Dissertations / Theses: 'Zofloya: Or The Moor'

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Swann, Devon Nicole. "Betwixt and Between: Liminal Spaces and the Disabled Body in Burke’s Sublime and Beautiful, Burney’s Camilla, and Dacre’s Zofloya." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/468.

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“Liminal Spaces and The Disabled Body” explores Edmund Burke’s aesthetic paradigms as established in his An Enquiry into the Origin of Our Notions of the Sublime and the Beautiful to recover what disability meant for an eighteenth-century audience. I examine Burney’s Camilla and Eugenia’s disability as well as Dacre’s Zofloya and Victoria’s figurative hermaphroditism in terms of eighteenth-century views of deformity and physiognomy to argue that both Eugenia’s and Victoria’s deformities—Eugenia’s smallpox scars and injured leg and Victoria’s beautiful but too boldly delineated features—challenge the prevailing structures of aesthetics and expectations of feminine beauty. My thesis questions how eighteenth-century aesthetic theory constructs the modern concept of the “disabled” individual to argue that the female body with a disability or deformity surpasses the terms of submission and diminution instated by Burkean aesthetics. In turn, the disabled female gains purchase in literature due to her “liminal, between-categories status” as it strains masculine power structures and aesthetic and gender classification systems.

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Steinmann, Philipp. "Geochemistry of atmospheric inputs and pore water genesis in two contrasting Sphagnum bog profiles, Jura mountains, Switzerland /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1995. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.

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Garner, Soma Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "The diary of Saga Moor." Awarded By:University of New South Wales. Art, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44379.

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The Diary of Saga Moor is the textural component accompanying the studio-based research as part of my MFA. It takes the form of a fictionalised diary the daily keeping of which constituted a durational performance from September 2008 to late September 2009. This action ?? the daily keeping of a fictive diary of an invented individual resulted in a text of 33,000 words, which was edited down to the length of a general MFA research paper. I chose the form of a Performative Diary Text as it allowed me to frame my research into the proscenium arch of the studio as a Superfiction, replete with its own characters whose daily activities articulated the principal topics of my research and by extension my painting, which during the course of my MFA I began to understand was performative. The diary parallels my own life, as history imitates fiction and art imitates life. Saga Moor takes us on a journey through her world and as becomes clear she opens up the studio component to an analysis of its core processes; commencing as a Masters of Fine Arts student, zombies, travel adventures??, her close friend Soma Garner and Moor??s own painting practice. Saga??s story looks at ideas of authenticity, personas, masks and facades through her personal investigation of modern art theory, digital imaging, painting and personal recollections. As her life develops, so does her character and the text is best understood as the mapping of that life. It allows for a contextualization of the research as a performative action, with consequences that over time transformed my practice. The ??life imitating art?? premise though is always a prevalent motif underlying the character of Saga Moor. The science fictional idea of Moor??s eventual demise as the 50-metre woman draws attention to the fallibility of fiction and frailty of the flesh, imagined or real.

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Ketz, Miriam. "Entstehung, Pflege und Entwicklung der Kulturlandschaft durch den Einfluss von Tieren - untersucht und dargestellt am Beispiel der Schopflocher Alb unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Schopflocher Moors." [S.l. : s.n.], 2005. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB12103687.

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Phillips, Matthew Scott. "A Moor propre: Charles Albert Fechter's Othello." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1407486785.

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Pakzad, Kian. "Wissensbasierte Interpretation von Vegetationsflächen aus multitemporalen Fernerkundungsdaten." Hannover : Fachrichtung Vermessungswesen der Univ, 2001. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=964273438.

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Wicky, Jean-Daniel. "Die Torfmoore von Rechthalten und St.Ursen, Kanton Freiburg : stratigrafische, ökologische und vegetationskundliche Untersuchungen im Schwandmoos, Entenmoos und Rotmoos /." Bern, 1988. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.

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Gearey, Benjamin Richard. "Human-environmental relations on Bodmin Moor during the Holocene." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/511.

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Stewart, Gavin. "Grazing management and plant community composition on Bodmin Moor." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2362.

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Background information, essential to a full appreciation of the research presented in the thesis, is submitted in Chapters Two, Three and Four in the form of literature reviews. Chapter Two includes a review of the geology, climate, soils, past management, vegetation history and nature conservation value of Bodmin Moor. The chapter culminates by discussing the proposed future management of grazing on Bodmin Moor. Chapter Three comprises a review of the mechanisms by which grazing affect vegetation. Particular reference is made to the effects of 7 General Introduction variation in grazing practices and interactions between grazing and other environmental variables. Chapter Four provides a review of successional processes with particular reference to the effects of grazing on upland plant community succession and the limits of current knowledge of grazing management in upland habitats. Chapter Five presents the results of phytosociological classification and explores the relationships between environmental variables and vegetation. Chapter Six examines spatial variation in the seed bank of Bodmin Moor in a range of communities at different depths. Chapter Seven presents the results of a Countryside Stewardship monitoring scheme established on Bodmin Moor North SSSI. Chapter Eight investigates the effects of variation in timing, frequency and severity of defoliation, on Molütia caerulea, along a soil moisture gradient. Chapter Nine reviews the preceeding work focusing on the overall implications of the thesis. The structure of the thesis is presented diagrammatically in Figure 1.1.

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Bannister, Joy. "The vegetational and archaeological history of Rombalds Moor, West Yorkshire." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1985. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/164/.

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The archaeology of Rombalds Moor, West Yorkshire, is reviewed and discussed. Vegetational information is provided by thirteen pollen diagrams (nine percentage diagrams and four influx diagrams) for seven sites on the moor. At the end of the Late-Devensian period Rombalds Moor was aspecies-rich grassland. Following the Post-glacial warming of the climate-there was a succession of trees arriving in the area, but true woodland was not established until c.8800 years BP. Dates are proposed for two early Mesolithic forest burnings, and late Mesolithic disturbance has been noted, particularly at the Alnus rise. The morphology of the Alnus rise differs in diagrams from different parts of the moor. Differences in diagrams from the same site, together with radiocarbon dating evidence, points to the presence of one or more hiatuses in the late Boreal/early Atlantic. At this site there is evidence that Pinus persisted long after the Alnus rise. There was a small amount of clearance, but no agriculture, in the Neolithic period. In the Bronze Age there was more extensive clearance, some pastoralism, and a limited amount of cereal cultivation in the east of the moor. Pollen analysis of a buried soil provides evidence that a supposed 'Bronze Age' cairn represents a burial, but the radiocarbon date is Iron Age. Major deforestation took place in the Iron Age when the population moved from the higher land into the valleys and there were significant increases in both pastoral and arable farming. Cultivation stopped and woodland regrew in some areas towards the end of the Roman period. There is evidence that removal of the woodland cover led to soil degeneration on the higher parts of the moor which prevented later regrowth of woodland. In the late 13th and early 14th centuries remaining woodland was cleared and agriculture increased, particularly pastoralism. Recent changes involve the decline of heather as a result of overgrazing.

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Söderman, Fredrik. "Comparative Population Ecology in Moor Frogs with Particular Reference to Acidity." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Ecology and Evolution, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-6828.

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This thesis is an attempt to describe how different environmental factors influence life history traits in different populations, sexes and developmental stages in the moor frog, Rana arvalis. The studied populations are located along 1100 km latitudinal gradient, with pH varying between 4.0 and 8.5. I have used data from both natural populations and common garden experiments.

Reproducing moor frogs were larger and older at high latitudes, indicating a selective advantage of large size at high latitudes and/or earlier reproduction at low latitudes. When controlling for age I found that frogs were older and smaller at low pH, which may be a result of a reduced growth rate due to acid stress. The both sexes respond differently to different environments, with the lowest sexual dimorphism in body size found in the acid environments. This is possibly caused by a trade-off between growth and reproduction. Being large is considered to be advantageous, in females due to increased fecundity, and in males due to higher ability to compete for mates, while the cost of high growth is a reduced possibility to survive until the next mating season. Moor frog embryos originating from an acid population survived better under acid stress than embryos from a neutral population. Using quantitative genetic techniques I found strong maternal effects and small additive genetic variation for the traits in acid and non acid populations. The variation in acid stress tolerance owed largely to non-genetic effects. Females from acid localities lay larger eggs, which probably improves the performance of tadpoles under acid conditions. The trade-off between egg size and fecundity was stronger in acid populations indicating that females in acid populations reduced fecundity to increase offspring size. Finally, frogs from acidified environments were more asymmetric in skeletal traits further indicating the developmental stress created by acidification.

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Sengbusch, Pascal von. "Untersuchungen zur Ökologie von Pinus rotundata LINK (Moor-Kiefer) im Südschwarzwald." [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/585.

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Ishemo, Carl Alexander Lugemalila. "The hydrology of a major valley wetland at Goss Moor, Cornwall." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1123.

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This thesis aims to fiimish an understanding of the water fluxes and storages occurring at the subcatchment scale in Goss Moor, a large lowland wetland in Cornwall, UK. Goss Moor constitutes approximately 5 km^ of poor fen and similar wetland areas sited on clayey alluvial and periglacial deposits in the base of a broad/shallow headwater valley. The bedrock is kaolinised granite and pelite. The hydrological characterisation was achieved using variables measured directly on site, using spectrally derived stream flow components and using flows output from a caUbrated numerical model of transient groundwater flow beneath the wetland. The study demonstrated the use of distributed spectral filtering for source area characterisation and of numerical modelling for investigathig the role of groundwater flow in the wetland. Certain stream flows into and out of the wetland were monitored at an hourly resolution. At each site, slowly- and quickly-varying components of flow were discriminated using a digital filter whose response was based upon an observed summer recession. Quick flows thus defined were found to be conserved during translation from the upsfream inputs to the outflow, although in-channel dispersion eliminated their flashiness. Conversely, the slow flow component was found to vary more rapidly at the wetland outflow than at the main stream entry, indicating the dominance of a different source of flow upon exit from the wetland. Overall stream flow gained by 50% in traversing the wetland site. Evapotranspiration (ET) rates in the wefland and in the outer catchment were estimated using the Penman-Monteith formula with measurements near or within the site. The calculations indicated that evapotranspirative losses would be greater from the wefland than from the remainder of its catchment due to the presence of surface water. U.S.G.S. MODFLOW was used to model the groundwater flow in the alluvium beneath the wefland. Shallow groundwater levels at 20 piezometer sites within the wefland, together with information on stratigraphy, rainfall and ET, provided boundary and caUbration data for the model. The results of in situ slug tests were used to define the aquifer permeability for the model in the transient calibration. Storativity and ET were adjusted to produce a match with the observed summer water table decline. A reduction of ET with falling water table greatly improved the match, and it was postulated that the declining water table had therefore dropped below the zone of greatest evapotranspirative uptake. By combining the various sources of data, the wefland's water budget was estimated. The numerical modeUing showed that groundwater flow to the river accounted for between only 0% and 3% of the total output from the wefland surface and substrata. ET accounted for 20% and surface runoff for 77-80%. Although wefland surface flow was not measured, the water budget showed that a substantial summer reduction in stored water would result if no peripheral inflows were received onto the wetiand surface. In the annual water budget, such peripheral inflows were of a magnitude similar to that of the rainfall input to the wefland. Together, these two inputs traversed the wefland surface to provide the increase in slow flow in the river on its exit from the wetiand. The implications of the water budget for the management of the wetland are briefly discussed.

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Waldmann, Bernhard. "Der Schutz von Mooren und Moorlandschaften : Inhalt, Tragweite und Umsetzung des "Rothenthurmartikels" (Art. 24 sexies Abs. 5 BV) /." Freiburg, Schweiz : Univ.-Verl, 1997. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/271954175.pdf.

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Schroeder, Derek Rolf. "The moor we know Spanish identity in Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quijote" /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1798966421&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Lechner, Andreas. "Paläoökologische Beiträge zur Rekonstruktion der holozänen Vegetations-, Moor- und Flussauenentwicklung im Oberrheintiefland." Göttingen Sierke, 2006. http://d-nb.info/991923901/04.

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Southall, Emily Jane. "The ecology of poor fen & willow carr on Goss Moor NNR, Cornwall." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2017.

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Goss Moor NNR is a unique, rare and nationally-important wetland habitat in Mid- Cornwall. The majority of the habitats were created as a result of a long history of tin-stream mining, which ceased in the early 1900s. Phytosociological surveys of poor-fen and willow carr communities provide the first formal descriptions of the vegetation at this site. The poor-fen survey revealed twelve poor-fen vegetation types, which were distributed along a primary environmental gradient of organic matter depth, surface water height and bare substrate. Separation of the poor-fen communities by a moisture gradient was considered as spatial evidence for hydroseral succession, which begins with the colonisation of open-water pools created by tin excavations. The Salix cinerea ssp. oleifolia willow carr was divided by eight understorey communities, according to age, defined by reference to five sets of aerial photographs of Goss Moor taken over the last six decades. The average number of poor-fen species per unit area in the understorey generally decreased with age. This relationship was related to the increase in canopy cover and, therefore, shade. Willow was found to invade areas with the greatest amounts of accumulated organic material and a low water table. In the oldest and driest willow, oak saplings were found, indicating the beginning of secondary woodland. An architectural analysis of willow showed that useful age descriptors were the height of the first fork, the number of live secondary shoots, tree height and dbh, all of which generally increased with age. Spatial successional patterns were characterised using the lattice-wombling technique in three large rectangles or 'tranomes'. Plant communities were associated with either abrupt or diffuse boundary types. Abrupt boundaries or ecotones were found between heath communities and densely vegetated tall-herb fen and species-poor willow carr wetland vegetation. Diffuse or ecocline transitions occurred between communities with subtle differences in their composition. Spatial relationships between swamp and poor-fen communities were taken as evidence for space-for- time successions, these patterns varied according to location and microtopography. Investigations into the water regime showed water depth was governed by substrate heterogeneity. Homogeneous microtopography was associated with deep inundations and greatest amplitude in water depth, and most closely resembled rainfall fluctuations. The most complex microtopography resulted from the most intense tin-streaming activity. Therefore the anthropogenic history of Goss Moor plays an important role in governing the contemporary water regime and vegetation distribution. Of the wetland communities, rush pasture was the driest and poor-fen the wettest. The communities of open habitats were wetter than the willow communities. The youngest willow community was drier in the summer than the other five vegetation types studied, which was indicative of the conditions necessary for willow scrub colonisation to take place. The N:P ratio revealed that nitrogen was the limiting nutrient in all of the wetland vegetation types suggesting an early stage of successional development. High water levels were thought to be responsible for the prevalence of N-limitation on Goss Moor, creating deoxygenated substrates and leading to the demise of nitrifying bacteria and thus a reduction in the rate of soil N mineralisation. Plant strategies were used to classify the species from a number of wetland communities ranging from open-water pools to willow carr, in order to apply them to Grime's triangular model. The ten communities were ordered into a logical successional sequence. However, the model needs to be modified to account for succession in the aquatic environment. Based on the findings of this thesis, a number of suggestions were made for the effective management of the wetland habitats on Goss Moor. These include: evaluation of willow scrub before removal so those areas of vegetation subsequently opened-up can be monitored; and the creation of new ponds to encourage the growth of certain poor-fen communities, which are species-rich, but only account for a small area of the whole resource.

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Deacon, Vivien. "The rock-art landscapes of Rombalds Moor, West Yorkshire : standing on holy ground." Thesis, University of York, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21345/.

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This study adopts a landscape approach to all the rock-art sites on Rombalds Moor in West Yorkshire, 252 unmoved sites, to consider views of and from the sites. British rock-art is generally believed to date from the later Neolithic to the later Bronze Age, but a case is made for it perhaps beginning in the later Mesolithic. What is known of environments for the Moor over this whole period provides a basis for a reconstruction of rock-art landscapes. A case is made for the applicability of ethnography from the whole circumpolar region to the personal construction of people’s landscapes in prehistoric Britain. All sites were visited, and the sites and their views recorded, both as written records and as photographs. The data was analysed at four spatial scales, from the whole Moor down to the individual rock. Several large prominent carved rocks, interpreted as natural monuments, were found to be visible from many much smaller rock-art sites. Several clusters of rock-art sites were identified. An alignment was also identified, composed of carved stones perhaps moved into position, and other perhaps-moved carved stones were also identified. The possibility that far-distant views might be significant was also indicated by some of the findings. The physicality of carving arose as a major theme. The natural monuments are all difficult or dangerous to carve, leading to considerations of risk, including being seen to embrace risk. Conversely, the more common, simple sites mostly required the carver to kneel or crouch down. This leads to comparisons with what is known of North American rock-art, where some highly visible sites were carved by religious specialists, and others, much smaller and inconspicuous, were carved by ordinary people. This was not an expected finding for British rock-art, and further research is indicated.

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Agethen, Christine [Verfasser], Thomas [Gutachter] Moor, and Jörg [Gutachter] Raisch. "A Hierarchical Control Architecture for ω-Languages / Christine Agethen ; Gutachter: Thomas Moor, Jörg Raisch." Erlangen : FAU University Press, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1129957608/34.

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Pilkington, Michael Gerald. "Impacts of increased atmospheric nitrogen deposition on a Calluna vulgaris upland moor, North Wales." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273050.

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1. Long-term nitrogen (N) addition plots on an upland Cal/una vulgaris moor had been treated for more than ten years with 0,40, 80 and 120 kg N ha-1 yr- 1 • 2. Sampling of the soil solution from under the mor and the mineral gley horizons over an annual cycle revealed a high degree of retention of N, between 60 % and 80 % of ambient N inputs in the control, and rising to 90 % in response to higher inputs of the N treatments. 3. After passing through the mineral gley horizon, N was further retained, by 85 % of ambient N inputs in the control, and rising to 97 % in response to the highest N treatment. 4. There was some evidence of an inverse relation between ammonium and dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) under all N treatments. Microbial immobilisation and conversion to DON was compatible with the few significant effects on cation concentration, although calcium and calcium/aluminium ratios and pH were decreased by N treatment in the mineral gley horizon. 5. A budget revealed that the added N of the treatments had been allocated mainly to the canopy and litter at low inputs and increasingly to the mor, and to a lesser extent the gley horizon, with increasing N inputs. 6. In the system as a whole, 51 % of the entire system N was contained in the mor horizon, and with increasing inputs of added N, the whole system N accounted for 60 %, 80 % and 90 % of the added N in the low, middle and high N treatments respectively. 7. Nitrogen/phosphorus ratios in green tissue were decreased in response to increasing N inputs to levels indicative of N limitation, in spite of increases in phosphatase activity in the litter and mor layers. N uptake rates and mycorrhizal colonisation were not affected. 8. A moor management bum volatilised 90 % of the canopy N (amounting to 6 % of the total system N). Increases in the gain ofN in the gley horizon after the bum decreased with increasing N treatment, an indication of increasing N saturation in this layer and confirmed by increases in N leaching in response to higher N inputs. The same response was observed without significance in the mor layer owing to greater variance in the data. 9. Rates of net mineralisation and DON production in the litter layer increased with N inputs in both field and laboratory incubations, but net nitrification rate only showed N treatment-related increases in the laboratory incubation. Threshold values of litter % N and C/N ratios determined the onset of these processes, as well as N treatment-related increases in rates of potential denitrification. 10. Bryophyte cover under the Calluna canopy, density of the canopy, light transmission through the canopy and N inputs were all related, either negatively or positively (see chapter 5), but only in mature/degenerate plants. In "new' plots containing younger, building-phase Calluna, the addition of phosphorus raised the competitive ability of bryophytes above that of Calluna, particularly at lower inputs of N.

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Bastin, Clive. "The partnership approach to environmental governance : the case of the Moor Trees Partnership Network." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1309.

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Academic discussion of policy-making and governing indicates a significant shift in the model of governance away from top-down state control to the bottom-up approach of engaging non-state actors (Goodwin and Painter, 1996; Jessop, 1998; Stoker, 1993, 1998). Central to governance theory are new forms of policy organisation, in effect, a shift from state monopoly of decision-making towards partnering with non-state (and, therefore, non-elected) actors for the formulation and delivery of sustainability objectives. It is argued that these partnerships are a key aspect of governance, which, in turn has become one of the main themes in environmental politics (Imrie and Raco, 1999; MacKinnon, 2000; Goodwin and Painter, 1996; Stoker, 1998). In part, the growing prominence of environmental partnership-working is a recognition that sustainability cannot be achieved through top-down government, but requires the active involvement of a broad range of non-state stakeholder groups spanning all sections of society to ensure that sustainability strategies are context-oriented and meet the needs of local populations. This study refers to these objectives as 'environmental plans, policies and programmes' (EPPP). I suggest that contemporary academic debate is lacking in conceptual and empirical focus on partnership-working as a delivery mechanism for environmental governance. This thesis aims to address this gap by; (i) assessing the implications of the state's devolution of responsibility for the delivery of EPPP to the community level; (ii) investigating the democratic legitimacy of these non-state actors; (iii) appraising the financial and operational accountability of state non-state partnerships; and (iv) furthering the understanding of the practical issues that environmental partnership-working must address in order to become an effective delivery vehicle for environmental policy objectives. In meeting these objectives, this thesis has conceptualised the formulation and delivery of EPPP via the Policy Implementation Continuum. The continuum is stratified into four sectors: state', 'QUANGO', 'third', and 'private'. I argue that the success of these partnerships revolves on actors from across all four layers meeting the three requirements of; (i) accepting responsibility, (ii) acquiring legitimacy, and (iii) providing accountability. To this end, I argue that these three constructs are critical components of the Effective Partnership-working model. I argue that, without achieving all three, partnerships cannot work effectively and that the implementation gap between policy and practice will remain.

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Butler, Allan James. "Hill farming and sustainability : a multiple objective analysis." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324067.

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Wermers, James E., and James E. Wermers. "Shakespeare's Queer Religions." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626356.

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The goal of this dissertation is to explore the construction of the Catholic, the Moor, and the Jew in Shakespeare's early plays as instances of queering—as stagings of religious others as sexually deviant and a threat to normative, English, Protestant reproduction. As numerous critics have remarked, the alien is a conspicuous figure in Elizabethan drama. A number of explanations for this have been offered, the vast majority of which have sought to tie this phenomenon to emerging categories of race and empire (see, for example, Emily Bartels' work on the "alien" in Elizabethan drama, and the work done by both Kim F. Hall and Virginia Mason Vaughan on the role blackness plays on the early modern stage). I want to explore the religious dimension of otherness. In Protestant religious discourse, the error of other religions was characterized as a perversion of desire that had serious implications for physical and ideological reproduction. As Francis Dolan has noted, Catholics were seen as embracing a disordered vision of sexuality in which women are dominant. This fear of political and social inversion is typically associated with the "whore of Babylon" in late 16th and early 17th century rhetoric. As Nabil Matar observes, the Moor was seen to be lascivious, embracing a polymorphous, perverse desire that pollutes culture through sodomy while at the same time threatening miscegenation. Finally, as James Shapiro has noted, the Jew was seen as desiring money above all in a way that entailed a kind of "monstrous" and asexual reproduction through usury. In sum, the discourses of religious otherness were principally concerned with sexual deviance as a threat to reproduction. Shakespeare's construction of characters like Joan La Pucelle, Aaron the Moor, and Shylock is rooted in this protestant understanding of religious otherness as queer. That understanding was increasingly important in a late Elizabethan England that was, as Daniel Swift suggests, rooted in protestant ideology and simultaneously worried about the stability of that identity, given an aging monarch and growing military threats from Catholic and Islamic nations. Our understanding of Shakespeare's religious figures is enhanced by taking into account the queer character of their religious otherness at a time of acute reproductive anxiety.

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De, Moor Delphine [Verfasser]. "Kinship and sociality in wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis): are they related? / Delphine De Moor." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1223171620/34.

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Lewis, Gregory John. "Forest water quality and its management implications : a case study of Broughton Moor Plantation, Cumbria." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266674.

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Moor, Irene [Verfasser], Jacob [Akademischer Betreuer] Spallek, and Matthias [Akademischer Betreuer] Richter. "Gesundheitliche Ungleichheiten im Kindes- und Jugendalter: Trends und Mechanismen / Irene Moor ; Jacob Spallek, Matthias Richter." Bielefeld : Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1121192408/34.

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Hunt, Ian D. J. "Rural production in transition : three parishes around Coleorton Moor, north-west Leicestershire, c. 1650-1850." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31064.

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This thesis is concerned with the progressive commercialisation of rural production between 1650 and 1850. Its context is mainly, but not exclusively, three parishes in north-west Leicestershire. Together they surround Coleorton Moor. One of them, Whitwick, also bordered Charnwood Forest. The parishes nurtured a mixed economy based initially on exploitation of the resources of their common wastes, and more formal agriculture in other areas of their countryside. The thesis examines early modern examples of unspecialised production in the area, as well as the development of more specialised activities in the fields of agriculture, manufacturing and various extractive industries.;The thesis notes the different structures of landownership in the various townships around the moor and discusses their influence on their development. It also examines the organisation of rural production, and the influence of new technologies on the area's production cultures. However, the major influence on trends in rural production, as it becomes more commercial, was a changing relationship between town and country. Low cost rural production for commercial purposes, underpinned by cheap rural living, grew in order to supply the consumption needs of the urban labour force. If a landlocked town like Leicester was to grow it needed to be provisioned with items such as grain and coal carried on lower cost transport. It could then compete more effectively in the mass market to supply its own and more distant workers with cheap goods. The mines around Coleorton Moor equally needed a more economical transport infrastructure to distribute their coal. The achievement of provisioning the landlocked urban centres more cheaply, than adversely affected the competitiveness and living standards of the countryside in several areas.

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Lustenhouwer, Monique. "Local adaptation of larval life history in the moor frog Rana arvalis across a landscape mosaic." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-181724.

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Growth rate is an important life history trait, which impacts fitness indirectly through its effect on the age and size at maturity, as well as directly through costs associated with accelerated growth such as increased predation risk. Genetic variation and plasticity in growth are widespread in nature, and local adaptation of growth rate may evolve due to divergent selection in different environments, for example related to predation risk, temperature or time constraints. I studied local adaptation of larval life history in the moor frog Rana arvalis, in a local network of ponds close to Uppsala. Local adaptation of growth rate and survival was studied in a reciprocal transplant experiment between ponds with different habitat characteristics. Meanwhile, differences among the populations in intrinsic growth, activity and response to predation were studied in a common garden experiment in the laboratory, where tadpoles were raised in the presence or absence of a predator and tested in direct predation trials. In the field, differences in growth among populations were found, independent of which pond the tadpoles were raised in, indicating that the ponds were similar growth environments. Survival differences among the populations depended on the pond, but local populations did not do better than foreign ones. In the laboratory, similar patterns in growth rate were found. All populations were highly plastic in their response to predation, having lower growth and activity in the predator-induced treatment and decreased mortality in the predation trials. Tadpole size was an important factor in escaping predation. One population clearly grew faster than the others in the field and in the lab, which could be explained in terms of its habitat of origin but was most likely related to the relatively late hatching of this population. Future studies are necessary concerning the possible costs of this accelerated growth and the importance of breeding phenology. Apart from the one differential population, I did not find evidence of local adaptation in the field or in the laboratory. The influence of habitat characteristics on tadpole life history was difficult to study, due to the limited number of ponds and many environmental differences among them. However, this thesis was a valuable pilot study concerning the design of experiments to study factors promoting and constraining local adaptation in landscape mosaics. An understanding of local adaptation at the scale at which gene flow occurs is important for the conservation of populations in fragmented landscapes as well as for the study of ecological speciation.

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Feulner, Frederick [Verfasser]. "Die spätmesolithischen und frühneolithischen Fundplätze im Satrupholmer Moor, Kr. Schleswig-Flensburg : Rekonstruktion einer Siedlungskammer / Frederick Feulner." Kiel : Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1023480905/34.

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Wittmann, Thomas [Verfasser], and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Moor. "Zur Methodik und Anwendung fehlerverdeckender Steuerungsrekonfiguration für eine Klasse ereignisdiskreter Systeme / Thomas Wittmann. Gutachter: Thomas Moor." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2014. http://d-nb.info/1064996655/34.

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Crossley, Gary. "Kinship and strategies for family survival on Bodmin Moor during the long nineteenth century (1793-1911)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:371d8482-f8b2-4304-9839-94974842cca4.

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This thesis has used family reconstitution techniques in order to analyse kinship patterns for the Bodmin Moor parishes of St Neot and Bolventor in Cornwall. A kinship database of more than 13,000 individuals was created and kinship links between households in 1793, 1851 and 1911 were then measured. The results revealed the persistence of dense kinship networks that were very different from those found in English studies, and similar to those found in Wales and Brittany. Twelve factors were identified that contributed to the creation and persistence of high kinship densities. However, the principal underlying reason was the remarkably consistent spatial pattern of Cornish rural society. St Neot and Bolventor, with their structures of hamlets and small, isolated farm settlements, matched the pattern found across most of Cornwall. It was a structure that enabled people to find both marriage partners and employment in close proximity to their places of birth. Kinship densities were reinforced by remnants of ancient Cornish manorial systems that survived until the end of the eighteenth century, and then by the ultra-local structures of Methodism in the following century. The latter grew at the same time as the rapid expansion in copper mining. Surprisingly, migrating miners from mid and west Cornwall were also found to have dense local kinship networks. Enclosure also reinforced kinship patterns because of the security of tenure offered to occupiers of the newly created moorland farms, and also because the spatial pattern of settlements repeated the structure of lowland communities enclosed in the medieval period. The collapse in mining and the greater general mobility of the population did result in a weakening of kinship densities towards the end of the nineteenth century. Despite this, first-order kinship links at the beginning of the twentieth century remained higher than for any comparable study of modern or early modern agricultural or mining communities in England, yet remarkably similar to those in Wales. This shared Welsh and Cornish kinship culture provides fresh evidence, along with other factors such as religious experience and a Brittonic language heritage, to support a Celtic narrative for Cornwall that is perhaps more comprehensive and enduring than has sometimes been supposed.

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Chesnut, Judy L. "A Costume Design Process for a Production of Barbara and Carlton Molette's Fortunes of the Moor." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391708880.

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Zimmerli, Stephan. "Vegetation und Standort von Schwingrasen in der Schweiz = Vegetation and site condition of floating mats in Switzerland /." Zürich : Geobotanisches Institut der ETH, 1988. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=8701.

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Ma, Yan [Verfasser], Wolfgang [Akademischer Betreuer] Bleck, and Moor Emmanuel [Akademischer Betreuer] De. "Processes, microstructure, and mechanical properties of cold-rolled medium-Mn steel / Yan Ma ; Wolfgang Bleck, Emmanuel De Moor." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1240614993/34.

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Proffitt, Geoffrey W. H. "The biology and ecology of purple moor-grass Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench. with special reference to the root system." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.482793.

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Alam, Mohammed Shamsul. "The application of remote sensing in open moorland soil erosion studies : a case study of Glaisdale Moor, northern England." Thesis, Durham University, 1987. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6665/.

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The potential of remote sensing in upland soil erosion studies has been examined on Glaisdale Moor, North Yorkshire Moors. The study considers four different remote sensing sources, viz. sequential air photographs, ground radiometry, Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and SPOT simulation. Sequential air photographs have been interpreted in order to elucidate the land use/land cover changes and the drainage development and associated erosion problems in the region. A series of statistical analyses were employed in an effort to establish the relationships between the different spectral variables and the soil/ground variables. Attempts have also been made to evaluate the spectral separability performance of the Ground radiometer, the Landsat TM and the SPOT simulation wave bands. The Landsat TM and the SPOT simulation imagery have been further analysed in order to gather information about the best band and band combinations that would be required to optimize the discrimination of moorland surface types including eroded areas. Digital image processing of the Landsat TM and the SPOT simulation subscene for Glaisdale Moor was performed using the DIAD image processing system. The land use/land cover classification information derived from the air photographs, the Landsat TM and the SPOT simulation, has been used as an input into a soil loss prediction model (USLE) to predict the soil erosion rate of the study area. Of the various remote sensing systems used, air photographs and TM data proved the most useful in this area.

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Peters, Jeri Lynn. "The trouble with gender in Othello a Butlerian reading of William Shakespeare's The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice /." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2007%20Spring%20Theses/PETERS_JERI_4.pdf.

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David-Henriet, Xavier [Verfasser], Laurent [Akademischer Betreuer] Hardouin, Jörg [Akademischer Betreuer] Raisch, Stephane [Akademischer Betreuer] Gaubert, and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Moor. "Discrete event systems with standard and partial synchronizations / Xavier David-Henriet. Gutachter: Stéphane Gaubert ; Thomas Moor. Betreuer: Laurent Hardouin ; Jörg Raisch." Berlin : Technische Universität Berlin, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1070276650/34.

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Morton, Phoebe Alice. "A burning issue : assessing the impact of alternative grouse moor managements on vegetation dynamics and carbon cycling on UK blanket bogs." Thesis, University of York, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/17199/.

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Blanket bogs are a globally rare habitat and store vast quantities of carbon in the form of peat. In the UK, blanket bogs are subject to a variety of anthropogenic activities which threaten their ability to maintain this carbon store long term. Release of this carbon is likely to exacerbate climate change. Burning peatlands to encourage Calluna vulgaris on grouse moors is thought to be detrimental to peat-forming vegetation, water quality and the peatland carbon balance but lacks robust evidence. This study aimed to assess the effects of different methods of Calluna management on the carbon balance, vegetation dynamics and water quality of blanket bogs. A paired catchment manipulation was combined with plot-scale manipulations and replicated across three English blanket bogs managed as grouse moors to examine the effects of burning, mowing, no management and variations thereof on the carbon balance and vegetation changes. Carbon balances indicated that unmanaged areas were a carbon sink whereas both burning and mowing caused carbon release. Taking the quantities of burnt plant biomass and tractor fuel into account, burnt areas were a stronger carbon source than mown areas. Mowing increased both height and cover of Calluna compared to burning, promoted growth of Eriophorum vaginatum, a peat-forming species, and had less bare ground. The nutritional content of Calluna increased under management, being slightly higher following burning than mowing. A pot experiment was combined with radiocarbon analysis to explore whether Calluna-associated ericoid fungi break down recalcitrant matter in the peat. The radiocarbon dates strongly indicated that ericoid fungi decomposed recalcitrant ancient compounds within the peat, releasing these as gaseous and aquatic carbon. Altering Calluna management practices by replacing burning with mowing, where feasible, could potentially bring benefits for the peatland carbon balance and water quality by increasing abundance of peat-forming species without negatively impacting upon grouse.

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Almhagen, Jimmy. "Anuran colonization of newly constructed ponds : The importance of time and distance to source populations." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-960.

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Dispersal is an important factor in animal ecology. Anurans (frogs and toads) are often philopatric (home loving) but some specimens in a population usually have the capacity to disperse relatively long distances. In this study I investigated the colonization of newly constructed ponds in the southwest of Sweden by three anuran species: The common toad (Bufo bufo), the moor frog (Rana arvalis) and the common frog (Rana temporaria). The ponds were constructed between two and five years ago and were now as frequently occupied as older source ponds in the area. For the common toad and the common frog there was no correlation between distance to source populations and degree of colonization. The moor frog was more common in ponds that were situated in the vicinity of older source ponds with ample populations. The main impression was that these species rapidly colonize newly constructed ponds, at least within moderate distances from source populations. There were some differences between the species though and it seems like the moor frog have more limited dispersal abilities than the other two species.

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Lütteke, Felix [Verfasser], Jörg [Akademischer Betreuer] Franke, Jörg [Gutachter] Franke, and Thomas [Gutachter] Moor. "Vielseitiges autonomes Transportsystem basierend auf Weltmodellerstellung mittels Datenfusion von Deckenkameras und Fahrzeugsensoren / Felix Lütteke ; Gutachter: Jörg Franke, Thomas Moor ; Betreuer: Jörg Franke." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2014. http://d-nb.info/1178794253/34.

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Zimmermann, Sebastian. "Automatisierte Differenzierung von Vegetationsstrukturen in Moorgebieten mit Methoden der Fernerkundung." Master's thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2018. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-237573.

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Moore besitzen weltweit eine große Bedeutung für den Natur- und Klimaschutz. Sie dienen als Lebensraum für eine Vielzahl an Pflanzen- und Tierarten sowie als Kohlenstoffsenken. Aufgrund intensiver land- und forstwirtschaftlicher Nutzung weist die Mehrheit der Moorgebiete jedoch hochgradige Schäden auf, durch welche sie in ihrer Funktionalität beeinträchtigt werden. Um die charakteristischen Biotopeigenschaften wiederherzustellen, laufen derzeit zahlreiche Moorschutzprogramme, unter anderem in der deutsch-tschechischen Grenzregion im Osterzgebirge. Damit die Auswirkungen der durchgeführten Schutz- und Renaturierungsmaßnahmen auf die Vegetationsstruktur verfolgt und kontrolliert werden können, erfolgt in dieser Region regelmäßig eine stereoskopische Luftbildinterpretation der Moorflächen. Derartige manuelle Auswertungen sind jedoch mit einem hohen Arbeitsaufwand verbunden, weswegen eine Automatisierung der Prozesse angestrebt wird. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein Verfahren präsentiert, mit welchem die Vegetationsstrukturen der Moore bei Satzung teilautomatisch klassifiziert werden können. Unter Verwendung von digitalen Luftbildern und einem digitalen Geländemodell lassen sich verschiedene Gras-, Baum- und Bodenarten voneinander trennen und lokalisieren. Für die Unterscheidung der einzelnen Klassen werden sowohl pixel- als auch objektbasierte Merkmale in die Datenanalyse einbezogen. Aufnahmen der Satelliten WorldView-2 und Sentinel-2A wurden ebenfalls auf ihr Auswertepotential hin untersucht, allerdings ohne zufriedenstellende Ergebnisse. Die Automatisierung von Monitoring-Prozessen für Moorschutzgebiete ermöglicht eine Objektivierung des Analyseverfahrens und stellt eine zeit- und kostengünstige Alternative zur stereoskopischen Bildinterpretation dar
Moorlands are of worldwide importance for nature and climate protection. They serve as a habitat for a variety of plant and animal species, as well as carbon sinks. Most of the moorlands show significant damage from intense agricultural and silvicultural use, affecting the functionality of many. Currently, several moorland protection programs are running to restore the habitats’ characteristic features, such as that in the Czech-German border region in The Eastern Ore Mountains. Using stereoscopic image interpretation, the moorlands in this region are regularly monitored to observe the influence of executed protection and renaturation measures on the local vegetation structures. However, such manual evaluations require high labor costs. Therefore, the automation of this process is sought. The master thesis at hand presents a procedure enabling the semi-automatic classification of vegetation structures in the moorlands nearby Satzung, Germany. Different grass, tree and soil types can be distinguished and localized using digital aerial imagery and a digital terrain model. For the distinction between different object classes, pixel- and object-based features are taken into consideration. Satellite images acquired by WorldView-2 and Sentinel-2A were also tested for their classification suitability, but without satisfactory results. The automation of monitoring processes for protected moorlands facilitates the externalization of the data analysis and represents a time- and cost-efficient alternative to stereoscopic image interpretations

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MacAlister, Charlotte Rachel. "Monitoring and modelling mire hydrology for conservation management." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/761.

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The functional hydrological components of the ombrotrophic mire water balance are, considered in terms of their ecological relevance. It is proposed that numerical models provide a suitable framework for mire hydro-systems and their potential as quantitative tools for mire restoration and conservation management is demonstrated. Existing models previously applied to mires are reviewed. The USGS 3-D groundwater model MODFLOW is selected and a new shallow surface and groundwater model GSHAW5 is developed for application to mires. Extensive ecohydrological case studies are undertaken at two mire sites and the models are tested using data collected at the sites. Field studies at Wedholme Flow, Cumbria, extended over four years and the data collected were combined with historical records to form a 10-year hydrological data set. Studies at Trough End Bog, Northumbria, extended over a 3-year period. Topographic, soil and vegetation surveys were carried out at both sites. Watertable fluctuation was recorded manually on a weekly basis and electronically at a 20-minute interval along with automatic meteorological records. New hydrometric techniques were developed in the Surface Water Monitoring Plot, SWaMP, constructed at Trough End to record hydrological exchanges within the hummock-hollow complex of the mire acrotelm. The models operate on very different spatial and temporal scales. GSHAW5 is applied to reproduce ground and surface exchanges in the acrotel. MODFLOW is used to simulate large-scale exchanges in undisturbed areas and between regenerating and active peat cutting areas. Predictive MODFLOW simulations are used to examine the impact of different peat cutting regimes on mire hydrology and potential regeneration. Both models produce simulations strongly correlated to observed hydrological exchanges. The usefulness of numerical models as tools for mire management is considered in light of the model test results from both case studies. It is concluded that both models provide insight and quantitative estimates of hydrological exchanges not possible by other means. MODFLOW simulations reveal considerable water loss from the Wedholme Flow mire reserve to an active peat cutting area. Simulations of Trough End bog reveal hydrological acrotelm processes strongly related to vegetation assemblages. An extensified GSHAW5 acrotelm model is recommended for the simulation of intact ombrotrophic mires.

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Moor, Veronika [Verfasser], and Ferruh [Akademischer Betreuer] Artunc. "Effektivität und Verlauf der peritonealen und renalen Natrium- und Phosphat-Elimination bei Peritonealdialyse-Patienten an der Universitätsklinik Tübingen / Veronika Moor ; Betreuer: Ferruh Artunc." Tübingen : Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1196700559/34.

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Warren, Philip. "Aspects of red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus population dynamics at a landscape scale in northern England and the implications for grouse moor management." Thesis, Durham University, 2006. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2321/.

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Red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus are an important game species in the United Kingdom, with many areas of heather moorland managed specifically to produce them for driven shooting. In order to effectively manage red grouse populations it is important to have an understanding of their population dynamics and to determine which of the vital rates most effect population growth and recovery and whether these parameters can be influenced by management activities. The focus of my research was to provide a greater understanding of the respective roles of juvenile dispersal, heather management and mortality causes in red grouse population dynamics at a landscape scale in northern England. The study was undertaken between 1999 and 2005 and encompassed four privately owned grouse moors, covering some 113 km(^2) of heather dominated moorland. Central to my research was the ability to accurately and efficiently survey the distribution and abundance of red grouse across the study area. To facilitate this I evaluated a distance sampling method to survey red grouse across the study area pre-breeding in spring and post-breeding in summer. The distance sampling technique proved a reliable, repeatable and practical method for extensive surveys of red grouse. Grouse distribution data were used to construct spatial patterns of grouse abundance at a moor scale using a geostatistical interpolation technique. Rotational heather burning is practised by grouse moor managers to create a mosaic of heather ages which provide food, shelter and nesting habitats for red grouse. To assess the spatial and temporal effects of heather burning on grouse, I used an earth observation technique, using satellite remote sensing to map the habitat mosaic across all four study moors in 2000. Temporal effects of heather burning, from 2000 to 2005 were studied on one moor, with annual heather burning mapped annually. Dispersal is an important element of population dynamics which influences population growth and spread, gene flow and disease transmission. I used radio telemetry to investigate the timing, frequency and distances of dispersal in juvenile red grouse. Dispersal distance differed between sexes, with juvenile females dispersing on average 861 m (±120 SE) compared to 343 m (±31 SE) recorded in males. Population growth did not appear to be limited by dispersal and abundance increased until the density dependent effect of the parasitic nematode worm Trichostrongyle tenuis caused a population crash. On the study moors, grouse moor management resulted in rapid population growth with population oscillations caused by density dependent strongylosis induced crashes. The main cause of mortality was found to be shooting and to dampen population oscillations, modified shooting programmes to limit population growth in conjunction with parasite control measures should be adopted to better manage grouse populations.

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Laidlaw, William Scott, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "The Effects of Phytophthora Cinnamomi on heathland flora and fauna of the Eastern Otway Ranges." Deakin University. School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, 1997. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051111.121612.

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The plant pathogen, Phytophthora dnnamomi, is a cause of dieback disease observed in sclerophyll vegetation in Australia, The effects of P. dnnamomi on flora and fauna were studied at two locations in heathland vegetation near the coastal town of Anglesea, Victoria. The pathogen was isolated from soils beneath diseased heathland plants. The extent of diseased vegetation was assessed by the presence and absence of highly sensitive indicator species, Xanthorrhoea australis and hopogon ceratophyllus. The characteristics of heathland vegetation exhibiting dieback disease associated with the presence of P. dnnamomi were investigated. Plant species richness was similar between diseased and non-diseased areas however diseased areas were characterised by significant declines in the cover and frequency of susceptible species, increases in resistant species and increases in percent cover of open ground. Compared to non-diseased areas, diseased areas exhibited fewer shrub species and decreased shrub cover. The percentage cover and number of species of sedges, lilies and grasses were higher in diseased areas. Structural differences were significant between 0-0.6 m with decreased cover of vegetation in diseased areas. Differences in structure between diseased and non-diseased areas were not as great as expected due to increases in the cover of resistant species. A number of regenerating X australis were observed in post-disease areas. Cluster analysis of floristic data could clearly separate diseased and non-diseased trap stations. The population dynamics and habitat use of eight small mammal species present were compared in diseased and non-diseased areas using trapping and radio-tracking techniques. The number of small mammal species captured in post-disease areas was significantly lower than non-diseased areas. Mean captures of Antechinus stuartii and Rattus fiisdpes were significantly lower in diseased areas on Grid B. Mean captures of Rattus lutreolus were significantly lower in diseased areas on both study grids. Significant differences were not observed in every season over the two year study period. Radio tracking revealed more observations of Sminthopsis leucopus in non-diseased vegetation than in diseased. Cercartetus nanus was frequently observed to utilise the disease susceptible X. australis for nesting. At one location, the recovery of vegetation and small mammal communities in non-diseased and diseased vegetation after fuel reduction burning was monitored for three years post-fire. Return of plant species after fire in both disease classes were similar, reaching 75% of pre-fire richness after three years. Vegetation cover was slower to return after fire in diseased areas. Of the seven small mammal species captured pre-fire, five were regularly captured in the three years after fire. General linear model analysis revealed a significant influence of disease on capture rates for total small mammals before fire and a significant influence of fire on capture rates for total small mammals after fire. After three years, the influence of fire on capture rates was reduced no significant difference was detected between disease classes. Measurements of microclimate indicate that diseased, burnt heathland was likely to experience greater extremes of temperature and wind speed. Seeding of diseased heathland with X. australis resulted in the establishment of seedlings of this sensitive species. The reported distributions of the mamma] species in Victoria were analysed to determine which species were associated with the reported distribution of dieback disease. Twenty-two species have more than 20% of their known distribution in diseased areas. Five of these species, Pseudomys novaehollandiae, Pseudomys fumeust Pseudomys shortridgei, Potorous longipes and Petrogale pencillata are rare or endangered in Victoria. Four of the twenty-two species, Sminthopsis leucopus, Isoodon obesulus, Cercartetus nanus and Rottus lutreolus am observed in Victorian heathlands. Phytophthora cinnamomi changes both the structure and floristics of heathland vegetation in the eastern Qtway Ranges. Small mammals respond to these changes through decreased utilisation of diseased heathland. The pathogen threatens the diversity of species present and future research efforts should be directed towards limiting its spread and rehabilitating diseased areas.

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Leite, Maria Teresa Teles de Sousa Pacheco de Carvalho Pais. "O espaço da Mouraria na cidade de Évora, séculos XIV e XV." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/14235.

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A presente dissertação de mestrado tem por objeto de estudo a Mouraria na cidade de Évora nos séculos XIV e XV e estrutura-se segundo três abordagens. Um primeiro enquadramento do espaço urbano, da cidade, através do seu percurso no tempo, focando persistências e tomando por referência lugares, espaços, analogias e assimilações entre as várias culturas que ocuparam o território, procurando construir uma identidade da cidade no século XIV e XV e, em particular, da cidade de Évora. A segunda abordagem tem por foco os parâmetros métricos medievais (côvado) e os processos construtivos (taipa/adobe) aplicados no edificado medieval, que, no cruzamento com a documentação medieval na Mouraria de Évora (contratos e/ou transações de que a propriedade pode ser objeto) nos levam a propor a formulação de um módulo quadrangular, unidade base de grande simplicidade em si mesmo, o edifício comum, a casa, o espaço de habitar. Por último, olhamos a gestão e estruturação do território na cidade numa perspetiva morfológica e identitária do espaço medieval, a Mouraria, e da população aí residente, a minoria muçulmana. A sobreposição da matriz urbana proposta no espaço Mouraria resultou numa colagem muito aproximada, o que nos leva a acreditar que o que a cidade é hoje, e igualmente o que não é, está presente no confronto, de paralelismos e continuidades de uma raiz islâmica intrinsecamente e intimamente ligada à nossa identidade e à nossa cidade concretamente na Mouraria de Évora; Abstract The space in the Moorish quarter of the city of Évora, during the XIV and XV centuries This dissertation addresses the Moorish quarter of the city of Évora during the XIV and XV centuries, following three different approaches. The first approach is an embodiment of urban space, the city, through its journey in time, focusing on enduring elements and referencing places, spaces, analogies and assimilations between the various cultures that occupied the territory, seeking to build an identity of a city during the XIV and XV centuries, and in particular the city of Évora. The second approach focuses on the medieval metric parameters (cubit) and on the constructive processes (mud / adobe) applied in medieval buildings, that, along with the medieval Moorish quarter documentation of Évora (contracts and / or transactions involving property) leads us to propose the formulation of a square module, base unit of great simplicity in itself, the common building, the house, the space to inhabit. Finally, we look at the management and structuring of the territory in the city from a morphological identity perspective of medieval space, the Moorish quarter, and the resident population, the Muslim minority. The overlap of the proposed urban matrix in the space of the Moorish quarter resulted in a very rough collage which leads us to believe that what the city is today, and also what it is not, is present in this confrontation of parallels and continuities of an Islamic root intrinsically and intimately linked to our identity and to our city, specifically in the Moorish quarter of Évora.

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加藤, 茂弘, Shigehiro KATOH, 久美子半田, Kumiko HANDA, 政幸兵頭, Masayuki HYODO, 裕司佐藤, et al. "中国山地東部の大沼湿原堆積物に挟まれるテフラの対比と推定噴出年代(第18回名古屋大学年代測定総合研究センターシンポジウム平成17(2005)年度報告)." 名古屋大学年代測定資料研究センター, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/13656.

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第18回名古屋大学年代測定総合研究センターシンポジウム平成17(2005)年度報告 Proceedings of the 18th symposiumon on Chronological Studies at the Nagoya University Center for Chronological Research in 2005 日時:平成18 (2006)年1月17日(火)､18日(水) 会場:名古屋大学シンポジオン Date:Januaryl7th and 18th, 2006 Venue:Nagoya Uhiversity Symposion Hall

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Trunk, Johannes [Verfasser], Jörg [Akademischer Betreuer] Raisch, Bertrand [Akademischer Betreuer] Cottenceau, Laurent [Akademischer Betreuer] Hardouin, Jörg [Gutachter] Raisch, Laurent [Gutachter] Hardouin, Thomas [Gutachter] Moor, and Stephane [Gutachter] Gaubert. "On the modeling and control of extended timed event graphs in dioids / Johannes Trunk ; Gutachter: Jörg Raisch, Laurent Hardouin, Thomas Moor, Stephane Gaubert ; Jörg Raisch, Bertrand Cottenceau, Laurent Hardouin." Berlin : Technische Universität Berlin, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1204478783/34.

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Schmuck, Anne-Kathrin [Verfasser], Jörg [Akademischer Betreuer] Raisch, Jörg [Gutachter] Raisch, Paulo [Gutachter] Tabuada, and Thomas [Gutachter] Moor. "Building bridges in abstraction-based controller synthesis : advancing, combining, and comparing methods from computer and control / Anne-Kathrin Schmuck ; Gutachter: Jörg Raisch, Paulo Tabuada, Thomas Moor ; Betreuer: Jörg Raisch." Berlin : Technische Universität Berlin, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1156185777/34.

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