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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Remediating"”.
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Living drosscapes, remediating urban disconnections
“Adaptively re-using waste landscapes has become one of the twenty-first century’s great infrastructural design challenges” - Alan Berger The study of this dissertation aims to understand how the principles of landscape architecture and the theory of urbanisation can be used to reprogram “waste …
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COMPOST QUALITY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REMEDIATING URBAN SOILS
Poor soil health is a critical problem in many urban landscapes. Degraded soil restricts plant growth and microorganism activity, limiting the ability of urban landscapes to perform much needed ecosystem services. Amending soil with compost can increase infiltration, microbial biomass, cation …
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Remediating Undergraduate Medical Learners with Deficits in Empathy
… This study aims to broaden our understanding of remediating empathy in undergraduate medical students with two main objectives : 1) Generate an understanding of remediation approaches currently used by experienced medical educators when working with undergraduate medical students who have failed …
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Assessing and remediating altered reinforcement learning in depression
Major depressive disorder is a common, impairing disease, but current treatments are only moderately effective. Understanding how processes such as reward and punishment learning are disrupted in depression and how these disruptions are remediated through treatment is vital to improving outcomes …
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Plant uptake study : the hyperaccumulating and remediating potential of three plant species
This thesis presents the results of investigations into the ability of cattail (Typha latifolia), willow (Salix spp.) and sedge (Carex lenticularis) to hyperaccumulate selenium and sulphate in contaminated water at an active coal mine site in northeastern British Columbia. The plants were …
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Remediating the Eighties: Nostalgia and Retro in British Screen Fiction from 2005 to 2011
This doctoral thesis studies a cycle of British film and television fictions produced in the years 2005-2011 and set retrospectively in the 1980s. In its identification and in-depth textual and contextual analysis of what it terms the ‘Eighties Cycle’, it offers a significant contribution to …
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Remediating empire: constituting, documenting and re-mediating U.S. citizenship in Puerto Rico (1898-1941)
… parallel development of their identities. Ch IV: Remediating Empire closes the last part of my work, evidencing the change in language of imperial policies establishing the governmentality the U.S. had over Puerto Rico, through emissaries of Empire such as the U.S.D.A. and locally developed …
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Evaluating and remediating metals and arsenic in surface waters of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Montana
Located in southeastern Montana, the Northern Cheyenne Reservation sits within the Powder River Basin energy development boundary. The Northern Cheyenne Tribe (Tribe) has had a long history of resisting energy development on the reservation. The Tribe has also opposed off-reservation development …
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Evaluating and remediating metals and arsenic in surface waters of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Montana
Located in southeastern Montana, the Northern Cheyenne Reservation sits within the Powder River Basin energy development boundary. The Northern Cheyenne Tribe (Tribe) has had a long history of resisting energy development on the reservation. The Tribe has also opposed off-reservation development …
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Sorption of lead and arsenic on soil components and effectiveness of phosphates for remediating lead and arsenic contaminated soils
High concentration of trace elements such as arsenic (As) and lead (Pb) represents one of the potentially costly threats to water and soil resources as well as serious threats to humans. Clay minerals are potential binding agents for pollutants due to their high cation exchange capacity and large …
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Investigating adsorption characteristics of Delonix regia for heavy metals removal in wastewater and its potential for remediating contaminated soils
There is need to explore all possible agro-based inexpensive adsorbents and study their feasibility for heavy metal removal with the aim of finding which is a better alternative to activated carbon. The focus of the present study is on investigating the adsorption characteristics of Delonix regia …
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Affective belongings and remediating practices: visualising Imperial formations and unlearning Whiteness in relation to British immigration in so-called Australia.
In so-called Australia, the legacies of British colonialism remain unsettled and unresolved, socially, politically and culturally. This thesis consists of a written and practice element that together explore whiteness and photography, and the ways they create and sustain affective atmospheres of …
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The role and value of workplace-based assessment in learning in postgraduate medical education
… shaped. The value of WBA in identifying and/or remediating underperformance was explored using the Best Evidence in Medical Education (BEME) systematic review methods. Results The cohort study revealed a familiar picture of WBA as a ‘tick-box’ exercise. The learning value associated with WBA …
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Cobalamin-Enhanced Anaerobic Biotransformation of Carbon Tetrachloride
… feasible option. The high cost of cobalamins for remediating CT contaminated aquifers may be offset by a decrease in total remediation time and reduction in hazardous product accumulation.
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The Effect of Operational Control Quality on Operational Efficiency and Cost of Capital: Evidence from U.S. Bank Holding Companies
… in the changes analyses, I find that remediating firms exhibit higher operational efficiency and lower cost of capital estimates, while non-remediating banks are associated with no significant change in their operational efficiency estimate but exhibit a significant higher cost of …
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An Analysis of the Effects of Prereferral Interventions on the Reduction of Inappropriate Classroom Behaviors
… the need to investigate different methods of remediating student problems within the mainstream classroom environment. These included: (a) the educational community's failure to meet the intent of P.L. 94-142, (b) an increasing number of individuals with mild disabilities, (c) the high cost of …
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The Differences between Novice and Experienced Public Middle School Principals in the Decision to Remediate a Tenured Teacher
… and experienced principals when contemplating remediating a tenured teacher.</p>
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DEVELOPING MOLECULAR TOOLS TO IMPROVE TERPENOIDS PRODUCTION IN RHODOSPORIDIUM TORULODIES
… were successfully identified, which helps remediating the cytotoxicity issue during terpenoid production and we expect these mutants will be able to significantly enhance terpenoid productivity in this host.
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Dynamic Vessels for Shifting Thresholds: Bodies and Water at the Edges of the Toronto Islands
… human experiences, while protecting and remediating non-human habitats. Using deployable, folded geometries that expand and contract to mediate tactile, shifting relationships between bodies and water, this thesis designs for an environment that evolves on its own terms.
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