Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Wood Studio (Firm)'

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

碩士
國立成功大學
建築學系碩博士班
96
To achieve the goal of implementing the safe fireproofing of wood and to set up national data of firing prevention experiment, this research cooperates with National Science Council’s annual research which called A study on the test of the Fire Resistance Performance on wood Bearing Wall in 2007 and proceeds the relevant experiment. The objects of this study are focused on Fire Resistance Performance in Wood Framing Construction and Charring Rate of Timber Frames. Fire Resistance Performance in Wood Framing are based on domestic and international wood framing and based on current regulation to proceed the fire-resistant performance experiment for an hour. The experiment of Charring Rate of Timber Frames adopts the really wood. The types of wood include China fir, Japanese Cedar, Southern pine and Spruce-pine-fir which are all common materials for domestic building. The outcome of this research combines the result from experiment and the materials from theory. The theory contain Fire Resistance Performance in Wood Framing Construction and Fire Regulation, high-temperature combustion properties of wood, Char theory and Char rate. The result from this study please refers to following paragraph: First, Fire Resistance Performance in Wood Framing Construction 1. The result of experiment illustrates that on the aspect of structure of wood framing construction, the stud-section 2×6 has higher fire resistance than 2×4. Besides, calcium silicate board has higher fire resistance than gypsum board. 2. In the heat-conduction characteristic of the wall, non-heating side of the stud-section 2×4 and calcium silicate board have higher heat-conduction than non-heating side of the stud-section 2×6 and gypsum board. 3. When above four items are damaged by fire, the calcium silicate board has faster heat conduction than gypsum board. Relative is higher to stud being heated high-temperature char influence. Second, Charring Rate of Timber Frames 1. Due to some unexpected reason, the high-temperature furnace equipment of the char rate experiment can not in normal temperature warming according to set temperature. Therefore, there are some errors between the result of char rate experiment and char rate forecast model. This study amends the high- temperature furnace equipment and re-calculates the char rate forecast model. When the heating conditions in the CNS standards under the premise of the warming curve, char rate forecast models and experimental data have a very high ability to explanation. 2. According to the platform wood framing fire resistance performance’s internal warming condition, this research proceeds an char rate experiment to different kinds of wood. Although there are some problems caused by equipment which led to the experimental data for reference purposes only, the preliminary char rate of experimental wood and procedure of timber frames’ char rate have been established and can be the references for the related study in the future.

博士
國立臺灣大學
森林學研究所
92
The dissertation is focus on wood-base materials that were applied to structure of fire endurance and incombustibility of interior finish for purpose. Firstly, to distinguish the fire-retardant formulations those were treated on the lignocellulosic materials, and to research the relationship of the combustion gas toxicity and the smoke factor. Then, take advantage of wood-base panel to discuss the fire endurance and incombustibility various. Recently, the fire test and requirement are standardization in the world, the test results of incombustibility sometimes varied with the test method used, that will impact on the industry of forest. Those wood-base finish materials were sorted by irradiance density and irradiance time. The difference and the relationship between the test results of those test methods were studied. In order to predict the combustion characteristics of standard change, refer to the improvement and judgment in advance. First of all, on the screening of high performance of fire-retardant formulations： oxygen index method is very suitable for the investigation of the flammability of ligno-cellulosic materials, and for the screening and systematic evaluation of chemicals. It can offer the affection of single chemical, the synergism affect of the fire retardant chemical mixtures, and provide to evaluate the high fire retardation and low toxicity fire-retardant. The oxygen index of single chemicals was ammonium phosphate higher than boride and halide. The fire retardant chemical mixtures of heterogeneous on synergism affect are better than mixture of Homogeneous. Secondary, the evaluation of combustion gas toxicity usually by the concentration of CO2, CO, CO2+CO and consumption of O2, was not enough to explain the incapacitation time of mice; in the opinion on the law of conservation of matter, the smoke factor also provides the reason of the incapacitation time. In this study, weight loss percent could reduce the different of materials tissue, it has a significantly positive effect on the smoke factor than burning weight loss; the incapacitation time of mice is an inverse proportion with the concentration of CO2 and consumption of O2, but they are affected by the smoke factor. During the relationship between the incapacitation time of mice and smoke factor, we could explain why passing “Grade 3 materials incombustibility” in CNS 6532 also could meet the limit of the incapacitation time of mice in CNS 8738. On the manufacture of wood-base panels, depending on the incombustibility or fire endurance, the wood-base panels laminating of wallcovering materials, lining board, steel wire fence and the treatment of fire-retardant, were different performance on test result; thinking about fire endurance of wood structure, all parts were used incombustibility materials, are not economical and to waste the unnecessary chemical. Finally, discussing of the relationships of different fire-resistance test methods, While applied on interior finish lining board, wallcovering materials of buildings, it could evaluate the change of heat release by the total temperature -time area (Tdθ) minus the area of temperature cure of reference board. According to the judgment level of incombustibility for surface test in CNS 6532, the requirement of ignition time in ISO 5657, “Glade 3 incombustibility” and above “Glade 2 incombustibility” materials are over 900 seconds under the irradiance of 20 and 50 kW/m2. All of the grade 3 incombustibility materials met the requirements of the class 3 of CAN/ULC S 135 tested by the cone calorimeter method; on the contrary, the requirement met by the cone calorimeter method does not necessarily meet the requirement by the surface test. Comparing with Japan’s noncombustibility test method is worthy to take as our models, it is not only the heat release considerate, but also the flammability and combustion gas toxicity.

The Catalina Triangle is a work of historical fiction focusing on the final weekend in the life of the actress Natalie Wood with flashbacks highlighting her rise to fame and references to Reagan-era America as well as the history of Catalina Island.