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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"environmental analysis"”.
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Regional economic and environmental analysis
… using the tools of linkage and key sector analysis. The final strand of work in this thesis looks to explore the compatibility of the current focus of economic policy in Scotland on increasing export demand, with the environmental objectives of reducing Scottish territorial and consumption …
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An environmental analysis of injection molding
… thesis investigates injection molding from an environmental standpoint, yielding a system-level environmental analysis of the process. There are three main objectives: analyze the energy consumption trends in injection molding machinery, explore the environmental performance of different …
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A conceptual information system for environmental analysis
… of providing a better mode of comprehending the environmental process. The purpose of the thesis is to develop a system for handling data pertinent to environmental analysis within a conceptual framework. The thesis focuses on the initial conceptual information system analysis, which delineates …
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Towards Multiplexed Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Environmental Analysis
… tools in modern research. Within the scope of environmental analysis, NMR can identify unknown pollutants, examine non-covalent binding in soils and, uniquely, study biochemical changes in living organisms. Here, novel approaches are explored to address current challenges and further improve …
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A Phylogenetic and Environmental Analysis of Brazilian Placosoma Lizards
… phylogenetic analyses were then compared to an environmental Principle Component Analysis of the range of <em>Placosoma</em> to characterize differences in the environments that each species occupies. Each sampled species of <em>Placosoma</em> was recovered as a monophyletic clade, but …
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Environmental analysis of using recycled asphalt shingles in pavement applications.
… affects the physical properties. In addition, an environmental analysis was performed. The objective of this research was to determine if it physically makes sense to use shingles in pavement and to understand the environmental implications—which include reducing virgin materials which can yield …
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Risk Management in the Extractive Industries: Environmental Analysis and Mitigation
… been used to a lesser extent to reduce or avoid environmental issues as well. There are a number of factors that make utilization of risk management analysis more applicable to health and safety than to environmental issues. This thesis explores the use of risk management in the context of …
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Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Environmental Analysis: Optimization and Quantitation
Fast, sensitive, quantitative, and low-cost analysis of environmental pollutants is highly valuable for environmental monitoring. Due to its single-molecule sensitivity and fingerprint specificity, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has been widely employed for heavy metal, organic …
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Information Processing as it applies to urban and natural environmental analysis
… for problem exploration at the urban and natural environmental scales. Two case studies are explored as a test of the working concepts. The first deals with descriptive information about natural environmental characteristics and their relationship to existing and future development for a large …
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Integrated Energy and Environmental Analysis of Utility-Scale Wind Power Production
… associated with industrial activity threatens environmental and economic systems worldwide. Wind power was presented as one of several technologies that collectively could mitigate many of the adverse effects of global climate change if deployed at sufficient scale. The objective of this study …
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An energy and environmental analysis of aerospace sheet metal part manufacturing
In this thesis we analyze the energy and environmental impacts of sheet metal manufacturing, focusing on the aerospace industry. The motivation of this work is the introduction of a new incremental sheet forming (ISF) technology called RAFFT, which substitutes heavy part specific dies for flexible …
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Decreasing water absorption in and environmental analysis of alkali activated bricks
… is based on the claim that they have a lower environmental burden, but this claim has not yet been verified for this formulation. Thus, this thesis focused on the effects of controlled testing of formation pressure and particle size distribution on brick performance and understanding the …
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A Macro-Environmental Analysis of Competitive Employment for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Society’s understanding and awareness of autism spectrum disorder have evolved tremendously in the last decades as prevalence numbers have increased dramatically. Much of the research into autism has been focused on interventions, biology, and surveillance, with only a small fraction of funding and …
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Environmental Analysis at the Nanoscale: From Sensor Development to Full Scale Data Processing
… sample preparation and the lack of complex data analysis tools. In this dissertation, a droplet microfluidic platform was prototyped to address both sample-to-sample variation and to introduce a level of quantitation to surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). Shifting the SERS workflow from a …
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Optimization approaches for the economic and environmental analysis of biomass, biofuel, and food production
… level. The goal of this study is to analyze the environmental and economic effects of utilizing different crop types under various management scenarios. In this study, first we provide a unique optimization approach of quantifying and formulating the economic and environmental benefits of …
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Environmental analysis and prediction of transmission loss in the region of the New England Shelfbreak
… fields. Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis of the ocean sound speed field defined a set of perturbations to the background sound speed field for each of the NEST Scanfish surveys. Attenuation due to bottom sediments is the major contributor of transmission loss in the ocean. In …
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