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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"environmental response"”.
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Creep, fatigue, and environmental response of Alloy 800H tested at 900 degrees C
Creep and creep rupture studies have been carried out at 900$\sp\circ$C in lab air and in vacuum on Alloy 800H. Three different notch acuities were chosen so that the effect of stress intensity on the rupture lifetimes could be examined. The effect of oxidation on the creep rupture lifetimes has …
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Motivations That Underpin Environmental Response In Business: The Case of the Screen-Printing Sector
… and government regulation demand improved environmental performance. This change of emphasis has profound implications for those responsible for the strategic development of businesses whether it is via the adaption of businesses to the context in which they operate or the accumulation of …
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Contemporary South African environmental response : an historical and socio-political evaluation, with particular reference to Blacks
… has been particularly profound in the sphere of environmental perception, in that South Africans, both black and white, have had their notions of the environment shaped by the political forces of the past. Accordingly, this study is placed within the context of historical geography, as its …
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An environmental response in the design of a public aquaculture center at the Charlestown Navy Yard
To design with the environment can mean many different things- from analyzing energy efficiency, to building with recycled materials, to researching a material's embodied energy. This thesis is not a technical paper, nor does it attempt to find novel ways to save energy. Rather, it first tries to …
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An assessment of tidal energy and the environmental response to extraction at a site in the Pentland Firth
… to understanding the resource and the potential environmental consequences of its extraction. This thesis explores tidal stream energy in the Pentland Firth (Scotland, UK). This channel contains some of the most promising tidal stream energy sites in the world and is set to become<br/>host to the …
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Biologically inspired digital fabrication
… by the constant interplay of creation, environmental response, and analysis of current structural constituents, as part of a larger dynamic system. In contrast, traditional methods of digital design and fabrication are characterized by a linear progression of three main stages: modeling …
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Annotation of Non-Model Species’ Genomes
… genes involved in immune function, reproduction, environmental response, as well as evolutionary trends and niche adaptations.</p> <p>Recent developments in sequencing and software also allow researchers to examine the noncoding- “ome”, providing a glimpse into gene regulation, developmental …
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Sustainable development or just plain development? An analysis of sustainability indicators for Chattanooga, Tennessee
… changes have been used to promote the city as an environmentally friendly place to live, and the phrase sustainable development is frequently used to describe local growth and planning. However, no comprehensive analysis has been undertaken to determine whether Chattanooga is truly headed toward …
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Dust and Pleistocene Ice Ages: Eolian Sediments and Climate Change at Ziegler Reservoir, Snowmass Village, Colorado
… an opportunity to examine subalpine ecosystem response, during a relatively unknown period, in which climate conditions were similar to present. Finegrained sediments at Ziegler Reservoir represent continuous deposition between ~140–55 ka (thousand years before present), spanning the close of …
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High Throughput Screening for Small Molecule Interactions with Nucleic Acid Binding Proteins
… cell identity, developmental trajectory, environmental response, and homeostasis. These proteins govern all aspects of cancer, from oncogenesis to metastasis, as well as treatment resistance and tumor recurrence. Our ability to manipulate these entities in cells, and therefore our ability …
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Of brick and 'chuna': Technological tradition and innovation at the Fort Cornwallis powder magazine in Penang, Malaysia
… this utilitarian building in order to meet both environmental challenges and local/regional construction practices. Socially, the thesis highlights the colonial labor scenario in Penang: British engineers, Chinese contractors, Indian and Malay workers, and a strategic reliance on low-wage and …
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Chromatin Accessibility Dynamics Underlying Development and Disease
… accessibility contribute to development, environmental response, and disease status has only begun to be appreciated. In this work we identified chromatin accessibility changes by DNase-seq in three diverse processes: in granule neurons of the developing cerebellum, with intestinal …
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Remediation of place : the role of the United States Environmental Protection Agency in designing reuse at superfund sites
This thesis will explore what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) direct and indirect roles should and could be in fostering place making for Superfund site redevelopment. The EPA manages the clean up of severely contaminated abandoned property under the Comprehensive Environmental …
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Lateglacial to Holocene climatic and environmental changes in Europe : multi-proxy studies on lake sediments along a transect from northern Italy to northeastern Poland
… the Lateglacial and Holocene, to investigate the response of local ecosystems to climatic fluctuations and human impact and to relate regional peculiarities of past climate development to climatic changes on a larger spatial scale. The Lake Hańcza (NE Poland) sediment record was studied with a …
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Plume to global-scale atmospheric impacts of aviation emissions
… premature mortalities per year [7, 28]. These environmental impacts are driven by chemical, microphysical and transport processes that span different magnitudes of temporal and spatial scales, from near-field inplume chemistry that evolve over minutes and distances of ~100 m to global-scale …
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Performance assessment of capture zones generated by PV-powered pump and treat systems
… two different remediation sites, a Dry-cleaning Environmental Response Trust Fund site in Rolla, Missouri and the Former Nebraska Ordnance Plant near Mead, Nebraska. A method to estimate hydraulic containment effectiveness of PV-powered P&T systems without energy storage was developed. The …
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Natural Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana Growth in Response to Ambient Temperatures
Temperature is one of the most important abiotic environmental regulators of plant growth and development. The temperature-dependent elongation of the Arabidopsis thaliana hypocotyls (seedling stems) is a well-characterised environmental response. The aim of this study was to identify allelic …
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Envelopes of adaptation - an architecture of social thresholds and flexibility: investigating the socio-technical relationship between the built edge and social surface
… that allow buildings to adapt to fluctuating environmental and climatic conditions? These responses are often the driving force behind design considerations, placing emphasis on the manner in which the technical resolutions facilitate appropriate adaptability and environmental response. This …
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Sanitizing History: Environmental Cleanup and Historic Preservation in U.S. West Mining Communities
… threatens their health. The 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA, or “Superfund”) authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up toxic sites, but these sites are often where the most marginalized residents have lived and are sometimes the …
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