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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"turquoise"”.
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Fremont Finery: Exchange and Distribution of Turquoise and Olivella Ornaments in the Parowan Valley and Beyond
… on exotics in the Fremont area, specifically turquoise and Olivella shell, has been sporadic until recently (Hughes and Bennyhoff 1986; McDonald 1994; Janetski 2002). In this thesis, I present new data on Olivella and turquoise artifacts found throughout the Fremont region, including the …
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A Colorful Past: Turquoise and Social Identity in the Late Prehispanic Western Pueblo Region, A.D. 1275–1400
Turquoise is synonymous with the U.S. Southwest, occurring naturally in relative abundance and culturally prized for millennia. As color and material, turquoise is fundamental to the worldviews of numerous indigenous groups of the region, with notable links to moisture, sky, and personal and …
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Patterns of Lithology, Structure, Alteration, Trace Elements, Carbonate Mineralogy, and Stable Isotopes around High-Grade Carlin-type Gold Deposits: Turquoise Ridge Deposit, Getchell District, Nevada
… features associated with the high-grade Turquoise Ridge CTGD in the Getchell District. Traditional exploration tools such as patterns of lithology, structure, visible hydrothermal alteration, trace elements, and clay mineralogy are presented in Chapter 1 to test for the presence of haloes …
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Blazing Turquoise and Coral Light Jewels of Veiled Empowerment: Buddha Ye shes mTsho rgyal (ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ) and Saint Hildegard von Bingen in the Lotus of Ever-Excellent Feminist Dialogue
<p>This Women's and Gender Studies in Religion dissertation seeks to restore awareness of women's religious leadership using the actual embodied experience of Yeshe Tsogyal and Hildegard von Bingen embedded in the philosophical terms Erlebnis (German), Padartha/Bhava (Sanskrit), and srid pa …
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The Trouble with Hindsight Comparing Depictions of Pre-Troubles Northern Ireland in Pre-1968 and Post-1968 Fiction
… Dog, is a post-Troubles novel, while the second, Turquoise Car, is a pre-Troubles novel.<br/><br/>I have found that novels written before the Troubles are less self-conscious with regard to depicting sectarian tension in Northern Ireland, with some novels featuring strong (unrestrained) …
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Interpreting Authority: Do States Interpret International Law Differently to Create Legal Authority in Decisions to Intervene for Humanitarian Concerns?
… Operation Restore Hope (1992 Somalia), Opération Turquoise (1994 Rwanda) and the conflict in Côte d’Ivoire (2002-present). The conflicts provide varying examples of interventions to human rights abuses that proliferated following the end of the Cold War to the emergence of the Responsibility to …
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Experimental characterization of the Barree and Conway (2004) single-phase non-Darcy flow model in various hydraulic fracturing sands
… sand (resin coated and uncoated) and crushed turquoise. Three flow cells were built from each granular material. Each cell was designated for a single-phase flow. In addition, fracturing sand characterization such as sieve analysis and sphericity and roundness tests were performed. Apparent …
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By hotter winds : the road to Samarkand
… had made their final journeys from the turquoise gates many years ago. What would the cities be like now? When the journey was over, and I’d experienced the road to Samarkand for myself, I put my version of it in writing. By Hotter Winds captures the exhilaration and tedium of travel and …
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Effects of system complexity on protein aggregation in neurodegeneration
… Combining mRNA and protein data from the turquoise killifish, an animal model for molecular ageing, with predictors of biophysical properties such as chaperon requirement for folding and intrinsic disorder, I will demonstrate strong links between the proteostasis network, protein …