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SPAID, SUE. "Revisiting Ventzislavov's Thesis: “Curating Should Be Understood as a Fine Art”." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74, no. 1 (2016): 87–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jaac.12252.

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Wilsher, Mark. "The phantom ‘practice-only thesis’." Journal of Writing in Creative Practice 13, no. 2 (2020): 219–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jwcp_00005_1.

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As universities become accustomed to the complexities of their art and design faculties, a body of literature has emerged that explores some of the possibilities of a doctorate in the creative arts. In the area of fine art in particular, although not exclusively, there has been a drive towards a purely practice-based thesis. This article argues that the notion of the practice-only thesis is not only an unrealistic illusion that puts pressure on students, but also does not reflect contemporary professional practices. For an art practice to communicate any sort of specific knowledge it must be embedded in a pre-existing and continuously evolving flux of discourse produced through written and spoken language. The American artist Trisha Donnelly’s 2014 Serpentine Gallery exhibition is taken as an example. Critical writing in the art press produces an accepted interpretation, and this is what the artist ‘Trisha Donnelly’ comes to stand for. So artwork that might appear to be producing its meaning autonomously should be seen as a collaborative practice involving the artist together with their professional interpreters. Research students are required to produce a self-contained project which would seem to preclude the incorporation of writing or academic interpretation by others. But it is fundamentally unfair to demand a thesis without any written component since it does not exist in an expanded notion of the contemporary art world.
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Elpern, David J. "“Paper Teachers:”." International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare 4, no. 2 (2014): 51–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijudh.2014040106.

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Physicians spend many years immersed (drowning?) in their professional literature. There is no way one can keep up with it and most of it is forgettable and sadly inaccurate. This paper's thesis is that the arts (literature, music, fine art, film) are vitally important to one's personal and professional development. They provide the Continuous Medical Inspiration that trumps Continuing Medical Education. Although they may not realize it, each of them has personal canon comprised of those works of art that guide them in their daily lives. Herein, thoughts on documenting one's personal canon are provided.
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Cleere, Eileen. "Dirty Pictures: John Ruskin, Modern Painters, and the Victorian Sanitation of Fine Art." Representations 78, no. 1 (2002): 116–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2002.78.1.116.

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WHILE MY PROJECT IS BROADLY INTERESTED in the interdisciplinary work of what I will call sanitary art in nineteenth-century Britain, this essay is primarily concerned with a watershed moment in the production of that interdisciplinarity. In 1842, Edwin Chadwick published his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population; the following year, John Ruskin published the first volume of Modern Painters. Incomparable in subject, genre, and style, these texts would nonetheless participate in the same cultural project, producing between them a discourse of ''dirty'' art that challenged and eventually redefined nineteenth-century aesthetic standards. This essay argues that Ruskin employed the discourse and ideological necessity of sanitary reform from his earliest work, enforcing through his celebration of modern painters an aesthetic preference for the bright, clean colors of J.M.W. Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites over the pestilential tones and dark obscurity of the Renaissance Old Masters. Moreover, Ruskin's sophisticated preferences were circulated and popularized by a cultural event more generally accessible than Modern Painters. Isolating a mid-Victorian moment when the agitation for urban cleanliness began to dominate a variety of social discourses, this essay will also argue that Chadwick's powerful sanitary idea was channeled through a public controversy in the mid-forties about the aesthetic status of ''picture cleaning'' in the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square. When the dust from this debate finally settled, it was swept away along with the dirty aesthetic theories that had accumulated over previous centuries. Left in its place was the thesis of Modern Painters, and a new standard of aesthetic hygiene for Victorian art.
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Nikolić, Sanela. "Bauhaus Gestaltung as a New Philosophy of Life." Život umjetnosti, no. 106 (November 30, 2020): 52–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.31664/zu.2020.106.04.

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The thesis of this text is that the modernist paradigms of art —work of art, creation, and aesthetic experience—were reinterpreted by the Bauhaus idea of the Gestaltung of life. This unique conceptual foundation implied the theoretical and practical education meant to form ( gestalten) not only art and culture, but also life as a whole, as a dynamic organism consisting of two elements—the individual and the space of the individual existence. Bauhaus architecture and design of objects for everyday use were practiced as the Gestaltung of living space in a postwar world of industrial production. The practices of fine arts were developed to improve the human sensory potential and perceptive relations to space. Gestalt psychologists and the Bauhaus worked out the implications of two different meanings of Goethe’s original idea of the Gestalt. The Preliminary Course (Vorkurs) as well as the reflected-light compositions (Reflektorische Farbenlichtspiele), and the artistic solutions of László Moholy-Nagy and Oskar Schlemmer are considered as the concrete educational and artistic achievements of the Bauhaus Gestaltung.
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Dreon, Roberta. "Dewey After the End of Art." Contemporary Pragmatism 17, no. 2-3 (2020): 146–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-01701154.

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This article explores the significance of Hegel’s aesthetic lectures for Dewey’s approach to the arts. Although over the last two decades some brilliant studies have been published on the “permanent deposit” of Hegel in Dewey’s mature thought, the aesthetic dimension of Dewey’s engagement with Hegel’s heritage has not yet been investigated. This inquiry will be developed on a theoretical level as well as on the basis of a recent discovery: in Dewey’s Correspondence traces have been found of a lecture on Hegel’s Aesthetics delivered in 1891 within a summer school run by a scholar close to the so-called St. Louis Hegelians. Dewey’s deep and long-standing acquaintance with Hegel’s Aesthetics supports the claim that in his mature book, Art as Experience, he originally appropriated some Hegelian insights. First, Dewey shared Hegel’s strong anti-dualistic and anti-autonomistic conception of the arts, resisting post-Kantian sirens that favored instead an interpretation of art as a separate realm from ordinary reality. Second, they basically converged on an idea of the arts as inherently social activities as well as crucial contributions to the shaping of cultures and civilizations, based on the proximity of the arts to the sensitive nature of man. Third, this article argues that an original re-consideration of Hegel’s thesis of the so-called “end of art” played a crucial role in the formulation of Dewey’s criticism of the arts and of the role of aesthetic experience in contemporary society. The author suggests that we read Dewey’s criticism of the removal of fine art “from the scope of the common or community life” (lw 10, 12) in light of Hegel’s insight that the experience of the arts as something with which believers or citizens can immediately identify belongs to an irretrievable past.
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Kuščević, Dubravka, Miroslava Ćosić, and Irena Mišurac. "Samoprocjena učiteljica o razini povezivanja likovnih i matematičkih sadržaja u nižim razredima osnovne škole." Magistra Iadertina 15, no. 1 (2021): 24–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.15291/magistra.3215.

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The theme of this thesis is a self-assessment of teachers about the linking of fine arts and mathematics in lower grades of primary school. The theoretical work defines correlation and self-assessment, science and art and their reflection on education. Correlation is the foundation of modern education, it allows creation of a complete harmonic image of knowledge. Self-assessment is one of the basic ways of assessing one’s own work, allowing teachers to recognize the advantages and disadvantages of their own work and to improve the teaching process. Science and art are important in the life of an individual, they are interdependent, and their co-existence is visible in education and upbringing. The survey was conducted on a sample of 199 teachers on the territory of the Republic of Croatia. The research has showed that teachers understand the importance of linking the content of these two subjects and that they feel competent and motivated, but they implement the correlation insuficiently. The research also suggests that the teachers were informed and educated about correlation on their own initiative.
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Nikitin, Andrii. "ART PROSPECTION OF YURI RUBASHOV." Research and methodological works of the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture, no. 28 (December 15, 2019): 124–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.33838/naoma.28.2019.124-129.

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Rubashov — Honored Artist of Ukraine, Member of the National Union of Artists in Ukraine, Associ- ate Professor of the Department of Drawing the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture.Yurii Rubashov was born in Kyiv in 1947. After the end of the RCSU with the name of T. Shevchenko in 1965, he joined KSAI and till 1971 he studied in prominent Ukrainian graphists: V. Kasyana, I. Selivanov, V. Chebanyk.The artist turns to historical subjects and initiates graphic cycle, dedicated to the history of Kiev Rus and the activities of the kings who influenced the historical passing of events of that time.First of this thesis topic was a series of lithographs "Yaroslav the Wise" (1971), later — a series of graphic com- positions "Kiev Rus" (1979), a series of colored prints "Prince of Kiev", "Princess Olga, Svyatoslav, Vladimir, and Yaroslav the Wise (1992).The artist shows the greatest creative interest in landscape painting (cycles "On the Spain" (1982), "On the Sweden" (1985), "On the Jordan" (1983), "On the Armenia" (1983), "Roads of the Ukraine" (1996) and still life (Sweden Series, 2012–2013).It can be argued that Yu. Rubashov’s works absorbed the lyrics of landscapes with characteristic features of both southern and northern colors, and his still life is characterized by precise organization, a variety of styl- ized forms, which show confidence in the possession of the material and a balanced sense of compositional harmony. In the process of forming the author’s technique, he chooses the path of innovation and experiment, which in turn causes a peculiar interpretation of different technical means — a combination of materials and technologies of different nature. The artist exploits and applies multicolored pigments, oil pastels, watercolors and acrylic paints and the like, mixing everything with different solvents, which gives the opportunity to original express and crystallize a peculiar, author’s style.Drawing on the foundations of academic education, the artist experiments, seeks creative ideas and success- fully incorporates contemporary artistic problems into new imaginative solutions. This is a valuable example of growing skill and formation creative personality.In 2000 and 2015 he received first-degree diplomas All-Ukrainian Triennial of Graphic Arts, in 2012 — Di- ploma of the third stage of the exhibition-competition named G.Yakutovich.Yu. Rubashov fruitfully combines creative work with teaching. In the process of teaching his students, Yu. Rubashov not only lays the foundations of academic drawing, but also encourages to analyze creative material, to study and master the various drawing techniques and opportunities inherent in them.In the general process of contemporary search for an art, together with the academic pragmatism of the cur- riculum, the teacher, especially in the first courses of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Restoration, draws attention of the students in different artistic trends, teaches analytical and creative perception of natural objects and consciously approach the transformation of three-dimensional forms on a two-dimensional work plane of a paper sheet. These methodological principles meet the needs of modern times.The stylistic language of his works is recognizable and special. Not dwelling on what he has achieved, he im- parts his experience to the students, demonstrating the inexhaustible possibilities of drawing and the technical means of its implementation, including pastels. The high level of his works makes it possible to claim that Yu. Rubashov is a master of pastels and his contribution to the development of Ukrainian art is indisputable.
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McSheffrey, Shannon, Eyvind C. Ronquist, and Franziska Shlosser. "Concordia University." Florilegium 20, no. 1 (2003): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/flor.20.034.

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At Concordia University, Montréal, matters from the period called the Middle Ages are investigated and taught through a variety of disciplines. A Concordia B.A. thus provides excellent preparation for a student interested in medieval matters. There are large and viable programs in Classical Greek and Latin and in modern languages. Engaged researchers regularly offer courses on medieval subjects within programs that give training in the disciplines of theology, religious studies, philosophy, history, political thought, literary interpretation, fine arts, and art history. These disciplines permit familiarity with the questions and discourses of research that will open out new approaches to old materials, such as we have seen with enquiries of gender theory, methods of interpretation, memorialisation, or representation. Within some disciplines, then, it is possible to pursue advanced studies, with a possible thesis option for an M.A., and with a Ph.D. in History or an individual interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Humanities.
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Erim, Gonca, Ismail Tetikci, and Remziye Ersoy. "Technical experience with tempera paintings in a bachelor degree course in Turkey." International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE) 10, no. 1 (2021): 245. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v10i1.20667.

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<p><span>This article aims to understand the place of the tempera technique in art history, which is thought to be encountered for the first time by art education undergraduate students, and to determine the effects on the participants after the application. The study consists of the findings and results of the first and second research questions in the master thesis “Tempera technique and its use in the course of painting courses on undergraduate level.” In this study the “case study” pattern was used, and is one of the qualitative research approaches. The participants of the research are eight students studying in Bursa Uludag University, Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Arts Education in the 2018-2019 academic year. The data collection tools of literature review and two interview forms interview were used. The findings obtained were evaluated by thematic analysis technique. According to the findings obtained in the research, it was observed that the participants did not have prior knowledge about the tempera technique before oral presentation and application. It was concluded that there were differences in the levels of interest and knowledge after the teaching process, and that there were positive changes in their opinions regarding the technique.</span></p>
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Fine art thesis"

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Degges, Douglas Ross. "Master of fine arts thesis." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2854.

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In the course of studying painting for the past three years at the University of Iowa, I have found collaborating with other artists to be a great way for me to try on different hats. Two of these collaborations in particular, The Old Man Study Group with Hamlett Dobbins (Memphis, TN) and The Coracle Drawing Club with David Dunlap (Iowa City, IA), have given me the license and opportunity to pretend to be someone else. These collaborative projects have asked me to consider, and at times adopt, even if only for a moment, the interests and concerns of another maker. A few months into these two projects, I noticed that the work I was making on my own, in the isolation of my own studio, was suddenly open to the world's innovations, and not just my own.
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Singleton, Joe. "Ascension: A Fine and Performing Art Scholar Thesis." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/17.

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Borg, Erik W. "The experience of writing a practice-based thesis in Fine Art and Design." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2009. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3745/.

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This study describes the writing processes of Ph. D. candidates in Fine Art Practice and Design. These disciplines are relatively new within universities and have little history of research and writing at doctoral level. Through the experience of the participants, the study illuminates the complexities and difficulties of appropriating an existing genre to fit new purposes. This study takes an academic literacies approach, derived from literacy practices. The approach views writing as a situated practice that is best observed through extended ethnographically-based engagement in sites of literacy-in-action. However, literacy practices exist in a wider context that can be understood as a network that both enables and limits local literacy practices. Among the actors maintaining the network surrounding and enmeshing the local literacy practices are a variety of discourse communities that use a multifaceted genre like the doctoral thesis to further their own purposes. The study reports on two sites of literacy-in-action, one a seminar for doctoral candidates in Fine Art Practice, and the other a seminar for candidates in Design. Each site constituted a case that was studied for over three years, looking at the difficulties that candidates faced in each site. These case studies are placed in a wider context of writing in fine art and design in order to understand the factors that shaped the texts that the candidates wrote. The study shows that, while candidates worked to assemble distinct individual and disciplinary identities in both Fine Art Practice and Design, the candidates in Fine Art Practice particularly struggled to find research methodologies and written textual forms that would adequately represent their understanding of current art practices.
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Shanks, Sarah M. "The Memory Yields: B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1401583720.

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Wolf, Erin Irene. "A Thesis is Not a Diary and Other Myths." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1565810728861941.

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Campbell, Taylor C. Ms. "Sexual Assault Victims and How They Cope: A Creative Thesis From A Survivor’s Perspective." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/405.

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This thesis shows the creative process that fine artist Taylor Campbell went through while completing a painting show about the sexual assault epidemic on college campuses. Because she has been a victim of both sexual harassment and assault while attending college, she dives deeper into how she and other survivors cope with their trauma and uses her creative outlet to help get conversation started about the epidemic. She hopes with her research and her paintings that other survivors will realize they are not alone in their battles and are surrounded by people who are ready and willing to help. She also hopes that her work will inspire those who have not been affected by sexual violence will be inspired speak up when they see something unusual, and to be open and supportive to those who have been affected.
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Parry, Ariana J. "Flow: Abstracting Mundane Environments." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1481565925915224.

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Francis, Andrew M. "belt melon grass." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3885.

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This essay was written largely after the completion of my thesis exhibition which shares its title. An integral aspect of the work was the after-­hours maintenance it required. Below I describe the unforeseen personal significance that labor came to hold and the way in which it functioned as a healing ritual. Through this work, and those leading up to it, I have a reinvigorated awareness of the importance of therapy as an aspect of my art­making, of which this thesis is a testament.
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Muirhead, Anna. "Evergreen : [thesis] submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Masters [Ie Master] of Fine Arts at Otago Polytechnic School of Art, Dunedin, New Zealand /." Conceptual Art Online- Anna Muirhead - About, 2008. http://www.imageandtext.org.nz/anna_m_about.html.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Otago Polytechnic, 2008. Includes bibliographical references.<br>Thesis typescript. Supervisors: Adrian Hall, Michele Beevors. Otago Polytechnic department: School of Art. "October 2008." Accompanied by a website of the exhibition of the author's artistic.
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Lenhardt, Amy. "Research and Interpretive Plan for the First Permanent Exhibition of Ancient American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2097.

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The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) of Richmond, Virginia, is completing its largest expansion and reinstalling over 6000 artworks, including the Ancient American art collection, to be displayed in the museum’s first permanent gallery space for Ancient American art. In preparation for expansion, the VMFA issued its “Interpretive Plan Guiding Principles,” identifying visitor motivations for viewing the collections. As collection accessibility is central to the museum’s mission statement, all galleries are to provide visitors with the tools to engage with artworks. This thesis project presents a comprehensive history of Pre-Columbian collecting in museums and the history of the VMFA including its Pre-Columbian collection, which will be displayed in the Ancient American Gallery. It includes a summary of research conducted on objects designated for installation. Finally, this project addresses how the Ancient American Gallery will serve as an environment adapting to the principle experiences established by the VMFA.
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Books on the topic "Fine art thesis"

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Art Thesis Exhibition (16th 2013 Mahāwitthayālai Mahā Sārakhām). Art Thesis Exhibition 2013, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Mahasarakham University. [Mahāwitthayālai Mahā Sārakhām], 2013.

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Rock, Jana. Fragments in the narrative of architecture, fine art and design: M.A. Communication Design Thesis 2001. Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, 2001.

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Lyons, Patricia. Mimesis in practice: An investigation into the employment of the mimetic faculty in fine art practice : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Open University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in collaboration with Moggridge Associates, 1998.

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Milivojević, Era. Art session: Fine arts performance. Geopoetika, 2001.

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Tessa, Bird, ed. The fine art of quilting. Studio Vista, 1990.

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Tessa, Bird, ed. The fine art of quilting. E.P. Dutton, 1988.

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Associates, Hindustan Thompson, and ITC Limited, eds. Srishti collages: The fine art of V. Balu. ITC Limited, 1991.

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Bradley, Anthony. Handlist of fine arts fourth year essays and theses, 1971-1988 in the Power Research Library of Contemporary Art. Power Institute of Fine Arts, 1990.

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Grabar, Oleg. The mediation of ornament: The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1989. Princeton University Press, 1992.

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The fine art of murder: A Murder, she wrote mystery : a novel. Obsidian / New American Library, 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "Fine art thesis"

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Ansburg, Pamela I., Mark E. Basham, and Regan A. R. Gurung. "Afterword: Five key themes in a successful teaching-focused career." In Thriving in academia: Building a career at a teaching-focused institution. American Psychological Association, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0000261-010.

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Jonker, Jan, and Niels Faber. "The Art of Doing." In Organizing for Sustainability. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78157-6_14.

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AbstractThe purpose of the Business Model Template (BMT) is to help you turn your idea into a viable project or organization. To illustrate this, two real-life case studies are offered in this chapter. Firstly, the KipCaravan project, which is a mobile home—a caravan—for chickens. It involves low-scale egg production in several locations. Secondly, the Sun at School NSV2 project in the city of Nijmegen. For both projects you will find a step-by-step description of the different routes followed. As you will see, the interpretation of the building blocks is different for every project and there is no best order in which to stack the building blocks. Bear in mind that both projects are still up and running successfully at the time of writing. These examples are shown in simplified versions and with the benefit of hindsight, of course. Perhaps the essence of doing business is having the courage to start without a ready-made recipe.
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Kestenbaum, Bert. "Semi-supercentenarians in the United States." In Demographic Research Monographs. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49970-9_13.

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AbstractThis chapter discusses in detail the procedure followed to identify a 1-in-10 sample of persons born between 1870 and 1899 who resided in the United States at the time of their death at ages 105–109 for men and 108 or 109 for women. We tabulate the characteristics of these “semi-supercentenarians” and offer some observations about the level of their mortality. The procedure for identifying semi-supercentenarians consists of (1) casting a net to find candidates and then (2) determining for which candidates can both date of birth and date of death be validated. The net used to find candidates in the United States is different from the nets typically used in other counties: in the United States we use the file of enrollments in the federal government’s Medicare health insurance program. Some of the information needed for the verification step comes from another administrative file – the Social Security Administration’s file of applications for a new or replacement social security card. Verification of the date of death is accomplished by querying the National Death Index. Dates of birth are verified by using online resources to access the records of several censuses conducted many decades earlier.
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Rockman, Deborah A. "Teaching Essential Drawing Principles in Relation to the Human Figure." In The Art of Teaching Art. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195130799.003.0007.

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There is perhaps no more significant experience in the study of drawing than the study of the human figure. One needs only to look to the ancient Greeks and to the Renaissance masters to recognize the historical importance of the human form in the study of the visual arts and the refinement of visual expression. Although the figure’s presence and significance during the period known as modernism and in contemporary art has ebbed and flowed, its influence is always felt to some degree, and no classical or traditional art education would be complete without a substantial focus on drawing and studying the human form. Much debate is currently taking place about the changing role and responsibility of foundation courses for students studying both the fine and applied arts. If we examine those aspects that the fine and applied arts have in common, we find that a concern for communication is paramount, whether it takes place in a gallery or museum, in a television or magazine ad, on a showroom floor, on a computer monitor, or in any number of other locales. The power of the human form to communicate cannot be overstated, primarily because it is what we are. We have things in common with other humans that we have in common with nothing else. Looking at a human form in any context has the potential to provide us with the experience of looking in the mirror, of seeing our own reflection, so to speak. It follows that any significant experience in visual communication must thoroughly examine the role of the figure, and for the visual artist this requires experience with drawing the figure. The fine and applied arts also have in common a concern for principles of design and aesthetics. If we acknowledge the presence of these principles in nature, then we may also recognize an element of universality. Quite simply, I can think of no finer example of the application of principles of design and aesthetics than the living, breathing human form, and the human form is universal.
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"Analyses and Discussion: Emerging Themes." In Transatlantic Reflections on the Practice-Based PhD in Fine Art. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315754741-6.

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Wells, Christi Jay. "“A Fine Art in Danger”." In Between Beats. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197559277.003.0005.

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During the 1950s and 1960s, jazz music became solidly entrenched in America’s institutions of high art patronage as the music’s most prestigious venues shifted from popular clubs and ballrooms to concert halls and upscale summer festivals, most notably the Newport Jazz Festival. While for most professional jazz dancers, this period marked a time when the work “dried up,” there were several lindy hop and rhythm tap dancers who managed to access these spaces through their relationships with jazz historian Marshall Stearns. Stearns was a key player in the adoption of jazz history as an academic subject and an advocate for the serious study of Black vernacular dance. This chapter asks why Stearns’s efforts to “legitimize” and institutionalize jazz dance largely failed, given that his similar advocacy for jazz music clearly succeeded. It argues that Stearns’s folkloric conceptualization of “vernacular jazz dance” fell short of the successful “consensus narrative” he built for jazz music in that concertized adaptations of Black vernacular dance practices by choreographers such as Katherine Dunham and Alvin Ailey were not legible to Stearns as contiguous extensions of the traditional folk and popular dance forms he problematically fetishized as dying folk art in need of preservation. The discursive barrier Stearns built between the worlds of vernacular and concert dance, while intended to safeguard from cultural appropriation so-called authentic or vernacular jazz dance forms, ultimately reinforced primitivist narratives that discursively foreclosed many possibilities for dance as a vital creative partner in jazz music’s present or future.
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Hooghe, Liesbet, Tobias Lenz, and Gary Marks. "Five Theses on International Governance." In A Theory of International Organization. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198766988.003.0008.

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Chapter 8 summarizes the argument of the book in five theses: IO governance has both a formal and an informal basis; its foundation is contractual; and sociality and politicization alongside functionality explain how IOs are structured and how they make decisions. The possibilities for governance in the international domain appear to be circumscribed by how the populations encompassed in an IO perceive themselves in relation to each other—the extent to which they see themselves as sharing some transnational community. How do they conceive the trade-off between national self-rule and international shared rule? A postfunctionalist theory of international organization claims that governance is both an expression of community and an institutional adaptation to the functional provision of public goods.
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Anderson, Samuel Mark. "Times Past Under Fire." In The Art of Emergency. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190692322.003.0011.

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In the wake of Sierra Leone’s civil war, Fambul Tok, a locally run internationally funded NGO, promotes community ownership of the peace process by invoking the efficacy of “local traditions.” Its programs take the form of spectacular bonfire ceremonies that host acts of public testimony, witnessing, and forgiveness. Attending to the aesthetic dimensions of one Fambul Tok bonfire reveals disconnections between Fambul Tok’s self-image and villagers’ own perceptions of and aspirations for the occasion. These disjunctures testify to the bonfires’ nature as an “invented tradition” constituted as much by Western psychoanalysis, internationalist bureaucracy, and an imagined primordial Africa as by lived experience. Justifications for such ritualistic processes call upon overlapping yet often contradictory narratives about the source of their efficacy. Moreover, adherence to international technocratic norms leads participants to prioritize metrics legible to foreign audiences, indicating the limits of so-called local models within current systems of post-conflict intervention.
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Desmond, Will D. "Art." In Hegel's Antiquity. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198839064.003.0003.

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Hegel’s Lectures on Fine Art offer a veritable ‘world history of art’, and have led to his being called the real ‘father of art history’, but at their heart is a close identification of beauty with ‘the ideal’ and of art with ‘the classical’—and hence with (Greek) antiquity. With reference to the legacies of Winckelmann and Kantian aesthetic theory, this chapter begins by explicating the main features of Hegel’s aesthetics: the notion of ‘the ideal’ and of art’s vocation to reveal ‘the truth’ sensuously; the classification of artistic styles into Symbolic, Classical, and Romantic; and the division of basic art forms into architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry. The chapter tackles each of these art forms in turn, focusing on Hegel’s sources and understanding of their role in Greek and Roman civilizations. His discussions of the Greek temple, Greek sculpture, epic, lyric, and comedy are relatively neglected, but all contribute as much as tragedy to his Winckelmannian understanding of the Greeks as ‘the people of art’ and of the ‘sculptural’ nature of the Greek mind. Here his Romans play counterpoint, as a derivative and aesthetically uncreative people—except in the genre of satire, which also fills out Hegel’s portrait of Roman ‘prose’, alienation, and increasing self-awareness. Though each of the art-forms peaks in a certain historical period, Hegel tends to associate each peak with the ‘classical’ ideal—an association that may help to illuminate his controversial statements about the ‘end of art’ in the modern, Romantic style.
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"Other Antiquities Discovered." In Five Yrs Exploration At Thebes. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315788692-17.

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Conference papers on the topic "Fine art thesis"

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Araújo, Abner M. C., and Manuel M. Oliveira Neto. "Towards Reverse Engineering of Industrial Site Plants." In Concurso de Teses e Dissertações da SBC. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/ctd.2020.11366.

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CAD models of industrial sites are extremely important, as they provide documentation and simplify inspection, planning, modification, as well as a variety of physical and logistics simulations of the corresponding installations. Despite these clear advantages, many industrial sites do not have CAD models, or have trouble keeping them up-to-date. This is often due to the amount of effort required to create and maintain CAD models updated. Hopefully, the recent popularization of 3D scanning devices is promoting the development of reverse engineering, allowing the creation of 3D representations of real environments from point clouds. Nevertheless, point clouds extracted from industrial sites are extremely complex due to occlusions, noise, non-uniform sampling, size of the dataset, lack of sample organization, among other factors. Thus, a successful reverse engineering solution should have several desirable properties, including speed, robustness to noise, accuracy, and be able to handle point clouds in general without requiring one to fine tune their parameters to each dataset in order to work well on it. This thesis presents some initial efforts towards obtaining a robust framework for reverse engineering of industrial sites. It introduces two fast and robust algorithms for detecting, respectively, planes and cylinders in noisy unorganized point clouds. Planes and cylinders are typically the most common and largest structures found in those environments, representing walls, floors, ceilings, pipes, and ducts. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches by comparing their performances against the state-of-the-art solutions for plane and cylinder detection in unorganized point clouds. In these experiments, our solutions achieved the best overall accuracy using the same set of (default) parameter values for all evaluated datasets. This is in contrast to the competing techniques, for which their parameter values were individually adjusted for each combination of technique and dataset to achieve their best results in each case, demonstrating the robustness of our algorithms, which do not require fine-tuning to perform well on arbitrary point clouds. Moreover, our technique also displayed competitive speed to other state-of-art techniques, being suitable for handling large-scale point clouds. The thesis also presents a graphical user interface which allows further refinement of the detected structures, providing the user the ability to remove, merge, and semi-automatically detect planes and cylinders in point clouds.
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Beris, Yeter, and İsmail Erim Gulacti. "Influences of Japanese prints on European printmaking (in the case of Degas-Manzi partnership)." In 10th International Symposium on Graphic Engineering and Design. University of Novi Sad, Faculty of technical sciences, Department of graphic engineering and design,, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24867/grid-2020-p69.

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Contemporary artists have included classical methods together with innovative digital printing technologies to their artistic manufactures and thus their technological production interactions have been reflected on current art as well. Today’s artists have also been in collaboration with each other by involving the digital printing technologies which kept advancing during the recent 20 years in their works of art just like Degas and Manzi did in their relationships of production partnerships in 19th Century. Besides, those opinions which originated from modernism ideas and movements consist of the core of this cooperation post Industrial Revolution era. Therefore, the concept of nationalism, the devastating consequences of the world wars and the latest industrial and technological advancements have all transformed human life irreversibly. Consequently, during this transformation era, various significant movements of art such as Impressionism and Expressionism emerged in the 20th century and representatives of those art movements substituted such a lot of printmaking practices in their works of art. None of those mentioned above took place in other previous movements of art. They reflected their points of view that they display social movements and none of the other artists who represent other senses of art have ever exhibited such a lot of printmaking practices. Thus, various printing technologies which present a new laboratory environment to the artists. As a result of this, printing technologies have been preferred as a sort of new artistic media value and it started to take its prominent place in collections of art as well as in museums during artistic presentations. Within this context, this article aims at studying the phenomenon of art by considering how it has changed during the historical process by examining those works of art which reveal these variations. Common production and working techniques in traditional printmaking, contributions of the technological advantages to the artistic manufacture. Besides, periodical innovations will be examined and presented by introducing an updated point of view to the topic within the content of this article that contain some citations from the second part of the thesis titled “Effects of fine art printmaking on the phenomenon of contemporary art”.
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Konjević, Tena. "FINES AND DAILY FINES UNDER THE ACT ON THE AMENDMENTS TO COMPETITION ACT WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON MITIGATING AND AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES." In International Jean Monnet Module Conference of EU and Comparative Competition Law Issues "Competition Law (in Pandemic Times): Challenges and Reforms. Faculty of Law, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25234/eclic/18832.

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The paper analyzes the amendments to Title VIII of the Croatian Competition Act regulating penalty clause or the fines, daily fines, and the methods for their imposition, adopted in April 2021. Daily fines are a new institute that further extends the Croatian Competition Agency's (CCA) power as a general, national regulatory authority responsible for the protection of competition in all markets. Therefore, each amended article of that Title is analysed to accurately reflect what has changed and with which provision of the Directive (EU) 2019/1 it has been harmonized. The paper also provides a detailed tabular overview and comparison of the amount of the fine and mitigating and aggravating circumstances that the Agency considered into account when imposing them in cases in the period from 2013 to the end of 2020, so that, finally, it can be concluded if there is a consistent relationship between the number of mitigating and aggravating circumstances and the amount of the fine that CCA imposes when there are infringements of the national and EU competition law.
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Zhao, Zenghui, and R. A. Wirtz. "Flow Boiling of Isopentane From a Structured-Porous Copper Fin." In ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer and InterPACK09 Conferences. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2009-90384.

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Flow boiling experiments in isopentane assess the utility of porous fin structures consisting of stacked and bonded layers of fine-weave woven copper. Porous fins are horizontally oriented in a vertical channel with flow through the fin. Experiments are conducted over the 1bar to 3bar pressure range with channel Reynolds number ranging from 1,000 to 5,000. The results indicate that these porous fins provide stable boiling with fin-base area heat fluxes ranging to 0.6 MW/m2 at a moderate superheat and channel Reynolds number.
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Mitrović, Aleksandar. "VIRTUAL ART MUSEUM AS EDUCATIONAL CONTENT ICT IN TEACHING FINE ARTS (THEORETICAL ASPECT)." In SCIENCE AND TEACHING IN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT. FACULTY OF EDUCATION IN UŽICE, UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/stec20.417m.

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The educational goal of teaching fine arts is to adopt visual literacy and visual expressiveness. Learning by means of information and communication technologies (ICT) involves the use of digital devices for the effective and creative extension of knowledge. The production of electronic educational materials is increasing daily, and thanks to the Internet, it is available on almost all ICT devices. In this paper virtual museums are presented as educational contents of ICT in the teaching of fine arts, as well as their method of application in teaching. The contents presented by virtual museums provide an interactive and non- interactive method of learning and exploration. The interactive educational content of virtual museums is often in the form of educational applications or websites that can be found on ICT and have well-intended educational goals. The contemporary approach and use of ICT in the teaching of fine arts provides new learning opportunities that focus on the aesthetic experience and theoretical aspect of visual content. Given that it takes less time to adopt pictorial content than to adopt verbal content, today’s approach to fine arts education involves the use of ICT.
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Dastbelaraki, A. H., and M. Yaghoubi. "Numerical Analysis of Convection Heat Transfer From an Array of Circular Perforated Fins due to Variable Perforation Size." In ASME 2012 6th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2012-91208.

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Among rapid advances of electrical systems electronic circuit boards have become more compact and heat production rate from their components increased considerably. Such developments raised more attention and tendency in tackling their cooling problems. A wide variety of cooling systems are developed such as various fins for decreasing the circuit board temperature. Extended surfaces or fins are good heat transfer equipments that are used for various industrial applications. The wide industrial applications of fins to enhance heat transfer rate highlighted the need for further research of optimization of fins to increase their thermal performances. Among various fin types, rectangular fins are commonly used due to their simplicity of manufacturing. Fin configurations affect the cooling rate significantly, hence a comprehensive parametric study on the fin geometries may be improve their performance. Rectangular fins show a good performance of increasing heat removal rate, while reducing the manufacturing cost. Moreover the inspiration of putting holes along the flow through the fins may be very helpful in increasing the heat removal and reduction of the needed material. The present study investigates a numerical analysis of three dimensional, turbulent convection heat transfer from an array of rectangular perforated fins with increasing the perforation size from bottom to top. The perforations considered are like circular channels along the length of fins and the number of perforations is 3. For investigation, incompressible air as working fluid is modeled using Navier–Stokes equations. RNG based k-ε turbulent model is used to predict turbulent flow parameters. Temperature field inside the fins is obtained by solving Fourier’s conduction equation. The conjugate differential equations for both solid and gas phase are solved simultaneously by finite volume procedure using SIMPLE algorithm. Flow and heat transfer characteristics are presented for Reynolds numbers from 2 × 104 to 4 × 104 based on the fin length and Prandtl number of Pr = 0.71. Numerical model is first validated with previous experimental studies and good agreements were observed. Based on the valid simulation model, numerical solution is made to find flow field and temperature distribution for various perforation size. Results show that for a specific type of perforated fins the fin effectiveness is higher than other types and drag coefficient decreases with increasing the perforation size.
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Saleh, Khaled, Weizhe Han, Vikrant Aute, and Reinhard Radermacher. "Air-Side Performance Characterization of Air-to-Refrigerant Heat Exchangers Using Parallel Parameterized CFD." In ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2013 7th International Conference on Energy Sustainability and the ASME 2013 11th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ht2013-17060.

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The goal of the study presented in this paper is to use Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to characterize the heat transfer and friction performance of fins used in air-to-refrigerant heat exchangers. Five different types of fins used in air-cooled heat exchangers (HXs) are studied using Parallel Parameterized CFD (PPCFD) approach described in this paper. The fin types considered in this paper are; Plain, Wavy, Slit, Super Slit, and Louver. 3-D CFD models are built and tested for these fin types. Based on the CFD results, air side heat transfer coefficient (HTC), Colburn j factor, Fanning f factor, and pressure drop are calculated. The results from CFD simulations are compared against experimental data from the literature for the different fin types and a good agreement is found between the two. In addition, the results from CFD simulations are used to evaluate the thermal and hydraulic performance for a wide range of heat exchanger parameters such as tube diameters, fin pitch, number of rows, and frontal air velocity. The results show the advantages of using PPCFD to efficiently develop correlations for different types of fins used in air-cooled HX, with significant reduction in engineering time. The PPCFD approach can be extended to efficiently optimize novel heat transfer surfaces.
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Baynard, Maurice, and Donald McEachron. "Work in progress — Asleep in class are the schedules of college students hampering their ability to learn?" In 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/fie.2011.6142953.

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Zucca, Damon. "What are students saying about their reference needs?" In Charleston Library Conference. Purdue Univeristy, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284317147.

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Libraries and publishers rely on transactional data to support evidence-based decision making. However, by itself quantitative information does not provide a full picture. To anticipate the evolving needs of our audience we also need to hear from the individual users themselves. In this article, I will review the findings from several recent examples survey-based research into the question of how students use reference materials in and outside of their libraries. What are students actually saying about their needs and preferences when it comes to reference? While some uses cases for reference are moving out of the library into the open web not all have. What we hear students say is that they continue to have an unmet need for long-form, contextual guidance. They say they have trouble locating this content, but that the library is the first place they look for it. This is a risk because if students cannot find in-depth summary content in their library they will migrate to the open web where they lose the benefits of librarian intermediation as both a curator of sources and as a guide via instruction.
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Coursey, Johnathan S., Jungho Kim, and Kenneth T. Kiger. "Spray Cooling of Small-Pitched, Straight-Finned, Copper Heat Sinks." In ASME 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2005-81210.

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Spraying a dielectric liquid such as PF-5060 (95% pure FC-72) has been shown to be an effective method of cooling high power electronics. Recent studies have illustrated the potential enhancement of spray cooling by the addition of extended structures, particularly straight fins, to the heated surface. In the current work, these studies are extended to finer fin widths and pitches and longer fin lengths. Four such heat sinks were EDM wire machined. These 1.41 × 1.41 cm2 heat sinks featured a fin pitch of 0.86 mm; a fin width of 0.5 mm; and fin lengths of 0.5 mm, 1 mm, 3 mm, and 5 mm, which substantially increase the total area, allowing more residence time for the incoming liquid to be heated by the wall. The four enhanced surfaces and a flat surface with the same projected area were sprayed with a full cone nozzle using PF-5060 at 96 mL/min, 24°C, and 3.65 atm (38.5 psig). In all cases, the enhanced surfaces improved thermal performance. Longer fins were found to outperform shorter ones in the single-phase regime. Adding fins also resulted in two-phase effects and higher heat transfer at lower wall temperatures than the flat surface. Finally, the two-phase regime appeared to be marked by a balance between added area, changing flow flux, channeling, and added conduction resistance. Although critical heat flux (CHF) was not reached for the finned surfaces, fin lengths between 1–3 mm appeared to be optimum for heat fluxes as high as 131 W/cm2 and the range of conditions studied.
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Reports on the topic "Fine art thesis"

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Goswami, Saheli, and Jung Ha-Brookshire. Work Environment and Personal-Organizational Fit What are Those? : Preparing Students to Find Their Most Suited Employers. Iowa State University, Digital Repository, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/itaa_proceedings-180814-1518.

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Álvarez Marinelli, Horacio, Samuel Berlinski, and Matías Busso. Research Insights: Can Struggling Primary School Readers Improve Their Reading through Targeted Remedial Interventions? Inter-American Development Bank, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002863.

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This paper assesses the effectiveness of an intervention aimed at improving the reading skills of struggling third-grade students in Colombia. In a series of randomized experiments, students participated in remedial tutorials conducted in small groups during school hours. Trained instructors used structured pedagogical materials that can be easily scaled up. Informed by the outcomes of each cohort, the intervention tools are fine-tuned for each subsequent cohort. The paper finds positive and persistent impacts on literacy scores and positive spillovers on some mathematics scores. The effectiveness of the program grew over time, likely because of higher dosage and the fine-tuning of materials.
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Irminger, Bente. A growing interest in creativity is opening up new roles for the designer- but also creating a need for clarification of these roles. Universitetet i Bergen KMD, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.22501/kmd-ar.1090256.

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Bente Irminger, ‘A growing interest in creativity is opening up new roles for the designer- but also creating a need for clarification of these roles‘, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
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Douglas, Thomas A., Christopher A. Hiemstra, Stephanie P. Saari, et al. Degrading Permafrost Mapped with Electrical Resistivity Tomography, Airborne Imagery and LiDAR, and Seasonal Thaw Measurements. U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/41185.

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Accurate identification of the relationships between permafrost extent and landscape patterns helps develop airborne geophysical or remote sensing tools to map permafrost in remote locations or across large areas. These tools are particularly applicable in discontinuous permafrost where climate warming or disturbances such as human development or fire can lead to rapid permafrost degradation. We linked field-based geophysical, point-scale, and imagery surveying measurements to map permafrost at five fire scars on the Tanana Flats in central Alaska. Ground-based elevation surveys, seasonal thaw-depth profiles, and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) measurements were combined with airborne imagery and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) to identify relationships between permafrost geomorphology and elapsed time since fire disturbance. ERT was a robust technique for mapping the presence or absence of permafrost because of the marked difference in resistivity values for frozen versus unfrozen material. There was no clear relationship between elapsed time since fire and permafrost extent at our sites. The transition zone boundaries between permafrost soils and unfrozen soils in the collapse-scar bogs at our sites had complex and unpredictable morphologies, suggesting attempts to quantify the presence or absence of permafrost using aerial measurements alone could lead to incomplete results. The results from our study indicated limitations in being able to apply airborne surveying measurements at the landscape scale toward accurately estimating permafrost extent.
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Spoors, F., C. D. B. Leakey, and M. A. James. Coast to ocean: a Fife-eye view: ocean literacy in Fife, Scotland. Scottish Oceans Institute, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.15664/10023.23981.

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[Extract from Executive Summary] Ocean Literacy (OL), or Ocean Citizenship, is the basis of a movement to sway positive, lasting change in communities that will benefit the sea, coast and climate. An ocean literate person is understanding of the ocean’s influence on their own lives, as well as the way that their behaviours influence the ocean and is knowledgeable concerning ocean threats. A degree of informed-ness (or ‘literacy’) is thought to inspire effective communication and allow for impactful decision-making regarding personal lifestyle and behaviours, which are subsequently beneficial to the marine and coastal environment. Not only that, a collective OL mindset may be translated into policy, informing marine spatial planning authorities of people’s expectations regarding their marine and coastal spaces.
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Ayala-García, Jhorland, and Sandy Dall’Erba. The impact of preemptive investment on natural disasters. Banco de la República, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.32468/dtseru.301.

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Extreme rainfall events are expected to become more frequent and more intense in the future. Because their mitigation is a challenge and their cost to human life is large, this paper studies the impact of preemptive investment against natural disasters on the future occurrence of landslides and the losses associated with it. Based on a panel of 746 Colombian municipalities with medium and high risk of landslides and an instrumental variable approach, we find that preemptive public investment can reduce the number of landslides, the number of people who die, are injured, or disappear after a landslide, as well as the number of people affected. However, we do not find any effect on the number of houses destroyed. The results reveal that local governments focus their preventive measures on saving the lives and the physical integrity of their citizens, but they pay less attention to the direct market losses of natural disasters. These results are relevant in the presence of imperfect private insurance markets and increased informal settlements.
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Foltz, Stuart, and Daniel Hooks. Lock operation improvements. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/40402.

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) owns or operates 236 locks at 191 sites (HQUSACE 2016). Although the locks at these sites generally perform reliably, more than half of these structures have surpassed their 50-year economic design life and as such, there are increasing concerns about their continued safe, reliable operation. This work was undertaken to review lock operating equipment, maintenance practices, records pertaining to accidents and equipment failures, and lighting systems; to identify alternative improvements to equipment and equipment maintenance practices; and to analyze and compare those alternatives to determine and recommend optimal solutions. This report documents some lessons learned, primarily to share information that others might find useful. Note that the recommendations in this report should not be viewed as policy, although some might be considered by those creating policy.
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Banerjee, Onil, Martin Cicowiez, Marcia Macedo, et al. An Amazon Tipping Point: The Economic and Environmental Fallout. Inter-American Development Bank, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003385.

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The Amazon biome, despite its resilience, is being pushed by unsustainable economic drivers towards an ecological tipping point where restoration to its previous state may no longer possible. This is the result of self-reinforcing interactions between deforestation, climate change and fire. In this paper, we develop scenarios that represent movement towards an Amazon tipping point and strategies to avert one. We assess the economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts of these scenarios using the Integrated Economic-Environmental Modeling (IEEM) Platform linked with high resolution spatial land use land cover change and ecosystem services modeling (IEEMESM). This papers main contributions are developing: (i) a framework for evaluating strategies to avert an Amazon tipping point based on their relative costs, benefits and trade-offs, and; (ii) a first approximation of the economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts of movement towards an Amazon tipping point, and evidence to build the economic case for strategies to avert it. We find that a conservative estimate of the cumulative regional cost through 2050 of an Amazon tipping point would be US$256.6 billion in Gross Domestic Product. Policies that would contribute to averting a tipping point, including strongly reducing deforestation, investing in climate-adapted agriculture, and improving fire management, would generate approximately US$339.3 billion in additional wealth. From a public investment perspective, the returns to implementing strategies for averting a tipping point would be US$29.5 billion. Quantifying the costs, benefits and trade-offs of policies to avert a tipping point in a transparent and replicable manner can pave the way for evidence-based approaches to support policy action focusing on the design of regional strategies for the Amazon biome and catalyze global cooperation and financing to enable their implementation.
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Hartoto, Annisa Sabrina, and Ken M. P. Setiawan. Membuka Jalan untuk Pembangunan Inklusif Gender di Daerah Perdesaan Indonesia: Bunga Rampai Kajian Aksi Kolektif Perempuan dan Pengaruhnya pada Pelaksanaan Undang-Undang Desa [Forging Pathways for Gender-inclusive Development in Rural Indonesia: Case Studies of Women’s Collective Action and Influence on Village Law Implementation]. Edited by Amalinda Savirani and Rachael Diprose. University of Melbourne with Universitas Gadjah Mada and MAMPU, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46580/124328.

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An edited volume (180K) of 12 analysis case studies (what we call stories of change - SOCs but these are village/region stories not individual stories). The case studies draw on multiple sources of data. These were originally written in Bahasa Indonesia, with abstracts in both English and Bahasa Indonesia. The volume also has an introductory analysis article that has its own analysis and illustrates core points from the case studies – separate and citable (see below). Case studies are organised by the five sectoral themes of the work covered by CSOs (e.g. supporting migrant workers, targeting reproductive health and nutrition, targeting social protection, targeting reductions in domestic and other gender-based violence, and support for informal sector workers who work at home).
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Hartoto, Annisa Sabrina, and Ken M. P. Setiawan. Membuka Jalan untuk Pembangunan Inklusif Gender di Daerah Perdesaan Indonesia: Bunga Rampai Kajian Aksi Kolektif Perempuan dan Pengaruhnya pada Pelaksanaan Undang-Undang Desa [Forging Pathways for Gender-inclusive Development in Rural Indonesia: Case Studies of Women’s Collective Action and Influence on Village Law Implementation]. Edited by Amalinda Savirani and Rachael Diprose. University of Melbourne with Universitas Gadjah Mada and MAMPU, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46580/124328.

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An edited volume (180K) of 12 analysis case studies (what we call stories of change - SOCs but these are village/region stories not individual stories). The case studies draw on multiple sources of data. These were originally written in Bahasa Indonesia, with abstracts in both English and Bahasa Indonesia. The volume also has an introductory analysis article that has its own analysis and illustrates core points from the case studies – separate and citable (see below). Case studies are organised by the five sectoral themes of the work covered by CSOs (e.g. supporting migrant workers, targeting reproductive health and nutrition, targeting social protection, targeting reductions in domestic and other gender-based violence, and support for informal sector workers who work at home).
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