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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Surveyor"”.
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An investigation into the accuracy of pre-tender design price forecasts provided by the quantity surveyor
… design price forecasts in South Africa, quantity surveyors are unaware of the level of accuracy that they attain. It is proposed that an awareness of their forecasting accuracy.and the factors which affect will contribute towards enhanced performance. By means of an analysis of a sample of …
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Surveying and the ecology of belonging in the nineteenth-century United States
… legal rights and guarantees of property—was the surveyor. This occupation was at once a signifier of class and education and an entryway for the aspirational. George Washington possessed the social and mathematical credentials to serve as a surveyor in colonial Virginia, and Abraham Lincoln would …
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New approaches in training for in situ visualization of ionizing radiation measurements
… to better develop the skill set of the surveyor in realistic virtual environments beforehand. This thesis investigates and develops a novel process to display real-time measured radiation monitoring data in AR to support a radiation surveyor during a search of an environment for …
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Angles-only navigation technique for maneuver-free spacecraft proximity operations
… of angles-only navigation consists of a single surveyor making line-of-sight observations of a target to deduce a relative navigation state from a sequence of angle measurements. Historically, angles-only navigation has been impeded by a range ambiguity problem in its many applications, …
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Generating Prevalence Estimates of Sensitive Behaviors through List Randomization: Survey Experiment among Indian Males
… to answer sensitive questions without the surveyor knowing their actual response. This has emerged as a new technique to ask sensitive questions as it reduces respondent’s discomfort while reporting sensitive behaviors. In this study, we apply list randomization to generate prevalence …
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Investigating the Effects of Urban Features on Bird Window Collisions
… (2) increased window area. After accounting for surveyor bias and predator removal, the rate of collision was 7.7 4 SD birds/building/year. A negative binomial GLM determined collision frequency to be significantly predicted by proportional vegetation area, distance to vegetation, window area and …
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Maritime courts and the constitution
… African Maritime and Safety Authority (SAMSA) surveyor. Both of these Courts are convened in South Africa. The distinguishing feature of Maritime Courts, on the other hand, is that they are convened abroad. They can be used to investigate a number of different types of incidents, including …
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Land surveying in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Dublin
… a definition for the career title land surveyor, examines the viability of the profession in eighteenth-century Dublin and how the elements of surveying science, art, technology and business integrated together to create a feasible career. The science and technology of surveying, …
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Low frequency plasma waves at Mars
Mars Global Surveyor's magnetometer/electron reflectometer (MAG/ER) experiment has returned over eight years of observations of low frequency plasma waves produced in the interaction of the solar wind with the Martian ionosphere. Using the MAG/ER data, I identify the properties and physical origins …
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The Charles Davidson Bell Heritage Trust collection : a catalogue and critical study,
… Charles Davidson Bell (1813-1882), who was the Surveyor General at the Cape from 1848 to 1872. Part Two consists of an illustrated catalogue and critical study of the the pictures by Charles Davidson Bell in the Bell Heritage Trust Collection at U.C.T. The Biography of Charles Davidson Bell has …
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Judging a planet by its cover : insights into lunar crustal structure and Martian climate history from surface features
… and HiRISE instruments aboard the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to constrain their ages and deposition rates.
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Elder abuse in nursing homes: The impact of dementia/special care units
… changes in nursing facilities, and potential surveyor bias.
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Strengths and weaknesses of contaminated land policy in the UK and the position of lenders and surveryors
… (albeit indirectly). Finally, can the Chartered Surveyor take an increasingly important role in developing Banks lending policy? This paper was written taking into account the current legislation as of 1st June, 1995.
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Review of the mechanical properties of lunar soils
… history of lunar soil exploration through the Surveyor and Apollo programs, 1966 - 1972. Our current knowledge of the physical and engineering properties of the lunar regolith is derived mainly from measurements made on bulk and core samples returned to earth, as well as trenching, penetration …
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James Breckinridge
… could be bought almost for the asking. Soldier, surveyor, lawyer, educator, politician, and planter, Breckinridge led a full and interesting life and can lay claim to being another of Virginia's outstanding citizens.
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Criação, validade de conteúdo e processo de resposta do instrumento de diagnóstico epidemiológico para disfunção temporomandibular - IDE/DTM
… maintained, but some instructions for the future surveyor were included. Thus, the product of this study is a diagnostic instrument entitled Epidemiological Diagnostic Instrument - IDE / DTM. The evidence of validity allowed relevant modifications and made this instrument more concise and …
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Residential Satisfaction with Home Location: Examination of the Relationship Between Location-Embedded Benefits and Risk Perception
… partly through direct talks between surveyor and residents. The contents of the questionnaire cover residents' attitudes toward their home location, factors contributing to residents' satisfaction or dissatisfaction to their home location, and their awareness of flood risk and …
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Comparative private law 1998 Dale Hutchison, UCT
… the sub-contractors; the architect; the quantity surveyor; the clerk of works; and all the specialists depend on each other or at least can influence and affect each other. Often engineering and building works will overlap, intermingle, or are based on each other. The breach of contractual or …
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Colonel William Preston, 1729-1783
… of his multiple public and military offices--surveyor, sheriff, county lieutenant, justice of the peace and Eurgess--Preston assumed the foremost place of leadership and responsibility in the western counties of Augusta, Botetourt, Fincastle and Montgomery. Preston's was a life devoted to the …
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