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Woodcock, Sarah. "The Mystery of the Wray Castle Library Panelling and Manchester Central Library." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 89, no. 2 (March 2013): 227–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/bjrl.89.2.11.

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A quest for information concerning one of the missing room interiors of Wray Castle, a Gothic villa near Windermere in Cumbria, built for a Liverpool surgeon in the 1840s, curiously led the National Trust to the wonderfully contrasting neo-classical Manchester Central Library, designed by E. Vincent Harris and completed in 1934. A trawl through the records revealed a keen donor but a reluctant architect. Sixteenth-and seventeenth-century carved oak panels from the library of Wray Castle were removed and donated for use in the new Central Library by the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Sir Robert Noton Barclay, before he gave the castle to the National Trust. Archive material held at Manchester shows that Harris was reluctant to accept the panels, stating his reasons firmly, but that he was prevailed upon to do so and finally incorporated them some years later.
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Oltean, Tatiana. "Béla Bartόk Bluebeard’s Castle – a new Avatar of the Myth of Orpheus?" Musicology Papers 35, no. 1 (November 1, 2020): 52–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.47809/mp.2020.35.01.04.

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Ever since its Greek and Roman mythological and literary sources during Antiquity, the myth of Orpheus has been of paramount importance in the edification of the Artist as a key-character of understanding Music as magic and Love beyond death. Over the course of millennia, the myth has underwent numerous transformations, reflecting cultural and creative views of each period. Up to this day, the myth of Orpheus continues to allure composers` creative imagination. Within the modern and even postmodern tempestuous avatars of the myth in musical creation, the myth stays true to revealing the creator`s inner landscape, his/her reflective searching, and the nature of love between life and death. The current essay proposes a set of correlations between the essential motifs of this ancient myth and the symbols in Béla Bartók`s Bluebeard`s Castle, in a quest for answering the question whether this iconic opera of modernity could be understood, to some extent, as a new avatar of the Orpheus myth.
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Akbar, Muhammad Adnan, Eram Jamil, Ihsan Ullah Khan, and Nijat Ullah Khan. "A QUEST FOR IDENTITY: AN ONTOLOGICAL SURVEY OF KAFKAESQUE WORLD." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 9, no. 3 (June 28, 2021): 1340–346. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2021.93133.

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Purpose of the Study: Franz Kafka is a much-debated existential writer who portrays existential traumas prevalent in his era. This research unfolds identity-related issues present in an existential journey of characters. Those are usually discussed in terms of existence and being. Identity formation, in an existential narrative, is seen in the process of becoming. Methodology: This paper is an interpretive phenomenological study to unearth the phenomenon of identity. Heidegger's interpretive phenomenology, along with Sartre's ontological framework, will be used to analyze Kafka's two novels, The Trial and The Castle. Yet, his book, Amerika, is left as it is considered unfinished. Findings: The Kafkaesque world pictures the traumas of the existential world, and this study mainly focuses on the phenomenon of identity, which is in constant flux in these ever-changing dimensions of the existential journey. Authentic and inauthentic existence, good and bad faith, is essential binaries in evaluating the identity of any character at any given instance. Application of the Study: This study will contribute to the understanding of characters of the Kafkaesque world in the light of the identity issues from an ontological perspective. As characters of Kafka are constantly striving to achieve good faith and trying to abandon inauthentic existence to attain harmony with their existence. Novelty/Originality of the Study: Kafka has been studied for many existential perspectives, yet this study explores the phenomenon of identity embedded in the existential narrative. Identity is usually sought in relation to discourse and postcolonial studies while discussing the Kafkaesque world. Yet, in this research, identity-related issues have been coupled with existential and ontological processes going in the fictional narrative of Kafka.
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Lawson, Kate. "The Victorian Sickroom in L. M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle and Emily's Quest : Sentimental Fiction and the Selling of Dreams." Lion and the Unicorn 31, no. 3 (2007): 232–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.2007.0032.

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Jones, Clyve. "Jacobitism and the Historian: The Case of William, 1st Earl Cowper." Albion 23, no. 4 (1991): 681–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4050746.

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In the past twenty years there has been a renaissance in Jacobite studies in Britain and North America. It started with the publication in 1970 of Romney Sedgwick's The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1715–1754, in which the post-1715 Tory party was resurrected from the untimely death to which earlier historiography had consigned it in the face of the so-called Whig hegemony under Walpole and his successors. This section of Sedgwick's volumes was the work of Eveline Cruickshanks, who not only showed that there had been an active Tory party under Walpole, but also claimed that it had been essentially a Jacobite party. Dr. Cruickshanks has, since 1970, produced a book, several articles, and essays expanding her thesis. She has been joined in the quest for Jacobites by many others, and the flow of work on Jacobitism seems unabated. This body of work has, however, left other historians with a good deal of unease, not only over the conclusions reached, but also the methodology used and the sources upon which these conclusions are based (most notably the uncritical use of the Stuart Papers in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle).
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Wood, Juliette. "King Arthur's Raid on the Underworld. The Oldest Grail Quest / From Round Table to Grail Castle: Twelve Studies in Arthurian and Grail Literature in the Light of Anthroposophy." Folklore 120, no. 3 (December 2009): 338–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00155870903220035.

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Rai, Santosh Kumar. "Social histories of exclusion and moments of resistance: The case of Muslim Julaha weavers in colonial United Provinces." Indian Economic & Social History Review 55, no. 4 (September 28, 2018): 549–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019464618796896.

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Locating the theorisation and practices of caste hierarchies within South Asian Islam with reference to high-caste Muslims (Ashrafs) versus Julaha weavers (Ajlafs), this article argues that class exploitation and class hegemony over the marginalised sections of Muslim society in North India were practised through caste stratifications, social hierarchies and land relations. The horizontal equality of ‘textual Islam’ was transformed into vertical social hierarchies in South Asia. While explaining the conditions of the disadvantageous socio-economic status that ensured their subordination, this article narrates instances of resistance and quests for equality undertaken by the Julaha weavers. The dialectics of these negotiations produced factors such as the stigma of status mandated by their caste, on the one hand, and the weavers’ integration within the capitalist colonial economy and politics, on the other. The article explores this history of hierarchies and the complex resistances offered to it, closely mediated by social and economic structures, prevailing ideologies and notions of colonial legality and mobility. The processes of the weavers challenging their social marginalisation, predicated on their economic status and their quest for new identities may look familiar to other communities which similarly used religion, caste and colonial law to resist and subvert hierarchies. Hence, the politicisation of the colonial public sphere affected the relations among the Indian Muslims in a new milieu. These arguments are significant in terms of rewriting the existing historiography that reinforces the binaries of nationalist–communalist or Hindu–Muslim politics.
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Parsons, Gerald. "A neglected sculpture: the monument to Catherine of Siena at Castel Sant'Angelo." Papers of the British School at Rome 76 (November 2008): 257–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068246200000490.

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A dispetto delle sue dimensioni impressionanti e della complessità dello schema iconografico — che include non solo la statua ma anche un'intera sequenza di scene scolpite, emblemi e iscrizioni — il monumento a Santa Caterina di Siena collocato nei pressi di Castel Sant'Angelo ha ricevuto sorprendentemente poca attenzione da parte degli studiosi. L'articolo cerca di colmare questa lacuna presentando un'analisi dettagliata del monumento che esplora il suo linguaggio, il suo simbolismo e il contesto religioso e politico in cui si colloca. In questo modo si arguisce che il monumento sta, non solo cronologicamente, ma anche ideologicamente, a metà strada tra tre distinte interpretazioni di Caterina di Siena e il suo significato politico percepito nell'Italia del ventesimo secolo. Nell'articolo si suggerisce anche una spiegazione circa i motivi della dimenticanza del monumento da parte degli studiosi fino ad oggi, ricollegandola a specifiche circostanze e al contesto dell'inaugurazione del monumento nell'aprile del 1962.
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Mandavkar, Dr Pavan. "Indian Dalit Literature Quest for Identity to Social Equality." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 3, no. 2 (March 16, 2016): 42–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2015.321.

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India is one of the fastest growing countries in the world, yet, it is notorious for its rigid caste system. This paper examines the history of suppression, condition of the suppressed and origin of Dalit writings. It includes the study of movement and scope of Dalit literature. It is widely believed that all Dalit literary creations have their roots in the Ambedkarite thoughts. The paper also dissects the stark realities of Dalit and their commendable attempts to upraise socially. This literature shows dramatic accounts of socialpolitical experiences of Dalit community in the caste based society of India.It traces the conditions of the Indian social factors that surround the Dalits and their interactions with Dalits and non-Dalits. It explores how Dalit community struggled for equality and liberty. Due to strong Dalit movements as well as hammering on upper caste society through Dalit literature by writers and thinkers, and also by implementation of welfare schemes by Government, a positive approach toward equality is seen in social life of Dalit community nowadays. Discrimination on the basis of caste and gender are banned by law. This is a journey of oppressed from quest for identity to social equality through their literature.
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Sharma, Meenakshi. "Ambedkar’s Feminism: Debunking the Myths of Manu in a Quest for Gender Equality." Contemporary Voice of Dalit 11, no. 1 (February 8, 2019): 17–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2455328x18819899.

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This article focuses on the role of Dr B. R. Ambedkar in the empowerment of women through mobilization of the womenfolk against the subjugation meted out to them by the caste and gender hierarchy in order to maintain the existing caste structures. Ambedkar realized the need for women to become the torchbearers of the new reformed society which is both casteless and classless in nature. He therefore advocated a companionate relationship between men and women as opposed to the master–slave relationship that Manu propagated in Manusmriti. In order to achieve such a feat, the need of the hour was to free women from the bounds imposed upon them by the existing Brahmanical social order which treated them as subservient to men and wholly dependent on their male counterparts. Manu’s idea of a woman was of a subhuman being in need of stringent control by her male relations. This article seeks to answer the question—why it was imperative to control women thus? Women, owing to their reproductive potential, have the ability to dismantle the caste purity by reproducing outside of their castes. Hence, their ideological suppression becomes essential to the enterprise of maintaining caste purity. For this purpose, several ritualistic tools had to be put in place to extinguish the threat of women’s sexuality.
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Khanal, Damodar. "The quest for educational inclusion in Nepal : a study of factors limiting the schooling of Dalit children." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-quest-for-educational-inclusion-in-nepal-a-study-of-factors-limiting-the-schooling-of-dalit-children(cafe18fd-80cf-4d69-bc4e-d31ee3bae65a).html.

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This thesis addresses one of the major challenges facing education systems in developing countries: that of how to include all children, particularly those from relatively disadvantaged communities. It looks, in particular, at the example in Nepal of children from the Dalit communities, a group known to be disadvantaged and often marginalized within the formal education system. In particular, the study attempts to investigate the barriers that prevent the educational access, participation and progress of these students at the secondary level. This theme was investigated using an ethnographic approach, which examined people's life experiences and culture in natural settings (within schools and in their communities) using data collected through a series of interviews, and observations. It also involved an analysis of the relevant literature and policy documents. What was found is that the reasons for children from the Dalit community being disadvantaged are many and complex. Broadly, they can be summarized as being, first of all, about the difficulties of implementing national policies, particularly in terms of making resources available and providing effective monitoring, even though these policies are very positive about the inclusion of these children. Secondly, it is about the expectations and attitudes amongst the various Dalit communities as to what they want for their children and young people, which are to do with tradition and culture, life styles and economic circumstances. Thirdly, these two sets of factors together put pressure on the schools, which have to find a way of dealing with the challenge of diversity and various expectations. In this way, this research provides some new understanding of the issues that bear on the education of Dalit children. The knowledge gained through this research has practical implications for stakeholders: policy makers, teachers, and Dalit community members and social workers. It is argued that this would help to foster the improvement of policy initiatives and their effective implementation. It could also help to bring changes in the existing attitudes of teachers and Dalit communities that may have a positive impact on Dalit children's integration into education. Most importantly, it has brought a new way of looking at these issues that can be used to inform public debate. The study illustrates the use of a methodology that might usefully be adopted by researchers carrying out research around similar themes in other developing countries. It might also be the case that the barriers that have been identified in Nepal would represent useful starting points for such research.
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Books on the topic "Castle Quest"

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The quest for the Silver Castle. Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1993.

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ill, Burge Beverly, ed. The quest for the silver castle. Brentwood, Tenn: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 1991.

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ill, Bruce T. Taylor, ed. Quest for the crystal castle: A peaceful warrior children's book. Tiburon, Calif: H.J. Kramer, 1992.

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Highland quest. London: Red Fox, 1996.

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The quest for freedom & dignity: Caste, conversion & cultural revolution. Mumbai: GLS Pub., 2001.

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Trivedi, Harshad R. Scheduled castes quest for land and social equality. New Delhi: Concept Pub. Co., 1996.

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Arksearch: The terrifying quest. Crowborough, East Sussex: Monarch, 1994.

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Lattanzio, Federico, and Gian Maria Varanini, eds. I centri minori italiani nel tardo medioevo. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-748-1.

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Nel tardo medioevo l’Italia è una delle aree più urbanizzate d’Europa. Le sue coste, la dorsale appenninica, la fascia peri-alpina, le pianure ospitano un grande numero di centri minori, terre, borghi, castra, ‘quasi città’. Molto vari per consistenza demografica, articolazione sociale, dinamismo economico, questi insediamenti costituiscono nel loro insieme un elemento caratterizzante, costitutivo dell’identità storica italiana: un suo ‘carattere originale’. Questo volume, grazie ad alcuni saggi di inquadramento e a una mappatura di casi singoli che tocca gran parte delle regioni del nord, del centro e del sud, si propone di indagare sulle vivaci ricerche dedicate a tale tematica degli ultimi trenta-quarant’anni.
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Nigro, Giampiero, ed. Il commercio al minuto. Domanda e offerta tra economia formale e informale. Secc. XIII-XVIII / Retail Trade. Supply and demand in the formal and informal economy from the 13th to the 18th century. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-751-7.

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La distribuzione dei beni di consumo nell’Europa medievale e moderna era multiforme e coinvolgeva spazi e attori diversi. Nelle fiere e nei mercati, nelle botteghe più o meno grandi delle città si vendeva ogni tipo di derrate alimentari e di oggetti necessari alla vita quotidiana. Erano anche innumerevoli i piccoli ambulanti che tenevano banco per strada, i contadini che raggiungevano la città per offrire i prodotti dei loro orti o del pollaio, della caccia o della raccolta spontanea, passando di casa in casa. Mercanti ambulanti percorrevano con le loro balle e casse anche le vie meno frequentate, raggiungendo villaggi e frazioni disperse. Una grande molteplicità di attori economici che concorrevano assieme a raggiungere ogni tipo di consumatore, dai più agiati ai più umili. L’obiettivo del progetto di ricerca è stato quello di comprendere l’organizzazione economica e l’evoluzione di queste diverse forme di commercio al minuto. Sul piano dei risultati, i contributi raccolti in questo volume costituiscono la risposta storiograficamente più aggiornata ad alcune delle questioni proposte, come l’analisi dei legami tra le diverse scale spaziali (dalla bottega alle reti europee di mercanti ambulanti), del commercio formale e informale tra regola e pratica, della circolazione dei beni fra città e campagna, delle tensioni fra gli attori di questi scambi, le loro rivalità e i loro accordi, ma anche le attese dei consumatori e le esigenze dello stato, e degli effetti sull’organizzazione istituzionale e dei mestieri della distribuzione nel periodo compreso fra il Medioevo e il XVIII secolo.
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Robinson, Jeanne Marie. Alienated: A quest to understand contact. Murfreesboro, Tenn: Greenleaf, 1997.

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Book chapters on the topic "Castle Quest"

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Singh, Jagpal. "Quest for recognition." In Caste, State and Society, 101–42. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.: Routledge India, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429343063-4.

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Bari, M. Ehteshamul, and Safia Naz. "The Quest for a Standard Preventive Detention Framework." In The Use of Preventive Detention Laws in Malaysia: A Case for Reform, 39–60. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5811-5_3.

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Ahmed, Imtiaz. "Conclusion: Resistance and the Quest for Water Commons." In Rights, Rivers and the Quest for Water Commons: The Case of Bangladesh, 73–94. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69434-0_10.

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Chen, Jeff, Michael P. Hutchens, and Wayne T. Nicholson. "Cyclo Killer: Qu’est-ce que c’est?" In A Case Approach to Perioperative Drug-Drug Interactions, 641–44. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7495-1_142.

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Karamagioli, Evika, and Dimitris Gouscos. "In the Quest of Opened-Up Governmental Policies in Greece: Challenges and Recommendations." In Case Studies in e-Government 2.0, 87–101. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08081-9_6.

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Ahmed, Imtiaz. "Technology and the Rights of Rivers." In Rights, Rivers and the Quest for Water Commons: The Case of Bangladesh, 55–64. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69434-0_8.

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Ahmed, Imtiaz. "Economic Consequences of a Transboundary River." In Rights, Rivers and the Quest for Water Commons: The Case of Bangladesh, 19–25. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69434-0_4.

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Ahmed, Imtiaz. "Framework for Analysis." In Rights, Rivers and the Quest for Water Commons: The Case of Bangladesh, 7–9. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69434-0_2.

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Ahmed, Imtiaz. "Introduction." In Rights, Rivers and the Quest for Water Commons: The Case of Bangladesh, 1–5. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69434-0_1.

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Ahmed, Imtiaz. "Water Culture and the Braided Life of a Cultural River." In Rights, Rivers and the Quest for Water Commons: The Case of Bangladesh, 43–54. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69434-0_7.

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Conference papers on the topic "Castle Quest"

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Ahuja, Inderpreet Singh, J. S. Khamba, and Rajesh Choudhary. "Improved Organizational Behavior Through Strategic Total Productive Maintenance Implementation." In ASME 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2006-15783.

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The manufacturing industry has experienced an unprecedented degree of change in the highly competitive and dynamics manufacturing scenario. Recent competitive trends have been pushing manufacturing executives to reconsider the impact and importance of increasing equipment availability and utilization, maintenance productivity and resource utilization, and increasing quality and responsiveness of maintenance services in meeting overall goals to achieve World Class status. TPM has been envisioned as an effective tool in the quest for achieving the world class status and meeting the ever increasing competition. This paper elaborates the contribution of TPM implementation towards improvement in organizational behavior in the Indian process industry in the quest to attain world-class competitiveness and sustainability efforts. The case study of TPM implementation though team building in Indian process industry has been brought out through the presentation of TPM benefits at the Hot Strip Mill division at a steel manufacturing company. The various aspects of TPM implementation have also been illustrated with the help of a case study.
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Попова, Ксения Владимировна, and Елена Николаевна Малышева. "TO THE QUESTION ABOUT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PEDAGOGICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN SCHOOL." In Наука. Исследования. Практика: сборник избранных статей по материалам Международной научной конференции (Санкт-Петербург, Декабрь 2020). Crossref, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37539/srp294.2020.78.52.016.

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В статье рассматриваются вопросы внедрения педагогических технологий (проектная технология, игровая технология, кейс-технология, квест-технология, технология мастерских и технология развития критического мышления). Несмотря на растущую популярность технологического подхода, существует проблема эффективности его реализации в школе. Она связана с недостаточным пониманием сути и возможностей технологий школьными учителями. The article discusses the implementation of educational technologies (project technology, game technology, case technology, quest technology, technology of workshops and the development of critical thinking technology). Despite the growing popularity of the technological approach, there is a problem of the effectiveness of its implementation in school. This is due to the lack of understanding by school teachers of the content and capabilities of technology.
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Lopez, Christian E., and Conrad S. Tucker. "From Mining Affective States to Mining Facial Keypoint Data: The Quest Towards Personalized Feedback." In ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2017-67340.

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Personalized and timely feedback has the potential to improve an individual’s performance on a wide variety of engineering tasks. The ability to capture an individual’s affective state(s) and performance on a task is a key component needed to advance personalization of feedback. While automated methods exist for quantifying task performance, the ability to quantify an individual’s affective state(s) remains an open research area. Existing methods for quantifying an individual’s affective state(s) are challenging to implement where real-time assessment is needed (e.g., engineering workshop environments). This has sparked a growing interest for automated systems capable of inferring individuals’ affective state(s), based on their projected facial or body cues. However, existing methods attempt to employ a general model to label an individual’s affective state(s) into discrete categories, such as fear, joy, surprise, etc. Nonetheless, emotional expressions are far more complex, as individual differences in facial expressions, may deteriorate the performance of these systems in providing personalized feedback. To overcome these limitations, this work proposes a machine learning method for predicting an individual’s performance on a task by utilizing his/her unique facial keypoint data, hereby bypassing the need to infer his/her discrete affective states. A case study involving 31 participants is presented. The support vector machine model employed to predict an individual’s performance yielded an accuracy of 77.15% for an individual-task specific model. In contrast, a general model yielded an accuracy of only 52.69%, hereby supporting the authors’ argument that individual-task specific models are more suitable for advancing personalized feedback.
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"South Africa’s Quest for Smart Cities: Privacy Concerns of Digital Natives of Cape Town, South Africa." In InSITE 2018: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: La Verne California. Informing Science Institute, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4071.

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Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, Volume 14] The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of awareness, perceived benefits, types of data collected and perceived control on the privacy concerns of digital natives living in what is considered the smart city of Cape Town, South Africa. Background: Smart city projects have been known to bring benefits such as sustainable economic development to cities. However one may wonder what and how certain factors influence the privacy concerns that come along with the implementation of smart cities particularly in the African context. In a time when information can be easily transferred, accessed and even shared, it is no surprise that people may have inclinations to be very protective of their personal information. Methodology: The study is quantitative in nature. Data has been collected using an online survey and analysed statistically. Contribution: This study contributes to scientific literature by detailing the impact of specific factors on the privacy concerns of citizens living in an African city Findings: The findings reveal that the more impersonal data is collected by the Smart City of Cape Town, the lower the privacy concerns of the digital natives. The findings also show that higher the need of the digital natives to be aware of the security measure put in place by the city, the higher their privacy concerns Recommendations for Practitioners: Practitioners (i.e. policy makers) should ensure that it is a legal requirement to have security measures in place to protect the privacy of the citizens while col-lecting data within the smart city of Cape Town. These regulations should be made public to appease any apprehensions from its citizens towards smart city implementations. Less personal data should also be collected on the citizens. Recommendation for Researchers: Researchers should further investigate issues related to privacy concerns in the context of African developing countries as they have unique cultural and philosophical perspectives that might influence how people perceive privacy. Impact on Society: Cities are becoming “smarter” and in developing world context like Africa, privacy issues might not have as a strong influence as is the case in the developing world. Future Research: Further qualitative studies should be conducted to better understand issues related to perceived benefits, perceived control, awareness of how data is collected and level of privacy concerns of digital natives in developing countries.
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Tozzi, Luigi, Emmanuella Sotiropoulou, Jessica Adair, and Domenico Chiera. "Proposed Combustion Strategy for Increasing Thermal Efficiency in Open Chamber Stationary Gas Engines." In ASME 2009 Internal Combustion Engine Division Fall Technical Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icef2009-14034.

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The quest for high engine brake thermal efficiency (BTE) in medium size (140mm – 190mm bore), lean-burn gas applications becomes increasingly difficult as lower emission levels (250mg/Nm3 NOx) are targeted. A traditional approach to offsetting this negative trend has been to design the piston and the intake ports to create high turbulence and homogeneous mixtures leading to faster combustion burn rates with leaner mixtures. This paper proposes a new combustion strategy aimed at optimizing fuel-air mixture stratification in the main combustion chamber. This would result in maximum fuel concentration within a passive prechamber plug leading to high turbulence flame jet (HTFJ) penetration in the main combustion chamber and, therefore, faster combustion burn rates. Experimental correlation of a combustion model is provided for flame jet ignition in a quiescent, mildly stratified combustion chamber through three different cases. The first case uses a traditional J-gap spark plug; the second, a prechamber plug that is not optimized for the fuel distribution present in this combustion chamber. Finally, the third case makes use of a prechamber plug that has been configured to have properly oriented HTFJ. These three cases constitute the basis of the proposed combustion strategy leading to significant increase in engine brake thermal efficiency (BTE).
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Leichtfuss, S., C. Biela, H. P. Schiffer, and F. Heinichen. "Influence of Inlet Guide Vane Wakes on the Passage Flow in a Transonic Axial Compressor." In ASME Turbo Expo 2012: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2012-69485.

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Variable inlet guide vanes enhance the efficiency and stability of modern transonic compressors. The current quest for compact and highly efficient aero-engines requires for higher stage-loading and small axial gaps between adjacent blade rows, increasing interaction between blade rows and introducing further unsteadiness into the flow. Modeling these interactions is relevant to jet engine implementation. Recent advancements in numerical simulation of unsteady flow in multiple blade rows create an additional way to investigate the flow patterns formed by the unsteady interaction. In the case of transonic compressors, the experimental and numerical database is small. The current article will contribute to this database by investigating the flow downstream of an inlet guide vane and the influence this flow has on the passage in a transonic compressor. Unsteady flow phenomena are resolved by piezoresistive wall pressure tappings. Numerical and experimental data show that the interaction of blade rows influences the formation of the tip leakage vortex. Analyzing the vortex structure within the transonic compressor stage it is possible to show how the blade rows interact and how geometric modifications in the VIGV tip gap model influence simulation results.
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Erickson, Marjorie, and Mark Kirk. "Methods to Appropriately Account for Uncertainties in Structural Integrity Assessment Models." In ASME 2020 Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2020-21187.

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Abstract To ensure an appropriate and/or conservative assessment of structural integrity it is essential to account for the uncertainties inherent to the various inputs and models that, collectively, contribute to a structural integrity assessment. While the methods used to account for uncertainties will differ, this applies equally to assessments performed using either deterministic or probabilistic approaches. Oftentimes the overall model used for a structural integrity assessment is itself comprised of multiple inputs and models, which themselves may be inter-related and/or correlated. In these circumstances the quest to ensure that all uncertainties are addressed can result in the same uncertainty — or uncertainty source — being accounted for multiple times. Such “double-counting” of uncertainties introduces un-needed conservatism to the assessment and should be avoided. In this paper we use the linked fracture toughness models contained in the recently proposed Revision 1 to ASME Section XI Code Case N-830 to provide examples of uncertainty treatment in analyses using multiple models. Identification of sources of uncertainty in each model used in a multi-model analysis can help to ensure that each source is accounted for appropriately and not multiple times. The CC N-830-1 models are used to demonstrate the effects of various uncertainty treatment strategies and the pitfalls that arise from treating sources of uncertainty twice.
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Sekar, Shreyas. "Posted Pricing sans Discrimination." In Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/55.

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In the quest for market mechanisms that are easy to implement, yet close to optimal, few seem as viable as posted pricing. Despite the growing body of impressive results, the performance of most posted price mechanisms however, rely crucially on "price discrimination" when multiple copies of a good are available. For the more general case with non-linear production costs on each good, hardly anything is known for general multi-good markets. With this in mind, we study the problem of social welfare maximization in a Bayesian setting where the seller can produce any number of copies of a good but faces convex production costs for the same. Our central contribution is a structured framework for decision making and static item pricing in the face of uncertainty and production costs, i.e., the seller decides how much to produce and posts a single price per good that is common to all buyers, the buyers arrive sequentially and purchase utility maximizing bundles of goods. The framework yields constant factor approximations to the optimum welfare when buyer valuations are fractionally subadditive, extends to more general valuations and also settings where the seller is completely oblivious to buyer valuations. Our work presents the first known results for non-discriminatory pricing in environments with non-linear costs where we only have access to stochastic information regarding buyer preferences. At a high level, our results imply that it is often possible to obtain good guarantees without discriminating against buyers, i.e., charging them differently for the same good.
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Marchi, John, and Robert Morgenstern. "Benefits of Conducting Periodic Critical Pump Hydraulic and Mechanical Performance Audits." In ASME 2008 Power Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power2008-60130.

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The operability and efficiency of critical pumping equipment is essential. A cost-effective tool that has proven valuable in predictive and preventive maintenance and in the avoidance of unscheduled pumping equipment outages is a comprehensive program of periodic hydraulic and mechanical performance audits. This paper explains how hydraulic and mechanical field testing can be conducted without interrupting plant operations using non-intrusive measurement equipment including: ultrasonic flow measurements, vibration signature analysis, and for electric motor driven pumps, power and dielectric condition analysis. Methods and requirements to conduct the audits will be discussed and a case study with cost benefit analysis is presented. Pumps are basically energy transfer devices. The energy of the pump driver, e.g. electric motor, steam or gas turbine, reciprocating engine, is transferred into the pumpage to move it through the system at sufficient pressure to overcome system losses and meet process requirements. It is the efficient transference of the applied energy that is a critical consideration in pump design and operation. Efficiency of operation is of interest to everyone. The pump designer is motivated to maximize pump efficiency to remain competitive given the increasing cost of energy. However, the designer must not get overly zealous in the quest for pumping efficiency sacrificing reliability and durability. The end-user wants the most efficient pump with longest mean time between repair (MTBR) intervals to both reduce operating cost and minimizing production losses. With the reasons for maximizing pumping efficiencies and longer MTBR intervals established, the value of periodic in situ performance testing or auditing becomes an increasingly valuable and cost effective predictive and preventative maintenance tool.
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Galante, Renan M., Jose V. C. Vargas, Wellington Balmant, Juan C. Ordonez, and Andre B. Mariano. "Clean Energy From Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)." In ASME 2019 13th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2019 Heat Transfer Summer Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2019-3961.

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Abstract The global energy demand has increased at a very large rate, and in parallel, the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) has also increased, both posing enormous technological challenges to world sustainable growth. Therefore, in order to contribute with concrete alternatives to face such quest for sustainability, this work presents an analysis of an integrated power plant fired by municipal solid waste that uses a biological filter for the combustion emissions fixation. The facility located in the Sustainable Energy Research & Development Center (NPDEAS) at Federal University of Parana is taken as a case study to analyze the process of technical and economic viability. For that, an exergoeconomic optimization model of the waste-to-energy power plant that generates electricity and produces microalgae biomass is utilized. An incineration furnace, which has a 50 kg/h capacity, heats the flue gas above 900°C and provides energy for a 15 kW water-vapor Rankine cycle. A set of heat exchangers preheats the intake air for combustion and provides warm utility water to other processes in the plant, which assures that the CO2 rich flue gas can be airlifted to the microalgae cultivation photobioreactors (PBR) at a low temperature, using a 9 m high mass transfer emissions fixation column. Five 12 m3 tubular photobioreactors are capable of supplying up to 30,000 kg/year of microalgae biomass with southern Brazil solar conditions of 1732 kWh/m2 per year. The results show that considering the incineration services, the integrated power plant could have a payback period as short as 1.35 years. In conclusion, the system provides a viable way to obtain clean energy by thermally treating MSW, together with microalgae biomass production that could be transformed in a large variety of valuable bioproducts (e.g., nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, animal feed, and food supplements).
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Reports on the topic "Castle Quest"

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MacLean, Nancy. How Milton Friedman Exploited White Supremacy to Privatize Education. Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series, September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36687/inetwp161.

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This paper traces the origins of today’s campaigns for school vouchers and other modes of public funding for private education to efforts by Milton Friedman beginning in 1955. It reveals that the endgame of the “school choice” enterprise for libertarians was not then—and is not now--to enhance education for all children; it was a strategy, ultimately, to offload the full cost of schooling onto parents as part of a larger quest to privatize public services and resources. Based on extensive original archival research, this paper shows how Friedman’s case for vouchers to promote “educational freedom” buttressed the case of Southern advocates of the policy of massive resistance to Brown v. Board of Education. His approach—supported by many other Mont Pelerin Society members and leading libertarians of the day --taught white supremacists a more sophisticated, and for more than a decade, court-proof way to preserve Jim Crow. All they had to do was cease overt focus on race and instead deploy a neoliberal language of personal liberty, government failure and the need for market competition in the provision of public education.
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Schwelkart, Larry, and Richard P. Hallion. The Hypersonic Revolution. Case Studies in the History of Hypersonic Technology. Volume 3: The Quest for the Orbital Jet: The National Aero-Space Plane Program (1983-1995). Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, November 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada441126.

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