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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"English heritage"”.
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Processing Coercion in a First, Non-Dominant Language: Mandarin-English Heritage Bilinguals
<p>Recent work in heritage language grammars has shown variability in L1 competence, despite high proficiency in both languages. While sources of variation have been debated, little attention has been given to the role of language dominance. This thesis uses a self-paced listening task to …
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The Choral Music of Paul Patterson (Great Britain)
… discusses influences on his composition, his English heritage and the styles of such composers at Ligeti, Penderechi, Bernstein and Stravinsky. The author discusses the Kyrie, Gloria, Requiem, Spare Parts, Time Piece, Canterbury Psalms and Voices of Sleep through an analysis of motive, …
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Buildings at risk registers: their influence in reducing risk of dilapidation
… to what has been perceived as this threat, English Heritage has proposed buildings at risk registers. The aim of this study is to analyse and determine perceptions of risk and the interpretation of various groups of the powers given to local authorities under the Town and Country Planning …
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Reducing the risk of open display: optimising the preventive conservation of historic silks
English Heritage properties contain a wealth of textiles on open display, however these are ephemeral objects. Amongst the natural fibres found in historic houses, silk is reported to be the most vulnerable to damage, especially from light. The critical deterioration factors for silk deterioration …
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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
… of resistivity and fluxgate gradiometer survey (English Heritage 1995, 15). Both the fluxgate gradiometer and resistivity surveys undertaken proved highly successful surpassing all initial expectations and fulfilling all of the stated aims set at the outset. <br/> Having proved the usefulness of …
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The legal history of teacher certification in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… can be traced historically to the State’s English heritage and its colonial period. 2. Virginia’s teacher certification has progressed through ten distinct periods. 3. The certification regulations in the State have been influenced directly or indirectly by various political offices both …
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Semantic Indexing via Knowledge Organization Systems: Applying the CIDOC-CRM to Archaeological Grey Literature
… Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) for cultural heritage and its archaeological extension, CRM-EH, together with concepts from English Heritage thesauri and glossaries.<br/><br/>The results demonstrate that the techniques can deliver semantic annotations of archaeological grey literature …
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Modern building services for listed historic buildings: problems and risk
The English Heritage Press Office has estimated that listed buildings represent a finite cultural resource of approximately 6% of England's building stock. Many of these listed buildings are historic. It is often necessary to find an appropriate use for them, in order to preserve them for future …
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The impact of transport infrastructure on the development of urban communities
… as originally described by Sir Neil Cossons (English Heritage, 2000), to demonstrate the importance of understanding the community value of place, and how it might be manifested in the regeneration process as an integral part of and successful delivery of transport and land use planning. Based …
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A demonstration of riches: landscape narratives at Chatsworth
… this thesis looks at the history of tourism and heritage within an English context and then looks at the history of tourism at Chatsworth in particular. As one of the best documented country houses, Chatsworth is uniquely poised to lead the way in new forms of landscape heritage interpretation.
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Early limestone railways of south-east Wales
… the quarrying industry has been established by English Heritage with the publication of a Step I report as part of the Monuments Protection Programme. But the future of the South Wales quarries is not assured. Many could be re-developed through the Interim Development Orders granted in 1947, at …
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The production of Arabic vowels by English L2 learners and heritage speakers of Arabic
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The acquisition of bare nominals by three populations of Spanish-English bilingual adults
… by studying three different groups of Spanish-English speakers’ knowledge of the distribution of definite articles in both of their languages using a battery of tests that require them to draw on different linguistic abilities. These three groups include native English speakers who learned …