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Showing 1 to 20 of 2583 for “"Coast"”.
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Space coast : notes
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1978.
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Validation Of Integrated Coast-Ocean Model Cche2D-Coast And Development Of Wind Model
The eastern and southern coastlines of the United States are two of the most cyclone-prone areas of the world. The effects of tropical cyclones vary mainly depending on wind intensity and geological features of the coast that it is crossing. Higher winds potentially generate higher storm surges and …
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Export Strategies for Ivory Coast Cocoa
Cocoa is a vital export commodity to the Ivory Coast. Cocoa revenues have recently started a declining trend, following a similar pattern in prices. Because of these circumstances, this study proposes to the Ivory Coast a set of export strategies in non-competitive and non-cooperative market …
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An East Coast Winter Storm Precipitation Climatology
East Coast Winter Storms (ECWS) can have tremendous impacts throughout the eastern regions of the United States. Forecasting influences from these storms, particularly long range and due to seasonal variations, is extremely challenging. Using a previously compiled climatology of ECWS events, an …
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Constructing the Coast in Imperial Greek Periplography
… on the way that these texts construct coastal space, arguing that they are bound together by a shared recognition of the shore as a symbol of the territorial limitation of the Roman Empire. The thesis opens with an introduction surveying the history of scholarship and proposing a novel, …
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Change leadership in the U.S. Coast Guard
… and embrace change. The United States Coast Guard, an agency within the new Department of Homeland Security, has a 215-year history of adapting to meet new mission challenges. Just over the past three decades, the service has taken on new operational roles in drug interdiction, …
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Optimal allocation of Coast Guard district recruiting funds.
This thesis reviews the allocation of Coast Guard district recruiting funds for five Coast Guard districts. An attempt is made to determine the marginal productivity of input factors, advertising, recruiting travel, and give away items. Financial data for the five districts reviewed is compared …
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Aggregate potential of Irish south coast offshore palaeovalleys
… marine aggregate resource potential on the south coast. Qualitative data was processed using a multiproxy geophysical and sedimentological approach, creating detailed seabed maps using bathymetric data supported by ground truthing sedimentsamples. Surficial sediment deposits display a close fit to …
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Changes in Matrilineal Kinship on the Malabar Coast
… months of sociological field-work on the Malabar-Coast, between November 1947 and July 1949. The subject of my husband's research was "An analysis of the Hindu caste system in its interaction with the total social structure in certain parts of the Malabar coast". The data for my own work we re …
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Ocean bottom sediments off the mid-Atlantic coast
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Rainfall variability characteristics over the East African coast.
… rainfall variability over the East African coast region (Kenya and Tanzania) for the period 1980-2010 and focuses on dry and wet spell characteristics during the two rainy seasons. The atmospheric and ocean conditions associated with the rainfall variability are also considered. Extreme …
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Living with Natural Hazards on the Icelandic South Coast
Íbúar Stokkseyrar búa við náttúruvá. Þorpið er staðsett á Suðurlandsbrotabeltinu og býr þar af leiðandi við reglubundna skjálftavirkni. Í maí 2008 reið yfir síðasti stóri skjálftinn á svæðinu en hann var 6.3 á Richter skalanum. Sjávarflóð eru tíð á Stokkseyri þar sem þorpið rís ekki hátt yfir …
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