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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"environmental disruption"”.
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The Influence of Environmental Disruption on Offender-Target Interactions and Criminal Activity in Emergency Scenarios
… representing adaptive response to both changing environmental conditions and to dynamic patterns of guardianship in emergency situations.
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Postglacial ostracod distribution and paleoecology, Devils Lake basin, northeastern North Dakota
… depth are used to interpret major episodes of environmental disruption. The faunas do not increase in complexity with time. The Devils Lake-East Devils Lake fauna indicates that the lakes have remained saline with time, but episodes of greatly increased salinity or desiccation have occurred at …
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Environmental politics in a polarized America : public mood and policy consequences
… and nationalized, what are the implications for environmental policy? This question is particularly important at the state and local levels, where many environmental policy decisions are made and implemented, but about which scholars have drawn mixed conclusions. This dissertation enters the …
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Transmutational Harmony
… of economic progress, and the reality of environmental disruption. Humor and metaphor are central themes of my work and reference my personal observations and experiences of living in the midst of these environments. Sources from Contemporary underground art have been filtered through my …
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The Greenprint: Organic Architecture as a Model for Residential Living
… argues for a design ideology that minimizes environmental disruption while enhancing human experience through natural landscape. The resulting work is a study in how architecture can be defined by landscape, emerging from the land, informed by nature, and contributing meaningfully to its …
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Human Health Impact and Environmental Footprint of Transport Network Generated by Oil Sands In-Situ Thermal Facilities in West-Central Saskatchewan
… are major contributors to global warming and environmental disruption. In Canada, the transportation sector is the leading source of air pollutants and the second largest source of GHGs; a similar pattern is observed in Saskatchewan. In west-central Saskatchewan, the oil and gas industry is a …
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Persistence of response variation and repetition
… under the multiple chained schedule, four disruption conditions were employed, one condition in which each pigeon was pre-fed before each session and three conditions in which a variable-time schedule, of three different values, operated during the inter-component intervals that preceded …
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Rethinking Plant-Based Materials Production: Selective Growth of Tunable Materials Using Cell Culture Techniques
… while staving off further deforestation and environmental disruption. This work explores the use of cell culture techniques to selectively generate plant-based materials without whole plant cultivation and harvest. The proposed approach allows for localized, high-density production, …
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SURVIVING SURPRISE: HOW FIRMS WERE AFFECTED BY - AND RESPONDED TO - UNEXPECTED, DISRUPTIVE, DISCONTINUOUS CHANGE IN THE MARKETING ENVIRONMENT
… both to predict and to control calamitous environmental events, resulting in relatively little attention being paid to environmental surprise in the marketing literature (Cunha et al, 2006). Indeed, much of the research in this domain has focused on improving organizations' ability to …