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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Encroachments"”.
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Monitoring Property Boundaries for the Appalachian National Scenic Trail Using Satellite Images
… Monitoring these boundaries for intrusions or encroachments is a difficult and time-consuming task when done totally by field methods. This thesis presents a more efficient and consistent monitoring process using remote sensing data and change detection algorithms. Using Landsat TM images, …
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An Improved Algorithmic Approach to Iterative Floodway Modeling using HECRAS and GIS
… and HECRAS that automates HECRAS's floodway encroachments modeling. The coupled system takes an automated approach, in which an initial floodway is developed by running HEC-RAS in an iterative fashion with minimal user intervention. A customized ArcGIS visual environment has been developed to …
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Partitioning the influence of anthropogenic and oceanic nutrient fluxes in the coastal ocean, and the question of cultural eutrophication
… form of nitrate to coastal waters. These shelf encroachments occurred seasonally associated with strong thermal dynamics observed during spring and summer. An understanding of mechanisms of slope water intrusion emerged from the deployment extensive mooring arrays, modelling exercises and …
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An Assessment of the Major Security Problems in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan
… instability within the region could prompt the encroachments of external states. Of the surrounding foreign powers, Russia remains the most likely candidate for such a scenario. Accordingly, this study includes an examination of Russian involvement in these three states.
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Photographic memory : Inuit representation in the work of Peter Pitseolak
… the predicament of Inuit culture against the encroachments of Western influence, yet he transcended Eskimo stereotypes and strove to retain the important events of his own life and of those around him.
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BON APPЀTIT: FAUNAL SUBSISTENCE AT FORT TOMBECBE (1SU7)
… campaign against the Chickasaw and to block encroachments by the British military. Following the Treaty of Paris, the fort was occupied successively by the British and then Spanish in the eighteenth century. Fortunately, historic documents and physical modifications to the fort suggest that …
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Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Monitoring Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Nandoni Dam Basin
… consequence of these land use activities causes encroachments, land cover changes, sediment deposits, deforestation, and severe flood damages, which reduces water storage capacity and economic tourism activities in dam basins. The challenges of land use activities have highlighted the need to …
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Tracing public space : a participatory approach to transform public spaces in low-income communities
… the community to protect courtyards from encroachments and promote an inclusive and adaptive use of shared space.
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The liability in delict of judges for wrongs committed in the course of judicial proceedings : an historical analysis of the relative immunity of the South African judiciary
… for their actions, regarding these as encroachments on their traditional independence. Significantly, it also appears that the threat of civil liability is not one that is taken seriously. The approach adopted in this thesis is that a proper balance needs to be struck between judicial …
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State, law and community in the politics of housing in South Africa: 1990-2000
… are able to engage in a number of quiet encroachments as well as the mobilisation of strategic community agency, and while state power remains ever-present, and courts have an uneven record of challenging that power, in this way communities have the capacity to contest the condition of …
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Land conflict resolution mechanisms in Kalikiliki Settlement,Lusaka
… use conflicts prevalent in Kalikiliki were land encroachments, conflicts of public interest, double land allocations, improper siting of pit latrines and indiscriminate dumping of solid waste. These land conflicts were caused by corruption within the community leadership structure, lack of a land …
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Land conflict resolution mechanisms in Kalikiliki Settlement,Lusaka
… use conflicts prevalent in Kalikiliki were land encroachments, conflicts of public interest, double land allocations, improper siting of pit latrines and indiscriminate dumping of solid waste. These land conflicts were caused by corruption within the community leadership structure, lack of a land …
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Church and State in England in the mid-eighteenth century: the Newcastle years 1742-1762
… to preserve its independence against secular encroachments, and the willingness of churchmen and ministers to contemplate reforms to enable the Church to perform its duties, both secular and spiritual more effectively.
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Republicans, Citizens, and Wards: Indian Voting in New Mexico and Arizona, 1598—1912
… governing councils. But in other areas, Hispano encroachments and the decline of the missions led to a constricting of Indigenous land and rights. Still, under these challenging circumstances many Indigenous communities continued with their systems of electoral town politics. While Indian in New …
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Evaluation of rural land-use plans in protected area bio-networks in northeastern Tanzania
… was low; (2) different types of conflicts and encroachments increased after the plans were implemented; (3) Park management failed to involve adjacent villages in the preparation and implementation of Park GMPs; (4) the amount of conflict around villages where plans were in place was comparable …
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King Philip's War in representative American literary works of the period 1820-1860
… neither "innocent" nor able to withstand the encroachments of civilization. A new and paradoxical concept of the Noble Savage therefore emerged--that of a being heroic but cruel, generous but vengeful, honest but immoderately passionate, and a man, above all, fated to be crushed by a higher …
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Firearms, technology and culture: resistance of Taiwanese indigenes to Chinese, European and Japanese encroachment in a global context circa 1860-1914
… indigenous tribes lived. Political and economic encroachments within Taiwan had moved further and further eastward. Numerous clashes between the indigenes and the Qing armies and Chinese exploiters were inevitable. Ceaseless skirmishes by the Formosan indigenes obstructed the progress of …
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Vulnerability to Drought Risk and Famine: Local Responses and External Interventions among the Afar of Ethiopia, a study on the Aghini Pastoral Community
… ecological crisis and external pressures (encroachments, loss of key pastoral resources, violent conflict and political instability). Pastoral households/communities are currently less able to cope with stresses through their traditional coping and adaptive strategies. Consequently, …
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A Dataset of Vehicle and Pedestrian Trajectories from Normal Driving and Crash Events in One Year of Virginia Traffic Camera Data
… countermeasures, and understanding roadway encroachments.