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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"alternative use"”.
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An Assessment of the Contribution of Community Based Organizations Towards Sustainable Solid Waste Management : The Case of Mazingira Women Group in Dodoma Municipality
… in acquiring skills that will enable them make alternative use of the garbage they collect. The participants included 20 members of the Mazingira Women group who reside in Majengo Ward, Dodoma Municipal Council. By incapacitating this group, the members will be able to raise their income through …
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Zaniklá lázeňská místa západních Čech
… and considers their potential for restoration or alternative use. The research focuses specifically on two case study sites: Kyselka near Karlovy Vary and Prameny near Mariánské Lázně, offering deeper insight into the broader processes behind the decline of the spa tradition. The findings may …
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Möbius: for Orchestra
Möbius: for Orchestra attempts to explore an alternative use of the material that typically appears in the development section of a piece composed in sonata form. By using the modified themes in the recapitulation rather than disregarding them entirely, the A-B-A' form of the basic sonata becomes …
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Investigation into the use of waste tyre shreds in reinforcement of sandy soils in South Africa
… year. Waste tyres are difficult to manage because of their sheer volume and the potential impacts on human health and environment. These discarded tyres, currently stockpiled and dumped in the open, are a source of fire hazards and provide a prolific breeding ground for mosquitoes and other …
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Workflow Analysis, Modelling and Simulation for Improving Conventional and MRI-guided Vascular Interventions
… to develop new image-guided protocols for the alternative use of Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging in comparison with X-Ray Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA). The methodological framework includes an assessment of commercial simulation software packages to evaluate their fitness to the …
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In search of order : the transformation and re-use of midwestern grain elevators
… landmarks achieving definition only through the use of something applied and unwavering--the one mile square grid. But, in fact, Iowa is a place layered with a multitude of more subtle orders. The object of this thesis is to define these existing orders by describing the patterns forming layers …
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Cushion comfort constraint : choreographing infrastructures of mobility
… transform. A children's playground goes unused at night, the valuable surface should be re-adapted for an alternative use, say a parking space for the neighborhoods drivers. This project seeks to transform the urban surface of the city, by deploying variable mobile autonomous …
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Food Waste Reduction through Food Sharing Initiatives: The lived Experiences of Restaurants and Food Bank Employees in Riyadh
… be distributed to people in need or put to an alternative use.
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Co-Working in Seoul: Integrating Public Infrastructure into the Metaverse
… still need a space that is detached from household chores and noise. Such demand is being met by various forms of working environment such as co-working office, dispersed office, satellite office and metaverse office. This societal demand for a new remote workspace is also happening in …
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Fabrication and Characterization of Freeze Tape Cast Anode Supported Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
… in clean renewable energy generation for alternative use to traditional fossil fuels. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) have been at the forefront of this technology and are considered one of the promising technologies in this area. SOFCs ability to operate on hydrogen or hydrocarbon fuels …
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Obsolescence in the Scottish country house and conservation of the architectural fabric by conversion to tourist accommodation: identification of the key variables affecting the decision process.
… presented in this study is that many country houses in Scotland have found a viable new use in conversion as tourist accommodation to the advantage of both tourism and conservation. The research project aimed to discover the truth of this statement. It investigated the factors involved in the …
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Integrated management of stalk rot disease (Sclerotinia sclerotiorum) of cauliflower in the eastern hills of Nepal
… problematic for all stages of the crops. Seeds used by the farmers did not meet an acceptable standard of germination. Experimental data indicated that S. sclerotiorum and Fusarium spp. are major fungal pathogens associated with poor germination and seedling mortality after emergence. In the …
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Use of a textile wastewater sludge as a supplemental solid fuel
… at this facility with the goal of finding an alternative use or market for this by-product of textile manufacturing. After an extensive literature search and initial analyses, the feasibility of using the by-product as a supplemental fuel in the facility's coal boilers was investigated. …
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Mixotrophic Production of Omega-3 Fatty Acid-rich Alga Phaeodactylum tricornutum on Biodiesel-derived Crude Glycerol
… abundance of this byproduct and purifying it for use in industries such as food, pharmaceutical, or cosmetic is prohibitively expensive. Developing an alternative use for crude glycerol is needed. Utilizing it as a carbon source in the fermentation of algae is one potential method for using this …
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Metodología para la evaluación de la sostenibilidad en ladrillos de mortero dopados con triturado de hueso de oliva
… technological advances of recent decades have focused attention on the environmental efficiency of all productive sectors, and the search for techniques that reduce the consumption of natural resources and minimize the impact on the natural environment. In this sense, it is crucial to highlight …
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Optimization of heterogeneous bio-based catalysts and synthesis of inorganic equivalent for large-scale biodiesel production
This research focuses on optimizing the production of biodiesel to reduce overdependence on fossil fuels by utilizing waste resources. In recent years there have been concerns on the use of fossil fuels in the increasing demand of energy and its drawbacks. Fossil fuels, unlike biodiesel, are carbon …
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Rethinking teaching strategies : a framework and demonstration through augmenting Maple
… of multiple teaching strategies, and • the use of Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) in teaching problem solving in university mathematics. As a result, the SIMTA (Styles Implemented by Methods Tactics Actions) theoretical framework has been developed to support and sustain teaching strategies …
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Use of Biodiesel-Derived Crude Glycerol for the Production of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids by the Microalga Schizochytrium limacinum
… 10 pounds of crude glycerol are created. Because this glycerol is expensive to purify for use in food, pharmaceutical, or cosmetics industries, biodiesel producers must seek alternative methods for its disposal. Using crude glycerol as a carbon source for fermentation is a promising …
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Functional Studies of Novel Bioactives From Complex Host-Microbiomes as Drug Leads for Cancer, Infectious Disease, Depression and Pain
… oxidase inhibition activity in vivo as an alternative explanation. The second functional study evaluates new latrunculin B analogs and their correlation of predicted binding with G-actin to the inhibition of polymerization. The latrunculins are well-studied sponge derived inhibitors of …
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Polná ideální, zámek a v podzamčí
Vo svojej práci sa zaoberám regeneráciou a rekultiváciou formálne dôležitých miest a bodov v meste Polná, na úrovni mesta (časti mesta), zámockého komplexu a nádvoria. Akupunktúrou mesta a zameraním sa na hlavné a podstatné časti, tvorím systém segmentov (plošin), ktoré ako samostatné prvky …