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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Coastal Area"”.
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Natural radioactivity in soils of the Walvis Bay - Henties Bay coastal area, Namibia
… high. In Namibia, the Walvis Bay – Henties Bay coastal area is known to have many mineral resources including uranium and therefore the concentrations of the radionuclides in the soils and the associated radioactivity may be high in some towns in the area. It is therefore important to study the …
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The Changing Landscape of a Resort Area - The Central Southwest Coastal Area of Florida
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T20:48:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6202906.pdf: 12577127 bytes, checksum: f69d92d058cb80320cb114c26ef12418 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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Relationship between the land/sea breeze circulations and the air pollution dispersion over the coastal area of Kuwait.
… of winds during the summertime over the coastal area of Kuwait, to identify the effect the sea-land breeze circulations have on the winds, and determine the effects of the wind patterns of pollution concentration in the region. Nearly all of the severe air quality conditions over the …
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Case Study of Development of the Peripheral Coastal Area of South Sinai in Relation to its Bedouin Community
The peripheral region of South Sinai in Egypt is experiencing large-scale tourism development on the Gulf of Aqaba coast. Its Bedouin community is facing great challenges in its struggle for livelihood and transformation from a pastoral and fishing community to an urbanized one. This case study …
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Integration of Geospatial Technologies in Monitoring Drought Events in a Coastal Area of Vietnam (Case study: Binh Thuan Province)
… drought is more severe in arid and semi-arid areas due to the fact that in those distinctive areas, water resources are extremely limited and restricted. Additionally, local ecologies and ecosystems in arid regions are very fragile. Once a water competition occurs, critical services of …
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Social and spatial exclusion in a coastal area of Cape Town: The case of Kalk Bay, St James and Fish Hoek
There are many areas in Cape Town and other South African cities, which historically have been diverse and integrated in terms of race and income. This research is concerned about the quality of these urban areas in light of numerous factors that have the potential to lead to social and spatial …
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Selection of Spawning Habitats by Horseshoe Crabs (Limulus polyphemus) along the Complex Connecticut Coast
… of horseshoe crabs and aimed to characterize the coastal habitats of Connecticut by various traits using remote sensing and geographic information system technologies. Data layers representing the coastal area were created within which slope, wave exposure, substrate type, and distance from …
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Representação do gênero Mactra Linnaeus, 1767 no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Mactridae)
… belongs to the Mactridae family, found in the coastal area of the state of Rio de Janeiro. The characteristics from subclass to subgenus are presented in this study. Besides, there are discussions related to taxonomics, morphologics and ecologics characteristics Connected with geological and …
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A study of the New York / New Jersey coastal water : bio-optical characteristics of the harbor estuary and the effects of heavy metals on brown tide alga of the bight
The New York / New Jersey (NY/NJ) coastal area is one of the most productive regions around the world and a major natural and scenic resource for New York and New Jersey. As a result of excessive nutrient loading in the water, algal blooms have been observed since 1950's. The NY/NJ coastal area …
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Archipelago: a Literary Ecology of Heligoland and the Frisian Coast
… the region of Heligoland and the surrounding coastal area as a bioregion, an area with a fluid, ambivalent identity, crossing national borders and looking outwards to the marine environment; an identity shaped by the slow changes of geology and the movement of the North Sea. Drawing on …
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The locations and characteristics of the aftershocks of the October 3, 1974, Peruvian earthquake
… by a ten-station network installed along the coastal area between lat 11° and 14° S. These epicenters define an irregular shaped zone approximately 210 km long by 150 km wide, the oceanward or long side of which trends subparallel with the coast and extends between about lat 12° and 13.8° S. …
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The Dutch East India Company and the Straits of Malacca, 1700-1784 : trade and politics in the eighteenth century
… increased, many foreigners passed through the area, leaving a more or less permanent mark, according to the length and purpose of their stay. The coastal area of the Malay Peninsula and the east coat of Sumatra were particularly subjected to foreign influence, for they lie on either side of the …
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The Dutch East India Company and the Straits of Malacca, 1700-1784 : trade and politics in the eighteenth century
… increased, many foreigners passed through the area, leaving a more or less permanent mark, according to the length and purpose of their stay. The coastal area of the Malay Peninsula and the east coat of Sumatra were particularly subjected to foreign influence, for they lie on either side of the …
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Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Hydrodynamics in the Lower Mississippi River
… and sediment that reaches the Louisiana coastal area. Several freshwater and sediment diversions have been proposed to combat the associated land loss problem. To aid in this restoration effort a 1-D numerical model was calibrated, validated, and used to predict the response of the river …
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A Geospatial Assessment of Social Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise in Coastal San Luis Obispo
… to sea-level rise in the unincorporated coastal area of the County of San Luis Obispo (County) using geospatial and statistical analysis. The intention of this assessment is to inform local climate adaptation efforts now required by state legislation. A social vulnerability index was …
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Height change detection in Antarcita using satellite altimetry data and Kriging / Kalman filtering techniques
… In the Amery Ice Shelf and in the West Antarctic coastal area and near latitude -81°N, the difference in dh/dt between the two methods are statistically significant. A second technique combines kriging and Kalman filtering to allow for time evolutions of the height change rate and other parameters …
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Geochronology of terraced coastal deposits in Calabria and eastern Sicily: tectonic implications
… (Southern Italy) are characterized by flights of coastal terraces occurring in various geological domains. These features are formed by interaction between the glacio-eustatic sea level changes and Late Quaternary uplift. Thus, by combining ages and elevations of inner edges with the OIT stages of …
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RITI RELIGIOSI E PRATICHE DI SFRUTTAMENTO. IL CASO DEL SISTEMA CRIMINALE NIGERIANO IN ITALIA
… Italian contexts: Milan, Naples, and the Domizio coastal area (in the Campania region). The study examines the role played by the religious dimension in determining or not conditions of vulnerability. To this end, we tried to understand both the functions covered by the traditional rites, known as …
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