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Showing 1 to 20 of 211 for “"Physical geography"”.
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Geospatial and field-based techniques for physical geography and environmental change
… that are relevant to my three specializations: physical geography, biogeography, and geospatial science. I share these efforts in the three following chapters, one of which is already published (Chapter 2), and the other two presented as manuscripts suitable for publication. These themes include …
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Genomic diversity and structure among South and East Asian human populations
… of the world. Asia is more diverse in terms of physical geography, cultures, and languages, which makes it an interesting region to study human population genetic diversity and population structure. From animal studies, colonization of islands is often associated with loss of genetic diversity …
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HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY IN THE MAKING OF CORPORATE STRATEGY AND STRUCTURE
… affects firms, and sheds new light on how physical geography may affect firms. In the second paper, I show that the size and ratio of the Protestant population when U.S. states were admitted to the Union have reduced the number of hierarchical ranks and increased female representation in …
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Building the Body: Gendered Space and Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York City, 1890-1930
… cities and for the bodies of inhabitants. As the physical geography of Rio and New York underwent significant growth and development from industrialization, immigration, and surging nationalism, it destabilized existing spatial divisions, and thus an important mechanism of social control. …
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Successful female farmers in natural resource management
… it is the aim to lay a bridge across social and physical geography who still stand separately next to each other without having forged links in a sustainable way. Consequently, this study is based on a trans- and multidisciplinary, multifaceted and multidimensional approach; it is, in fact, the …
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Out of Site but Not Out of Mind: Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes on the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf
… This dissertation discusses the use of geophysical data in identifying environments, resources, and evidence of environmental modification at areas that are currently buried below the seafloor on the outer continental shelf. The use of methods and data grounded in physical geography can …
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From Mission to Megacity: The Changing Concentration of the Los Angeles City-system
… Connections are made between the history and the geography of the Los Angeles city-system by examining the spatial distribution of population within the region between 1769 and 2000. The Hoover Index of Population Concentration is used to determine the population concentration, and major shifts in …
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Beyond the Classical Landscape: Representing Greece and Anatolia in British Illustrated Books, 1832-1882
… travellers, paying attention to agroecology, physical geography, archaeology, the built environment, and the lives of the people of Greece and the Ottoman Empire. On the other, it merits considering how images of landscapes were created by artists and draughtsmen and disseminated and viewed in …
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APPLYING INFORMATION DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND METHODS TO OPERATIONS IN THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT
… widely according to experience of the source, physical geography, meaningful and consistent engagements, and media utilized. This thesis showed how effective an open-source tool can be to reduce the cognitive load of the MIG commander, enhancing efficient decision-making.
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Knowing fish: a cultural case study and portrait of resource understandings in Caspian Eurasia
… history, this research demonstrates how the physical geography of the Eurasian steppe conditioned distinct human relations with the environment which continue to inform modern day processes. Accounting for the region’s development history and the role sturgeon played as a key food source to …
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Between nature and artifice : The Landscape Architecture Research Office (1966-1979)
… to draw multiple disciplinary objectives, from physical geography to governance to aesthetics, into the same syntactical register-using the map as a technological armature to craft a new theory of landscape. The second project was an experimental studio run by two of LARO's researchers, Carl …
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The large pavement at Qasr el-Lebia in Cyrenaica: episodes, narratives and transformations.
… Cyrenaican context in terms of its history, its physical geography, its settlement patterns and its principal Christian buildings. The dating of the mosaic is considered and a detailed panel-bypanel catalogue of the images is offered. An iconographical study looks closely at groups of panels and …
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Conceptualizing Anthropogenic Change in Fluvial Systems: Drainage Development on the Upper Embarras River, Illinois
… is to examine the ""meeting ground"" between physical and human geography, essentially the interface between human society and the biophysical environment, and to make an attempt at negotiating the conceptual bridge between many of the dichotomies existing in contemporary geography. While the …
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Integration between dividing lines : the spatial and social integration of African immigrants in post-apartheid Cape Town
… has a very particular cultural, historical and physical geography, deeply embedded with notions of race and belonging, and heavily influencing the perception of its new immigrants. The question thus arises as to whether the international urban theories have any explanatory purchase in the South …
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The late Roman frontier in Arabia: A landscape of interaction
… together to view the frontier as center. The physical geography of the region defines the zone and how it interacts with surrounding regions. Communications, economic and defensive concerns linked the desert with the settled zone and the larger economic and political context. Nomadic peoples …
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Location and utilization patterns of nursing homes: an evaluation of patient origin in Virginia
… are modified by population distribution and physical geography. General findings show that location is crucial for nursing home utilization. The existence of a facility generates need awareness and utilization throughout the immediate population. On the average, twenty-six percent of the …
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Understanding the pattern, shifts and environmental impacts of dynamic plant communities in the Himalayan alpine zone (>4100 m.a.s.l.) under climate change
… altitudes (published in the journal Progress in Physical Geography). • Across the entire Himalayan arc we found consistent upward trends in the location of the vegetation line, with varying rates from 1.42 m/year in Bhutan (the most eastern region) to 6.95 m/year in Manthang (central Himalayas; …
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Decolonial Daydreams │Taba Aiboli An exploration of the construction of female power Amongst the Lozi people
… that there is a strong correlation between the physical geography of Barotseland and the divine ancestresses, Mbuyu and her mother Mwambwa. On this basis it is recommend that the effects of the integration of Barotseland into the postcolonial state of Zambia be studied further, especially as it …
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Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Guam – a case-study of the perceptions, attitudes, behaviors, and knowledge of a small rural community towards their watershed
… A GIS analysis was conducted to understand the physical geography of the Manell and Geus watersheds. This information about the human dimension is valuable to CZM managers. It may be incorporated into strategic watershed plans, to better administer the natural resources within the coastal zone. …
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Characterization Of Arctic Soils: Interrelationships With Site And Vegetation
This study was undertaken with the intention of quantitatively characterizing arctic soils in terms of variations within profiles, and between profiles along a micro-environmental gradient. A suite of soils forming a catena in north central Keewatin (65(DEGREES)27' N, 96(DEGREES)38' W) was …
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