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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"use-life"”.
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People, Places, and Plants: An Appraisal of Subsistence, Technology and Sedentism in the Eastern Woodlands
… tool carrying costs were offset by expanded tool use-life. Using the Model of Technological Investment, grounded in neo-Darwinian theory and Human Behavioral Ecology, this study uses quantitative and qualitative archaeological data to 1. Provide a general survey of the changes in human botanical …
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE FORMATION OF THE “SEA SCOUT WRECK”: MALLOWS BAY, NANJEMOY, MARYLAND
… this, historical and archaeological data were used to create three-dimensional (3D) models that represent key stages of the vessel's use-life and to document the deterioration process of the wreck. Through this research, the Sea Scout Wreck was identified as a 104' Aircraft Rescue Boat built …
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Queen Anne's revenge : a systems analysis of Blackbeard's flagship
The goal of this study was to examine the life history of the pirate flagship Queen Anne's Revenge using a functional systems approach to observe how the ship affected and was affected by the macrosystems operating around her and the microsystems operating within her. To this end, I examined the …
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Minimising Impact: How legislation and sustainable design can reduce the environmental cost of a mobile phone
… and the trends in weight, energy consumption, use life and mobile ownership. The environmental impacts of these trends are discussed, as is the issue of refurbishing mobile handsets for resale abroad. The paper then examines the likely effects of forthcoming EU legislation, in particular the …
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Reading and Responding: Finding and Making Meaning in the Life Writing of Diasporic Iranian Jewish Women
This project investigates the English-language life writing of diasporic Iranian Jewish women. It examines how these women have differentially imagined their diasporic lives and travels, and how they have in turn been imagined and accepted or rejected by their audiences. In the first chapter, I use …
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Five-factor model, life satisfaction, and drug use refusal self-efficacy: Examination of a mediation and moderation model among individuals in recovery
… personality traits can influence current and lifetime substance use. Life satisfaction, although less clearly, has also demonstrated a significant contribution to substance use behaviors and outcomes. Still, little is known about how life satisfaction influences the relationship between …
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Digital Fabrication for Contemporary Material Specificity
… model failed to recognize that the value and use life of modern material is highly contingent on distributed and imperceptible immaterial systems such as supply chains and reverse logistics that function beyond immediate scales of space and time (scales that are classically the territory …
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An examination of psychological risk factors for the development of substance abuse among post-bariatric surgery patients
… notion of “addiction transfer” and substance abuse post-bariatric surgery. There is a lack of research, however, in this area. The present study examined the rate of substance abuse in a broad sample of postbariatric surgery patients and examined potential risk factors for the development of …
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Estimating population parameters of early villages in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic central and southern Levant
… contemporaneity values derived from building use-life and phase length estimates based on a combination of archaeological, ethnographic and experimental research, and Bayesian chronological modelling of radiocarbon dates. From the results of micro-level analysis of 15 villages/village phases, …
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The function, design and distribution of New Zealand adzes
… that form and function changed over time with use, and because adzes were so valuable due to manufacturing costs, they were intensively curated. The majority of archaeological specimens studied for this thesis had seen major morphological and functional change. This dynamic was included ,in a …
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Adaptive exoskeleton for the integrated retrofit of social housing buildings
… process able to limit interferences on the use of the building and on the life of its inhabitants. The exoskeleton is an independent frame, carefully designed at the joint-scale to achieve awareness of the constructive sequence and of the optimization of the resources. Dry construction …
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Place as Occupational Histories: Towards an Understanding of Deflated Surface Artefact Distributions in the West Darling, New South Wales, Australia
… assemblages, the concepts of artefact use life, curation, the intensity of raw material utilisation and occupation intensity are used. These permit the investigation of assemblage accumulation as a temporal process. Assemblages are not thought of as synchronic functional sets but rather …
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The Effect of Uncertain End-of-Life Product Quality and Consumer Incentives on Partial Disassembly Sequencing in Value Recovery Operations
… addresses gaps in the interaction between End-of-Life (EoL) product acquisition systems and disassembly sequencing. The research focuses on two remanufacturing research problems; 1) modeling uncertain EoL product quality, quantity, and timing in regards to EoL product acquisition and disassembly …
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The proteomics of pottery and its residues: applications to ancient foodways
… potentially indicating aspects of vessel use-life. I then assess the impact of cooking and burial on proteins in ceramics and foodcrust, using experimental samples containing deer meat, salmon meat and chestnut flour. While calcified residues have received more attention, proteomic …
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Medical conditions and illness in elite football players during international competition
… training history, medication and supplement use, life-style history, family history of atopy, current and past history of medical conditions and detailed sections pertaining to upper respiratory tract infections (URTI), allergies, asthma, exercise associated muscle cramping (EAMC) and history …
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The Sled, the Litter, and the Plot: Finding Connections Between Mundane Material Culture From World War II's USS North Carolina
… its career, was turned into a memorial and museum in 1961 after it was decommissioned. Since then, the museum has told the story of World War II and life on the "Showboat" through exhibits and displays of World War II artifacts and paraphernalia. Often, museums house a much larger collection …
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Perceived purpose and sources of meaning as protective factors for substance use amongst emerging adults across South Africa
… (SA) is afflicted with high rates of substance use disorders. Emerging adults are particularly vulnerable to engaging in substance use that has the potential to become harmful. Thus, there is a need to identify protective factors that can diminish an emerging adult's propensity for hazardous …
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Differential stability of spawning microhabitats of warmwater stream fishes
… Roanoke River, Virginia. Spawning microhabitats used by four reproductive guilds (egg-clusterers, mound-builders, egg-buriers, and pit-builders) were identified and ranges of 15 microhabitat variables used by each guild were compared to available microhabitat conditions to investigate habitat …