fermentations using immobilized cells of some non-Saccharomyces yeast strains belonging to Starmerella, Hanseniaspora, Candida, Metschnikowia genera and S. cerevisiae starter strain on synthetic and natural grape juice were carried out. Results showed that the aim to reduce the ethanol concentration of about 2% is attainable, and the different fermentation conditions have effected on the behavior of different yeasts. In the fourth and final part of the study we focused on multistarter fermentations in wine, with the aim to study the kinetics growth, the analytical and aromatic profile of wines. Then were selected different pairs of S. cerevisiae and non-Saccharomyces strains and we studied their interactions on Verdicchio and Montepulciano grape juice. The results showed wines with different analytical and sensorial profiles in comparison with wines obtained with pure fermentation using S. cerevisae commercial starter strains.
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Mohammad, Asif M. "Modeling and controls for a laser glass cutting machine workcell robot." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2003. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2872.
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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2003.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 116 p. : ill. (some col.). Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-103).
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Lyddon, Dave. "Craft unionism and industrial change : a study of the National Union of Vehicle Builders until 1939." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1987. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/67116/.
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This thesis is about how the members of a long-established multi-craft union, originating in the coachmaking trade, coped with the massive changes in the means of transport, culminating in the dominance of mass production motor car firms. Part I explores changes in the nineteenth and early twentieth century with the rise of railways and motor cars. In both, some coachmaking skills were made redundant, while others were very necessary. The rise of the motor industry, far from destroying coachmaking unionism, wrenched it out of a long period of stagnation. Part II focusses on the interwar period, which witnessed major changes in car body production. Brush painting and varnishing was. replaced by cellulose spraying; wooden framed bodies were replaced by all-steel ones; assembly lines came into use, and the division of labour greatly increased, with large numbers of semi-skilled workers employed in the biggest firms. Analysis of the main technical changes, and the changing state of the car industry, shows that, despite massive unemployment among its members, and a membership decline of over one third, in the early 1930s, the RUVB did not suffer "technological unemployment". Although there was a material basis for craft unionism in much of the car body industry in the 1920s, and in the rest of vehicle building during the whole interwar period, the union still tried to organise semi-skilled workers. But when an "Industrial Section" was created in 1931, it was a response to the union's financial crisis caused by unemployment payments, and no serious recruitment of mass production operatives took place. The contrasting experiences in Coventry and Oxford in the 1920s and 1930s are analysed in detail. The study is not a conventional head office-based union history, instead favouring case studies of the organisation of work, technical developments, industrial structure, and local union organisation.
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Sekaringtyas, Pembayun. "Knowledge Dynamics in Indonesian Cultural Industries : The case of Kasongan pottery cluster and Kotagede silver craft cluster in Yogyakarta Region." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-113881.
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This paper explored the knowledge dynamics of cultural industries in Yogyakarta Region. The aims of this paper are to explain how local knowledge is circulated and how new elements are added, as well as to find out how different kinds of knowledge are anchored. This thesis contributes to fill the gap of the lack of research conducted to explain knowledge dynamics in the context of Indonesian cultural industries. Cultural industries have been increasingly considered important towards economic development, whereas territorial knowledge dynamics (TKD) is considered as an update of the traditional territorial innovation models (TIM). The empirical part of this paper contains data collected from interviews with the representatives of sixteen firms, five government institutions, three local trade associations, one local youth organisation and one non-governmental organisation. The finding reveals that direct observation, face-to-face contact, and local buzz are important towards the circulation of local knowledge within the clusters. Different kinds of innovations were also found, involving multidimensional aspects at micro-levels. In a few cases, innovation was influenced by the presence of global pipelines. Knowledge anchoring happened in a complex process and involved a number of actors in multiple locations and scales. This thesis argues that policy makers should increasingly incorporate the concept of territorial knowledge dynamics (TKD) in the development of Indonesian cultural industries.
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Warren, Joel Christian. "Structural Design Solver Development for Overhead Industrial Cranes: Equations-Of-State Solver Method." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1328021324.
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Nguyen-Quy, Nghi. "La reconfiguration des districts industriels au Vietnam : du monde local au monde global, une analyse sociologique des mutations d'un village de métier." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009LYO20045/document.
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Cette recherche doctorale porte sur les mutations diverses qui s’opèrent aujourd’hui à Bat Trang, un village de métier au Vietnam. Comme d’autres économies en transition, le Vietnam est entré dans une phase de transition, marquée par son ouverture à l’économie internationale et son inscription au marché mondial. Dans ce contexte, nous cherchons à comprendre les mutations induites lors du passage d’une économie planifiée à une économie de marché et à montrer la spécificité de l’agglomération industrielle du district de Bat Trang. Pour ce faire, il convient d’étudier la dynamique sociale des acteurs politiques, économiques, institutionnels et sociaux qui forment la configuration de Bat Trang. La reconstitution de l’évolution des relations articulées entre ces acteurs permettra d’éclairer les mutations de Bat Trang. En suivant une approche socio-anthropologique et en nous référant à la théorie des districts industriels, nous avons procédé à une analyse approfondie de la mutation de Bat Trang sur la dimension tant politique qu’organisationnelle. Le village de métier de Bat Trang constitue un véritable modèle de transition portant des ruptures et des continuités par rapport à son système antérieur. A l’aide de la théorie sociologique de Norbet Elias, nous avons reconstitué le jeu entre les différents acteurs (sociaux, économiques et institutionnels) qui structurent le développement de Bat Trang, en montrant la dynamique de leur interaction constante. À travers l’étude de Bat Trang, nous avons aussi mesuré l’originalité d’une forme d’agglomération industrielle au Vietnam. Pour nous, Bat Trang, c’est tout d’abord une zone traditionnelle qui a su s’appuyer sur son savoir-faire et son organisation traditionnelle ; qui a su surmonter ses handicaps pour promouvoir l’adaptation de toutes ses activités. Bien qu’il existe très peu d’aides des autorités locales, les entreprises de la zone sont en train d’opérer une conversion de leur technologie par un remplacement (des fours à charbon par des fours à gaz) ou une adaptation (invention de nouveaux fours à gaz). Les nouveaux acteurs introduits dans le système (club, association) ont pour tâche principale de fournir une assistance aux entreprises qui peuvent ainsi créer de nouvelles filières d’activités et trouver de nouveaux débouchés de commercialisation. Bat Trang constitue également une zone en cours d’institutionnalisation qui se manifeste par la création de la zone industrielle et d’un centre de formation professionnelle. La transformation profonde de Bat Trang amène les artisans à se tourner vers une production plus industrialisée. Au cours des dernières années, la zone de Bat Trang a reçu, à l’évidence, un appui important des autorités locales, qui ont lancé des actions de politique locale. Nous avons également pris en compte des nouveaux phénomènes qui exercent une certaine influence, négative ou positive, sur le développement de la zone de Bat Trang : délocalisation des activités, faible capacité d’innovation du district, les liens avec la R&D, marketing etc. Pour résoudre les problèmes auxquels la zone est confrontée aujourd’hui, il faudrait une mobilisation des ressources internes et externes pour développer une synergie localeThis doctoral research focuses on the various changes taking place today in Bat Trang, a craft village in Vietnam. Like other transition economies, Vietnam is entering the transition period, marking its openness to international economy and its entry in the global market. In this context, we seek to understand the changes induced during the transition from a planned economy to a market one and to show the specificity of industrial district Bat Trang. To do this, it is necessary to study the social dynamics of political, economic, institutional and social settings that shape the Bat Trang. The reconstruction of the evolving relationship between these articulated actors will illuminate the changes in Bat Trang. Following a socio-anthropological approach and referring to the theory of industrial districts, we were able to carry out a thorough analysis on the mutation of Bat Trang on both political and organizational dimension. The craft village Bat Trang really constitutes a model of transition having the discontinuities and continuities from its old system. With the help of sociological theory of Norbet Elias, we were able to reconstruct the interplay between different actors (social, economic and institutional) that structure the development of Bat Trang, showing dynamics of their interaction. Through our study in Bat Trang, we could also measure the originality of a form of industrial agglomeration in Vietnam. For us, firstly, Bat Trang is a traditional area where people know how to mobilize its expertise and its traditional organization; to overcome its handicaps and to promote an adaptation of its activities. Although there is very little help from the local authority, the firms are in the process of making a technological conversion by either a replacement (from coal-fired kilns to Liquid Petroleum Gas kilns - LPG kilns) or an adaptation (invention new LPG kiln). New introduced actors (clubs, associations) whose main task is to provide technical assistance to firms can create new activities and figure out new outlets for marketing. Bat Trang is also an area being institutionalized as manifested by the presence of the industrial and vocational training center. It lives a profound transformation in which the artisans are turning to a more industrialized production. In recent years, it is clear that the Bat Trang receives substantial support from local politics. Of course, we must take into account new phenomena in Bat Trang that exert some influence (negative or positive) on this area development. This is the relocation of activities, low innovation capacity in the industrial district, the weak link to R & D, marketing, etc. To all resolve, it requires mobilization of internal and external resources for a local synergy
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Cohn, Taryn Claire. "Craft and poverty alleviation in South Africa : an impact assessment of Phumani Paper : a multi-site craft-based poverty alleviation programme." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/16269.
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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2004.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The cultural industries have been identified by the South African government as having significant potential to generate employment and hence alleviate the wide spread poverty suffered by many in the country. They have invested in the cultural industries with a view to developing SMMEs that have the potential to generate sustainable livelihoods. Craft, in particular is seen as an ideal vehicle through which poverty alleviation can take place, due to the combination of low technology requirements with high levels of manual labour. This study looks at one such multi-site craft-based poverty alleviation programme, Phumani Paper, and assesses the impact that it has had on the poverty of its participants (so far). Drawing on relevant theory “poverty” is defined as a deficiency with regard to three aspects of people’s lives: income, “human development” and capacity building. The results of the study indicate that the program did contribute to human development, but that income generation was less successful. In this regard success seems to depend on conditions at three levels of a programme: the programme management, the project model and the individual participants. Strategic intervention on these three levels will ensure that the impact of craft on poverty is more effective.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die kulturele nywerhede is deur die Suid-Afrikaanse regering geïdentifiseer as ‘n potensiële bron van werkskepping om te help om wydverspreide armoede in die land aan te spreek. Die regering het op kulturele terrein belê in klein- en medium sakeondernemings met die hoop dat hulle kan bydra tot die skepping van volhoubare bestaansgeleenthede. Kunsvlyt word as ‘n ideale roete tot armoede verligting gesien a.g.v. die kombinasie van lae tegnologie vereistes en intensiewe handearbeid. Die studie kyk na een sodanige kunsvlyt-gebaseerde programme vir armoedeverligting, nl. Phumani Paper, en meet die impak wat dit (tot dusver) op die armoede van diegene gehad het wat aan die program deelneem. Gebasseer op relevante teorie word “armoede” in hierdie studie gedefinieer as 'n gebrek op drie terreine van mense se lewens: inkomste, “menslike ontwikkeling” en kapasiteitsbou. Die resultate van die studie toon aan dat die program bygedra het tot menslike ontwikkeling, maar dat die skepping van inkomste minder suksesvol was. Sukses in hierdie verband blyk af te hang van kondisies op drie vlakke van 'n program: die programbestuur, die projek-model en die individuele deelnemers. Strategiese intervensie op hierdie drie vlakke sal verseker dat die impak van kunsvlyt op armoede meer effektief is.
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Ortiz, Morales Daniel. "Virtual Holonomic Constraints: from academic to industrial applications." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-87707.
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Whether it is a car, a mobile phone, or a computer, we are noticing how automation and production with robots plays an important role in the industry of our modern world. We find it in factories, manufacturing products, automotive cruise control, construction equipment, autopilot on airplanes, and countless other industrial applications. Automation technology can vary greatly depending on the field of application. On one end, we have systems that are operated by the user and rely fully on human ability. Examples of these are heavy-mobile equipment, remote controlled systems, helicopters, and many more. On the other end, we have autonomous systems that are able to make algorithmic decisions independently of the user. Society has always envisioned robots with the full capabilities of humans. However, we should envision applications that will help us increase productivity and improve our quality of life through human-robot collaboration. The questions we should be asking are: “What tasks should be automated?'', and “How can we combine the best of both humans and automation?”. This thinking leads to the idea of developing systems with some level of autonomy, where the intelligence is shared between the user and the system. Reasonably, the computerized intelligence and decision making would be designed according to mathematical algorithms and control rules. This thesis considers these topics and shows the importance of fundamental mathematics and control design to develop automated systems that can execute desired tasks. All of this work is based on some of the most modern concepts in the subjects of robotics and control, which are synthesized by a method known as the Virtual Holonomic Constraints Approach. This method has been useful to tackle some of the most complex problems of nonlinear control, and has enabled the possibility to approach challenging academic and industrial problems. This thesis shows concepts of system modeling, control design, motion analysis, motion planning, and many other interesting subjects, which can be treated effectively through analytical methods. The use of mathematical approaches allows performing computer simulations that also lead to direct practical implementations.
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Cunha, José Thiago da. "Estudo do desgaste de rodas de pontes rolantes utilizadas em siderurgia." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/75753.
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O atual cenário competitivo do mercado siderúrgico exige que os custos industriais sejam minimizados ao máximo a fim de garantir o retorno aos acionistas e, em última análise, até mesmo a sobrevivência das companhias em certos mercados. Neste contexto, o homem de manutenção passa a exercer papel fundamental no sentido de trabalhar para evitar perdas, sejam por paradas inesperadas de produção ou por estratégias incorretas de manutenção, buscando conhecer melhor seus equipamentos e introduzir melhorias no projeto de forma a reduzir custos de manutenção e aumentar sua confiabilidade. Este trabalho tem o objetivo de fazer um estudo teórico-prático com a finalidade de conhecer os mecanismos de desgaste envolvidos na interface roda-trilho de pontes rolantes utilizadas em siderurgia a fim de se implementar melhorias no projeto destas rodas e estender a sua vida útil, reduzindo assim custos de manutenção e os prejuízos causado por interrupções não programadas de produção. Inicialmente, é feita uma revisão bibliográfica sobre o tema, sobretudo quanto ao desgaste mecânico e a interface roda-trilho. Como um típico sistema de desgaste mecânico, a abordagem foi feita analisando a influência das condições de superfície, de material e geometria. Com a condição de material fixada (roda e trilho), definiu-se analisar experimentalmente a influência da condição de lubrificação e da geometria das rodas, produzindo ao todo quatro experimentos. As rodas foram dimensionadas e colocadas em operação sob as mesmas condições e o seu desgaste foi monitorado na mesma base de tempo. Os resultados apontaram que a lubrificação exerce influência predominante na vida da roda, estendendo consistentemente sua vida útil, enquanto que a alteração de geometria exerce influência secundária, porém ainda com alguma contribuição.The current competitive steel market requires that manufacturing costs are minimized to the maximum to ensure the return to shareholders and, ultimately, even the survival of companies in certain markets. In this context, the maintenance man begins to exercise its role in order to work to avoid losses, whether by unexpected production stoppages or incorrect maintenance strategies, seeking to better understand their equipment and make improvements in design to reduce maintenance costs and increase its reliability. This work aims to make a theoretical study and a practical evaluation in order to understand the wear mechanisms involved in the wheel-rail interface of overhead cranes used in the steel making industry in order to implement improvements in the design of these wheels with a view of extending life and reduce maintenance costs as well as losses due to unscheduled production interruptions. We begin with a literature review on the subject, focusing on the mechanical wear and wheel-rail interface. As a typical system of mechanical wear, the approach was made by analyzing the influence of surface conditions, material and geometry. With the condition of fixed material (wheel and rail), it was decided to analyze experimentally the influence of the lubrication condition and geometry of the wheels, producing a total of four experiments. The wheels were measured and made to operate under the same conditions and wear was monitored at the same time base. The results indicated that lubrication has a predominant influence in the life of the wheels, consistently extending its useful life, while the change in geometry influences secondary, but still with some contribution.
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Wang, Yu Hsin, and n/a. "Learning from the past, providing for our future : an exploration of traditional Paiwanese craft as inspiration for contemporary ceramics." Swinburne University of Technology, 2006. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20070205.101252.
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This project started with the Taiwanese�s Cultural & Creative Industries Policy,
which demands that all new products include local cultural content. However, little
is known about Taiwanese cultures. This research looked specifically at one of the
cultures, the Paiwanese Tribe.
This thesis reports on the research journey; identifying what the Paiwanese knew
about their culture and why they were unable to produce traditional products. It
argues that the displacement of the tribe has made it materially impossible to
continue traditional practices. This research then identified ways of capturing spirit
of traditional culture using modern technology. A successful model of working with
crafts people workshops in discussed. A case is made for the use of narrative
enquiry and oral history to record Paiwanese understanding. These
understandings were translated into a design outcome using a design method
called narrative design. The success of this research suggests that such an
approach is one model that can be used in design using new technologies and
materials from the re-establishment method of traditional products.
The understanding generated for regaining traditional craft knowledge is extended
with the design of a tea set that draws on this traditional knowledge, narrative and
culture. The tea set represents this knowledge for a global market. It is argued that
the design process used can guide design that transforms the culture message
and delivers it for a wide audience. This design concept process is a model that
can be used to develop cultural products.
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Wallace, Kyle S. "An Exploratory Study of Learning Journeys for Makers in the Fields of Art, Craft andDesign: An Investigation of the Blurred Boundaries between Art, Craft, and Design." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460024614.
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Thioub, Magueye. "L´histoire de la fonderie artisanale d´aluminium: un patrimoine méconnu pour un produit populaire dans la ville de Dakar de 1940 à nos jours." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/25588.
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En Afrique et au Sénégal en particulier, il existait depuis très longtemps une autonomisation
technologique qui a connu des bouleversements pendant la période précoloniale et coloniale,
des mouvements et évolutions internes et externes susceptibles d’entrainer des mutations dans
l’organisation politique, économique et sociale des populations. Ces différents contacts avec le
monde occidental ont permis l’introduction de nouvelles techniques et de nouveaux objets dans
cet espace. Ces techniques sont adoptées, appropriées et refaçonnées avec les savoir-faire
endogènes. La fonderie artisanale d’aluminium fait partie des techniques transférées en Afrique
après la Première Guerre mondiale. L’histoire de ce savoir-faire est fortement liée avec
l’industrialisation du pays au milieu du XIXe et au début du XXe siècle. Les premiers fondeurs
ont appris ce métier dans les industries qui sont liées au développement portuaire et des chemins
de fer du pays. Cette activité fortement attachée à la colonisation, elle reste confinée dans le
secteur informel. Toutefois, le développement de cette technologie reste méconnu des pouvoirs
publics et des sciences sociales. À partir de sources diverses, ce présent travail ambitionne de
répondre à la question sur comment passer de la fonderie artisanale d’aluminium de « régime
de la pratique » au « régime de la technologie », tout en mettant en perspective comparative et
globale le cas de la fonderie artisanale d’aluminium et son imbrication aux contextes sociaux
économiques et culturels. Cette étude a pour objectifs d’analyser l’évolution de la fonderie
d’artisanat à Dakar à travers le contexte de son développement, comprendre les mécanismes
d’acquisition de la matière première, de production, d’usage, de commercialisation des produits
en aluminium, les impacts et les problèmes auxquels cette activité artisanale fait face et enfin
se pencher sur sa soutenabilité et sa patrimonialisation; ABSTRACT :
In Africa and Senegal in particular, there has been a long-standing technological empowerment
that has experienced upheavals during the precolonial and colonial period, internal and external
movements and developments that could lead to changes in the political, economic and social
organization of the populations. The various contacts with the western world permitted the
introduction of new techniques and new objects.
These techniques were adopted, incorporated and reshaped with the endogenous know-how.
The craft foundry of aluminium is a part of the techniques transferred in Africa after the World
War I. The story of this expertise is strongly linked to the industrialization of the country in the
middle of the XIXth and at the beginning of the XXth century. The first casters were trained at
the industries, which are connected to the harbour development and the railroads of the country.
This activity was strongly attached to colonization, and it remains confined to the informal
sector.
However, the development of this technology remains underestimated by the public authorities
and the social sciences. This present work is an outcome of research from diverse sources and
aims to answer the question on how to alter the craft foundry of aluminium from "regime of
practice" to "regime of the technology", while keeping a comparative and global perspective
for it and its imbrication in the economic and cultural social contexts.
This study’s objectives include the analysis of the evolution of the foundry of small business
sector in Dakar through the context of its development, the understanding of mechanisms for
the acquisition of the raw material, the production, the use, the marketing of the aluminium
products, the impacts and the problems, and finally its sustainability and “heritagization”.
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Clark, Tracy Leigh. "[preserve - integrate - intervene] : progression at the Pretoria West Power Plant." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30297.
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This thesis is about the adaptive reuse of an old turbine hall at the Pretoria West Power Plant. As part of a proposed urban framework the Power Plant is developed as a node that connects the Pretoria CBD to Atteridgeville. The driving concept generator for this scheme is the idea of progress. The Turbine Hall has progressively been extended over time. This progress is demonstrated through increasingly dominant new interventions which also demonstrate where the building opens up to the public. A program for the building is based on the results of site analysis, and in response to the urban framework. This program stimulates progress for people by creating a place that supports the production of entrepreneurs and encourages economic upliftment. The adapted building will contain an affordable housing component, rentable workshops, training facilities where people can learn business skills and crafts, a large artists’ studio, a restaurant and an arts and crafts exhibition gallery. These functions support each other and create and environment where people can live, work and socialise.Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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Hansen, Lans. "Desirable impact : an exploration of how design for desirability can enhance a forecast snowboarding safety product." Massey University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1328.
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With origins in skateboard and surfing culture, snowboarding has grown to become a mainstream recreational and professional sport, officially recognized in the Olympic Games. This popularity can be attributed to several factors, including the sub-culture of rebellion and self-expression it embodies and the daring, dynamic aerial maneuvers and stunts often portrayed in the media. However, the sport also exposes participants to a well-documented injury pattern, with injuries rates typically twice as frequent as those seen in skiing. While a number of studies have shown existing snowboarding safety products reduce the risk of injury, these readily available products are not widely used among participants who view them as “uncool” and “unnecessary”. Exploring how affective features and attributes can improve the desirability of a forecast snowboarding personal protective equipment (PPE) product, this thesis proposes that a primary requirement for these products must be desirability - to make attractive, to create a positive impression, to strengthen ones identity and engender appreciation. Responding to these emotional needs, this thesis presents a proposal for a product designed to enhance user-experience, challenging the current philosophy of safety products and their ‘uncool’ perceptions.
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Silva, Fábio Iachel da [UNESP]. "Caracterização da estrutura molecular e propriedades viscográficas de amidos de mandioca (Manihot esculenta Crantz) para aplicações industriais." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/90560.
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A fécula de mandioca (Manihot esculenta Crantz) contém aproximadamente 98 % de amido, em peso seco. Este amido é constituído por dois tipos de polissacarídeos: a amilose ( de 16 a 20 % ), com cadeias lineares de monômeros de glicose e peso molecular 1,5.105 a 1,0.106 Da; e amilopectina ( de 80 a 84 % ), com cadeias ramificadas e peso molecular 5,0.106 a 1,0.108 Da. A estrutura molecular desses polissacarídeos influi diretamente nas propriedades funcionais dos amidos, as quais são interessantes para diversos usos industriais. O principal objetivo desta pesquisa é avaliar e adaptar a técnica de separação de moléculas conhecida por cromatografia de permeação em gel, seguida da caracterização das frações coletadas na permeação e verificar as propriedades viscográficas do amido. Nesta principal técnica utilizada, conhecida também por cromatografia por exclusão de tamanho, as moléculas se separam de acordo com seus tamanhos e pesos moleculares. Sendo assim, moléculas maiores que os poros do gel, saem primeiro da coluna, enquanto moléculas de tamanhos intermediários aos dos poros do gel, saem no final da permeação. As amostras usadas neste trabalho foram féculas extraídas de sete etnovariedades de mandioca, que foram previamente tratadas e posteriormente solubilizadas em solventes adequados e injetadas na coluna de permeação contendo um gel de porosidade pré-determinada. Foi usado um sistema completo para permeação em gel, contendo colunas, géis, coletor automático das frações permeadas, bomba peristáltica, kit de proteínas e carboidrato padrão, dentre outros acessórios fornecidos pela Amersham Pharmacia Biotech. Empregou-se solventes P.A. e enzima pura (Sigma-Aldrich); equipamento analisador de carbono (TOC), marca Shimadzu e espectrofotômetro UV-visível com varredura de 190 a 1100 nm, marca Varian...
Cassava starch ( Manihot esculenta Crantz ) contains approximately 98 % of starch in dry weight. This starch is constituted of two polysaccharide: amylose ( 16 to 20% ), with lineal chains of glucose monomers and molecular weight 1,5.105 to 1,0.106 Da; and amylopectin ( 80 to 84% ), with ramified chains and molecular weight from 5,0.106 to 1,0.108 Da. The molecular structure of these polysaccharides influences directly the functional properties of the starches, which are interesting for several industrial uses. The main objective of this research is to evaluate and to adapt the technique of separation of molecules known by gel permeation chromatography, followed by the characterization of the fractions collected in the permeation and to verify the viscographic properties of the starch. In this main used technique, also known by size exclusion chromatography, the molecules are separated in agreement with sizes and molecular weights. So, molecules larger than the pores of the gel, leave the column first, while molecules of intermediary sizes come out in the end of the permeation. The samples used in this work were starches extracted from seven cassava ethnovarieties, that were previously treated and then dissolved in appropriate solvents and injected in the permeation column that was filled with a gel of defined porosity. A complete system for gel permeation was used, constituted of columns, gels, automatic collector, peristaltic pump, kit of proteins and standard carbohydrate, among other accessories supplied by Amersham Pharmacia Biotech. Solvents (for analysis) and pure enzyme (Sigma-Aldrich) were used; equipment to analyze organic carbon (TOC), from Shimadzu and UV-visible spectrophotometer with scanning from 190 to 1100 nm, from Varian were employed...
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Silva, Fábio Iachel da 1971. "Caracterização da estrutura molecular e propriedades viscográficas de amidos de mandioca (Manihot esculenta Crantz) para aplicações industriais /." Botucatu : [s.n.], 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/90560.
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Resumo: A fécula de mandioca (Manihot esculenta Crantz) contém aproximadamente 98 % de amido, em peso seco. Este amido é constituído por dois tipos de polissacarídeos: a amilose ( de 16 a 20 % ), com cadeias lineares de monômeros de glicose e peso molecular 1,5.105 a 1,0.106 Da; e amilopectina ( de 80 a 84 % ), com cadeias ramificadas e peso molecular 5,0.106 a 1,0.108 Da. A estrutura molecular desses polissacarídeos influi diretamente nas propriedades funcionais dos amidos, as quais são interessantes para diversos usos industriais. O principal objetivo desta pesquisa é avaliar e adaptar a técnica de separação de moléculas conhecida por cromatografia de permeação em gel, seguida da caracterização das frações coletadas na permeação e verificar as propriedades viscográficas do amido. Nesta principal técnica utilizada, conhecida também por cromatografia por exclusão de tamanho, as moléculas se separam de acordo com seus tamanhos e pesos moleculares. Sendo assim, moléculas maiores que os poros do gel, saem primeiro da coluna, enquanto moléculas de tamanhos intermediários aos dos poros do gel, saem no final da permeação. As amostras usadas neste trabalho foram féculas extraídas de sete etnovariedades de mandioca, que foram previamente tratadas e posteriormente solubilizadas em solventes adequados e injetadas na coluna de permeação contendo um gel de porosidade pré-determinada. Foi usado um sistema completo para permeação em gel, contendo colunas, géis, coletor automático das frações permeadas, bomba peristáltica, kit de proteínas e carboidrato padrão, dentre outros acessórios fornecidos pela Amersham Pharmacia Biotech. Empregou-se solventes P.A. e enzima pura (Sigma-Aldrich); equipamento analisador de carbono (TOC), marca Shimadzu e espectrofotômetro UV-visível com varredura de 190 a 1100 nm, marca Varian...
Abstract: Cassava starch ( Manihot esculenta Crantz ) contains approximately 98 % of starch in dry weight. This starch is constituted of two polysaccharide: amylose ( 16 to 20% ), with lineal chains of glucose monomers and molecular weight 1,5.105 to 1,0.106 Da; and amylopectin ( 80 to 84% ), with ramified chains and molecular weight from 5,0.106 to 1,0.108 Da. The molecular structure of these polysaccharides influences directly the functional properties of the starches, which are interesting for several industrial uses. The main objective of this research is to evaluate and to adapt the technique of separation of molecules known by gel permeation chromatography, followed by the characterization of the fractions collected in the permeation and to verify the viscographic properties of the starch. In this main used technique, also known by size exclusion chromatography, the molecules are separated in agreement with sizes and molecular weights. So, molecules larger than the pores of the gel, leave the column first, while molecules of intermediary sizes come out in the end of the permeation. The samples used in this work were starches extracted from seven cassava ethnovarieties, that were previously treated and then dissolved in appropriate solvents and injected in the permeation column that was filled with a gel of defined porosity. A complete system for gel permeation was used, constituted of columns, gels, automatic collector, peristaltic pump, kit of proteins and standard carbohydrate, among other accessories supplied by Amersham Pharmacia Biotech. Solvents (for analysis) and pure enzyme (Sigma-Aldrich) were used; equipment to analyze organic carbon (TOC), from Shimadzu and UV-visible spectrophotometer with scanning from 190 to 1100 nm, from Varian were employed...
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Kichodhan, Vic. "An interactive PC computer program based on craft and IIE plant layout software for use in facilities design." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1183649370.
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NASCIMENTO, Mônica Sabaa Srur do. "A utilização da Manihot esculent crantz (mandioca) na indústria de chapas de compensados de madeira e seu impacto econômico e social na construção civil." Universidade Federal do Pará, 2007. http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/4166.
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Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo determinar as vantagens socioeconômicas para produção de chapas de compensados de madeira na construção civil substituindo a farinha de trigo por farinha de raspa de mandioca na formulação da cola de compensado de madeira. Abordou-se acerca da estrutura anatômica da madeira e suas propriedades, os tratamentos e processos industriais, a estrutura e o processo de produção de compensado além da substituição do insumo na formulação da cola de uréia-formoaldeído desenvolvendo-se então uma avaliação econômica de benefício-custo do compensado de madeira utilizado em fundação e estrutura em uma obra de edificação através da análise de preços dos insumos da cola de mandioca em substituição a cola de trigo. A análise mostra que em nível de composição de insumo principal de produção houve uma redução de 7,3% no custo da cola. Para a construção civil a chapa de compensado de madeira com adesivo de mandioca utilizada em fundação e estrutura não representa um percentual significativo de redução de custos, sendo o percentual do custo do compensado de madeira em uma obra padrão é de apenas 0,84% para economia. Em nível social o governo criou o Programa Nacional para o Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar para apoiar o desenvolvimento das indústrias de base da economia como a indústria da construção civil.
This research had as objective to determine the social and economics advantages for plywood production in the civil construction substituting the flour of wheat for cassava scrap flour in the glue’s manufacturing used in manufacturing of plywood. It’s discuss about the anatomical structure of the wood and its properties, the industrial treatments and processes, the structure and the process of production of plywood beyond the substitution of raw material in the ureia-formoaldeído glue’s manufacturing, so the plywood used in buildings constructions has it’s benefit rise and the cost decreases by this substitution. The analysis show that in composition of raw material had a reduction of 7,3% in the cost of the glue. For the civil construction the plywood with cassava glue used in buildings constructor doesn’t represent a great reduction of costs, because the cost of a plywood in a build construction is only 0,84% to economics. The government created a program to incentive the families do agriculture so supporting the development important industries like civil construction.
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Andersson, Dorothea. "Simulation of industrial control system field devices for cyber security." Thesis, KTH, Elkraftteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-202405.
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Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are an integral part of modernsociety, not least when it comes to controlling and protecting criticalinfrastructure such as power grids and water supply. There is a need to testthese systems for vulnerabilities, but it is often difficult if not impossible to doso in operational real time systems since they have been shown to be sensitiveeven to disturbances caused by benign diagnostic tools. This thesis exploreshow ICS field devices can be simulated in order to fool potential antagonists,and how they can be used in virtualized ICS for cyber security research. 8different field devices were simulated using the honeypot daemon Honeyd,and a generally applicable simulation methodology was developed. It was alsoexplored how these simulations can be further developed in order to functionlike real field devices in virtualized environments.Industriella informations- och styrsystem utgör en viktig delav vårt moderna samhälle, inte minst när det gäller kontroll och skydd avkritisk infrastruktur som elnät och vattenförsörjning. Det finns stora behov avatt säkerhetstesta dessa typer av system, vilket ofta är omöjligt iproduktionsmiljöer med realtidskrav som är erkänt känsliga för störningar, tilloch med från vanligt förekommande analysverktyg. Denna rapport presenterarhur vanliga komponenter i industriella informations- och styrsystem kansimuleras för att lura potentiella antagonister, och hur de kan användas ivirtualiserade styrsystem för cybersäkerhetsforskning. 8 olika komponentersimulerades med hjälp av Honeyd, och en generellt applicerbarsimuleringsmetodik utvecklades. Hur dessa simuleringar kan vidareutvecklasför att fungera som riktiga styrsystemskomponenter i virtualiserade miljöer harockså undersökts.
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Rodríguez-Ugarte, José-Luis, and Adriana-Caterina Silva-Málaga. "Estudio de prefactibilidad para la instalación de una planta de montaje de brazos hidráulicos aislados sobre camiones." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad de Lima, 2016. http://repositorio.ulima.edu.pe/handle/ulima/3226.
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El presente estudio de pre-factibilidad tiene como objetivo la construcción de una planta de montaje de brazos hidráulicos aislados sobre camiones. Estos brazos sirven principalmente para realizar trabajos de mantenimiento del tendido eléctrico tanto urbano como rural y son utilizados no sólo por las empresas distribuidoras y transmisoras de energía, sino también por la Gran Minería, las que a su vez, también dan mantenimiento a sus propias líneas de energía eléctrica.This prefeasibility study aims to build an assembly plant focused on insulated hydraulic aerial devices on trucks. These aerial devices are mainly used for maintenance of power lines, both urban and rural, and are used not only by energy distribution/transmission companies, but also by the Great Mining, which also gives maintenance to their own electricity lines.
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Zietz, Jeremy P. "Holistic Products: Designing With Time, Gifts, and Ritual." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4300.
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The notion of “you are what you buy” is an updated adage from “you are what you eat”. It makes a connection between our everyday objects and their effect on our lived experience. Looking at our relationships with our things as a type of contract, we must be intentional to shape these object contracts for our own good and health. Instead of our society’s design talents being put toward a consumerist agenda, designers must direct research and development which addresses the effects of our products holistically.
Various concepts have emerged in my creative practice which demand a deeper research and development. These are concepts of little interest to the corporate product developer, as they appeal to agendas beyond profit. Just as the slow food movement responds to fast food and “Big Ag”, the concepts of time, gifts, ritual emerge as virtues which demand development in our products. These concepts are not an answer to consumerism. However, they are tastes that have fallen off of our product diet. I point to various works works of art and design, of my own and others, which seek to renew the vastness of our potential experience with everyday objects. Instead of choosing from the corporate offering, we may take a more critical view of design which looks at our holistic experience with our products.
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Sykes, Peggy J. (Peggy Jean) Carleton University Dissertation History. "A history of the Ottawa Allied Trades and Labour Association 1897-1922; a study of working-class resistance and accommodation by the craft worker." Ottawa, 1992.
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BERNER, MARTINA. "KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER: VERO VANTAGGIO COMPETITIVO DELLE ORGANIZZAZIONI ORIENTATE AL FUTURO. UN'INDAGINE NELL'AMBITO DELLE INDUSTRIE CREATIVE DELL'ARTIGIANATO D'ECCELLENZA." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/2894.
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La presente tesi si propone di comprendere come le organizzazioni chiamate ad agire in mercati complessi siano in grado di produrre, sedimentare, utilizzare, condividere e rendere disponibile la propria conoscenza.
La ricerca si focalizza sulle organizzazioni creative legate all'artigianato d’eccellenza in quanto realtà ancora poco esplorate e all'interno delle quali il tema proposto è percepito in misura crescente.
Dallo studio emergono due risultati significativi raggiunti grazie all’elaborazione di una review della letteratura e di un’indagine qualitativa condotta sul campo.
Il primo risultato è la constatazione di un recente interesse da parte degli studi accademici per il tema della conoscenza e del suo trasferimento con riferimento alle industrie creative dell’artigianato d’eccellenza.
Il secondo risultato mette in risalto la relazione tra trasferimento del saper fare e creazione di manufatti d’eccellenza, e riconosce il maestro d’arte come figura cruciale di questo processo di trasferimento della conoscenza (knowledge transfer) in quanto detentore di un sapere che costituisce ed alimenta il valore unico ed esclusivo dei manufatti.
Il lavoro proposto riconosce quindi nel sapere dei maestri d’arte una risorsa cardine da valorizzare e trasmettere, in quanto leva di sviluppo di sistemi produttivi basati sulla qualità, sull’eccellenza e sulla differenziazione.The goal of this study is to understand how organizations operating in a complex market are able to produce, leave sediment, use, share and make available their knowledge. The focus is on arts & crafts creative industries as still insufficiently investigated organizations, although the proposed theme is increasingly perceived. This study presents two significant results achieved thanks to a literature review and a qualitative field research. The first result is the identification of a unprecedented interest of academic studies for the issue of knowledge and its transfer relevant to arts & crafts creative industries. The second result focuses on the relationship between knowledge transfer and creation of artifacts of excellence. In this second part of the study, the craftsman is a critical factor in the process of knowledge transfer as holder of a knowledge which constitutes and nurtures the sole and the exclusive value of the products. In the present dissertation the knowledge of these craftsmen emerges as a key resource that must be valued and transmitted as lever of development of production systems based on quality, excellence and differentiation.
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BERNER, MARTINA. "KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER: VERO VANTAGGIO COMPETITIVO DELLE ORGANIZZAZIONI ORIENTATE AL FUTURO. UN'INDAGINE NELL'AMBITO DELLE INDUSTRIE CREATIVE DELL'ARTIGIANATO D'ECCELLENZA." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/2894.
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La presente tesi si propone di comprendere come le organizzazioni chiamate ad agire in mercati complessi siano in grado di produrre, sedimentare, utilizzare, condividere e rendere disponibile la propria conoscenza.
La ricerca si focalizza sulle organizzazioni creative legate all'artigianato d’eccellenza in quanto realtà ancora poco esplorate e all'interno delle quali il tema proposto è percepito in misura crescente.
Dallo studio emergono due risultati significativi raggiunti grazie all’elaborazione di una review della letteratura e di un’indagine qualitativa condotta sul campo.
Il primo risultato è la constatazione di un recente interesse da parte degli studi accademici per il tema della conoscenza e del suo trasferimento con riferimento alle industrie creative dell’artigianato d’eccellenza.
Il secondo risultato mette in risalto la relazione tra trasferimento del saper fare e creazione di manufatti d’eccellenza, e riconosce il maestro d’arte come figura cruciale di questo processo di trasferimento della conoscenza (knowledge transfer) in quanto detentore di un sapere che costituisce ed alimenta il valore unico ed esclusivo dei manufatti.
Il lavoro proposto riconosce quindi nel sapere dei maestri d’arte una risorsa cardine da valorizzare e trasmettere, in quanto leva di sviluppo di sistemi produttivi basati sulla qualità, sull’eccellenza e sulla differenziazione.The goal of this study is to understand how organizations operating in a complex market are able to produce, leave sediment, use, share and make available their knowledge. The focus is on arts & crafts creative industries as still insufficiently investigated organizations, although the proposed theme is increasingly perceived. This study presents two significant results achieved thanks to a literature review and a qualitative field research. The first result is the identification of a unprecedented interest of academic studies for the issue of knowledge and its transfer relevant to arts & crafts creative industries. The second result focuses on the relationship between knowledge transfer and creation of artifacts of excellence. In this second part of the study, the craftsman is a critical factor in the process of knowledge transfer as holder of a knowledge which constitutes and nurtures the sole and the exclusive value of the products. In the present dissertation the knowledge of these craftsmen emerges as a key resource that must be valued and transmitted as lever of development of production systems based on quality, excellence and differentiation.
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Oliveira, Daiana Cardoso de. "Caracterização e potencial tecnológico de amidos de diferentes cultivares de mandioca (Manihot esculenta Crantz)." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2012. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/95768.
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O amido de mandioca (Manihot esculenta Crantz) é de baixo custo e de grande produção no Brasil. Os grânulos de amido têm características próprias segundo as origens que não correspondem ao grande número de aplicações para esta matéria-prima. Neste sentido, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo caracterizar dez diferentes cultivares de mandioca, produtos de melhoramento genético, fornecidos pela Epagri- SC. Foram estudadas as cultivares STS 2/03-10 (raiz branca), SCS 252 - Jaguaruna, Mandim Branca (proveniente de Neossolo Quartzarênico), Mandim Branca (proveniente de Argissolo), STS 1302/96-3 - Vermelhinha (proveniente de Neossolo Quartzarênico), STS 1302/96-3 - Vermelhinha (proveniente de Argissolo), SCS 253 - Sangão (proveniente de Neossolo Quartzarênico), SCS 253 - Sangão (proveniente de Argissolo), STS 1311/96-1, STS 1302/96-4, Preta, STS 1309/96-7 e STS 2/03-7. O amido destas cultivares foram caracterizados quanto ao pH, pureza, amilose, densidade absoluta, amido danificado, viscosidade intrínseca e massa molar, susceptibilidade enzimática, tamanho e forma dos grânulos, poder de inchamento e índice de solubilização, índice de cristalinidade e propriedades visco-amilográficas. Dentre as cultivares em estudo o amido da cultivar STS 1302/96-3 - Vermelhinha, proveniente de Argissolo, que se mostrou mais susceptível ao ataque enzimático e consequentemente, maior velocidade de hidrólise, poderia ser utilizado para a elaboração de álcool e amidos modificados, como os amidos fermentados. O maior poder de inchamento apresentado pela cultivar Preta direciona o uso deste amido como espessante, com melhor rendimento do produto final. Amidos das cultivares STS 1302/96-4 e Mandim Branca (proveniente de Argissolo) deram origem a pastas finas e transparentes e apresentaram baixos picos de viscosidade máxima. Estes resultados vêm direcionar as aplicações para estes amidos como espessantes de suave viscosidade, como para a produção de molhos, sopas e alimentos infantis. Como esperado para amido de mandioca, todas as cultivares em estudo apresentaram baixa tendência à retrogradação, destacando-se as cultivares STS 1302/96-3 - Vermelhinha (proveniente de Argissolo), SCS 252- Jaguaruna, STS 1302/96-4 e Mandim Branca (proveniente de Argissolo e Neossolo Quartzarênico). Assim, os amidos destas cultivares poderiam ser utilizados em produtos que permanecem estocados, como pães e produtos panificáveis, assim como onde é indesejável a perda de água, como pudins e sobremesas. Os resultados obtidos também vêm comprovar que diferenças significativas podem ocorrer em amidos de uma mesma cultivar, mostrando a necessidade da caracterização do amido de uma mesma planta sempre que esta for aplicada como matéria-prima no processo industrial.