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Showing 1 to 20 of 1446 for “"Territory"”.
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Architecture in an unstable territory
This thesis argues that traditional architectural practice is insufficient to respond to the instabilities of rapid informal urbanization in Latin America. Traditional practice has mostly focused on designing objects, but informal territories instead need architects able to embrace complex social …
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Washoe Redux: Territory, Sovereignty, and Anthropologists
… minerals first in California and later in Utah territory (which would become Nevada) caused an influx of population from the outside world. The lives and cultures of indigenous peoples in the Far West were forever altered by these events. The Washoe, unlike many other groups of American Indians, …
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Territory and dwelling : habitation, access and light
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.
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Territory, Settlement, Household: A Project of Rural China
… as a spatial question at the levels of territory, settlement and household. In the studies, the case study method, fieldwork and drawing play essential roles. Based on the understanding of rurality as an elastic form of association in both social and spatial terms and across scales, the …
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Bastide city territory: landscape infrastructure design, Monpazier, France
… reactivated. At three scales the bastide city territory proposes potential relationships between constituent parts through time, imagining how these could support a richer experience of being in the landscape, and a stronger relationship to the bastide. A diverse body of work produced through …
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Can NATO's Missile Defence System Protect Bulgarian Territory?
… a missile defence system to defend European territory and populations against the growing threat of ballistic missiles. In May 2012, the system achieved interim capability, which officials claim can currently defend Bulgaria's entire territory. This study investigates these assertions from a …
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Applied epidemiology in the Northern Territory 2012 - 2014
The Northern Territory (NT) has a unique set of public health priorities due to its tropical climate, remote settings and high proportion of Indigenous people. In this setting I was placed as a Master of Applied Epidemiology (MAE) scholar within the Northern Territory's Centre for Disease Control …
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Applied epidemiology in the Northern Territory 2012 - 2014
The Northern Territory (NT) has a unique set of public health priorities due to its tropical climate, remote settings and high proportion of Indigenous people. In this setting I was placed as a Master of Applied Epidemiology (MAE) scholar within the Northern Territory's Centre for Disease Control …
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Pairing behavior of pigeons related to aggressiveness and territory
LD2668 .T4 1950 C377
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Optimal territory size in the convict cichlid (Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum)
Simple models of optimal territory size have most commonly been tested qualitatively by demonstrating that an increase in food abundance or intruder pressure causes a decrease in territory size. However, the most fundamental predictions of the theory have rarely been tested: i.e. the fitness of the …
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Food, place, territorialization. From territory appreciation to successful businesses
… the awareness of the bond between food and its territory of origin has grown, and food perceived to be local and traditional increased in its attractiveness. Aware of this scenario, the purpose of this dissertation is to explore in depth the phenomenon of place-based food: firstly, it aims for a …
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Slavery, race, and nation in Indian Territory, 1830-1866
… States militarily. In order to maintain their territory and their autonomy, leaders of the Five Tribes initiated a new approach. They arranged marriages between their daughters and white traders, creating political alliances in the process, and invited missionaries into their lands to educate …
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Regional accreditation and learning outcomes assessment: mapping the territory
This case study examined the intersection of collegiate-level student learning outcomes assessment with regional accreditation to understand how regional accreditation policies and practices leverage student learning outcomes efforts on US college campuses. To that end, the standards of each of the …
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Extraterritorial prospecting and territory defence in cooperatively breeding meerkats
… prospectors and measured the costs of such territory defence. In this dissertation, I exploit our ability to closely monitor prospecting males in meerkats, to investigate the causes of individual variation in extraterritorial prospecting effort and aggressive responses to prospector …
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Post-island futures : seeding territory for Tuvalu's fluid atolls
… Climate change creates the risk of uncertain territory and uncertain identity for Tuvaluans; the submergence of the islands below mean sea level threatens rights to their territorial waters (EEZ) as well as their nationhood status as they lose the space to practice their cultural identity. The …
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Architecture, territory, and society: Two projects for the Veneto
An architectural territory is an area of human settlement that exhibits consistent architectural conditions or elements. In this thesis, three primary aspects of territory are considered: massing patterns, circulation networks, and typological structure. Many European architects work to extend, …
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Handling the cultural divide: Discussing unfamiliar territory in the classroom
This research explores the vast possibilities and benefits offered to students by teachers utilizing culturally relevant teaching practices, materials, and language in the classroom. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the positive affect culturally aware teaching practices and pedagogy …
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Mapping Generic Territory: The Pedagogy and Practice of Travel Writing
This thesis engages with travel writing at two levels: pedagogically and practically. It discusses at length, the unique configuration of travel writing’s literary currencies and conventions. Primary linguistic data were collected from travel texts collated within a portfolio of the researcher’s …
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