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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Bunkers"”.
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Presidential Security: Bodies, Bubbles, & Bunkers
… Secret Service is able to construct bubbles and bunkers that are designed to protect and trap the president's two bodies.
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Investigating petroleum oil bioremediation strategies for crude oil contaminated mining sites in Mpumalanga, South Africa
… near Ogies; the coal is situated below old oil bunkers where crude oil was historically stored. There are concerns that, since not all the crude oil has been removed from the underground storage bunkers, the proposed mining activities may pose a serious environmental threat to the underground …
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LiDAR duomenų taikymas partizaninių kovų paveldo objektų Lietuvoje tyrimams /
… Partisan Resistance heritage sites – partisan bunkers (hideouts). As more and more time has passed since the end of the Lithuanian guerrilla war in the middle of the last century, there are fewer contemporaries from that period who can identify the important sites and objects of the partisan …
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Traces of a Spatial Relic: Encountering the Observation Bunker of Heuqueville
… subject of this thesis belongs to the chain of bunkers lining the Atlantic beaches of Normandy, France; specifically, an Observation Bunker located at the outermost edge of the town of Heuqueville. The act of discovering, exploring, and dwelling on the fortification in its current state was …
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Market-based approach for improving ship air emissions
… alternative approach is to place a levy on fuel bunkers. Other alternative approaches could involve hybrid systems using any combination of the other systems mentioned. The study identified a number of unresolved issues and tradeoffs that could hinder the implementation of these systems. These …
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Handling characteristics of coal/biomass mixes: measurements and establishing benchmarks.
… mixes, and Identifying the handling problems in bunkers and design of bunker units to suit coal/biomass mixes flow. The main contribution of the project was the determination that caking due to mould growth over time, is a key handling issue and that different biomasses behave differently when …
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A Safe House for Orphan Parts an Architectural Proposal for a US Center for Illicit Antiquities
… including munitions storage, forts, and bunkers have been superseded but are expensive or difficult to demolish. In addition, these spaces are crafted around defensive, introverted narratives. A Safe House for Orphan Parts posits the role of architecture in repatriation and speculates on …
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Cultures of Forecasting: Volatile and Vulnerable Nature, Knowledge, and the Future of Uncertainty
… in planes tracking tropical storms, and bunkers dug into active volcanoes; at how instruments and technologies such as seismographs, windows, globes, speakers, and electrical tomography, mediate and transform relations with nature, the future, and governance. It considers too, the role of …
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Tropical Islands; or, how the architectural interior became the primary site of aesthetic mediation
… greenhouses, world's fairs, theme parks, bunkers and experiments in social ecology reveal a crucial link between architectural interiority and the public response to some of the greatest challenges facing contemporary society. The Tropical Islands Resort is a testament to human ingenuity …
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The bunkering industry and its effect on shipping tanker operations
… highly volatile running cost paid is the cost of bunkers. The options available to him/her are hedging instruments such as futures and OTC products. When used effectively along with freight futures, although not yet commonly available, shipping companies may reduce their risk exposure and enhance …
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Interpretive Communities at work and play in the built environment
… cemetery gravestones, trees, abandoned military bunkers and an industrial hillside). It takes from these and other related theorists a broadly social constructivist concern to show how discursive practices render phenomena known or noticed but also inflects these seemingly idealist notions with a …
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Post-atomic Auralities: A practice-based study of sound and atmospheric effects
… and sonic ethnographies of Cold War era bunkers are combined. I explore the geological, historical, cultural, and technological significance of the nuclear to develop new methodologies for sound arts practice that document and attune to the many interrelations of sound and the post-atomic …
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Blind Man's Bluff - cruel revelations through the study of architectural artefacts
… have faded such as the abandoned World War 1 bunkers and the abandoned whaling station. However, Durban Central Sewage Treatment Works nestles itself in between these abandoned structures away from any engagement with the city anonymously pumping sewage into the ocean. This dissertation …
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Banjiha Stories (2025)
… they’re there. First built as military bunkers after the Korean War, later turned into last-resort housing, banjiha have become symbols of urban failure—spaces of neglect, flooding disasters, a problem to be erased. Both media portrayals and policy responses have advocated for their …
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A Study of the Self-esteem and Life Satisfaction of Twenty-six Institutionalized Elderly in Rural, North Central United States
<p>This study explores the self-esteem and life satisfaction of, selected institutionalized elderly persons. The research questions were: 1) What is the extent of self-esteem of selected institutionalized 'elderly persons as measured by the Tennessee Self Concept Scale? 2) What is the extent of …
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Life history of a native emydid turtle (Malaclemys terrapin centrata) on the remote oceanic islands of Bermuda
… exclusively within a limited number of sand bunkers on the golf course. Nesting commenced in late March or early April and ended in late August. Peak oviposition was observed in May and June. Clutch size averaged 5.1 eggs (range 0-10; SD 2.4) and the incubation period averaged 61.8 days …
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Scheduling coal handling processes using metaheuristics
… (in terms of throw-outs and load-backs at mine bunkers), the scheduler will reduce the coal handling facility’s annual operating cost by approximately R4.6 million (ZAR). Furthermore, the approaches discussed in this document can be applied to any continuous product scheduling environment. …