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Neda Shafiee Moghaddam, Alla ricerca degl spazi perduti
No full textIl catalogo delle opere dell'artista iraniana Neda Shafiee Moghaddam (1975- Iran/Teheran). Il catalogo raccoglie le opere e testi di due mostre personali di Shafiee Moghaddam presso la galleria romana Emmeotto
Machineries of Oil
No full textThe emergence of the international oil corporation as a political actor in the twentieth century, seen in BP's infrastructure and information arrangements in Iran. In the early twentieth century, international oil corporations emerged as a new kind of political actor. The development of the world oil industry, argues Katayoun Shafiee, was one of the era's largest political projects of techno-economic development. In this book, Shafiee maps the machinery of oil operations in the Anglo-Iranian oil industry between 1901 and 1954, tracking the organizational work involved in moving oil through a variety of technical, legal, scientific, and administrative networks. She shows that, in a series of disagreements, the British-controlled Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC, which later became BP) relied on various forms of information management to transform political disputes into techno-economic calculation, guaranteeing the company complete control over profits, labor, and production regimes. She argues that the building of alliances and connections that constituted Anglo-Iranian oil's infrastructure reconfigured local politics of oil regions and examines how these arrangements in turn shaped the emergence of both nation-state and transnational oil corporation. Drawing on her extensive archival and field research in Iran, Shafiee investigates the surprising ways in which nature, technology, and politics came together in battles over mineral rights; standardizing petroleum expertise; formulas for calculating profits, production rates, and labor; the “Persianization” of employees; nationalism and oil nationalization; and the long-distance machinery of an international corporation. Her account shows that the politics of oil cannot be understood in isolation from its technical dimensions
Ruhe By Ruhiger Ort / Nor Shazana Shafiee
Full text linkRuhe is one of the scented candle products that are available in the market under Ruhiger Ort Enterprise. The meaning of 'Ruhe' comes from a Germanic word that reflects this product image which is quiet and peaceful. The tag line of this product is 'Relax, Cozy, Fresh' this product offers this kind of soothing feeling to their customer. Ruhe's unique selling proposition the product is purely made from 100% natural soy wax as its product base. The real reason behind this product selection is the scented candle is used as one of the luxury home decor items. With Ruhe, they offer a premium product with a low price to all their beloved customers so that everyone with any background can enjoy this soothing feeling. What is special about this product is, the container is environmentally friendly as its users can recycle it after the candle is used up. Instead of using glass like other products, they use tin material as their container. They decided to choose this material because tin is more durable, and the worst-case scenario is it will be deformed. Even though the container becomes deformed, their customer could still fix it and return it into an original shape. Talking about this product background, the owner decided to start producing Ruhe scented candles because he realizes that as humans, sometimes it just want to take some time off and relax after a great long day. Most of us would feel mentally and physically exhausted when we go home. It is so important for us to take a break from this everyday routine and have our own space. This has become the real solid reason why he established and develop this product line of a scented candle. He wants to share the positive energy and good vibes with all our beloved customers with this product. When redesigning this product, to make it look premium, we have chosen a clean and minimalist design to portray this product image. The combination of white and a few main colors is yellow for vanilla, purple for lavender, green for gardenia and the last one is red for rose. Typography as the main design attraction used a calligraphy style. What makes this product more unique is the tin container, the original marble texture remains but the difference is it is in a low opacity to keep our clean white look as the main identity. Overall, this minimalist concept does compliment and does portray this product as classy and premium even though the price is not that high compared to other brands. Most of the scented candles sell here are from the international companies that are available in Malaysia. The competition for small local businesses like Ruhiger Ort Enterprise is quite challenging and up until now, the market is still great. Other than women and teenagers, interesting and unique features like what Ruhe offers do attract another group of people which is home decor lovers that include a wide range of age and the other gander which is men. In a conclusion, it is believed that the new looks, can attract more people to try this product as it does fit in many aesthetics like what most of us value nowadays. The simple packaging yet interesting and eye cache does attract a lot of attention. It is a hope that this project can make good progress in the future and it maybe came to life soon
Fabrication and characterisation of solid titanium nitride and molybdenum nitride microelectrodes
No full textMetal nitrides have gained interest due to their high melting point, mechanical resistance, thermal and electrical conductivity. To the best of our knowledge, titanium nitride (TiN) and molybdenum nitride (MoN) electrodes have always been prepared as thin films. However, thin film electrodes tend to delaminate or crack during preparation or usage which exposes the underlying substrate and increases their surface area. In addition, the vapour deposition techniques employed to prepare thin films can introduce contaminants to the samples. In this work we prepared solid metal nitride samples, characterised them with a range of physical methods and investigated their electrochemical properties.Our work demonstrates the feasibility of obtaining TiN and MoN from Ti and Mo foils and microwires via nitridation in a NH3 atmosphere. The process was confirmed using energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The XRD spectra also showed that hexagonal MoN and cubic Mo2N were obtained. This work also demonstrates the viability of fabricating solid TiN and MoN microelectrodes, microdisks and microbands, from the nitrided Ti and Mo samples. Hence a major objective of the project was to assess whether TiN and MoN could be used as alternatives to conventional microelectrode materials such as Pt, Au, and C. To the extent of our knowledge, MoN and TiN wires have never been used to construct microelectrodes.The electrochemical behaviour of the solid TiN and MoN microelectrodes is assessed using different redox mediators to cover a range of redox potentials. The cyclic voltammograms recorded with the untreated TiN microband electrodes showed that the redox processes at positive potentials were not electrochemically reversible. Yet, the electrochemical response was improved after etching the TiN surface with hydrofluoric acid vapour. In contrast, MoN microelectrodes exhibited sigmoidal shape cyclic voltammograms with a plateau region for all redox mediators even without surface treatment. The TiN and MoN microelectrodes exhibited good activity towards the oxygen reduction reaction recorded in pH 1, 7, 10, and 14. The TiN and MoN microelectrodes were also employed to assess their properties towards the reduction of peroxodisulfate, a very strong oxidising agent with a very complex reduction process. This study also employed bare Au, bare Pt, nanostructured Pt, and bismuth-adsorbed Pt microdisk electrodes to search for the electrode that produces a stable and preferably a diffusion-controlled current for the reduction of peroxodisulfate. Cyclic voltammograms with a plateau region were obtained with the nanostructured Pt, bismuth-modified Pt, HF-etched TiN, and MoN microelectrodes but not with the bare Au and bare Pt microelectrodes. However, only MoN microdisks demonstrated a stable steady-state current for the reduction of peroxodisulfate. To our knowledge, no group has observed cyclic voltammograms with a plateau region when employing bare electrodes for the reduction of peroxodisulfate. A linear relationship between the current and concentration was obtained with the MoN microdisk electrodes for concentrations above 0.1 mM. Similarly, the MoN microdisk electrode produced a diffusion-controlled current for scan rates between 5 and 50 V s-1.Overall, the MoN microelectrodes produced more reliable amperometric results than the TiN microelectrode. Thus, the MoN microelectrodes could be exploited as an alternative to the conventional Pt, Au, and C microelectrodes
HEvOD: Hurricane Evacuation Order Database
No full textThe Hurricane Evacuation Order Database (HEvOD) is a detailed collection of official evacuation orders issued in response to the hurricanes that impacted the United States between 2014-2022. It is compiled from a wide range of sources including official websites and social media accounts of state and local governments and government agencies, as well as news outlets. Key details pertaining to each evacuation order include the order type (mandatory, voluntary, State of Emergency), the announcement date/time of the order, the effective date/time of the order, and the evacuation areas targeted by the order
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Cadangan merekabentuk dalaman bagi Restoran Bora Flora / Na’imah Shafiee
Full text linkKajian akhir yang dilakukan adalah untuk mewujudkan sebuah restoran bertema yang berkonsepkan Bali Kontemporari dan berimejkan flora dan fauna dan meghidangkan pelbagai pilihan menu terutamanya ‘fusion’ Melayu, Indonesia, Thailand dan juga masakan dari Barat dan juga menghidangkan jenis makanan dari menu yang dicipta khas sempena restoran ini. Di dalam ruang restoran ini, penekanan elemen-elemen ala Bali, Restoran Bora Ombak dan Bora Asmara juga dijadikan sebagai rujukan dan panduan untuk menonjolkan tema dan konsep yang ingin disampaikan. Cara reka bentuk ruang diilham dan diadun secara simbolik dan juga secara terus-menerus.Sebelum melaksanakan projek ini, beberapa kajian telah dijalankan untuk memenuhi kehendak dan matlamat klien. Antara kajian yang telah dilakukan termasuklah kajian pemilihan tapak, kajian temuramah, kajian pemerhatian, kajian kes dan kajian dengan membuat soal selidik. Tujuan kajian ini dilakukan adalah untuk mengkaji kelemahan-kelemahan yang terdapat pada rangkaian makanan dan juga rekabentuk dalaman serta pengurusan terhadap sesebuah restoran pada masa kini. Kajian-kajian dan proses pengumpulan data akan dianalisis dan diterapkan di dalam proses merekabentuk untuk mendapatkan rekabentuk yang selesa, menarik disamping mewujudkan satu imej baru dengan sentuhan gaya dan imej yang tersendiri
A comparative study of romantic naturalism in Shafiee Kadkani and Badi Saqour
No full textThe research aims to criticize the differences and similarities
observed in the works of Shafiee Kadkani and Badi Saqouron. The
methodology of this paper is a content analysis that is carried out
through comparison of two selected Persian and Arabic collections. As
a result, the morning and spring in nature are similar in both works and
they are taken to refer to hope. As a conclusion, the comparison of the
works of well-known and foreign poets creates a new perspective on
the culture and art of other countries and also one's own country in
addition to recognizing the new worksEl objetivo de la investigación es criticar las diferencias y
similitudes observadas en los trabajos de Shafiee Kadkani y Badi
Saqouron. La metodología de este documento es un análisis de
contenido que se lleva a cabo mediante la comparación de dos
colecciones persas y árabes seleccionadas. Como resultado, la mañana
y la primavera en la naturaleza son similares en ambas obras y se
toman para referirse a la esperanza. Como conclusión, la comparación
de las obras de poetas conocidos y extranjeros crea una nueva
perspectiva sobre la cultura y el arte de otros países y también del
propio país, además de reconocer las nuevas obras
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