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Showing 1 to 20 of 149 for “"Bordering"”.
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The resilience of labrosones in coastal communities bordering the Indian Ocean
The resilience of labrosones bordering the Indian Ocean is an investigation that has gathered and presented both findings and arguments from related scholarship that highlight the distribution of labrosones along the research region and emphasizes their socio-musical significance in sustaining …
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Land use change and bordering in the Greater Mapungubwe transfrontier conservation area
This study uses bioregionalism and bordering as a lens for understanding the construction of Mapungubwe as a transfrontier conservation area and the effects of that process on biodiversity, the local economy and local communities. The main assumption underlying the study is that transfrontier …
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Bordering the Mediterranean: Liminality and Regioncraft at the Center of the World
In this dissertation, I theorize that the Mediterranean, broadly conceived of as a geo-cultural-political entity and experience, is a locality for the investigation into the processes through which representations of continents and civilizations come into focus. A fundamental argument in this …
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Bordering on (In)visibility: The Mobility and Containment of Haitian Migrant Women in the Dominican Republic's Linea Noroeste
This research sterns from twelve months of ethnographic research with Haitian migrant women who reside in Batey Sol, a former sugar-company labor camp located along the Linea Noroeste (northwest line) linking the Dominican Rebulic's border town of Dajabon with the urban center of Santiago. The …
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Influences of Borders on Golden-Cheeked Warbler Habitat in the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve, Travis County, Texas
… borders, exposing flora and fauna in the bordering habitat to biotic and abiotic influences of the surrounding environments. I examined the influence of three types of bordering areas, a housing development, a utility easement, and woodland meadows, on several variables in Golden-cheeked …
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Ireland's geospatial distribution of border controls: a macro study of Ireland's migration system
… scales to enforce control on migrants through bordering procedures. The Irish migration system has evolved through policy and technological advancements which have helped enforce control beyond the territorial land border of the state. Surveillance information systems and various other newly …
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Moving, waiting, searching across borders: Gendered geographies of violence, disappearance and contestation in southern Mexico
… political and humanitarian thinking about bordering practices as integral parts of states’ tactics to control people’s movement only. The dissertation delves into migrant and body-territory epistemologies of everyday politics, arts-based contestations and performative acts, revealing and …
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'TRACK’ING THE BORDER: MICRO-GEOGRAPHIES OF INFRASTRUCTURAL BORDERS IN GUWAHATI INDIA
… different scales intersect, producing layers of bordering, that become legible through people-infrastructure interactions. I specifically explore the reproduction India’s partition and the immigration debate in Assam within the city of Guwahati, the largest city of Northeast India, making it an …
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Solving Buckling Problems and Computing Critical Points Using the Multigrid Method
… The resultant systems are solved using the bordering algorithm and each equation solution is performed using the modified tangent stiffness operator which allows the multigrid method to function properly.
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The Politics of Exhaustion and Migrant Subjectivities: Researching border struggles in northern France in 2016-2019
… reliant on tactics such as confinement, bordering fences, and deportation, have been successively complemented by more insidious, temporal, and corporeal biopolitical technologies of bordering. The latter consists of an array of tactics devised to render life governable and pliant, and …
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Wayward Christians, Worldly Scriptures: Disarticulating Christianities in the Black Atlantic Public Sphere
… of African bodies to regions predominately bordering the Atlantic Ocean and the resulting demographic transformation of these new world spaces, but more appropriately as the collection of spaces (often exceeding the regions bordering the Atlantic) in which black cultures have been contested, …
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Determining low levels of Africanization in unmanaged honey bee colonies using three diagnostic techniques
… low levels of Africanization in regions bordering the locations with established, Africanized bees. Honey bees were collected and examined using three methods of testing to determine levels of Africanization. With morphometrics, mitochondrial DNA, and nuclear DNA tested with the use of …
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A geochemical look at obsidian procurement and exchange in the Medio period world : a case study 76 Draw (LA 156980)
… trade or gifts/discard from visitors, from the bordering cultures. This assemblage was then compared to lithic assemblages from the nearby Black Mountain site in southern New Mexico and Casas Grandes settlements in the Medio period core around Paquime, Chihuahua, Mexico. Obsidian from sites in …
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Community-based natural resource management: The case of Community Forest Management Areas in Pete, Zanzibar
… Community-Forest Management Areas (CoFMAs) bordering its natural forests. In this study, focus is placed on Pete's CoFMA, a village bordering the isles' last remaining natural forests- Jozani-Chwaka Bay National Park (JCBNP). Pete provides an ideal site due to the conflict that exists …
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A history of the proposed Nicaragua Canal
… attention of many men in the European states bordering on the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. There remained a firm belief and honest expectation that somewhere there existed a more direct route to those far distant land,following which would result in greatly increasing the …
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Biodegradability of dicamba and 2,4-D in riparian wetland soils
A general review of soils in Virginia counties bordering the Chesapeake Bay reveals that coastal plain soils, especially those most agriculturally productive, are dominantly sandy texture in the subsurface horizon, and have shallow water tables. Considering the high amounts of pesticides used in …
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The Indians and the Agriculture of Crow Creek Indian Reservation
… Indian Reservation is located in South Dakota, bordering the east side of the Missouri River, about forty miles below Pierre, the Capital. In fact, a part of Hughes county lies in the Big Bend District of the reservation, and the south end of Hyde County and the west end of Buffalo County make …
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Hedonic Valuation of Forested Riparian Buffers Along Rivers in Northwestern North Carolina
… area tree coverage positively impacts river-bordering house prices, but only to a certain point. The results of this study are important for environmental organizations in this region working to safeguard the New and Watauga Rivers through riparian buffer installation and protection.
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GrenzStattMiteinander. Zivilgesellschaftliche Raumproduktionen eines grenzüberschreitenden deutsch-polnischen Gemeinwesens in Görlitz und Zgorzelec.
… Produkt“ sowohl territoriale als auch soziale bordering-Prozesse berücksichtigen kann.
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