While it is well established that alcohol consumption a gendered practice, the supposedly more progressive ethos of emerging craft drinks sector suggests possibility for great gender equality. However, as growing body research shows, cultures, and beer in particular, remain heavily with number features working to establish maintain both production masculine domain. In relation consumption, show...

For over 2000 years the manual craft of papermaking has been practiced all over the world utilizing a variety of techniques. This review describes the evolution of hand papermaking and its cultural significance. Paper’s evolution has been shaped by the structure and chemical composition of the fibers. Almost every aspect of modern papermaking technology has been foreshadowed by traditional prac...

The concept and application of ‘creative learning’ is being developed in England in particular through work both in schools and elsewhere, supported by organisations such as Creative Partnerships (Creative Partnerships, 2006; Brice-Heath and Wolf, 2004; Lamont and Hill, 2005), National College for School Leadership (NCSL, 2006), the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA, 2005a, 2005b) an...

The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) currently receives NEXRAD Doppler radar level II (base) data from 120 NWS, 12 FAA and 26 DOD sites on 8mm tape or online. The NCDC is partnering with the NWS Radar Operations Center, the National Severe Storms Lab, the University of Oklahoma and UNIDATA on the Collaborative Radar Acquisition Field Test (CRAFT) project (Droegemeier et al. 2002). CRAFT sta...

AbstractThis paper studies the task of conditional Human Motion Animation (cHMA). Given a source image and driving video, model should animate new frame sequence, in which person perform similar motion as pose sequence from video. Despite success Generative Adversarial Network (GANs) methods video synthesis, it is still very challenging to conduct cHMA due difficulty efficiently utilizing guide...

Leather craft products, such as belt, gloves, shoes, bag, and wallet are mainly originated from cow, crocodile, lizard, goat, sheep, buffalo, and stingray skin. Before the skins are used as leather craft materials, they go through a tanning process. With the rapid development of leather craft industry, an automation system for leather tanning factories is important to achieve large scale produc...