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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"Lawn"”.
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Noise from a rotary lawn mower.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Thesis. 1972. B.S.
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Common Lawn and Garden Problems And Other Stories
The verb to cultivate identifies the act of preparing and using land for crops and gardening. Another sense of the verb identifies the act of acquiring, growing, and maintaining--as in scientific cultures or amicable relationships. Cultivated, the adjective, describes an individual who has …
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From lawn care to home care: Elderly living arrangements and immigration
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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Factors Associated with Pollinator Foraging and Floral Morphology of Lawn Weeds
The decline in pollinator populations poses a significant challenge to global food security, necessitating best management practices that minimize pollinator exposure to harmful pesticides. Many common weeds in managed turfgrass systems attract honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) and other pollinators, …
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An Experiment Assessing the Potential for Compost-Amended Lawn Topsoil to Inhibit Storm Quickflow
… in urban areas a matter of high importance. Lawns, forming a substantial fraction of suburban space, are a potentially useful medium in this regard. Four lawn test plots were constructed by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) to examine the usefulness of increased topsoil …
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Targeting Audiences for Improved Lawn Management: Can Grouping Households Assist with Nonpoint Water Pollution Reduction
… level, individual household choices regarding lawn management vary greatly, contributing to the detriment or protection of water resources. To better target household behavior change, we need to understand the social influences that determine how and why households manage their lawns …
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The lawn and the forest : architecture and landscape in the work of Thomas Jefferson and Frank Lloyd Wright
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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Soil Carbon Dynamics in Lawns Converted From Appalachian Mixed Oak Stands
… investigated. Soil samples were collected from lawns and adjacent forest stands to a depth of 30 cm and analyzed for carbon and nitrogen content. Additional measurements taken were soil bulk density, temperature, moisture, and total soil CO₂ efflux rate. Homeowners participating in the study …
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Lawn chairs in Times Square : an analysis of the Pilot Streets Program and the provisional project approach for New York City's Green Light in Midtown project
In 2009 the New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) initiated a Pilot Streets Program that called for the temporary closure of Broadway between 47th and 42nd Streets to all vehicular traffic. With Times Square and the Green Light for Midtown project as a central case study, this thesis …
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Serotonin-Mediated Sickness Behavior
… sickness in C. elegans by exposing them to a lawn of pathogenic bacteria, and then studied how avoidance behaviors developed over time. Animals slowly developed an aversion to the pathogen, and avoidance of a bacterial lawn over multiple hours. This behavior is delayed and reduced in mutants …
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An investigation of the limited distribution of the grazing lawns in Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park, South Africa
… (HUP), South Africa contain unusual 'grazing lawn' communities dominated by short, grazing tolerant grasses. These grazing lawns appear to be highly productive, and support high densities of grazers during the late summer and early winter, but have a very limited distribution within HUP. A …
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Gentrification through Public Participation? Acceptance and Resistance in Calgary’s Inner Suburbs
… neighbourhoods, Bowness and the Greater Forest Lawn Area, the effect of public participation on gentrification is illustrated. The hegemony of pro-development interests was manifested in the public participation processes for two redevelopment plans in the Greater Forest Lawn Area. These …
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Towards Sociobiogeochemistry: Critical Perspectives on Anthropogenic Alterations to Soil Nitrogen Chemistry via U.S. Urban and Suburban Development
… by houses with yards dominated by turfgrass lawns and racial disparity driven by racist policies promoting white homeownership. In this dissertation, analyses of soils sampled from residential areas (urban, suburban, and exurban) and native ecosystem soils in six U.S. cities (Baltimore, …
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Characterization of biotic and sodic lawns of the Kruger National Park using the framework of the positive feedback loop / Courtney Moxley
The classical grazing lawn model is an intensely-grazed patch composed of short-statured, grazing-tolerant grass species. The formation and maintenance of these communities is controlled by positive feedbacks between grazers and the high-quality resource forage that the component grass species …
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Navigation and Control of an Autonomous Vehicle
… navigation and control scheme for an autonomous lawn mower (ALM). Navigation is a key aspect when designing an autonomous vehicle. An autonomous vehicle must be able to sense its location, navigate its way toward its destination, and avoid obstacles it encounters. Since this thesis attempts to …
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Preliminary evaluation of the rice blast fungus (Magnaporthe grisea) as a potential bioherbicide control agent for crabgrass (Digitaria sanguinalis) infestations of tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb. cv. Fawn) turf
… of crabgrass (Digitaria sanguinalis), in turf/lawn plantings. Experiments were: (i) evaluation of the effect of bioherbicide inoculum dosage (titer) on disease severity in crabgrass; (ii) competition between crabgrass and tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb. 'Fawn') and the additive effect …
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C. elegans integrates food, stress, and hunger signals to coordinate motor activity
… that a soluble component of the bacterial lawn is detected by the ASH and ASE chemosensory neurons and acts to suppress locomotion, while a volatile component of the bacterial lawn is redundantly detected by multiple chemosensory neurons and acts to maintain or stimulate locomotion on …
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Barrier and Threshold in Architecture
… becomes the permeable barrier between street and lawn. Within the building there is contrasting differentiation between service space and occupiable office space through the role of different building parts that make up an office building.
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Western Nursery, Inc.
… continuing development of the plant and floral lawn care service. Shortly after George Kearns' son, Dennis, returned from the military service in late 1972, the business was incorporated. Dennis and his wife were the incorporators. They soon established a retail facility, and offered major …
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The influence of fire-grazer interactions on forb communities in a highveld grassland
… patches of short, palatable grasses ("grazing lawns") within grassland and savanna landscapes. The effects of grazing lawn management on other aspects of biodiversity have received little attention. Forbs (non-graminoid, herbaceous plants) are an important component of grassland ecosystems, but …
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