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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Military bases"”.
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Preserving history in military bases : a redevelopment issue
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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TRADEOFF ANALYSIS OF BACKUP POWER GENERATION SOLUTIONS FOR MILITARY BASES
… on energy to build and project combat power from military installations. Installation energy managers currently ensure uninterrupted power to mission-critical facilities through emergency stand-alone diesel generators. Research has recently indicated that networks of smaller diesel generators …
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Planning for the reuse of closing military bases : the need for consensus building
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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An analysis of the methodology and effectiveness of the marketing efforts to redevelop former military bases
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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Implementation of a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) Toolkit to Aid in Ranking Naval Mission Vessel Combinations With Uncertainty
<p>United States (U.S.) military bases have largely been constructed outside of the contiguous United States (OCONUS) due to the need of close support logistics for conflicts and wars. In contrast, military bases within the contiguous United States (CONUS) have been constructed mostly due to …
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Understanding Correlated Threats to Department of Defense Energy Systems
… poses an existential threat to the United States military’s energy systems. We researched current trends in energy, economics, and weather, translating those trends into quantifiable threats to the military’s secondary power systems. We also assembled a data set about secondary power systems on …
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Varieties of base contestation: anti-U.S. base protests in South Korea and Japan
Why do some American military bases become a lightning rod for protests in overseas host communities, while others hardly make headlines? While some American bases seem to be embraced by most local residents, others are a magnet for anti-American sentiments, even as they produce negative and …
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The Politics of Foreign Military Basing
<p>Foreign military bases are anomalies in a world of sovereign states. Why do major powers station their finite military forces to protect other countries and how does the distribution of these bases relate to a country’s grand strategy? Why do host-nations give up their sovereignty and allow …
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Electrochemical techniques for detection of Tnt and other explosives using disposable screen-printed carbon electrodes
… found in the soil and water from many government military bases due to improper storage, weapons testing and production. Run-off from contaminated soil and water can enter underground water and potentially contaminate drinking water for near-by communities. With the closing of military bases …
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices: A study on multiple concurrent sexual partners among members of 262 Battalion, Mpacha base, Katima Mulilo, Namibia
… quarters. As family quarters will improve the military bases‟ social cohesion, which is associated with informal sociability and the existence of a vivid community organizational life. As such, socially cohesive military bases will lead to low epidemic growth rates and a plateau of low …
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Practicing Ecological Security and Making Multispecies Relations in Anti-Base Resistance: Insights from Environmental-Oriented Anti-Base Activists in Henoko and Takae struggles in Okinawa
… highlight the problems associated with the US military bases and operations in relation to environmental justice (EJ), conservation, and ecological security concerns. Focusing on environmental-focused anti-base resistance, my research asks what activities activists engage in and how those …
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Enhancing Security in 802.11 and 802.1 X Networks with Intrusion Detection
… deployment in the consumer, industrial and military sectors. The combination of wireless signals radiating further than the intended coverage area, flaws in 802.11's basic security mechanisms and vulnerabilities found in 802.1 X have been widely publicized. Military bases and navy ships are …
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La Vida Nueva: Detainees, Arkansans, And Libertad During the Cuban Refugee Crisis of 1980-1983
… argues that Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, and other military bases across the United States served as a transitional space during the Mariel Boatlift that separated Cuban identities from fearful communities that continually fought against the different racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual identities …
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Achieving integrated resilience to Coastal Flooding on the Military Installations and Surrounding Communities on the U.S. East Coast
… critical infrastructure in coastal research is military installations and surrounding communities, which often share the same flood risks and resilience needs. However, the relationship between military bases and adjacent localities has so far received limited attention and is mainly focused on …
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The United States Military Realignment on Okinawa
<p>The United States maintains military bases in foreign countries in efforts to protect American overseas interests, whether they are economic, diplomatic or for geostrategic purposes. In Japan, where the United States has maintained military installations since the end of World War II, debate …
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The effects of level of training on employee perceived empowerment, commitment and job performance
… 158 Air Force employees working on one of two military bases in the areas of food service, lodging, recreation, fitness, linen exchange, and mortuary affairs. Specifically, this research focused on training received by Air Force service personnel. As employees attained higher levels of …
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Urbanmorphology - Cameron Station
… that has a big impact on an urban environment, a military base on a large swath of land was closed and the property became available for development. Closed military bases provide us with opportunities to accelerate urbanmorphology, to simulate the organic evolution of an urban center and to …
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National Patterns and Community Impacts of Major Domestic U.S. Military Base Closures, 1988-present
This thesis analyses major U.S. military bases closed by the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission since 1988. The study focuses on geographic patterns of pre-existing versus BRAC bases, statistical attributes, environmental restoration, and reuse of bases. Comparative case studies …
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Influence of Habitat Disturbances on Endemic Grassland Bird Distributions in Loamy Ecological Range Sites at Canadian Forces Base Suffield, Alberta
… influence on the persistence of these species. Military bases provide an opportunity to examine the influence of habitat disturbance on grassland birds, whose distributions are influenced by vegetation structure. Spatial autocovariate generalized linear models were developed for four primary …
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