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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Spatial use"”.
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Architecture for Cyborgs : laptops and spatial use at MIT
… within a particular life space? This study uses a variety of quantitative and qualitative analytical methods for understanding the adaptation of student behavior to new technologies on MIT campus with a focus on the Sloan School of Management. Laptops will only enable spatial flexibility if …
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Effect of Hormonal and Temporal Factors on Captive Female Manatee (Trichechus Manatus Latirostris) Behavior
Activity patterns, spatial use and reproductive hormones of nine adult-female captive manatees at Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park (HSWSP) were studied from January 6 to August 10, 2003. This study probed two main topics: 1) activity pattern and spatial use of the facility by manatees over …
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The Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Long-Distance Translocation on Western Rattlesnakes (Crotalus oreganus)
… Control-Impact’ (BACI) experimental design was used, with a dedicated control group, but also with the translocated group serving as control prior to the act of translocation.</p> <p>We collected data on snake body temperatures (T<sub>b</sub>) and temperatures (T<sub>e</sub>) of physical …
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Spaces of Reproduction: How Teenagers Co-construct Post Industrial Soundscapes in Smithfield, Dublin
… new data on sound in urban development and spatial use; (3) interrogates the role of mobile mediation in navigating spaces of regeneration, and (4) explores these concepts with young teenagers. This research examines sound and the urban using Lefebvre’s theory of space, particularly his …
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Values That Shape the Social Morphology of the Town Center in Binan, Laguna, Philippines
This study was conducted to identify how daily use rituals affect function, values, and symbolic meanings residents attach to the town center of Biñan Laguna, Philippines. If values and meanings affect the transformations of the built environment, how are social and cultural values related to the …
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Incorporating User Data in Cross Boundary Trail Mangement: A case study of the foothills trail systemnear Wenatchee, WA
… with providing recreation opportunities. Use characteristics including type of use, use frequency, and use patterns have been shown to influence the severity of landscape impacts from recreation. Collecting and incorporating user data is critical to effective recreation management. The …
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Spaces of reproduction : how teenagers co-construct post industrial soundscapes in Smithfield, Dublin
… cultural significance of sound in the shaping of spatial practices. This thesis provides an in-depth argument for the inclusion of sound as formative in the social construction and shaping of urban spaces, and mobile mediation practices within the urban. This thesis: (1) advances theories of sound …
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Reassessing the Ranging Behavior of Black-And-White Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia variegata) in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar
… ruffed lemur (<em>Varecia variegata</em>) space use and movement using autocorrelated kernel density estimation (AKDE), a new methodology available from the continuous-time movement model (ctmm) package in R. Data were collected from 24 adults and subadults (10 males, 11 females, 3 subadult …
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Examining Environmental Use by Captive <i>Lemur catta</i> and <i>Varecia rubra</i>
… how they manipulate the environment and how they use objects, both natural and humanmade, around them. Understanding their behavior is a critical component of conservation, and observing behavior in a captive setting allows us to study lemur-environment relationships without disrupting what little …
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Structural engineering for northern Pakistan : indigenous architecture and earthquake resistance
… designers and engineers, for the design of houses in Karimabad, located in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. This thesis records the author's involvement as structural engineer, and how quantitative engineering work was shaped by qualitative considerations of architectural design issues, and the …
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Towards a Unified Framework for Smart Built Environment Design: An Architectural Perspective
… objects offer primitive interactions, basic use cases and direct affordances. As a result, the traditional architectural process is completely focused on two dimensions of design, i.e., the physical environment based on context and functional requirements based on the users. Whereas, SBEs …
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Assessing the impacts of white-nose syndrome induced mortality on the monitoring of a bat community at Fort Drum Military Installation
… York that are subject to regulatory mandates because of the presence of the endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), acoustic monitoring is now likely more effective than traditional capture methodologies. In the summers of 2011 and 2012, I implemented intensive acoustic sampling using Anabat …
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Daily migrations in a shifting landscape: Facilitating a circular economy on the south peninsula
… of the communities and is revealing the spatial pressures this new density is placing on the sensitively balanced urban and natural systems. This research project investigates these pressures in an in-depth study of the valley. The project produces an intervention to lay the foundations …
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Environmental determinants of greater flamingo foraging behaviour in an estuarine intertidal sandflat
… community has been well researched through the use of caging and exclusion experiments. However, there is still very little known about flamingo spatial foraging preferences and the environmental cues that determine them. The purpose of this study was to investigate the foraging distributions of …
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I Would Never Set Foot On American Soil Again: Religion, Space, and Gender: American Missionaries in Korea
By using three lenses of analysis not often used together, theology, space and gender, this dissertation explores the decisions, practices, and gender dynamics of one group of Protestant religious imperialists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Southern Presbyterian …
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Habitat overlap and seroprevalence of toxoplasma gondii in wildlife and feral cats in a natural area
… overnight live trapping. Amount of cat habitat use was classified based on frequency of cat occurrence. Prevalence of T. gondii antibodies was determined using the indirect immunofluorescent antibody test (IFAT) and a positive titer of 1:25. Wildlife species were classified as having a large …
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Elephant space use in relation to ephemeral surface water availability in the eastern Okavango Panhandle, Botswana
… in relation to the seasonality, proximity and spatial extent of water presence represented by ephemeral surface water. Time series analysis of water extent on ephemeral surface water of the eastern Okavango panhandle will be developed and overlaid with elephant movement datasets. Elephant …