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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Yellow River"”.
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Performing the Yellow River Cantata
… composition in 1939, Xian Xinghai’s (1905-1945) Yellow River Cantata has nearly exclusively remained the province of Chinese choral groups. In large measure, the failure of the work to make significant inroads into the world of Western choral music stems from the daunting challenges posed by the …
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RECENT RIVERINE CARBON OF THE YELLOW RIVER: FLUXES, OUTGASSING AND BURIAL
Riverine carbon transport is an important component of global carbon cycle. Based on historical records and recent sampling during the period 2011-2012, the riverine carbon transport characteristics in the Yellow River were qualitatively and quantitatively investigated. Due to chemical weathering …
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Phosphorus removal mechanisms at the Yellow River Sweetwater Creek Water Reclamation Facility, Gwinnett County, Georgia.
… research investigated the capabilities of the Yellow River Sweetwater Creek Water Reclamation Facility in Gwinnett County, GA. to remove phosphorus biologically. Phosphorus levels and removal locations were analyzed in plant operational units (sampling events) , while in reactor experiments …
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Fishing, Farming, and Animal Husbandry in the Early and Middle Neolithic of the Middle Yellow River Valley, China
… fishing had remained very important in the Wei River Valley before and after millet agriculture and pig husbandry became the dominant mode of subsistence, suggesting a regional difference in subsistence strategies between the Wei River valley and the Central Plain.
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Coastal Ocean Morphodynamics and the Resulting Erosion and Deposition: An Analytical Approach
… to a longer, facies time scale. The abandoned Yellow River delta of China and the Eel River continental shelf of northern California are chosen as study areas. These model simulated geologic processes serve to test the hypotheses concerning the processes that are responsible for the coastal …
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HANDMADE | CHINESE VILLAGE CULTURE AND CRAFTS IN DAKOU, CHINA
… and practice and eventually celebrate authentic Yellow River basin village life and northern Chinese traditional architecture.
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A Market-Based Arid-Region Water Resources Planning Model: Application to the Guhai Water Distribution System, China
… has been relying on the water delivered from the Yellow River by water distribution systems, among which Guhai Water Distribution System (GWDS) is the largest and earliest one. Due to the limited capacity of GWDS and the decreasing precipitation caused by changing climate, the water availability …
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Excavating the Nation: Archaeology and Control of the Past and Present in Republican Sichuan
… of the Chinese nation as it spread from the Yellow River outward for five thousand years. Such a narrative, however, never could completely gain traction in Sichuan, which throughout the Republic remained only very weakly connected to China's political and academic heartland. Instead, …
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The importance of the ‘urban’ in agricultural-to-urban water transfers: Insights from comparative research in India and China
… transition occurring in many of the world’s river basins. As rising populations and economic development lead to the overexploitation of available water supplies, the largest water-using sector, agriculture, becomes the source of water for growing towns and cities. Yet, urbanisation is …
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Searching for the ideal river? New directions in geographical geomorphology
… production in fluvial geomorphology and 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 …
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Modeling watershed management with an ecological objective - a multi-agent system based approach
… system. In the real world case study of the Yellow River Basin, China, the concept of βi has been translated into local water price (pi). The local water price, served as an institutional arrangement, is used to guide the convergence of the decentralized management. The results of different …
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Eating identity: food, gender, and social organization in late Neolithic northern China
… to the millet agriculture-based societies of the Yellow River Valley, including Dawenkou region, also occurred during this period. Dawenkou is also the assumed critical transitional period during which societies were changing from matrilineal/matriarchal clans to patrilineal/patriarchal families. …
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Bulle-Effect and its implications for morphodynamics of river diversions
… one of the fundamental elements of a fluvial (river) system, and diversions are a special type of asymmetrical bifurcation where one of the channels after bifurcation continues along the original channel. Diversions can be found in nature, though many of them are built to divert water and …