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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"lookout"”.
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Soil mechanics of the Point Lookout landslide, Montezuma County, Colorado
Includes bibliographical references.
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Gathering the landscape : a community arts center on Lookout Mountain
With a tape measure and a pad of newsprint, to document, understand and re-present a natural place was the first goal of this thesis. From this understanding a new built presence, a redefinition of the site, is sought, to gather its essential properties and bring them close. This thesis aims at …
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Analysis of Lacustrine Deposits of Custer Lookout and Leftor Butte, Stark County, North Dakota
… samples from two buttes in question, Custer Lookout and Lefor Butte. Thin sections were made to help determine paleosetting of the limestone units through petrographic analysis and fossil allochems. Fossil ostracods and a charaphyte were critical in determining the lacustrine origin of the …
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Fluvial influence on high-frequency sedimentary cycle geometry: The transition from strandplain to deltaic deposition in the Cretaceous Point Lookout Sandstone, San Juan Basin, Colorado
The Point Lookout Sandstone undergoes an abrupt transition from strandplain-dominated to deltaic-dominated deposition in the northwestern part of the San Juan Basin near Durango, Colorado. The onset of deltaic deposition is preceded by a base level fall and development of a Type 2 sequence boundary …
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Demography, Nest Site Selection, and Physiological and Behavioral Responses to Overflights and other Human Activities, of Wilson's Plover (Charadrius wilsonia) at Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina
… and behavioral responses to overflights at Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina, where the National Park Service and U.S. Marine Corps recently lowered the altitude for overflights at tactical speeds. I monitored the responses of incubating Wilson's Plovers to overflights and other …
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Report on the lookout groups of copper mining claims at Niblack Anchorage, Alaska ; A compilation of the data submitted on the property and existing conditions ; Future developments justified
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mining Engineering and Metallurgy, 1923.
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The vascular flora of the Lula Lake land trust on Lookout Mountain in Walker County, Georgia and a biogeographical analysis of the Coastal Plain element on the Cumberland Plateau
… flora of the Lula Lake Land Trust (LLLT) atop Lookout Mountain in Walker County, Georgia was surveyed from 2012 to 2014. A total of 60 collecting trips were made with 672 species and lesser taxa documented. Twenty-eight rare species of conservation concern were documented including the …
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Evaluating the Responses of Least Terns, Common Terns, Black Skimmers, and Gull-billed Terns to Military and Civilian Aircraft and to Human Recreation at Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina
… breeding abundance. I conducted my study at Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina from May-August 2010-2012. I surveyed colonies once every 3-5 days and deployed audio recorders and time-lapse cameras at individual nests in 9 colonies. Birds did not incubate less or engage in alert …
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Elements of Structure: Kennecott Yacht Club and Sailing School
… placed along the dock, culminating in a lookout tower. The structures are variations of each other. The boathouses provide dry storage and natural ventilation for dinghies, keelboats and other small craft boats. A glass curtain wall encloses the structure of the final boathouse to provide …
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Attention and Criminal Charge, Profile and Description: The Effect on Prospective Person Memory
… individual that one has been asked to be on the lookout for in the future. Prospective person memory relies on several processes including face recognition, event-based prospective memory, and attention. Only recently has research on the role of visual attention on prospective person memory been …
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A study of the beneficial role of thiol antioxidant supplementation in various forms of glutathione deficiency
… metal toxicity. Scientists are on the constant lookout for new and better antioxidants that have the ability to slow, if not stop the harmful degenerative effects of free radicals in oxidative stress related disorders. Both synthetic and naturally occurring compounds are being constantly …
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The Science of Settler Colonialism: A Canadian History of the Thrifty Gene Hypothesis
… I note that the University of Torontos Sioux Lookout Project was deeply embedded in these histories of settler colonial science. Thus, on the basis of the history reviewed in this dissertation, I argue that the post-war professionalization of Canadian genetics, endocrinology, epidemiology, as …
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A Moving Experience: The Classroom Activities and Art Camp
… their bodies. I found myself constantly on the lookout for new ways to incorporate movement in art, which led me to organize a summer art camp for students in our district. Art camp was the ultimate kinesthetic experience in the fine arts. The act of moving students away from the school and …
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A Moving Experience: The Classroom Activities and Art Camp
… their bodies. I found myself constantly on the lookout for new ways to incorporate movement in art, which led me to organize a summer art camp for students in our district. Art camp was the ultimate kinesthetic experience in the fine arts. The act of moving students away from the school and …
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An investigation of navigational decisions
… in the design to simulate the keeping of a lookout. In the third part a similar group of subjects were asked to navigate a ship on two simulated voyages of half an hour's duration each, while at the same time to log the number of lights they observed. As a measure of their navigational …
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Political risk management on international construction projects
… in international construction need to be on the lookout for downside risks as well as opportunities.
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Falling rock: stories
… The group's participants are told to be on the lookout for her whenever they see a yellow road sign bearing her name. In short, Povi is my Princess Falling Rock. Given her sense of disinheritance, it seems fitting that her folklore is synthetic, invented. Basically, I've gotten her to wander off …
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Centrifuge modelling of high shear capacity ribbed piles in stiff clay
Piling contractors are constantly on the lookout for innovative solutions that can put them a step ahead of their competitors. The idea of the High Shear Capacity Ribbed Pile, whereby the construction of ribs along the length of the pile shaft might significantly increase the shaft capacity, has …
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Early Forest Fire Detection Using Texture, Blob Threshold, and Motion Analysis of Principal Components
… forest fires is human based surveillance through lookout towers. However, this study presents a more modern technique. It utilizes land-based real-time multispectral video processing to identify and determine the possibility of fire occurring within the camera’s field of view. The temporal, …
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