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Showing 1 to 20 of 228 for “"Highland"”.
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Highland Park : a development plan
Thesis. 1976. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Highland light infantry of Canada, 1940-1944
… a study of the Canadian infantry battalion, the Highland Light Infantry of Canada, in the first five months of the campaign to liberate northwest Europe. The purpose of this paper is to establish a careful record of the unit’s campaign as a way of addressing the critical statements made by C.P. …
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The Highland Charge and the Jacobite Rebellions
… known as Jacobites and composed largely of Highland Scots, staged periodic rebellions against the new Hanoverian rulers in London. During this period, the Highlanders of Scotland experienced a period of military triumph unlike any other in their history. Through the combination of the …
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Unearthing Collaboration: Community and Multivocal Archaeology in Highland Guatemala
… archaeologists must face and prepare for in highland Guatemala and world wide. Even an archaeology project that began with the best intentions can fail. Archaeologists can no longer only consider the excavation and material culture of the ancient past but now must consider the descendent …
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Conversion and Culture Change in a Highland Maya Community
… of six months' residence in the northern Chiapas highlands, interviewing informants who were Seventh-day Adventists in an Andreseno hamlet, and collecting other data by attendance at rituals and extended visits in the homes of some informants.</p> <p>Culture change has clearly taken place in many …
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The 51st (Highland) Division during the First World War
The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the 51st (Highland) division over the course of the First World War. Underpinning the study is an analysis of both change and continuity, at home and overseas, and the performance of the division as a fighting unit. The key themes identified for study have been …
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The process of revitalizing Highland Park : a case study
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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Ethnoarchaeology of the Incense Trade in Tigray, northern highland Ethiopia
… Zones of Tigray Regional State, northern highland Ethiopia. Significantly, there are both elite and non-elite incense trades in this region. The elite trade of frankincense is controlled by government sanctioned international and parastatal companies that use non-mechanized production, …
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The aesthetics of solo bagpipe music at the Glengarry Highland Games.
… of solo bagpipe music at the Glengarry Highland Games in Maxville, Ontario, in order to understand how people perceive and receive their world. My ethnography of aesthetics of solo bagpipe music has involved a selected group of musicians that has participated in the piobaireachd and ceol …
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Transnational Indigenous Migration: Racialized Geographies and Power in Southern Highland Ecuador
… in the remittance-dominated region of southern highland Ecuador, focusing on the transformations brought about by increased international migration since the early 2000s. The broader question is whether or not transnational migration has facilitated political and social upward mobility among …
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"Highland Farmers and the ""Modernizing"" State in Ethiopia: Conjunctures and Disjunctures"
… indigenous social institutions and practices of highland farmers in Warra Himanu, South Wallo Administrative Zone, and successive regime forms of the ""modernizing"" state in Ethiopia. With regard to farmers in Warra Himanu, the study examines the cultural and political history of the area, …
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In common, nature : an ethnography of climate adaptation in the Lesotho highland
In Lesotho, climate change adaptation funding is being managed and distributed by the same mechanisms which have traditionally operationalized humanitarian aid and international development assistance in the country. Lessons from the HIV/AIDS disaster, along with insights into the value of …
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Analysis of cyclic shallow-water carbonates: Cambrian Highland Peak Formation, eastern Nevada
… present in the Middle to lower Upper Cambrian Highland Peak Formation. Each sequence is bounded by minimum accommodation zones that are correlative across the shallow-water carbonate platform and thus, record platform-wide relative sea level change. Two of these minimum accommodation zones …
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HIGHLAND: A graph-based parallel processing environment for heterogeneous local area networks
<p>"HIGHLAND, a UNIX-based parallel processing system for heterogeneous local area networks has been designed and implemented. By transparently hiding both the intricacies of the underlying communication protocols and the various machine dependencies, the system allows a programmer to utilize the …
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Inside the crystal palace : a history of Henry Ford's Highland Park plant
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Department of History, 2008
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Indigenous modernity and its malcontents: family, religion and tradition in highland Ecuador
… modernity mean in the poorest region of highland Ecuador, where indigenous identity continues to be associated with rural traditions, poverty, and racialised marginalisation? This research is based on ethnographic fieldwork in two rural communities in the canton of Guamote in central …
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Studies of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Use for Biomonitoring of Mid-Atlantic Highland Streams
Research was conducted in three areas of water quality assessment. Long term ecological monitoring data from Shenandoah National Park (SNP) were analyzed and a protocol for data analysis was presented. Streams in SNP were found to be comparable to the best that can be found in the Blue Ridge …
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Epidemiology of Banana streak virus (BSV) in East African highland bananas (AAA-EA)
The study achieved a better understanding of the epidemiology and ecology of Banana streak virus (BSV) in Uganda, generating information useful in designing management strategies to limit the spread of BSV. An identification key for the mealybugs on Musa in Africa was constructed. Screenhouse …
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Spatial and temporal distribution of butterfly in highland and lowland forests of Johor
… and Taman Negara Johor Gunung Ledang (TNJGL), a highland forest (400, 800 and 1200 m a.s.l.). The objectives of this research were (i) to document butterfly diversity in TNJER and TNJGL, (ii) to analyse species diversity patterns based on faunistic aspect, (iii) to determine temporal …
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