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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"military installations"”.
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The economic impact of domestic military installations on regional economies
… predict the impact of changes in spending by a military installation on a regional economy. Such impacts are required to be estimated to implement the National Environmental Protection Act. The research examined the theoretical basis for impact determination especially economic base theory. This …
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Achieving integrated resilience to Coastal Flooding on the Military Installations and Surrounding Communities on the U.S. East Coast
… critical infrastructure in coastal research is military installations and surrounding communities, which often share the same flood risks and resilience needs. However, the relationship between military bases and adjacent localities has so far received limited attention and is mainly focused on …
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Autonomous Vehicle Implementation into Existing Garrison Infrastructure
Military installations exist as hybrid communities and staging areas that support the overarching mission to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. Specifically, the Army is currently reevaluating how installations fit as part of the battle space in multi-domain …
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Pest Management Strategies for Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant and an Assessment of Aerial Radiography for Hazard Rating Pine Stands for Southern Pine Beetle Infestation
… sampling or hazard rating insects at military installations is limited. The use of aerial videography is a relatively new technology and is currently used for aerial surveys and is being developed for hazard rating for southern pine beetle. The purpose of this study was to apply …
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Effects of Military Training Activity on Red-cockaded Woodpecker Demography and Behavior---AND---New Territory Formation in the Cooperatively Breeding Red-cockaded Woodpecker
… issue. The first chapter investigates whether military training activity negatively affects red-cockaded woodpeckers. Military installations in the southeastern United States contain several of the largest remaining red-cockaded woodpecker populations. Six of the 15 installations harboring …
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Habitat use and activity patterns of Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) inhabiting military test ranges and forested sandhills at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida
… loss of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) forests. Military installations have preserved large tracts of longleaf pine, often while implementing prescribed fires that mimic natural lightning-ignited fires (frequent low intensity fire is a necessary component of longleaf pine communities), which in …
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The United States Military Realignment on Okinawa
<p>The United States maintains military bases in foreign countries in efforts to protect American overseas interests, whether they are economic, diplomatic or for geostrategic purposes. In Japan, where the United States has maintained military installations since the end of World War II, debate …
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Gulf Regional Airspace Strategic Initiative Modeling Using Discrete Event Simulation
… affected by future changes in the airspace and military installations in the Northwest Florida Panhandle in creating a compromise that equally protects each stakeholder's airspace and airfield resources now and into the future. As part of this effort, the Gulf Regional Airspace Strategic …
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Monitoring and Assessment of Military Installation Land Condition under Training Disturbance using Remote Sensing
<p>Various military training activities are conducted in more than 11.3 million hectares of land (> 5,500 training sites) in the United States (U.S.). These training activities directly and indirectly degrade the land. Land degradation can impede continuous military training. In order to sustain …
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A Life Cycle Assessment of Three Department of Defense Airfield Paving Projects
… two asphalt airfield paving projects from three military installations, quantifying associated Global Warming Potential (GWP) contributions from materials, transportation, and construction (life cycle stages A1 through A5). LCA results were calculated using the openLCA software with input data …
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Russian Influence and Kyrgyz Weakness: A Realist Understanding of Kyrgyz National Interest
… in the cases of the American and Russian military installations leased within Kyrgyzstan. It uses a Realist approach to “national interest” and explains whether and how the Kyrgyz Republic’s decisions increased its defense capabilities, improved its financial situation and created a better …
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TRADEOFF ANALYSIS OF BACKUP POWER GENERATION SOLUTIONS FOR MILITARY BASES
… on energy to build and project combat power from military installations. Installation energy managers currently ensure uninterrupted power to mission-critical facilities through emergency stand-alone diesel generators. Research has recently indicated that networks of smaller diesel generators …
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Time series analysis of vegetation dynamics and burn scar mapping at Smoky Hill Air National Guard Range, Kansas using moderate resolution satellite imagery
Military installations are important assets for the proper training of armed forces. To ensure the continued viability of training lands, management practices need to be implemented to sustain the necessary environmental conditions for safe and effective training. For this study two analyses were …
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Creating an Integrated Ballistic Missile Defense System for the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
… Iran is capable of targeting, major American military installations in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, and Oman. Vital oil refineries, ports, terminals and shipping lanes in the region are also within range of Iran's missiles, along with every major population center. Creating an integrated …
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TNT-contaminated soils remediation for volunteer Army ammunitions plant
… particularly prevalent with the closing of many military installations across the country. The Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant (V AAP) is a 6,681 acre Government owned and contractor-operated facility for the production and storage of trinitrotoluene (TNT). Two (2) technologies were investigated …
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A geographic interpretation of the causes underlying urban growth and distribution in Alabama, 1820 – 2010
… of government, public universities, permanent military installations, and the site of the state capital); and the process of suburbanization. This study employs qualitative data-collection and quantitative analysis methods to determine the possibility of modeling the explanatory power of these …
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“The Union of the South is the Safety of the South”: Conspiracy Theories, Sectionalism and the Secession Crisis in Virginia
… overthrow the state government and seize federal military installations. This thesis seeks to understand how conspiracies in Virginia’s political discourse over secession helped carry the largest and most important slaveholding state into the new Confederacy and highlight how secessionists used …
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Forts and fortifications at the Cape Peninsula 1781-1829 : a survey of defence works with special references to the Hout Bay forts
… was to initiate the first phase of a study of military installations in the Cape Peninsula.
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Comparison of Large Scale Renewable Energy Projects for the United States Air Force
… the amount of renewable energy produced on military installations. The goal of this research was to compare the estimated and actual performance of these large-scale on-site renewable energy projects at Air Force installations. The variables considered for this research were the execution …
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