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Showing 1 to 20 of 625 for “"Tower"”.
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Glass Tower
“Glass Tower” is a story about a growing friendship between Leilah and Frankie, two teenage newcomers to a middleclass government school in Durban, South Africa. It's set in the late 1990's, a period of flux following the country's first democratic election, and it's within this context of social …
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Tower House
… clarity of spatial and formal relationships. The tower house is the reduction and rational manifestation of familial memory.
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The Tinsel Tower
Novel.
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Tower as communication
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.
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Stair Column Tower
… considered through the design of an observation tower that punctuates the ambiguous joint between land and water, earth and sky on the southwestern most point on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK.
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Tower at Eisenhower Avenue
… The question of whether or not to build a tower in proximity to the temple is an architectural and a political question. The assumption of this project is that the Eisenhower Avenue Valley will have high rise development. This design has recognized the significance of the Eisenhower Avenue …
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Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias
This dissertation is a comparative examination firstly of usage of, and contribution to, the Wikipedias in ten of South Africa’s eleven official languages, and secondly of possible measures to address the situation discovered in the first investigative stage. The historical context is reviewed and …
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On Tower Road : a critical analysis
… of this dissertation is a visual analysis of Tower Road - an urban space which has gone through a recent physical change. However the author believes that gaining an insight of an existing environment involves examining the particular - streets, squares, buildings ... as well as investigating …
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Tower Continuous Fermentation of Cellulosic Wastes
… bioconversion of cellulose to biomass in a novel Tower fermentation system. Ball milled a-cellulose and newspaper were used as model substrates. Five cellulolytic fungi were selected from the literature for their bioconversion abilities. Their optimum pH and temperature for growth were determined …
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Mathematical Modelling of Tower Fermentation Processes
… processes, in particular those involving tower fermenters. Because of the nature of such processes the work has involved considerable interaction between the basic disciplines of chemical engineering and microbiology. Models of specific aspects of tower fermentation processes are developed …
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Oxygen Mass-Transfer in Tower Fermenters
… described in this thesis is concerned with tower fermenters and the measurement of the rate of oxygen mass—transfer in such systems using fast-response oxygen electrodes. Consideration has been given to ways of modelling the behaviour of fast-response probes and to the evaluation of …
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The tower : transformation of a precedent
… that study, the design of a group of houses. The tower form has been studied, and used, along with the forms which are commonly found in conjunction with it, (the medieval walled city, the town square, the loggia) in the conceptualization of a scheme for a cluster of eight houses. Both the …
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Control of Gantry and Tower Cranes
… fast, and practical controllers for gantry and tower cranes. The controllers are designed to transfer the load from point to point as fast as possible and, at the same time, the load swing is kept small during the transfer process and completely vanishes at the load destination. Moreover, …
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Sexual harassment in the ivory tower
This exploratory study was conducted to examine the nature and prevalence of sexual harassment on the college campus of Virginia Tech. The purpose was to identify the frequency of occurrence, the type of incidents, the seriousness of the harassment, and the awareness level of students concerning …
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A Postnikov tower for algebraic K-theory
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 1999.
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Aerodynamics of wind turbine with tower disturbances
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1978
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Projective preservation : reframing Rudolph's Tower for Boston
By 2012, the fate of Paul Rudolph's tower in downtown Boston has been in question for years while a vision of a denser city calls for its demolition. Projected development on the site currently argues that to move forward, the existing building must be erased entirely. While progressive at the time …
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A tall tower wind investigation of northwest Missouri
… alternative forms of energy production. Six Tall Tower wind observation sites were studied in Northwestern Missouri in order to observe the wind resource available along with some interesting effects. A verification of existing wind maps for the State of Missouri has been performed to assist in …
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