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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Vieques"”.
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Vieques: Island of Conflict and Dreams
… States Navy and the people of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. For over 60 years the island was used by the United States Navy as a military training facility. The documentary attempts to present an analysis of the struggle between citizens of the island and the Navy. This written …
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Landmark : towards and alternative testing range, Vieques, Puerto Rico
… United States Navy Training Facilities in Vieques, Puerto Rico, Landmark: Towards an Alternative Testing Range attempts to create a platform for cross-border exchanges, between local reclamation struggles and global resistance movements. By focusing on the area of greatest destruction, the …
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Vieques Cancer Treatment Center: Applying evidence-based design strategies
… decades of mistreatment and abuse, the people of Vieques, Puerto Rico were freed from the U.S. Navy's testing through 2/3 of their land in the early 2000's. Unfortunately, after years of contamination, the Viequenses started suffering the consequences. In response to their current living …
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Vieques, Puerto Rico : from devastation to conservation, and back again
… This thesis examines the landscape of Vieques, Puerto Rico, to disprove such notion and move towards proving the opposite: that the military assembled the background matrix according to its own set of interests. Through different communication channels and agents, the military arranges …
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An Agroecological Response to the Militarized Urban in Vieques, Puerto Rico
… on the Puerto Rican island-municipality of Vieques. In the process, the Navy dispossessed 70% of the land and displaced 50% of the population, artificially precipitating Vieques’s shift from a rural to urban society. After an errant bomb killed a local, intense grassroots mobilizations …
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Tropical cyclones within the sedimentary record : analyzing overwash deposition from event to millennial timescales
… sediments from coastal lagoons on the islands of Vieques, Puerto Rico and Koshikijima, Japan. A simple sediment transport model can reproduce the landward fining deposits observed at Vieques, and reveals that although the record exhibits centennial-tomillennial changes in hurricane overwash …
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Tropical cyclones within the sedimentary record : analyzing overwash deposition from event to millennial timescales
… sediments from coastal lagoons on the islands of Vieques, Puerto Rico and Koshikijima, Japan. A simple sediment transport model can reproduce the landward fining deposits observed at Vieques, and reveals that although the record exhibits centennial-tomillennial changes in hurricane overwash …
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From Bomb Zone to Boom Town: Real Estate Trends and Community Based Practice in Vieques, Puerto Rico
… resulted in increased demand for real estate in Vieques. Most properties were bought by land speculators and baby-boomers from the U.S. The increase in demand caused prices to skyrocket, quadrupling prices in just four years. Activists, residents and government officials are now concerned that …
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Opposing powers at the helm: The production of (im)mobilities of maritime transportation in Vieques, Puerto Rico
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Nearshore Bathymetry from Fusion of ICESat-2 and Multispectral Satellite Imagery
… spaceborne bathymetry estimates were found in Vieques, Puerto Rico where bottom reflectances are heterogeneous in nature. Benthic habitat information from a previous survey was utilized to increase the accuracy of spaceborne bathymetry by splitting the ICESat-2 points and corresponding pixels …
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The media dependence model: an analysis of the performance and structure of U.S. and global news
This dissertation is an attempt to make sense out of the many questions surrounding news media performance and its inadequacies. It does this by first synthesizing two critical models of news analysis and applying their respective strengths toward the other’s weaknesses. The synthesis is based on …