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Tritium Self-Sufficient A-Flint Target
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Self sufficient urban architecture: reducing reliance on traditional sources for basic necessities
With the growing popularity of sustainable and self-sufficient living, architects and urban planners have discovered numerous examples of such communities located outside urban areas. However, the principles of sustainable living can also be effectively applied within urban environments. The …
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Experimental analysis of an energy self sufficient ocean buoy utilizing a bi-directional turbine
… solution for converting the buoy to energy self sufficiency.
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The Acculturation of Sudanese Refugees in Maryville Tennessee: Has Self-Sufficiency Been Achieved?.
… the Sudanese population in Maryville would be self-sufficient within two years of arrival. This study uses one-on-one, open-ended interviews and a paper-pencil questionnaire with the Sudanese population and a focus group with the American sponsors to assess the extent that the Sudanese refugee …
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Mobile phones and market participation among smallholder farmers in the Bolivian altiplano
… in the developing world who choose to be self-sufficient, instead of producing for the market, lack the money necessary for purchasing what cannot be produced within the home. It has been noted that households located at a greater distance to market (or with higher transportation costs) …
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Fort Berthold Indian Reservation: A Land Use Study to 1971
… Indian reservation provide the basis for a self~sufficient community? To help answer that question, this study traces the agricultural development as well as other land use programs and problems of the Three Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota.</p> <p>The procedure …
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Sustainable agricultural management : a systems approach for examining food security tradeoffs
… al. 2011). Cropland expansion is unlikely to be sufficient, and yield improvements that require more inputs may lead to more environmental damage. This work focuses on reallocating limited land and water resources to optimize cropping patterns. By combining optimization methods, surrogate …
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Quantifying China's carrying capacity : using optimization to explore sustainable food production
… China. China has historically been largely food self-sufficient, although its food imports have been increasing since the year 2000. We find that the population in China was well below the country's carrying capacity in the year 2000 given the diet and yields in that year. However, the …
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URBAN REGENERATIVE DESIGN A PROTOTYPE DESIGN DECISION SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES OF THE FUTURE
… requires having a benchmark for achieving a self-sufficient urban sustainable design solution albeit with the understanding that such a benchmark may never be attained by urban designers fully. The past decade has seen a motivation to develop, apply and assess sustainable solutions through a …
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"Black Cowboys: Self-Sufficiency in the American West through the ideology of Booker T. Washington"
… T. Washington, black cowboys were able to become self-sufficient men. This thesis will present a comparison and contrast between the historiography and autobiographies of black cowboys. Furthermore, giving black cowboys a voice through the philosophies of Booker T. Washington and presenting an …
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Failure detection and repair of threads in CTAS
… from crashes, thereby yielding a more stable, self-sufficient, and generally more reliable operating environment.
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The self-sufficiency of the good man against the need for friendship. A discussion concerning the importance of friendship for the good man in Cicero.
… the Peripatetics saw that happiness was not a self-sufficient idea and was instead an amalgamation of external goods. Virtue for them was a factor that contributed to happiness, for the Stoics it was essential for happiness. It would appear on inital observation that the life of the Stoic sage …
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Drug plants of California
… but will enable our nation to be more self-sufficient and independent of other countries.</p>
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Aristophanic Oracles
… manipulation, that their language is never self-sufficient and authoritative by itself, and that the persuasive force of an oracle depends equally on an interpretation that has to be linked to something easily recognizable by the audience.
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Permanent Supportive Housing in Tampa, Florida: Facilitating Transition through Site, Program, & Design
… and therefore increases their viability as self-sufficient individuals. Hillsborough County (which encompasses Tampa, Florida) reported 9,532 homeless persons on any given night in the year 2007. Currently, there is not enough housing to meet the needs of every individual. While existing …
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Saint Mary's Mission (Mission City, British Columbia) 1861 to 1900
… Oblates encouraged the creation of segregated, self-sufficient agricultural villages on Sto:lo reserves. Ecclesiastically appointed watchmen recorded the names of transgressors against the Oblate "norms" of behaviour. No deviation was tolerated under this regime of surveillance and segregation. …
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A power electronic approach to improved dual-frequency vibration energy harvesting
… may be used as power sources for low-power, self-sufficient, wireless industrial sensors. State-of-the-art vibration energy harvesting uses switching power electronics to synthesize compact conjugate matched loads allowing for maximum harvested power. Previous work demonstrating …
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Η ΟΡΓΑΝΩΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΧΩΡΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΚΑΤΟΙΚΙΑΣ ΩΣ ΕΚΦΡΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΔΟΜΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΙΚΟΓΕΝΕΙΑΣ. Η ΠΕΡΙΠΤΩΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΟΡΓΑΝΗΣ
… PATRILOCAL AND PATRIMONIALEXTENDED FAMILY IS THE SELF-SUFFICIENT PRODUCTIVE ENTITY. THE UNIQUE, FOR THE SETTLEMENT, TYPE OF HOUSE IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE MULTIFUNCTIONAL INTERIOR ORGANIZATION OF THE CONCEPTS OF TERRITORIOR ONE. THE EXAMINATION OF THE CONCEPTS OFTERRITORIALITY AND PRIVACY IN THE …
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