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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"Greening"”.
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On greening optical access networks
With the remarkable growth of fiber-based services, the number of FTTx subscribers has been dramatically increasing in recent years. Owing to the environmental concern, reducing energy consumption of optical access networks has become an important issue for network designers. In Ethernet passive …
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Vertical greening in urban built environments
… in recent times towards encouraging surface greening approaches. The thesis presented here acknowledged this trend and examined how the typology described as ‘vertical greening’ contributes to this climate resilience enhancement of urban built environments. The project engaged with case …
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Greening existing buildings with LEED-EB!
The market of existing office buildings is going green. While early adopters of green buildings were owner-occupiers, there is a current wave of nonowner-occupied office buildings seeking Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Existing Buildings certification. This thesis examines …
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Investigating the factors which contribute to sustainability of a school greening project:a case study of the West-end primary greening project
… has undertaken responsibility for implementing greening projects in partnership with public schools such as West-End Primary. SANBI-EEU encourages and supports the establishment of indigenous and vegetable gardens to facilitate teaching, to support school nutrition programmes and to make …
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Just Greening the Gulf: Sustaining Justice for Migrant Workers
This dissertation investigates the relationship between doctrines and rhetoric of sustainable development (SD) and their compatibility with robust notions of migrant justice. I use migrant-workers-built Masdar City, Abu Dhabis "eco-smart city," as an entry point to examine this relationship. …
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Rus in urbe: greening the English town, 1660-1760
… thesis backdates the usual recognition of urban greening as a nineteenth and twentieth century phenomenon in tracing its significance and extent in the period 1660-1760. These sites were not just a feature of the capital, illustrated by focusing on Bath, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, and …
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Greening the EU : Power practices, resistances and agenda setting
… setting can be gained. The study shows that greening of the EU is much more than just adding environmental policies to existing legislation. The author argues that this is because ecocentric ideas pose fundamental challenges to the dominant practices of the EU project. Greening, or …
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Characterisation of an Arabidopsis mutant with altered greening characteristics
… (5-10 days). Consistent with the enhanced greening ability, transcript abundance of nuclear photosynthesis genes was higher and there was more thylakoid membrane in chloroplasts in greened PR48.2N seedlings after prolonged darkness compared to the wild type. Microarray analysis indicated …
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Greening Architecture Design Education: A Proposed Framework for Saudi Arabia
Today, concerns for environmental quality affect nearly all walks of life. In response to demands for resource conservation, architecture has become more complicated because the design process now depends on a large number of different disciplines. Now more than ever, building owners and users have …
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Greening academia: developing sustainable waste management at UK higher educational institutions
Dealing with municipal solid waste has become a problematic issue in the United Kingdom (UK). With actions to mitigate the potentially adverse impacts of climate change debate and space for, and costs of, landfill becoming critical, a landfilldominated strategy is no longer acceptable. In this …
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The "greening" of the concrete industry : factors contributing to sustainable concrete
The dawn of the new millennium has brought to light the environmental concerns of global warming, pollution, limited landfill space, and depleting natural resources. These concerns, compounded by the growing global population, have peaked interests in sustainability. In order to accommodate the …
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Greening the Cement Industry in Morocco: The Role of Multinational Corporations
Corporate environmental responsibility is an emerging concept in developing countries, especially ones where environmental legislation regulating business activity is not enforced. In some instances, business actors voluntarily organize a collective action to institute the adoption of environmental …
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Greenness and greening: Theoretical and practical implications for promoting subjective well-being
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Greening the common agricultural policy: past experiences and future challenges toward multifunctional agriculture
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2015-09-29 without embargo terms
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Greening stadiums : study of environmentally responsible methods of building and retro-fitting stadiums
… widespread demand to adopt them. Many facets of greening stadiums have been implemented throughout the world, mostly using the existing framework that has been designed towards conventional buildings during recent years. Teams that have had the greatest success have shown a willingness to learn …
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Greening the economy : a case study to identify a different approach to encourage sustainability
… foreign company and further innovative ways of greening the economy were identified. A conclusion was reached that greening the economy can be economically viable as well as sustainable.
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Kinetics of accumulation of photoregulated plastid proteins and theirmRNAs during greening in Euglena gracilis Z
… apoprotein is regulated by its mRNA throughout greening. The protein turnover of both of subunits of RuBPCase and all of the apoproteins of CP complexes showed drastic turnover in the dark-grown cells compared to light-exposed cells, suggesting that post-translational control is the main …
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Greening the Green: An Investigation of Circular Economy in the Life-cycle of Building Thermal Insulation
A stable economy is defined as an economy that generates profit without having negative impacts on the natural capital to provide a better future of living for the next generations. Sustainable Development (SD) is defined as the economy which considers economic development by considering future …
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