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Showing 1 to 20 of 218 for “"NY"”.
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Ny situation - ny organisation : Gatutidningen Situation Sthlm 1995-2000
… of organizational adaption (octopoidenss, gluttony, monstrosity, credulity, hypocrisy). Data from three areas of Situation Sthlm's operations are used: The publication, the social work, and organizational development. It was collected between 1999-2002 through complementary use of interviews, …
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Climate Change in Buffalo, NY
The climate is changing globally and in the northeast United States. Evidence of climate change should also be found in Buffalo, New York, located along the eastern shore of Lake Erie. My hypotheses are that average winter temperatures and snowfall should be increasing, Lake Erie should be freezing …
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Europa som nation : En ny stil i nationalismens genre
The vantage point for this thesis is the passport as it was understood and used in the European Union from 1999 to 2001, as a requirement to cross the external borders of the EU and as a symbol of a united Europe free from a spectacular nationalism of the member states. According to nationalism, …
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Primes of the form X² + nY² in function fields
… p in F_q[x] can be represented in the form X^2+nY^2 with X, Y in F_q[x]. We restrict ourselves to the case where X^2+nY^2 is anisotropic at infinity. As in the classical case over Z, the representability of p by the quadratic form X^2+nY^2 is governed by conditions coming from class field …
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Petrology and structure of the Glen Quadrangle, southeastern Adirondacks, NY
<p>An outcrop geologic map of The Glen quadrangle has been produced at a scale of 1:24,000. This quadrangle is composed of a sequence of Precambrian rocks which were deformed and recrystallized under clinopyroxene-garnet granulite facies conditions during late Precambrian time. Metasedimentary …
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Nitrogen biogeochemistry in Binghamton, NY, a medium-sized urban ecosystem
<p>Humans have altered nitrogen (N) cycling on a global scale, and elevated nitrogen levels are characteristic of urban ecosystems. The major reasons that N is higher in cities include imports of food, fuel and fertilizer. High N export from both point- and nonpoint-sources is common in large …
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Fault lines : the legacy of urban renewal in Hudson, NY
Hudson, New York, has been carved by a series of historical forces that continue to shape present-day physical and narrative representations of the city. Today, the local landscape reflects two distinct communities contained within a compact street grid, with the city's core commercial artery of …
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Creating the city : toward 21st-century production in Brooklyn, NY
… in which synergy may be created by and among many individual creative firms in the city. The thesis uses the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City, as a case and example of how to go about supporting new kinds of urban creative clusters. The thesis proposes principles, guidelines, and an …
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Chironomid (Diptera: Chironomidae) Larvae as Indicators of Water Quality in Irondequoit Creek, NY
… and gravel habitats in order to assure that any changes observed were not due to differences in chironomid community structure in dissimilar substrates. Diversity and taxa richness were highest in the upper creek and lowest in the lower creek. Abundance was highest in the middle creek. All …
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Comparative aerosol studies based on multi-wavelength Raman LIDAR at Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen
… and characteristics of aerosol layers above Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen. The attention was turned to the analysis of periods with high aerosol load. As the Arctic spring troposphere exhibits maximum aerosol optical depths (AODs) each year, March and April of both the years 2007 and 2009 were …
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Always Room At The Top: Black Students And Educational Policy In Ithaca, Ny
Frequently referred to as the achievement gap, racial disparities in educational outcomes are reported in school districts across the nation. Most educational research focuses on this crisis in urban communities, and overcrowded classrooms, underfunded schools, unqualified teachers as well as …
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Changes in Diatom Assemblages in Adirondack (NY, USA) Reference Lakes Since Pre-Industrial Times
The vast majority of Adirondack lakes have been impacted since pre-industrial time through either regional (e.g. acidification) or local (e.g. fish stocking, liming, seepage of road salt, cultural eutrophication) environmental disturbances. Inferring changes related to climate are difficult due to …
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Saving Salt City: Fighting Inequality Through Policy and Activism in Syracuse, NY, 1955-1975
… through Policy and Activism in Syracuse, NY, 1955-1975" offers an in-depth exploration of civil rights and antipoverty struggles in the Salt City between 1955 and 1975. It centers the agency of activists who built interracial and cross-class organizations through which they contested the …
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Deposition and Fate of Atmospheric Mercury in Forested Landscapes of the Adirondack Park, NY
<p>In this dissertation, I investigated the deposition and fate of atmospheric mercury (Hg) to forested landscapes of the Adirondack region in Upstate New York. Despite the fact that forests are the dominant land cover in North America, there has been relatively little research on the deposition, …
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Determinants of Commercial Energy Demand: An Empirical Study of Medical Facilities in NY State
… our study on 24 commercial medical facilities in NY State between 2002 and 2010. The price elasticity of fossil demand was estimated to be approximately -0.14 in the short run, while that of electricity demand was estimated to be -0.11. Estimates of price volatility were found to be negative …
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Ny väg till nya vägar och järnvägar : Finanseringspragmatism och planeringsrationalism vid beslut om infrastrukturinvesteringar
Investment planning is a decision-making process with specific characteristics. It is often seen as a rational quest for solutions that are in the public interest, and the dominant discourse tends to be technical and economic. Public documents reproduce this picture of a decision-making process …
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Electrical Conductivity and Resistivity Study of Heterogeneous Sediment in Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan, NY
<p>The area near the inlet of Spuyten Duyvil Creek in Inwood Hill Park in New York City exhibits complex hydrological processes. The inlet is a tidal flat, which contains brackish water; a mixture of saltwater and freshwater. The area was modified by man, built on a shell bed and contains …
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A comparison of microphysical properties in lake-effect and synoptic snowfall near Buffalo, NY
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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