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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"development pattern"”.
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IMPACTS OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT PATTERN ON RUNOFF PEAK FLOWS AND STREAMFLOW FLASHINESS OF PERI-URBAN CATCHMENTS: ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF PHYSICAL AND DATA-DRIVEN MODELS FOR REAL-TIME ENSEMBLE FLOOD FORECASTING
… the associated impacts on hydrology from land development are expected to increase, especially in peri-urban catchments, which are newly developing catchments in proximity of growing cities. In northern climates, hydrologic response of peri-urban catchments change with the water budget and …
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The Impact of Growth Management Policies on Urban Form: Evidence from U.S. Metropolitan Areas with Growth Management Policies
The contemporary urban development pattern in the United States is characterized by land consumptive nature of development, such as a sprawled development pattern. Out of concern that the social and environmental costs of this development pattern outweigh their benefits, cities, counties and states …
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Valuing the Impacts of New Urbanism Features on Prices of Single -Family Homes: A Case Study of Portland, Oregon
… address many of the ills of the current sprawl development pattern by returning to a compact and close-knit community development pattern. However, there are many debates about consumers' preferences toward new urbanist neighborhoods. This dissertation develops a methodological framework for …
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An alternative conceptualisation of corporate social responsibility - a comparison of SME in China and UK
… examines the effects of cultural influence, CSR development pattern and globalization on CSR attitudes and performance. Through survey and secondary data collection, it compares the attitudes towards and actual motivation of CSR practice to examine the extent to which SMEs in two contrasting …
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Creating sustainable air rights development over highway corridors : lessons from the Massachusetts Turnpike in Boston
Research and practice have shown that air rights development over highway corridors in America's cities is not only feasible, but desirable. As planners, policy makers and consumers attempt to curb the sprawling development pattern that was characteristic of the second half of the twentieth …
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Ciclo reprodutivo, gametogênese e desenvolvimento larval de Asterina stellifera (Möbius, 1859) (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) na região de Cabo Frio, RJ
The development and reproductive cycle of Asterina stellifera were studied from amples taken from populations in two distinct habitats from Cabo Frio. One is an intertidal seagrass flat at Japonês lsland ( 1994-1995); the second is a sublittoral rocky-shore at Pontal Beaches ( 1999-2000). …
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Molding the unshapely structure : rebuilding Boston Chinatown
… is an attempt to interpret and comprehend the development pattern of urban form in an ethnic community, in this case Boston Chinatown. The study does not propose a detailed urban design framework but calls for a sensitivity in future design interventions for strengthening the cohesive character …
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Assessing the effects of violence on regional economic development in Colombia
… the effects of violence on regional economic development are analyzed and found to have narrowly focused on certain areas in Colombia, and only during short periods of time. In contrast, this study investigates this issue during three periods: 1) 1938-1959; 2) 1960-1975; and, 3) 1980-1997 to …
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Vulnerability of U.S. river basins to water shortage over the 21st century
… was applied to examine the effects of urban development patterns, i.e., sprawl versus high-density development, on the socioeconomic drought characteristics. The results of this study highlight that urban regions under the sprawl development pattern are likely to experience more frequent …
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Adaptive reuse : the Salt River market
… into use and contribute to a more sustainable development pattern. Old buildings in my opinion possess a timeless character. The aim of this document is to Investigate the potential of adaptive reuse as a response in transforming an existing structure on the brink of neglect into potentially a …
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Toward more integrated planning in Jakarta : the case of Rasuna Said Avenue
… similar to Los Angeles. Its predominant ribbon development pattern is inefficient, fragmented, unfriendly, and unattractive. Taking an area in Jakarta called Kuningan as a case study, this thesis focuses on the multi-story non-residential strips along the area's major thoroughfare, Rasuna Said …
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Neuroanatomical differences in adults and children who stutter: a voxel-based morphometry study
… as well as cerebellar regions. Conclusions: Developmental stuttering could be related to aberrant gray and white matter volumes in a widely distributed neural network which may lead to disrupted transmission of sensory or motor information among speech relevant areas in this neural circuitry. …
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Regional Socio-Economic Transformation in Brazil
… science and economic geography to explain the development pattern in Brazil throughout the 20th century, using a wide range of data sets. It contributes to the consolidation of the field of New Economic Geography because some tools employed in this thesis have not yet had widespread use in the …
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Joint development of mixed-use transit stations
… throughout American cities, urban land use patterns must support the development and use of transit. Transit-oriented development, in which mixed land uses are clustered around transit stations in dense concentrations, offers a means of encouraging transit use and decreasing reliance on …
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Smart Growth's Weak Link: An Analytical Evaluation of Water and Sewer Planning in Maryland
Established low-density land use development patterns are characterized by expansive urbanization of the landscape. Concurrent effects associated with this present development pattern are declining existing urbanized areas, increasing conversion of open space, and high public service and …
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A Heritage Center for the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Linking the Community and Tourism Through Culture
… them to come together. Prior to August 2005, the development pattern of the coast was northward, because the historic coast line was occupied. Now the entire beach front is vacant leaving opportunities for developers of casinos, condominiums, and resorts. While the Gulf Coast benefits economically …
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Geomechanical Stability Analysis for Co2 Sequestration in Carbonate Formation
… in favor of a vertical or sub-vertical fracture development pattern, which is negative to the CO2 sequestration. However, as the basin is not very close to an incipient failure, compaction failures are expected to be more pronounced, and naturally occurred geological phenomena, stylolites, will …
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The Wnt Casade and Stem Cell Fate in a Basic Metazoan
… have numerous controlling functions in embryonic development, pattern and axis formation of animals, but also play roles in sustained normal development. There are currently three known WNT signalling pathways, of which the canonical pathway is the most studied. This pathway functions not only in …
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Passenger rail in Cape Town: exploring institutional forms for a more effective rail service
… This is in part due to the historic development of the city, which developed around rail corridors, a development pattern which is still evident and pursued in the city's contemporary spatial planning. The concern about this situation is that the City of Cape Town has very little …
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Exploring the development of 'verb gram' sequences and grammar patterns in L2 writing: A case study of L1 Korean speakers
… that the learners can produce at different developmental trajectories. Lastly, such a study has not been conducted in the L1 Korean context. Therefore, this research aimed to explore the use of verb grammar patterns across L1 Korean speakers through the Cambridge Learner Corpus (CLC). The …
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