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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"local resources"”.
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Opportunities for building design and construction resulting from local resources
… for design and construction constrained to local resources. This research encompasses the following questions:What are the material resources local to MIT? What are the architectural and logistical limitations of using those resources in buildings? How might this research shape a building at …
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Fibers and Fragments: Weaving local resources into the Arabian Gulf's modern material culture.
Considering the constraints of using solely local materials of the Arabian Gulf, this thesis explores two components that constitute a future construction practice: concrete in compression (mined from demolition sites) and carbon fibers in tension. The discovery of oil in 1932 accelerated the use …
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Rural electrification from local resources : biomass pyrolysis oil combustion in a direct injection diesel engine
As the production process continues to be refined, biomass pyrolysis oils are increasingly being considered as potentially feasible renewable fuels. Combustion of pyrolysis oils in diesel engines has been scarcely studied, and the few studies which have been performed indicate that these fuels …
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Local Resources Mobilization Towards Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Tanzania: A Case of Kinondoni Municipality, Dar es Salaam City
This study dealt with Local Resources Mobilization towards Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Tanzania: A Case of Kinondoni Municipality, Dar es Salaam City. It was motivated by the fact that, regardless of various programmes which have been initiated in order to address the challenges of urban …
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Local Resources Mobilization Towards Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Tanzania: A Case of Kinondoni Municipality, Dar es Salaam City
This study dealt with Local Resources Mobilization towards Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Tanzania: A Case of Kinondoni Municipality, Dar es Salaam City. It was motivated by the fact that, regardless of various programmes which have been initiated in order to address the challenges of urban …
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State and local economic development tools : how does the range of state-level economic development tools available to a locality influence the way local resources are deployed?
… deployment of economic development tools at the local level, and if so, how. Though CDBG is a federal government program, because grant fund programming is largely at the discretion of local decision-makers, and consistent expenditure data is available for entitlement communities across the …
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The content, scope and purpose of local studies collections in the libraries of further and higher education institutions in the United Kingdom.
… examines the presence of and reasons for local studies resources in the libraries and learning centres of further and higher education institutions in the United Kingdom. The study's aims were to investigate the content and scope of local collections in academic libraries, to examine the …
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Belonging to the West Coast : an ethnography of St Helena Bay in the context of marine resource scarcity
… social and ecological systems as they manifest locally in St Helena Bay. The growing integration of the West Coast has brought rapid change in the form of industrial production, urban development and in-migration. The pressure placed on local resources by these processes has been exacerbated by …
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Health And Wellness Resort in Siwa Oasis, Egypt
… strategies and 3D printing technology using locally sourced materials such as karshif (a mix of salt and clay) and palm based elements. The resort's design draws from Siwan traditions including domed roofs, and courtyards while adopting computational design for form optimization and passive …
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An archaeological examination of lifeways at Mission San Lorenzo de la Santa Cruz, Real County, Texas (41RE1)
… Spanish foodways, and the mission’s reliance on local resources. The interpretation of midden features such as those investigated at Mission San Lorenzo is vital for our understanding of mission life and especially informative for a mission that was never authorized by the Spanish government.
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Occupation and resistance in southern Iraq: a study of Great Britain’s civil administration in the Middle Euphrates and the Great Rebellion, 1917-1920
… a Civil Administration with which to govern the local population, and after capturing Baghdad in March 1917, imposed their Civil Administration on the Middle Euphrates region, an irrigated flatland stretching along the Euphrates River System. Initially, the Civil Administration intended to …
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An Ethnographic Study of the Learning Needs, Strategies, and Networks of African American Adults Age 65 and Over in Rural Texas
… gather data about individual learning needs and local resources, and a diagram of overlapping or concentric circles was used to analyze learning connections between the study participants and the people who they trust. This study also explored the obstacles to learning experienced by the study …
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Facilitators and Barriers in the Community Placement Process for Developmentally Disabled Individuals Facing Deinstitutionalization
… individual Wisconsin counties and their use of local resources for developmentally disabled individuals; (3) the critical variables that facilitated and hindered release from the institution; (4) the critical variables that determined whether a released person was placed into a nursing, group, …
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Android at risk: current threats stemming from unprotected local and external resources
… derived from Linux OS. It utilizes a plethora of resources both local and external. Most of its local resources (e.g procfs nodes) were inherited from Linux with some of them being even- tually removed, while new ones were added to meet the requirements of a mobile multi-purpose platform. …
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Beyond rights : developing a conceptual framework for understanding access to coastal resources at Ebenhaeser and Covie, Western Cape, South Africa.
… governance processes, this thesis examines local resources users’ access to fisheries resources. The study identifies and analyses various mechanisms harnessed to maintain access to fisheries resources, as well as the various strategies put forward to make claims for access. In the property …
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(Re)Building Cultural, Community, and Academic Identity: Freshman Composition After Katrina
… future of a "new" New Orleans. Implementing a "localized pedagogy" into the freshmen composition classroom--that is, a community-based pedagogy that draws from local resources, engages students in acts of public writing, and implements a service learning component--can help students answer to …
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Heritage partnerships : national designation, regional promotion and the role of local preservation organizations
… the mid-1980s. These projects aim to mobilize local initiatives around a common set of distinct community assets and foster public-private partnerships addressing preservation and development issues on a regional scale. The two case studies I use to explore this issue are the Blackstone River …
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Centro Migrante : self-help housing community for transient seafarers in Manila
… need to be designed and planned according to the local and geographical conditions, in order to best meet the requirements of the people in need of shelter. The thesis addresses this issue focusing on a specific project in the Philippines being undertaken by the entrepreneurship initiative Centro …
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Territorial capital and firm performance: evidence from Italian regions
… whether and how the coexistence of different local assets, conceptualized in the form of territorial capital, influences firm performance in diverse sectors, across different geographical areas of Italy, contributing to endogenous economic development. The notion of territorial capital …
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