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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"mechanisation"”.
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The influence of water composition on the pitting behaviour of newly developed corrosion resistant steels
The mechanisation of the working stapes in South African gold mines has required the introduction of a fundamentally new technology, hydro-power, in which machines are powered hydraulically using mine water fed from above ground. Mine water is aggressive and has a variable acidity and pH, and …
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Mechanising and evolving the formal semantics of WebAssembly: the Web's new low-level language
… as extensions of my initial WebAssembly mechanisation. A major component of the thesis is my work on the specification of shared memory concurrency in Web languages: correcting and verifying properties of JavaScript’s existing relaxed memory model, and defining the WebAssembly-specific …
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Movement in the architecture of the city: a study in environmental diversity
The recent mechanisation of architecture and movement has reduced the degree of environmental diversity in architecture and the urban realm. Biological sciences suggest that diversity, within a certain range of variation, is desirable to exercise the adaptive capacities of any living organism; a …
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Dead ringers recalling obsolete machines in living rooms
… The research draws on cautionary tales of mechanisation and interpretations of monsters as cultural disruptors; thus the project positions rearticulated obsolete machines as agents of resistance against systemised obsolescence. Their disruption conjures spectres, bringing forth unresolved …
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Qualitative Spatial Reasoning With Super-Intuitionistic Logics
… logics, together with an account of its mechanisation.
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Categorical models of second-order abstract syntax
… syntactic metatheory before any real benefits of mechanisation can be realised. In parallel, mathematical frameworks offer powerful, reusable tools for working with syntax – such as type-preserving simultaneous substitution and compositional semantics via initial algebras. However, their practical …
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An examination of the Halifax textile industry in a period of intense technological change, 1700 to 1850
… reduce its costs. The earlier possibilities for mechanisation, and for growth, presented by cotton manufacture were taken, and a new industry introduced. Land formations which provided water power delayed urbanisation and adoption of steam power in Halifax, where industry remained dispersed. …
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Synanthropic survival: low-impact agriculture and White-shouldered Ibis conservation ecology
… Nevertheless, local livelihood change (such as mechanisation) may uncouple this linkage, making a potential win-win conservation strategy unviable. Conservation must develop measures to maintain valuable farming practices before they, and the species dependent on them, are lost through …
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Peat exploitation on Thorne Moors. A case-study from the Yorkshire-Lincolnshire border 1626-1963, with integrated notes on Hatfield Moors
… narrow gauge railways. Finally the transition to mechanisation of peat cutting and narrow gauge haulage is outlined.
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Some Aspects of the Biochemistry of Malabsorption from the Upper Intestinal Tract
… (PLP), is convenient to use but further mechanisation is necessary to improve reproducibility. 182 gastrointestinal patients and 124 normals have had their serum PLP measured. Amongst normals, women had a statistically significant lower mean serum PLP. This sex difference was abolished …
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Capitalisation and proletarianization on a Western Cape farm: Klaver Valley 1812-1898
… that the main impetus for change came from mechanisation of harvesting in the 1820s and 1850s. Chapter Three explores the notion of a capitalist farmer and argues that Duckitt and later Ruperti can be categorised as capitalist farmers. The main thrust of their progressive capitalization …
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The abundances and distribution of some trace elements in some selected South African shales
… that the main impetus for change came from mechanisation of harvesting in the 1820s and 1850s. Chapter Three explores the notion of a capitalist farmer and argues that Duckitt and later Ruperti can be categorised as capitalist farmers. The main thrust of their progressive capitalization …
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The reading of poetry : appreciation and evaluation
… especially South African universities. As mechanisation and commodification become more and more the order of the day, and as technology replaces human interchange, the passions and sympathies of man, so powerfully expressed in English literature, steadily become of secondary importance. My …
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Global Extraction and Cultural Production: An Investigation of Forms of Extraction Through the Production of Artist-Video
… relative and absolute surplus value, through the mechanisation of reproduction and the blurring of work and life, through digital technology. The Video Trilogy sets up a dialogue between – fictionreality and space–time, and situates current readings of global extraction in a future/past space, …
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Design and development of a composite frequency response analyser
… the technique is developed, and a method for its mechanisation within the developed instrument is presented.<br/><br/>This anti-aliasing algorithm has been incorporated within the analyser and has been applied to the frequency response measurement of known systems using a composite frequency test …
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Respectable militants : the Lancashire textile machinery makers, c.1800-1939
… textile machinery industry developed with the mechanisation of its cotton industry, and by 1914 was the leading branch of mechanical engineering in Britain. Throughout this industry's history its artisans retained characteristics of respectability and militancy allied with a strong sense of …
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Metric reform as a workshop of scientific and economic governance in revolutionary France
… ended up being a system well-geared towards the mechanisation of production.
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The Evolution of Airport Design: Philosophy, Function and Form
… how technological advances in communication, mechanisation, automation and digitisation have helped airports avoid obsolescence. The evolution of design response has been looked at through several lenses: the architect concerned with the layout and form of the terminal, the engineer focusing …
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Mikhail Tukhachevsky in the Russian Civil War
… in the late 1920s and 1930s, the attendant mechanisation of the Red Army and his role in the development of the Soviet military/industrial complex have been well-researched. The “Tukhachevsky Affair”, the discussion surrounding his execution in the military purge of 1937, continues to …
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Wages, employment, and technological change in English cotton spinning, c.1780-1850
… wages in England and the incentives behind mechanisation; 2. The gender division of labour by spinning technology type; and, 3. The gender wage gap in cotton spinning controlling for technology type. The literature on these debates has either been based on no evidence at all, on isolated …
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