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Showing 1 to 20 of 180 for “"Keystone"”.
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Canvassed and Delivered: Direct Selling at Keystone View Company, 1898-1910
… dawn of the twentieth century, as exemplified by Keystone View Company. Stereographic sales practices are an essential element in understanding stereoscopy’s ubiquity and place in American culture, but have been too frequently oversimplified or wholly overlooked in existing scholarship. Using …
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Multiscale, multiparadigm metabolic modeling of the keystone diazotrophic cyanobacterium, Trichodesmium erythraeum
Earth is a crowded place; studies estimate between 2 and 12 million species exist on earth, with new organisms being formally described every day. This biodiversity is a result of organisms being forced to cohabitate in innately competitive environments; proximity and nutrient limitation require …
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Dryland state transitions, trophic interactions, and the restoration of a keystone species
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Biomimicry in Leadership: How Healthy Leaders Facilitate Healthy Organisational Ecosystems– Lessons from Keystone Species
… investigating whether patterns of behaviour in keystone species can inform a biomimetic approach to healthy leadership that supports resilience. Keystone species are nature's influencers. They contribute to ecosystem health through their disproportionate impact on their environments. Through an …
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Keystone Law: A Study into the Characteristics and Implications of Change in an International Platform Law Firm
… practitioners in the London based law firm, Keystone Law, a pioneering legal practice, and the first of the so-called platform law firms – one predicated on remote working with a centralised support function. The research is founded upon a qualitative design with an interpretivist …
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FIRST IN RIGHT: THE KEYSTONE OF WATER RIGHTS LAW PRESENTS AND FACES CHALLENGES IN A POPULATED WEST
With fewer than a million people, Montana is one of the last states to tackle some problems that accompany population growth. One such problem is access to water. Water users file with the state for rights to use water, both above and below ground. Users with older rights have a higher priority to …
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FIRST IN RIGHT: THE KEYSTONE OF WATER RIGHTS LAW PRESENTS AND FACES CHALLENGES IN A POPULATED WEST
With fewer than a million people, Montana is one of the last states to tackle some problems that accompany population growth. One such problem is access to water. Water users file with the state for rights to use water, both above and below ground. Users with older rights have a higher priority to …
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Low-power System-on-Chip Processors for Energy Efficient High Performance Computing: The Texas Instruments Keystone II
… considers one such system, the Texas Instruments Keystone II, a heterogeneous Low-Power System-on-Chip (LPSoC) processor that combines a quad core ARM CPU with an octa-core Digital Signal Processor (DSP). It was first released in 2012. Four issues are considered: i) maximizing the Keystone II ARM …
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Low-power System-on-Chip Processors for Energy Efficient High Performance Computing: The Texas Instruments Keystone II
… considers one such system, the Texas Instruments Keystone II, a heterogeneous Low-Power System-on-Chip (LPSoC) processor that combines a quad core ARM CPU with an octa-core Digital Signal Processor (DSP). It was first released in 2012. Four issues are considered: i) maximizing the Keystone II ARM …
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Perceptions of the Reform Agenda from Selected Superintendents in the Keystone Area Education Agency I of the State of Iowa
… in a 1993 survey conducted by the Keystone AEA. I followed a qualitative methodology. I recorded the perceptions (views, opinions) of informed professional educators. Findinqs. I reviewed, analyzed, and recorded the data derived from the written surveys and the 10 on-site …
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The influence of size and density of the Camelthorn (Acacia erioloba Meyer) on its keystone role in the Xeric Kalahari
… tress have been mooted as a context-depend keystones species, important to other biota and ecological prcesess. The primary aim of this study was to investigate the importance of A. erioloba to biodiversity, focusing on plants and birds.
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An experimental study of the responses of mentally retarded children and normal children with reading problems to the Keystone Visual Survey Tests
… this study was to: (1) analyze the value of the Keystone Visual Survey sub-tests in discriminating between mentally deficient children and normal children with reading difficulties; (2) investigate the effect of intelligence in determining responses to the Keystone Visual Survey Tests; and (3) …
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Top-down or bottom-up?: Impacts of giraffe browse and water abstraction on two keystone tree species of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
… Africa. Both tree species are considered as keystone species especially along ephemeral rivers. My focus is on the impact of the introduction of an extralimital megaherbivore, Giraffa camelopardalis, (top-down) and anthropogenic water abstraction (bottom-up) on the reproductive output and …
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Predicting ecological impacts of climate change and species introductions on a temperate chalk stream in Southern Britain - a dynamic food web model approach.
… ecosystem function and are often referred to as keystone species. By definition the loss of a keystone species causes a catastrophic change in community composition. Therefore, the identification of keystone species could help to target conservation efforts more effciently. A dynamical food web …
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Broadening The Learning Community Experience: An Outdoor Orientation Program's Impact On Engagement, Persistence, And Retention
<p>The Keystone Learning Community was implemented by the Department of Campus Recreation to address retention at the institution. This learning community for incoming freshmen consists of two phases. Phase I is as an outdoor orientation program that includes a three day, two night canoeing and …
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Knowledge Sharing and Innovative Strategies in Organisational Collaborative Relationships: The Potential of Open Strategy
… collaborative relationships as comprising of Keystones, Dominators, Hub-Landlords and Niche players. However, so far no comprehensive approach has been developed to describe the different business ecosystem roles, their influences and their strategies in distinct collaborative relationships. …
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Plant-pollinator relationships of culturally significant food and medicine plants in the Great Lakes Region
… to a specific culture are known as cultural keystone species, meaning they are significant to cultural identity. With global declines in plant and pollinator species, this study aims to determine the role of wild pollinators to cultural keystone plant species. Availability of information on …
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Social media persuasion : the KXL pipeline debate
The Keystone XL pipeline project has been debated and reviewed by both Canadian and U.S. governments for many years, and as of the writing of this thesis (2015) the U.S. government has still not approved the permit to begin the construction of the Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline project. As a result, …
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