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Showing 1 to 20 of 154 for “"The Desert"”.
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Drinking up the desert
As one of the fastest-growing cities in America, Tucson, Arizona suffers from a classic case of urban sprawl. Fueled by the prevalence of lot splits and cheap suburban land, little was done to curb the city's unsustainable growth until 1998, when the discovery of endangered pygmy owls in Tucson …
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Oasis in the Desert
Downtown districts of cities are usually the first areas to be developed and can inform one of how and why growth occurred in a particular instance. Las Vegas, an oasis within the Mojave desert, originated due to its strategic location in the Southwest US that provided spring water for westward …
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Where the desert ghost roams
The U.S. Mexico border is a challenging place to survive for a Sonoran pronghorn. Nearly two decades ago, this endangered species faced near extinction in it s only home, an embroiled, increasingly shrinking habitat in Southwest Arizona. There in the Sonoran Desert, a passionate recovery team has …
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A Camp in the Desert
… apart into its separate rooms and joined in the out-of-doors. This collection of rooms is recognized as a camp. This move is in agreement with the site of the house, which is the foothills of the Rincon Mountains, twenty miles east of Tucson, Arizona, and bordering along Saguaro National …
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Building an equilibrium with the desert.
Thesis. 1978. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Flower in the Desert: Turkmenistan's Journey to Independence
No abstract prepared.
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The rehydration behavior of the desert toad, Bufo punctatus
The red spotted toads, (Bufo punctatus), demonstrate a "water absorption response" (WR) in which they aduct the hindlimbs and press the ventral skin to a moist surface. Associated with the WR, toads showed three characteristic behaviors: (a) moves, in which the toads would systematically move to …
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Analysis of courtship behaviors of the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii
… of courtship behavior have been published for the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii. However, the amount and sources of variation in courtship behaviors have not been documented. I examined courtship behavior by analyzing videotaped interactions between captive males and females. I calculated …
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The Secret Language of the Desert: Poetry, Loss, and Awakening
<p>The speaker of <em>The Desert Survival Guide</em> is seeking to reconcile his own disconnection, from the natural world, the cosmos, his family, and from his sense of his own humanity. The poems in <em>The Desert Survival Guide</em> are a healing ceremony, to come to a place of acceptance …
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The Representation of Salvation in The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
<p>This thesis examines four prominent works of monastic literature composed during the third through the sixth centuries and contrasts the representations of salvation within them. The Lives of Constantine and Antony, The Lausiac History and The Sayings o f the Desert Fathers discussed conceptions …
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Spatial Ecology of the Desert Tortoise: Sampling Frequency and Biological Influences
<p>Understanding the spatial ecology of an animal is crucial for making positive efforts to provide for its recovery. As a part of this understanding, home range estimates are used to answer a variety of questions in ecological studies. However, home range estimates based on a collection of …
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The desert city within : notions about urban form for Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix Arizona is a valley in which the temperature rises above 100 F for over a hundred days a year, with an average of 300 days of sunshine. The Architectural form does not reflect such a climate. Phoenix has been labeled the "City of the 21st Century," because it is a prime example of the …
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The distribution of the desert rain frog (breviceps macrops) in South Africa
The Distribution of the Desert Rain Frog (Breviceps macrops) in South Africa Kirsty Jane Bell M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape. The desert rain frog (Breviceps macrops) is an arid adapted anuran found on the west coast of southern …
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Ion transport in the ileum of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria, forskal
… purified a neuropeptide factor - scgITP from the copora cardiaca of Shistocerca gregaria. ScgITP stimulates ileal reabsorption of Cl⁻, K⁺, Na⁺ and fluid and inhibits acid secretion. Stimulation with scgITP causes an increase in both Cl⁻ dependent short-circuit current and transepithelial …
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MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OF EROSION AND DEPOSITION IN THE DESERT KNOLLS WASH
<p>The goal of this Project was to monitor and measure ongoing changes in the geomorphology of one reach of The Desert Knolls Wash (DKW), an unstable ephemeral stream channel in Apple Valley, California. The DKW flows into the Mojave River just upstream of the Upper Mojave Narrows, a historic site …
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Ornaments of the Desert : Springbok Treks in the Cape Colony, 1774-1908
Bibliography: leaves 199-221.
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Isolation in the Desert: A Phylogenetic Study of the Pallid-Dotted Blue Butterfly
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Anthropology, philosophy and a little Aboriginal community on the edge of the desert
This thesis explores a rethinking of community, one without identity. This thinking became possible and necessary because I lived in a little Aboriginal community in south central Western Australia, called Ululla. The Jackman family have made Ululla a home (a home among others, this changes over …
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