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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"City Park"”.
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Bioaccessibility of metals in city park soils - city of Edmonton
Urban parks are widely used by Canadians for various leisure and sporting activities with children being the most exposed to any contaminants that may occur in the soils at playgrounds. Thus, a good understanding of soil ingestion and bioaccessibility has implications for the environmental …
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Wildlife as a Priority in Park Development: A Study of Illinois Park Professionals
… the factors that impact decision making in city park settings, with specific emphasis given to wildlife. Additionally, professional bias was considered as a possible response determinant. Studies connecting perceptions of wildlife and Illinois park managers have been rare or nonexistent, but …
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Comparison of comprehension of historical information in first- and third-person museum interpretation.
… school-aged visitors to two history museums, Old City Park in Dallas, which uses first-person interpretation and Log Cabin Village in Ft. Worth, which uses third-person interpretation. While the results of the survey show that both approaches have merits, and challenges, this thesis serves as a …
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Fish Assemblage Dynamics and Red Drum Habitat Selection in Bayou St. John and Associated Urban Waterways located within the City of New Orleans, Louisiana
<p>Bayou St. John (BSJ) and City Park Lakes and Lagoons (CPLL) are urban waterways in New Orleans, Louisiana. I studied habitat selection of red drum in BSJ, and fish assemblage change in BSJ and CPLL over 40 years. Temperature was found to be the best predictor of red drum habitat selection in …
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Tree wisdom : exploring the impacts of learning experiences and biophilic connections to trees
… took place in a nature conservatory within a city park. 13 self-proclaimed tree lovers volunteered and were invited to step out of the chill of winter and into a controlled tropical forest. Elicited through semi-structured interviews, data was collected and coded into relevant themes. …
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Parque Cuiá: o ponto de vista de um geógrafo para a construção de um plano de manejo.
… areas and specifically the construction of urban parks is extremely important for the conservation and maintenance of environmental balance of green areas in urban centers. In this work it was decided to conduct a study to propose the creation of a management plan, as precedes the National System …
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O bibliotecário e sua contribuição enquanto mediador da informação cultural
… the research had as its environment of study the City Park Dom Nivaldo Monte, which is in Natal/RN and the Cabo Branco Station - Science, Culture and Arts, located in João Pessoa/PB. The subjects of research were two people that work directly as information mediators. From the treatment of data …
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Effects of interspecific competition, salinity, and hurricanes on the success of an invasive fish, the Rio Grande cichlid (Herichthys cyanoguttatus)
… has spread rapidly into Bayou Saint John and City Park in recent years and that H. cyanoguttatus populations were relatively unaffected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. There is little evidence that H. cyanoguttatus has become established outside of the GNOMA, but this lack of persistence …
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Re-evaluating the tectonic model for the Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma by spatial and geometric analysis of stratigraphic and structural trends
… Valley fault. Camp Classen YMCA and Turner Falls city park in Davis, OK, hosts observed, but largely unmapped, small scale structural features that best represent the magnitude of deformation. The goal of this study was to determine if the complicated small scale structural features at Camp …
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Restorative Healing Environments: How can Mental, Physical and Spiritual Wellbeing be Improved through a Biophilic Design Approach?
… living we will have to design compact and dense city to minimize the amount of traveling in between places. But compact and dense cities presents challenges to integrate nature and finding ways to make it possible for people in these environments to still be able to interact with nature and the …
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Velodrome
… volume in order to create a public space, a new city scape in a city park. The focus of the thesis proposal is on the ability of an urban site project to resonate beyond the imposed limits of a park (the "Esplanade") caught in between the Charles River and the busy express way of Storrow Drive in …
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Link park access with obesity risk reduction : case study of Austin, Texas
… and from home and work. But is access to public parks any better? As cities continue to reinvest in their public parks, residents will be motivated to visit them, so long as all modes of transportation are available: walking, bicycling, driving, and bus routes/rail lines for public …
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Health Equity Through Spatial Justice: A Critical Phenomenology of Urban Trail Makers
… a green job program that created trails within a city park in Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington Community. This program has historically hired individuals who were formerly incarcerated, many of whom identify as African American. We explored the personal and social experiences of working in nature to …
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Mannlíf Grasagarðsins í Reykjavík. Notkun og viðhorf gesta
Grasagarðurinn í Reykjavík gegnir því tvíþætta hlutverki að vera grænt svæði í borgarumhverfi okkar og einnig plöntusafn undir berum himni. Garðurinn er opinn allan ársins hring. Markmið verkefnisins er að kanna viðhorf og notkun gesta hans. Til þess voru settar fram spurningar með gæðamatsflokkun …
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VELAS: a fully-distributed daily hydrologic feedback model with emphasis on vegetation, land cover, and soil water dynamics
We present a daily hydrologic feedback model, VELAS (the VEgetation- LAnd cover-Soil water dynamics), to simulate daily responses of hydrologic processes including interception, runoff, evapotranspiration, infiltration, and recharge under various conditions of vegetation, land cover, and soil in a …
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High Availability and Scalability Schemes for Software- Defined Networks (SDN)
A proliferation of network-enabled devices and network-intensive applications require the underlying networks not only to be agile despite of complex and heterogeneous environments, but also to be highly available and scalable in order to guarantee service integrity and continuity. The …