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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Pyrenees"”.
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"No to the bear" : contested power and truths behind the reintroduction of brown bears in the Pyrenees.
… Reintroduction of Brown Bears into the French Pyrenees At this beginning of the twenty-first century, global climate and biodiversity, including human survival, are seriously threatened. Fuelled by culturally constructed anthropocentric ‘needs’, the unrelenting march of neoliberal capitalism …
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Thermo-tectonic record of hyperextension, structural inversion, and foreland basin evolution of the eastern and central Pyrenees
… during the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene, and the Pyrenees beginning in the Eocene. Detrital mineral trends across the basins suggest that the pro-wedge foreland basin developed and remained segmented throughout the Late Cretaceous-Oligocene. The results from these chapters highlight the dominant …
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Celia's Ghosts: Liminality and Authenticity in De/extinction
… bucardo, an endemic subspecies of ibex from the Pyrenees, Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica. The bucardo has long been an emblematic feature of the Pyrenean landscape. Hunting drove it to near extinction by the start of the twentieth century. The Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido was founded in …
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Forbidden Love: The Arabic Influence on the Courtly Love Poetry of Medieval Europe
… the meeting point of France and Spain (the Pyrenees), harbored an exchange of culture in the twelfth century; this thesis will explore the themes of forbidden love found in Arabian love poetry and their influence on the writing of the troubadour poets.
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Atmospheric microplastic pollution
… atmospheric deposition samples from the French Pyrenees Iwas able to illustrate the first atmospheric transport of microplastics of at least95km using hysplit4 back trajectory modelling. Further to this I used highvolume sampling technique to show first evidence of free-troposphericmicroplastic …
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Chivalry and Romantic Love in the Courts of Eleanor of Aquitane
… created the Angevin empire, extending from the Pyrenees to Scotland. As Queen, Eleanor was able to instill in the courts of both kingdoms of northern Europe the refinements of her native Aquitaine. For these specific contributions, she merits greater praise.</p>
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The Phonological Unity of Intervocalic Stop Weakening in Romance (Italian, Spanish, Historical Linguistics)
… degemination; similarly, some dialects of the Pyrenees share degemination with Spanish, but have preserved voiceless stops. Also, many have felt that modern allophonic spirantization of /p t k/ in Tuscan is an odd development.
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Implementation of a snow routine into the hydrological model WASA-SED and its validation in a mountainous catchment
… the Isábena river catchment (Central Spanish Pre-Pyrenees). Results were validated using satellite-derived snow cover data. Furthermore, a rainfall gauge correction algorithm to restore the liquid precipitation signal of measurements affected by solid precipitation was applied. The snow module …
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Identity, culture and belonging in the iron mining landscape of the Canigou Mountain, France.
… rural location at the eastern end of the French Pyrenees, the area has witnessed demographic change and industrial decline since the last mine closed in 1985. Consequently this research was designed to explore the ways in which the local population embed their sense of belonging in this mountain …
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The genetics and movement of ecologically important migratory Hoverflies
… observations of active migrant hoverflies in the Pyrenees. Using this approach, I elucidate the mechanisms underpinning the diminishing population of males during the migratory journey and identify key female migratory traits required for long-distance migration.<p></p>
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Phylogeographic and morphometric studies on the Eurasian pygmy shrew Sorex minutus: insights into its evolutionary history and postglacial colonisation in Europe
… lineages in Northern-Central Europe and near the Pyrenees supporting the existence of northern glacial refugia through the characteristics of their distribution and population expansion. Haplotypes from Britain belonged to these two northern lineages, with the Pyrenean lineage forming a peripheral …
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Exploring Diet and Society in Medieval Spain: New Approaches Using Stable Isotope Analysis
… AD) that follow a geographical transect from the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean coast, through Aragón and Valencia. Results indicate humans from all locations consumed a diet based on terrestrial plant and animal protein, with a possible input of aquatic resources at Zaragoza, Valencia and Gandía. …
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Characterising alluvial architecture using physical models, subsurface data and field analogues
… the Eocene Escanilla Formation, Southern Pyrenees, Spain. New evidence is presented to suggest a fluvio-lacustrine setting for the Escanilla Formation. A marked qualitative and quantitative similarity between the two sedimentary sequences gives confidence in the analogue and permits the …
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Reservoir sedimentation in dryland catchments : modelling and management
… located in the foothills of the Central Pyrenees (Aragon, Spain). A two-stage calibration was performed to account for changes on the sediment deposition pattern caused by sediment management. The reservoir sedimentation model is then validated for another simulation period which confirms …
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Adventures in the archaic: Bataille, Devereux, Eliade, and Lefebvre after 1945
… takes us through the Lascaux caves, the French Pyrenees, and the American Southwest and into our relationship with art, ecstasy, religion, and what remains of the deep past. In four chapters I explore how ideas related to survivals helped break the disdain and collective amnesia surrounding …
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Full-waveform inversion of time-lapse seismic data using physics-based and data-driven techniques
… is applied to the time-lapse streamer data from Pyrenees oil/gas field in offshore Australia. Despite the pronounced nonrepeatability in the baseline and monitor surveys, the developed algorithm successfully reconstructs the velocity variations in the reservoir caused by hydrocarbon production. …
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Spectral fingerprinting
… a meso-scale basin in the central Spanish Pyrenees. Undisturbed samples of the upper soil layer were measured in situ using an ASD spectroradiometer and subsequently sampled for measurements in the laboratory. Suspended sediment was sampled automatically by means of ISCO samplers at the …
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Application of High Resolution Melting analysis for haplotype detection in phylogeographic research and case studies of Arenaria ciliata, A. norvegica and Minuartia recurva (Caryophyllaceae)
… the species distribution from the Alps, the Pyrenees, the north side of Spain and Ireland, which indicates a recent dispersal of the species in west Europe. Also a close relationship is suggested between the Irish populations and the Iberian populations. In Chapter 5, a further theoretical …