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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Earthworks"”.
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A construction-specific simulation-based framework for earthworks.
Construction companies are operating within an increasingly competitive environment. Work often has to be tendered for on a very low profit basis. If the tender is too high, work is lost. If too low the contract may be won, but the job completed at a loss, unless more effective working methods can …
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The Effect of Management on Erosion of Civil War Battlefield Earthworks
… has been charged with preserving Civil War Earthworks while allowing public access. Soil erosion, both natural and human-induced, is a major concern facing the preservation of the earthworks. Currently, the National Park Service is committed to preserving these earthworks for future …
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Cultivating Earthworks of the Anthropocene: A Laboratory for Land and Environmental Art in Lime, Oregon
… and engineered geology of modern society. These earthworks have the potential to reveal the implicit polarity between the accelerated growth of the Anthropocene and the native growth of the landscape they occupy. By addressing landscape through the frame of earthworks, this thesis seeks to …
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An assessment of archive stereo-aerial photographs for 3-dimensional reconstruction of damaged and destroyed archaeological earthworks
Archaeological earthworks are being damaged and destroyed at a rate and scale never before seen, which has resulted from increased mechanisation of human activity in the landscape since World War II. Along with natural degradation processes, recording earthwork metrics prior to their loss is …
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Lines Across the Land: A Biography of the Linear Earthwork Landscapes of the Later Prehistoric Yorkshire Wolds
… carving up their world with monumental linear earthworks. This project explores the meanings of the later prehistoric boundary systems of the Yorkshire Wolds. It writes a biography of the linear earthwork landscapes of the north-central Wolds, using geographic information systems (GIS), …
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Afterimages of Kincaid Mounds
… emphasize the topological relationships among earthworks, structures, and the ancient Native Americans living within and actively constructing the site and their society. The dynamics of change in the public presentation of these earthworks will relate to public practice and changing political …
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Earth science in New Zealand science centres - learning aspects through a simulation based experience
… at the New Zealand earth science exhibition Earthworks could teach geological concepts. The introduction of a geoscience component in the New Zealand science curriculum, the development of science-technology centres and a funding opportunity provided the incentive for the development of …
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Effects of alignment on CO2 emissions from the construction and use phases of highway infrastructure
… on it. To design the alignment around an optimum earthworks phase in terms of time, cost and carbon may result in a construction phase with a lower impact, yet the long term effect of the subsequent gradients on vehicle fuel consumption may yield a significantly higher level of C02 emissions than …
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Spatial Patterns of Raised Fields and Linguistic Diversity in Mojos, Beni, Bolivia
Throughout Amazonia, earthworks are found in areas of diverse linguistic and ethnic backgrounds. The distribution of these earthworks within various linguistic and ethnic areas suggests a multiethnic or multilinguistic network, in which interaction between these diverse groups occurred, creating …
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Combat Reconsidered: A Statistical Analysis of Small-Unit Actions During the American Civil War
… of battleterrain, weaponry, troop formations, earthworks, etc.in assessments of Civil War combat. Most scholars agree that these external combat conditions strongly influenced battle performance. Other historians accentuate the ways in which the mental stresses of soldiering affected combat …
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SOME ASPECTS OF THE SURFACE CONFIGURATION OF SINGAPORE ISLAND
… near total destruction of the vegetation cover. Earthworks are equivalent to an excavation of 8.4 inches uniformly over the island. recognition. 27% of the drainage area has boen changed beyond recognition. Little consideration is given to physical factors in modern development. Thus, swamp …
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An investigation as to the suitability and effectiveness of geophysical survey techniques as a tool to aid archaeological interpretation of upland sites within the area of south east Wales
… It consists of a series of three overlapping earthworks, two circular and one square and was chosen to assess how successful geophysics survey would be in detecting possible internal features on such soils. This survey, on a site that had seen little disturbance, also proved highly successful …
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Conditional Mechanical Squeezing of a Micromechanical Oscillator Approaching the Quantum Regime
… detectors like Cosmic Explorer utilizing simple earthworks, inspired by phononic meta-materials of contemporary optomechanics research groups.
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The Non-defensive Medieval Moated Sites of the South-east Welsh March: A survey of the three pre-1974 counties of Breconshire, Radnorshire and Monmouthshire, in two volumes
… analysis of the distribution of these earthworks within administrative and political boundaries that existed during the fourteenth century is carried out. This relates these sites to the generally accepted period of the height of moat construction within Great Britain. In view of the …
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Grassland Dynamics on Revetments at RAF Caerwent, Monmouthshire, South Wales
… design over an interval of 56 years. Artificial earthworks (revetments) constructed in 1939 and 1968 within a military manufacturing facility have been maintained under a constant regime of regular cutting and biomass removal. Predictions of species and community level change based on models of …
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Rural settlement contraction in the East Riding of Yorkshire c.1660-1760 with particular reference to the Bainton Beacon division
… of settlement contraction in the form of earthworks and empty house sites is to be found throughout England, the timing and causes of village 'shrinkage' have received little attention from historians. This thesis examines the occurrence and causes of settlement contraction in an area of …
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Fuite hors de l’objet Joseph Kosuth et Robert Smithson ̀la fin des années soixante
The conceptual art of Joseph Kosuth and the earthworks of Robert Smithson mark, at the end of the sixties, a radical break from the modernist and formalist tradition in that they reject the art object. While minimalism signals the end point of a strategy of negation (Adorno) at it has been carried …
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Improving highways construction processes using computer-based simulation techniques
… this project were resurfacing (maintenance) and earthworks (construction) operations. This integration of simulation and lean boosted the output of various highways maintenance and construction operations and maximised the efficiency of resources involved. The data was collected from reports, …
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Pieces of a Puzzle: Fitting Electromagnetic Induction into Geophysical Strategies to Produce Enhanced Archaeological Characterisation
… over a range of British archaeology, including earthworks, field systems, burials, modern remains, and a Cistercian abbey; the results of which demonstrate its effective over a diversity of environments. The impact of instrument-based issues on the collected measurements was quantified through a …
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Earthwork Castles of Gwent and Ergyng AD 1050-1250
… "form follows function" whereby all of the known earthworks are interpreted as to type and date; the date periods being generalised into the 11<sup>th</sup>, 12<sup>th</sup> and 13<sup>th</sup> centuries. The information for the classification is derived from a variety of sources; documentary …
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