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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Conventional Practice"”.
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Sustainable harvesting of wild rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) in the Suid Bokkeveld, Northen [i.e. Northern] Cape
… wild A. linearis plants. Field data support the conventional practice of summer harvests that depend on a host of ecological and social factors. A January harvest (Summer) resulted in the highest vegetative and productive output compared with plants subjected to April (autumn) and July (winter) …
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A Wall Building
… technique, within the materials and methods of conventional practice, which allows for a common building material such as concrete block to carry form and beauty. Furthermore, this project seeks to demonstrate the role human ingenuity, patience, attention, and perception can continue to play in …
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TERMINAL : a public archive for Habana
… than often expected. The average lifespan of conventional structures before the modern movement was around 120 years. Modern materials and assemblies radically changed the way buildings aged, averaging half the former construction's life expectancy. This thesis proposes to challenge …
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Breast Cancer Referral And Screening Rates In A Federally Qualified Health Center: Implementing The Point Of Care Integrated Breast Cancer Screening Model
… <p>according to their use of PCISM versus conventional practice models) demonstrated a</p> <p>statistically significant difference (p=</p> <p>were referred and 2444 women (42%) completed mammograms versus the conventional</p> <p>group where 1409 (37%) received referrals and 581 (16%) …
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Captured Artifacts
… of sculptural art objects within the conventional practice of displaying artifacts in a public institution. Historically, artifacts have served as visual records of journeying to and returning from a far-away land, unknown territory, alien soil, or enemy battlefield. Whether that place …
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Generative opponents : a new architecture for native soil
… beyond the handcrafted vernacular language of conventional practice and the synthetic perfection of contemporary digital design. Using bamboo as the main construction material, the building was designed from a series of studies that were developed to solve the building's complex geometry with …
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DC Reluctance Machine — A Doubly-Salient Reluctance Machine with Controlled Electrical and Mechanical Power Ripple
… (2) large torque ripple, and (3) acoustic noise. Conventionally, these drawbacks have been addressed independently either through (1) excitation control or (2) machine design, but not as a holistic system or solution. This disseratation presents a design for high-efficiency low-cost RM while …
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Aspen Plus® simulation and techno-economic analysis of condensation and fractional distillation of plastic waste pyrolysis oil for sustainable aviation fuel production
… chemical compositions, in contrast to the conventional practice of simulating crude oils via pseudo-components. The biases when simulating the fuel properties from chemical compositions were determined and as a result, the process simulations could more reliably predict key fuel properties …
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Designer crafts practice in context
… to identify patterns of successful independent practice among contemporary visual arts practitioners for the purpose of increasing understanding of the structures of and activity within the visual arts in England. The intention is to draw conclusions regarding how such practice can be …
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Effect of dry wheat straw mulching and cowpea-maize intercropping on soil erosion and maize yield in Zambia
… conservation tillage, along with complementary practices such as soil cover and crop diversity has become a better option to ensure sustainable food production and maintenance of environmental sustainability. A field study was conducted to evaluate the effect of dry wheat straw mulching and …
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Cross-culturalizing history : journey to the Gurindji way of historical practice
… studies by validating the alternative historical practices of Indigenous Australians. The conventional practice of academic history, which is based on time-oriented chronology, teleology, and historicity, is only one mode of exploring the past. My thesis explores Aboriginal historians' narratives, …
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Cross-culturalizing history : journey to the Gurindji way of historical practice
… studies by validating the alternative historical practices of Indigenous Australians. The conventional practice of academic history, which is based on time-oriented chronology, teleology, and historicity, is only one mode of exploring the past. My thesis explores Aboriginal historians' narratives, …
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The Value of Me in STEAM: Teacher identity development through STEAM education
… outside a comfort zone of words, equations, practice and expertise, is risky. This research presents a range of case studies of how teachers took such risks in the context of STEAM education, with a view to reinvigorating and effecting innovative pedagogy integrating science, technology, …
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A framework for evaluating semi-structured hierarchical data using language models
… data represented in markup languages. The conventional practice of linearising markup to plain text involves removing structural information that is integral to interpretation, and existing structure-aware approaches are often supported by ad hoc, task-specific pipelines. Limited guidance …
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Analysis of parabolic through collector cleaning system under adaptive scheduling policy
… the economic pay off at CSP plants. Current practice to address this dust problem, termed as conventional cleaning, is to follow a periodic cleaning schedule that entails a fixed setup cost for each cleaning event. The frequency of cleaning under such conventional (periodic schedule) policy …
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The effect of nitrogen, niobium and temperature of the high temperature oxidation of titanium aluminide alloys
… is sensitive to temperature and restricts the conventional practice of corrosion study acceleration by raising the experimental temperature. The resulting corrosion scales were analyzed using electron microscopy (scanning and transmission), x-ray diffraction and thermogravimetric analysis. The …
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Rethinking the design and implementation of the i/o software stack for high-performance computing
… improve disk efficiency.</p> <p>Third, since the conventional practice for I/O parallelism using file striping may compromise on-disk data access locality, we proposed <em>IOrchestrator</em> scheduling framework which is implemented in PVFS2 parallel file system to improve I/O performance of …
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The Relation between Uncertainty in Latent Class Membership and Outcomes in a Latent Class Signal Detection Model
… are often used to predict outcomes. The conventional practice is to first assign observations to one of the latent classes based on the maximum posterior probabilities. The assigned class membership is then treated as an observed variable and used in predicting the outcomes. This widely …
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The role of good faith and fairness in contract law: where do we stand in South Africa, and what can be learnt from other jurisdictions?
… due to EU membership and generally, the conventional practice by common law legislatures, academics and courts of looking to England for legal developments, are factors which will contribute to the development.
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Islamic Mortgages: A Comparative Study to Improve the Legal and Financial System of Mortgages in the Royal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a Regulatory Analysis of the US and UK, and Case Analyses of the UK, Sharjah, Dubai and Saudi Arabia
… on mortgaging and securitisation theory and practice. Securitisation, namely the activity involving the packaging, dividing and selling of mortgages in the primary market has in recent years become a well-established business process (with banking, financing and legal implications and …
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