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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Local characteristics"”.
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Controlling PM2.5 in Chengdu: Analysis and Recommendations from the China, U.S. and California Experience
… control technology should always consider its local characteristics. By learning the U.S. and California PM2.5 control experiences, their effective policy features are identified, include clear consequence of failure to compliance, strong states and local authorities, comprehensive monitoring …
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Image annotation with discriminative model and annotation refinement by visual similarity matching
… features (e.g., color, texture, shape, and local characteristics) to match the retrieved images with the query photo and use visual similarity to rank the relevance of suggested annotations for the query photo.
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Hadamard transformcoding of television signals. A theoretical investigation of the adaptive coding of Hadamard transformed television signals. The use of computable objective measures for the assessment of local subpicture characteristics in selecting appropriate coders.
… of determining an objective means for assessing local characteristics of television subpictures in a Hadamard transform multicoder scheme is stated and discussed. Detailed investigations of transform domain coefficient statistical characteristics for different test images have been conducted. …
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Hydropower cities : a new candidate for eco-utopia
… to not only provide the water and energy for the local people, but to lessen the environmental effects of such infrastructures. In each step through this thesis an architectural proposition would be provided and its flaws and effects would be considered to provide better environment for its …
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Margins of appreciation, cultural relativity and the European Court of Human Rights
… human rights and particular cultures or local conditions. It examines the universality debate with reference to the "margin of appreciation" in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, in particular from the end of the Cold Wax when new Contracting Parties from central and …
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How Do the Perceived Barriers, Attitudes, and Knowledge of Grocery Store Personnel Affect Availability of Organic Food Products?
… of this study was to examine how individual and local characteristics affect the attitudes of grocery store personnel toward organic food products and how these attitudes affect availability. Grocery store personnel were surveyed about their attitudes toward organic foods, their perceptions of …
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Geologic Map of the Golden Throne Quadrangle, Wayne and Garfield Counties, Utah
… Quadrangle helped in the understanding of its local characteristics. Previous research has helped to develop a regional stratigraphic framework for the Page Sandstone. This study cannot be easily incorporated into the regional framework of previous studies. In order to fully understand the …
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Biological assessment of tropical riverine systems using aquatic macroinvertebrates in Tanzania, East Africa
… within river types was driven by catchment characteristics such as geographical location, geology, altitude and local characteristics such as active channel width, proportions of boulder, cobble and sand on the bottom, influenced reference conditions in all three river types. Temporal …
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Parameterizing land use planning : deploying quantitative analysis methods in the practice of city planning
… and still deploys the rigid, macro-scale and local tool of zoning. This thesis will present a LEGO game planning methodology for urban land use that harnesses our understanding of cities as interconnected networks to enable a fine-grained, modular, incremental and universal development tool. …
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The return of a large Carnivore: Recovery of the Cantabrian brown Bear and the Challenge of Coexistence in a human-dominated Landscape
… and temporal hotspots suggests that certain local characteristics, such as the high availability of resources, the absence of preventive measures or the behaviour of some individuals, are related to a greater number of damages. Chapter 4 provides the first systematic description and …
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Determinants of international migration
… previous arrivals, from other location-specific characteristics such as local labour or housing market conditions and the presence of public amenities. Labour and housing market variables are expected to operate on different levels and develop a nested model of location choice in which an …
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An Evaluation of alternative strategies for the revitalisation of the horticultural industry in the Plovdiv region of Bulgaria.
… investigation of the following: " The national characteristics of Bulgarian agriculture/horticulture as well as the political/legal environment within which the, farms have operated during the transition period. The local characteristics of the horticultural sector in the Plovdiv region, …
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Analysis and management of low flows in small catchments of Brandenburg, Germany
… catchments with smaller ground water storage. Local characteristics are more important at this scale and can increase vulnerability. This thesis mutually evaluates potential adaption measures to sustain minimum runoff in small catchments of Brandenburg, Germany, and similarities of these …
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From the squatter settlement : a program to build the city
… , their socio-spatial reality, their local characteristics and a global view of the squatter phenomenon, allows us to redefine our position towards them. How do they answer the issue of creating a place? What do they tell us about the limits of our own practice? How can the qualities …
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Predictive modelling and coastal storm responsea study of urban and natural coastal systems
… the storm's possible impact. However, the local characteristics must be considered when establishing the extreme values and setting the numerical models to achieve reliable predictions. This PhD thesis presents the study of the application of numerical modelling to predict coastal storm …
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The Competing Risks of Prepayment and Default on the Single-Family Mortgage Market
… tested.</p> <p>By controlling other mortgage characteristics, such as loan size and loan age, the brief summary of results shows us the prepayment penalty has a negative effect on the prepayment decision. However, its effect in Detroit is insignificantly positive. The value of the call option …
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Understanding Residential Relocation and Travel Behaviour: Mechanisms, Inequalities, and Implications
… as a key process, examining why people move, the characteristics of movers, and how their movement impacts population dynamics in origin and destination areas. Yet, these studies rarely explore specific health behaviours or the mechanisms underlying observed health differences. The aim of my …