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The Lincoln Administration and the Southwestern Territories
Lincoln's relations with these territories, therefore, reveal much about both his general territorial policies and his willingness to adapt them to special circumstances. Lincoln proved willing to adapt his usual patronage policies to the special circumstances of New Mexico in 1861, appointing …
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Spatial Planning for Energy-Resilient Territories and Cities
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Towards the Anthropocene : colossal naturality in disordered territories
"A controversial new development has recently been put up for debate within the discipline of Geology: Do current levels of human interaction in Earth's geology and atmosphere justify the proclamation of a new geological age or era: The Anthropocene? Entering a realm of scientific uncertainty and …
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Beyond the Border: Buffalo and Blackfoot Tenure on Traditional Territories
The international US-Canada border divides and dissects the ancestral territory of the Siksikaitsitapi Indigenous nations. This thesis examines Siksikaitsitapi experiences of the border as a settler-colonial method of containment and their resistance to these processes through the reintroduction of …
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A new nature for exiled territories : the archaeology of beauty
A thing of beauty is defined by the way one apprehends it, by the reaction of and the experience it evokes in the participant. Two modes of approaching beauty are explored: the first is that of beauty being fundamental to a particular form, holding on to past idealized images; or secondly, that …
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Urbanised territories as a specific component of the global carbon cycle
Wir betrachten folgende Teile: die zusätzlichen Kohlenstoff(C)-emissionen, welche aus der Umwandlung von natürlichem Umland durch Stadtwachstum resultieren, und die Änderung des C-Flusses durch 'urbanisierte' Ökosysteme, soweit atmosphärisches C durch diese in umliegende natürliche Ökosysteme …
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Popular sovereignty, slavery in the territories, and the South, 1785-1860
… solution to the crisis over slavery in the territories because it removed the issue from the halls of Congress. Most historians have focused on its development and implementation beginning in the late 1840s and culminating with passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, but have not …
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Techno-Territories : the spatial, technological and social reorganization of office work
In this thesis, I examine the current reorganization of office or information work in its technological, spatial, social and cultural aspects. Based on ethnographic and historical methods, I explore how information and communication technologies, and spatial designs combined with specific …
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Israel and the occupied territories: An analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
… to the situation which exists in the occupied territories. Chapter two examines the historical dimensions of the West Bank problem by focusing on the Jordanian role in the West Bank prior to the Six Day War. In the third chapter, the present political conditions under the Israeli Military …
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Geology of an Archean Greenstone Belt at Point Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada
… are exposed in the Slave Province of Northwest Territories, Canada. At Point Lake, a "supracrustal sequence" comprised mainly of mafic volcanic and metasedimentary rocks lies over and east of a granitoid gneissic terrane. Field and laboratory studies have helped to clarify the petrography and …
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Phytosociological investigation on the thermo-chasmophilous vegetation of the Eastern Mediterranean territories
In this work, the chasmophilous plant communities of thermophilous type occurring in some countries of the East-Mediterranean area are examined. This study is based on numerous phytosociological relevés carried out especially in continental and insular stands of Greece, and also in Cyprus, Israel, …
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Territories of belonging: Citizenship and everyday practices of the state in Bodoland
My thesis looks at the construction of citizenship in the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD, or Bodoland for short) in Western Assam, India. The BTAD is an autonomous sub- region within the state of Assam, which in turn is part of a cluster of states in Northeast India. I look primarily at …
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Early proterozoic (1.9 Ga) thrombolites of the Rocknest formation, Northwest Territories, Canada
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1990.
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MALLEABLE TERRITORIES: THE POLITICS AND EFFECTS OF MINING GOVERNANCE IN POST-SOVIET GEORGIA
… I argue that the Mashavera Valley’s “malleable territories” – my phrase for this territory’s flexible and governable nature, especially as it relates to mineral governance, mining, and the government of people and things – emerge from a range of political practices, geopolitical imaginations, …
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A Systems Analysis Approach to Colorectal Cancer Screening Access In the Northwest Territories
Introduction The Northwest Territories as a rural and remote region of Canada has higher colorectal cancer rates and lower uptake of colorectal cancer screening compared to the rest of the country. Understanding the complex health system processes involved in screening is necessary to develop …
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Characterization of Arsenic Hosting Phases in Subaqueous Tailings at Terra Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada
… an abandoned silver-copper mine in the Northwest Territories, an estimated 500,000 tons of tailings containing 540,000kg of arsenic (As) were deposited into Ho-Hum Lake. Arsenic is being released from the tailings to the overlying surface water, resulting in dissolved As concentrations in the …
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Paleo-Ecotoxicology of Yellowknife (Northwest Territories, Canada) Lakes Impacted by Historic Gold Mining Activities
… gold mining in Yellowknife lakes (Northwest Territories, Canada) using a paleo-ecotoxicological approach. I examined Cladocera subfossils preserved in the modern and pre-1850 lake sediments of 23 lakes in the region, and the Daphnia resting egg bank of Pocket Lake, a highly contaminated lake …
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