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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Field guide"”.
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Architecture Ad Lib: A Field Guide
… world. This is Architecture Ad Lib, a field guide to those very moments of architectural uncertainty.
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Scholia on vireos: a field guide to the family Vireonidae
… birds as image bearers, Scholia on Vireos: A Field Guide to the Family Vireonidae is a bird book of poems. The poems are foremost an experiment in the form and music of contemporary poetry. Each genus of the family has a particular form which was developed to represent it, and the syllable …
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Storm Spotting and Amateur Radio: a Field Guide for Volunteer Storm Spotters
Volunteers have played a critical part in relaying weather information since the middle 19th century. The effort of these volunteers has helped safeguard life and property when severe weather threatens. For almost 100 years Amateur Radio operators have played a critical part in severe weather …
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A study of the role of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in creating an Enhanced Virtual Field Guide (EVFG) in Geoscience Fieldwork
… (UAV) in the creation of an Enhanced Virtual Field Guide (EVFG) in Geoscience fieldwork. This research used a pragmatic mixed methods approach to investigate the research question “How can an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’s data be used to create an Enhanced Virtual Field Guide for Geoscience …
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Integrating Mixed Reality Technologies into an Environmental Learning Field Experience: A Case Study
… learning experience for college students in a field-based course. The experiential learning theory (Kolb, 1984) provided the framework for understanding the learning process through the experiential learning cycle; a cyclical process of starting with a concrete experience, reflecting on that …
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Developing a guidebook for an outdoor classroom
Field guide -- Map -- Nature trail plant species -- Plant identification key -- Species test plot -- Climate -- Cloud identification -- Desert soils -- Tortoise station -- Animal track and pond.
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Developing a guidebook for an outdoor classroom
Field guide -- Map -- Nature trail plant species -- Plant identification key -- Species test plot -- Climate -- Cloud identification -- Desert soils -- Tortoise station -- Animal track and pond.
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Assessment of anthropocentric representations of color patterns for biological relevance
… we used the reflectance spectra of the field guides and the RGB values from digital photography of birds as our anthropocentric representations of coloration. Images from field guides are potentially haunted by human bias as the bird coloration is (a) perceived by the human visual …
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Creative Common Worlding with Research Creation in Early Childhood Education
… continues with chapter four, an uncommon field guide originating with educators’ and children’s relations with a common world. The guide is an inclusive example of children thinking with, not learning about, a place. As a premise, the uncommon field guide considers the possibilities of …
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Rock Features of the Upper Klamath Basin: An Integrated Approach to Identification
… a general age to rock features discovered in the field. This guide includes a series of dichotomous keys and recordation forms, supplemented with original illustrations and contextual data gathered from pertinent resources. The system was tested at archaeological site 35KL3751, located in southern …
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Field notes for returning home: Creative-critical conversations on the home place in Kroetsch’s completed field notes
… early poems from Robert Kroetsch’s Completed Field Notes. Each chapter begins with a personal, embodied experience related to the home place where I grew up and a Kroetsch poem grounds each chapter and acts as a field guide through which to view the experience of home. The selected Kroetsch …
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Contributions of supra-level design to visual rhetoric in quilt books
… document fails at the extra-textual level. If a field guide intended to be carried in a scientist's pocket is sixteen inches wide and twenty-four inches tall, context has not been considered and the document's visual rhetoric fails at the supra-textual level.</p>
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Assessing the utility of open-source data in exploring benthic biodiversity in mining concessions off the South African coast
… that are openly available, from repositories, guides and within other studies, are a growing resource available to researchers, with the benefits including accessibility, cost effectiveness, and access to long-term data. Data were sourced from the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS), …
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Genetic programming applied to RFI mitigation in radio astronomy
… tree-based Genetic Programming described in "A Field Guide to Genetic Programming" by Poli, et al. Karoo GP was tasked with the classification of data points as signal or radio frequency interference (RFI) generated by instruments and machinery which makes challenging astronomers' ability to …
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The chiton fauna (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) of South Africa
… species list of the region and a user-friendly field guide that highlights key taxonomic features of the region's chiton species, with an accompanying binomial key for identification of species. It includes photographs and illustrations to aid in species identification, as well as a distribution …
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Systematics and biodiversity of South African sea urchins
… and to provide a user-friendly, well-illustrated guide to the group. Dry and wet specimens, particularly those within the extensive collections of the Iziko South African Museum, were morphologically examined and identified, and the associated data were added to a database. Other data considered …
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Optimizing the compliance of pedestrian facilities construction and alteration with accessibility requirements
… of the latest laws, regulations, standards, guidelines, best practices, court cases, and legal settlements; (2) an effective and concise accessibility field guide; (3) a novel and practical framework for automating the extraction and modeling of sidewalk conditions, dimensions, and geometry …
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Echoes of wisdom - Regenerative practice as professional practice
… as a discipline formed at the confluence of fields such as Ecology, Systems Science, Sustainable Development, and Agriculture (Mang & Reed, 2011; du Plessis, 2012; Swanson, 2006). Regenerative Practice is a holistic discipline being applied across many fields (Hes and du Plessis, 2014), where …
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Pluton emplacement, aureole deformation and metamorphism, and regional deformation within the central White-Inyo Range, Eastern California
… published articles (two in journals, one in a field guide-book) and one manuscript. The regional deformation was characterized by measuring the orientation of folds, bedding, and cleavage throughout the range, as well as utilizing these data from other authors and from published geologic maps. …
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