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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"dock"”.
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Annapolis City Dock: A Sensory Exploration
… the neglected waterfront of Annapolis City Dock by reconnecting to unique sensory experiences shaped by wind, water, and craft. A more engaging relationship between land and water is created by sculpting the city's edge and designing a maritime museum and boat building workshop. Sculptural …
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Christopher Dock: Eighteenth Century American Educator
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Robust Cross-dock Location Model Accounting for Demand Uncertainty
… to develop optimization models to locate cross-docks in supply chain networks. Cross-docks are a type of intermediate facility which aid in the consolidation of shipments, in which the goods spend little or no time in storage. Instead, the goods are quickly and efficiently moved from the inbound …
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Marine dock optimization for a bulk chemicals manufacturing facility
… competitive edge. This thesis focuses on marine dock optimization for a major bulk chemicals manufacturer. The authors have surveyed the research literature to find commonalities in various approaches to the problem of dock optimization- in the petrochemical shipping industry as well as in allied …
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Crib dock permit and construction standards in the upper great lakes
… the permitting, design, and construction of crib docks in the Les Cheneaux and Drummond Island region of Michigan. It employed an exploratory two-phase mixed-methods research design: first to qualitatively explore and define the problem, and then to quantitatively evaluate a convenience sample of …
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Forging city and lake: Marquette's waterfront beyond the ore dock legacy
… of Marquette, Michigan’s massive waterfront ore dock in 1971, the city’s post-industrial lakeshore has been left to decay and has become the locus of a marginal landscape. This scenario is true for many harbor towns with ore docks on Lake Superior. There have been recent efforts to redesign …
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Programmed path : the conceptual re-enactment of a Charlestown warehouse and dock
Conceptually re-defining the role of a 100-year-old waterfront brick and timber warehouse structure, it is turned inside-out : interior becomes path. Programmatic functions imitate the physical characteristics of a conceptual dichotomy set in motion by the creation of two sides to the 'path'. …
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Determining the differential roles of the dock family of GEFs in drosophila development
The evolutionarily conserved Dock proteins function as unconventional guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs). Upon binding to ELMO (Engulfment and cell motility) proteins, Dock-ELMO complexes activate the Rho family of small GTPases to mediate a diverse array of biological processes, including …
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A study of a cyanobacterial bloom in the Albert Dock in Preston, Lancashire, UK
… the late Spring and Summer months in the Albert Dock at Preston in Lancashire. The causal organism has been identified as P1anktothrix (Oscillatoria) agardhii. Attempts at the purification of the causal organism from dock samples were only partially successful due to the lack of time available. …
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Design and implementation of an RFID-based dock door system at a distribution center
… feasibility of implementing an RFID-based dock door portal for automatic identification and receiving of consumables shipped from Ireland to the Global Distribution Center of Waters Corporation. A systematic procedure is outlined, starting with the assessment of electromagnetic activity at …
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Analysis and Improvement of Cross-dock Operations in Less-than-Truckload Freight Transportation Industry
… to transfer freight. A hub is typically a cross docking terminal in which shipments from inbound trailers are unloaded and reassigned and consolidated onto outbound trailers going to the correct destinations. Freight handling in a hub is labor intensive, and workers must quickly transfer freight …
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Theoretical and practical ramifications of altering the amount of sorts required from an outbound dock
… Specifically, Amazon now requires the outbound docks of the FCs to handle more volume that needs to be delivered to more locations. The increased number of outbound locations necessitates more package sorting operations on the dock. This thesis focuses on the operation of the outbound docks and …
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COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF CONVERTING WASP CLASS LANDING HELICOPTER DOCK (LHD) STEAM PROPULSION PLANTS TO HYBRID PROPULSION
… plants on-board Wasp-Class Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) hulls 1 through 7 to hybrid propulsion. The objective of this research was to evaluate the net present value of conversion by weighing the cost-savings benefits of fuel savings, in-port utility consumption, and manpower against the cost …
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Nursing as social responsibility: implications for democracy from the life perspective of Lavinia Lloyd Dock (1858-1956)
This dissertation focuses on Lavinia Lloyd Dock's (1858-1956) re-envisioning of nursing and caring as social responsibility and the implications of this conceptualization for democracy. Dock was an American nurse, educator, settlement worker, suffragist, pacifist, social activist, writer, and …
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FROM STRAWBERY BANKE TO PUDDLE DOCK: THE EVOLUTION OF A NEIGHBORHOOD, 1630-1850 (URBAN COMMUNITY, MARITIME; NEW HAMPSHIRE)
<p>This dissertation examines the evolution of a site from 1630 to 1850. Until 1690 the site was part of a large farmstead; during the eighteenth century it became a thriving commercial area in the seaport town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire; after 1820 it became an old waterfront neighborhood …
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The effect of wing wall geometry and well deck configuration on the stability characteristics of amphibious landing ship dock (LSD) class ships
Amphibious ships, configured with floodable well decks, present a unique challenge to the Ship Design Team to incorporate maximum troop, cargo and vehicle capacity, along with sufficient well deck size, to facilitate efficient operation of LCAC (Landing Craft Air Cushion) and other amphibious …
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The woman in the dock is a monster: An investigation of female criminality in the hearings of the Perth Supreme Court, 1890-1914
Published scholarly works on female criminal activity are limited both by their meagreness and lack of supporting empirical basis, being grounded in stereotypes and assumptions. Accurate studies based on the collection and analysis of data are required to address this paucity and to provide an …
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Molecular Mechanisms of Melatonin Action on the Rat Suprachiasmatic Nucleus: An in Vitro Analysis
… to target organs. The endogenous nature of this dock is based in a molecular feedback loop involving ""clock"" genes, kinases, and small molecules that cycle with a period that approximates one day. Additionally, the SCN generates a near 24-hour pattern of spontaneous neural activity that may …
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