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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"local environments"”.
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Subsidiary Innovation and Diffusion: An Integrated Approach on Learning of Subsidiaries from Diverse Local Environments
… the learning of subsidiaries from their local environment and the sequential knowledge outflow from the subsidiaries. Scholars have recognized the ability to learn from diverse local environments as a critical source of competitive advantage for multinational corporations (MNCs). However, …
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The Abstract Ecology of Modern Life: Re-imagining Environments as Public Spheres
… populations to become public stewards of their local environments. However, in the developed world the hope for ecological self-government is doubly challenged by the atrophy of the civic spirit and the general apathy of most citizens in the face of environmental destruction. In a search for an …
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Locality, Identity, and Geography: Translocal Practices of Huizhou Merchants in Late Imperial China
Recognizing, with local history, the diversity of local environments in China, I try to dispose of the (sometimes inadvertent) implication that these diverse locales were discrete. By highlighting the interconnectedness that was created by the movement of people, this dissertation brings out the …
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Environmental Limits To Invasion Of Ponds By The Exotic Zooplankter Daphnia Lumholtzi Sars
Within any given region, local environments include only a portion of the organisms found within that region, indicating that either dispersal is highly limited or that local biotic and abiotic factors limit what can live in local environments. The current study examined what limits an exotic …
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Molecular dynamics simulation : an investigation into the short range structure of metaphosphate glasses
An investigation into the local environment of three metaphosphate glasses using molecular dynamics simulations is presented. The short rage structure of the phosphate and metal networks were determined from pair, cumulative and bond angle distribution functions as well as identifying the types of …
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Off-lattice kinetic Monte Carlo methods and the Fe-H system: saddle-points, symmetry, and coroutines
… replacement for topological analysis of atomic local-environments which enables comparison of atomistic local-environments with a single, physically-meaningful parameter. \item Fully and self-consistently incorporating symmetry into saddle-point searching and local environment cataloguing, this …
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Local structure analysis of solid state ionic conductors, perovskite-derived structures by NMR and computational studies
In this work, local environments of ions in solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) electrolyte materials with perovskite and perovskite-derived crystallographic structures, i.e. $Ba_{2}In_{2}O_{5}$, $Ba_{2}(In_{1-x}Ga_{x})_{2}O_{5}$ and $Ba_{2}In_{2}O_{4}(OH)_{2}$, were investigated for their high ionic (O2– …
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Characterization of Genomic Variation Related to Hair and Skin Phenotypes in the Khoesan Speakers of Southern Africa
… To investigate the Khoesan’s adaptation to their local environment, we analyzed genomic variations of Khoesan individuals with scans of natural selection, and identified variants that may be targets of selection in the Keratin (KRT) gene family. We examined a potential regulatory variant in KRT78, …
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Autonomous & adaptive oceanographic feature tracking on board autonomous underwater vehicles
… adapting their motion to changes in their local environments, allowing them to sample and track various features of interest with greater efficiency and synopticity than previously possible with preplanned AUV or ship-based surveys. This concept is demonstrated to work in field testing on …
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Environments Of Risk In A Dynamic Social Landscape: Hurricanes And Disaster On The United States Gulf Coast
… with oil and gas development alter the local environments and regional landscapes in ways that increase vulnerability. These vulnerabilities layer onto existing social inequalities and make management and protection of regional populations difficult, and complicate recovery efforts. In …
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Autonomous & adaptive oceanographic feature tracking on board autonomous underwater vehicles
… adapting their motion to changes in their local environments, allowing them to sample and track various features of interest with greater efficiency and synopticity than previously possible with preplanned AUV or ship-based surveys. This concept is demonstrated to work in field testing on …
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Spectral Analysis of Local Atomic Environments
The representation of local environments is a cornerstone challenge in computational materials science, with profound implications for property prediction and materials discovery. This thesis presents a comprehensive investigation of spectral descriptors constructed from spherical harmonic …
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If There Wasn’t Farming, Somebody Wouldn’t Eat: Small Scale Agriculture, Community Autonomy, And Food Sovereignty In Mississippi
… are drawing upon their land-based heritage and local knowledge systems to create community-controlled food systems in dialogue with broader national and global conversations about sustainable agriculture and food sovereignty. Employing a multi-scalar method of analysis, the research studies …
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Mediterranean Wild Edible Plants: Diversity, Conservation and Potential Use
… WEPs are highly nutritious, well adapted to local environments, and deeply rooted in traditional cultures. However, they are currently disappearing due to changes in food systems and habitat degradation. Today, fewer than ten cultivated species account for 90% of the world’s caloric intake, …
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Contested Memories: The Role of Victim Rivalry in Shaping Heritage and Memory at the Concentration Camps of Dachau and Ulm – Oberer Kuhberg
… interactions and memory culture in their local environments. The research question is addressed through a comparative case study approach, examining the former German concentration camps of Dachau and Ulm-Oberer Kuhberg, both Southern Germany, selected on the basis of their …
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Between Culinary and Consecrated—The Introduction and Management of Turkeys in Greater Nicoya, Costa Rica
… include a plethora of interactions within local environments, yet only a few ancient societies went to great lengths to translocate or intentionally introduce species to new environments. Even in today’s globalized world, the introduction of a new species is often accompanied by various …
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Landscape history and contemporary environmental drivers of microbial community structure and function
… by geochemical differences among both tills and local environments, but especially organized by variables associated with water availability as the first axis of an NMDS ordination was strongly related to shifts in soil moisture content. CCA revealed that tills explained only 3.4% of the …
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Among the Giants: Resituating the Environmental Philosophy of John Steinbeck
… Steinbeck was able to see the global ecosystem, local environments, human communities, and even minute tide pools as objects of scientific and artistic inquiry. Specifically, it is my contention that the American environmental movement owes a greater debt to John Steinbeck than it realizes. In …
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