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Akhmetova, Maria V. "“A Town with Two Names”: A Historical Oikonym in Modern Context (The Case of the Town of Pokrovsk/Engels)." Вопросы Ономастики 18, no. 1 (2021): 159–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2021.18.1.007.
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The article uses the example of the town of Engels (Saratov Region) to explore the case of duplicate naming in the local usage, i.e. the use of the historical oikonym Pokrovsk (until 1931) and its derivatives along with the official name of the town or instead of it. The author showcases that in the local speech, the historical name of the town has become a living alternative used in almost every sphere except business and documentation. At the same time, there are some testimonies to the gradual demarcation of the language contexts associated with the old town name and its derivatives. Until the mid-1990s, the name Pokrovsk and the adjective pokrovskii were regarded nearly as equivalents to the corresponding official names. Currently, their use is confined to Russian Orthodox circles (due to the religious origins of the name Pokrovsk derived from Pokrov ‘the Intercession of the Theotokos’ — an Orthodox holiday). Apart from that, the derivatives with pokrovsk- component can occur in proper names, mainly of commercial (names of business entities and products) and cultural (names of holidays) types. Other usage cases refer to mass media or urban naming. Meanwhile, the demonym pokrovchane, which in the Soviet period was only limited to historical contexts, reclaimed its positions in the 1990s. Currently, it is widely used in the local press and everyday speech, being more popular than the formal variant engelsity (and even less frequent engelsites, engelstsy, engel(s)chane). The reason why pokrovchane proved more usable lies in both the inconsistency and variability of the Engels-based demonyms in the mid-20th and early 21st centuries. The author also addresses the case of “hybrid” naming with both old and new oikonyms combined: Pokrovsk-Engels (Engels-Pokrovsk) and their derivatives. The mentioned onyms are mainly used in local contexts (city’s holiday celebrations, cultural events, local history, etc.). The article was prepared under the RANEPA state assignment research program.
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Till, K. "Neotraditional Towns and Urban Villages: The Cultural Production of a Geography of ‘Otherness’." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 11, no. 6 (December 1993): 709–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d110709.
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The ‘neotraditional’ planning movement in the USA is criticized through an analysis of promotional materials for the urban village of Rancho Santa Margarita in Orange County, CA. The ‘traditions’ of towns and villages are viewed as recent ‘inventions’ created by corporate planners; they are attempts to validate the establishment of residential communities through ambiguous, yet familiar, historical symbols. Yet the identities constructed for neotraditional towns and urban villages make sense only in relation to the ‘other’. In southern Orange County, corporate planners present their master-planned communities as ‘distant’ from the suburbs and cities located in Los Angeles and in northern Orange County according to a scale of temporal, geographic, and social values. Implicit to neotraditionalism is a geography of otherness. This geography reinforces existing social and spatial divisions, promotes reactionary and exclusionary territorial identities, and legitimizes the status quo.
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Nogar, María Luciana, Guillermina Jacinto, and María Sofía Villalba. "Transformaciones territoriales y problemas ambientales en asentamientos de rango menor. El caso de Gardey (partido de Tandil)." Revista Estudios Ambientales - Environmental Studies Journal 1, no. 1 (December 30, 2013): 107–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.47069/estudios-ambientales.v1i1.1070.
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Los asentamientos de rango menor (ARM) aglomeran población en los espacios rurales constituyendo, tradicionalmente, centros de servicios para las poblaciones residentes y las actividades presentes. En el contexto actual de transformaciones que alcanzan a los espacios rurales pampeanos y de renovación de los vínculos con los espacios urbanos, aún cuando las actividades de servicio a la producción agrícola continúan predominando, se observa el desarrollo de nuevas funciones (residenciales, turístico-recreativas y de revalorización de la naturaleza). Este trabajo tiene como objetivo detectar problemáticas ambientales producidas por la coexistencia e interacción de funciones productivas-residenciales-turísticas en Gardey (Partido de Tandil). Se presentan resultados de investigación que exponen las situaciones de molestia generadas por la interacción de los usos presentes en el asentamiento: la coexistencia de tradicionales y nuevas funciones va configurando un patrón de usos del suelo cuya interacción da origen a incompatibilidades que requieren ser estudiadas desde una perspectiva integrada. La presencia de usos vinculados con el acopio de cereales produce efectos en el ambiente como la emisión de material particulado, la generación de ruido y el incremento del movimiento vehicular, entre otros. Las formas de almacenamiento de insumos para el agro y de mantenimiento de maquinaria agrícola afectan a distintos factores ambientales. La expansión del uso residencial y el desarrollo de emprendimientos turísticos han puesto de manifiesto principalmente problemáticas asociadas a la calidad del agua de consumo. Describir y explicar estas problemáticas ambientales constituyen tareas necesarias para el desarrollo de diagnósticos ajustados a la escala del asentamiento que contribuyan a su gestión sustentable.
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The small town agglomerate population in the rural spaces constituting, traditionally, centers of services for the resident populations and the present activities. In the current context of transformations that Pampas rural areas reach to the rural spaces and of renovation of the links with the urban spaces, still when the activities of service to the agricultural production continue prevailing, is observed the development of new functions (residential, tourist - recreative and of revaluation of the nature). This work has as aim detect problematic environmental produced by the coexistence and interaction of productive functions - residential - tourism in Gardey (Partido de Tandil). Presented research results exposed situations discomfort generated by the interaction of the applications present in the settlement: coexistence of traditional and new functions being shaped pattern whose interaction land use gives rise to inconsistencies that require studied from a integrated perspective. The presence of uses associated with grain storage effects on the environment as the emission of particulate matter, noise generation and increased vehicular movement, among others. Storage forms for agricultural inputs and agricultural machinery maintenance affect different environmental factors. The expansion of residential use and development of tourism enterprises mainly have revealed problems associated with the quality of drinking water. Describe and explain these environmental problems are tasks necessary for the development of diagnostics adjusted to the scale of the settlement that contribute to sustainable management.
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Morley, Ian. "Arquitectura, oportunismo y la planificación del rostro de un imperio." Ra. Revista de Arquitectura 9 (May 10, 2018): 61–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.15581/014.9.25914.
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La carrera de Sir Aston Webb (1849-1930) es posiblemente una de las más impresionantes de todos los arquitectos tardovictorianos y de la época eduardiana. En una importante época de la sociedad, la política y la historia británicas, la carrera de Webb y su salto a la fama anduvieron paralelos a uno de los períodos más excitantes en la historia de la arquitectura británica, alcanzando su pico de protagonismo cuando le concedieron el rango de Presidente del Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), el de Presidente de la Royal Academy (RA) y el de Presidente de Town Planning de la RIBA. El célebre historiador de arquitectura Alastair Service, por ejemplo, apuntó que, a pesar de los ideales arquitectónicos del período, el mayor arquitecto en términos de volumen total de trabajo o de dinero ganado fue Webb, aunque la historia haya ignorado casi absolutamente su importancia, debido en parte a que sus proyectos carecían de la creatividad estilística que poseían muchos de sus coetáneos. Es por ello que en este artículo se intenta rectificar esta situación, subrayando la importancia del trabajo más grande de Webb, el proyecto del Queen Victoria Memorial (1901-1912) –una empresa monumental a la misma altura que los proyectos American City Beautiful, que junto al plan London County Council’s Kingsway-Aldwych “haussmanizaron” la metrópolis. De este modo, este trabajo también demostrará que Webb no era simplemente un arquitecto de incomparables aptitudes, sino que posiblemente fue el diseñador que más ayudó en este período a definir el diseño cívico y la planificación urbana británicas de un modo práctico, antes del comienzo de la Primera Guerra Mundial en 1914.
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Serrano-Uribe, Brayan, Walter Pardave-ivia, and Camilo Hernando Castillo-Martínez. "Tratamiento de Drenajes Ácidos de Mina (DAM) mediante filtros elaborados con relave minero." Revista Politécnica 18, no. 36 (September 30, 2022): 115–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.33571/rpolitec.v18n36a9.
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Los Drenajes Ácidos de Mina representan un riesgo para la salud humana y el medio ambiente cuando no se gestionan adecuadamente; con el fin de promover una estrategia innovadora y económica para su adecuado tratamiento enfocado en la neutralización del pH, se elaboraron cinco filtros con relave minero y otros materiales siguiendo la metodología de Desing Thinking. Los principales resultados muestran que es posible neutralizar los DAM con pH de 2,5 procedentes de una mina en California, Santander y dejar su efluente con valores de pH en un rango de 6,0 a 8,1. La conclusión es que la composición arcillosa con presencia de calcio y carbonatos en el relave minero permite que los filtros elaborados con este material puedan neutralizar los DAM a tal punto que es viable desarrollar un proyecto a gran escala en donde se incluyan estos filtros, lo cual permitirá tratar los DAM y mitigar los pasivos ambientales relacionados con la acumulación de residuos sólidos.
Acid Mine Drainage represents a huge risk to people’s health and the environment when is not managed properly. Therefore, in order to promote an innovative and economic strategy that involves an adequate treatment focused on pH neutralization, five filters were made with mining tailings and other materials following the Design Thinking methodology. One of the main results show that it’s possible to neutralize AMD with a pH of 2.5, this, from a mine in the town of California, Santander, Colombia, leaving its effluent with pH values in a range of 6.0 to 8.1. The conclusion was that the clayey composition having the presence of calcium and carbonates, made with the mentioned material in the mining, allows filters to neutralize AMD to such an extent that it is feasible to develop a large-scale project where these are included, which in the future will allow treating AMD and mitigating environmental liabilities related to the accumulation of solid waste.
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Bhutia, Karma Namgyal, Dhan Kumari Basnett, Abhishek Bhattarai, and Sonam Bhutia. "Herbal Products Sold in Sikkim Himalaya Region – India: A Mini Survey." Global Journal of Medical, Pharmaceutical, and Biomedical Update 18 (July 15, 2023): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/gjmpbu_43_2022.
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Objective: The present survey aimed to interact with the vendors, analyze, examine, and document the herbal medicinal products sold in retail stores, pharmacies, AYUSH stores, generally closed and open markets in the local area of Sikkim, mainly rural towns – Gangtok, Ranipool, Singtam, and Rangpo. It was a first of its kind study on the selected topic in Sikkim – India. Material and Methods: The methodology followed during the survey was a cross-sectional study, open ended semi-structured questionnaire, and survey data collection tools were employed; descriptive and inferential statistics were done. Results: The results were summarized in the different tables. From, it was found that old age (46+) uses most of the herbal products (66.6%), adult (20–45 years) uses 42.6% of herbal products, adolescent (13–19) uses 16.6%, and child (1–12) uses 14.5%. Females use more herbal products than males at 57%, and males at 43%. It was found that a large number of herbal products in Sikkim are manufactured outside Sikkim (98%) and 2% of the products were manufactured in Sikkim. Herbal product packaging is mostly secondary (66%), followed by primary (28%) and tertiary packaging (6%). It was found that a large number of solid dosage (47%) form of herbal products is available in the market followed by liquid dosage form (38%). According to brand wise or company wise, Patanjali (41%) products accounted for a big share on the market followed by Baidyanath (19%), other brands (15%), AYUSH (11%), Himalaya (8%), and Dabur (6%). Based on diseases treated, digestion, and metabolism (21%) followed by bone and joint pain (17%), diabetes mellitus (14%), cough and cold (12%), piles (11%), hypertension (7%), thyroid (3%), and other other common diseases categories represents about 15%. Highlights the situation after the COVID-19 pandemic indicating drastic increases in market value (in Lakhs) and the sale of herbal products in Sikkim. Conclusion: The data highlighted above were the first of its kind in a study done in Sikkim – India; no data were available in any scientific repositories to date.
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RUIZ VEGA, Rosalba, Cesar ESQUIVEL BERRIO, Adolfo SALGADO CRUZ, and Heidy SAAB RAMOS. "CÁTALOGO DE EPÍFITAS VASCULARES DEL SECTOR EL SILENCIO (PARQUE NACIONAL NATURAL PARAMILLO) Y ZONA AMORTIGUADORA, CÓRDOBA, COLOMBIA." Acta Biológica Colombiana 20, no. 3 (July 24, 2015): 167–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/abc.v20n3.42572.
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<p>Se presenta el catálogo de la vegetación epifita vascular de un sector del Parque Nacional Natural Paramillo (PNNP) y zona amortiguadora (Córdoba, Colombia). Se realizaron muestreos en un área de 0,1 hectárea, donde se colectaron todas las epífitas vasculares distribuidas en los forófitos que presentaron un DAP ≥2,5 cm en cuatro sectores, El Silencio (interior del PNNP), Tuis Tuis, Tuis Tuis Arriba y Alto de Chibogadó (zona amortiguadora), correspondientes al bosque húmedo tropical (Bh-T) en el municipio de Tierralta. Se encontraron 2504 individuos de epífitas vasculares. El catálogo contiene 73 especies distribuidas en 41 géneros y 18 familias. El sector Tuis Tuis presentó el mayor número de especies (33). Las familias mejor representadas corresponden a las Araceae, Bromeliaceae y Orchidaceae, destacándose por mayor número de especies y géneros la familia Orchidaceae (20/15). Los géneros más diversos fueron <em>Anthurium</em> con ocho especies, <em>Guzmania</em> seis, <em>Tillandsia</em> y <em>Aechmea</em> con cinco cada uno. Los helechos reúnen solo el 6 % de la flora epifita. Se reportan nuevos registros de especies para el departamento de Córdoba (39), ampliando el rango de distribución de este grupo de plantas en el país. </p><p><strong>Catalogue of Vascular Epiphytic Sector Silencio (Natural National Park Paramillo) and Buffer Zone, Cordoba, Colombia</strong></p><p>The catalogue of the vascular epiphyte vegetation of Silencio sector (Paramillo National Natural Park) and buffer zone (Córdoba) is showed. Sampling was conducted in an area of 0,1 ha, collecting all vascular epiphytes distributed in phorophytes with a DAP≥2,5 cm, in four sectors. Collections were performed in the Silencio sectors (PNNP), Tuis Tuis, Tuis Tuis Arriba and Alto Chibogadó (buffer zone) of the tropical rain forest (Bh -T) in Tierralta town. 2504 individuals were recorded as vascular epiphytes. The catalog includes 73 species in 41 genera and 18 families. The sector Tuis Tuis showed the greatest representation of species (33). The families with the highest representation corresponds to Araceae, Bromeliaceae and Orchidaceae families. The Orchidaceae family had the highest diversity with 20 species and 15 genera. The most diverse genera were <em>Anthurium</em> with eight species, <em>Guzmania </em>with six species and <em>Aechmea</em> and <em>Tillandsia</em> with five species each one. Ferns are presented only in 6 % of the epiphytic plants. 39 new species records for the department of Córdoba - Colombia are reported, extending the range of distribution of this group of plants in the country.</p>
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Castro Solórzano, Fidel, Juan Barreno Sánchez, and Jessica Castro Vaca. "Comparative analysis of the consumption of drinking water in the urban and rural populations of two towns of the south western area of the Tungurahua province." Medwave 23, S1 (September 1, 2023): eUTA370. http://dx.doi.org/10.5867/medwave.2023.s1.uta370.
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Introducción Es notorio que el desarrollo demográfico, económico, social y tecnológico que ha sufrido el mundo y por ende nuestro país, ha cambiado los consumos de agua potable de nuestra población. La Norma Ecuatoriana de la Construcción, CPE INEN 005-9-1, que se refiere al diseño de sistemas de agua potable, tiene señalada una tabla de “dotaciones recomendadas”, que se utiliza con mucha frecuencia como dato de partida en los cálculos para determinar las dotaciones en el diseño de captaciones y sistemas de agua potable. Tal tabla sugerida, NO ha sufrido cambios significativos durante las últimas tres décadas, permaneciendo estática, pese a la vertiginosidad con la que el mundo y nuestro país han cambiado. La investigación se enfoca en establecer los consumos de agua potable de la zona urbana del cantón Mocha y de la zona rural del cantón Tisaleo, mismos que forman parte del frente sur occidental de la provincia de Tungurahua, y registran poblaciones mayores a 5.000 pero menores a 15.000 habitantes, además comparten amplias similitudes en cuanto a sus características físicas, geográficas, climáticas, culturales y socioeconómicas. Una vez que se han logrado determinan los valores de consumo, entonces éstos han sido contrastados con las dotaciones sugeridas en la Norma Ecuatoriana. Objetivos Caracterizar las curvas de consumo diario de la red de agua potable de la zona urbana del cantón Mocha y de la zona rural del cantón Tisaleo, zonas ampliamente similares del frente sur occidental de la provincia de Tungurahua, para hacer con ellas un análisis comparativo. Método Se ha realizado una investigación de tipo EXPLORATORIA -se ha medido los caudales-, ANALÍTICA -se hace una tabulación, interpretación y análisis de los datos recolectados- y DESCRIPTIVA -se deja datos experimentales sobre los consumos de agua potable-. Principales resultados La información que se ha obtenido, corresponde al registro del volumen de consumo diario en cientos de viviendas -seleccionadas mediante un método estadístico- dentro de la zona urbana y de la zona rural de la zona de estudio -cantones pertenecientes al frente sur occidental de la provincia de Tungurahua, con poblaciones mayores a 5.000 habitantes, pero menores a 15.000 habitantes-, para un periodo de cuarenta y cinco días. El consumo promedio en la zona urbana del cantón Mocha se establece alrededor de 167 lt/hab-día, mientras que en la zona rural del cantón Tisaleo en alrededor de 116 lt/hab-día. La Norma CPE-INEN 005-9-1, contempla un valor máximo de 200 lt/hab-día para poblaciones de clima frío, cuya población se halle en un rango comprendido entre 5.000 y 50.000 habitantes. Esta diferencia de 33 lt/hab-día en el caso de la zona urbana y de 84 lt/hab-día para la zona rural, representaría un exceso del 19,7% y del 72,4% respectivamente, en cuanto a la dotación necesaria; que podría resultar en un sobre dimensionamiento de los sistemas de agua potable para poblaciones similares a las del estudio, con la consabida demanda de mayor presupuesto para la ejecución de estas obras. Conclusiones Los resultados de la aplicación del modelo destacan importantes diferencias porcentuales entre dotaciones y consumos de agua para la zona urbana y la zona rural del frente sur occidental de la provincia de Tungurahua. La información generada es útil para los ingenieros proyectistas que deberían considerar las particularidades de cada población en el cálculo de dotaciones.
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Florit Femenias, Joan, Ángel Martín Ramos, and Ignasi Rincón Riquelme. "Un retorno al orden geográfico como recurso ante la acumulación de parcelaciones de vivienda aislada." QRU: Quaderns de Recerca en Urbanisme, no. 11 (December 2021): 139–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/qru.10972.
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En la corona metropolitana de Barcelona, durante las décadas de desarrollo
urbano más activo, han proliferado las parcelaciones residenciales de casas
aisladas al margen de la planificación reglada. Vinieron a ocupar áreas extensas
de suelo en lugares de geografía desfavorable, conectadas de manera
precaria a las distintas ciudades menores de la región metropolitana. Con
todas sus deficiencias y dificultades, estas áreas se reiteraron hasta alcanzar
a ser hoy una parte nada desdeñable de la metrópolis, que da cobijo a una
proporción importante de su población. Así se ha alcanzado a componer
una cuestión no resuelta en tanto crecimiento residencial de proporciones
gigantescas sin las condiciones urbanas debidas. Lo que aquí se articula es
una pauta de orientación de algunas posibles intervenciones reparadoras para
hacer ganar cualidades a tales desarrollos en una perspectiva metropolitana.
No cabe duda de que la complejidad de la situación no se presta a soluciones
fáciles o comunes, sino que se necesitarán métodos variados y suma de acciones
de escala distinta. En esa línea, se plantea aquí un medio de intervención
que puede resultar eficaz: La atención al orden geográfico como recurso para
afrontar la recuperación adecuada para la ciudad de algunas de estas áreas. Al
no haber contado con los favores de la geografía como aliado de primer orden
para el asentamiento de tales parcelaciones se desaprovechó un capital de
gran valor. Aquí se muestra cómo, sobre la base de unos casos seleccionados,
al recuperar las jerarquías espaciales y el potencial de servicio del medio geográfico
se pueden encontrar algunas vías para la elevación del nivel urbano y
el rango metropolitano adecuado de tanto crecimiento suburbano. During the second half of the 20th century in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, single-family housing plots proliferated. Without being officially planned, such developments came to take up large portions of land in geographically unfavourable places, only poorly connected to minor towns in the metropolitan area. With all their inefficiencies and difficulties, these areas expanded all around the suburbs and have now become a considerable part of the metropolis, accommodating a significant part of its population. Thus, an unsolved challenge has emerged constituted by a residential growth of gigantic dimensions without the proper urban conditions. The aim of this paper is to propose some guidelines for the intervention in such areas, with the goal of providing some urban improvements in a metropolitan context. There is no doubt that the complexity of the situation cannot be tackled with easy answers or common solutions. On the contrary, it seems that various methods and different scale actions must be applied. Along these lines, we put forward a method that could prove to be effective: observing the landscape and its characteristics and use it as a key resource in the improvement of some of these areas. At the time when these suburban areas were settled, the order of the landscape was not taken into account, and so a resource of great value was wasted. In this paper we attempt to show, through some selected case-studies, that it is possible to make improvements to the clustering of single-family housing plots using the spatial hierarchies of the landscape, and thus raising its urban quality and its metropolitan fitting.
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Vanagas, Jurgis. "PROCESSES OF METROPOLIZATION IN THE TERRITORY PLANNING DOCTRINE OF THE EU AND LITHUANIA." Journal of Architecture and Urbanism 31, no. 4 (December 31, 2007): 169–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/13921630.2007.10697104.
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The paper is devoted to the analysis of the main con- temporaty notions of metropolization in the doctrine of the EU, its development, pluses and minuses and to the consideration of the present processes taking place in this respect in modern- day Lithuania. In the beginning the author widely points to the main terms, such as metropolis, region metropolitan region, and shortly reviews the history of the EU, its territory planning principles. He reveals the early roots of these conceptions found in the works of utopian thinkers – Sir Thomas More, Robert Owen – productively continued in the territory planning blueprints of the19th century accomplished by A. Soria у Mata and E. Howard. An important stage of modern regional planning, paving the way to the later EU steps in this sphere, were wide-scale planning projects of the early decades of the 20th century and especially post-war regional programmes like Great London development. All these achievements of the past in regional planning enabled to arrive at an idea of uniting efforts on a European scale which took place in 1970 and to proclaim the Europe’s Regional Planning Chart seventeen years later. The prominent Maastricht Treaty signed in 1992 finally balanced the interests of the whole Europe and laid down the fundamentals of its “common home”. The regional situation in Lithuania, as in all the new EU member states, is rather multipartite. Its greatest drawback is lack of its own representative in the highest echelon of the Baltic Sea Region urban categories – in the composition of cities officially included into the list of the so-called european Cities. This status provides the most prestigious situation and evident advantages in the international urban network as well as in the intercon- nectional relations and cooperation of the largest metropolies. Eventually the grade of euro City presents as if an important “gate” to the wide field of various beneficial actions overgrowing national borders. The author reports his position towards Lithuania’s abilities “to delegate” its representative to the top of the BSR city hierarchy. According to the arguments given in the paper, an exclusive chance to achieve this international appreciation is through employing a unique and unprecedented situation of the country, namely, existence of the twin cities of Vilnius and Kaunas, similarity of their size and typological feature, their close many-sided cooperation, distinction by intensive oncoming commuting flows and so on. Studies of labour market show that in this spontaneous urban belt a qualitatively new model of “job-residing” location comes into being: to settle in one city and to work in the other one. Together with improving communication between these cities and mounting traffic rate, this process will certainly flourish. By a reasonable regulation and stimulation of these spontaneous processes, a great combined metropolitan unit (“dipolis”) containing Vilnius and Kaunas can be formed. Inexorable processes of globalization definitively stimulate necessity to shake-up local and national economies, to revise essentially inveterate principles of territory planning. Processes taking place globally within the last decades show unceasing trends to join cities, towns and townships network into united polycentral or bipolar systems along the main communication channels. A model of concentrated location of urban units (as the opposite to their geographically dispersed, gradually developed network suggested by W.Christaller) seems to be more rational and advantageous in numerous aspects. Therefore, resuming all these considerations, a new essential question arrises: is the idea of sustainable development formulated in 1987 by Gro Harlem Brundtland the only and undisputed alternative in territorial development? Metropolizacijos procesai ES teritorinio planavimo doktrinoje ir Lietuva Santrauka Peržvelgiama Europos Sąjungos sukūrimo chronologija, jos teritorinio planavimo doktrinos ištakos, pagrindiniai Europos „bendrųjų namų“ pamatus padėjusios Mastrichto sutarties teiginiai. Atskleidžiamos šiuolaikinių globalizacijos procesų stimuliuojamų didelių metropolinių regionų formavimosi procesų priežastys. Pritariama vis dažniau pasigirstančioms abejonėms, ar kelis dešimtmečius vyravusios darniosios plėtros samprata teritorinio planavimo procese yra vienintelė ir nenuginčijama alternatyva. Šiuo požiūriu Baltijos jūros regiono ir nusistovėjusių teritorinių struktūrinių vienetų (NUTS ) kontekste Lietuva stoko ja ryškaus urbanistinio centro, galinčio pretenduoti į oficialiai pripažintų European City rango miestų sąrašą. Vienintelė galimybė tokiam metropoliniam centrui sukurti – tai Lietuvos Respublikos teritorijos bendrajame plane numatytas Vilniaus ir Kauno potencialų sujungimas.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Rangpo town"
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Mitra, Soumya. "Socio-Economic status and adaptation of migrant labourers from the plains to sikkims informal sector: studies on Singtam and Rangpo towns." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2019. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4661.
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Williams, John Peter. "Long-range transport clusters, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and soot concentrations of air masses in Cape Town, South Africa." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6560.
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>Magister Scientiae - MScAmbient air pollution is the biggest environmental threat to human health. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), ambient air pollution kills millions of people worldwide every year. Airborne particulate matter (APM) affects more people than any other air pollutant and has been linked with various adverse health outcomes, especially fine fractions (commonly abbreviated to PM2.5). PM2.5 penetrates lung tissue to enter the cardiovascular system where it poses the greatest risk. Detailed ambient APM studies are rare in Africa. Such studies are needed to better understand the characteristics, origins and trends of particulate pollution. This study was conducted in Cape Town (the first of its kind for the area) as part of a bigger project on ambient PM2.5 and soot concentrations in South Africa. PM2.5 filter samples were collected at a fixed sampling site in the suburb of Kraaifontein from April 2017 to April 2018, yielding 121 days of data. PM2.5 mass concentration and absorption coefficient determinations were done using gravimetric analysis and smoke stain reflectometry (SSR). Mean PM2.5 concentration for the study period was 13.4 ± 8.1 μg.m-3 (range: 1.17-39.1 μg.m-3) that fell below the South African National Ambient Air Quality Standard (SA NAAQS) annual limit of 20 μg.m-3 but exceeded the WHO annual limit of 10 μg.m-3. Mean absorption coefficient for the same period was 1.38 ± 1.23 m-1.10-5 (range: 0.00-5.38 m-1.10-5) which did not exceeded any limits. Source-region analyses were performed using single, 24-hour backward trajectories and trajectory clusters derived from the Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model. Six single trajectories were identified; the most frequent were trajectories Atlantic-Ocean (38.8 %) and Indian-Ocean (26.4 %). Cluster analyses yielded three to four clusters per season. Dominating clusters were Atlantic-Ocean (61.8 %) and Indian-Ocean (29.5 %) and Inland (8.50 %). Contributions by local sources (within 40 km of the sampling site) to PM mass in samples far exceeded those of distant sources through long-range transport (LRT).
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Barth, Dylan Dominic. "The effect of distance to health facility on the maintenance of INR therapeutic ranges in rheumatic heart disease patients from Cape Town." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9354.
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Part A: is the research protocol which outlines the background and the process of this research. This study is a population-based observational study nested within the Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) cohort of a global study, REMEDY which is a prospective, multicentre, hopital-based registry for rheumatic heart disease (RHD). This study made use of geographical information systems (GIS) as a tool to investigate the effect of distance on the maintenance of INR therapeutic ranges in RHD patients. Part B: elaborates on the background and highlights the importance of this research by exploring the existing theoretical and empirical literature relevant to the topic. It describes the importance of the maintenance of the INR therapeutic range and how geographical factors can influence patient adherence to medication, and how it can act as a barrier to access health care. It provides examples of how GIS has been used to investigate the effect of distance on adherence in other studies. This literature review aimed to establish whether the maintenance of therapeutic ranges in RHD patients on anticoagulant therapy is correlated with the distance travelled from patient's residence to the clinic where INR monitoring takes place. Part C: presents the entire project in a format suitable for journal submission. The background of this research project is summarised and the results are presented and discussed.
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westh, johannes. "Developing a remote controlled leveling lifting yoke in the 2-5 ton range." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-79129.
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When lifting unbalanced objects with a crane or other lifting equipment it can be hard to getthe object leveled. This is dealt with in ways which often rely on experienced workers and can bedangerous as well as time consuming. A remote leveling lifting yoke (LLY) can be a solution to thisproblem, there are currently only one such product available capable of lifting up to 20 tonnes calledL20. The L20 is however rather large and not practical for smaller lifts or lifting equipment. Thisreport investigates weather a smaller version of L20 is needed and how it should function. By usingmodern product development techniques a few concepts to a new LLY was presented. The conceptsare based on the fundamental working principles of the existing L20, that is being battery poweredand leveling the load by a chain with its two ends connected to the lifted object driven by a chainwheel. The main challenge during the concept development was to gure out a brake function whichwould prevent the driving mechanism from being overloaded in the event of an unexpected load shift.Another challenge was to try to implement a freewheel function which would enable the chain wheelto spin freely making it possible to adjust the chains by hand. From the prestudy it was seen thatin order to make this new LLY unique, the remote controlled function would be the main thingsetting it apart from alternatives on the market. The freewheel ability was also not seen amongst thecompetitor products.The most promising concept turned out to be a worm gear drive system since they are inherentlyself locking thus solving the brake problem as well as eliminating the need for much of the gearreduction. However no easy way of adding a freewheel ability with this system was found but this isintended to be worked around by adding a high speed gear used when fast changes need to be made.
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Peková, Pavla. "MORAVSKÉ VINAŘSKÉ CENTRUM BRNO." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-354990.
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This diploma thesis gives a proposal for a new Moravian wine center in the city center of Brno. Wine center is situated on the street Hlinka, where grapevines were planted in the Middle Ages. Demarcated land is narrow and elongated sloping towards to the south and connects the Yellow hills and the Brno Exhibition Centre. The main idea of this thesis is connect these two significant locations and offer the visitor a free passage along the entire length of the complex. Also main building Moravian Wine Centre reflects this fact and it expands the space of the street stalls and forms it into overgrown "arcade". The house is opened into this space - with glazed facade of the first two floors or with transmission into the rear wing. The main building consist of the cellar, where it is located wellness, winehouse, rentable wine boxes and tasting room connected with wine production. The rest of floors are designed for wine gallery, information center, reception, shop, restaurant, conference center and hotel. There is a café with roof terrace in the last floor. It offers a magnificent view into cityscape of Brno, Brno Exhibition Centre and the Yellow slope of the hill. There is designed a pond for relaxation in the courtyard. Nearby is situated Wine Institute building with facilities for making wine. In the second half of the land are located three blocks of luxury apartments in the middle of a vineyard. A leading construction is the most striking feature of the facade that reminds bougainvillea vines with vaulted arches wine cellars and attracts at first sight.
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ANTONOVÁ, Petra. "Obraz ženy a jejího světa optikou pohřebních kázání raného novověku v měšťanském prostředí." Master's thesis, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-54036.
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The thesis discusses the structure of thought of the early modern period world view focusing on the female ideal scheme in urban environment. The funeral sermon file within this time period became the source of the thesis. The theoretical part offers a literature overview and then a general introduction to the funeral sermons, taking into account the nature of the literature formation. The practical part deals with the analysis of female perpective themes in the field of funeral sermons. This section is divided into several subchapters. Primarily there is a space devoted to basic elements which used to form a part of female existance. These elements in their final consistency refer to the nature of women´s predicament in the early modern world. Furthermore the thesis devotes space to basic ideas of funeral sermons which fundamentally were involved in the construction of the text and simultaneously shape its entire character. The conclusion was left to the edition of funeral sermons themselves.
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Chang, Ya-Chi, and 張雅字. "For research Taoist temple in Nantou─Jhushan and Range of other towns." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57906984229609269774.
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The culture of a location is respected by people step by step, and the temple culture is remarkable one. The temple cultures conclude plenty of aspects like the etiquette of worship, the festival action and the temple buildings. These constructions are full of Chinese traditional thought. There are so many Taoism temples in Nantou, but in fact they are a kind of folk beliefs that are not simple Taoism faith but also contain Confucianism and Buddhism. Therefore, it’s worthy of researching the cultural phenomenon of this kind of folk belief is complex. This thesis researches the cultural meaning of Nantou temples. This thesis includes two parts: nature worship and spirit worship. This thesis sets Shou-tian temple, Zi-nan temple, Ling-de temple, Feng-huang-shan temple, Qi-Shi-Xuan-Ji-Yuan and Kai-shan temple for the representative. There are four important cultural meaning in these temples. The first part is the culture of worship. The Chinese believe that “everything has own soul” and “every soul exists forever”, so they worship many gods. These phenomena reflect this kind of thoughts on the temples. The second part is that the natural spirits are always anthropomorphized. The mankind or spirits would be apotheosized after they become gods. Both of the two cases are satisfied for people with the gods’ world. The third part is that the temple culture also reflects the thought that looking and feeling things by own selves. When people think about the gods’ world with mankind’s opinion, people would find that there are a lot of same condition between men’s world and gods’ one. The final part is that the believers like to pursuit the happiness. In every ritual would use symbol type to make a plenty of things auspicious. All in all, the cultural meanings of temples are prolific and valuable.
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吳美玲. "Tow Dimensional Simulation of Landslide Dam Breaking Influence Range on Lungcycan Lake." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33687746428618975192.
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Taiwan located on the junction of tectonic plates, the earthquake are frequent and the geologic structure are broken. Every time the typhoon brings torrential rain cause, the hillslope was easy to avalanche phenomenon. Landslide dams have prove to both by earthquake and precipitation natural phenomena that cant hinder the river by the soil and stone of slop collapse. Since the 921 earthquake broken up geologic structure that easy happened avalanche, debris flow, landslide and landslide dams to accelerate no-uniform size approximately has ten. Had up to this, assumed the landslide dams brings the disaster scale and the gravity is brooks no delay the matter. The study used the FLO-2D Model designed by O’Brien and Julian in 1998, which coordinated sediment volume, amount of water stored and digital terrain model to analyze the situation of dam breaking influence scope debris flows, including sediment depth and flow rate by put up transverse non-dike, one-dike and tow-dike of treatment that to be helpful to expect the damage caused by debris flows to provide offices dredged in the future.
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Rigney, Heather A. "Local conservation for the landscape an assessment of protection measures for forest interior habitat in the southern range of the Baraboo Hills ; a study of forest land in the towns of Freedom and Honey Creek, Sauk County, Wisconsin /." 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/38529490.html.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1997.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-184).
Books on the topic "Rangpo town"
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Auerbach, Annie. Rango: The new sheriff in town. New York, N.Y: Sterling Pub., 2011.
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Conveyance of certain lands to the town of Taos, New Mexico: Report (to accompany H.R. 5548) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, D.C.?: U.S. G.P.O., 1992.
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Lampropoulos, Andreas, ed. Case Studies on Conservation and Seismic Strengthening/Retrofitting of Existing Structures. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/cs002.
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<p>Recent earthquakes have demonstrated that despite the continuous developments of novel materials and new strengthening techniques, the majority of the existing structures are still unprotected and at high seismic risk. The repair and strengthening framework is a complex process and there are often barriers in the preventative upgrade of the existing structures related to the cost of the applications and the limited expertise of the engineers. The engineers need to consider various options thoroughly and the selection of the appropriate strategy is a crucial parameter for the success of these applications.</p><p>The main aim of this collection is to present a number of different approaches applied to a wide range of structures with different characteristics and demands acting as a practical guide for the main repair and strengthening approaches used worldwide. This document contains a collection of nine case studies from six different countries with different seismicity (i.e. Austria, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Nepal and New Zealand). Various types of structures have been selected with different structural peculiarities such as buildings used for different purposes (i.e. school buildings, town hall, 30 storey office tower), a bridge, and a wharf. Most of the examined structures are Reinforced Concrete structures while there is also an application on a Masonry building. For each of the examined studies, the local conditions are described followed by the main deficiencies which are addressed. The methods used for the assessment of the in-situ conditions also presented and alternative strategies for the repair and strengthening are considered.</p>
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Ternovaya, Lyudmila. Onomastics of international relations. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/2076787.
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The monograph introduces readers not just into a complex, but into an exceptionally complicated history of international communication through a very simple and understandable entrance, which is torn off by the science of onomastics, which studies proper names. This knowledge, concerning the names of those personalities who have left their mark in the history of international relations, becomes a kind of anthroponymic guide to international relations. Toponymy, which explains the names of geographical objects, is the part of geopolitics that will help to identify the edges of agreement and conflict. Since not only things, phenomena, processes have their own names, but also symbols, including those that permeate the space of international interaction, the state of the world, its stability and security may depend on the accuracy of the use of such names.
It is addressed to specialists in the field of geopolitics, history, sociology, and cultural studies. A narrative about the history and peculiarities of modern international relations, in which the main facts are taken from the world of proper names, will be interesting to a wide range of readers.
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Dibazar, Pedram, and Judith Naeff, eds. Visualizing the Street. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462984356.
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From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invisible digital ecologies, this collection of essays analyses the emergent practices of visualizing the street. Today, advancements in digital technologies of the image have given rise to the production and dissemination of imagery of streets and urban realities in multiple forms. The ubiquitous presence of digital visualizations has in turn created new forms of urban practice and modes of spatial encounter. Everyone who carries a smartphone not only plays an increasingly significant role in the production, editing and circulation of images of the street, but also relies on those images to experience urban worlds and to navigate in them. Such entangled forms of image-making and image-sharing have constructed new imaginaries of the street and have had a significant impact on the ways in which contemporary and future streets are understood, imagined, documented, navigated, mediated and visualized. Visualizing the Street investigates the social and cultural significance of these new developments at the intersection of visual culture and urban space. The interdisciplinary essays provide new concepts, theories and research methods that combine close analyses of street images and imaginaries with the study of the practices of their production and circulation. The book covers a wide range of visible and invisible geographies — From Hong Kong’s streets to Rio’s favelas, from Sydney’s suburbs to London’s street markets, and from Damascus’ war-torn streets to Istanbul’s sidewalks — and engages with multiple ways in which visualizations of the street function to document street protests and urban change, to build imaginaries of urban communities and alternate worlds, and to help navigate streetscapes.
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DeMaria, Rusel, and Tom Stratton. Sega Genesis Secrets, Volume 6. Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing, 1994.
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Mcdermott, Leeanne. GamePro Presents: Sega Genesis Games Secrets: Greatest Tips. Rocklin: Prima Publishing, 1992.
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Inc, Game Counselor. Game Counselor's Answer Book for Nintendo Players. Redmond, USA: Microsoft Pr, 1991.
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Inc, Game Counsellor, ed. The Game Counsellor's answer book for Nintendo Game players: Hundredsof questions -and answers - about more than 250 popular Nintendo Games. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press, 1991.
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Ranger Rides to Town. Random House Audio, 2004.
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Lynn, Theo, Pierangelo Rosati, Edel Conway, Declan Curran, Grace Fox, and Colm O’Gorman. "Defining, Rationalising and Measuring Digital Towns." In Digital Towns, 1–21. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91247-5_1.
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AbstractDigital technologies are transforming all aspects of society. While so-called smart city technologies are widely cited as solutions for a wide range of socio-economic challenges, there is a relative paucity of research and discussion on the role and impact of ICTs in towns. The term ‘digital town’ concerns a physical place, the people who interact with that place, information and communication technologies, and the relationship between them. This chapter introduces key concepts and terms in digital society policy and literature. Based on a review of literature and digital town initiatives and projects, ten rationales for adopting digital technologies in towns are identified and discussed and a working definition of a digital town is proposed. The chapter concludes with a discussion of commonly cited frameworks and composite indices for measuring digital society and the digital economy and the need for a discrete measurement framework for digital towns is justified.
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Lynn, Theo, Pierangelo Rosati, Edel Conway, Declan Curran, Grace Fox, and Colm O’Gorman. "Digital Technologies and Civil Society." In Digital Towns, 91–108. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91247-5_5.
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AbstractCivil society refers to social institutions outside of the confines of households, the market and the state. Such institutions provide a wide range of facilities and services in communities and society, generate employment, and create significant economic value through direct, indirect and induced expenditure. Notwithstanding this, voluntary, social and community organisations are rarely included in indices seeking to measure digital progress in society. Digital technologies can transform how civil society organisations operate and interact with their stakeholders. This chapter defines civil society, discusses the role they play in society, and the opportunities and challenges for digital adoption and use in civil society.
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Lynn, Theo, Pierangelo Rosati, Edel Conway, Declan Curran, Grace Fox, and Colm O’Gorman. "The Governance of Digital Town Initiatives." In Digital Towns, 151–63. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91247-5_8.
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AbstractRealising the potential of digital technologies in smaller and rural towns is a significant organisational and management challenge involving a diverse range of stakeholders, who may have conflicting motivations. It requires substantial horizontal integration at a local level to leverage local contextual knowledge and relationships to increase participation in initiatives, while at the same time requiring vertical integration with political, social, and economic institutions and agencies, to facilitate the flow of resources. This chapter explores some of the governance challenges and mechanisms for building rural community resilience to digital technology evolution. It concludes with a discussion of how the governance of digital initiatives are measured by intergovernmental and international organisations, to the limited extent that they are at all.
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Lynn, Theo, Pierangelo Rosati, Edel Conway, Declan Curran, Grace Fox, and Colm O’Gorman. "Digital Education." In Digital Towns, 133–50. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91247-5_7.
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AbstractEducation plays an essential role in transferring social norms and building human capital. There is widespread enthusiasm for the adoption and integration of digital technologies in education. This digitalisation of education has become a pillar of education policy worldwide, driven by growing optimism that such a policy approach can bestow a wide range of potential benefits to economies and society as a whole. Unfortunately, despite this optimism, digital inequalities remain in education—with these inequalities impacting the most vulnerable in society, including those who are socio-economically disadvantaged and/or residing in rural areas. Robust measurement of digital technologies in education is critical for informing policy and action, as well as for monitoring progress. This chapter defines digital education and discusses the rationales, benefits and challenges in integrating digital technologies in education. It concludes with an overview of existing international indicators for measuring digital technology in education.
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Sekhele, Ntebohiseng, and Patricks Voua Otomo. "Afromontane Community’s Dependence on the Water and Climate Change Nexus of the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountain Range: The Case of Phuthaditjhaba." In Sustainable Development Goals Series, 91–104. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15773-8_7.
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AbstractPhuthaditjhaba is situated at the foothills of the Maloti-Drakensberg, one of southern Africa’s primary water-producing regions. Nevertheless, the region suffers from a recurring lack of sufficient water for domestic and agricultural use. Since 2015, this chronic water crisis has created a state of conflict between the inhabitants of the region and the local government. Against the backdrop of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, this paper provides a commentary on the contrasting realities of this town nestled within one of South Africa’s most biodiverse regions, yet lacking in the very resource for which it is supposedly famous. We identify both gross mismanagement and neglect by local municipal authorities and climate change as compounding factors leading to the recurring lack of sufficient good quality water in the region. These are some of the major threats to sustainable development in Phuthaditjhaba, which may exacerbate poverty and escalate social tensions that often burst into spontaneous social unrest in the town and its surroundings.
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Bird, Deanne, and Andrew Taylor. "Disasters and Demographic Change of ‘Single-Industry’ Towns—Decline and Resilience in Morwell, Australia." In The Demography of Disasters, 125–51. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49920-4_7.
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Abstract In 2014, an open-cut coal mine fire burned for 45 days in the small single-industry town of Hazelwood in Victoria (Australia) spreading smoke and ash across the adjacent community of Morwell. This chapter examines the extent to which the mine fire acted as a catalyst for demographic and socio-economic change and considers how, if at all, it impacted Morwell’s resilience to disasters. We report on a range of secondary data analyses augmented with qualitative insights captured in government reports (namely, the Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry reports), as well as from related research papers and media articles. We suggest that a succession of structural and demographic changes meant that the town and its residents were accustomed and resilient to relatively large shocks. In this sense, the Morwell and broader Latrobe Valley population banded together around various community-led initiatives to fight for a better future for their community.
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Azarmandi, Mahdis, Kelli Gray, Rasheda Likely, Huitzilin Ortiz, and Sara Tolbert. "Anti-racist Praxis in (Science and) Education." In Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment, 185–205. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35430-4_11.
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AbstractThis chapter takes up overarching questions that stemmed from the authors’ participation as panelists in an international town hall at a science educator conference: our vision for cultivating anti-racist and social justice-driven (science) education, challenges we have experienced while enacting this vision, and creative maneuvers and resistance strategies we have used in overcoming those challenges. The chapter (and town hall upon which it is based) brought together racially and geographically diverse educators with a wide range of expertise, from political science to science education, literacy education, teacher education, and social justice education. Our diverse positionalities helped us engage with challenges and possibilities from a more robust and multidimensional perspective. This chapter is not trying to make a case for anti-racism in science education or why we should take on anti-racist projects as part of life and living together in the Anthropocene. Rather, our goal through these conversations was to bring our own experiences to bear on how anti-racist and social justice-driven education can be enacted and sustained in science and education and beyond. We found that our diverse perspectives enabled us to collectively think and imagine beyond the limitations of our own disciplinary and nationalist socializations.
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O’Connell, Sheila. "3. Pictures on the Street: Cheap Pictorial Prints in Eighteenth-Century Britain." In Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, 53–76. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0347.03.
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This chapter discusses the range of printed images that would have been familiar during the eighteenth century to people at all levels of society in towns and to a lesser extent in rural areas. These everyday prints ranged from early examples of advertising to grim depictions of the condemned sold at public executions; from moralizing broadsides to cheap patriotic portraits of the royal family and military leaders. Like other commodities sold in large numbers for small sums, they were not valued at the time and so are now rare. Catalogues published in the 1750s and 1760s list hundreds of titles, often repeated in prints of different sizes, or as etchings as well as more traditional woodcuts. New images appeared regularly, but older prints, still satisfying an undemanding market were reissued from cracked and worm-eaten woodblocks or worn-out copper-plates. By the beginning of the nineteenth century technological developments introduced changes in technique and style, and reduced the cost of production, but the subject matter of cheap pictorial prints remained largely unchanged.
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Boese, Martina. "Multi-level Migration and Multiculturalism Governance Meets Migrant and Refugee Agency in Regional Australian Towns." In IMISCOE Research Series, 83–102. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55680-7_5.
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AbstractA range of federal, state, and local policies in Australia have encouraged migration to, and settlement in, regional towns and cities over the past decades, with local initiatives such as multi- and intercultural policies developed to better accommodate increasingly diverse populations. Despite these initiatives and increasing research, important questions related to non-metropolitan migration often remain overlooked in the context of competing policy agendas. What are the risks of reducing (regional) migration policies to labour market instruments? What can migrants’ experiences of regional settlement tell us about the limitations of current regional refugee settlement as population policies? And finally, what if ‘successful settlement’ is not understood as staying in one place but as a realisation of migrants’ and refugees’ settlement needs and aspirations? The chapter will discuss these questions, drawing on policy analysis and qualitative interviews with migrants, former refugees, and various local stakeholders in regional Victoria.
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Buder, Stanley. "The Future of the Garden City." In Visionaries and Planners, 199–216. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195061741.003.0013.
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Abstract Many nations planned new communities after World War II. Differing greatly in intention, design, and scale, they ranged from monumental capitals for Brazil and India to modest development towns by Third World nations seeking to modernize-but all fell under the professional rubric of “new-town planning” as the term “garden city” retreated from use. In most urbanized Western nations, however, new-town interest was principally channeled into schemes to decongest the central city and restructure metro politan land use. Despite great attention given the “British experiment,” efforts elsewhere rarely followed its example closely, though a borrowing of ideas inevitably occurred.
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Chen, Jian-Ping. "Parton Distributions at Large X." In DNP Long Range Plan Town Meeting, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, January 12, 2007. US DOE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/2007507.
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Ankudinov, Vladimir, Bent Jakobsen, and Larry Oaggett. "Maneuvering Performance of the Push Tows Based on the Analysis of Model Tests and Identification Techniques with the Full-Scale Trial Data." In SNAME 22nd American Towing Tank Conference. SNAME, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.5957/attc-1989-056.
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The capability to describe the dyna mic waterway environment and corresponding vessel response using time-domain simulation models has increased significantly in recent years. Provided that comprehensive data on the navigation channel, and sophisticated mathematical models are available, numerical investigations of various navigational problems in waterways and the impact of channel/vessel modifications can be carried out effectively and at low coat. However, such investigations require an adequate modeling capability verified with full scale trial data. There are basically three alternatives available to evaluate the hydrodynamic forces acting on the vessel: (1) Directly from model testing including measurements of the resistance/propulsion hydrodynamic forces and ship maneuvering forces (coefficients) acting on the vessel in a maneuver. Any model test results suffer from “scale effects”, primarily of the viscous nature because modeling of the viscous phenomenon cannot be accomplished in typical model tests. Scale effects can be minimized by conducting model tests with large models and recalculation of the viscous forces for the prototype vessel. This is a critical item in ship maneuvering performance assessments because the governing hydrodynamic forces acting on a maneuvering ship are of viscous nature. (2) Indirectly from various semi-empirical approaches typically synthesizing experimental, statistical and analytical methods for a range of ship hull configurations and ship operational conditions. For certain ship types such as tankers or full-sized cargo vessels which have been extensively tested in the past, accuracy of the predictions are comparable to the accuracy of the model test results. In regard to push-tow operations only very limited Information is available. (3) Indirectly, from full-scale trials (of ten expensive) by applying various techniques for system identification to evaluate resistance/propulsion and maneuvering forces at full scale Reynolds number. The process of statistical system identification (SI) developed for specific engineering applications typically involves inputting a disturbance to the system, and matching output to input in order to identify the makeup of the system. In the case of vessel motions this corresponds to calling for specific rudder/propeller commands, measuring the vessel response and identifying the hydrodynamic coefficients in surge-sway-yaw maneuvering equations using primarily probabilistic estimation methods. The success of the identification, depends heavily on the quality of the measurements (and therefore , instrumentation, its accuracy, weather, and fairing process techniques utilized) and on the number of the unknown parameters to be determined. The river tows are extensively used in inland waterway systems and consist of a push towboat and some mix of the standard river barges. The hydrodynamics of the typical river tow flotilla is complex and reliable test data are rare. In recent years the Army Corps of Engineers and U.S.C.G. has sponsored several fundamental studies carried out by Tracor Hydronautics, Inc. (THI) In support of an integrated approach in ship-channel design and navigation problems, see References 1 to 4. The principal goal of these studies has been experimental/analytical prediction data base for an assessment of maneuvering performance of a typical river tow flotilla in a restricted waterway channel. The investigation (1) included extensive model tests of a 15-barge tow in both deep and shallow waters, development of a method for predicting tow hydrodynamic coefficients, simulations of tow behavior as a function of channel dimensions, and effects of channel alterations on navigation performance. Model test results, analyses, and maneuvering predictions for 6 and 25 barge river tows are given in References 2 and 3. Identification of the hydrodynamic coefficients of the 15 barge tow based on the recently developed identification techniques and full-scale trials of tows on Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, are presented in Reference 4. To compliment recently conducted model testing of a 6 barge tow, THI has also identified the maneuvering coefficients of a three long by two wide barge assembly from the 1985 trial data, Reference 4. The principal results of these studies are presented in this paper.
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Arino, Xavier, Jaap de Wilde, Massimiliano Russo, Guttorm Grytøyr, and Michael Tognarelli. "Forced Oscillation Model Tests for Determination of Hydrodynamic Coefficients of Large Subsea Blowout Preventers." In ASME 2015 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2015-41866.
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Large scale model tests have been conducted in a towing tank facility for the determination of the hydrodynamic coefficients of subsea blowout preventers. A subsea blowout preventer (BOP) is a large, complex device 10–15 [m] tall, weighing 200–450 [ton]. The BOP stack consists of two assemblies, the ‘lower marine riser package’ (LMRP) connected to the riser string and the BOP itself, connected to the wellhead. Together they represent a large lumped mass, which directly influences the natural frequencies and vibration modes of the riser system, particularly those of the BOP-wellhead-casing assembly. Large uncertainties in the estimates of the hydrodynamic coefficients (added mass, lift and drag or damping) result in large uncertainties in the fatigue damage predictions of the riser and wellhead system. The trend toward larger and heavier BOPs, which could place BOP-wellhead-casing oscillation frequencies in the range of wave frequencies, has motivated Statoil and BP to start a new research project on this subject. The project involves a large scale model test for experimental determination of hydrodynamic coefficients. Two different BOP designs were tested in a towing tank at model scale 1:12. The models weighed about 50 [kg] in air and were about 1.2–1.5 [m] tall. A six-degree-of-freedom oscillator was mounted under the carriage of the towing tank for oscillation of the models in different directions. Static tow tests and forced oscillation tests with and in the absence of steady current were carried out. Keulegan-Carpenter (KC) numbers ranged between 0.2 and 2.0, while the Sarpkaya frequency parameter β was in the range from 4,000 to 50,000. The Reynolds numbers of the static tow tests ranged between 50,000 and 150,000. This paper focuses particularly on tests in the surge direction with and in the absence of a steady current. Results indicate that the hydrodynamic coefficients for BOP stacks are quite different from those of simpler geometries like a circular cylinder. In addition, they provide new insight for analytical modeling of global hydrodynamic forces on BOPs in many configurations and scenarios.
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Burns, Karen. "Women, Care, and the Settler Nation: The Victorian Country Women’s Association, 1928." In The 39th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. PLACE NAME: SAHANZ, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a5015p7rux.
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Care has long been a gendered attribute, frequently associated with women but rarely, until very recently, understood as an ethic and action shaping the built environment. This paper proposes using the lens of care to uncover women’s material culture contributions to the built environment. Histories that focus on the formal intersection of architecture and town planning and their professional identities can exclude women makers who, historically had to find other ways to shape built material culture. Under the rubric of care, this paper examines how women makers worked in applied art media across a range of “care” sites through the post-suffrage organisation, the Victorian branch of the Country Women’s Association (CWA). This philanthropic organisation was established in 1928 to advance the rights and care of women, children, and families in regional areas. Through exhibitions, media, touring lecturers and an affiliation with the Victorian Arts and Crafts Society, the CWA Victoria used craft and domestic material culture to democratise craft ideals and ameliorate poor environments in rural homes and towns. It fostered public health, welfare and the comfort and repair of self and communities. Through these means the organisation also provided support for the influx of new arrivals generated from the post-war rural reconstruction schemes of soldier settlement and mass migration from Britain. These larger projects allied the CWA Victoria organisation to a post-war settler identity which reanimated settler myths of land. In early twentieth-century Australia, care of the settler, built environment was gendered and racialised, an event that prompts an intersectional reassessment of the feminist model of care.
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Schlichting, Grant S. "Design of Novel Range Extending Platform Aerial Tow Rehookup." In AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum. Reston, Virginia: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-0033.
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Bleloch, Jenna, Reyna Ballim, Angelique Blanckenberg, Selwyn Mapolie, Serah Kimani, and Sharon Prince. "Abstract B38: A novel palladacycle complex with anti-cancer activity against breast cancer and melanomas also exhibits potent cytotoxicity in a range of sarcomas." In Abstracts: AACR International Conference: New Frontiers in Cancer Research; January 18-22, 2017; Cape Town, South Africa. American Association for Cancer Research, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.newfront17-b38.
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Rokita-Poskart, Diana. "What universities towns and cities gain from students’ retention? Evidence from Opole." In XXIV. mezinárodního kolokvia o regionálních vědách. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p210-9896-2021-3.
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The purpose of the study is to investigate the long run consequences of graduate’s retention by university towns and cities. It investigates hypothesis that the inflow of students to the university towns and cities among who dominate women, and their prosper to remain after graduation, cause surpluses of young women. The analysis presented in the article was conducted for Opole which is one of university towns in Opolskie Voivideship (region) in Poland. In the article, there were combined data applied – the results of the research was conducted in Opole among students and a range on statistic database from Opolskie Voivideship. The research has been conducted in 2016/2017 among more than 700 students of last academic years from all universities located in Opole. The data origins from Poland Statistics aggregated to the poviats of Opolskie region which are equivalent LAU-1. The most important findings proved that inflow of students to the towns and cities may create a huge demographic impact on the urban areas as some graduates remain in the university towns and cities after graduation. The most important is the fact that there are mostly younger women in working age population which affects the demographic potential of the urban area.
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Townsend, Aaron K., and Michael E. Webber. "Technical and Economic Analysis of a Waste-to-Energy Plant for Austin, Texas Under a Range of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Prices." In ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2010-90146.
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Technical and economic metrics of electricity generation from a Waste to Energy (WTE) plant are compared to coal, natural gas combined cycle, biomass, and landfill gas generation alternatives for Austin, Texas under a range of greenhouse gas emissions prices. The WTE technology and history is described, as well as details relevant to a WTE plant in Austin. Technical and economic values for WTE from the literature are discussed. The upper limit of electricity generation from Austin’s MSW stream is 5% of Austin’s 2007 annual electricity consumption. Selection of appropriate values for capital, operating, and fuel costs indicates that WTE is more expensive than all of the alternative generation technologies considered (coal, natural gas combined cycle, landfill gas, and biomass). If greenhouse gas emissions are priced and offsets from fugitive landfill gas emissions are allowed, WTE becomes more cost-competitive by taking credit for offset landfill gas emissions. Under this scenario WTE becomes cost-competitive with biomass at $33 per ton CO2 equivalent, coal at $92 per ton CO2 equivalent, and natural gas at $115 per ton CO2 equivalent.
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Strong, Philip M. "The Influence of Acceleration Performance on Throughput and Trip Time of Passenger Trains in High Density Corridors." In ASME 2000 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2000-2146.
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Abstract Studies continue to indicate that acceleration performance has a significant influence on limiting throughput (maximum number of trains per hour per track) and trip time, in service with high density and/or close station spacing. This paper investigates the influence of horsepower per ton, tractive effort per lb., and maximum speed on throughput and trip time. The paper presents a methodology which can be used to determine performance (throughput and trip time) as functions of horsepower per ton, tractive effort per lb. and maximum speed. Results are presented, using this methodology, which represent a range of typical operations. Limits on available adhesion, and on practical limits on horsepower per ton achievable with today’s technology and infrastructure, are recognized in the examples.
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Anand, G., and Donald C. Erickson. "Eight-Ton Advanced GAX Cycle Prototype Results." In ASME 2000 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2000-1291.
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Abstract The advanced Vapor eXchange Generator Absorber heat eXchange (VX GAX) cycle has similar components as the basic GAX cycle but is a three-pressure cycle and makes more complete use of the GAX temperature overlap. Less external heat is supplied to the generator, and the cycle efficiency is increased. A breadboard prototype of a gas-fired heat pump using the VX GAX cycle has been developed and tested. A higher COP was achieved using reliable and cost effective components. This paper presents the VX GAX cycle breadboard design concept, the hardware realization, and the performance achieved. Several novel concepts were incorporated to achieve the design objectives of higher efficiency and capacity, lower cost, compactness, avoidance of code restrictions, and operability from 49°C (120°F) summer to −8°C (17°F) winter ambient conditions. The prototype results have confirmed the high performance capability of the advanced GAX cycle. At 35°C (95°F) ambient air-cooled conditions, a gas-cooling COP of 0.85 was achieved at design capacity. This is a 20% improvement relative to current basic GAX chillers. The eight-ton capacity is ideal for small-scale commercial applications and provides economy of scale. The wide ambient operating range is key to year-round operation and attractive payback in all climate zones. The demonstrated improvement in both system performance and cost is key to achieving nationwide mass-market status.
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Robinson, James P. Provisional Geologic Map of the Gold Hill Quadrangle, Tooele County, Utah (GIS Reproduction of UGS Map 140 [1993]). Utah Geological Survey, December 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.34191/m-301dr.
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The Gold Hill quadrangle is on the northern end of the Deep Creek Range, approximately 65 kilometers (40 miles) south southeast of Wendover, Utah and 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of the Nevada border. The Deep Creek Range is a north-trending fault-bounded range exemplifying the ranges in the northern Basin and Range physiographic province. Dutch Mountain, approximately 7.2 kilometers (4.5 miles) north-northwest of Gold Hill town, is the highest point in the Gold Hill quadrangle at 2,372 meterc (7,794 feet). Lowlands, south of Dutch Mountain and west of Gold Hill town, range in elevation from 1,877 meters (6,160 feet) to 1,582 meters (5,190 feet) and are, in part, underlain by a pediment eroded on Eocene quartzmonzonite and Paleozoic strata. In the northeastern corner of the quadrangle, surficial deposits of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville occur at elevations ranging from 1,591 meters (5,220 feet) to 1 ,292 meters (4,240 feet). Abrupt boundaries between the mountains and lowlands in the Gold Hill quadrangle are illustrative of Basin and Range physiography.
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Jacobs, Peter, Dmitri Kharzeev, Berndt Muller, Jamie Nagle, Krishna Rajagopal, and Steve Vigdor. Phases of QCD: Summary of the Rutgers Long Range Plan Town Meeting, January 12-14, 2007. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), May 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/943590.
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Haigh, David, David Kenkel, and Kate Doswell. Change and Development in Glen Eden, 2017. Unitec ePress, November 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.34074/rsrp.itp12017.
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This report is stage one of a report on change and development issues in Glen Eden. The Waitakere Ranges Local Board commissioned staff of the Social Practice Department of Unitec to carry out a two-stage report. This first stage is a literature search looking at material specific to Glen Eden as well as more theoretical information about development and growth. The second stage will be completed by December 2017 and reports on interviews carried out with key stakeholders in Glen Eden. This report makes a number of suggestions to the Waitakere Ranges Local Board relating to redevelopment of the Glen Eden town centre, and to design and urban policies concerning future intensification of Glen Eden with emphasis on strategies to deal with such matters as safety, cycleways and pedestrian amenity.
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Achenbach, P., D. Adhikari, A. Afanasev, F. Afzal, C. Aidala, A. Al-bataineh, D. Almaaloi, et al. The Present and Future of QCD: QCD Town Meeting White Paper -- An INput to the 2023 NSAC Long Range Plan. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), March 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1962477.
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Harriss-White, Barbara. The Green Revolution and Poverty in Northern Tamil Nadu: a Brief Synthesis of Village-Level Research in the Last Half-Century. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/steps.2020.001.
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Between 1972 and 2014, in Northern Tamil Nadu (NTN), India, the Green Revolution (GR) in agriculture was studied through five rounds of village-level studies (VLS). Over the decades, the number of villages dwindled; from 11, rigorously and randomly selected (together with a ‘Slater’ village first studied in 1916), through to a set of three villages in a rural–urban complex around a market town, to one of the original eleven, in the fifth round. During the reorganisation of districts in 1989, the villages sited on the Coromandel plain shifted administratively from North Arcot, a vanguard GR district, to Tiruvannamalai, described then as relatively backward. A wide range of concepts, disciplines, scales, field methods and analytical approaches were deployed to address i) a common core of questions about the economic and social implications of technological change in agriculture and ii) sets of other timely questions about rural development, which changed as the project lengthened. Among the latter was poverty.
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Hurlow, Hugh A., Paul C. Inkenbrandt, and Trevor H. Schlossnagle. Hydrogeology, Groundwater Chemistry, and Water Budget of Juab Valley, Eastern Juab County, Utah. Utah Geological Survey, October 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.34191/ss-170.
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Juab Valley is a north-south-trending basin in the eastern Basin and Range Province. Juab Valley is bounded on the east by the Wasatch normal fault and the Wasatch Range and San Pitch Mountains, bounded on the west by Long Ridge and the West Hills. Juab Valley is at the southern end of Utah’s Wasatch Front, an area of projected rapid population growth and increased groundwater use. East-west-trending surface-water, groundwater, and water-rights boundaries approximately coincide along the valley’s geographic midline at Levan Ridge, an east-west trending watershed divide that separates the north and south parts of Juab Valley. The basin includes, from north to south, the towns of Mona, Nephi, and Levan, which support local agricultural and light-industrial businesses. Groundwater use is essential to Juab Valley’s economy. The Juab Valley study area consists of surficial unconsolidated basin-fill deposits at lower elevations and various bedrock units surrounding and underlying the basin-fill deposits. Quaternary-Tertiary basin-fill deposits form Juab Valley’s primary aquifer. Tertiary volcanic rocks underlie some of the basinfill deposits and form the central part of Long Ridge on the northwest side of the valley. Paleozoic carbonate rocks that crop out in the Mount Nebo area of the Wasatch Range, which receives the greatest average annual precipitation in the study area, likely accommodate infiltration of snowmelt and subsurface groundwater flow to the basin-fill aquifer. The Jurassic Arapien Formation also crops out in the Wasatch Range and San Pitch Mountains, and dissolution of gypsum and halite in the formation and sediments derived from it increases the sulfate, sodium, and total-dissolved-solids concentrations of surface water and groundwater. We grouped the stratigraphy of the Juab Valley study area into 19 hydrostratigraphic units based on known and interpreted hydraulic properties.
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Hayat, Muhammad Adnan, Khalid Alhadhrami, and Amro Elshurafa. Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Deployment of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage Pathways (BECCS) Globally. King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, November 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.30573/ks--2023-dp28.
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Countries are exploring various options to achieve net-zero emissions, including bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), which is the process of capturing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) from processes that utilize bioenergy to produce heat, electricity or biofuels. However, this technology faces sustainability concerns, an unclear public perception and has complex value chains for its emissions. Adding to this complexity, the literature presents two opposing views regarding the potential of BECCS to achieve negative emissions. This paper analyzes in detail a wide range of BECCS pathways in terms of their ability to achieve negative emissions and their associated costs. Out of the seven assessed pathways, our analysis shows that the corn-to-ethanol and biomethane-production-from-maize BECCS pathways in the U.S., along with biomethane production from wet manure in Europe and baling of straw pellets with trans-Atlantic shipment, can achieve negative emissions at a cost of 50, 108, 159 and 232 dollars per ton of CO2 ($/tCO2), respectively. Other technologies, such as poplar pellets, forest residue and agricultural residue with trans-Atlantic shipments, are not able to achieve negative emissions.
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Tapia, Carlos, Nora Sanchez Gassen, and Anna Lundgren. In all fairness: perceptions of climate policies and the green transition in the Nordic Region. Nordregio, May 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.6027/r2023:5.1403-2503.
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The survey presented in this report reveals that Nordic citizens are concerned about climate change. Many people are willing to increase efforts to fight climate change, even if this entails a personal contribution in terms of higher taxes or behavioural change. The survey shows that different social groups perceive the impacts of climate change and climate mitigation policies in different ways. In general, attitudes towards climate policies and perceptions regarding their fairness are conditioned by socio-demographic factors such as gender, age, employment status, type of housing and transport behaviour. General attitudes towards climate change and climate policies The first part of this report explores general attitudes towards climate change and climate policies. This section shows that seven in ten (71%) respondents think that climate change is a serious or very serious problem, particularly among the youngest age group (18-29 years). Three in four (74%) interviewed persons in this group share this view. Those with a university degree are more concerned about climate change (83%) than those with primary or secondary education (57% and 62%, respectively). Approximately half (48-51%) of respondents in all age groups agree that more financial resources should be invested in preventing climate change, even if this would imply an increase in taxes. The survey results show that women in the Nordic Region are more concerned about climate change than men (79% compared to 64%). It also reveals that people living in urban areas are more worried about climate change (82%) than those who live in towns and suburbs (68%) or in rural areas (62%). Urban dwellers are also more positive about investing more resources in preventing climate change (59%) than those who live in rural areas (39%) and in towns and suburbs (46%). More than half of the respondents (52%) agree that taking further action on climate change would be beneficial for the economy. Students, unemployed and retired people are more likely to agree with this view (55%, 57% and 55%, respectively) than those currently in employment, including the self-employed (50%). Those employed in carbon-intensive sectors are less positive about the expected economic impact of climate policies than those who work in other economic sectors (41% compared to 55%). They are also more concerned about the risk of job losses during the transition to a low-carbon economy than those employed in sectors with lower carbon intensity (37% compared to 24%). Concerns about this issue are also higher among those who live in rural areas (31%) or towns and suburbs (30%) compared to those who live in cities (22%). Present and future effects of climate change mitigation policies on individuals and households The central part of the survey explores perceptions regarding the present and future impacts of climate policies. Such challenges are perceived differently depending on specific sociodemographic conditions. Nearly one fourth (23%) of respondents state that high energy costs mean they are struggling to keep their homes at a comfortable temperature. Those living in houses report being more impacted (27%) than those living in apartments (18%), and those using fossil fuels to heat their homes are most affected (44%). The risk of energy poverty is also higher among non-EU immigrants to the Nordic Region. Those who say they are struggling to keep their homes at a comfortable temperature range from 23% among Nordic-born citizens to 37% among non-EU immigrants. Nearly three in ten respondents (28%) have modified their transportation behaviour during the last year due to high fuel costs. This proportion is substantially greater among those living in towns and suburbs (32%) compared to those who live in rural areas (29%) or cities (23%). The majority of the Nordic population (52%) states that current climate policies have a neutral effect on their household economies. However, 28% of respondents say they are negatively impacted by climate policies in economic terms. Men report being negatively affected more frequently than women (33% vs 22%, respectively). People who live in houses are more likely to claim they are being negatively impacted than people who live in apartments (31% and 23%, respectively). Nearly half (45%) of the respondents in the Nordic Region agree that climate initiatives will improve health and well-being, and half of the respondents (50%) think that climate change initiatives will lead to more sustainable lifestyles in their area. However, half (51%) of the Nordic population expect to see increases in prices and the cost of living as a consequence of climate policies, and those who believe that climate policies will create jobs and improve working conditions in the areas where they live (31% and 24%, respectively) are outnumbered by those who believe the opposite (35% and 34%, respectively). Fairness of climate policies The last section of the report looks at how the Nordic people perceive the fairness of climate policies in distributional terms. In the survey, the respondents were asked to judge to what extent they agree or disagree that everyone in their country or territory is equally affected by initiatives to fight climate change regardless of personal earnings, gender, age, country of origin and where they live – cities or rural areas. The results show that the Nordic people believe climate change initiatives affect citizens in different ways depending on their demographic, socioeconomic and territorial backgrounds. More than half of the respondents (56%) disagree that everyone is equally affected by initiatives to fight climate change regardless of earnings. Only 22% agree with this statement. Younger age groups are more pessimistic than older age groups on this point (66% in the 18-29 age group compared to 41% in the 65+ group). Almost half of respondents (48%) agree that climate policies are fair from a gender perspective, while 25% disagree with this statement and 23% are neutral. Roughly one in three (30%) respondents in the Nordic Region agree that people are equally affected by climate change initiatives regardless of age, 41% disagree with this statement and 25% are neutral. More than one third (35%) of the Nordic population agree that everyone is equally affected by initiatives to fight climate change regardless of the country of origin, while 34% of them disagree. More than half of respondents (56%) think that the impact of climate initiatives differs between rural and urban areas, while only 22% think that all areas are equally affected. Respondents who live in cities are more likely to respond that climate policy impacts differ between rural and urban areas (60%) than respondents who live in rural areas (55%) and towns and suburbs (53%). One third (33%) of respondents in the survey think that the Sámi population is affected by climate change initiatives to the same extent as the rest of the population. In Greenland, a majority of the population (62%) agrees that the indigenous population in Greenland is equally affected by measures to combat climate change. The results from this survey conducted in the autumn of 2022, show that the population in the Nordic Region perceive the impacts of climate mitigation policies in different ways. These results can raise awareness and stimulate debate about the implementation of climate mitigation policies for a just green transition.
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Arcone, Steven, James Lever, Laura Ray, Benjamin Walker, Gordon Hamilton, and Lynn Kaluzienski. Ground-penetrating radar profiles of the McMurdo shear zone, Antarctica, acquired with an unmanned rover : interpretation of crevasses, fractures, and folds within firn and marine ice. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), December 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/42620.
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The crevassed firn of the McMurdo shear zone (SZ) within the Ross Ice Shelf may also contain crevasses deep within its meteoric and marine ice, but the surface crevassing prevents ordinary vehicle access to investigate its structure geophysically. We used a lightweight robotic vehicle to tow 200- and 40 MHz ground-penetrating radar antennas simultaneously along 10 parallel transects over a 28 km² grid spanning the SZ width. Transects were generally orthogonal to the ice flow. Total firn and meteoric ice thickness was approximately 160 m. Firn crevasses profiled at 400 MHz were up to 16 m wide, under snow bridges up to 10 m thick, and with strikes near 35°–40° to the transect direction. From the top down, 200- MHz profiles revealed firn diffractions originating to a depth of approximately 40 m, no discernible structure within the meteoric ice, a discontinuous transitional horizon, and at least 20 m of stratified marine ice; 28–31 m of freeboard found more marine ice exists. Based on 10 consecutive transects covering approximately 2.5 km², we preliminarily interpreted the transitional horizon to be a thin saline layer, and marine ice hyperbolic diffractions and reflections to be responses to localized fractures, and crevasses filled with unstratified marine ice, all at strikes from 27° to 50°. We preliminarily interpreted off nadir, marine ice horizons to be responses to linear and folded faults, similar to some in firn. The coinciding and synchronously folded areas of fractured firn and marine ice suggested that the visibly unstructured meteoric ice beneath our grid was also fractured, but either never crevassed, crevassed and sutured without marine ice inclusions, or that any ice containing crevasses might have eroded before marine ice accretion. We will test these interpretations with analysis of all transects and by extending our grid and increasing our depth ranges.
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Anderson, Zachary W., Greg N. McDonald, Elizabeth A. Balgord, and W. Adolph Yonkee. Interim Geologic Map of the Browns Hole Quadrangle, Weber and Cache Counties, Utah. Utah Geological Survey, December 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.34191/ofr-760.
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The Browns Hole quadrangle is in Weber and Cache Counties of northern Utah and covers the eastern part of Ogden Valley, a rapidly developing area of the Wasatch Range. The Middle and South Forks of the Ogden River bisect the quadrangle and are important watersheds and recreational areas to the communities of Ogden Valley and the Wasatch Front. The towns of Huntsville and Eden are just west of the quadrangle, unincorporated communities with year-round residents are present throughout the quadrangle, and numerous summer-cabin communities are present in the eastern part of the quadrangle. A portion of Powder Mountain ski resort, which draws year-round visitation and recreation, is present in the northwest corner of the quadrangle. The quadrangle contains the Willard thrust, a major thrust fault with approximately 30 mi (50 km) of eastward displacement that was active during the Cretaceous-Eocene Sevier orogeny (Yonkee and others, 2019). In the quadrangle, the Willard thrust places Neoproterozoic through Ordovician strata in the hanging wall over a fault-bounded lozenge of Cambrian strata and footwall Jurassic and Triassic strata (see cross section on Plate 2). Neoproterozoic strata comprise a succession of mostly clastic rocks deposited during rifting of western North America and breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia (Yonkee and others, 2014). These rocks include the Cryogenian-age Perry Canyon and Maple Canyon Formations, and the Ediacaran-age Kelley Canyon Formation, Papoose Creek Formation, Caddy Canyon Quartzite, Inkom Formation, Mutual Formation, and Browns Hole Formation. The Browns Hole Formation is a sequence of interbedded volcaniclastic rock and basalt lava flows that provides the only radiometric age control in the quadrangle. Provow and others (2021) reported a ~610 Ma detrital apatite U-Pb age from volcaniclastic sandstone at the base of the formation, Crittenden and Wallace (1973) reported a 580 ± 14 Ma K-Ar hornblende age for a volcanic clast, and Verdel (2009) reported a 609 ± 25 Ma U-Pb apatite age for a basalt flow near the top of the formation. Cambrian strata in the hanging wall include a thick basal clastic sequence (Geertsen Canyon Quartzite) overlain by a thick sequence of interbedded limestone, shale, and dolomite (Langston, Ute, and Blacksmith Formations). Hanging wall rocks are deformed by Willard thrust-related structures, including the Browns Hole anticline, Maple Canyon thrust, and numerous smaller folds and minor faults. Footwall rocks of the Willard thrust include highly deformed Cambrian strata within a fault-bounded lozenge exposed in the southern part of the quadrangle, and Jurassic and Triassic rocks exposed just south of the quadrangle. The Paleocene-Eocene Wasatch Formation unconformably overlies older rocks and was deposited over considerable paleotopography developed during late stages of the Sevier orogeny. The southwest part of the quadrangle is cut by a southwest-dipping normal fault system that bounds the east side of Ogden Valley. This fault is interpreted to have experienced an early phase of slip during local late Eocene to Oligocene collapse of the Sevier belt and deposition of volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks (Norwood Tuff) exposed west of the quadrangle (Sorensen and Crittenden, 1979), and a younger phase of slip during Neogene Basin and Range extension (Zoback, 1983). Lacustrine deposits and shorelines of Pleistocene-age Lake Bonneville are present in the southwest corner of the quadrangle near the mouth of the South Fork of the Ogden River and record the highstand of Lake Bonneville (Oviatt, 2015). Pleistocene glacial deposits, present in the northwest corner of the map, are likely related to the Pinedale glaciation, commonly expressed by two moraine building episodes in the Wasatch Range (Quirk and others, 2020). Numerous incised alluvial deposits and geomorphic surfaces are present along major drainages and record pre- and post-Lake Bonneville aggradational and degradational alluvial and colluvial sequences. Mass-movement deposits, including historically active landslides, are present throughout the quadrangle. Crittenden (1972) mapped the Browns Hole quadrangle at 1:24,000 scale, which provided an excellent foundation for the general stratigraphy and structure, but the 1972 map lacked important details of unconsolidated surficial units. As part of 1:62,500 scale mapping of the Ogden 30'x60' quadrangle, Coogan and King (2016) updated stratigraphic nomenclature, revised some contacts, and added more details for surficial units. For this map, we utilized new techniques for data acquisition and analysis to delineate surficial deposits, bedrock contacts, and faults more accurately and precisely. Mapping and field data collection were largely done in 2021–2022 using a combination of GPS-enabled tablets equipped with georectified aerial imagery (U.S. Department of Agriculture [USDA] National Agriculture Imagery Program [NAIP], 2009), orthoimagery (Utah Geospatial Resource Center [UGRC] State Geographic Information Database, 2018b, 2018c; 2021a, 2021b), and lidar data (UGRC State Geographic Information Database, 2006; 2011; 2013–2014; 2018a), previously published geologic maps, topographic maps, and applications for digital attitude collection. We also used hand-held GPS units, Brunton compasses, and field notebooks to collect geologic data. Field data were transferred to a Geographic Information System (GIS), where the map was compiled and completed.