The Slate Islands caribou (Rangifer tarandis caribou) is an insular population which has experienced several population crashes and has been described as likely to succumb to extirpation. While a great deal of research has been conducted on mainland woodland caribou, factors which influence caribou distributions may differ between island and main land populations. In this thesis, I investigate relationships between habitat, landscape, anthropogenic features, population size, predation and spatial distribution of woodland caribou across the Slate Islands Provincial Park (Ontario) at the forest-patch spatial scale. Generalized linear models were used to compare observed caribou locations to available locations across the park, based on data from 1978 to 1995. Results indicated that the Slate Islands caribou selected deciduous cover, larger forest patches, areas further to water, flatter areas, lower elevations and areas closer to anthropogenic features. Population size had a limited effect on caribou distributions. / October 2015

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montana, 2008. / Title from title screen. Description based on contents viewed Aug. 27, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-96).

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes final project proposal. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-99, 158-160).

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes final project proposal. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-99, 158-160).

This dissertation is an effort to understand the processes and systems housed within the infrastructure of a dynamic urban environment. Jeppestown, or Jeppe, as it is known by its inhabitants, is a post-industrial wasteland on the eastern outskirts of Johannesburg CBD (central business district). This rich cultural landscape was formed over generations by optimistic prospectors intrigued by the illusion of riches posed by the City of Gold. The project is focused on linking and transforming voids within the urban fabric, which are threatened by gentrification, into a healthy and productive network of public space. Guided by mapping and observation techniques, the designer can formulate the conception for a landscape architectural intervention aimed at maintaining and amplifying certain aspects coinciding with the ritualistic activities of everyday life as established within Jeppestown. Anchored by a series of social and economic nodes, a spinal development emerges, addressing thresholds between public and private realms by investigating edges as vessels for environmental and social systems. The designer uses a combination of existing characteristics of this urban artefact and newly introduced sustainable design principles to carve a coherent and productive public environment from an amalgamated entity termed the landscape slate. / Dissertation (ML(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2014. / Architecture / ML(Prof) / Unrestricted

A project to suggest an alternative to small scale hydro power at the old power plant in Långforsen, Jämtland, Sweden. Using excavation as a tool and raw materials from the site, the aim is to take the visitor into nature by using choreographed movement through the site, close to nature shelters, and a visitor center to tie it all together.

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Detailed mapping along the northern terminus of the Carolina slate belt in the area of Meherrin, Virginia extends the previously known limits of the Hyco and Aaron Formations from the greenschist metamorphic facies Carolina slate belt northward across a staurolite isograd into the amphibolite metamorphic facies Charlotte belt. The Hyco formation is subdivided into four facies: a crystal tuff facies, a felsic tuff facies, an interlayered mafic and felsic volcanic facies, and a feldspathic wacke facies. The Aaron formation is dominantly a pelitic schist. Three deformational events are identified. F₁ produced the initial foliation. F₂ produced the dominant penetatrive foliation, isoclinally folding the earlier foliation. F₃ produced a crenulation cleavage. The Hyco and Aaron formations are folded into a tight, steeply southeastward dipping, and slightly refolded syncline. The undifferentiated Charlotte belt rocks form a doublely plunging antiform of refolded F₂ folds. The syncline formed by the Hyco and Aaron formations is northeastward along strike from the type location of the Virgilina synclinorium. Glover and Sinha (1973) attribute the formation of the Virgilina synclinorium to a late Precambrian and (or) early Cambrian orogenic event, and Glover and others (1983) attribute late folding and metamorphism to the Taconic orogeny. F₁ is attributed to the Virgilina deformation. F₂ and F₃ are attributed to the Taconic and/or Acadian orogenies. / Master of Science

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:48:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseCL_DISSERT.pdf: 3900397 bytes, checksum: b91f886645164577ed2a25d0dc1d2260 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-31 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / A Internet atual vem sofrendo v?rios problemas em termos de escalabilidade, desempenho, mobilidade, etc., devido ao vertiginoso incremento no n?mero de usu?rios e o surgimento de novos servi?os com novas demandas, propiciando assim o nascimento da Internet do Futuro. Novas propostas sobre redes orientadas a conte?do, como a arquitetura Entidade Titulo (ETArch), proveem novos servi?os para este tipo de cen?rios, implementados sobre o paradigma de redes definidas por software. Contudo, o modelo de transporte do ETArch ? equivalente ao modelo best-effort da Internet atual, e vem limitando a confiabilidade das suas comunica??es. Neste trabalho, ETArch ? redesenhado seguindo o paradigma do sobreaprovisionamento de recursos para conseguir uma aloca??o de recursos avan?ada integrada com OpenFlow. Como resultado, o framework SMART (Suporte de Sess?es M?veis com Alta Demanda de Recursos de Transporte), permite que a rede defina semanticamente os requisitos qualitativos das sess?es para assim gerenciar o controle de Qualidade de Servi?o visando manter a melhor Qualidade de Experi?ncia poss?vel. A avalia??o do planos de dados e de controle teve lugar na plataforma de testes na ilha do projeto OFELIA, mostrando o suporte de aplica??es m?veis multim?dia com alta demanda de recursos de transporte com QoS e QoE garantidos atrav?s de um esquema de sinaliza??o restrito em compara??o com o ETArch legado / Current Internet has confronted quite a few problems in terms of network mobility, quality, scalability, performance, etc., mainly due to the rapid increase of the number of endusers and various new service demands, requiring new solutions to support future usage scenarios. New Future Internet approaches targeting Information Centric Networking, such as the Entity Title Architecture (ETArch), provide new services and optimizations for these scenarios, using novel mechanisms leveraging the Software Defined Networking (SDN) concept. However, ETArch approach is equivalent to the Best Effort capability of current Internet, which limits achieving reliable communications. In this work, ETArch was evolved with both quality-oriented mobility and resilience functions following the over-provisioning paradigm to achieve advanced network resource allocation integrated with OpenFlow. The resulting framework, called Support of Mobile Sessions with High Transport Network Resource Demand (SMART), allows the network to semantically define the quality requirements of each session to drive network Quality of Service control seeking to keep best Quality of Experience. The SMART evaluation in both data and control plane was carried out using a real testbed of the OFELIA Brazilian island, showing that its quality-oriented network functions allowed supporting bandwidth-intensive multimedia applications with high QoS and QoE over time through a signalling restricted scheme in comparison with the legacy ETArch

This thesis presents the results of petrographic point counting analyses of Muna Slate ware, thepredominant slipped ceramic ware in the Northern Maya Lowlands during the Late and TerminalClassic Periods (600-1000 A.D.) of Maya prehistory. Recently, it was hypothesized that MunaSlate wares were centrally produced and distributed from the Puuc Hills site of Sayil (Smyth andDore 1994; Smyth et al. 1995). Given that Muna Slate wares may be considered utilitariansubsistence items (sensu Brumfiel and Earle 1987), this suggestion runs counter to severalarguments that ancient Maya utilitarian ceramics production is associated with outlyingcommunities and that their distribution is localized. In the research presented here, the model ofMuna Slate ware production presented for Sayil is evaluated in terms of ceramic ecology,economic theory and models of craft distribution, the culture-historical context of Muna Slateware use, and previous studies of ceramic production and distribution in the Maya Lowlands.Muna Slate wares from three sites in the northern Lowlands - Kiuic, Labná, and Ek Balam –were then analyzed in order to test the whether or not Sayil was the sole producer of theseceramics.