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Showing 1 to 20 of 2279 for “"preserve"”.
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Preserving Change, Changing How We Preserve
This thesis investigates how infill development within a historic urban setting acts as part of the continuous spatial evolution of cities through time and views buildings as a living, changing artifact of human use imbedded in a complex, stratified and interconnected environment. As an addition to …
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Efforts to Preserve Peace, July and August, 1914
No abstract prepared.
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Water Quality Assessment in Cypress Creek Nature Preserve
… for future water quality monitoring in the preserve.
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Methods to Preserve Social Networks at Emergency Shelters
During large-scale disasters, social structures are disrupted. The current focus of emergency management is to ensure that people evacuate safely. Lost in the process is a mechanism for keeping existing social structures intact, despite substantial evidence that maintaining social structures during …
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Open Space Planning; Utilizing Green Infrastructure to Preserve Community
<p>Current sprawl development patterns typical of contemporary development in the United States are unsustainable. The uniform development guidelines prevent context sensitive community design, degrading our communities and consuming large amounts of natural and cultural resources. Significant …
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Shoreline Erosion at Mad Island Marsh Preserve, Matagorda County, Texas
… erosion taking place at its Mad Island Marsh Preserve (MIMP), located in Matagorda Bay, Texas. The MIMP is a 7,100 acre nature preserve that borders the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and is eroded by waves generated by barge traffic. TNC is concerned that erosion will shorten Mad Island Bayou …
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An Evaluation of South Dakota Pheasant Preserve Habitat and Hunter Clientele
Habitat types on private pheasant hunting preserves in South Dakota were mapped during the summers and winters of 1987-88 and 1988-89. Control areas were randomly selected farmland of comparable geography and potential use within three miles of the preserve site. Efforts in the summer were directed …
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Floristic quality assessment of grassy slough preserve in Johnson County, Illinois
… of 1999 and converted it into Grassy Slough Preserve. An objective of this study was to acquire baseline information in one growing season two to three years after cultivation ceased on the herbaceous and woody species occupying Grassy Slough Preserve in 2001 and 2002. Another objective of …
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Distributed authentication to preserve privacy through smart card based biometric matching
This thesis focuses on privacy concerns, specifically those relating to the storage and use of biometrics. These concerns result from the fact that biometric information is unique. This uniqueness makes the biometric a very strong identifier increasing the possibility that it could be used to …
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A guest lodge and associated buildings for a State Forest preserve
The designers of architecture in our national and state parks appear remarkably unenlightened in a day when the design of nearly all our structures is being given a careful re-analysis of function and purpose. Indeed, these designers go to great lengths to avoid admitting that any progress has been …
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Vegetation Survey of the Yegua Knobbs Preserve, Bastrop and Lee Counties, Texas
The Yegua Knobbs Preserve (YKP) is a private, nearly rectangular 122-hectare tract that sits on the Bastrop and Lee County lines in the Oak Woods and Prairies natural region of east-central Texas. This region is considered an ecotone where communities from the bordering natural regions, the …
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Study of non-thermal technologies to preserve the quality of fresh foods
La preocupación por consumir productos más saludables, con aspecto natural y mínimamente procesados ha aumentado notablemente. Con el fin de asegurar la seguridad de un alimento, la técnica habitual es el tratamiento térmico, pero esto conlleva una pérdida de nutrientes y de calidad. Es necesario …
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Historic districts as an alternative approach to preserve the Bhutanese Architectural Heritage
Conservation practice in Bhutan is based on two sets of guidelines. One, the Traditional Architectural guidelines that illustrates the entitlement of different architectural features based on the type of building. The other guideline is the Bhutan Building Rules that makes it compulsory to …
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From neglected waste to protected space: An administrative history of Mojave National Preserve
The Mojave National Preserve, a unit of the National Park Service, was created in 1994 in southeastern California. Its 1.6 million acres were used historically for extractive industries such as mining and ranching, and its recent history was shaped by the land's proximity to urban Los Angeles. The …
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Investigation of Low Impact Development Practices For Coastal South Carolina: Oak Terrace Preserve
… over time). The LID practices at Oak Terrace Preserve reduced the concentrations of FC and TSS in the first portion of the runoff hydrograph (defined as the first 13 millimeters of rainfall) compared to subsequent portions of runoff. However, these lower concentrations did not translate into a …
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