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Showing 1 to 20 of 374 for “"Discarded"”.
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A Study of the Creative Use of Discarded Light Metal for the Secondary School Art Program
… source of supply for light metal material is discarded metal containers. The problem which has been dealt with in this study has been to adapt to creative expression this waste metal from cans, using only the most simplified processes.
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The Discarded Garment in Motion in 1950s and 1960s Narrative Film through the Lens of Drawing
… depictions in 1950s and 1960s narrative film of discarded garments in motion be interrogated and reinterpreted through drawing? It examines how drawing can apprehend and translate the enigmatic fragments of narrative film in which female film characters discard an item of clothing and, in so …
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Modern shipping law in South Africa - can Section 6 of the Admiralty Jurisdiction Regulation Act be discarded with impunity? - a comparative study
There is no area of the law which cannot be improved by being re-thought from its first principles. Admiralty jurisdiction and procedure are no exceptions to this general rule; the antiquity of parts of English admiralty jurisdiction and procedure are such that re-thinking both by admiralty and …
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Safe haven infant protection : incidence of use and characteristics of surrendered infants and relinquishing users
… SH infant/relinquishing user population and the discarded infant/discarding mother populations. Methods: Non-profit reports and communications, government documents and communications, and media reports provided the basis of the national SH estimate. Data were collected over a three year period. …
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Strengthening MT6D Defenses with Darknet and Honeypot capabilities
… and acquires IPv6 addresses that are being discarded by MT6D hosts on a local network, in addition to monitoring and visualizing the incoming traffic on these addresses. This is essentially equivalent to forming a darknet out of the discarded MT6D addresses. The solution's architecture also …
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Performance analysis of an ATM network with multimedia traffic: a simulation study
… bit rate causes the remainder of the slice to be discarded. This 'tail clipping' provides protection for the decoder from damaged video slices. Speech cells are coded using a frequency domain coder, which places the most significant bits of a double speech sample into a high priority cell and the …
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Fugitive Testimonies
… goes missing from family albums and posits that discarded materials from family albums, as found in flea markets, can constitute the ‘fugitive memories’ of family life. As a result, collecting these materials can be used to construct new ‘archives’, named in this project as the Fugitive …
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Dead ringers recalling obsolete machines in living rooms
… are employed as an art method to reanimate discarded electronics. Discarded electronic components are salvaged and repurposed, ultimately resulting in hybridised machines. The production evokes Mary Shelley's gothic novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818). The research draws on …
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A pixel-level A/D converter for the imaging array of an advanced interferometer
… are examined. Four of the conversion methods are discarded after preliminary analysis because accuracy requirements cannot be met given the high-speed and area constraints. Two of these conversion techniques (voltage-to-frequency and sigma-delta). are further analyzed because they show promise to …
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Shadows of the Ravine: Mortality-Themed Discards from Bradbury's Illinois Novels
… The stories at the heart of this thesis were discarded from the project (often referred to by Bradbury as the “Illinois novel”) by the time that he published a portion of the original project as Dandelion Wine in 1957. As that novelized story cycle is perhaps the best-known of all Bradbury’s …
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Heuristics method for truck disassembly process
… parts or subassemblies and materials from discarded products. The discarded products have high degree of uncertainty in the structure and the quality of the returned product. Some parts of the product may cause pollution or may be hazardous. Disassembly Line Balancing Problems (DLBP) is the …
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The utilization of peanut hulls as liquid adsorbent chars
… of as fuel in the plante processing the nuts or discarded as waste material. Similar cellulosic wastes have been profitably utilized in the past as activated ohars. It was the purpose of this work to determine the conditions by which peanut hulls could be converted to liquid adsorbent chars.
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Quantifying Discard Mortality of Undersized and Ovigerous Crabs in the Gulf of Mexico Blue Crab Fishery
… and ovigerous blue crabs, yet mortality of these discarded crabs is an understudied component of total mortality. The first objective of this project was to quantify discard mortality of non-target crabs using bycatch surveys across the Lake Pontchartrain–Mississippi Sound coastal system. …
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Degradação térmica e catalítica dos polímeros poli (acrilonitrila-co-butadieno-co-estireno) (ABS) e poliestireno de alto impacto (HIPS) oriundos de resíduos eletroeletrônicos
… can be harmful to the environment and health if discarded incorrectly. As a consequence, it is necessary to develop e ective recycling techniques for the disposal of these wastes and to promote the return of the discarded materials to the manufacturing process. As acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene …
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The clinical significance of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate with special reference to pulmonary tuberculosis
… place great ·reliance on test while others have discarded it as having no practical importance. There is little agreement as regards either the methods of estimation and interpretation or the clinical value of the test. This thesis will deal only with practical considerations. Theories as to the …
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The Symbolism of Nathaniel Hawthorne
… its constitution proven by the fact of its being discarded in one epoch and its being adopted in another.
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Salvaging meaning : exploring the language of inflatable kinetic sculptures and the materiality of plastic
… degree explore refabrication through the use of discarded plastic. This body of work highlights the relationship between industrialisation, plastic goods and nature. The insubstantial, flimsy qualities of the inflatable are an extended metaphor for the fragility of ecologies and the impact of …
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Water and Nutrient Reuse within Closed Hydroponic Systems
… and determined if the nutrient solution was discarded and replaced (control systems) or restored (test systems). Restorations in test systems were made individually to nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium through the addition of KH<sub>2</sub>PO<sub>4</sub>, KNO<sub>3</sub>, and …
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Peripheral timber applications for waste wood material in extreme climates and earthquake risk regions
Worldwide, discarded construction and demolition material account for 40% of all municipal solid refuse including residential, commercial, institutional, and agricultural waste flows (Elgizawy, El-Haggar, and Nassar 2016). Hong Kong sends over 200 tons of timber waste from old formwork and …
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