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Okeke-Agulu, Chika. "Studio Call." Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 2020, no. 47 (November 1, 2020): 114–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10757163-8719692.
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In February 2020, the author spent a day with Penny Siopis in her studio at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, to discuss the artist’s new ink and wood-glue paintings, which she adopted in 2008 as her primary painting medium. This new direction is quite significant for an artist who, in the 1980s at the height of the antiapartheid movement, made ardently realistic figurative oil and mixed-media paintings that signified the psychic detritus of apartheid’s pathologies. The weighty sparseness of Siopis’s Cake paintings (1981–81) and the airless excess of the History paintings (late 1980s) might have been the artist’s way of both dealing with and reflecting on the psychology of apartheid as the institution lurched to its inevitable end in 1990. In the early 2000s, before settling on ink and wood glue, Siopis spent a few years producing oil and ink paintings that contributed to the making of postapartheid trauma art—investigations into the psychic, moral, and ethical abjections of apartheid in the wake of testimonies from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Her ink and glue works represent the conjunction of material, process, and subject matter: Siopis relies on and is challenged by the unpredictable mixing and flow of ink, glue, and water—material acts, as she calls them—that evolve as the sum and interplay of autonomous agencies of medium and artist. Siopis’s most recent work in this medium and her film She Breathes Water (2019) allegorize global warming and the devastating impact of human exploitation of nature—elegies to present and coming catastrophes.
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Roussev, Ivan, and Pencho Penchev. "On the Early History of the Firms in the Ottoman Balkans: A Coasean Approach." Hiperboreea 9, no. 2 (December 1, 2022): 203–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/hiperboreea.9.2.0203.
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Abstract This article puts the well-known Coasean concept of the firm into the concrete historical environment of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Balkans. The goal is to test whether it can explain the establishment of the first modern firms in conditions predominated by a self-sufficient semimarket economy. On the basis of Bulgarian-owned firms, the authors find that the Coasean concept is useful in explaining the establishment of and the benefits from the firms during the proto-industrial period. The authors contribute to the available literature by adding some clarifications to the main question of Coase concerning the existence of the firms. The firm provides the necessary financial and human capital in sectors such as silk, wool, and textile production and leather goods, where the proto-industrial organization of production is first and foremost applied. The organization of the Bulgarian firms clearly shows the success formula for the presence of a company with small (sometimes even decreasing) capital not only on the relatively huge Ottoman market but even outside it (Wallachia, Georgia) for a long period of time—from approximately the 1820s to the third quarter of the nineteenth century.
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Purba, Parlindungan, Samerdanta Sinulingga, Riko Andika Rahmat Pohan Pohan, and Achmad Husein Siregar. "Making instagram film to improve sales of wooden and bamboo basic products products sanggar arts nggara simbelin in village Lingga Karo district." ABDIMAS TALENTA: Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat 4, no. 2 (December 12, 2019): 723–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.32734/abdimastalenta.v4i2.4220.
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In the context of tourism, supporting facilities such as shops / souvenir businesses has a strategic position in its existence, because it is ‘secondary travel needs’. This secondary travel needs are produced and marketed by a an art studio called Nggara Simbelin art studio located in Lingga village. This art studio is the supporting for tourism existence in the Karo District to date, which has been providing souvenirs based on wood, however this souvenir business has various problems. One of which is marketing,it is weak so that it sometimes results in a build-up of goods of those souvenir in the warehouse. During the 4.0 industrial revolution, information is not only as needs however it has become a primary need for millennials today, and nature and local creativity are highly valued interests for tourists. Therein lies the opportunity, where in this research will be packed as an advertisment in the form of a film teaser to support business marketing souvenir so that it can become a commodity information for millennial tourists who visited tourist sites in the Karo District. The movie teaser is expected to increase sales of souvenir products made from wood from Nggara Simbelin art studio in Lingga Village. This study uses the science of phenomenology, participant observation techniques, with data analysis: (1) data reduction; (2) presentation data; and (3) drawing conclusions / verification. The making of tourism films in this study uses 2 theories, a secondary theory, namely: the theory of film making with 3 working indicators: pre-production, production and postproduction of films, while the primary theory is: film theory as a tourism promotion media with 4 working indicators: color, features, properties and ratios. The results of the application of the seven working indicators of the theory produces a true tourism film as a tourism promotion media. From this research, the next study we will examine how is the impact of this advertisment on the sale of wooden souvenirs for the Nggara Simbelin art gallery.
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ALI, MONA F., HALA A. M. AFIFI, and AML M. LOTFY. "ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATIONS ON A FIRED STUCCO WINDOW IN THE ISLAMIC ART MUSEUM STORE OF CAIRO, EGYPT." Journal of Science and Arts 21, no. 3 (September 30, 2021): 789–806. http://dx.doi.org/10.46939/j.sci.arts-21.3-b01.
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The stucco window in this study is kept in the stores of the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, Egypt, and bears the number 454/7. This window has been exposed to many damage factors, the most important of which is the fire that broke out in the museum in 2006 AD, in addition to the effect of the water that was used to extinguish the fire. This research aims to study the components of the window (stucco - glass - wood) and identify the transformations resulting from the effect of fire using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy coupled with EDX, X-ray diffraction, and infrared spectroscopy. In addition, the microbiological damage resulting from the moisture that saturates the plaster and wood was investigated.
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Akbar, Moh Rifaldi. "Redefining Orientalism Through “Squid Game”: Sentiment Analysis And Word Cloud R Studio." Metacommunication; Journal of Communication Studies 9, no. 1 (April 1, 2024): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.20527/mc.v1i1.18794.
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This article aims to redefine Edward Said's definition of orientalism in the era of contemporary communication and information technology through the comments column for the film Squid Game on the IMDB (internet movie database) website. This paper argues that the Orientalist attitude of a dominant English-speaking country such as the United States emerged as a consequence of its white superior hegemony. In the midst of this orientalist attitude, today's communication and information technology has become a discursive channel for the world community to conduct ongoing discussions on films by Asians. By using the text in the comment column for the film Squid Game on IMDB.com as a case example, this article provides a discussion regarding the need to rethink the conceptual definition of orientalism today. This paper uses a digital research methodology with analysis tools using R Studio with two types of analysis, namely word cloud and sentiment analysis. By utilizing the programming language functions available in R Studio, this paper mines text from the IMDB.com comments column for the film Squid Game. This article contains results obtained from digital research methods, namely the Squid Game comments column focuses on characters, plot, acting and story. Meanwhile, sentiment analysis shows the dominance of positive sentiment and some negative sentiment. Therefore, this article argues that the battle between negative and positive sentiments in the Squid Game comments column is a means of resetting the negative stigma towards Asian films and eroding the orientalist attitudes that the West oppresses towards "the East."
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Esch, Kevin. "““What is your favorite word?”” Myth and Method Inside the Actors Studio." Film Quarterly 60, no. 4 (2007): 44–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2007.60.4.44.
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ABSTRACT The cable television show Inside the Actors Studio struggles to preserve a mythology of film acting as it negotiates the consumerism of the Hollywood industry. This negotiation happens both through the show's orientation to the talk-show genre and the function and impact of its polarizing host James Lipton.
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Newland, Paul. "‘I didn't think I'd be working on this type of film’: Berberian Sound Studio and British Art Film as Alternative Film History." Journal of British Cinema and Television 13, no. 2 (April 2016): 262–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2016.0312.
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It could be said that the films of the director Peter Strickland are in many ways exemplars of a rich strain of twenty-first-century British art cinema. Like work by Andrea Arnold, Steve McQueen, Jonathan Glazer, Lynne Ramsay, Ben Wheatley and Sam Taylor-Wood, among others, Strickland's three feature-length films to date are thought-provoking, well-crafted, prestigious, quality productions. But in this article I show that while Strickland's second feature-length film, Berberian Sound Studio, conforms to some of the commonly held understandings of the key traits of British art cinema – especially through its specific history of production and exhibition, its characterisation, its narrative structure, and its evidencing of the vision of an auteur – ultimately it does not sit comfortably within most extant histories of British national cinema or film genre, including art cinema. More than this, though, I argue that in its challenge to such extant critical traditions, Berberian Sound Studio effectively operates as ‘art film as alternative film history’. I demonstrate that it does this through the foregrounding of Strickland's cine-literacy, which notices and in turn foregrounds the historically transnational nature of cinema, and, at the same time, playfully and knowingly disrupts well-established cultural categories and coherent, homogenous histories of cinema.
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Bošeľa, M., R. Petráš, and Š. Šmelko. "Site classification vs. wood production: a case study based on Silver fir growth dynamics in the Western Carpathians." Journal of Forest Science 57, No. 10 (October 17, 2011): 409–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/34/2011-jfs.
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We analysed wood production on an example of Silver fir growth ability within site units defined in the site classification that is currently used in the Western Carpathians. It has arisen as a very important issue, since the site units have been widely used in forestry practice and, moreover, it represents one of the input variables of growth model. Research plots established for development of a yield model for Silver fir in the sixties were used. The Korf growth equation was used to model the Silver fir growth, since it showed the best fit to the data compared to other equations. The test of residual variance of the growth models and the test of regression coefficients of the growth models were employed to investigate the differences in top-height growth of Silver fir occurring on different sites. Results showed a very high variability of the top height development within the site units. Nevertheless, two main groups of sites being different from each other were recognized. But, significant differences in the height growth of fir between site units were found mainly in mature stands starting at the age of 60, which could be due to different soil depth and nutrient regime. Lastly, discussions about the approaches to site classifications all over the world showed many alternatives used to develop a classification scheme with different and in many cases unknown precision, and thus there is a need for the objectivity of classification.
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Lee, Michael, and Sarah Reichardt Ellis. "Fractured Reasons and Fractured Reason in I Walked with a Zombie." Journal of Film Music 10, no. 2 (December 16, 2022): 69–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jfm.24720.
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I Walked with a Zombie, a poetic horror film from 1943, enjoys widespread and intense admiration of a sort rarely bestowed on a “B” horror film from the studio era. Robin Wood (2003) sees the film as the genre’s finest and has observed that its treatment of the genre’s signal dichotomy of Superstition vs. Reason results in a series of expressive doublings within the film. This article amplifies Wood’s admiration by examining the film’s approach to music. Its soundtrack features the work of two composers. RKO’s Roy Webb offers the Western perspective of Reason while Haitian musician LeRoy Antoine provides the Caribbean perspective associated with Voodooism. By looking at the musical doublings in the film, this article argues that music functions in the film to further dismantle the posture of Reason. This film, more than any the author can think of from the era, criticizes the colonial project and dismantles the Western notion that any single perspective or explanatory model can lead to a sufficient understanding of human affairs.
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Houssni, Joseph. "Image and Word." Religion and the Arts 27, no. 3 (June 12, 2023): 367–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02703003.
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Abstract The rapport between religion and film is not only historical but also ontological. The Abrahamic faiths specifically (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism) and the audio-visual medium of cinema share a complex affiliation with reference to two of their foundational elements: image and word. Building on the constitutive kernels of the Abrahamic religion of Islam (image and word), this paper will locate and define its formal manifestations in cinema; in other words, the way in which the conception of image and word at Islam marks film form. This endeavor will be sustained by calling upon some distinctive film cases of the so-called New Iranian Cinema. In particular, Offside (2006) and This Is Not a Film (2011) by Jafar Panahi, and Close-up (1990) by Abbas Kiarostami, as well as other films, will be utilized for analysis in order to delineate the qualities of the claimed religious film form in question. These films are selected as they foreground and thus play out the dialectic of image and word, their absence and their presence.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Wood Studio (Firm)"
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Heidt, Todd W. "Modernity in Word and Image: Narrative Literature and Film in Weimar Germany." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1265989144.
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Örtqvist, Daniel. "Adoption, use and influence of computer based information systems for product development : qualitative studies of small firms within the wood industry." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Innovation och Design, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-17582.
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Research about small firm product development has increased. Firm internal forces have earlier been mentioned to be crucial for success in product development management. A more recent approach has been to focus on firm external forces concerning product development. Studies have focused on sources for product development, and only very few studies focus on the information systems used for addressing external parties in product development related work. Techniques and methods for enhancing the management and work with product development are central, why it is argued to be important to concentrate on the role of the media for information and communication between the firms that develops new products and its environment. It has been argued that the media Computer Based Information Systems (henceforth CBIS) can improve business processes, although the fast emergence of the research area leaves few studies supporting their arguments and propositions with empirical material. Furthermore, few have come to address the small firm context. As a response, this licentiate thesis includes a pre-study, which questions how and why small firms use CBIS for product development. A part of the purpose with the pre-study is also to identify how further research, in the form of the main study, can address this research area. The results, from interviews with 36 CEOs of small firms in the wood industry, reveal two distinct usage areas of CBIS for product development: unilateral (i.e. information gathering) and multilateral (i.e. communicative) usage. The main study sets out to address questions such as: Why do some small firms use CBIS for product development? How do these small firms use CBIS for product development? How does these small firms use of CBIS influence their product development? The main interest in the main study is to have an in-depth focus of the empirical material; wherefore interviews with informants from two firms have been conducted. Interview technique resembling narratives have been used to focus on histories and processes of product development within the firms. The results are divided into three areas. 1) The adoption of CBIS in the firm and for product development. This seems to be influenced by the perceived necessity to use CBIS, the perceived benefits with using CBIS and the CBIS competence possessed or accessed. 2) The use and influences of CBIS on product development, which can be divided into unilateral and multilateral use of CBIS. Media selection theories are argued as important for understanding why CBIS is used, and the influence CBIS has on product development is related to the reasons for selection the specific media. 3) Contextual influences are discussed as influencing the use of CBIS for product development in the contexts of the product, the firm and the firm's environment.Godkänd; 2005; 20070103 (haneit)
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Örtqvist, Daniel. "Adoption, use and influence of computer based information systems for product development : qualitative studies of small firms within the wood industry /." Luleå, 2005. http://epubl.luth.se/1402-1757/2005/01.
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Nilsson, Ida, and Dennis Svensson. "Samverkansbjälklag : En studie om KL-platta med samverkande betong." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-49152.
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether timber-concrete composite (TCC) floors made of a CLT-deck and casted concrete could be used as a method for increasing the use of wood as a building material. Method: The methods used in this degree project were a literature study, in which a number of laws of construction and different connector systems were studied, as well as an experiment consisting of bending tests on CLT-decks with casted concrete where SFS VB-screws were used as shear connectors. Results: The TCC-beams in the experiment behaved as expected and went to bending failure. The beams displayed an almost invisible slip between the materials despite the low composite action of 40,2 %. In addition, the beams had a higher bending stiffness on average than CLT-beams of the same height would have. Conclusions: Compared to floors made entirely of wood, TCC-floors with CLT add extra mass, stiffness, and better acoustic properties to the construction while maintaining a low floor height. The three main types of connectors used in TCC floors are mechanical, notched and glued-in connectors, where the latter two generates higher composite action and stiffness. Adhesive connection is another method with great potential, but there is still more research needed for this type of connection to be used.
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Cozma, Codrina. "The power of the spoken word : literature in the American mass media of the 1990s." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001223.
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Rodriguez, Rene Thomas. "Auteurs at an Urban Crossroads: A Certain Tendency in New York Cinema." Scholar Commons, 2015. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5564.
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Perhaps more than any other major American city in the 1970s, New York represented the decline of an urban existence. Job loss from factors related to deindustrialization and intense crime occupied local and national news, reflecting the increasing anxiety of America's future. New York City was positioned at the center of this frightening chaos. Films made during this period, known by film scholars and journalists as the "New Hollywood" captured the collective temperament of the people and the physical space they inhabit during its disintegration. The depiction of New York during the 1970s has been widely discussed in the writing on two key New York City directors, Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese. Scholars like Ellis Cashmore and Charles Silet have argued about Allen and Scorsese's depiction of New York respectively, however, they have not adequately offered a fully comprehensive study of their works collected together in order to uncover New York's decline. Specifically, this Thesis, examines the films made by Allen and Scorsese during the 1970s, specifically, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Mean Streets, and Taxi Driver. I explore the disparities and philosophies that both auteurs express in their depiction of the same urban space. Although the films are not documentaries, they do however; offer a faithful portrayal of a city in transition. By closely examining their works together, I offer a new perspective of New York's culturally diverse population transforming from a working class industrial landscape to one influenced by the principles of Neoliberalism.
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Hall, Kenneth Estes. "Entries (4) on Filmmaker John Woo and Three of His Films." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/452.
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Book Summary: Commended for their social relevance and artistic value, Chinese films remain at the forefront of international cinema, bolstered in recent years by a new generation of talented young filmmakers. Directory of World Cinema: China presents an accessible overview of the definitive films of Hong Kong and mainland China, with particular attention to the achievements of prolific industry figures, the burgeoning independent sector, and the embrace of avant-garde practices of art cinema. Spanning a variety of characteristic genres, including horror, heroic bloodshed, romantic comedy, and kung-fu, reviews cover individual titles in considerable depth and are accompanied by a selection of full-color film stills. A comprehensive filmography and a bibliography of recommended reading complete this essential companion to Chinese cinema.
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Lehto, Fredrik, and Hampus Gunnstam. "Marknadskommunikation för småföretag i byggbranschen : En kvalitativ studie om hur småföretag inom byggbranschenanvänder marknadskommunikation för att skapa försäljning påkonsumentmarknaden." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-37631.
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Marketing is in a constant change where several industries are going from a traditional marketing towards a more digital marketing aspect. Precisely for the construction industry, previous studies show that small enterprises have not kept up with developments and believe that small enterprises in the construction industry often have a lack of knowledge in the field of marketing communication. The study is based on a qualitative research method with a deductive applied approach.The study is based on empirical data collected from six small enterprises in the construction industry in Dalarna. With the support of theory and previous research, the study has been able to resume how small enterprises in the construction industry work with marketing communication to create sales. The research study results in, that small enterprises in the construction industry using both traditional and digital marketing communications. Results of various traditional marketing communications used by small enterprises are business cards, flyers, logos on vehicles and sponsorship to create customer recognition and trust. Small enterprises also use digital marketing communications in the form of websites and social media to make it easier for customers to find them and create interaction with their customers. Through this marketing communications, small enterprises can create sales to their companies.Marknadsföringsarbetet befinner sig i en ständig förändring där flera branscher går från ett traditionellt marknadsföringsarbete till ett mer digitalt marknadsföringsarbete. Just för byggbranschen visar tidigare studier på att småföretag inom byggbranschen inte har hängt med i utvecklingen och menar på att småföretag inom byggbranschen ofta har bristande kunskap inom marknadskommunikationens område. Problemet som uppstår är dels att småföretagen får nöja sig med generella teorier och modeller, dels att småföretagen ofta ha rbegränsade resurser. Samtidigt visar studier på att konsumenter inom byggbranschen upplever det svårt att hitta hantverkare vilket leder studien in på hur småföretag inom byggbranschen använder marknadskommunikation för att skapa försäljning på konsumentmarknaden. Studien har utgångspunkt i en kvalitativ forskningsmetod med en deduktiv tillämpad ansats. Studien baseras på empiri insamlad från sex småföretag inom byggbranschen i Dalarna som tillsammans utgör den empiriska data som uppfyller studiens syfte. Med stöd av teori och tidigare forskning har studien kommit fram till hur småföretag inom byggbranschen arbetar med marknadskommunikation för att skapa försäljning. Forskningsstudien resulterar i att småföretag inom byggbranschen använder sig av både traditionell-/ och digital marknadskommunikation. Resultatet av olika traditionella marknadskommunikationer som småföretagen använder är visitkort, reklamblad, logotyper på arbetsfordon och sponsring för att skapa igenkänning och förtroende hos kunder. Småföretagen använder även digitala marknadskommunikationer i form av webbsidor och sociala medier för att göra det lättare för kunder att hitta dem samt skapa interaktion med sina kunder. Generella slutsatser är att småföretag inom byggbranschen ofta strukturerar sin marknadskommunikation efter resurser eller eget intresse och att huvudsyftet med marknadskommunikationen grundar sig i att skapa igenkänning och förtroende för varumärket. Genom dessa marknadskommunikationer har småföretag inom byggbranschen möjlighet att skapa försäljning.
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Kwak, Yung Bin. "The origin of Korean Trauerspiel: Gwangju, stasis, justice." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5009.
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My dissertation, entitled, The Origin of Korean Trauerspiel: Gwangju, Stasis, Justice, argues that the vertiginous vicissitudes of contemporary South Korea since 1997 can be best described in terms of what Walter Benjamin calls Trauerspiel, or Mourning Play. This project identifies the 15-year period as the time-space of a series of suspended and thwarted mourning, in which death, be it in the past or present, hardly partakes of the economy of justice or sacrifice as it putatively does in tragedy in view of a new community to come.
Drawing attention to the peculiar interplay between two contemporary catalysts of stasis, or civil war, i.e., the special amnesty granted in 1997 to ex-President Chun Doo-Hwan for his executive role in the Gwangju Massacre in May 1980 and the U.S. War on Terror since 2002, for which 3 Korean civilian hostages were kidnapped and brutally executed in 2004 and 2007, I argue that both serve to render naught the sublime causes (e.g. Democracy, Justice, and Peace) as well as human lives sacrificed in relation to them, generating a genuine crisis of politics and ethics.
By analyzing contemporary Korean cinema (e.g. films by Park Chan-wook, Bong Jun-ho, and Kim Jee-woon) and literature (e.g. Kim Hoon) of this period as allegory of this crisis, I show how attempts at doing justice are complicated and increasingly frustrated by progressive dissolution of a series of traditional distinctions between Victim and Perpetrator, Friend and Enemy, and Justice and Vengeance, leading to universal failures of mourning, only to constitute a vast singular Trauerspiel, or Mourning Play.
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Lundholm, Kelly, and Emma Hillerbratt. "Hampa som isoleringsmaterial : En studie av hampas isolerande egenskaper och materialets framtida möjligheter." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för byggteknik (BY), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-105853.
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Historically, energy use in the operational phase has accounted for most of a building’s climate impact. This has been changed in recent decades because there has been a focus on developing energy-efficient buildings. A larger part of a building’s climate impact is caused by material manufacturing and production. To reduce a building’s climate impact alternative insulation materials can be used, for example hemp fibre insulation which is an organic and non-toxic material. The aim of this study is to find out if hemp fibre insulation can be implemented as a standard insulation material. By examining what factors are vital when choosing an insulation material this work intends to find out if the insulation properties of hemp insulation can fulfill the requirements by the constructor. To fulfill the aim, a combination of interviews, surveys and theoretical studies was used. The most crucial aspects when choosing insulation material are fire resistance, thermal conductivity and health aspects for the construction workers. The benefits with hemp insulation are primarily the negative emissions of carbon dioxide seen from a life cycle perspective, the possibility to cultivate the product within Sweden, its reusability and recyclability and that the insulation material are free from hazardous substances. The disadvantages are higher thermal conductivity, higher market price, lower fire resistance and limited accessibility on the Swedish market. Due to the disadvantages, it is difficult to implement hemp insulation as a standard insulation material today. The conclusions are that the environmental impact is not decisive for an entrepreneur today when choosing insulation material. However, it will most likely become a more essential factor in the future. Improving the building sector’s knowledge regarding hemp insulation, will presumably increase the usage of it. Although, for hemp insulation to become a competitor in the future, it is substantial to increase its fire resistance and the accessibility on the Swedish market. The development of the material and the market may be a contributing factor to achieve the global and national environmental goals.
Books on the topic "Wood Studio (Firm)"
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Riella, Alberto. Explorando la calidad del empleo en la forestación: Un estudio de caso. Montevideo, Uruguay: DS, 2009.
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Girgus, Sam B. The films of Woody Allen. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency., ed. At home in the woods: Lessons learned in the wildland/urban interface. [Colorado Springs, Colo.]: U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, FEMA, 2004.
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Kim, Soyoung. Korean Cinema in Global Contexts. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463729147.
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Offering the most comprehensive analysis of Korean cinema from its early history to the present, and including the films of Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-young, Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster and Trans-Cinema situates itself in the local, Inter-Asian, and transnational contexts by mobilizing the critical frameworks of feminism, postcolonial critique and comparative film studies. It is attentive to an enmeshment of the cinematic, aesthetics, politics and cultural history.
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Cech, John. Imagination and innovation: The story of Weston Woods. New York, NY: Scholastic Press, 2009.
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Gabel, Stephan H. Selected word fields for English & American studies: Books, literature, reading & writing, plays, theatre & the stage, press & journalism, tevelevision & radio, film, cinema & photography. Münster: Aschendorff, 2003.
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Gehring, Wes D. Parody as Film Genre. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400695346.
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Parody is the least appreciated of all film comedy genres and receives little serious attention, even among film fans. This study elevates parody to mainstream significance. A historical overview places the genre in context, and a number of basic parody components, which better define the genre and celebrate its value, are examined. Parody is differentiated from satire, and the two parody types, traditional and reaffirmation, are explained. Chapters study the most spoofed genre in American parody history, the Western; pantheon members of American Film Comedy such as The Marx Brothers, W. C. Fields, Mae West, and Laurel and Hardy; pivotal parody artists, Bob Hope and Woody Allen; Mel Brooks, whose name is often synonymous with parody; and finally, parody in the 1990s. Films discussed include Destry Rides Again (1939), The Road to Utopia (1945), My Favorite Brunette (1947), The Paleface (1948), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) and Scream (1996). This examination of parody will appeal to scholars and students of American film and film comedy, as well as those interested in the specific comedians discussed and the Western genre. Gehring's work will also find a place in American pop culture studies and sociological studies of the period from the 1920s to the 1990s. The book is carefully documented and includes a selected bibliography and filmography.
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Mackey, Brendan, David Lindenmayer, Malcolm Gill, Michael McCarthy, and Janette Lindesay, eds. Wildlife, Fire and Future Climate. CSIRO Publishing, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643090040.
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The conservation of Earth's forest ecosystems is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. All of Earth's ecosystems now face the spectre of the accelerated greenhouse effect and rates of change in climatic regimes that have hitherto been unknown. In addition, multiple use forestry – where forests are managed to provide for both a supply of wood and the conservation of biodiversity – can change the floristic composition and vegetation structure of forests with significant implications for wildlife habitat.
Wildlife, fire and future climate: a forest ecosystem analysis explores these themes through a landscape-wide study of refugia and future climate in the tall, wet forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria. It represents a model case study for the kind of integrated investigation needed throughout the world in order to deal with the potential response of terrestrial ecological systems to global change. The analyses presented in this book represent one of the few ecosystem studies ever undertaken that has attempted such a complex synthesis of fire, wildlife, vegetation, and climate.
Wildlife, fire and future climate: a forest ecosystem analysis is written by an experienced team of leading world experts in fire ecology, modelling, terrain and climate analysis, vegetation and wildlife habitat. Their collaboration on this book represents a unique and exemplary, multi-disciplinary venture.
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Sustainable Public Buildings Designed and Constructed in Wood. RTU Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7250/9789934225758.
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The handbook presents significant theoretical and practical solutions in design, construction and management of sustainable wooden public buildings, based on experiences in five countries – Lithuania, Denmark, UK, Finland and Latvia, as well as in the international context. Understanding of sustainable development and the importance of wooden construction discussed, properties of wood as a construction material analysed, design solutions, including moisture, fire safety and acoustical considerations provided, wooden construction project and process management addressed, use and maintenance, including planning and inspections described, most common reasons of failures identified. The handbook is primary intended for undergraduate students who study design and construction of sustainable buildings. The presented materials are relevant not only in the academic context, but may be significant to all stakeholders in construction and real estate markets who are committed to sustainable construction in wood.
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Gautreau, Justin. The Last Word. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190944551.001.0001.
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The Last Word argues that the Hollywood novel opened up space for cultural critique of the film industry at a time when the industry lacked the capacity to critique itself. While the young studio system worked tirelessly to burnish its public image in the wake of celebrity scandal, several industry insiders wrote fiction to fill in what newspapers and fan magazines left out. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, these novels aimed to expose the invisible machinery of classical Hollywood cinema, including not only the evolving artifice of the screen but also the promotional discourse that complemented it. As likeminded filmmakers in the 1940s and 1950s gradually brought the dark side of the industry to the screen, however, the Hollywood novel found itself struggling to live up to its original promise of delivering the unfilmable. By the 1960s, desperate to remain relevant, the genre had devolved into little more than erotic fantasy of movie stars behind closed doors, perhaps the only thing the public couldn’t already find elsewhere. Still, given their unique ability to speak beyond the institutional restraints of their time, these earlier works offer a window into the industry’s dynamic creation and re-creation of itself in the public imagination.
Book chapters on the topic "Wood Studio (Firm)"
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Mallinson, Jonathan. "8. 1919–23: A Lone Furrow." In William Moorcroft, Potter, 163–84. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0349.08.
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This chapter deals with the short-lived post-war boom, and its aftermath. Surviving factory documents record the continuing (and growing) demand for Moorcroft’s ware, long after other manufacturers struggled to stay afloat. Contemporary correspondence and reviews reveal his enterprise and sense of purpose. At a time of economic slowdown and widespread retrenchment, Moorcroft expanded his facilities, building kilns for both flambé and lustre ware, and defiantly maintaining production through the miners’ strikes of 1920 and 1921, firing his ovens with wood. His trade income continued to increase, allowing him to offset rising prices and to retain his rates of pay, which, in the industry as a whole, were declining steadily. What is striking about Moorcroft’s commercial success is that it was based on designs characterised by their sensitivity, rather than their appeal to fashion. Wares commemorating the Armistice were widely praised for their simple dignity, his lustre wares stirred the imagination of private correspondents and critics alike with their haunting iridescence, and his decorative designs brought serenity to a troubled post-war world. Moorcroft stood apart as an artist potter; as one store put it: ‘Once seen, your sense of the beautiful will never allow you to forget Moorcroft Ware’. The pottery was the expression of the artist. His own advertisements often displayed no more than his name and his signature, eloquently and succinctly conveying the individuality of his ware. Moorcroft openly distinguished himself from pottery manufacturers whose Federation he declined to join, and this distinctiveness was openly recognised. He was often referred to in reviews as an individual rather than as a firm, and his pottery pointedly depicted as a ‘studio ware’, just at the time when Bernard Leach and other independent potters were attracting the attention of critics. Reviews often identified qualities highlighted too in the work of studio potters, and his exhibition pieces commanded the same high prices as the finest studio wares. Against this background of success, Liberty’s decided, quite unprompted, to convert their (secured) debentures into (unsecured) shares, putting their investment on the same financial footing as Moorcroft’s own. At a time of growing economic uncertainty, this was a telling indication of their confidence in the artistic quality and commercial potential of his pottery.
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Kontis, Christos, Christoforos Tsichlas, Dionysios I. Kolaitis, and Maria A. Founti. "Fire Performance of CLT Members: A Detailed Review of Experimental Studies Across Multiple Scales." In Wood & Fire Safety, 251–57. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41235-7_38.
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Kuznetsov, Geniy V., Ivan S. Voitkov, Roman S. Volkov, Yuliana K. Atroshenko, and Pavel A. Strizhak. "Experimental Studies of the Localization of Combustion of Forest Fuel Material Using a Water Barrier Line." In Wood & Fire Safety, 335–40. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41235-7_49.
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Kasepalu, Reet, Stella Polikarpus, Kärt Reitel, and Regina Kaasik. "Report from Case Studies: Fire Chemistry and Fire Visualisation in the Classroom." In Wood & Fire Safety 2024, 106–15. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59177-8_13.
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Koo, J. H., W. Wootan, W. K. Chow, H. W. Au Yeung, and S. Venumbaka. "Flammability Studies of Fire Retardant Coatings on Wood." In ACS Symposium Series, 361–74. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2001-0797.ch028.
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Calorio, Giacomo. "“What is contemporary Japanese Cinema?”. Questioning the answers, answering with questions." In Studi e saggi, 11–27. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-260-7.01.
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The English title of a recent book by renowned film scholar Yomota Inuhiko reads: “What is Japanese Cinema?”. In the preface to the English edition Yomota states that the direction we might take, should we try to provide an answer to the question, changes according to which word, “Japanese” or “Cinema” we choose to emphasize. When his survey reaches the recent past, the Japanese scholar describes the 2000s as “an era of chaos”. Starting from these questions and affirmations, and combining them with others made by scholars such as David Bordwell, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Andrew Dorman and Mori Naoyuki, the following article attempts to explore a more specific doubt: “What is contemporary Japanese cinema”? In so doing, however, other questions arise, as we need to define when contemporaneity starts and what makes it different both from previous eras, and from the contemporaneity of other national cinemas. The further we probe, the more complex our definition becomes.
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Hermosa-Ramírez, Irene. "Chapter 8. Opera audio description in the spoken-written language continuum." In Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 142–56. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/scl.113.08her.
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Corpus linguistics research on audio description (AD) – the verbal rendering of visual information generally targeted at people with visual impairment – has focused on film and museums. The present corpus gathers opera AD scripts from the Liceu opera house (Bacelona) and Teatro Real (Madrid), and sorts them into four subcorpora, two devoted to AD throughout the performance and two comprising audio introductions (AI). I set to interrogate where opera AD falls in the spoken-written language continuum. The results suggest that all subcorpora are of a high lexical density, and in terms of lexical variation, the standardised type-token ratio remains below 50%. The mean sentence and word length, and the Flesch-Szigriszt readability results lead us to place the AIs closer to written language than ADs.
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Müller, Matthias. "‘Where No Man Has Gone Before …’: Coptic Patterns for Locative Adverbial Clauses." In Crossroads VI: Between Egyptian Linguistics and Philology, 159–90. Widmaier Verlag, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.37011/studmon.30.07.
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Locative adverbial clauses of the type ‘Where there is smoke, there is fire’ lead a drab existence in most grammars, not only those of the Coptic language. The present paper aims to describe the Coptic patterns for the first time. Lacking a specific connector, Coptic uses an appositive construction with the word ‘place,’ usually marked as definite, followed by a (restrictive or non-restrictive) relative clause. The use of the locative interrogative ‘where’ is limited to indirect questions.
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Starbuck, William H. "Keeping a Butterfly and an Elephant in a House of Cards: The Elements of Exceptional Success." In The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge, 371–401. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195138665.003.0021.
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Abstract My wife and I were eating dinner with Donna and Joe. Joe asked what I had been doing lately. I explained that I had been studying knowledge-intensive firms-ones that earn revenues from specialized expertise. I cited the Rand Corporation and Arthur D. Little as examples, and briefly described their work. Joe, a partner in a prominent Park Avenue law firm, asked if I had studied any law firms. With insufficient tact and excessive confidence, I told him I had not. I understood law firms to make most of their revenues by routinely generating standardized documents such as contracts, stock offerings, or wills. Because legal word-processing systems are widely available, because all lawyers have adequate basic knowledge, and because law firms employ lawyers with diverse skills, clients can readily substitute one law firm for another. My interest lay, I said, in firms that are renowned for their unusual expertise. Joe replied quietly that he thought I was misjudging law firms in general, and more important, that some law firms do have reputations for unusual expertise. I asked him to suggest such a firm for me to study.
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Starbuck, William H. "Keeping a Butterfly and an Elephant in a House of Cards: The Elements of Exceptional Success." In Organizational Realities, 302–39. Oxford University PressOxford, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199288519.003.0013.
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Abstract My wife and I were eating dinner with Donna and Joe. Joe asked what I had been doing lately. I explained that I had been studying knowledge-intensive firms—ones that earn revenues from specialized expertise. I cited the Rand Corporation and Arthur D. Little as examples, and briefly described their work. Joe, a partner in a prominent Park Avenue law firm, asked if I had studied any law firms. With insufficient tact and excessive confidence, I told him I had not. I understood law firms to make most of their revenues by routinely generating standardized documents such as contracts, stock offerings, or wills. Because legal word-processing systems are widely available, because all lawyers have adequate basic knowledge, and because law firms employ lawyers with diverse skills, clients can readily substitute one law firm for another. My interest lay, I said, in firms that are renowned for their unusual expertise.
Conference papers on the topic "Wood Studio (Firm)"
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Snegireva, Svetlana, Aleksey Platonov, and Ekaterina Kantieva. "FORMATIONOFTHESTRUCTUREOFTHEANNUALLAYEROFORDINARY PINE DAMAGED BY FIRE." In GREEN ECONOMY: IFOREST. FSBE Institution of Higher Education Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.34220/zeif2022_109-112.
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The article presents the results of experimental studies of the effect of forest fires on the structure of the annual layer and its parts of pine wood. The harmful effect of forest fires is expressed, first of all, in the direct destruction and damage of wood by fire. Wood raw materials harvested from various growing conditions differ in a number of qualitative indicators. In the practical use of wood damaged by fire, the characteristics of the macrostructure are used for a preliminary assessment of its quality, calculated for the most part according to the parameters of the annual layer. The revealed changes in the pre-fire and post-fire growth of wood will allow us to judge the quality and vital activity of pine stands growing in forest-steppe conditions.
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Platonov, Aleksey, A. Popov, Svetlana Snegireva, and Ekaterina Kantieva. "CHANGE IN THE HYGROSCOPICITY OF PINE CORE WOOD IN A TREE TRUNK DAMAGED BY FIRE." In Modern machines, equipment and IT solutions for industrial complex: theory and practice. FSBE Institution of Higher Education Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.34220/mmeitsic2021_274-278.
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Fires have a significant impact on the structure and physical and mechanical properties of wood. The degree of this effect depends on the type of fire, its intensity and the duration of exposure to high temperature. The greatest impact on the wood occurs with a strong grassroots and general top fire. Gorenje fire is characterized by a high intensity of burning of forest floor and undergrowth, as well as the crown of trees. The effect of the high temperature of the fire on the tree trunk is different. As a result of the destruction of wood, there is a partial blocking of hydroxyl groups in the cellulose molecules and leads to a decrease in the hygroscopicity limit of wood. Of great practical interest is the change in the hygroscopicity of wood damaged by fire. The aim of this study is to determine the changes in the hygroscopicity of the core wood of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.)after damage by a strong grassroots and general high-level fire. The studies were carried out on wood growing on the territory of the UOL in the Voronezh region, on samples of pine core wood cut from the clump, middle and apex parts of the trunk. It was experimentally established that the greatest decrease in the hygroscopicity of pine core wood occurred in the left part of the trunk, and the smallest in the middle part, after fire damage.
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Snegireva, Svetlana, Aleksey Platonov, and Ekaterina Kantieva. "INVESTIGATION OF THE HARDNESS OF PINE WOOD DAMAGED BY A STRONG GRASSROOTS AND RIDING FIRE." In Ecological and resource-saving technologies in science and technology. FSBE Institution of Higher Education Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.34220/erstst2021_188-191.
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Fires have a significant impact on the physical and mechanical properties of wood. Information about the quality of wood damaged by fire is of great practical importance. The aim of the study is to establish the static end hardness of pine wood damaged by a strong grassroots and rampant riding fire, after a long exposure. It was found that during long-term storage, the static hardness of pine wood after storage for 10 years increases twice. Significant tarring of wood was noted.
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O’Rourke, ANASTASIA, Dean Takahashi, OLIVER LEITNER, JANA VANDERGOOT, SINEAD CROTTY, JUSTIN FREIBERG, HAO WANG, et al. "Slash Storage: Carbon Vaults to Help Mitigate Near Term Wildfire and Climate Change Pressure." In 2022 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference. ACSA Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.aia.inter.22.27.
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Over the past century, fire suppression and increased human settlement at the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) have led to dramatic increases in the risk and impact of catastrophic wildfires.1 Climate change contributes to the problem by increasing temperatures and aridity, and by reducing precipitation in fire prone regions.2 A 2016 study found that climate change doubled the cumulative forest fire area in the American West since 1984.3 The direct and indirect costs of wildfire include emergency firefighting costs, property losses, impairment to air and water quality, injuries and fatalities, healthcare costs, infrastructure shutdowns, and lost revenues. Architects working near the WUI are required by law to specify construction materials and create site plans with fire suppression and life safety in the context of severe wildfires in mind. Working successfully in the WUI demands that designers have a deeper understanding of the carbon cycling, land management practices, and funding obstacles connected to forest systems. This paper discusses the work of Yale University’s Carbon Containment Lab (CC Lab) to develop a building typology called the Carbon Vault, a low-cost, nature-based structure for storing carbon in woody biomass. Carbon vaults address the need to reduce and contain wood fuel in forests that are prone to severe wildfire. A fire-resistant form of Dowel Laminated Timber (DLT) mass timber, called Residual DLT, is presented in this paper as a construction material for carbon vaults in the WUI. Residual DLT addresses the wood waste of forest land management practices, especially those in forests prone to severe fire, by creating an opportunity to engage carbon offset markets.
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Snegireva, Svetlana, Aleksey Platonov, and Ekaterina Kantieva. "HARDNESS OF LUMPY PINE WOOD, DAMAGED VARIOUS TYPES OF FIRE AFTER LONG-TERM STORAGE." In GREEN ECONOMY: IFOREST. FSBE Institution of Higher Education Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.34220/zeif2022_104-108.
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Fires have a significant impact on the wood of stands. The most valuable part of the trunk of the tree is exposed to the strongest impact. Information about the quality of wood damaged by fire is of great practical importance. The aim of the study is to establish the static end hardness of pine wood from the butt part of the trunk damaged by various types of fire. after long-term storage. It was found that after long-term storage for 10 years, the static end hardness of pine wood after storage increases more than twice, while the wood is heavily tarred, especially in the central part of the tree trunk.
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Aire, Charles T., David A. Torvi, and Elizabeth J. Weckman. "Heat Transfer in Cone Calorimeter Tests of Generic Wall Assemblies." In ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2013-63981.
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It is critical for the construction industry to ensure that new building designs and materials, including wall and floor assemblies (e.g., a studded wall with insulation and drywall) provide an acceptable level of fire safety. A key fire safety requirement that is specified in building codes is the minimum fire resistance rating, which is a measure of the ability of an assembly to limit fire spread within a building. A manufacturer of building materials (e.g., insulation or drywall) is required to perform full-scale fire resistance furnace tests to determine the fire resistance ratings of assemblies that use their products. Fire resistance test facilities are very limited and these tests are very expensive to perform. Therefore, it can be difficult to properly assess the impact of changes to individual components on the overall fire performance of an assembly during the design process. As part of a project to develop methods of using small-scale fire test data to predict full-scale fire resistance test results, the heat transfer through scale models of common wall assembly designs was measured during cone calorimeter tests using an incident heat flux of 75 kW/m2. Wall assemblies consisting of single and double layers of 12.7 mm (1/2 in.) regular and lightweight gypsum board, and 15.9 mm (5/8 in.) type X gypsum board, along with mineral wool insulation and wood studs were tested. Temperature measurements made at various points within these assemblies are presented in this paper, and are discussed using results from thermal gravimetric analysis tests of the three types of gypsum board. Implications of this research to the development of heat transfer models and scaling relationships are also briefly discussed.
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Borovskoy, Aleksandr, E. Nedzelskaya, and A. Dmitrenkov. "DEVELOPMENT OF SAFE FORMULATIONS FOR WOOD PROCESSING BASED ON VEGETABLE OIL WASTE." In Modern machines, equipment and IT solutions for industrial complex: theory and practice. FSBE Institution of Higher Education Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.34220/mmeitsic2021_205-209.
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The purpose of this work was to develop and study new safe formulations for wood processing based on used vegetable oil. The waste of refined vegetable oil, which remains after cooking, was used as the modifying base of the developed compositions. Impregnation of wood samples of standard sizes was carried out by the method of “hot-cold baths”. Starch was used as a filler, and a precipitated type NF-1 desiccant was used to accelerate the drying of the applied compositions. The properties of wood were controlled by changes in such indicators as water absorption, as well as swelling in the radial and tangential directions. The use of a desiccant in compositions based on used vegetable oil and starch makes it possible to reduce the drying time and solidification of the surface film and improve the water-repellent properties of wood. The optimal dosages of the siccative and filler were selected. A comparative assessment of the use of compositions based on used vegetable oil fordifferent types of wood is carried out on theexample of birch and pine. The developed impregnating compositions have availability, low cost and environmental safety. The use of protective compositions based on used vegetable oil allows you to improve the properties of natural wood and dispose of production waste.
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Kurzawski, Andrew, and Ofodike A. Ezekoye. "Foam Insulation Behavior in Void Space Under Fire Conditions." In ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2014-38849.
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A fire contained within a room can spread into void spaces in the walls and ceiling through penetrations in the material that lines the compartment. Few studies have looked at how a room and contents fire transitions to a structural fire. One of the active areas of fire research is the coupling of the fire to the structure. Lightweight wood frame construction represents the majority of residential construction in the U.S. The construction details and choice of materials will affect the overall fire resistance of the structure. Because of the relative lack of knowledge on the fire penetration into wall spaces, this research examined how fire might penetrate into the void spaces of wood framed structures. In the U.S.A., a critical barrier to the penetration of hot gas products into void spaces is provided by the gypsum-board skin of the compartment. For most compartments, there are many penetrations within the compartment’s gypsum-board skin. Common potential access points include security system wiring (e.q. smoke detectors and cameras), ventilation fixtures, light switches, and electrical outlets among others. A hole in the gypsum may create opportunities for void space ignition. One of the purposes of this work is to develop a small scale testing system to characterize fire driven flow and heat transfer into a void space. With such an apparatus, one can rapidly identify materials that are prone to igniting for a given leakage geometry and fire size. Common materials found in void spaces include wooden structural members, plywood/oriented strand board, a variety of insulation types, and vapor barriers. This study discusses the characteristics of the small scale experimental system and preliminary tests on a range of void space construction materials.
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Wang, Ying, and Youping Chen. "An Atomic Model of Cellulose Network in Wood Cell Wall." In ASME 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2008-67603.
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Wood is composed of parallel columns of long hollow cells which are made up of layered composite of semi-crystalline cellulose fibrils embedded in an amorphous matrix of hemicellulose and lignin. The extraordinary mechanical performance of wood is believed to result from a molecular mechanism operated through hydrogen bond connection. However, the molecular interactions, the assembly method of cell-wall components, as well as the molecular mechanisms responsible for the deformation of wood, are not well understood yet. Progress in studying the superior mechanical properties of wood cell is severely hindered because of this fact. To overcome this barrier, the foremost step is to build up an atomic model of the native cellulose fibril network, which is the dominant polysaccharide in wood cell walls. Then, in this work, we proposed the atomic models to study the cellulose network which includes a single cellulose microfibril (MF), and a thin film which is built up by first secondary layers (S1) and second secondary layers (S2) composed of cellulose MF with periodic boundary conditions. Additionally, we investigated the length effect of the microfibril and compared the effect of explicit water solvent environment with the vacuum environment. Moreover, the spatial arrangements of these atomic models have been determined by molecular mechanics simulation (energy minimization). The hydrogen bond length of the crystalline part of the inner cellulose was evaluated using first principle calculation.
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Kamalova, Nina S., Natalia Yu Evsikova, and Yulia V. Krutskikh. "Thermopolarization effects in natural wood and fire safety of forest massives." In INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC-TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM (ISTS) «IMPROVING ENERGY AND RESOURCE-EFFICIENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY OF PROCESSES AND DEVICES IN CHEMICAL AND RELATED INDUSTRIES». The Kosygin State University of Russia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37816/eeste-2021-2-102-105.
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Some features of thermal polarization phenomena in the trunks of woody plants with fluctuations in the ambient temperature are considered, the results of an experimental study of the potential difference arising along the trunk and its radius formed with a difference in ambient temperature are presented, a method for analyzing the results is proposed.
Reports on the topic "Wood Studio (Firm)"
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Regan, Jack, and Robin Zevotek. Study of the Fire Service Training Environment: Safety and Fidelity in Concrete Live Fire Training Buildings. UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute, July 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.54206/102376/wxtw8877.
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The goal of fire service training is to prepare students for the conditions and challenges that they face on the fireground. Among the challenges that firefighters routinely face on the fireground are ventilation-controlled fires. The hazard of these fires has been highlighted by several line-of-duty deaths and injuries in which a failure to understand the fire dynamics produced by these fires has been a contributing factor. The synthetic fuels that commonly fill contemporary homes tend to result in ventilation-controlled conditions. While synthetic fuels are common on the residential fireground, the fuels that firefighters use for fire training are more often representative of natural, wood-based fuels. In order to better understand the fire dynamics of these training fires, a series of experiments was conducted in a concrete live fire training building in an effort to evaluate the fidelity and safety of two training fuels, pallets and OSB, and compare the fire dynamics created by these fuels to those created by a fuel load representative of a living room set with furniture items with a synthetic components. Additionally, the effects of the concrete live fire training building on the fire dynamics were examined. The two training fuel loads were composed of wooden pallets and straw, and pallets, straw, and oriented strand board (OSB). The results indicated that the high leakage area of the concrete live fire training building relative to the fuel load prevented the training fuel packages from becoming ventilation-controlled and prevented the furniture package from entering a state of oxygen-depleted decay. The furniture experiments progressed to flashover once ventilation was provided. Under the conditions tested, the wood based fuels, combined with the construction features of this concrete live fire training building, limited the ability to teach ventilation-controlled fire behavior and the associated firefighting techniques. Additionally, it was shown that the potential for thermal injury to firefighters participating in a training evolution existed well below thresholds where firefighter PPE would be damaged.
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Willi, Joseph, Keith Stakes, Jack Regan, and Robin Zevotek. Evaluation of Ventilation-Controlled Fires in L-Shaped Training Props. UL's Firefighter Safety Research Institute, October 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.54206/102376/mijj9867.
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Investigations of recent firefighter line of duty deaths caused by rapid fire progression have highlighted a deficiency in firefighters’ understanding of how certain tactics affect the fire dynamics of ventilation-controlled fires. Many fires are in a ventilation-limited, decay state by the time firefighters arrive at the scene, meaning that introducing additional ventilation to the environment has the potential to cause rapid and intense fire growth. To more effectively teach firefighters about the potential effects of ventilation on a compartment fire, ventilation-controlled fires should be gener- ated during training. Safely creating such fires while maintaining compliance with NFPA 1403: Standard on Live-Fire Training Evolutions allows instructors to educate students on this important principle of fire dynamics in the training environment. Structures utilized for live-fire training have evolved from typical concrete burn buildings to now include smaller purpose-built props, like those constructed from steel shipping containers or wood and gypsum board. Such props have been embraced by organizations due to their cost-effectiveness and potential to improve fire behavior training. Obtaining a thorough understanding of the capa- bilities and limitations of such props is critical for instructors to convey accurate messages during training and properly prepare firefighters for scenarios they’ll encounter in the field. Experiments were conducted to quantify the fire environment in L-shaped props with different wall constructions. One prop had an interior wall lining of gypsum board over wood studs and fiberglass insulation. The two other props were constructed from metal shipping containers with corrugated steel walls; one had ceilings and walls comprised solely of the corrugated steel, while the other had ceilings and walls comprised of rolled steel sheeting over mineral wool insulation with the corrugated steel wall as its backing. Three fuel packages were compared between the props: one contained furnishings mainly composed of synthetic materials and foam plastics; another contained wooden pallets and straw; and the third contained wooden pallets, straw, and oriented strand board (OSB). A stochastic approach was used to compare data between replicate tests and quantify the repeatability of the different props and fuel packages, all of which were deemed sufficiently repeatable. Comparisons of data between the three props revealed that thermal conditions between experiments in the two metal props were indistinguishable, suggesting that the additional layer of insulation did not significantly alter the fire environment. Additionally, thermal conditions in the gypsum-lined prop were more severe than those in the metal props. The effects of ventilation changes on fire conditions were also analyzed across various prop and fuel load combinations. Lastly, the response of the thermal environment in each prop during interior suppression was evaluated, and the results implied that the thermal exposure to the firefighter was more severe in the metal props than the gypsum prop for a brief period following the start of suppression.
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Kerber, Steve, Daniel Madrzykowski, James Dalton, and Robert Backstrom. Improving Fire Safety by Understanding the Fire Performance of Engineered Floor Systems and Providing the Fire Service with Information for Tactical Decision Making. UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute, March 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.54206/102376/zcoq6988.
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This research project was a collaboration of several research organizations, product manufacturers and fire service representatives to examine hazards associated with residential flooring systems to improve firefighter safety. Funding for this project was provided through the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Grant Program. The main objective of this study was to improve firefighter safety by increasing the level of knowledge on the response of residential flooring systems to fire. Several types (or series) of experiments were conducted and analyzed to expand the body of knowledge on the impact of fire on residential flooring systems. The results of the study have been prepared to provide tactical considerations for the fire service to enable improved decision making on the fire scene. Experiments were conducted to examine several types of floor joists including, dimensional lumber, engineered I-joists, metal plate connected wood trusses, steel C-joists, castellated I-joists and hybrid trusses. Experiments were performed at multiple scales to examine single floor system joists in a laboratory up through a full floor system in an acquired structure. Applied load, ventilation, fuel load, span and protection methods were altered to provide important information about the impact of these variables to structural stability and firefighter safety. There are several tactical considerations that result from this research that firefighters can use immediately to improve their understanding, safety and decision making when sizing up a fire in a one or two family home. This report summarizes the results from each of the experimental series and provides discussion and conclusions of the results.
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Steckler, Kenneth D., David D. Evans, and Jack E. Snell. Preliminary study of the 1991 Oakland Hills fire and its relevance to wood-frame, multi-family building construction. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.6028/nist.ir.4724.
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Stakes, Keith, and Joseph Willi. Study of the Fire Service Training Environment: Safety, Fidelity, and Exposure -- Acquired Structures. UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute, March 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.54206/102376/ceci9490.
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Previous FSRI led research projects have focused on examining the fire environment with regards to current building construction methods, synthetic fuel loading, and best-practices in firefighting strategies and tactics. More than 50 experiments have been previously conducted utilizing furniture to produce vent-limited fire conditions, replicating the residential fire environment, and studying the methods of horizontal ventilation, vertical ventilation, and positive pressure attack. Tactical considerations generated from the research are intended to provide fire departments with information to evaluate their standard operating procedures and make improvements, if necessary, to increase the safety and effectiveness of firefighting crews. Unfortunately, there still exists a long standing disconnect between live-fire training and the fireground as evident by continued line of duty injury and death investigations that point directly to a lack of realistic yet safe training, which highlights a continued misunderstanding of fire dynamics within structures. The main objective of the Study of the Fire Service Training Environment: Safety, Fidelity, and Exposure is to evaluate training methods and fuel packages in several different structures commonly used across the fire service to provide and highlight considerations to increase both safety and fidelity. This report is focused on the evaluation of live-fire training in acquired structures. A full scale structure was constructed using a similar floor plan as in the research projects for horizontal ventilation, vertical ventilation, and positive pressure attack to provide a comparison between the modern fire environment and the training ground. The structure was instrumented which allowed for the quantification of fire behavior, the impact of various ventilation tactics, and provided the ability to directly compare these experiments with the previous research. Twelve full scale fire experiments were conducted within the test structure using two common training fuel packages: 1) pallets, and 2) pallets and oriented strand board (OSB). To compare the training fuels to modern furnishings, the experiments conducted were designed to replicate both fire and ventilation location as well as event timing to the previous research. Horizontal ventilation, vertical ventilation, and positive pressure attack methods were tested, examining the proximity of the vent location to the fire (near vs. far). Each ventilation configuration in this series was tested twice with one of the two training fuel loads. The quantification of the differences between modern furnishings and wood-based training fuel loads and the impact of different ventilation tactics is documented through a detailed comparison to the tactical fireground considerations from the previous research studies. The experiments were compared to identify how the type of fuel used in acquired structures impacts the safety and fidelity of live-fire training. The comparisons in this report characterized initial fire growth, the propensity for the fire to become ventilation limited, the fires response to ventilation, and peak thermal exposure to students and instructors. Comparisons examined components of both functional and physical fidelity. Video footage was used to assess the visual cues, a component of the fire environment that is often difficult to replicate in training due to fuel load restrictions. The thermal environment within the structure was compared between fuel packages with regards to the potential tenability for both students and instructors.
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STUDY ON FIRE RESISTANCE OF BOX-TYPE COMPOSITE WALLS. The Hong Kong Institute of Steel Construction, August 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18057/icass2020.p.323.
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The fire resistance limit value of box-type composite walls is one of the important parameters for applying this system. To this end, this article selects different refractory structural measures for the composite wall and analyzes the parameters in each part of the fire-resistant structure, including rock wool thickness, keel spacing, number of opening rows in the keel, gypsum board layers and thickness, etc. The results show that the thickness of rock wool, gypsum board layers and thickness, type of cladding plates and the number of layers, the axial compression ratio have significant influence on the fire endurance. The keel distance and the number of openings rows are almost unaffected. Based on the above analysis, the fire resistance optimization design method and fire resistance calculation formulas of the composite wall are proposed to provide theoretical support for the fire protection design of the box-type steel structural system.
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STUDY ON FIRE RESISTANCE OF BOX-TYPE COMPOSITE WALLS. The Hong Kong Institute of Steel Construction, March 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.18057/ijasc.2023.19.1.7.
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The fire resistance limit value of box-type composite walls is one of the important parameters for applying this system. To this end, this article selects different refractory structural measures for the composite wall and analyzes the parameters in each part of the fire-resistant structure, including rock wool thickness, keel spacing, number of opening rows in the keel, gypsum board layers and thickness, etc. The results show that the thickness of rock wool, gypsum board layers and thickness, type of cladding plates and the number of layers, the axial compression ratio have significant influence on the fire endurance. The keel distance and the number of openings rows are almost unaffected. Based on the above analysis, the fire resistance optimization design method and fire resistance calculation formulas of the composite wall are proposed to provide theoretical support for the fire protection design of the box-type steel structural system.