OLENDER ETHNOGRAPHIC PARK IN WIELKA NIESZAWKA: ASSUMPTIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION

What has proven the most effective and durable form of the preservation of rural historic buildings in Poland is their translocation to open-air museums. A branch of the Maria Znamierowska-Prüffer Ethnographic Museum in Torun, the Olender Ethnographic Park in Wielka Nieszawka was opened to visitors in 2018, and it is the first open-air museum in Poland entirely dedicated to the colonization of the Olenders and Mennonites in the Lower Vistula Valley. Following the decision on the Park’s location in 2011, the construction works were conducted for several following years. They had been preceded by fieldwork allowing to identify six buildings for translocation: residential as well as farm and livestock structures. Constituting the most precious preserved examples of architecture related to the Olender settlement, they date back to the 18th and 19th centuries. Their deplorable technical condition found in the field was most commonly due to the lack of continuous care and to improper preservation of the buildings. Therefore the facilities’ translocation to the Park was the only chance of securing their effective preservation and survival. Owing to the varied structures, substantial alterations over the years and varied preservation state, the historic facilities transferred to the Park posed new conservation and ethnographic challenges. It goes without saying that any relocation of a building sets difficult conservation tasks, that it is a complex multi-stage process which requires contribution from representatives of various professions and trades, while its fulfillment goes well beyond any generally known ‘standards’, revealing new mysteries and problems which have to be solved in real time. What matters a lot in such projects is an appropriate attitude to a historic building, scientifically grounded, and supported with expertise, experience and reliable documentation. The methods and reconstruction means used in the translocation of the edifices to the Olender Ethnographic Park in Wielka Nieszawka described in the paper display the highest standards of open-air museology, owing to which the basic conservation rule, namely securing the historic monument’s authenticity, and thus its historical value, has been obeyed.

The Hopf Monoid of Hypergraphs and its Sub-Monoids: Basic Invariant and Reciprocity Theorem

In arXiv:1709.07504 Aguiar and Ardila give a Hopf monoid structure on hypergraphs as well as a general construction of polynomial invariants on Hopf monoids. Using these results, we define in this paper a new polynomial invariant on hypergraphs. We give a combinatorial interpretation of this invariant on negative integers which leads to a reciprocity theorem on hypergraphs. Finally, we use this invariant to recover well-known invariants on other combinatorial objects (graphs, simplicial complexes, building sets, etc) as well as the associated reciprocity theorems.

Occupant Behaviours And Preferences Toward Comfort Level And Energy Use In Building

The expeditiously growing world energy use has already increased the concerns over supply difficulties, consumption of energy resources and environmental impacts. Malaysian Government has spent about RM 2.5 billion for public buildings energy cost every year including nearly RM 400 million was spent for public universities energy cost alone. The study conducted to investigate the effect of occupant’s behaviour and preference that may affect comfort level and energy use in university buildings. A survey carried out to identified occupant’s behaviour and comfort related to energy consumption in the building. Sets of the questionnaire were prepared to be distributed among occupants of the building understudies. Based on the result, occupants prefers to have automated system for both lighting and ventilations to achieve comfort level in the classroom. Furthermore, highly correlated for automated system for both lighting and ventilation are consistently preferred by occupants; which indicate that occupants have consistently agree on automated system compared to standard switching. It could be concluded that occupant’s behaviour and preference can affect the energy use in the buildings.

Building Sets, Video Games, and Scatterplots

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LEGO® Friends: Leveraging Competitive Advantage

In December 2011 the Lego Group (TLG) announced the launch of Lego Friends, the company’s sixth attempt to market a product to girls. Lego Friends, which was supported by a $40 million global marketing campaign, was designed to introduce the fun of building with Lego bricks to girls, who represented less than 10 percent of Lego’s audience.The company’s poorly executed brand extensions and move from free-form building sets to story-driven kits had nearly cost it its independence in 2004, so the launch of Lego Friends was strategically important. However, within hours of the product’s appearance it was heavily criticized for reinforcing gender stereotypes and damaging the valuable Lego brand.Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO since 2004, had saved TLG and ushered in an era of sales growth with a series of successful strategic initiatives. Would Lego Friends be another addition to TLG’s graveyard of failed products for girls, or would it prove popular and finally enable the company to double its sales and profits by reaching this segment?After analyzing the case, students should be able to: Understand the connection between a firm’s assets and its activities Identify new resources and capabilities required for a change in strategic focus Recognize the consequences of poorly matched assets and market opportunities