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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Western China"”.
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Tomographic inversion of Pn travel times in western China
Western China, as a highly heterogeneous region in terms of its geology, has drawn much attention from geologists and geophysicists for many years. Pn tomography is a useful tool to explore the heterogeneity of the Earth's interior. In this study, we obtain a Pn velocity image and the crustal …
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Fluid Release During Eclogite Formation, North Qaidam Terrane, Western China
… from the Dulan area of the North Qaidam Terrane, western China, preserve evidence of fluid release along a prograde pressure-temperature (P-T) path. Eclogite sample D126A, Grt + Omp + Qtz + Zo + Amp + Phe + minor Rt + Hem, contains garnet porphyroblasts that preserve strong Ca zoning, recording …
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‘The good parent’: education, modernity, and ethnicity in Western China
Post-reform China has witnessed a surge in ‘family education’ discourses in policy and public domains to guide and instruct parents to foster successful modern citizens. However, no research so far has systematically analysed these discourses and explored how they shape parents’ subjectivities and …
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Western China on Screen: Cinema and Urban Exploration as Thirdspace
This thesis examines how films located in western China have represented cities since the 1980s by drawing on spatial theories first proposed by Henri Lefebvre and further developed in Edward Soja’s Thirdspace theory. This thesis is the first comprehensive academic contribution to deal with the …
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Spatial modelling of small mammal distributions in relation to parasite transmission in western China
… a significant burden of human disease in western China. Small mammal distributionsare modelled in relation to landscape characteristics derived from multiple Landsat TM,Landsat ETM+ and MODIS satellite-derived datasets. Statistical models are used to identifythe landscape variables …
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Seismic studies of 3-D elastic and anelastic structure of crust and upper mantle in Western China
Western China is a region with significant geological heterogeneity, especially because of the Tibetan Plateau, the largest and highest plateau in the world, which was created by the Cenozoic Indian-Eurasian continental collision. It is seismically very active even in some populous regions. …
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Geochemistry, Geothermobarometry and Geochronology of High-Pressure Granulites and Implications for the Exhumation History of Ultrahigh-Pressure Terranes: Dulan, Western China
… (UHP) rocks of the North Qaidam terrane, Western China, represent continental crust that has been subducted ~100 km during continental collision. Adjacent granulites representing burial to ~50 km could either be overprinted eclogites or a separate high-pressure-high-temperature (HP-HT) …
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Social Impact Assessment of the Natural Forest Protection Program on forest-dependent communities and households in Western China - Case studies in Gansu Province and Chongqing Municipality
… In the context of recent policy changes in China, the Natural Forest Protection Program (NFPP) has been implemented in a “top-down” process from 1998 to 2010. A large part of the forests on main river basins in Western regions are being conserved with severe restrictions for commercial use. …
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Identifying the beginnings of Sheep Husbandry in Westen China
Situated at the two sides of Eurasia, Western Asia and China are both important centres for the origins of agriculture and civilization. Key suites of domestic crops, animals, and technologies were independently developed at these two centres. Scholars have been interested in seeing whether there …
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A Meshrep in Our Home... Where There Is No Meshrep: Contrasting Narratives in the Reinvention of a Uyghur Gathering
… Interviews and conversations with Uyghurs in western China together with Uyghur academic articles show how the attention brought by UNESCO status affected Uyghur perception of meshrep, creating new narratives of the gathering as foundational to Uyghur culture. I focus on how the proliferation …
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Impacts of great western development on agricultural production in the west of China
Great western development is a regional and preferential reform which began in the mid-1990s, and which intends to promote China's western economy. In this study, I statistically measure the effects of agricultural input growth, technological improvements and most importantly the improvement in …
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In and out of the mist: an artistic investigation of borderland and community.
… the borderland and community that exists from Western China to the Himalayan Region, in order to distinguish it from traditional documentary photography. The borderland exists as an ambiguous territory between governance structures, and the movements of the borderland community often seek to …
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Estimating the thickness of an ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) terrane: insights from phase equilibria modelling and Zr-in-rutile thermometry, Dulan area, North Qaidam terrane, China
The North Qaidam UHP terrane, in western China, exposes minor UHP eclogites hosted by ortho- and paragneisses. In the southeastern part of the terrane, the Dulan area exposes eclogite with the mineral assemblage Grt + Omp ± Ky ± Ph ± Zo ± Qz/Coe. LASS U-Pb analyses of zircons yield weighted mean …
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Applying Garnet and Zircon REE Linkages to Determine Timing of P-T Conditions and Tectonic Implications for UHP Eclogites and HP Granulites, Dulan UHP Terrane, China
<p>The Dulan ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) terrane in western China hosts rocks that record continental collision, however; the timing of peak P-T conditions in UHP eclogites and HP granulites, and the tectonic significance of their spatial relationship within the Dulan UHP terrane are not well …
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Searching for the ideal river? New directions in geographical geomorphology
… river management. Drawing on case studies from western China and Aotearoa New Zealand, the thesis demonstrates how the contemporary practice of geomorphology and river management are entangled with normative understandings of an ideal river. It advances this argument through three interventions …
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Botanical Resource Use in the Bronze and Iron Age of the Central Eurasian Mountain/Steppe Interface: Decision Making in Multiresource Pastoral Economies
… populations in South Asia to people in western China through a system of exchange, linked by mountain valleys. Goods such as metal ore, horses, and textiles were exchanged. This corridor of exchange seems to have brought agricultural technology from China southwest into South Asia and …
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Spatial and Temporal Topological Analysis of Landscape Structure using Graph Theory
… new methods to a case study in Qinghai Province, western China. The papers are followed by a summary discussion chapter. The first paper (Chapter 2) outlines a new data structure based on graph theory. The Spatio-Temporal Relational Graph (STRG) is created to record spatial phenomena through space …
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The moult and migration strategies of Lesser Sand Plover, Greater Sand Plover and Terek Sandpiper
… south-eastern India, Kenya, South Africa, north-western Australia and southeastern Australia. Differences in moult strategy between species, age and latitude are highlighted and explanations are proposed for the differences in the light of the breeding behaviour, migration time and routes, food …
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Financial media, globalisation, and China’s economic integration: comparing narrative construction of the Economist and Caijing
… 57 founding members. Proposed and initiated by China, this multilateral development bank is considered to be an Asian counterpart to break the monopoly of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. In October 2015, China’s Central Bank announced a benchmark interest rate cut to combat …