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Showing 1 to 20 of 1843 for “"Houston"”.
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Typological transformation of Houston's Coliseum and Sam Houston Park
Buildings as cultural tools, or their creators, continue to struggle to communicate with a media-induced, decentralized society. Buildings as either representational anachronisms or self-referential processes fail to remedy the situation by alienating or insulting the viewer. An alternative is …
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The Houston Center for Photography
This building is about the moment. It is about the moment when the image and the viewer begin a dialogue of existence. It is about the moment when a photographer and a model begin a relationship that is as intimate as that between a mother and child. It is about the creation of space to house those …
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The Houston Shakespeare Festival: A Strategic Plan
… it occupies within the cultural landscape of Houston, the Houston Shakespeare Festival has the opportunity to make the transition from a Houston gem to a festival of truly international importance. This work seeks to identify key objectives in order to achieve this vision. By pursuing …
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Revitalizing Downtown Houston - Bringing Back the Human Scale
no abstract provided by author
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Gypsy fortune-telling in Houston: the study of a profession
… in Harris County, the majority centered in Houston. These Gypsies retain their ethnic identity, speak Romany, maintain a tribal organization, arrange marriages with the customary bride-price and observe other basic traditions. Fortune-telling is the exclusive and sole profession of the …
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GPS Monitoring and Land Subsidence in the Houston Metropolitan Area
… to (1) establish a stable local reference frame (Houston16) for integrating all available GPS observations within the Houston metropolitan area and conducting precise subsidence and faulting monitoring over time and space, (2) evaluate the effects of groundwater withdrawal on land subsidence, and …
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Tempus Schola: A Proposal for the New Jefferson-Houston School
… be located on the site of the existing Jefferson-Houston School in Alexandria, VA.
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Black female attitudes toward career choices at Sam Houston State University
… profile of black females on the campus of Sam Houston State University regarding their career choices as they relate to occupational preparations fostered by the Institute of Contemporary Corrections and the Behavioral Sciences (the INSTITUTE) a the University; (2) to determine the degree to …
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A study of the seasonal distribution of Anopheles in Houston, Texas
… included the southern part of the city of Houston and immediate vicinity outside the city limits, and also a rice farming district 15 miles to the west of the city.
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Measurements and analysis of ozone production in Houston and Los Angeles
… 75 ppbv. Nearly 5.9 million people live in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria non-attainment area, and over 15.7 million live in the Los Angeles-South Coast Air Basin non-attainment area. The work presents the results and analysis of measurements collected during several field campaigns in Houston, …
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Land Rebound and Preconsolidation Head in the Houston Ship Channel Area
… groundwater pumping has occurred in and around Houston, Texas for nearly a century. Hydraulic heads in much of the region have been recovering steadily since the mid-1970s following the efforts of local organizations to regulate groundwater production. In the past 15-years, subsidence in the …
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Epidemiology and clinical investigation of West Nile Virus encephalitis in Houston, Texas
In 2002, West Nile virus (WNV) appeared in Houston. Retrospective medical chart reviews were completed for 172 WNV cases hospitalized in the Houston area between 2002 and 2004; 113 had encephalitis (including 17 fatal cases), 47 had meningitis, and 12 were uncomplicated fever cases. Risk factors …
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El uso de pronombres personales en la oralidad mexicoamericana de Houston, Texas
… interviews of 36 Mexican-Americans from Houston, Texas (16 of 2nd generation and 20 of 3rd generation), and 20 Mexicans (control group) from Heroica Matamoros, Tamaulipas (Mexico-USA border city), and Los Reyes de Salgado, Michoacán (non-border city). Pronouns were codified based on …
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Investigating volatile organic compound composition in Houston, Texas amidst an atmospheric regime shift.
… sources leading to sustained air pollution. Houston, Texas, a hub for national petrochemical processing, offers a unique region to study VCPs. Supporting the Houston-based Dept. of Energy-led Tracking Aerosol Convection ExpeRiment (TRACER) project, VOCs were collected on aerial and …
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Identifying Treatment Planning System Errors In Iroc-Houston Head and Neck Phantom Irradiations
… system, the Imaging and Radiation Oncology Core-Houston (IROC-H) can identify institutions that have not sufficiently modelled their linear accelerators in their TPS model. Linear accelerator point measurement data from IROC-H’s site visits was aggregated and analyzed from over 30 linear …
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The effect of tax increment financing development on housing affordability in Houston, Texas
… of TIF development on housing affordability in Houston, Texas. This work broadly focuses on how TIF district designation and new development in these districts affect overall land and housing costs and thus the supply of affordable housing units in the districts. The City of Houston has …
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