REVIEW ESSAY: UTOPIA MADE PRACTICAL? ACTION RESEARCH COMES OF AGE

Review Essay: Utopia Made Practical? Action Research Comes of Age

Rattles This large and important work gathers together an enormous variety of action research processes, applications and skills in its 45 chapters.Following a useful section of chapter outlines and an introduction by the editors, a section on "Groundings" offers a number of value and epistemological positions.This is followed in turn by three othe

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Topologically Optimized Cast Glass: A New Design Approach for Loadbearing Monolithic Glass Components of Reduced Annealing Time

Up to now, fabricating cast glass components of substantial mass and/or thickness involves a lengthy and perplex annealing process.This has limited the use of this glass manufacturing method in the built environment to simple objects up to the size of regular building bricks, which can be annealed within a few hours.For the first time, structural t

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Revealing Underdrawings in Wall Paintings of Complex Stratigraphy with a Novel Reflectance Photoacoustic Imaging Prototype

Revealing precious hidden features by a completely non-invasive approach is one of the crucial issues in the Heritage Science field.In this regard, concealed fresco paintings still represent an analytical challenge.This paper addresses the specific issue in wall painting diagnostics by the BODY BALM photoacoustic (PA) imaging technique, already pro

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