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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Dams and reservoirs"”.
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Artificial nature : water infrastructure and its experience as natural space
This work is about water infrastructure and its experience as urban and natural space. It deals with the concepts of nature/geography, technology, and the integral experiential space by analyzing water dams and reservoirs that are more than utilitarian structures. In the process of formulating the …
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The relationship between slope stability and pore-water pressure in highly plastic clay in the Carrot River Basin
… River valley. Movement at the Carrot River and Smoky Burn bridge sites persists, compromising the integrity of the bridge structures. In addition, movement persists along an embankment constructed between 1990 and 1992. Residual shear strength parameters, Φᵣ' = 7.6° with c' = 0 were …
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Using genetic tools to understand the population ecology of stream fishes
… are poorly characterized with regard to the size and structure of populations and patterns of dispersal between populations, which complicates assessment of how human activities, both harmful and beneficial, will affect persistence. I used genetic tools to further this understanding in three …
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Malaria transmission around the Koka Reservoir in Ethiopia : field observations, model predictions, and strategies for prevention
… - use bodies of water as breeding sites. Thus, dams and their reservoirs are associated with elevated risks of malaria. In Africa, more than 150 dams are currently under construction or proposed, and most of them are designed without satisfactory considerations for the potential of enhancing …
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Probabilistische Modellierung von Versagensprozessen bei Staudämmen
Dams are complex engineering structures whose failures have caused extensive consequences in the past. The internationally prevalent trend to analyze and assess risk as well as to manage the residual risk is increasingly finding its way into conceptual approaches to dam safety in Germany and now …
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Estudio experimental de cuencos amortiguadores en aliviaderos con cajeros altamente convergentes
… presas y embalses es cada vez más exigente, obligando en muchos casos a reducir el volumen de embalse utilizable o a la ampliación de los aliviaderos existentes. Una posibilidad, para ampliarlos, es la utilización al máximo de la longitud de la coronación como vertedero. Esta tipología, implica …
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Estudio estadístico de la calidad de las aguas en la cuenca hidrográfica del río Ebro
… iones calcio, magnesio, sodio, potasio, demanda biológica de oxígeno, coliformes totales, amonio, nitratos, oxígeno disponible, fosfatos y temperatura del agua. Del estudio realizado se desprende por ejemplo que la conductividad de la Cuenca es muy alta y además tiene una evolución creciente …
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Análisis de la lámina vertiente en el sobrevertido de presas de fábrica
… normativas en el diseño y funcionamiento de grandes presas y embalses han planteado la necesidad de una reevaluación de las presas existentes y de sus órganos de desagüe, incluyendo el análisis de nuevas acciones hidrodinámicas durante todas las fases de su vida útil. Diferentes estudios …
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Rivers, ecological health, and justice: international watercourses and long-term legal reform
… deals with rivers that cross national boundaries and with the international law that applies to them. It takes a critical look at that law, drawing upon normative standards that value justice among all people, without regard for where they live along rivers or for the negotiating strength of their …