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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"pinnacle"”.
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Potential of CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and Sequestration in the Golden Pinnacle Reef Reservoir in the Williston Basin, North Dakota
… (EOR) and CO2 sequestration in the Golden Pinnacle Reef Reservoir in the Williston Basin, North Dakota; with a specific analysis of the Shell Golden #34X-34 (SWSE 34 T161N R87 W) well in Renville County, North Dakota, USA. The objectives of this research are to: (1) Characterize the …
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The sword in the stone : lithic raw material in the Middle Stone Age at Pinnacle Point Site 5-6, southern Cape, South Africa
… artefacts from the recently excavated site of Pinnacle Point 5-6, Mossel Bay, from a sequence dating between ~50-85ka. PP5-6 has been excavated to the highest contemporary standards, enabling a more detailed analysis of the lithics than is possible for Klasies. Although the PP5-6 lithic …
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The Pinnacle of College Readiness Initiatives: An Examination of the Impact Early College High Schools have on Students from Underrepresented Minority Populations in Texas
Background: Students from underrepresented populations are less likely to be college-ready high school graduates. Research indicates only 20% of Black students are college ready at graduation, and less than that—only 16%—of Hispanic students are college ready at the time of graduation. Early …
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Investigation the use of oxygen and carbon isotopes and sclerochronology on Turbo sarmaticus and Donax serra for palaeoenvironment reconstruction at Pinnacle Point, South Africa
… includes modern and archaeological shells from Pinnacle Point, Mossel Bay. Evidence of human occupation of coastal caves here dates as far back as 164 kya. Specimens analysed for this study date between 114 and 91 ky. Analysis of edge increments shows that all the archaeological specimens were …
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From Papua to Western Australia : Middleton's implementation of Social Assimilation Policy, 1948-1962
… loyalties. European civilization was seen as the pinnacle of development. Thus both giving Aboriginal people the opportunity to reach this pinnacle and believing they were equally capable of reaching this pinnacle was viewed as a progessive and humanitarian act. Aboriginal cultural beliefs and …
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Depositional environments and diagenesis, Winnipegosis Formation (Middle Devonian), Williston Basin, North Dakota
… environment with scattered, atoll-like, pinnacle reefs, and 2) a peripheral, carbonate shelf where, proceeding landward, there developed shallow-marine, patch-reef, lagoon, and tidal-flat environments.</p> <p>Evaporite beds that formed during the Third (dolostone and anhydrite) and Fourth …
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A detailed gravity study over a known Devonian carbonate buildup: the Shell Golden Reef, northwestern North Dakota
… #34X-34 has been previously interpreted as a pinnacle reef with 70 meters of relief and undetermined diameter. The basin regime of the Elk Point shelf created an environment that allowed the growth and development of the Shell Golden reef, numerous pinnacle reefs, and mounds in northwestern …
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Functional Beauty: The Design of Hospitality
… to reaching his or her destination at the pinnacle suite.
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Determining capital adequacy for a community bank's agricultural loan portfolio
… as well as the advent of the Basel III Accord. Pinnacle Bancorp is a community banking organization headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska with roughly $8.6 billion in assets. The company is also one of the largest agricultural lenders in the country and the largest agricultural lender among …
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Some Kind of Time
… the final two years of my graduate career. The pinnacle of my development became a meditation on time and its overall encompassing effects. The mundane and the fantastic are all bound by time. Many archetypes have ventured to escape the clutches of time. Found objects are remnants of time, …
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Eastern Seaport Master Plan
… has an enormous amount of potential to be the pinnacle of the Boston waterfront. Located in the city’s Seaport District, the master plan addresses the site’s deterioration as industry has declined. By reducing the impact of the necessity of the car through its incorporation into the urban …
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A quantitative comparison of the Howiesons Poort lithic assemblage from Kathu Pan 6 in the Northern Cape with other Howiesons Poort assemblages in Southern Africa
… Klipdrift Shelter, Klasies River Mouth, and Pinnacle Point 5-6, will allow me to characterize geographical variability in the HP and identify possible explanations for this variability, including different foraging and mobility strategies in different environments across southern Africa.
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Knowledge management in the enhanced traffic management system
… States. The design of the ETMS represents a pinnacle achievement of modern data management. This thesis project will investigate the development of the ETMS and will identify several recent design decisions that illustrate a paradigm shift in data management techniques. These design decisions …
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Tectonic and sedimentary history of the Mid-Natal Valley (S.W. Indian Ocean)
… are cored by a series of subsea floor ridge and pinnacle complexes (Naude, East Tugela and South Tugela Ridges). Geochemical analyses of East Tugela Ridge basalts suggest a transitional origin but with continental affinities. These volcanic marginal ridges may approximately delineate the …
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Sketch similarity searching
… to study new technologies that could be the pinnacle of next generation image retrieval systems. Current technologies allow the user to search only by text content. However, this searching environment contrasts the way humans perceive an image. In this project, we create a sketch search …
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Ecology of algal mats and their role in the formation of stromatolites in Antarctic dry valley lakes
… conditions non-columnar, columnar, and pinnacle-shaped stromatolites are forming, some of which are partially lithified. If environmental variables (i.e. low light intensity, lack of burrowers or browsers, and relative lack of turbulence) associated with these stromatolites do not vary …
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Cyprianic Ecclesiology: Redefining the Office of the Christian Bishop
… scholarship, this thesis states that at the pinnacle of Cyprianic ecclesiology is the belief that the bishop, as the divine head of an ecclesiastical community, was to guard both the faithful and the damaged until the return of their Lord.</p>
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Maruja Mallo: La Realidad Femenina Dentro Del Surrealismo En España
… 1927- Lorca, Dalí, Buñuel and Mallo- was at its pinnacle. In addition to examining the way in which Maruja's art subverts the masculine gaze yet still shows a surrealist influence, I also demonstrate how men's art from the beginning of surrealism in Paris in 1924 reveals a love/hate relationship …
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John Singer Sargent in Spain: Eluding the Stereotype
… <em>El Jaleo</em>, which could be considered the pinnacle of the portrayal of Spain in the Western imaginary at the end of the XIX century. However, despite the great success obtained by this canvas, the artist rarely portrayed images with this subject matter again. On the contrary, he refrained …
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Digital reconstructions of fossil morphologies, Nama Group, Nambia
… biostromes, isolated patch reefs, and isolated pinnacle reefs. Because these fossils are preserved as calcitic void-fill in a calcite matrix, individual specimens cannot be freed by conventional techniques. Rocks containing the fossils are ground and digitally photographed at thickness intervals …
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