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Through the garden fence
… with the memory of looking through the garden fence and hedge of my childhood and considers the simultaneously separate and enmeshed lives of my immediate family and those outside of it. In this project I have engaged with the garden as a point of connection, a means by which to consider the …
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The Other Side of the Fence
… grass really is greener on The Other Side of the Fence. At least until winter comes.
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Optimization Of Wind Fence Enclosures For Infrasonic Wind Noise Reduction
… porous hose arrays. The effects of varying the fence's porosity, modifying its top condition and bottom gap, doubling the height and diameter, and adding a secondary wind barrier were investigated. A simple mathematical model which estimates the wind noise measured at the center of the enclosure …
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Preserving the White Picket Fence: Interracial Conduct in an Integrated Neighborhood
<p>My dissertation identifies and deconstructs the interracial codes of conduct produced and enacted by three distinct racial-ethnic communities in an integrated neighborhood. My analysis of Creekridge Park is based on data collected via in-depth interviews, a neighborhood survey, and participant …
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Frequency Response of an Agricultural Fence and the Implications for Data Transmission
The electric fence has been used as a data transmission medium in Gallagher Products for a number of years. This has allowed the energizer to be remotely controlled and, with the current generation, to monitor the performance of the fence remotely. Very little investigation has been conducted into …
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Habitat preferences of the eastern fence lizard, Sceloporus undulatus, in southwestern Virginia
Habitat preference of the eastern fence lizard, Sceloporus undulatus, was investigated in southwestern Virginia. Habitat features were measured at 158 lizard-centered plots and at paired random plots. Landscape-level variables, southerly aspect and mixed forest type, distinguished lizard-centered …
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Dendroarchaeology in the Mackenzie Mountains: The Moose Horn Pass Caribou Fence (KjRx-1)
The Moose Horn Pass Caribou Fence site is a collection of three wooden fences located in the Tulita District of the Sahtu Settlement Area, of the Northwest Territories. Situated in traditional Shúhtagoťine (Mountain Dene) territory, it is believed to have been used to assist past hunters in …
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La securitización de la frontera Estados Unidos-México: the secure fence act of 2006
Esta tesis solo está en formato papel por lo que se debe consultar en la propia Biblioteca Di Tella. La consulta se hace solo bajo reserva escribiendo a serviciosbiblio@utdt.edu.
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Within the Wrought-Iron Fence: the Hidden Heritage of McCormick Theological Seminary, 1864-1975
… people today realize that the black wrought iron fence that runs along the west side of Halsted Street and west on Belden and Fullerton Avenues to the El tracks once defined the grounds of McCormick Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian Seminary. The first major building site in this area, and the …
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Factors Influencing Ectoparasitism on Western Fence Lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis): Host Sex, Testosterone, Reproductive Condition, and Behavior
… testosterone concentrations in male western fence lizards (<em>Sceloporus occidentalis</em>) induce higher tick intensities. To examine this hypothesis I implanted male lizards with either testosterone or blank implants in the field. The testosterone-implanted males had significantly higher …
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Chucking buns across the fence? Governmental planning and regeneration projects in the Scottish Highland economy, 1945-82
This thesis investigates the creation, operation and impact of four industrial developments in the Highlands of Scotland in Corpach, Aviemore, Dounreay and Invergordon in the period 1945 to 1982. The thesis is structured as follows: the introduction details the development of economic policy …
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Effects of Testosterone on the Spatial Ecology, Coloration, and Brain Regions in Western Fence Lizards, Sceloporus occidentalis
<p>An organism’s spatial ecology allows for access to essential resources such as food, mates, and escape from predators. Home range size, or the total area an organism inhabits, varies in relation to numerous factors including seasonality. During the breeding season, home range size increases in …
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Relationships Among Behavior, Body Temperature, Physiological State and Habitat Utilization in the Northern Fence Lizard Sceloporus Undulatus Hyacinthinus
Observations were made of S. u. hyacinthinus, two at a time, in a 4' x 8' enclosure behind a two-way mirror. Behavior, body temperature and location of the animals within the enclosure were recorded at 10-second intervals. By far the most significant predictor of body temperature was found to be …
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Sublethal effects of an acetylcholinesterase-inhibiting pesticide on fitness-related traits in the western fence lizard (Sceloporous occidentalis)
… on several fitness-related traits in the western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis). Reptiles are the least studied vertebrate taxon in ecotoxicological studies even though contaminants are suspected in contributing to recent population declines. Using multiple dose concentrations within the …
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Sitting on the fence or walking a tightrope? : a political history of the coloured community in Zimbabwe, 1945-1980
This thesis examines the political history of the Coloured community of Zimbabwe, a group that has not only been marginalised in most general political and academic discourses but whose history has also been subject to popular misconceptions. The specific focus of the thesis is on the evolution of …
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Physiological Factors Affecting the Bactericidal Activity of the Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) for the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi
<p>The Western Fence Lizard (<em>Sceloporus occidentalis</em>)<em> </em>is a major host of juvenile stages of the Western Black-legged Tick (<em>Ixodes pacificus</em>), which is the vector for the Lyme disease causative spirochete bacterium <em>Borrelia burgdorferi</em> in the western United …
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Techniques for low overhead fences and sequential consistency violation recording
Fences are instructions that programmers or compilers insert in the code to prevent the compiler or the hardware from reordering memory accesses [20, 43]. Fences can be expensive because all of the accesses before the fence have to be finished (i.e., the loads have to be retired and the writes …
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Island Biogeography and Restoration: The Role of Living Fence Islands as Regeneration Foci in the Rehabilitation of Degraded Lands in Honduras
A total of 543 seedlings of 41 species established in islands. Seedling number did not differ among island types, although a trend toward greater density was apparent in artificial islands. Species richness was greater in Gliricidia islands than in Bursera or open pasture islands. Seedlings were …
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Groundwater modeling to predict plume migration and to design a well fence for a fuel spill at the Massachusetts Military Reservation
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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