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51	The Integration of Biological Growth into Architecture through Biotechnology and Biomimicry Houette, Thibaut 07 December 2022 (has links) No description available. Architecture Biology Biomechanics Civil Engineering Materials Science biomimetics bioinspired design living architecture fungal architecture engineered living material mechanical testing mycoremediation sustainability durability waste upcycling mycelium root architecture root research tree roots photogrammetry skeletonization building foundations civil engineering biomimicry biotechnology growth
52	Modelling an innovative approach to intermediality within visual art practice in South Africa Miller, Gwenneth 11 1900 (has links) The study is practice-led in visual art and it explores the impact of intermediality to validate that new knowledge emerges via processes that lead to possibilities of transformative hybridity. Intermediality was established and generated through a productive reciprocity between practice and theory as well as between analogue and digital art. The research created a community of enquiry through an exhibition entitled TRANSCODE: dialogues around intermedia practice (2011) in order to model innovative approaches towards improvement of transmedial artistic practice. The diversity of work by artists involved in this exhibition allowed exploration of a range of creative processes to investigate and understand characteristics of productive intermediality. The concept of transcoding in this study was derived from Deleuze and Guattari, which describes how one milieu functions as a foundation for another, implying an intermedial tension. TRANSCODE alludes to the mediation that transcribes meanings across boundaries and within complexity. Selected characteristics of narratives, space, embodiment and visual systems were researched through the lens of mediamatic thinking, which refers to thinking via media. The study proposes that intermediality is best seen as a construct of the tensional differences that become enriched within the grey areas. In applying Deleuze and Guattari‘s metaphor of the rhizome and Tim Ingold‘s concept of the mycelial mesh, the research project not only prompted structured collective thinking through practice, but also captured various case studies relevant to practice-led methodology. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / D. Litt. et Phil. (Art History) Analogue art Complexity Dialogue Digital art Embodied Hybridity Intermediality Mediamatic Mycelium Narrative Practice-led research Reciprocity Rhizome Transcode Transmedia 776.0968 Computer art -- South Africa Art -- South Africa -- Exhibitions
53	Effects of arbuscular mycorrhiza on plant growth of four ornamental annuals (Dianthus chinensis x barbatus, Impatiens wallerana, Petunia x hybrida and Viola x wittrockiana) commonly grown in South Africa Gouveia, Estevam Manuel Rodriques 07 1900 (has links) Commercial AM fungi isolates, Rhizophagus clarus, Gigaspora gigantea, Funneliformis mosseae, Claroideoglomus etunicatum and Paraglomus occulum were tested on four seasonal ornamentals, Dianthus chinensis x barbatus, Impatiens wallerana, Petunia x hybrid and Viola x wittrockiana planted in peat-base medium. The experiment was conducted in a glasshouse with three replicates in a completely randomised design. Various vegetative (height, width, length, number of leaves, leaf area and dry biomass) and reproductive (number of flowers and buds) plant parts were measured in the course of three months. AM fungi was found to increase seedling growth and reduced seedling mortality rate of all the plants studied. Inoculated plants produced more leaves (16-33%) and grew taller (12-28%). Dry biomass of inoculated Dianthus, Impatiens and Viola plants were significantly increased by 25-53%. All plants under low colonisation rates displayed mycotrophic qualities and net growth output thereof were found to be similar to plants with equal or higher colonisation rate. Mortality were less frequent in inoculated plants and they were also less susceptible to transplant shock. / Agriculture, Animal Health and Human Ecology / M. Sc. (Ornamental Horticulture) Arbuscular mycorrhiza Annuals Rhizosphere Inoculation Symbiosis Extraradical mycelium Hyphae Mycorrhizal dependency Root cortices Interface 579.517850968 Growth (Plants) -- South Africa Symbiosis
54	Hydrophobins in wood biology and biotechnology / Hydrophobinen in Holz Biologie und Biotechnologie Peddireddi, Sudhakar 28 March 2008 (has links) No description available. 580 Pflanzen (Botanik) Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology Hydrophobine Schizophyllum commune amphipatische Proteine SC3 SC15 pilzliche Proteine Holzbiologie Biotechnologie FTIR Mikroskopie Spektroskopie Holzabbau Holzzerfall interactionen ATR FTIR Fungi Mutante Hydrophobin-Mutante Hydrophobins Schizophyllum commune Amphiphatic proteins SC3 SC15 Fungal proteins Wood biology Biotechnology FTIR microscopy Spectroscopy Wood decay Fungal interaction ATR FTIR Fungal mutants Hydrophobin mutants Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy Pleurotus ostreatus Coprinopsis cinerea Mycelium Deadlock Biotechnology Forestry

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