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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"natural process"”.
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Water : forms and associations in natural and built landscapes
… exciting visual and physical contrast within the natural landscape and evoke associations that nourish our creative and contemplative spirit. We need daily access to water; however, it is visually absent from most built landscapes. It flows in underground rivers. We are deprived of physical and …
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Casual Death in Contemporary Cities
… necessary to reintegrate grief and introduce the natural process of death as a casual and cyclical interaction within cities.
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Do solar water heaters improve access to hot water and reduce electricity costs? : the complexities of implementing energy poverty interventions in South African Townships : a case study of Nyanga Township
… the resource is solar water heating (swh), a natural process whereby hot water for domestic and/or industrial use is heated by the sun. In 2009, a national swh strategy was drafted by the Department of Energy, which specifies a target to install 1 million heaters in households by 2015. …
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An analysis of medical futility dilemmas
… that are given to prolong life and interrupt the natural process of death; Therefore, we have created a dilemma of medical futility. Until recently, not many steps have been taken to address futile or inappropriate care that is given to a large number of the population, but with healthcare costs …
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The Mississippi River Delta Basin and Why We are Failing to Save its Wetlands
… region of Louisiana. However, this ancient, natural process was gradually halted by the arrival of man who settled across the River's natural floodplain (delta) and constructed levees and other structures to control the great Mississippi River. Since the 1930s, the Mississippi River Delta …
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An investigation into the dissolution of pyroxene : a precursor to mineral carbonation of PGM tailings in South Africa
… CO₂ in the atmosphere. Mineral carbonation is a natural process whereby CO₂ is fixed to CaFeMg-silicates to form Ca-, Fe-, and Mg-carbonates. This process is thermodynamically favourable and the products are benign and stable over millions of years. Pyroxene-rich tailings generated from the …
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Apoptosis and Necroptosis in Basal Cell and Spinocellular Carcinoma of the Skin // Апоптоза и некроптоза при базоцелуларен и спиноцелуларен карцином на кожа
… and mortality of these neoplasms. Apoptosis is a process of programmed cell death. Disruptions in the process of apoptosis are considered one of the main causes of neoplastic processes. Caspase-3 is one of the most important molecules in the apoptotic cascade, often used to monitor the efficacy of …
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Women's perceptions of birth centre care: A qualitative approach
… carer. Women wanted carers who viewed birth as a natural process rather than as an illness, and who engaged in a sharing, rather than a controlling, relationship. Finally women preferred to know, and be known by their carers. These findings are important for midwives, in terms of their education …
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Biomimicry of the spider silk spinning apparatus
… though the fibers outperform many synthetic and natural materials, it is impractical to collect industrial amounts of silk from spiders due to their cannibalistic and venomous nature; they cannot be farmed like the commercial silk worm Bombyx mori. Thus, scientists have turned to molecular and …
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Playground for the Imagination
… into an environment. The transformation of natural materials into manufactured products led me to cultivate a deeper understanding of ecology, where humans are participants in the natural process of the life cycle. Nature becomes the primary subject and humans are mere participants, the …
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Women-centered care : the knowledge and practice of midwifery at the University of York
… philosophy is the idea that birth is a natural process, rather than a dangerous, disease like state which requires medical intervention.
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The Resonance of Michelangelo
… with the analysis of ruins as the result of a natural process that strips down a building of secondary components and leaves the exposed soul of the architecture. As a specific example, the thesis explores the Roman ruins, how they exude their cultural history and often how they express the …
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AGE-RELATED GUT DYSBIOSIS ACCELERATES THYMIC INVOLUTION AND ALTERS PERIPHERAL T CELL REPERTOIRE IN DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
… Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), as well as during the natural process of muscle regeneration. Conventionally, immune system activation was regarded as a consequence of muscle atrophy. However, recent findings have unveiled a malfunction in central tolerance due to thymus alterations and the presence of …
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Addressing the problem with natural ventilation : producing a guide for designers to integrate natural ventilation into the early stages of building design
… systems. My project revisits the concept of natural ventilation and explores and evaluates its feasibility as an energy-saving and comfortable alternative to mechanical ventilation systems. Additionally, my project focuses on how buildings can be designed to naturally condition the indoor …
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The Affirmation of Life in Wallace Stevens' "The Auroras of Autumn" and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
… change, they would insert themselves into the natural process of affirmation embodied by the earth; they would constantly seek new experiences and revitalizing resemblances. For Eliot, the fear and anxiety of living in the present--of not knowing the future--blocks affirmation.
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Small-Scale Resuspension and Redistribution of Surface Sediments in the Northeast Gulf of Mexico
… for the particles. Downslope gravitational processes and events of increased current speed in the deep ocean setting can result in recently deposited sediments to resuspend and be moved laterally with the current flow, increasing the area effected by the oil spill. Erosion experiments …
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Among Earth and Sky: A Winery
… beauty of vineyards, this winery facilitates the natural process begun in the growing of a grape. Sunk into the hillside, the earth provides the stable temperature and humidity necessary for wine maturation. Accounting for the technical aspects of winemaking, this project likewise addresses the …
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A rationale for a correspondence version of a first-year university expository writing course.
… prominence in Canada in recent decades (the natural process and environmental process approaches) and makes conclusions about what characterizes an effective expository writing course. Chapter 3 reviews the literature related to effective distance education, especially course design, and …
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Peace/time landscape proposals for the Israeli and Palestinian border
… overlays two categories of time—social and natural. This thesis integrates social and natural time by engaging natural processes the durations or lifespans of which coincide with the abbreviated scale or frame of contemporary social time. Political relationships are considered in terms of …
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Barriers to adult learning
… barriers and lack of motivation.Ageing is a natural process, bringing some physical , mental, psychological and other kinds of changes that influence negatively adult learning. What is of interest for this study is the way intelligence and memory respond to ageing, and the implications for …
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