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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"mass movement"”.
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Geologic controls on mass movement in the New River Gorge, West Virginia
… were analyzed and evaluated for influences on mass-movement in the New River Gorge. Mass-movement deposits were mapped at a 1:24,000 scale in three study areas within the gorge and a Geographic Information System was developed to analyze the affects of local bedrock geology on the …
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Delineation of mass movement prone areas by Landsat 7 and digitial image processing
… 7 data could be used to delineate areas prone to mass movement, particularly debris flows and landslides, was examined using three techniques: change detection in NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), change detection in band 5, and the tasseled cap transformation. These techniques were …
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Middle Class Guerrilas: The Failure of the Mexican Student Revolutionaries to Build a Mass Movement
… revolutionary, where many armed urban guerrilla movements would emerge against the dictatorial one-party Mexican state of the Partido Institucional Revolucionario, or the PRI. By looking at writings and rhetoric used by these middle-class guerrillas, as well as contextualizing those guerrillas …
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Mozart's Late Liturgical Compositional Method: The Mass in C minor, K. 427 and the Mass Movement Fragments, 1779-1791
… music. With the exception of the unfinished Mass in C minor, K. 427, the Requiem and the motet Ave verum corpus, Mozart’s liturgical compositions have been traditionally consigned to the Salzburg years; however, supported by more than thirty years of research contributed by Wolfgang Plath, …
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Race Against Death : The Struggle for the Life and Freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal
… main reasons why this case was able to ignite a mass movement to free Abu-Jamal and to end the death penalty.
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Algorithms for Modeling Mass Movements and their Adoption in Social Networks
… have become a staging ground for many modern movements, with the Arab Spring being the most prominent example. In an effort to understand and predict those movements, social media can be regarded as a valuable social sensor for disclosing underlying behaviors and patterns. To fully understand …
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The impact of migration on the people of Papua, Indonesia: A historical demographic analysis
… more developed urban areas along the coast. This mass movement has transformed the territory s society, altering the social, cultural and economic position and opportunities of the indigenous inhabitants. This thesis uses statistical data from Indonesian government publications to describe the …
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Real–Time Imaging of Decimetre–Resolution 3D Seismic Volumes
… the geomorphological mapping of a sequence of mass movement events in Windermere, UK Lake District. Three mass movement deposits are identified in a 100 m by 400 m survey area. Through mapping of the package distributions and their interaction with the pre–existing sediments stratigraphy, they …
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A study on slope instability above Chapman's Peak Drive, Cape Peninsula, South Africa
… terrain will inevitably experience some sort of mass movement of slope material onto their surface at some stage.
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A Landslide Near Oslo, Minnesota
… slide compromises about 45,000 square feet. A mass-movement occurred which was vertical but largely horizontal. A block roughly 45 by 100 feet dropped on a skid plane between two related blocks which gave the effect of "graben" structure. Ath the same instant, however, a large mud bar roughly …
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Relocation & Realignment: How the Great Migration Changed the Face of the Democratic Party
… between the parties for the presidency and the mass movement of Black people out of the South coincided to drive the Democratic Party's change on racial issues. Through examination of primary sources and a fresh perspective on existing research, I show that the Democratic Party changed their …
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Assessment of Land Use Suitability Based on Water Erosion Susceptibility in Medium-Sized Urban Areas of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Central Chile
… variety of landscapes, water erosion, and mass movement, and rapid expansion of its medium-sized cities, straightforward techniques for assessment of land use suitability are essential. Through evaluation of water erosion susceptibility, it is possible to efficiently determine suitability …
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Bosnian Immigrants: An Analysis of the Bosnian Community's Influence on the Cultural Landscape of Bowling Green, KY
… occur on a global scale. Diasporas entail the mass movement of refugees across international borders, and diasporic peoples today now find themselves journeying across oceans and continents to the safety of host cities in a matter of weeks or days. My research analyzes the effects that Bosnian …
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Understanding the Independent Effects of Inertia and Weight on Balance
… Increased inertia did not affect body center of mass movement (COM) or center of pressure (COP) movement, suggesting that no additional ankle torque was necessary to control the increased inertial forces. Increased weight caused increased body COM movement (increased backboard angle range and …
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The Political Thought of the Chartist Movement
The Chartist movement was the mass-movement for constitutional reform in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Chartism is one of the most written about subjects in modern British history, yet the ideas of the movement remain strangely neglected. This thesis tackles this problem by examining Chartist …
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REMOTELY MAPPING SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON ALLUVIAL FANS: AN APPROACH FOR UNDERSTANDING DEPOSITIONAL PROCESSES
… depositional processes, including fluvial and mass movement events, as well as surface runoff and eolian processes. The Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) describes changes in reflectance based on changes in the angle of irradiance and radiation-scattering effects of a …
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GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING OF THE K2 AREA, PAKISTAN USING GIS AND REMOTE SENSING
… evaluating the polygenetic role of glaciation, mass movement denudation, and fluvial erosion in landscape development. A series of thirteen 1:100,000 geomorphological maps covering the area between Skardu and K2 were produced using field mapping and photography, GPS measurements, ASTER satellite …
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GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING OF THE K2 AREA, PAKISTAN USING GIS AND REMOTE SENSING
… evaluating the polygenetic role of glaciation, mass movement denudation, and fluvial erosion in landscape development. A series of thirteen 1:100,000 geomorphological maps covering the area between Skardu and K2 were produced using field mapping and photography, GPS measurements, ASTER satellite …
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Dispatches from the transient city
… The spatial technologies that surround this mass movement of persons have been inadequately explored and represented. A new form of urbanism is emerging; not static cities of migration, but conduit cities of populations in motion. This new form of transient urbanism will not replace the …
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