Hoodie: A Lighting and Cinematography Project

Hoodie is a short film about a paranoid student. The film screening will be followed by a discussion on the development of the project and what things were learned before, during, and after production

The Pre-Production Stage of a Film

My partner and I will discuss the importance of pre-production in making a film and how the proposal and pitch are crucial in getting a film green-lit for production

Which Is the Most Cost-efficient Alternative, a New Build or the Rehabilitation of a Cultural Heritage Site?

Given the choice between the rehabilitation of a cultural heritage site and a new build, recent history in Norway shows that the new build is often chosen, with the justification of cost efficiency. This paper compares approaches to cultural heritage sites from a property development and a protection of cultural heritage point of view to test this judgment. These two professional fields overlap and need to cooperate. Thus, a closer look at their similarities and differences should provide valuable insights. This paper applies a case-study method to a large country estate building at a NATO air base in need of office space. The building has legal protection at the national level. Costs are calculated for three scenarios for new offices: rehabilitation of the protected building, a new build, and renting. All alternatives include legally mandated maintenance of the protected building, as the same public body carries out both tasks. Of the three alternatives, the new build and renting were the most expensive over a thirty-year time span. Rehabilitation was the most economical. These findings indicate that owners of protected buildings should investigate possibilities to activate such buildings, due to not only their cultural heritage values, but also their economic potential

Effects of dissipation in an adiabatic quantum search algorithm

We consider the effect of two different environments on the performance of the quantum adiabatic search algorithm, a thermal bath at finite temperature, and a structured environment similar to the one encountered in systems coupled to the electromagnetic field that exists within a photonic crystal. While for all the parameter regimes explored here, the algorithm performance is worsened by the contact with a thermal environment, the picture appears to be different when considering a structured environment. In this case we show that, by tuning the environment parameters to certain regimes, the algorithm performance can actually be improved with respect to the closed system case. Additionally, the relevance of considering the dissipation rates as complex quantities is discussed in both cases. More particularly, we find that the imaginary part of the rates can not be neglected with the usual argument that it simply amounts to an energy shift, and in fact influences crucially the system dynamics.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figure

The influence of absorptive capacity, sources of information and technological acquisition in the technological innovation breadth of manufacturing companies

This article is an approach to new definitions of materiality as applied to corporate performance and disclosure practices. Over time, the materiality lens will have implications for multiple operating areas. They will range from; risk and compliance to strategy setting, corporate policy and governance, management practices including stakeholder engagement, and even human resource management. In the second part there is a presentation of the definitions, scope and perspectives of materiality according to six relevant standard-setters in the field of sustainability reporting. Finally there is the presentation of how materiality is reported according to the six biggest groups of quoted companies in Spain.Este art?culo es un acercamiento a las nuevas definiciones de materialidad aplicadas al desempe?o corporativo y las pr?cticas de divulgaci?n. Con el tiempo, la lente de materialidad tendr? implicaciones para m?ltiples ?reas operativas. Van desde; riesgo y cumplimiento de la configuraci?n de la estrategia, la pol?tica corporativa y la gobernanza, las pr?cticas de gesti?n, incluida la participaci?n de las partes interesadas, e incluso la gesti?n de recursos humanos. En la segunda parte, se presentan las definiciones, el alcance y las perspectivas de materialidad de acuerdo con seis emisores de normas relevantes en el campo de los informes de sostenibilidad. Finalmente est? la presentaci?n de c?mo se informa la materialidad seg?n los seis grupos m?s grandes de empresas cotizadas en Espa?a

The influence of the project team efficacy and organizational factors on the success of mining project management

Some authors have proposed that project team efficacy influences the success of project management; however, this relationship has not been well investigated. The objectives of this study are to analyze the relationship between project team efficacy and the success of project management and to examine three moderator variables (task uncertainty, task interdependence, and chaos effect) in the relationship between them. This study was based on a sample of 52 mining work teams. The suggested hypotheses were con-firmed, there is an influential relationship between project team efficacy and the success of mining project management, as well as the significance of the moderate variables.Algunos autores han propuesto que la eficacia del equipo del proyecto influye en el ?xito de la gesti?n del proyecto. Sin embargo, esta relaci?n no ha sido bien investigada. Los objetivos de este estudio fueron analizar la relaci?n entre la eficacia del equipo del proyecto y el ?xito de la gesti?n del proyecto y examinar tres variables moderadoras (incertidumbre de la tarea, interdependencia de la tarea y efecto de caos) y la relaci?n entre estas. El estudio se bas? en una muestra de 52 equipos de trabajo minero. Se confirmaron las hip?tesis sugeridas, existe una relaci?n influyente entre la eficacia del equipo del proyecto y el ?xito de la gesti?n del proyecto minero, as? como la importancia de las variables moderadas

gOntt, a Tool for Scheduling and Executing Ontology Development Projects

Nowadays the ontology engineering field does not have any method that guides ontology practitioners when planning and scheduling their ontology development projects. The field also lacks the tools that help ontology practitioners to plan, schedule, and execute such projects. This paper tries to contribute to the solution of these problems by proposing the identification of two ontology life cycle models, the definition of the methodological basis for scheduling ontology projects, and a tool called gOntt that (1) supports the scheduling of ontology developments and (2) helps to execute such development projects