There has been an increasing amount of interest shown in vocational education and apprenticeships in the early twenty-first century by successive governments and other parties connected with occupational training. However, the English further education sector has been described as ‘chronically under-researched’ (James and Biesta, 2007: 7), particularly in regard to narrative accounts of college education and pedagogy (Richardson, 2007) and there has been very little empirical research on pathways into the plumbing profession. This study explored teachers’ and students’ perceptions and experiences of both full-time college courses and apprenticeships in plumbing in order to deepen understanding of these particular types of vocational preparation. It also endeavoured to investigate whether the two different routes into plumbing appeared fit for purpose. Within an interpretive framework, data were collected using two main research methods. Ethnographic snapshot observations were recorded during lessons in three further education colleges and at the workplaces of five plumbing students and formal 1:1 semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 tutors and 14 students. The data were thematically analysed. From the many issues relating to the opportunities offered and the challenges posed by the different pathways into plumbing that this study identified, three key findings emerged. First, there was strong evidence of a dislocation between theory and practical learning, both within the college setting for full-time students and between the workplace and college settings for apprenticed learners. This had implications for both the quality of learning and the learners’ levels of motivation. Second, the study revealed the importance of supervised work experience that was centred on long-term acquisition of knowledge and relationship development for apprentices with support from their college tutors and co-workers. Finally, the findings showed the importance of authentic assessment. It was found that simulations in college could not adequately replicate the experience of doing the job in the real world. Given the inherent risks and problems regularly encountered in the plumbing profession, this signalled significant health and safety implications.

The ideas within this thesis are meant to clarify my explorations, research and painting practice during my studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. I expand on my general statements about being fascinated by advancing technologies and concerned about the after effects of these advancements. The writing explores my curiosity about the internal, skeletal structure of things and how they operate. I explain how the paintings are idiosyncratic hybrids that evoke animation, imaginary scientific propositions, blueprints, maps, and advancing technologies. The work combines these interests with my observations of day-to-day experiences. Isolated events provide found compositions which I then manipulate: a seemingly mundane bike ride gets mapped into a well–ordered schematic of social interaction.

Underground its continental shelf and economic zone territory in the Baltic Sea starting with the surface of subsoil rocks on land and the surface of the bottom sediments in land waters and the sea. In this work you can survey the situacion of mining minerals of Lithuania, the natural resourses of minerals. This dissertation also includes analyses of the underground law, its management and mining. The serious consideration has been paid to drinking-water in Lithuania its management, quality, this quality control problems and also all the ways of the water exploitation has been discussed. You will get all the information about “Vilniaus vandenys” company’s quality management system, which passed international ISO 9001:2000 quality standarts requirements.

The diploma thesis is focused on sanitary installations. Theoretical part is focused on description of flow meters and their categorization and flow measurement. Calculation and project part is about water suplly, sewerage and pipeline in health care center. Building is located in Brno and it is a reconstruction, which is divided into stages. The part of the building, which is solved in this thesis is 5. stage.

This diploma thesis deals with plumbing systems of baking plants v Modřicích. The first part looks for a solution exchange of heat and using waste energy from bakery owens. There are performed several possiblities of projects for plumbing systems. Project part was worked out in cooperation with technical company wich produces equipment for bakery factories. The solution according to relevant standards

THE THESIS DEALS WITH PROBLEMS OF SANITARY INSTALLATIONS IN OFFICE BUILDING WITH SHOPS IN THE CITY OF BRNO. THE THEORETICAL PART FOCUSES OPTIONS OF PREPARING HOT WATER. EXPERIMENTAL PART FOCUSES ON DRINKING WATER CONSUMPTION. ANOTHER PART FOCUSES TO OPTIONS OF SPECIALIZATION. THE LAST PART OF THESIS FOCUSES TO SELECTED SANITARY INSTALLATIONS IN BUILDING.

The goal of this diploma thesis is the design of the sanitary installations and gas main in the pension for pensioners. The building has three floors above ground and one underground floor. The building will be covered with a hiped roof. On the first floor there is the technical background of the building, Reception and kitchen with dining room. The basement is located just below the kitchen and serves as a cloakroom for kitchen staff. The building will be designed to use as much non-potable water as possible in the form of rainwater, which will be collected from the roofs. The theoretical part deals with the use of non-potable water as operating water in buildings. The calculation and project part deals with the gravity sewer system, plumbing and gas main in the building.

This diploma thesis deals with rainwater harvesting system in the company premises and the design of plumbing system in the newly built training center and storage hall. The new standard EN 16941-1 is described in the teoretical part. This standard deals with the use of rainwater. The experimental part solves the measurement of the non-potable water in this area. In the practical part, the acquired information is applied to the newly built object in the company premises. A project is created in the form of a technical report and drawing documentation for the use of rainwater and plumbing system.

The Master‘s thesis addresses sanitation installation and gas installation in the indoor swimming pool in Litomyšl. The theoretical part focuses on the use of greywater and rainwater as service water. The thesis includes the design of several variants with their assessment. The project for construction is also part ofthe thesis.

Red Queen is a chess piece on the story of Alice in Wonderland, which is constantly running to hold it in place, because the world around it is constantly in motion. Therefore, it is a symbol of the theory of evolution, a constant necessity innovation and the eternal escape from competitors. Red Queen's Race is constructed into a miniature civilization, or rather one growing superorganism, which constantly oscillates between the digital and the physical world. The main consciousness of this association is black majestically looking server that supplies with his computing power and energy all attached printers. They are designed specifically for this purpose, such as abstraction of robotics industry, with an emphasis on a functionally aesthetic form, in yellow-orange color of heavy industrial machinery. The most important and largest part of this system, are entities which printers materialize. They are created according to a living creature of this world, generated by computer, based on a unique code, which is the result of calculating the evolutionary recombination, processed by the server, depending on the reactions of outside observers at the objects which are already created. Sense of each entity is attract attention. How much more, the greater is the chance to continue their code in future generations.