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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Bodies of water"”.
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Bodies of water: an intersectional geography of waters in rural Tanzania
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Above and Below the Horizon: A Practice-Led Investigation into Liminal Thresholds of Bodies of Water
… science, and phenomenological experience, whilst offering new possibilities for investigation in this interdisciplinary field. The research investigated thresholds of the aquatic horizon; the outline in the distance where sky and water appear to coalesce. Artistic practice and critical discourse …
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Transcendental Mirrors: Thoreau's Pond, Poe's Sea, and Melville's Ocean
… th-century North American literary works feature bodies of water which serve both as key elements in their narrative structure and as symbolic entities within their meaning systems. The protagonists in Henry David Thoreau’s <em><em>Walden, </em></em>Edgar Allan Poe’s <em><em>A Narrative of Arthur …
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Gender and Site-Name Recall of Geographic Sites Varying in Distance.
<p>The purpose of this research project was to replicate, refine, and extend research by Zinser et al. (in press) of the site-name, associative memory of male and female college students of nearby to very distant geographic sites. A test booklet included eight schematic aerial maps. The maps were …
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The Effects of Seasonal Changes and Turbidity on Swimming Performance in White Crappie Pomoxis Annularis and Black Crappie Pomoxis Nigromaculatus.
… can also affect fitness. I tested the effects of time of day, season and turbidity on swimming performance in black crappie Pomoxis nigromaculatus and white crappie Pomoxis annularis. These closely related fish co-occur and their relative abundance is thought to be governed by the levels of …
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A bioengineered approach for sustainable crude oil pollution treatment via entrapment, dispersal and removal using Nano-CarboScavenger
… continues to threaten life-dependent bodies of water and surrounding ecosystems including human habitation. It is now well established that most methods of petroleum remediation are either inefficient or involve highly toxic chemical dispersants. In this work we adopt a …
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Maximization of the Electrochemical Detection of Orthophosphate in Organic-Aqueous Solutions.
… is an essential nutrient for the growth of organisms. Therefore, it plays an important role as a growth-limiting nutrient in natural waters. Phosphorus-stimulated proliferation of plant micro- and macroorganisms in natural waters accelerates eutrophication thereby endangering larger …
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Passages
… new trails and finding paths through forests, bodies of water and cityscapes: places both familiar and unknown. As a whole, these Passages explore a personal vision of the natural world, family and community. Structured to represent the passage of time through four seasons, the collection …
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Examining Well-being and Vulnerability in Data-Poor Nations: Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan
… in the Eurasian low- and middle-income countries of Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan, I apply both qualitative and quantitative methods to four different topics: (1) creating a Toxic Site Identification Program dataset, (2) integrating indigenous knowledge and geospatial analyses, (3) designing a model …
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Building a Reservoir
Building a Reservoir is a collection of poems and stories that meditate on the ways we congregate around, connect with, rely upon, enjoy, misunderstand, misuse, and mythicize water. Throughout the collection, water allows for reflection, scrutinization, and meaning-making and acts as a mirror, …
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The Distribution and Ecology of Two Kinosternid Turtles in Iowa
Over 4 years of study have shown that little, if any, shift occurs in the habitat preferences or behavior of Illinois mud turtles and stinkpot turtles in Iowa, at the extreme edge of the species' ranges. The mud turtle is restricted in Iowa to ephemeral ponds associated with Sparta sand or Chelsea …
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Waterworks: Settler Industrialization and Literary Experimentation in Twentieth-Century North America
… dissertation examines the cultural imagination of North American bodies of water including the Owens River, the Florida Everglades, Lake Superior, and the Colorado River. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, infrastructure such as canals, aqueducts, dredges, and dams transformed the …
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Pluvial Flood Risk Estimation Procedure for Small Urban Watersheds
Pluvial flooding, when runoff causes flooding before it reaches a body of water, is a type of flooding that often is overlooked in flood risk studies. This study outlines a general procedure that can be used to model urban pluvial flood scenarios, estimate damages, and quantify pluvial flood risk …
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A Histopathological Review of Immune Response in Largemouth Bass to Parasitic Infections of Soft Tissues
… immune response can serve as a key indicator of a fish’s overall health and the effect stressors have on the health of the fish. Anthropogenic factors can stress a fish’s immune system and inhibit immune responses. This study investigated the response of eosinophilic cells and macrophage …
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Improving Steering Module Efficiency for Incremental Loading Finite Element Numeric Models
… numeric models to calculate and predict water levels and current patterns for rivers, bays, and other bodies of water. This computation often involves an iterative process known as incremental loading that can cause frustration and consume a lot of time. Although the steering module in …
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Some Model-Based and Distance-Based Clustering Methods for Characterization of Regional Ecological Stressor-Response Patterns and Regional Environmental Quality Trends
We develop statistical methods for evaluation of regional variation of ecological stressor-response relationships, and regional variation in temporal profiles of water quality, for application to data from monitoring stations on bodies of water. To evaluate regional variation in regression …
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Assessment of Largemouth Bass (Micropterus Salmoides) Condition Using Liver Histopathology, Health Parameters and Water Quality Of The Central Chattahoochee River Watershed
<p>The health of Largemouth bass from west-central Georgia was assessed using liver histopathology and the degree of tissue change index (DTC), hepatosomatic indices (HSI), relative weight, condition factors, and intersex. These health parameters as well as water chemistry data were compared across …
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Revisão taxonômica e do registro fóssil de tartarugas marinhas não-Protostegidae do Cretáceo
Fossil records of sea turtles from Cretaceous are found mainly in the clade Pan- Chelonioidea, but it also refers to a few species without a definitive phylogenetic relationship, currently considered Eucryptodira Indeterminate. The oldest record of Pan-Chelonioidea dates from the Aptian (Early …
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Effects of atmospheric pressure loading on GPS measurements
… for these height variations is loading of the Earth's surface. We examine the relative contribution of atmospheric pressure loading to the total signal by modeling loads utilizing Farrell's elastic Green's functions. A focus on four permanent GPS sites provided insight on coastal and …
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The application of an illumination model to a mountainous LANDSAT scene
The multispectral scanners (MSS) of the LANDSAT satellites collect solar radiation of different wavelengths reflected from the earth's surface. While the different greytone values of a given band of a LANDSAT image of simple terrain are due almost entirely to the various reflectivity values of the …
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