Oil spill events can be catastrophically harmful to coastal ecosystems, causing considerable and long-term environmental and economic impacts before associated consequences are finally eliminated. Conducting timely, flexible, and accurate surveys immediately after a spill incide…
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Cranes are used worldwide for transportation and material handling in a variety of industries and facilities, including manufacturing industries, shipyards, and warehouses. Safety and efficiency in crane operations are a concern, since these issues are closely related to product…
Israel has one of the most highly-developed hiking trail networks in the world. It covers the entire country, including the Golan Heights and the West Bank, and its history spans that of the modern State of Israel. However, despite the fact that the marked and mapped trail syste…
This project focuses on the impact that Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt had on François-Réné de Chateaubriand's Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem. Napoleon's campaign in Egypt set forth an unprecedented imperial ideology that sought to know and thus conquer the Middle East …
Soil erosion by water is a serious issue in Afghanistan. Due to the geographic landscape, soil and climatic conditions, and the latest deforestation activities, there has been intensive soil erosion which has resulted in prolonged and great impact on social and economic developm…
Soil loss by wind and water varies considerably in time and space making it difficult to quantify. Monitoring methods are limited by accuracy, precision and replication. The 137Cs technique overcomes many of these problems and can provide net time- integrated soil flux measureme…
This thesis examines how cartographic discourse shapes interactions between the subject and space in representative nineteenth-century American and British narratives. In this period, mapping became a material expression of the project of Empire and an integral part of the proce…
This thesis is an examination of Tess Onwueme's plays namely; The Broken Calabash, The Reign of Wazobia, and Tell it to Women. Based on the premise that female playwrights are hardly recognized, it shows how Onwueme merits a central position in African literary world. Using West…
This thesis explores how our notion of mapness is related to our knowledge, reading and understanding of the complex visual language of the map, through an investigation of how we relate to the way maps look and the structures that underpin them.The processes of creating map-lik…
Much research effort has been devoted to producing algorithms that contribute directly or indirectly to the extraction of 3D information from a wide variety of types of scenes and conditions of image capture. The research work presented in this thesis is aimed at three distinct …
In the field of wireless network security there exist many scenarios that require the network administrator to carefully consider the best course of action, to be taken against an unauthorized user. In these cases it is important to have real time information, such as the locati…
We observed that the folkbiologic concept LIVING THING is difficult to acquire, and we proposed that acquisition and reasoning of its core constituents and the relations among them are influenced by naming practices, in particular, the interaction between the conceptual structur…
This body of work is a way of understanding, reflecting on, and contributing to a contemporary dialogue about the impact of digital technology and the Internet on society by looking at the organization of information that lies behind the computer screen, and creating work that i…
The visualization of space has been central to the history of Beirut, which is also a vitally important node in the landscape of Arab media. This study critically examines the historical relationship between media technology and urban space in Beirut to critically reflect on vis…
Despite Venus showing no evidence of a global system of tectonic deformation, a variety of tectonic landforms across Venus suggests a complex and active geologic history that is not fully understood. One of the most ubiquitous tectonic landforms identified are linear to arcuate,…
This guidebook presents futures, and reconsiders the present, in the Great Lakes Region through exploring relationships to the built environment of sedentary communities. Research into Nomadism uncovered that many nomadic communities have long been cognizant of the relationships…
The conditions beneath glaciers and ice-sheets including the topography, hydrology, and geology are essential for understanding ice dynamics, interpreting ice-sheet history, and predicting ice-sheet retreat and sea-level-rise in response to a changing climate. Located in remote …
The proponents of Intelligent Design Creationism (IDC) contend that modern scientific explanations are incomplete and inadequate because they tell us nothing about the sanctity of human value and purpose. Since, in their view, all value and purpose originates from God, a more co…
This research draws on Clifford Geertz’s understanding of ethnography as “thick description” and applies it through David Bodenhamer’s notion of “deep mapping” in order to analyze societal and political structures framing the music making of prisoners in the South from 1933–1940…