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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Sichuan"”.
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Sichuan fog -- architecture and moisture
… China. Surrounded by the nearby mountains of the Sichuan Basin, the city experiences year-long cloudiness as a result of temperature inversion caused by the basin's convective layer being capped by a layer of air moving east across the Tibet Plateau. Located at the confluence of Yangzte River and …
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Female Doctors and Educator in Sichuan 1900-1930s
… lives of missionary and local female doctors in Sichuan, China, from 1900 to 1930s. This thesis recovers the history of initiating gendered healthcare and medical education for local women by using archival sources, missionary reports and books, and personal memoirs. In addition, this thesis …
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For Better Silk : Sericulture Reform in Sichuan, 1901-1945
… the technological development of sericulture in Sichuan between 1901 and 1945. These groups and individuals hailed from different socioeconomic, political, and ideological backgrounds, and adopted divergent strategies towards sericulture. These pluralistic pursuits for better silk eventually …
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Determination and interpretation of earthquake source locations in Sichuan Province, China
… locating and interpreting earthquakes from the Sichuan Province, China. The main contributions of this research are: successfully fitting the travel time data of three explosions to a two-layer crust model; and the improvement in locating earthquakes. To achieve these objectives, the …
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Earthquake location using a 3D velocity model : an example in Sichuan Province, China
… technique to the location of three events in Sichuan Province, China, an area of complex deformation and scattered seismicity. The lateral differences between published event locations and those obtained using this three dimensional technique are between 6.2 and 12.8 km, suggesting that the …
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Excavating the Nation: Archaeology and Control of the Past and Present in Republican Sichuan
… however, never could completely gain traction in Sichuan, which throughout the Republic remained only very weakly connected to China's political and academic heartland. Instead, archaeology in Sichuan grew in several disparate directions. First, Protestant missionaries pioneered the discipline in …
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Excavating the Nation: Archaeology and Control of the Past and Present in Republican Sichuan
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 72484 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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Controls on the distribution of landslides triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan Province, China
… mountain range, on the northwest margin of the Sichuan Basin. Landsliding contributed greatly to the high death toll of over 70,000 and widespread infrastructural damage produced by the earthquake. The event offers an opportunity to both broaden the global database of seismically induced …
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Rural Income and Wealth Inequality in China: A Study of Anhui and Sichuan Provinces, 1994-1995
… Based on a sample survey data from Anhui and Sichuan provinces, the thesis answers the following five questions: 1. How much income and wealth inequality is there in rural China in 1994-1995? 2. How has inequality in rural China changed since the reform of 1978? 3. How do the components of …
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Ecology, Habitat Use, and Conservation of Asiatic Black Bears in the Min Mountains of Sichuan Province, China
… National Nature Reserve in northwestern Sichuan Province, China. Initial methodology relied on trapping and GPS radio-collaring bears, but due to extreme difficulty with capturing a sufficient sample size, I expanded the study to include reproduction, feeding analysis from scats and sign, …
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Tracing fluid dynamics with noble gas and stable isotope systematics : examples from Krafla, Iceland and Sichuan Basin, China
… in Krafla, Iceland and natural gases in the Sichuan Basin, China. Following a short introduction to the research background, objectives and thesis layout are presented in Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 gives a literature review on the application of noble gases as powerful geochemical tools in …
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Socio-economic drivers of agricultural production in a transition economy: A case study of Hu Village, Sichuan Province, China
Contemporary global agriculture has been undergoing transition towards different pathways. In developed countries, a shift from productivist agriculture to multifunctional agriculture has begun since the 1980s (Wilson, 2007). In the developing world, agricultural modernisation is still the primary …
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Assessing the Role of Solution Chemistry and Organic Matter in the Genesis of the Dengying Formation Dolostones at Sichuan Basin, China
… dolomite of the Dengying Formation, Sichuan Basin, China. Researchers debate the origin of dolomite with different data supporting a microbial model conflicting with late-state hydrothermal dolomite. This study tested the microbial model for dolomite formation in the Dengying using …
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Natural Gas Generation Potential of the Wufeng-Longmaxi and Niutitang Shale Formations, Sichuan Basin, China: Insight from Hydrous and Anhydrous Pyrolysis
… and Cambrian Niutitang formations of the Sichuan Basin, China. Previous studies focused on geological variables affecting gas adsorption and retention in the Silurian and Cambrian shale systems. However, relatively few have investigated the gas generation potential of the source rocks …
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Planning and Construction History of the Eight Columns, Anti-Mongol Stone Fortress in the Sichuan Theater at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty
… planned by Yu Jie, the Military Intendant of the Sichuan Theater from 1242 to 1253, in the posthumous biography of Li Dehui, including the Yundingcheng Fortress, the Yunshangcheng Fortress, the Dahuocheng Fortress, the Dehancheng Fortress, the Baidicheng Fortress, the Diaoyucheng Fortress, and the …
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LATERALLY HETEROGENEOUS SEISMIC ANISOTROPY INVESTIGATED BY SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING ANALYSES
… anisotropy beneath the northeastern edge of the Sichuan Basin in central China, and the spatial and temporal variations of anisotropy near the 2019 M7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake in California, respectively. A clear back azimuthal dependence of the splitting parameters and the lack of a 90° or 180° …
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Landsliding and sediment dynamics following the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in the Beichuan area of China
… Earthquake, Taiwan and it is thought that Sichuan may experience hazards of a similar magnitude. Preliminary reports and oblique photographs have displayed significant levels of sediment aggradation in certain areas and summer monsoonal rains continue to trigger further landslide failures. …
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Tectonic studies in Beichuan : rebuilding the Beichuan Middle School
… for a new middle school in Beichuan county, Sichuan Province, China. How can traditional construction methods and locally available materials be developed into a sound construction typology that will provide the flexibility to adapt to the various scenarios and sites that are inherent in a …
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