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NESWALD, ELIZABETH. "Science, sociability and the improvement of Ireland: the Galway Mechanics' Institute, 1826–51." British Journal for the History of Science 39, no. 4 (November 10, 2006): 503–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087406008739.

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Irish mechanics' institutes have received little attention from historians of science, but their history presents intriguing questions. Whereas industrialization, Protestant dissent and the politics of liberal social reformers have been identified as crucial for the development of mechanics' institutes in Britain, their influence in Ireland was regionally limited. Nonetheless, many unindustrialized, provincial, largely Catholic Irish towns had mechanics' institutes in the first half of the nineteenth century. This paper investigates the history of the two mechanics' institutes of Galway, founded in 1826 and 1840, and analyses how local and national contexts affected the establishment, function and development of a provincial Irish mechanics' institute. Situating these institutes within the changing social and political constellations of early and mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, it shows how Catholic emancipation, the temperance movement and different strands of Irish nationalism affected approaches to the uses of science and science education in Ireland.
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Koltsov, I. A. "THE CONTRIBUTION OF SCIENTISTS FROM LENINGRAD UNIVERSITIES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL POTENTIAL OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN THE 1950—1970-s: PAGES OF HISTORY." HYDROMETEOROLOGY AND ECOLOGY. PROCEEDINGS OF THE RUSSIAN STATE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, no. 58 (2020): 142–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.33933/2074-2762-2020-58-142-155.

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In the 1950s - 1970s, the most important organizational form of higher education science was research institutes attached to higher education institutions. Having appeared in the 1920s, it proved effective. The first thematic laboratories were organized in Leningrad in 1956 at the Polytechnic Institute by Professor B.P. Konstantinov (who later became an academician) and the Electrotechnical Institute named after V.I. Ulyanov (Lenin) by Professor N.P. Bogoroditsky. The desire of scientists to increase efficiency of the research, to bring it closer to the practical needs of the national economy reflected in the organization of 13 research institutes at the Polytechnic Institute in 1963. In the 1950s - 1960s, the Leningrad State University had the previously formed research institutes: the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Physical, Chemical, Biological and Physiological institutes, the Institute of the Earth’s Crust, the Geographical and Economic Institute. In 1959 – 1965, the University’s scientists completed the research on 5,300 planned topics. They performed 3,017 separate experimental and theoretical research, prepared 785 textbooks and teaching aids, completed 543 dissertations, and conducted contractual work on 955 topics. Only in 1969, 3,500 research papers created by LSU scientists were published. Among them were 107 monographs and 74 textbooks. Creative collaboration with industry workers was an integral part of the activities of the Leningrad State University’s scientists. Many of the LSU collective’s research were directly related to production needs. In 1959, the collective of the Physical faculty concluded 32 contractual works and 19 agreements on creative cooperation with industrial enterprises. In 1963, they performed research on 60 contractual topics for a total of 1,100,000 rubles, at the same time conducting 22 topics, provided by the agreements on the creative cooperation for a total amount of 1,300,000 rubles.
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Curthoys, Patricia, P. C. Candy, and J. Laurent. "Pioneering Culture: Mechanics' Institutes and Schools of Arts in Australia." Labour History, no. 67 (1994): 178. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27509295.

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Forgan, Sophie. "Context, Image and Function: a Preliminary Enquiry into the Architecture of Scientific Societies." British Journal for the History of Science 19, no. 1 (March 1986): 89–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400022779.

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From the late eighteenth century onwards, urban life underwent increasingly rapid change as towns outgrew their limits, industries polluted their skies and rivers, and a host of new types of building appeared to cater for new needs and activities. Not only did towns look different, but, as Thomas Markus has said, ‘they also ‘felt’ different in the organization of the spaces they contained.’ Buildings which housed scientific activities—the learned societies, literary and philosophical societies, professional institutes, mechanics institutes, and by the end of the century the new civic universities—were one manifestation of this different ‘feeling’. These were quite new types of building, and we should therefore expect them to give us valuable information about the development of science, about ‘images’ of science and the meaning of those images, as well as the actual practice of science.
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Garner, A. D. "The Society of Arts and the mechanics’ institutes: The co‐ordination of endeavour towards scientific and technical education, 1851‐54." History of Education 14, no. 4 (December 1985): 255–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0046760850140401.

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Kociumbas, Jan. "Science as Cultural Ideology: Museums and Mechanics' Institutes in Early New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land." Labour History, no. 64 (1993): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27509163.

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Nekrylov, Sergey A., and Georgiy V. Mayer. "Aleksandr Petrovich Bychkov: Life as Service to the University." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Ekonomika, no. 53 (2021): 7–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/19988648/53/1.

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The publication is dedicated to the contribution of Professor Aleksandr Petrovich Bychkov (1921–2009) to the development of Tomsk State University. Bychkov devoted more than 50 years of his life to Tomsk State University (TSU). As the rector of TSU (1967–1983), he made a significant impact on the improvement of not only TSU, but the entire scientific and educational complex of Tomsk Oblast. As the rector, Bychkov worked a lot and fruitfully on strengthening the material base, raising the scientific and pedagogical level of professors and research workers of faculties and research institutes and, on this basis, the level of training of university specialists. Throughout its history, Tomsk State University has striven for a close combination of training highly qualified specialists with conducting fundamental and applied scientific research. In this regard, an important event for the university was the opening (1968) of the Research Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (the first director was A.D. Kolmakov). In the same 1968 the Research Institute of Biology and Biophysics was opened (the first director was V.A. Pegel). One of the indicators of the recognition of TSU’s merits in the field of scientific work was the approval of Tomsk State University as the basic university of the West Siberian Scientific and Methodological Council of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the RSFSR. The contribution of Tomsk State University named after V.V. Kuibyshev in the training of highly qualified specialists and in the development of science was marked by the awarding of TSU with the Order of the October Revolution in 1980. Over 70 professors and teachers were awarded orders and medals. In the 1960s–1970s, when Bychkov was TSU’s rector, the material base of the university improved noticeably. A new building of the Research Library was put into operation, including a 12-tier storage for 2.5 million volumes; three buildings for research institutes, a sports complex, a university stadium, four dormitories for students and one for graduate students, four apartment buildings for teachers and scientific workers, a children’s center (in Yuzhnaya Square) were built. In 1970, the reconstruction of the tropical greenhouse of the Botanical Garden began. As a rector, Bychkov used to delve into all the little details in the economic life of the university, attend lectures and exams (he attended the lectures of all professors who worked at TSU at that time); he also found time for intensive social work. Bychkov was one of the initiators of “Professor Days” (since 1978) when professors and associate professors organized lectures and talks at enterprises and in districts of the region. He was recognized for his benevolence, abilities to hear the interlocutor, to unite and motivate to accomplish the assigned task. Optimist by nature, he was able to instill optimism in those around him.
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Verity, David. "History of the Bradford Mechanics′ Institute Library." Library Review 44, no. 3 (May 1995): 8–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00242539510086267.

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Walker, Martyn. "‘For the last many years in England everybody has been educating the people, but they have forgotten to find them any books’: The Mechanics’ Institutes Library Movement and its Contribution to Working-Class Adult Education during the Nineteenth Century." Library & Information History 29, no. 4 (November 2013): 272–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1758348913z.00000000048.

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ZAITSEVA, N. L., N. V. ALDOSHIN, and N. YU RYABOVA. "DEVELOPMENT STAGES OF DOMESTIC AGROENGINEERING EDUCATION IN RUSSIAN STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY - MOSCOW TIMIRYAZEV AGRICULTURAL ACADEMY." Izvestiâ Timirâzevskoj selʹskohozâjstvennoj akademii, no. 4 (2021): 149–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.26897/0021-342x-2021-4-149-169.

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The article is devoted to an important period in the history of agricultural engineering education at Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy – the 120-year history of the Agricultural Machinery Department of the Institute of Mechanical and Power Engineering named after V.P. Goryachkin. The authors distinguish six stages of the Department’s development – from its origin in the depths of the Petrovsky Agricultural and Forestry Academy, the Department’s establishment at the Moscow Agricultural Institute in 1901, and its development in the 20th-21st centuries. Particular attention focuses on the contribution of the founder and longterm head of the Department, academician V.P. Goryachkin – his developing agricultural mechanics and establishing an agricultural engineering school in our country.
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Stockdale, Clifton. "Mechanics' institutes in Northumberland and Durham 1824-1902." Thesis, Durham University, 1993. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5614/.

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Except for Hudson's major work which explored developments in the first half of the nineteenth century, and more recently the research undertaken by Tylecote and Kelly, most surveys of the Mechanics' Institute Movement in England have been confined t6 local studies of individual institutes, unpublished theses and collected essays on the subject. Kelly acknowledged that the limitations characteristic of his publication George. Birkbeck. which attempted a nationwide review of the subject, were due to a lack of detailed regional investigation upon which he could have drawn. A stimulus is therefore provided for further regionally based research. The purpose of this work is to trace the origins and metamorphosis of the Movement in the North East of England during; the last century, until its final state of change in the early 1900s.Within the region, several factors featured prominently in creating the environment in which the institutes were to function. These included economic and political reform, together with the broad spectrum of educational, social and cultural activities made available to the working-classes. Thus, the interaction between representatives from the various sections of society was inevitably brought into focus in voluntary bodies such as the mechanics' institutes, where it was hoped that mutually beneficial ambitions might be fulfilled. The Mechanics' Institute Movement in the North East reflected experiences which were typical of many other regions, yet much was exceptional. To illustrate this point, certain issues have been subjected to detailed analysis - in particular the identity of promoters, their motives, and how they brought their schemes to fruition. The effect of the powerful and often conflicting demands for the various services which together constituted both adult education and recreation has been assessed against a background determined by the promoters of institutes and by increasing Government legislation which provided for the introduction of public libraries and technical instruction. Consequently, the survival of the institutes was secured within a climate of progressive external and internal pressures. In the past, the full significance of the Movement's contribution to working-class educational, social and cultural development has lacked the appreciation it deserves. This regional analysis has shown that after existing for almost one hundred years its legacy remains encapsulated within our national system of public libraries, technical colleges, social centres, and not least in our heritage of mechanics' institute buildings. The task of providing insights into the complexity of the Movement's role in the North East has not been achieved without confronting difficulties similar to those experienced by Kelly and others. If any questions, therefore, remain unanswered, they do so because of the elusiveness of source material. At best, much was of a scattered, fragmentary and sometimes contradictory nature. Despite diligently pursued enquiry at repositories both locally and in other parts of the country, it has had to be accepted that the location of many relevant items is unknown.
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Duffy, Seamus S. "Mechanics' and similar institutes in counties Antrim, Armagh and Down 1820-1870 and their contribution to the education of the working-class adult." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242139.

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Watson, Douglas Robert. "'The road to learning' : re-evaluating the Mechanics' Institute movement." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/11817.

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This thesis is a re-evaluation of a movement founded to provide what Samuel Smiles called “the road to learning” for workers in the nineteenth century. Mechanics’ institutes emerged during the 1820s to both criticism and acclaim, becoming part of the physical and intellectual fabric of the age and inspiring a nationwide building programme funded entirely by public subscription. Beginning with a handful of examples in major British cities, they eventually spread across the Anglophone world. They were at the forefront of public engagement with arts, science and technology. This thesis is a history of the mechanics’ institute movement in the British Isles from the 1820s through to the late 1860s, when State involvement in areas previously dominated by private enterprises such as mechanics’ institutes, for example library provision and elementary schooling, became more pronounced. The existing historiography on mechanics’ institutes is primarily regional in scope and this thesis breaks new ground by synthesising a national perspective on their wider social, political and cultural histories. It contributes to these broader themes, as well as areas as diverse as educational history, the history of public exhibition and public spaces, visual culture, print culture, popular literacy and literature (including literature generated by the Institutes themselves, such as poetry and prose composed by members), financial services, education in cultural and aesthetic judgement, Institutes as sources of protest by means of Parliamentary petitions, economic history, and the nature, theory and practice of the popular dissemination of ideas. These advances free the thesis from ongoing debate around the success or failure of mechanics’ institutes, allowing the emphasis to be on the experiential history of the “living” Institute. The diverse source base for the thesis includes art, sculpture, poetry and memoir alongside such things as economic data, library loan statistics, membership numbers and profit / loss accounts from institute reports. The methodology therefore incorporates qualitative (for example, tracing the evolution of attitudes towards Institutes in contemporary culture by analysing the language used to describe them over time) and quantitative (for example, exploring Institutes as providers of financial services to working people) techniques. For the first time, mechanics’ institutes are studied in relation to political corruption, debates concerning the morality of literature and literacy during the nineteenth century, and the legislative processes of the period.
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Walker, Martyn. "'Solid and practical education within reach of the humblest means' : the growth and development of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes 1838-1891." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2010. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/9087/.

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This thesis questions the generally accepted view that mechanics’ institutes made little contribution to adult working-class education from their foundation in the 1820s to the last decade of the nineteenth century when, finally, government recognised the importance of adult and further education with the passing of the Technical Instructions Acts of 1889 and 1891. It addresses the issue of what impact the mechanics’ institutes exerted upon the adult working classes in a regional context. It has also questioned research previously carried out by a number of historians who hold the view that by 1850 the mechanics’ institutes’ movement was in decline. This thesis argues that in Yorkshire the movement, through no small contribution made by the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics’ Institutes, went from strength to strength and responded to the need for relevant curricula throughout the period of study. It establishes that mechanics’ institutes of the Yorkshire Union (1838 – 1891) were not only to be found in the urban and industrialising towns, but many were also located in the rural and semi-rural areas of the Dales and Pennines. Across the Yorkshire Union as a whole there were similar patterns in growth and development. This thesis establishes that not only did mechanics' institutes support the working classes but they also provided a firm foundation for technical and further education, which was built on through the passing of the 1889 and 1891 Technical Instruction Acts. Several institutes either became technical schools or had established a tradition of adult education which was taken up by the new technical colleges of the early twentieth century. Many smaller institutes either became satellite centres for local colleges or became public libraries and museums. The nineteenth century success of the mechanics’ institutes foreshadowed the later development of adult education.
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Hazelwood, Jennifer University of Ballarat. "A public want and a public duty [manuscript] : the role of the Mechanics' Institute in the cultural, social and educational development of Ballarat from 1851 to 1880." University of Ballarat, 2007. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/12800.

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Mechanics’ Institutes were an integral element of the nineteenth-century British adult education movement, which was itself part of an on-going radicalisation of the working class. Such was the popularity of Mechanics’ Institutes, and so reflective of contemporary British cultural philosophy, that they were copied throughout the British Empire. The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute, established in 1859, instilled a powerful, male-gendered British middle-class influence over the cultural, social and educational development of the Ballarat city. The focus of this study is to identify and analyse the significance of the contribution made by the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute to the evolving cultural development of the wider Ballarat community, with a particular emphasis on the gender and class dimensions of this influence. This is done within the context of debates about ‘radical fragments’ and ‘egalitarianism’. Utilizing a methodology based on an extensive review of archival records, contemporary newspapers held at the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute, and previously published research, this study was able to show that, during the period from its inception in 1859 to 1880, the Institute became a focal point for numerous cultural, social and educational activities. As one of the few institutions open to all classes, it was in a position to provide a significant influence over the developing culture of the Ballarat community. The study has also identified the use made of the Institute’s School of Design by women and the contribution of these educational classes to preparing women for employment outside their traditional roles of wives and mothers. The thesis argues that despite some early radical elements, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute initially espoused liberal egalitarian values. By 1880, however, the Institute was more readily identifiable as reflecting British, male, middle-class values.
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Hazelwood, Jennifer. "A public want and a public duty [manuscript] : the role of the Mechanics' Institute in the cultural, social and educational development of Ballarat from 1851 to 1880." University of Ballarat, 2007. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/14635.

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Mechanics’ Institutes were an integral element of the nineteenth-century British adult education movement, which was itself part of an on-going radicalisation of the working class. Such was the popularity of Mechanics’ Institutes, and so reflective of contemporary British cultural philosophy, that they were copied throughout the British Empire. The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute, established in 1859, instilled a powerful, male-gendered British middle-class influence over the cultural, social and educational development of the Ballarat city. The focus of this study is to identify and analyse the significance of the contribution made by the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute to the evolving cultural development of the wider Ballarat community, with a particular emphasis on the gender and class dimensions of this influence. This is done within the context of debates about ‘radical fragments’ and ‘egalitarianism’. Utilizing a methodology based on an extensive review of archival records, contemporary newspapers held at the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute, and previously published research, this study was able to show that, during the period from its inception in 1859 to 1880, the Institute became a focal point for numerous cultural, social and educational activities. As one of the few institutions open to all classes, it was in a position to provide a significant influence over the developing culture of the Ballarat community. The study has also identified the use made of the Institute’s School of Design by women and the contribution of these educational classes to preparing women for employment outside their traditional roles of wives and mothers. The thesis argues that despite some early radical elements, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute initially espoused liberal egalitarian values. By 1880, however, the Institute was more readily identifiable as reflecting British, male, middle-class values.
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Terry, Jason. "Incorporating mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems into historic preservation projects : three case studies." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/803.

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Sobreira, Maria Aparecida e. Silva Pereira. "O retrato identitário do professor do curso de mecânica do instituto federal de educação, ciência e tecnologia do Piauí." Universidade Nove de Julho, 2018. http://bibliotecatede.uninove.br/handle/tede/1923.

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This research aims to study the professional identity of the mechanic course teachers of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piauí (IFPI). This research is guided by the following question: What sociopolitical and educational configurations, in the form of public policies, contextualize the academic-professional trajectory of teachers, in different historical moments, and which were effected in the Institution and reflected, in particular, in the constitution of professional identity of the Mechanic course teachers? In order to answer this question, the general objective was drawn: to understand how the identity and professionalism of the Mechanic course teachers from IFPI are constituted, in the three moments of institutional configuration ETFPI, CEFET-PI and IFPI. To achieve this goal, the following specific objectives were outlined: describe the public policies related to Professional Education, at these historical moments; characterize the training and the professional and academic trajectory of the teachers, from the configuration of the ETFPI to the present moment. Therefore, this research, with a qualitative approach, involves the study of the constitution of the professional identity, in an institution, through the life history of four teachers. The analysis is based, besides the legislation pertinent to Professional Education, in documentary analysis and studies in the perspective of Adorno & Horkheimer's Critical Theory; in the notions of identity and professionalism of Dubar and Nóvoa, among others. Despite the contradictions that can be identified in the policy proposals and in the practices they carry out throughout the history of teacher education, in professional education, the analyzes reveal the commitment of the IFPI Mechanics professors to teaching, showing that professional achievement derives from being and being in the profession. The search for continuing education reveals the value and importance that these teachers attribute to pedagogical training in the construction of their identity and teaching professionalism.
Esta investigación tiene como objeto de estudio la identidad profesional de docentes del curso de Mecánica del Instituto Federal de Educación, Ciencia y Tecnología del Piauí (IFPI). Nortea este estudio, la siguiente cuestión: ¿Qué configuraciones sociopolíticas y educacionales, en forma de políticas públicas, contextualizan (ron) la trayectoria académico-profesional, en diferentes momentos históricos y, que se efectivizaron en la Institución e incidieron, en especial, en la constitución de la identidad profesional de los profesores del curso de Mecánica? En búsqueda de respuestas para esta cuestión, se trazó el objetivo general: comprender cómo se constituye la identidad y la profesionalidad docente de los profesores del curso de Mecánica del IFPI, en los tres momentos de configuración institucional ETFPI, CEFET-PI e IFPI. Para el alcance de ese objetivo, se delinearon los siguientes objetivos específicos: describir las políticas públicas relativas a la Educación Profesional, en esos momentos históricos; caracterizar la formación y la trayectoria profesional y académica de los profesores, desde la configuración de la ETFPI hasta el presente momento. Para esto, esta investigación posee un abordaje cualitativo, envolviendo el estudio de la constitución de la identidad profesional, en una institución, por medio de la historia de vida de cuatro docentes. El análisis se fundamenta, además de la legislación pertinente a la Educación Profesional, en análisis documental y estudios en la perspectiva de la Teoría Crítica de Adorno & Horkheimer; en las nociones de identidad y profesionalidad de Dubar y Nóvoa, entre otros. A pesar de las contradicciones que pueden ser identificadas en las propuestas políticas y en las prácticas que éstas llevan a cabo, a lo largo de la historia de la formación docente, en la educación profesional, los análisis revelan compromiso de los profesores de Mecánica del IFPI con la docencia, mostrando que la realización profesional se deriva del ser y estar en la profesión. La búsqueda por formación continuada revela el valor y la importancia que estos profesores atribuyen a la formación pedagógica en la construcción de su identidad y profesionalidad docente.
Esta pesquisa tem como objeto de estudo a identidade profissional de docentes do curso de Mecânica do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Piauí (IFPI). Norteia este estudo, a seguinte questão: Que configurações sociopolíticas e educacionais, em forma de políticas públicas, contextualizam (ram) a trajetória acadêmico-profissional, em diferentes momentos históricos e, que se efetivaram na Instituição e incidiram, em especial, na constituição da identidade profissional dos professores do curso de Mecânica? Em busca de resposta para essa questão, traçou-se o objetivo geral: compreender como se constitui a identidade e a profissionalidade docente dos professores do curso de Mecânica do IFPI, nos três momentos de configuração institucional ETFPI, CEFET-PI e IFPI. Para o alcance desse objetivo, delinearam-se os seguintes objetivos específicos: descrever as políticas públicas relativas à Educação Profissional, nesses momentos históricos; caracterizar a formação e a trajetória profissional e acadêmica dos professores, desde a configuração da ETFPI até o presente momento. Para tanto, esta pesquisa, de abordagem qualitativa, envolvendo o estudo da constituição da identidade profissional, em uma instituição, por meio da história de vida de quatro docentes. A análise fundamenta-se, além da legislação pertinente à Educação Profissional, em análise documental e estudos na perspectiva da Teoria Crítica de Adorno & Horkheimer; nas noções de identidade e profissionalidade de Dubar e Nóvoa, dentre outros. Apesar das contradições que podem ser identificadas nas propostas políticas e nas práticas que estas levam a efeito, ao longo da história da formação docente, na educação profissional, as análises revelam comprometimento dos professores de Mecânica do IFPI com a docência, mostrando que a realização profissional decorre do ser e estar na profissão. A busca por formação continuada revela o valor e a importância que esses professores atribuem à formação pedagógica na construção de sua identidade e profissionalidade docente.
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Davies, Llewellyn Willis. "‘LOOK’ AND LOOK BACK: Using an auto/biographical lens to study the Australian documentary film industry, 1970 - 2010." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/154339.

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While much has been written on the Australian film and television industry, little has been presented by actual producers, filmmakers and technicians of their time and experiences within that same industry. Similarly, with historical documentaries, it has been academics rather than filmmakers who have led the debate. This thesis addresses this shortcoming and bridges the gap between practitioner experience and intellectual discussion, synthesising the debate and providing an important contribution from a filmmaker-academic, in its own way unique and insightful. The thesis is presented in two voices. First, my voice, the voice of memoir and recollected experience of my screen adventures over 38 years within the Australian industry, mainly producing historical documentaries for the ABC and the SBS. This is represented in italics. The second half and the alternate chapters provide the industry framework in which I worked with particular emphasis on documentaries and how this evolved and developed over a 40-year period, from 1970 to 2010. Within these two voices are three layers against which this history is reviewed and presented. Forming the base of the pyramid is the broad Australian film industry made up of feature films, documentary, television drama, animation and other types and styles of production. Above this is the genre documentary within this broad industry, and making up the small top tip of the pyramid, the sub-genre of historical documentary. These form the vertical structure within which industry issues are discussed. Threading through it are the duel determinants of production: ‘the market’ and ‘funding’. Underpinning the industry is the involvement of government, both state and federal, forming the three dimensional matrix for the thesis. For over 100 years the Australian film industry has depended on government support through subsidy, funding mechanisms, development assistance, broadcast policy and legislative provisions. This thesis aims to weave together these industry layers, binding them with the determinants of the market and funding, and immersing them beneath layers of government legislation and policy to present a new view of the Australian film industry.
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Books on the topic "Mechanics' institutes History"

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Baragwanath, Pam. If the walls could speak: A social history of the Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria. Windsor, Vic: Mechanics Institute Inc., 2000.

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Katō, Shōshi. Eikoku ni okeru mechanics' institute no fukyū jōkyō ni kansuru kōsatsu. [Kōbe-shi]: Kōbe Shōka Daigaku Keizai Kenkyūjo, 1985.

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Katō, Shōji. Eikoku mekanikkusu insutichūto no kenkyū: Seisei to hatten. Kōbe-shi: Kōbe Shōka Daigaku Keizai Kenkyūjo, 1987.

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Hewitt, Martin. The mechanics' institute movement in the Maritimes, 1831-1889. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1989.

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Katō, Shōji. Eikoku mekanikkusu insutichūto shiryō kenkyū. Kōbe-shi: Kōbe Shōka Daigaku Keizai Kenkyūjo, 1992.

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Mechanics', Worldwide Conference (2004 Melbourne Vic ). Buildings, books and beyond: Mechanics' Worldwide Conference 2004 : proceedings of an international conference convened by the Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria at Swinburne University, Prahran Campus, Melbourne, Australia, 2-4 September 2004. 2nd ed. Prahran, Vic: Prahran Mechanics' Institute Press, 2004.

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University), Forum on Australian Library History (6th 1995 Monash. Instruction and amusement: Papers from the Sixth Australian Library History Forum, Monash University, 1 November 1995. Melbourne: Ancora Press, 1996.

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Hirsch, R. Forbes. The Bytown Mechanics Institute :improving the mind of the working class. Ottawa: Historical Society of Ottawa, 1992.

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Four books, 300 dollars, and a dream: An illustrated history of the first 150 years of the Mechanic's Institute of San Francisco, how a pioneer reading room for the education of craftsmen became a major library, research facility and social center in a busy city. San Francisco: Mechanics' Institute, 2005.

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Hamilton and Gore Mechanics' Institute. Exhibition of fine arts, manufactures, machines, natural history, curiosities, &c., opened on Wednesday, 24th May, 1865. [Hamilton, Ont.?: s.n.], 1994.

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Spedding, Patrick, and Peter Pereyra. "The Encyclopædia Britannica and the Huon Mechanics’ Institute Library." In New Directions in Book History, 175–204. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56312-7_8.

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Karpova, Vera B., and Leonid E. Karpov. "History of the Creation of BESM: The First Computer of S.A. Lebedev Institute of Precise Mechanics and Computer Engineering." In IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 6–19. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22816-2_2.

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Nakagawa, Hitoshi. "History of mutation breeding and molecular research using induced mutations in Japan." In Mutation breeding, genetic diversity and crop adaptation to climate change, 24–39. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789249095.0003.

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Abstract Following the construction of the Gamma Field at the Institute of Radiation Breeding in 1960, mutation breeding was accelerated in Japan. The facility is used, with a radiation dose up to 2 Gy/day (ca. 300,000 times that of natural background), to induce mutations at a higher frequency than occurs in nature. There have been 318 direct- use mutant cultivars representing 79 species generated through irradiation of gamma-rays, X-rays, ion beams and chemicals and somaclonal variation. Approximately 79% of these direct-use cultivars were induced by radiation. There have been 375 indirect-use mutant cultivars, including 332 rice, of which 162 cultivars (48.8%) were derived from the semi-dwarf mutant cv. 'Reimei'. The economic impact of these mutant cultivars, primarily of rice and soybean, is very large. Some useful mutations are discussed for rice, such as low digestible protein content, low amylose content, giant embryo and non-shattering. Useful mutations in soybean such as radiosensitivity, fatty acid composition and super-nodulation have been identified. Japanese pear and apple resistant to Alternaria disease have also been identified. The achievements of biological research such as characterization and determination of deletion size generated by gamma-rays, the effect of deletion size and the location, and a mechanism of dominant mutation induction are identified. Similarly, genetic studies on mutations generated through the use of gamma-ray induced mutations, such as phytochrome response, aluminium tolerance, stay-green (Mendel's gene) and epicuticular wax have also been conducted. Mutation breeding is a very useful technology for isolating genes and for elucidating gene functions and metabolic pathways in various crops.
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"Resolution of the General Assembly of Scientists of the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics and Institutes of Mathematics, Mechanics, and Astronomy at Moscow University." In History of Mathematics, 305–11. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/hmath/043/27.

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Tuffnell, Stephen. "Engineering Gold Rushes." In Global History of Gold Rushes, 229–51. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520294547.003.0010.

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This chapter, “Engineering Gold Rushes,” by Stephen Tuffnell, examines the mechanics of late nineteenth-century global connectivity through the development of “mine engineering” as a global profession and the manifold interactions between the global and the national that contributed to that process. Internationally mobile mine engineers developed the mechanisms for transporting and maintaining the technologies of empire and extraction that converged on the goldfields. Nongovernmental mining institutes founded across the world, international congresses, and widely circulating technical journals acted as mechanisms for knowledge exchange and forums for cooperation. Underlying the emergence of specialist engineers were higher education systems that aimed at developing rival national or imperial professional identities that existed in tension with their global roles. Mine engineers were therefore key protagonists in the shifts discussed in this volume: from individual placer mining to highly capitalized corporate mining, from simple technologies to complex chemical extraction, and from free enterprise to wage labor.
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"A brief history of the Mechanics’ Institute Movement." In The Development of the Mechanics' Institute Movement in Britain and Beyond, 23–38. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.: Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315685021-9.

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Frazier, O. H. "A Historical Perspective on the Development of Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices." In Mechanical Circulatory Support, 1–8. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190909291.003.0001.

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With any historical account, the perspective varies, depending on which part of the historical context the author participated in. The same can be said for the history of the development of mechanical circulatory support devices. This chapter is documented through the eyes of one of the few surgeons who has been an active participant from the beginning, based on more than 50 years of personal experience in both experimental and clinical work in Houston, Texas, at the Baylor College of Medicine and the Texas Heart Institute. There are many facets to this worldwide race, which spans more than a half century, to replace the anatomical structure itself, or at least the physiological function of this anatomical organ that defines life from death.
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Martin, Jeffrey T. "The Paichusuo and the Jurisdiction of Qing." In Sentiment, Reason, and Law, 33–63. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501740046.003.0003.

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This chapter reviews the history of modern police in Taiwan by showing how the “paichusuo” was instituted as a mechanism for cultivating qualities of civic virtue. It describes how Taiwan's police has been shaped by the jurisdictional qualities invested in the category of “qing.” It outlines the multiple meanings that have been bundled into the engagement neighborhood police, which are expected to maintain with the “qing” of their local community. The chapter also goes through the history of Taiwan's police from the initial formation of modern policing under the Japanese, the rocky transition to Chinese rule, and to the democratic era. History has configured the contemporary “paichusuo” as a political arena used for the work of cultivating the collective will to live together.
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Yurchenko, Olha. "Scientific and education project “Ukraine South” of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory." In Historical and cultural heritage: preservation, access, use. National Aviation University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18372/53295.

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The article considers and analyzes the information activities of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, the framework of the scientific-educational project “Ukrainian South” (2020-2021), dedicated to revealing little-known pages of the history of Southern Ukraine and refuting Russian imperial myths about this region. Within the framework of the project, historical information-analytical materials on this issue and information on the time of foundation of the southern Ukrainian cities of Dnipro, Mariupol, Pervomaisk, Ovidiopol, Odesa were prepared. With the support of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, a collective monograph “Essays on the history of the development of southern Ukraine in the XV-XVIII centuries” was published in a circulation of 600 copies. The monograph reveals various aspects of the history of settlements in the southern region during this period and the mechanisms of symbolic appropriation of space used by the Russian Empire. In December 2020, the monograph was presented in Kyiv, Dnipro and Odesa (including online due to the spread of the coronavirus epidemic). A series of animated videos about the history of steppe Ukraine under the general name “South without myths” has been created. The series includes 5 videos: 1) “Ukrainian South. History of Bіlhorod-Dnistrovsky”; 2) “Ukrainian South. I am a Mazepa admirer”; 3) “Ukrainian south. Early history of Odesa”; 4) “Ukrainian south. The Nekrasov Cossacks”; 5) “Ukrainian South. Khan Ukraine’. The videos were released in January-February 2021.
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Kitainge, Kisilu M. "Challenges of Training Motor Vehicle Mechanics for Changing World Contexts and Emergent Working Conditions." In Handbook of Research on E-Learning Applications for Career and Technical Education, 34–46. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-739-3.ch003.

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This chapter is an extract from a study that examined how institute-based automotive training in the retail, service and repair (RS&R) sector could be made more responsive and effective to the changes in workplace demands and new technology. It dealt with the promotion of vocational relevance in the training of motor mechanics in the contexts of a changing world and emergent working conditions. It was an applied learning study that followed a comparative case study research design aimed at advancing reciprocal lessons between the two regions of Kenya and State of Victoria, Australia. The research was propelled by the fact that technology used in this area is now changing faster than at any other time in modern history and is impacting upon most of the human lifestyles. This chapter deals with a summary of the main issues that were researched. Specifically the chapter deals with relevance of institute-based automotive training, stakeholders’ involvement in programs development, and program transfer from one region to another: and learning for work and at workplace. It highlights the views if trainers, trainees and industry practitioners on equity in program development, relevance to workplace requirements and ownership of the automotive training programs. It was found that Australian trainers felt somehow sidelined in the program design while the Kenyan trainers complained of being left alone by relevant industry in the program development venture. None of these two cases produces optimal results since participation in program design should be equitably distributed among the stakeholders.
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Conference papers on the topic "Mechanics' institutes History"

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Krayneva, Irina, and Natalia Kupershtokh. "Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering, USSR Academy of Sciences: The Chinese Vector." In 2020 Fifth International Conference “History of Computing in the Russia, former Soviet Union and Council for Mutual Economic Assistance countries” (SORUCOM). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/sorucom51654.2020.9465003.

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Cheremnykh, Natalya, and Galina Kurlyandchik. "Novosibirsk Branch of the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering of the USSR Academy of Sciences: History of Creation and Main Projects." In 2017 Fourth International Conference on Computer Technology in Russia and in the Former Soviet Union (SORUCOM). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/sorucom.2017.00041.

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Corves, Burkhard, Ju¨rgen Niemeyer, and Johannes Kloppenburg. "IGM-Mechanism Encyclopaedia and the Digital Mechanism Library as a Knowledge Base in Mechanism Theory." In ASME 2006 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2006-99059.

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The Institute of Mechanism Theory and Machine Dynamics of RWTH Aachen University houses a large collection of more than 200 mechanisms and models. Partly they are used to illustrate and visualize kinematic basics and methods taught to students. Furthermore these models are also used as a basis for mechanical designers looking for a solution to their motion tasks in different machinery such as packaging or processing machines. These models span a wide arch from historic models showing e.g. sewing machines from the late 19th century, typewriters from the early 20th century and acrylic glass models still used today in university lectures where they are placed on the overhead projector. With the swift development of the internet as the major base for information retrieval, new ideas about knowledge presentation have come up. Today it is obvious that fast and easy access to information is a major success factor in most areas both economics and science and is therefore of eminent importance. New developments in information technology and related software have created new possibilities for the presentation of scientific knowledge also in mechanism theory [1]. In this paper the IGM-Mechanism Encyclopaedia and the Digital Mechanism Library will be presented. Both use the possibilities of the internet to make basic and specific knowledge for the analysis and synthesis of mechanisms available to a broad public.
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Paniagua, G., C. H. Sieverding, and T. Arts. "Review of the von Karman Institute Compression Tube Facility for Turbine Research." In ASME Turbo Expo 2013: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2013-95984.

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Advances in turbine-based engine efficiency and reliability are achieved through better knowledge of the mechanical interaction with the flow. The life-limiting component of a modern gas turbine engine is the high-pressure (HP) turbine stage due to the arduous environment. For the same reason, real gas turbine engine operation prevents fundamental research. Various types of experimental approaches have been developed to study the flow and in particular the heat transfer, cooling, materials, aero-elastic issues and forced response in turbines. Over the last 30 years short duration facilities have dominated the research in the study of turbine heat transfer and cooling. Two decades after the development of the von Karman Institute compression tube facility (built in the 90s), one could reconsider the design choices in view of the modern technology in compression, heating, control and electronics. The present paper provides first the history of the development and then how the wind tunnel is operated. Additionally the paper disseminates the experience and best practices in specifically designed measurement techniques to both experimentalists and experts in data processing. The final section overviews the turbine research capabilities, providing details on the required upgrades to the test section.
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O¨zer Arnas, A. "On the History of ESDA: 1992 to Present." In ASME 8th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/esda2006-95822.

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The Engineering Systems Design and Analysis (ESDA) conference was started by the then Petroleum Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Petroleum Division was, and still is under the umbrella organization International Petroleum Technology Institute of ASME International, one of the very active, forward looking, and entrepreneurial group of engineers whose sole purpose is to serve their membership through technical activities that will benefit society at large. Their leaders have always been very creative, open minded, and helpful to the engineers they served as well as all who needed their expertise. It was under this type of leadership that ESDA was born in 1992. In 2000, after the 5th Biennial Conference in Montreux, Switzerland, a meeting was held by the Petroleum Division Chairman, the General and Technical Program Chairmen of ESDA 2000, two staff members from the Petroleum Division, the Chair of the Swiss Section, and the ASME Region XIII Vice President where it was decided to turn over the responsibilities for future conferences of ESDA to the international region of ASME, Region XIII. Thus, this, the third conference since then, has become the premier conference for this region of ASME and is still thriving at this the 8th Biennial Conference in Torino.
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Bras, Bert. "Teaching Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing at the Undergraduate Level: A Georgia Tech Perspective." In ASME 2003 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2003-42270.

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In this paper, an overview is given of the history and current implementation of an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering course titled “ME 4171 - Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing” at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This course was developed in late 1993 and has been taught every year since as an elective in Mechanical Engineering. The course is designed to give the students an opportunity to learn about environmentally conscious design and manufacture, the growing national and international efforts in reducing the environmental impact of products, and how environmental considerations affect the design’s technical, economical and quality requirements, and vice versa. In this paper, the philosophy behind the course, its objectives and outcomes, and its structure are discussed. The rationale for the course content is given in context of national and international developments in the area. Recommendations for curricular development are also provided.
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Ale, B. J. M. "The Explosion of a Fireworks Storage Facility and its Causes." In ASME 2001 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/sera-24014.

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Abstract On 13 may 2000 an explosion occurred in a fireworks storage and trading facility in Enschede, the Netherlands. Twenty-two people were killed and some 900 injured. The material damage was approximately 400 MEuro. Immediately after the accident an investigation was started into the causes of the accident. Special attention was given to the unexpected violence of the explosion. The investigative committee installed by the Government used results and advice of domestic and international institutes to obtain results. It appeared that the firm had a long history of violating permits, that the city had legalised these violations and that inspectorates and state institutions were not aware of the hazards thus created. Especially the importance of the correct classification of the fireworks and of the storage of the correct types and quantities went unnoticed. As a result prior to May 13 2000 most of the fireworks stored at the premises were more powerful than the labels indicated and in fact a significant part of the storage was mass-explosive contrary to the current permit.
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Jiang, Jingfeng, and Zhengfu Xu. "Regularization of Phase-Contrast MRI Velocity Measurements: Initial In Vivo Experience in a Canine Aneurysm Model." In ASME 2013 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2013-14752.

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According to the US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, incidence of reported intracranial aneurysm (IA) rupture is about 0.001%. In other words, there are thus about 27,000 people who may suffer stroke from ruptured cerebral aneurysms each year. The origin and natural history of IAs are closely associated with disturbed hemodynamics though exact mechanisms are unknown.[1, 2] Consequently, blood flow parameters measured from phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (PC-MRI) [3, 4] may provide insight not only into factors relevant to the development and progression of IAs but also into their short and long term responses to therapeutic interventions (e.g. coil embolization and stent deployment).
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Wilkman, Go¨ran, Tom Mattsson, and Mikko Niini. "First Experience in the Next Generation Ice Laboratory for Testing Ships and Structures." In 25th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2006-92647.

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Ice model testing has a history of almost 50 years. The first basin started operation in the middle of 1950ies in Russia by Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI). Ever since there has been a number of facilities built worldwide. In Finland the first facility was built by Wa¨rtsila¨ in 1969 for testing tankers intended for North-west passage (Manhattan project). In the eighties new facilities were built in Finland, Germany, Canada, Russia and Japan. In the present facility of Kvaerner Masa-Yards Arctic Technology (MARC) in Helsinki the operation started in 1983 under the name of Wa¨rtsila¨ Arctic Research Centre (WARC). The operation of the facility was originally planned to continue till 2011, but as part of the Helsinki City planning activity it was agreed that the facility is to end its successful work during 2005. In spring 2004 decisions were made by the new parent Aker Yards group and Aker Finnyards (that time Kvaerner Masa-Yards) to build a new facility and establish a separate company to handle ICE ISSUES for the whole Aker group. The new company, Aker Arctic Technology “AARC”, started operation in the beginning of 2005 and the new model testing facility was opened in February 2006. Aker Arctic Technology Inc. is owned by Aker Finnyards, Aker Kvaerner, Wa¨rtsila¨ and ABB. The services of the new company, in addition to the traditional model testing and related issues (environment studies, design bases and ship design concepts) will cover also total vessel design packages. This paper describes the novelties of the new ice model testing facility and reveals technical improvements, lessons learned and possibilities for more enhanced operation. Also the first experience in the new facility will be discussed.
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Kriner, Jeffrey B., Bradford P. Lytle, and John C. Lauri. "An Equipment Reliability Strategy and Maintenance Program for Improving the Reliability of Cranes at Commercial Nuclear Power Facilities." In 16th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone16-48467.

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Many commercial nuclear power facilities have been in operation well over 20 years, and many facilities have been or will have their original 40 year operating license renewed for an additional 20 years. The anticipated stresses to plant equipment and the longer service life increase the challenge to maintain reliable equipment performance. Establishing equipment maintenance programs that are effective and compliant with applicable regulations is critical to avoid unplanned equipment unavailability and the potential costs of lost generation. An equipment reliability (ER) strategy for commercial nuclear power plant equipment is described that considers the programmatic recommendations of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations ([1], [2]), Electric Power Research Institute ([3], [4], [5], [6]), Nuclear Energy Institute standard nuclear business model [7], Nuclear Regulatory Commission ([8], [9], [10], [11]), and industry societies and working groups, such as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ([12], [13]). All ER strategies must properly implement mandatory requirements and commitments ([14], [15], [16]). Additionally, ER strategies should also consider the appropriate manufacturer/vendor recommendations, industry and plant personnel operating experience feedback, equipment operating and maintenance history information, etc. As a result, the ER strategy includes reviewing multiple information sources to inform the decisions to either include or exclude the specific maintenance activities that impact reliability. Ultimately the maintenance program is tailored for each equipment application and implements the necessary maintenance activities while avoiding the cost of performing unnecessary maintenance activities.
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