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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Spatial and temporal analysis"”.
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Spatial and temporal analysis of radial growth in an Appalachian watershed
This dendrochronological study used dated and measured tree-ring data to examine relationships between radial growth and climate for four hard wood species, yellow-poplar, northern red oak, chestnut oak and red maple, growing on contrasting topographic aspects of a watershed in north-central West …
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Rebuilding Coastal Mississippi Following Hurricane Katrina: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis
<p>Governments and individuals have already spent several billion dollars, countless hours, political and emotional resources on recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Despite this major investment in the recovery on the U.S. Gulf Coast, there is little understanding of what actually affects a housing …
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Spatial and temporal analysis of pharmaceutical concentrations and chitobiase activity in the Upper Tennessee River
… surface samples were collected upstream and downstream of sewage treatment plants and at the inflow of major tributaries to the Tennessee River to determine the presence and potential sources of pharmaceuticals. Subsurface samples were collected at 7 meters depth to determine differences …
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Spatial and Temporal Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in Sewer Network in Reno-Sparks Metropolitan Area
… virus, strained public health entities and communities, which faced unprecedented challenges in implementing clinical testing to monitor and inform public on the spread of the disease. In the early stages of the pandemic, researchers indicted that the virus is present in wastewater and …
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Dispersion or Re-Segregation: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Public Policies and Their Impact on Urban African American Mobility
… ghetto thesis in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Hirsch suggested that the role of government, public policies, and administrative discretion were responsible for the re-segregation of African Americans into second ghetto communities in Chicago. Many scholars have used Hirsch's framework to …
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Spatial and temporal analysis of heavy metals in surface waters, bed sediments and suspended sediments of the River Stour, East Kent, U.K.
… occurrence of metal enrichment in surface waters and bed sediments coincides mainly with areas of urbanisation and high density traffic in addition to point source discharges including STW and industrial effluent outlets. Non-tidal surface water samples exhibiting Pb, Co, Cu, Fe and Zn …
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On the origins of the ice ages : insolation forcing, age models, and nonlinear climate change
… about the relationship between orbital forcing and climate variability. To place paleo and modern climate variability in context, the spectrum of temperature variability is estimated from time-scales of months to hundreds of thou- sands of years using a patchwork of proxy and instrumental …
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Three essays investigating post-bubble housing market: prices and foreclosures
… the recovery of the housing market. An understanding of how foreclosures influence housing prices is important in the provision of a more complete interpretation of post-bubble housing market conditions, as well as providing a guide for the consideration of future government responses as well …
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The use of Geographical Information Systems for Disaster Risk Reduction strategies: a case study of Volcán de Colima, Mexico
… disaster risk management requires the analysis of vulnerability and hazard exposure, which is imperative at Volcán de Colima (VdC), Mexico, due to the predicted, large-magnitude eruption forecasted to occur before 2025. The methods used to gauge social vulnerability included the …
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Monitoring and assessment of macroinvertebrate communities in support of river management in northern Vietnam
… to develop a water quality biological monitoring and assessment based on macro-invertebrates to analyse the status of watercourses and to select sustainable restoration measures in order to support river. The research was carried in the Du river basin in northern Vietnam. Spatial and temporal …
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CubeSat Constellation Analysis for Data Relaying
… technology limits the amount of time, and number of accesses with ground stations. It has been proposed to use a constellation of CubeSats to improve relay performance and increase the number of accesses between a CubeSat and ground stations. By using the spatial and temporal analysis …
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Intra- and Inter-Seasonal Variability of Supra-Glacial 1 Streams and Lakes over the West Greenland Ice Sheet 2 from High-Resolution Satellite Optical Data
<p>The Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) is one of the largest glacial ice masses on Earth, second only to the Antarctic ice sheet. The surface hydrology of the GrIS plays a crucial role on the surface energy and mass balance budgets of the ice sheet as a whole. Surface water, known as supra-glacial …
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Production and Marketing of Sorghum and Sesame in the Eastern Central Rainlands of the Sudan. The Contrast Between the Public and Private Sectors
The study is concerned with the production and marketing of dura (sorghum) and sesame in the eastern central rainlands of the Sudan. The two crops are regarded as major export commodities and considerable emphasis has been given to expanding the areas under cultivation using mechanised farming …
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Effects of bank vegetation in waterways with special reference to bank erosion, shear strength, root density and channel hydraulics
… parameters. The main aspect of research is a spatial and temporal analysis of erosion under banks with natural vegetation, a cultivated wetland grass, denuded banks, and banks under the initial process of secondary succession. Two major spatial components of a river bank are identified …
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Finite Element Modelling of Deep Zone Residual Stresses in Rolling Contact Bearing Elements.
… (RCF) resulting in bearing material evolution and development of residual stresses under the contact track with progressive stress cycles. The evolved bearing material contains different microstructural features, termed as dark etching regions (DERs) and white etching bands (WEBs); visible …
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Variations of Wildlife Safety Crossings and Their Effects for Mule Deer in Northeast Nevada
… resources, to access seasonal ranges, to expand ranges, or to disperse into new ranges (Bissonette and Adair 2007; Chetkiewicz et al. 2006; Fortin and Agrawal 2005). When barriers are created within a landscape, connectivity among habitat patches is disrupted, and movement between these …