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Showing 1 to 20 of 14305 for “"Impacts"”.
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High velocity impacts
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1960
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Organizational Governance of Event Impacts
This study explored the governance of event legacy and/or leveraging. More broadly, this project examined the specific organizational forms that are responsible for delivering event legacy and/or leveraging strategies. This was done using a combination of organizational theories and theories of …
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Downdraft impacts on tropical convection
Downdrafts are an integral part of the convective cycle, and have been observed and documented for more than a hundred years. But many questions still surround convective downdrafts and their most difficult to observe properties. These questions have made the parameterization of convective …
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Carbon Chemistry Of Giant Impacts
Impact diamonds were found in several impactites from the Ries crater, Germany including fallout and fallback (crater fill) suevites. a glass bomb, impact melt rock and shocked gneiss. These diamonds formed two distinct grain size populations: 50-300µm apographitic. platy aggregates with surface …
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Wave impacts on rectangular structures
… structures. However, they are pertinent to wave impacts in sloshing tanks where baffles are used to detune the natural tank frequencies away from environmental driving frequencies (e.g ship roll due to wave action) and to damp the oscillations by shedding vortices. They also provide useful …
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On Impacts of Economic Growth
This thesis presents four papers on impacts of economic growth. The results indicate that faster economic growth improves the short-run political survival prospects of national leaders in both democracies and autocracies, and reduces the short-run likelihood of democratic change. Results also …
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On Impacts of Economic Growth
This thesis presents four papers on impacts of economic growth. The results indicate that faster economic growth improves the short-run political survival prospects of national leaders in both democracies and autocracies, and reduces the short-run likelihood of democratic change. Results also …
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Business impacts of CRM implementations
… in such projects; ** What business benefits and impacts (e.g., return on investment, customer value, and redesign of business processes), are typically observed in CRM initiatives; ** How companies rearrange their organizational structures to, maximize the benefits of CRM. To accomplish these …
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Geothermal Systems Performance and Environmental Impacts
… is plagued by problems including environmental impacts, unsustainable production, and increased greenhouse gas production. This had led to a worldwide interest in developing sustainable sources of energy. One such energy is ground source heat which is the ubiquitous low-enthalpy heat found in …
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The Impacts of Road Capacity Removal
<p>The road infrastructure of North America is aging, and many governments are faced with a critical decision: do we repair or remove freeways from our urban centers? Freeway repair is exceptionally expensive, but removing a freeway is widely seen as a risky venture which may result in negative …
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Air pollution impacts to agricultural crops
Although air pollution levels are increasing, there is no knowledge of air pollution effects on agricultural crops in the Peshawar region of Pakistan. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of ozone (O3) and hydrogen fluoride (HF) on agricultural crops in Peshawar through a combination of …
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The Economic Impacts of Geopolitical Risk
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the impact of the geopolitical risk shocks on the economy. The first chapter of this dissertation investigates how the geopolitical risk could affect macroeconomic variables of the United States. The second chapter studies the impact of the …
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Environmental Justice Impacts and Sustainable Solutions
… calculation of industrial emissions and their impacts on the environment, as well as, the implementation of sustainability measures in the workplace to reduce environmental impacts. Understanding and reducing these impacts is critical as the effects of climate change become more apparent and …
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Environmental Justice Impacts and Sustainable Solutions
… calculation of industrial emissions and their impacts on the environment, as well as, the implementation of sustainability measures in the workplace to reduce environmental impacts. Understanding and reducing these impacts is critical as the effects of climate change become more apparent and …
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UN Peacekeeping Impacts on Human Rights
This paper seeks to explore the impacts of peacekeeping operations by the United Nations on the human rights abuses associated with civil wars. Previous research has consistently found evidence that civil wars increase human rights abuses; however, the literature has not adequately analyzed …
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How Regulatory Focus Impacts Knowledge Accessibility
The current research applies Regulatory Focus Theory (Higgins, 1997) and a new framework for knowledge accessibility called Relevance of a Representation (Eitam & Higgins, 2010) to examine how the strength of promotion ideal goals (i.e. one's hopes and aspirations) and the strength of prevention …
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Mangrove ecosystem dynamics and clearance impacts
… Mangrove clearance was also found to have minor impacts on sediment:water column exchange of inorganic nutrients, which was low at both intact and cleared sites. However, clearance increased the amount of CO2 released from the sediment into the atmosphere by more than 2-fold. Lower inorganic …
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Energy impacts of cloud computing trends
Current research on consumer electronics mainly focuses on the energy expenditures of individual electronic devices or on data centers, while consideration of the larger consumer electronics system is overlooked. This thesis fills the existing research gap by analyzing current hardware energy …
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The Impacts of Corvids on Biodiversity
… efficient nest predators with potential negative impacts on biodiversity. Despite the plethora of literature focusing on the impact of corvids on their potential prey, no review has been conducted on the genus Corvus to synthesis these relationships, and to explore their likely impacts on …
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