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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Moor"”.
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-Moor ohne Grenzen- Potentialanalyse der regionalen Produktvermarktung im Internationalen Naturpark Bourtanger Moor - Bargerveen
… dar. Der Untersuchungsraum ist die Leader-Region Moor ohne Grenzen des Internationalen Naturparks Bourtanger Moor - Bargerveen im Emsland/Grafschaft Bentheim/Niederlande. Es wurden qualitative Interviews geführt, um das Potential einer Regionalvermarktung abzuschätzen. Im Fokus steht dabei die …
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Grazing Management and Plant Community Composition on Bodmin Moor
… cover in the upland landscape of Bodmin Moor. Initial chapters review the ecological character of Bodmin Moor, grazing management and vegetation in upland habitats, and succession in relation to grazing. Chapter Five provides the first extensive and detailed phytosociological …
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Human-environmental relations on Bodmin Moor during the Holocene
… palaeoenvironmental investigations on Bodmin Moor aimed at determining the timing, nature and extent of human induced environmental change on the moor. Pollen, charcoal and loss-on-ignition investigations were carried out at two main areas with chronological control provided by radiocarbon …
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How Othello became black: a cultural history of Shakespeare's Moor in New York City
The relationship between William Shakespeare’s black Othello and white Desdemona has held a particular hold on the American imagination for two-hundred and fifty years. During its history on the New York stage, Shakespeare’s Othello has been a battleground for race relations and identities, which …
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From Bradford Moor to Silver Dale. The life, work, and legacy of W. Riley, 1866-1961
This thesis presents the first full account of the life and achievements of Bradford-born W. Riley (1866-1961), once internationally known as a popular and prolific Yorkshire author. Before becoming a famous writer, he was Managing Director of the successful Bradford Optical Lantern Company, Riley …
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Untersuchungen zur Ökologie von Pinus rotundata LINK im Südschwarzwald
… zur Ökologie der in Mitteleuropa endemischen Moor-Kiefer (Pinus rotundata) durchgeführt. Auslöser der Arbeit waren Absterbeerscheinungen der Moor-Kiefer und eine mangelnde Verjüngung derselben in gestörten Hochmooren des Südschwarzwaldes und Vegetationsveränderungen v.a. in der Randzone …
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Primary and secondary emissions from upland fires in Ireland
… Irish wildfire fuels (heather, gorse, purple moor grass) were measured for the first time. Emission factors were measured for a set of gases (carbon monoxide CO, carbon dioxide CO2, methane CH4, sulphur dioxide SO2 and nitric oxides NOx as NO), particulates and particulate fractions (fine …
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Calluna vulgaris regeneration on upland moorland post-wildfire.
Upland heather moorland is often subjected to wildfires, particularly in drought years, which destroy all vegetation, seed bank and surface peat. Post-fire management of liming, fertilising and seeding with grass species and Calluna vulgaris (ling heather), in addition to natural regeneration, …
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Predicting user numbers of an urban fringe Pennine moorland using time and weather variables
… counting exercise on an area of urban-fringe moorland. The results of this study are discussed and used to predict future land use. The results of this study are compared with results from lower resolution user counts in other wilderness areas. This study was conceived to address a gap in data …
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Stratigraphy and conodont paleontology of late Silurian-early Devonian strata of western Virginia
… in the lowermost New Creek Limestone at Low Moor, Virginia, is used by previous agreement to denote the base of the Devonian system. In the absence of this standard paleontologic indicator, multielement species of the genus Ozarkodina aay be useful. Ozarkodina steinhornensis eosteinhornensis …
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"Reader" in Jane Eyre
… of her life: in childhood, in Thornfield, in Moor House and in Ferndean Manor. The rhetorical instrument of addressing her reader is influenced by her speech and silence, and appears in a gradually increasing frequency in the four parts. In this sense, Jane Eyre’s female voice is also …
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Effect of Passive Vibration on Skin Blood Flow in Good Glycemic Control and Poor Glycemic Control Type 2 Diabetics
… T2D. This was done by assessing SBF using a MOOR full-field laser perfusion imager (MOOR FLPI) after the application of PV. Seventeen good glycemic control and fifteen poor glycemic control T2D participated in this study. The SBF, ST and BP were measured at the baseline. Then, the subjects …
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Mis/Reading the Hero: a Case For Aaron in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
… scholars have interpreted Aaron the Moor in Titus Andronicus as the play's villain. These scholars have held to the notion that as the villain, Aaron is evil incarnate and embodies all that countermands the order of the Roman patriarchy. I assert that these scholars have failed to …
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The revitalisation of the Hebden Bridge district: greentrified Pennine rurality
… initiated by in-migrant households, drawn to the moor tops, moor edges and urban location by idyllic representations of Pennine rurality. Undertaking self-renovation activities, redefined landscapes were produced and consumed by the in-migrant households. As the scale of DIY greentrification …
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Novel studies of the dynamics of mineral N species transformations and their mobilities relevant to assessing risks to drainage water.
… predominantly acid grassland nature reserve, Hob Moor, just outside the city of York in the UK. Because of the risk of more frequent and/or extended summer droughts as a potential consequence of climate change, particular attention was paid to the influence of drying and rewetting upon the …
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Phosphorus fate and management on the Somerset Levels and Moors Ramsar ditch systems
… the ditch systems of the Somerset Levels and Moors, a listed Ramsar site (no. 914) under the Ramsar Convention and designated Special Protection Area (SPA) under the Habitat Regulation 2017, are elevated in nutrients with potential for total phosphorus to be above the current Common Standards …
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Singing With the Spirits: Musical Life in Sao Luis, Northeast Brazil
… honor of the black Catholic saint, Benedict the Moor. These traditions have many musical elements in common; others are particular to each. Music is a vital part of each tradition's identity and is the primary medium through which ritual action unfolds. It mediates spirit possession and human …
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The postexotic Arab: Orientalist dystopias in contemporary postcolonial fiction
… Fall on Your Knees (1996), Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh (1996), and Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent (2003) and The Language of Baklava (2005), I argue that contemporary postcolonial fiction displays a patently self-conscious, self-parodic engagement with the constitutive paradoxes of the …
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