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California City
California City is the beginning of a novel. The narrator, Jane, returns to her hometown in the Mojave Desert upon the death of her close friend’s child. The town was established in the 1950’s when a developer acquired land and built a town that he believed would become California’s next big …
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California City
California City is the beginning of a novel. The narrator, Jane, returns to her hometown in the Mojave Desert upon the death of her close friend’s child. The town was established in the 1950’s when a developer acquired land and built a town that he believed would become California’s next big …
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From California, On
<p>This manuscript is an effort to determine the world and how we are to each other. It is also an effort to come into meaning. How imagination is part of that. The escape here has to do with the inability to make things mean—it feels like if I try hard enough there can be a resolution via the …
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California Congressional Reapportionment
… involvement in this difficult question.</p> <p>California's congressional redistricting history is reviewed from statehood to the present. Special attention is given to 1965, 1971, and 1973. The role of the computer is reviewed, both as an academic and political tool. Finally, the role of the …
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California School Nurse Survey
… practices and to hear the voice of the California school nurse. Data from this exploratory, descriptive study came from an online researcher developed survey consisting of both forced choice and open-ended questions completed by California school nurses representing the three major …
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Drug plants of California
… articles have been written covering the flora of California. Few, however, have dealt specifically with those plants yielding drug principles used in the materia medica of the medical and pharmacy professions. Over one thousand different species of native and introduced drug plants are growing in …
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Our California bird friends
<p>Our California Bird Friends is an attempt to interest children in birds, by presenting a group of factual stories describing the habits and characteristics, the courage and cleverness of various birds. It is hoped that it will fill a definite need in nature study. The stories are limited to …
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Hospital contracting in California
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1984.
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Observations of the California Countercurrent
… over the continental slope off Cape San Martin, California from January 1979 to April 1980. Current vector time series were constructed from the data and compared to a local upwelling index . Progressive vector diagrams of the data were also constructed, and spectrum analysis was performed for …
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Montan wax from California lignites
… and characteristics of domestic waxes desirable, California lignite has been shown to be a valuable source of Montan wax, The object of this research is to improve upon the physical and chemical properties of the extracted wax,</p>
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Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Central California
… DENDROBATIDIS </italic>IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AMPHIBIANS MAJOR PROFESSOR: Eric Schauber Amphibian chytridiomycosis has been identified as a disease responsible for the decline and extinction of many amphibian taxa world wide, but little research has been conducted on the disease in …
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California Bookstores: Passion and Profit
<p>California Bookstores reviews independent booksellers’ current relationship between passion and profit in the context of challenges faced by the modern bookstore. Based on interviews from nine booksellers in California, the findings demonstrate strong ties between passion and profit. Independent …
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Kipple kaboodle : reincarnating California city
California City is a superlative shrinking suburb. Situated deep in the Mojave Desert, the conditions that typically spur suburban shrinkage are exaggerated here. As such, the city provides a singular opportunity to comment on the decline of the road-centric, single family house dominated town …
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Residential California adobe : mud form
Northern California has a rich tradition of adobe architecture . Formed with earth, defined by site, climate and use, the adobe structures exemplify a building methodology in harmony with nature and the lifestyle of it's inhabitants. The use of adobe as a construction material is currently gaining …
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Spatiotemporal Variability in the Macroinvertebrate Community of a Small Coastal California Stream, Little Creek, Davenport, California
… Cal Poly’s Swanton Pacific Ranch in Davenport, California. The significance of physical habitat characteristics in describing macroinvertebrate assemblage structure was assessed in an effort to create a framework to better understand the expected biological response to riparian canopy …
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Detecting Change in Central California Coast Coho Salmon Habitat in Scotts Creek, California, from 1997–2013
… kisutch</em>) in North America. In 1997, the California Department of Fish and Game (now Fish and Wildlife) conducted an extensive habitat typing survey of mainstem Scotts Creek, describing all habitat units from the top of the estuary to the limit of anadromy approximately 12 km upstream. I …
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Kinematic constraints on the evolution of the Gulf of California Extension Province, Northeastern Baja California, Mexico
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences, 1988.
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