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Showing 1 to 20 of 122 for “"outskirts"”.
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A history of Russian Poland’s urban outskirts, c. 1880-1914
… The first focuses on the emergence of the outskirts between 1880 and 1905; the second is concerned with the course of the revolution between 1905 and 1907; and the third discusses its aftermath up until the large-scale incorporation of industrial suburbs that took place between 1915 and …
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The Effects of Radial Migration on the Outskirts of Disc Galaxies
… I consider the effect of radial migration on the outskirts of disc galaxies. I demonstrate that when falling through a gas rich cluster environment, a galaxy can evolve from a type II profile to a type I profile with little increase in the radial velocity dispersions. Instead the cluster …
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“In the outskirts”: Exploring science identity development in biology education using insect natural history collections and self-determination theory
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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The siting of public transport facilities in a predominately low to middle-income area, Klapmuts, on the outskirts of a metropolitan city, Cape Town
… area, using Klapmuts, located on the outskirts of a metropolitan city, Cape Town as the study area. From a critical assessment of current practices, a warranting and siting practice for public transport and associated infrastructure was formulated which takes cognisance of the social …
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Perpetual Care
… traditions that push burial spaces to the outskirts of our cities and the grievers into spaces of isolation. Attitudes toward death have changed radically, and we need more democratic practices and new spaces for grief. This thesis imagines a new architectural typology and department within …
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Elevating Small Town Streetscape
… surrounding natural areas or sprawling into the outskirts. Through an analysis of existing urban design principles and case studies of proposed vertical cities, the research will investigate the feasibility and benefits of implementing a vertical street circulation system in a small-town context, …
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Insight to Mexican E-Commerce and its interaction with future industrial real estate demand
… centers located in strategic positions on the outskirts, and fully linked to a huge network of small or medium warehouses located in central strategic locations in the cities. Intensive logistic operations could leverage the expensive rents in CBDs, so that industrial sorting facilities can be …
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Surrogate parenting : exploring the perceptions of challenges faced by grandmothers of AIDS orphans with regard to child rearing in Khayelitsha
… AIDS orphans in Khayelitsha, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town. The aim of this study was to make a contribution to an understanding of the challenges faced by grandmothers who are performing a surrogate parent role. The research focused on the grandmothers? perceptions of the types of …
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Development of a Fringe Parking Model
… by cities to provide additional parking on the outskirts of the central business district to achieve the goals of reducing downtown congestion, eliminating the need to construct downtown parking facilities and/or providing travelers with a lower cost parking option. There is limited research on …
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We don't see ourselves as different : a web of possibilities for disabled women : how black disabled women in poor communities equalise opportunities for human development and social change
… women in Khayelitsha and Brown's Farm on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, over a two and a half year period. The aim of the study was to explore how disabled women living in poor communities equalise opportunities for human development and social change. The PAR approach was used to …
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The formation and management of national identity and intergroup attitudes among school children in two polarised Belfast communities
… which is located in the countryside on the outskirts of Belfast.<br/><br/>* Colindale, Bellevue and Lisnareagh are pseudonyms.
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Domesticated Animal
… runs away into the relative “wild” of the swampy outskirts of Houston, Texas. The narration shifts from Lira, to Blue, to Stella, as the novel attempts to explore the consciousness of three different beings as they all struggle to find freedom and find home.</p>
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The changing face of the Constantia Valley a temporal study of land use change in a heritage landscape
… Constantia Valley, a high income suburb on the outskirts of Cape Town. It will contextualise the efforts to conserve its heritage and, furthermore, attempt to explain the factors underlying the observed changes in the urban form. This study, through the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) …
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Alphorn video beverage advertisements
… outdoors in a bird filled hardwood forest on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan. Through this creative project I shared my story, strategically created alphorn video advertisements and recorded a part of my creative process in writing, sound and video recordings. I created and shared improvised …
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Geochemistry and petrogenesis of kimberlite intrusions from the eastern lobe the Du Toitspan kimberlite pipe, South Africa
The Du Toitspan kimberlite pipe located on the outskirts of Kimberley South Africa, is one four Cretaceous aged major kimberlite pipes from the well-known Kimberley cluster, the type locality for archetypal group I kimberlites. Twenty-seven samples representative of various kimberlite intrusions …
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Habitable Walls, Courtyard Homes in Urban Places
… become the trend and everyone has looked to the outskirts of the city to live. Downtown areas have become a place to work, and the suburbs a place to live. Downtowns have become ghost towns during the evenings, while little communal interaction can be found in the suburbs due to its inhuman scale …
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The roommate
… the Midwest. When she inherits a bungalow on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the home of her recently-deceased grandmother, she's thrilled to seek the sunshine of the West Coast and hopes her new circumstances will help her focus on her life ambitions. But when she arrives, Donna discovers the …
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In different tongues
… Kyno's body is discovered in a dumpster on the outskirts of town, Kate can no longer stifle the changes which have been taking place: as language withers, Kate gives up the rush of memory, the human race.
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Regenerating the Experimental Farm: How Can Architecture Make a Historic Landscape Relevant to a Contemporary Public?
… activities. Once located on the outskirts of Ottawa, the Farm still researches rural farming methods despite now being surrounded by suburbs. The Farm’s deterioration of identity caused a lack of public programming has been recognised by the city and local residents.A …
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Prevalence and incidence of renal dysfunction in patients initiating Antiretroviral Therapy at a Primary Health Care Centre in Gugulethu, Cape Town : a cohort study
… Gugulethu and Nyanga districts situated on the outskirts of Cape Town. We described the prevalence and incidence of renal dysfunction in this cohort, the patterns of change in their renal function in the first 12 months on therapy and factors associated with renal dysfunction. We also examined …
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